[CBW_Exec] CBW Blog
Susan Bernstein
susan.naomi at gmail.com
Thu Mar 26 13:04:11 CDT 2009
Hi Liz,
I concur with Bill regarding the Basic Writing eJournal tag. Thanks so much
for your kind attention to this.
Peace and best,
Susan
On 3/26/09, J. Elizabeth Clark <lclark at lagcc.cuny.edu> wrote:
>
> 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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