[CBW_Exec] CBW Blog

[Sugie Goen-Salter]

Liz,
It looks great!
Sugie
On Mar 25, 2009, at 10:18 AM, J. Elizabeth Clark wrote:

> Hi Everyone,
>
> The beta version of the blog is up.  Send ideas, comments and
> material!
>
> Liz
>
> http://cbwblog.wordpress.com/
>
>
> J. Elizabeth Clark, Ph.D.
> Professor of English
> LaGuardia Community College--CUNY
> e-mail: lclark at lagcc.cuny.edu
> Phone: 718.482.5665
>
>>>> "Ashley, Hannah" <HAshley at wcupa.edu> Thursday, March 19, 2009 12:29
> PM >>>
> 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--
>
> ________________________________
>
> 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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Sugie Goen-Salter
Associate Professor
English Department
San Francisco State University