[CBW_Exec] CBW_Exec Digest, Vol 25, Issue 20

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On Apr 29, 2010, at 7:30:50 PM, cbw_exec-request at tamu-commerce.edu wrote:

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Subject:    CBW_Exec Digest, Vol 25, Issue 20
Date:   April 29, 2010 7:30:50 PM CDT
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1. Re: CCCC 2011 planning (CFP and Schedule) (Sugie Goen-Salter)
2. CFP: Council on Basic Writing (CBW) (Shannon Carter)


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Date: Thu, 29 Apr 2010 10:26:24 -0700
From: Sugie Goen-Salter <sgoen at sfsu.edu>
Subject: Re: [CBW_Exec] CCCC 2011 planning (CFP and Schedule)
To: Conference of Basic Writing Executive Board
<cbw_exec at tamu-commerce.edu>
Cc: Steven Joseph Lamos <Steve.Lamos at colorado.edu>
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Hi everyone,
This looks good to me too (with Rebecca's edits). I have asked Mary 
Soliday and will let you know her response just as soon as I can.
Sugie
On Apr 28, 2010, at 10:09 AM, Shannon Carter wrote:

> Hi, all--
>
> Attached, please find two documents for your review: (1) the CFP, 
> which I?d love for us to begin circulating in the next couple of 
> days (I?ve added your recommended changes and would love for you to 
> give it another close read before we start sending it out); (2) a 
> rough schedule for the workshop itself (not yet a proposal but will 
> be soon).
>
> Proposal deadline: May 7
>
> A few questions:
>
> We?d like to invite Rebecca Mylanarcik and Mary Soliday to open the 
> event (see rough schedule). We definitely need a speaker or two who 
> can help us situate the 2011 conversations within the history and 
> future of BW.
>
> Rebecca: Are you available? Interested?
>
> Sugie: Do you think Mary might be available and interested in this? 
> Kicking off our day in keynoter position? Would you mind asking?
>
> Kelly Ritter?s Before Shaughnessy is another fine work that helps 
> move that conversation along, but she?s in meetings with CCCC EB 
> all day. She?s generously offered to slip out to address our group 
> after lunch, which sounds most excellent to us (again, check out 
> schedule)
>
> 2. Can you do a close edit of the CFP and let me know if it is 
> ready to circulate?
>
> Thanks!
> Shannon (and Hannah!) <CBWworkshopCFP5.docx><DRAFT OF PROPOSED 
> SCHEDULE FOR CBW 2012.docx>
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Date: Thu, 29 Apr 2010 19:29:21 -0500
From: Shannon Carter <Shannon_Carter at tamu-commerce.edu>
Subject: [CBW_Exec] CFP: Council on Basic Writing (CBW)
To: Conference of Basic Writing Executive Board
<cbw_exec at tamu-commerce.edu>
Cc: JP Sloop <jpsloop at gmail.com>
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Hi, all--

We need your help: distribute far and wide!

I?ll post this to the CBW-L, WPA-L, and SCWCA-L.

Where will you share it?

Liz: Can you post the call to the blog? (I?ve attached a pdf, if that?s
easier)
Susan: Can you post to the CBW FB page?

JP: Can we add this to the BWe Double Issue? I think we need to add an
announcements section to the index page.

Thanks, all!
Shannon (with Hannah)







Please consider submitting a proposal to CBW 2011!


CBW is an all-day workshop held each year on the Wednesday before CCCC.

Deadline for proposals: June 15, 2010
Notification by August 2010



We Are Not Alone: Strategic Coalition Building Across (Contested) Spaces
Serving Basic Writers

Access to higher education has rarely been more important or more contested.
In fact, colleges and universities across the nation find themselves no less
vulnerable in this fight for dwindling resources than the struggling masses
knocking at their doors.

In many cases, BW programs are the first to go (Soliday 2002, 2004: Greene
and McAlexander 2008; Otte and Mlynarczyk 2010). Long committed to serving
writers otherwise denied admittance, such programs draw their very existence
from increasingly contested spaces.

We are not alone. In fact BW?s very survival may depend on an ability to
recognize and build strategic coalitions across the same programs and
services with which a great many of us now compete?student support services,
TRIO programs, adult literacy programs, ESL programs, and others across area
colleges, schools, universities, and communities.

