[CBW_Exec] CBW Exec Board meeting minutes

Thu Mar 19 11:29:08 CDT 2009

Hi Folks--Happy re-entry.  As promised:  CHECK FOR YOUR NAME AND YOUR COMMITMENTS.  Don't forget to add it to your CV, you new associate editors and chairs... If not for your professional benefit, than for organizational exposure.

Hannah

Conference on Basic Writing Executive Board Meeting

Thursday, March 12, 2009  -- 8:30-10:00 a.m.

Notes, Minutes and Decisions 

1.   Awards

·         Innovation Award committee:  Greg*, Sugie, Peter

·         BW Fellowship committee: Sonya, Liz , Kelly, Bill

2.  Building membership

*	Membership chair (Kelly)--
*	Revitalizatioin of current membership list and add to it from this year's SIG and panels.  Later:  $5-10 per membership.   
*	Put announcement in TYC/Jeff (Bill & Hannah)
*	Get CBW mailing list-contact Tom Reynolds (Bill)
*	Next year?  Booth?  Buttons?  "I am basic writing"  Newcomers workshop?
*	Minutes of Exec Board goes out to membership through blog--Sonja--blog & membership list

3.  Basic Writing social justice policy statement

*	Adoption process for any policy statement will be as follows:

	*	Policy can be initiated by any member, goes to exec board, goes back to larger membership for vote at SIG, exec board may send it to CCCC as a resolution

*	The social justice policy statement committee--Susan, Debra, Eileen, Sugie, Bill-these individuals will meet, speak, solicit input on, or communicate about statement as currently written, to take it to a next draft.

4.   Basic Writing e-journal

*	Associate Editor positions:  Barbara--Pedagogy; Peter--linkages; Sonja & Kathleen--book review;  Liz, Greg, Kelly, Bill, Rebecca--Editorial board.  

*	Other notes:  possible special issue editors, on occasion, or special sections; mission add privileging newer authors--first one might be newer scholars; "news" section/media action section, subscription list, blog section

*	Suggestion that since we did not agree to add new board members, that those individuals could be invited on to Editorial Board for BWe as first step.

5.  Issues for follow up:  Change name?  Process for getting new board members, leaving the board, purpose of board, size of board; Advisory vs. governing or executive board?

Hannah Ashley, Ph. D. 
Associate Professor, Composition and Rhetoric Program, Department of English
Director, Writing Zones 12.5 (www.wcupa.edu/writingzones)
551 Main Hall, West Chester University 
610-738-0499, hashley at wcupa.edu
"If you're not terrified when you are writing, you're writing about the wrong things."  --Dorothy Alison--

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From: cbw_exec-bounces at tamu-commerce.edu on behalf of Rebecca Mlynarczyk
Sent: Mon 3/9/2009 2:30 PM
To: Shannon_Carter at tamu-commerce.edu; kbaca at nmsu.edu
Cc: cbw_exec at tamu-commerce.edu
Subject: Re: [CBW_Exec] CBW Exec Board meeting Agenda +

Hello everyone,

It's been great hearing about all the personal and professional developments of the last year. It's nice to get more detail here than we would be able to get in a brief report before the exec board meeting.

At Kingsborough Community College, last year was a very good year. Our English Department, which offers many developmental reading and writing courses, was able to hire 8 impressive new professors. It's a good thing because this year all of CUNY, like so many other institutions, has a hiring freeze. A lot of good work is happening at Kingsborough, much of it in our Learning Community programs, in which students take English and several other courses in an interdisciplinary block program, where faculty from different departments collaborate to make the students' learning more meaningful.

I am also on the faculty of the CUNY Graduate Center, and in the fall of 2008 I taught a seminar for doctoral students on Narrative and Ethnographic Inquiry. It's wonderful for me to be working on both ends of the CUNY spectrum.

The Journal of Basic Writing has had another good year. Our Fall 2008 issue is finally in print (I'll bring a few copies on Wed.), and it features a very impressive article by Sugie Goen-Salter and another by Brian Ray, the young scholar who received last year's fellowship to attend CCCC in New Orleans.

This spring, I'm enjoying the 2nd half of my sabbatical, which began last spring. Soon to be published (finally!) is a co-authored chapter written mostly in 2005. It's based on my work with Austrian teachers in the City College M.A. Program and will be published online in TESL-ej. The book on the history of basic writing, on which George Otte and I are collaborating, is progressing well. We hope to have a final draft to the publisher sometime in April. I hope to talk with many of you in a few days about your thoughts on the future of basic writing in the U.S. 

It was great hearing your personal updates. My big news is that my husband and I became grandparents last year. Liberty Mahala Evans was born in July, and she is an adorable little person. I'm actually babysitting for her today. I'll be staying with our daughter's family in Mountain View, CA, for the month of March to help out and enjoy the baby. Her latest accomplishment? Today she learned to clap her hands.

I'll be taking the CalTrain to San Francisco early on Wed. morning and am really looking forward to seeing all of you at the CBW Conference.

Rebecca

Rebecca Mlynarczyk
Professor of English, Kingsborough Community College & the Graduate Center, CUNY
Co-Editor, Journal of Basic Writing

On Mon, Mar 9, 2009 at 10:41 AM, Kathleen Baca <kbaca at nmsu.edu> wrote:

	It's been great to hear what you all are doing, both professionally and
	personally. I can't even begin to think how you all manage to accomplish
	it all.  Thanks, Hannah and Shannon, for planning to do this online, and
	thanks to all for sharing.

	Work Stuff:
	Doña Ana Community College dropped "Branch" from its name and now is
	officially NMSU-DACC.  The other CC's in the NMSU system didn't get to
	keep, or maybe didn't want to keep, the community college part.

	I'm still keeping the faith and fighting the good fight regarding some
	egregious practices by administration regarding the removal of tenure
	rights and responsibilities.  After reading a huge document detailing some
	of what has gone on the past few years, NMSU faculty appeals board wrote a
	letter critical of how things have been handled and asking for immediate
	changes. This received no response, and the buck has been passed or we
	have been stonewalled since then.

	A math colleague and I were able to teach credit classes at our Mesquite
	Neighborhood Learning Center last fall, a long-overdue happening for that
	historic and poor area of Las Cruces.  Unfortunately, the college offers
	very little support so only one course had enough enrolment for the spring
	semester, but it was a great experience that I will repeat Fall 09.

	I continue to teach mostly basic writing courses and am in the classroom
	20 hours a week.  I notice that there is an attitude of entitlement among
	a greater percentage of students.  I think that NCLB is partly
	responsible, and I grieve for these students who have never been expected
	to work hard and thus do not believe in their own capabilities.

	Life Stuff:
	My husband and I both turned 50 last year.  A niece told me she's never
	seen anyone so excited about being old!  Also, our youngest daughter left
	for Santa Clara University last September, so we are on our own for the
	first time ever.  Life is different after 32! years of having children
	around.  I have to say that the good outweighs the bad, and my husband and
	I are loving growing old together.

	I resigned from one local board last fall and from the Colonias
	Development Council last month.  The second was a tough decision for me,
	as working with colonia residents is part of my understanding of my call
	to promote social justice, but I'm the chair of Catholic Charities of the
	Diocese of Las Cruces (covering the southern half of NM), so it made
	sense.

	I'm so looking forward to seeing you Wednesday.  Today I teach three
	two-hour classes, and I'm suffering from daylight rearranging time.  kb

	Kathleen A. Baca
	English and Communication Department
	Doña Ana Community College
	MSC 3DA
	PO Box 30001
	Las Cruces, NM 88003
	575-527-7626
	kbaca at nmsu.edu

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