[CBW_Exec] notes/minutes: today's meeting

[Ribble, Marcia (ribbleml)]

You left out retirees in your listing of folks paying for membership.  Some folks might retire
quite well off, while others, particularly those who have spent extended periods of time as
part-timers may need some consideration that they can't afford much for membership.  As
Susan noted, we don't want to exclude people, so  I'm suggesting that folks who can't afford
to pay for membership, for whatever reason, simply state that, or check a box, or whatever,
and that we retain them as full members without any loss of privileges. It doesn't seem quite fair
to further embarass or punish folks for their inability to pay--especially since many of our
basic writing student groups come from diminished financial circumstances.  We might even
add an invitation, warmly worded, that would say, we want you to join us, regardless of ability 
to pay.  Thanks, Susan, for your sensitivity to this issue of ability to pay.  

Marcia Ribble

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From: cbw_exec-bounces at tamu-commerce.edu [cbw_exec-bounces at tamu-commerce.edu] On Behalf Of Ashley, Hannah [HAshley at wcupa.edu]
Sent: Thursday, March 18, 2010 5:30 PM
To: Conference of Basic Writing Executive Board
Subject: [CBW_Exec] notes/minutes:  today's meeting

Here are the minutes of today's meeting from the COUNCIL on Basic Writing.  Thanks Tabetha!


Hannah Ashley, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of English, Composition & Rhetoric
Director, Writing Zones 12.5  (www.writingzones.net)
551 Main Hall, West Chester University
West Chester, PA 19383
610-738-0499

"It is mildly unnerving to reflect that the whole of meaningful human history--the development of farming, the creation of towns, the rise of mathematics and writing and science and all the rest--has taken place within an atypical patch of fair weather."  --Bill Bryson, A Short History of Nearly Everything
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