[CBW_Exec] Something to consider before our meeting in Louisville

[Lalicker, William]

Yeah, I went to Costa Rica with Hannah (and other colleagues), but Hannah is quite mistaken if she ever thinks I am a step ahead of her! --Bill

William B. Lalicker, Ph.D.
Professor of English
Director, Composition Program
Director, Global Development Collaborative
West Chester University of Pennsylvania
Main Hall, 720 S. High Street
West Chester, PA 19383 USA
wlalicker at wcupa.edu; tel. 610.436.2268; fax 610.738.0516

From: cbw_exec-bounces at tamu-commerce.edu [mailto:cbw_exec-bounces at tamu-commerce.edu] On Behalf Of Ashley, Hannah
Sent: Monday, March 15, 2010 12:50 PM
To: Conference of Basic Writing Executive Board
Subject: Re: [CBW_Exec] Something to consider before our meeting in Louisville

Hello All-I am going to work my way through all the CBW e-mails, now that I am back from Costa Rica (Bill went to and he is one step ahead of me).  As for this request:


*         We do have a budget update, and we can put this request to the group.  My suggestion would be that those of us who feel we can match Bill's donation of $10 (don't forget your button donation too!), please do so.  Bring that money to the meeting and we will tally it up and see if CBW can match or exceed that donation.
Hannah

From: cbw_exec-bounces at tamu-commerce.edu [mailto:cbw_exec-bounces at tamu-commerce.edu] On Behalf Of Rebecca Mlynarczyk
Sent: Monday, March 15, 2010 12:42 PM
To: Conference of Basic Writing Executive Board
Subject: Re: [CBW_Exec] Something to consider before our meeting in Louisville

That would be great, Bill.

Rebecca

P.S. If others are reading this, please make out all checks to Journal of Basic Writing.
On Mon, Mar 15, 2010 at 11:58 AM, Lalicker, William <WLalicker at wcupa.edu<mailto:WLalicker at wcupa.edu>> wrote:
Sign me up for $10-how about a check at CCCC, Rebecca? --Bill

William B. Lalicker, Ph.D.
Professor of English
Director, Composition Program
Director, Global Development Collaborative
West Chester University of Pennsylvania
Main Hall, 720 S. High Street
West Chester, PA 19383 USA
wlalicker at wcupa.edu<mailto:wlalicker at wcupa.edu>; tel. 610.436.2268; fax 610.738.0516

From: cbw_exec-bounces at tamu-commerce.edu<mailto:cbw_exec-bounces at tamu-commerce.edu> [mailto:cbw_exec-bounces at tamu-commerce.edu<mailto:cbw_exec-bounces at tamu-commerce.edu>] On Behalf Of Rebecca Mlynarczyk
Sent: Saturday, March 13, 2010 8:22 AM

To: Conference of Basic Writing Executive Board
Cc: HopeKCC at aol.com<mailto:HopeKCC at aol.com>
Subject: [CBW_Exec] Something to consider before our meeting in Louisville

Dear Board Members,
Thank you all for your good wishes on the e-publication of Basic Writing by George Otte and me. It's exciting to see the work of many years available at last. We are so pleased that the book is available free to anyone who wants to read part or all of it.

Meanwhile, I'm writing to ask you to consider another longstanding project related to basic writing. For several years, we've been trying to make all the past issues of  the Journal of Basic Writing available online, open access, but we need a small amount of money to hire a tech person to get this to actually happen. At the moment, here's where we stand: Mike Palmquist of the WAC Clearinghouse has enthusiastically agreed to host the archive on their site. A librarian at our college has carefully scanned most of these issue into searchable PDFs. But we need to hire a tech person here in NYC to work with the Clearinghouse to get this archive up and running. I think our wonderful editorial assistant Corey Frost would be able to do this in the spring or summer for about $1,000. I don't know what the financial situation of CBW is at the moment, but even a partial contribution to this end (which would of course be acknowledged on the website) would be a great help.

If I recall correctly, Greg is the treasurer, and I'm not sure that Greg will be able to attend the meeting. But Greg, if you could find a way to let us know the status of the treasury, that would be helpful.

A historical footnote: now that we have changed printers, there are no more stored copies of previous issues, so if we don't manage to host these issues online, some of them will really be lost; there will be no way for composition scholars to access them in the future.

I know how busy you are all, getting ready to leave for Louisville. But Shannon thought it would be good to touch base with you before the exec board meeting. Any comments or suggestions would be welcome, and then perhaps we won't have to spend as much time discussing this at the meeting.

All the best,

Rebecca

Rebecca


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