[CBW_Exec] CBW Blog

[J. Elizabeth Clark]

Okay!  Will do!

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

>>> "Lalicker, William " <WLalicker at wcupa.edu> Thursday, March 26, 2009
1:33 PM >>>
Hi, Liz and all. The blog, btw, will be a great resource, and its
format makes it really user-friendly--I am passing information about it
to all of my staff here. About the BWe tag: let's go with the change to
"Basic Writing ejournal" to avoid a collision of worlds...

Cheers,

Bill Lalicker

Professor of English
Co-Director for Faculty Development, Composition Program
Director, Global Development Collaborative,
          Office of Sponsored Research and Faculty Development
West Chester University
West Chester, PA 19383-2124
(v)610.436.2268; (f)610.738.0516; wlalicker at wcupa.edu 


-----Original Message-----
From: cbw_exec-bounces at tamu-commerce.edu
[mailto:cbw_exec-bounces at tamu-commerce.edu] On Behalf Of J. Elizabeth
Clark
Sent: Thursday, March 26, 2009 1:25 PM
To: Conference of Basic Writing Executive Board
Subject: Re: [CBW_Exec] CBW Blog

Hi Susan,

The BWe is linked, if you look at the "About Page."  Here's the
problem
with what you found.  I have tagged all of the entries, so that people
looking for "BWe" will come across the blog page.  The problem is that
when you click on the  "BWe" tag at the bottom of an entry, you also
get
the "Prayers for..."   Apparently they use BWe as an acronym also. 
So,
here are the options:  I can retag as "Basic Writing ejournal" or
leave
it alone.

What would you prefer?

Liz

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

>>> Susan Bernstein <susan.naomi at gmail.com> Wednesday, March 25, 2009
8:18 PM >>>
Hi Liz,

I second Kelly's suggestion about the call for CBW members.  Would you
also
post this direct link to BWe: http://orgs.tamu-commerce.edu/BWe/? 
Right now
the link on the blog takes me to the word press blog "Prayers for
Southern
Baptist Women."

If there is already a link to the BWe that I'm missing, please let me
know.

Thanks and peace,

Susan

2009/3/25 Kelly Ritter KARITTER <KARITTER at uncg.edu>

> 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 
>
> -----cbw_exec-bounces at tamu-commerce.edu wrote: -----
>
> To: <cbw_exec at tamu-commerce.edu>
> From: "J. Elizabeth Clark" <lclark at lagcc.cuny.edu>
> Sent by: cbw_exec-bounces at tamu-commerce.edu 
> Date: 03/25/2009 01:18PM
> Subject: [CBW_Exec] CBW Blog
>
>
> 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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