[CBW_Exec] CBW Blog

Thu Mar 26 12:18:07 CDT 2009

Hi Kelly,

It's taken care of.  Sorry about that.  I copy & pasted from the
website, which wasn't updated yet!

Liz

J. Elizabeth Clark, Ph.D.
Professor of English 
LaGuardia Community College--CUNY
e-mail: lclark at lagcc.cuny.edu
Phone: 718.482.5665 

>>> Kelly Ritter KARITTER <KARITTER at uncg.edu> Wednesday, March 25, 2009
2:26 PM >>>

Hi Elizabeth:  The blog looks good! Could you just please add me to the
executive board roster?

We might want to also post a call for members on the blog, similar to
the one I sent to the WPA-L after the conference.  That call, plus the
sign-up sheets at the Cs sessions, has generated 128 "new" (I assume
they are new) members already!

Thanks,

Kelly

Dr. Kelly Ritter
Associate Professor of English
Director of Composition
University of North Carolina at Greensboro
Greensboro NC 27402
karitter at uncg.edu 

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Date: 03/25/2009 01:18PM
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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--

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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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