[CBW_Exec] CFP: Council on Basic Writing (CBW)

[Susan Bernstein]

Susan: Can you post to the CBW FB page?

Done.  Posted to both the Fan Page and the Group Page.
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=119105231448896

Good weekend to all,

Susan

On Thu, Apr 29, 2010 at 8:29 PM, Shannon Carter <
Shannon_Carter at tamu-commerce.edu> wrote:

>  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 all-day workshop held each year on the Wednesday before CCCC.
>
> Deadline for proposals: June 15, 2010
> Notification by August 2010
>
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>
> *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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