Like many BW programs, these services identify with core objectives
including: 
? serving the literacy needs of first-generation and underrepresented
students, including underrepresented minority students;

? offering personalized instruction that both recognizes students?
existing strengths and promotes intellectual and literate growth;

? offering individual and small-group support designed to improve
student retention and graduation rates;

? helping students to meet linguistic ?standards? even while
recognizing and cultivating linguistic and literate diversity; and

? making campus environments, especially during the first two years of
instruction, more friendly, welcoming, and supportive to students from
diverse backgrounds.

At the 2011 CBW conference in Atlanta, Georgia, we invite participants to
consider-- invoking the conference theme??all our relations.? When
establishing productive responses to what appears to many as the systematic
dismantling of basic writing programs across the nation, how can we build
strategic coalitions with those we already think of as ?our relations? and,
perhaps, those we might currently think of as ?beautiful enemies??

In other words, participants at CBW 2011 will explore together questions
like the following:

? As a field, what are BW?s core values and objectives?

? Where might we find others who share BW?s core values, and what might
all partners involved gain from strategic coalition building? How can we
work with others who may not share all or even some of our core values?

? How might CBW help build and sustain productive relations and
coalitions across campuses, communities, and regions?especially as these
?relations? share and build upon BW?s core values?

? What resources (financial and otherwise) might BW programs and newly
formed (or well established) strategic coalitions productively target
together, and how? 

? How might we (including ?all our relations?) further establish
productive and sustainable systems for communicating BW?s core and common
goals (and needs) with campus administrators, community members, policy
makers, and taxpayers?

? Where has BW been? Studies like Kelly Ritter?s Before Shaughnessy
(2009) and Mary Soliday?s The Politics of Remediation (2002) remind us BW
didn?t begin with Open Admissions. What can we learn by investigating
different origin stories, perhaps those from which our own institutions? BW
programs originated?

? Where should BW be headed? Given increasingly scarce resources for
all Americans, what might BW?s future be? In all of this, what can the
Council on Basic Writing do to help?

? What has already been lost, who has lost it (what communities? what
relations?), and what can we do to make these losses visible and tangible to
our colleagues and to the general public?

? What can we do in coalition with under-served communities to
regenerate improved and sustained access to Basic Writing for those who have
lost it? In what ways can we support communities that have lost the most?

? In what ways can the conversations and innovations of our field
engage current stakeholders in the higher education reform movement (such as
state legislatures, private foundations, and the Department of Education)?

? What can we do to improve working conditions and opportunities for
research and other kinds of professional development, for contingent
faculty, who teach the majority of Basic Writing courses at many
post-secondary institutions?

We invite proposals for panels and individual presentations contributing to
the CBW workshop theme as described above. We are especially interested in
proposals that balance the (realistic) institution- and program-specific
constraints often placed upon BW programs and classrooms with serious
attention to issues and trends across the country. Specifically, we are
interested in hearing brief (8-12 minute) presentations that describe key
issues affecting local programs, classrooms, universities, and communities,
while placing those practices and issues in the larger context.

Accepted presenters and titles will be listed on the Council of Basic
Writing program, coupled with an official letter from CBW inviting you to
present during the Council on Basic Writing conference in Atlanta, Georgia,
on Wednesday, April 6, 2011. Multimedia and interactive presentations
encouraged, and CBW is especially interested in proposals from individuals
interested in building strategic coalitions with BW?including those not
currently associated with BW: writing program administrators for college
composition & advanced writing classes; adult literacy educators/program
administrators; ESL/ELL writing instructors/program directors; WAC
coordinators; international student coordinators/program administrators;
adult oriented college degree program instructors/program administrators;
policy-makers and activists.


We welcome submissions from those of you who are also submitting proposals
to the regular CCCC conference in 2011. Presenting at CBW 2011 will not
interfere with your ability to present at CCCC 2011.

Please submit abstracts to Shannon_Carter at tamu-commerce.edu and
hashley at wcup.edu before June 15, 2010.




-- 
Shannon Carter, PhD
Associate Professor of English
Director, Writing Programs
Department of Literature and Languages
Texas A&M University-Commerce
Commerce, Texas 75429-3011
Shannon_Carter at tamu-commerce.edu
http://www.shannoncarter.info

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While I've been eavesdropping on the discussion but feel I shouldn't participate, having missed the C's this year because of the impending accreditation visit from the HLC (we got ten clean years--no return visits, no reports--and I wrote most of the self-study), I would again like to request that I be listed either as a convener for the Wednesday session or at least for the sig so my college will pay for travel expenses. This will probably be my last of what will be forty-three years in the City Colleges, and I'd like to be a part of the CBW, to which I have contributed so much over the last two decades. 

Alan Meyers
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