[CBW_Exec] CBW_Exec Digest, Vol 25, Issue 20

Thu Apr 29 19:40:17 CDT 2010

Will do, Alan! You have contributed so much over the years, and we want to
celebrate that extensive and wonderful work.

Thanks for everything! And congrats on such a good report from HLC!

On 4/29/10 7:36 PM, "Alan Meyers" <Meyersalan at aol.com> wrote:

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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 Di! ge st, 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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>> Message: 1
>> 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 co! lo rado.edu>
>> Message-ID: <F99E4A21-0017-43EA-84AD-8D8DD4EC894 0 at sfsu.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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>> 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)
>> 
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>> 
>> Please consider submitting a proposal to CBW 2011!
>> 
>> 
>> CBW is an ! al l-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 l iteracy 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 ! At lanta, Georgia, we invite participants to
>> consider-- invoking th e 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 othe rwise) 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 ! ha s lost it (what communities? what
>> relations?), and what can we d o 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! c lasses; 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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