[CBW_Exec] CBW 2011 update and request

Wed Sep 1 09:54:44 CDT 2010

Thanks, everyone, for your quick replies and generosity! We know this is an incredibly busy time, so Hannah and I are all the more grateful to you. 

I have down as potential reviewers . . . 

-Susan
-Liz
-Barbara
-Greg
-Allen

Sarah also threw in her hat, if we end up needing more ("sorely needed," right Sarah?)

Still room for more reviewers so keep those offers coming!

Here's a plan:

1. I'll send another email to the reviewers above so they can get started, with a potential turnaround time of Wednesday of next week. 

2. With your reading, we are just looking for a list of those we should absolutely accept and perhaps a list of those we should really try not to accept. 

If you have the time/inclination, we'd also love to hear which of the two presentation formats you'd like to see each accepted presentation participate in:

(a) Panel Presentation (audience, entire workshop--morning session, afternoon session)
(b) Roundtable Presentation (audience, much smaller group selecting that particular roundtable presentation)

Both of the two above will feature short (8-10 min) presentations, followed by discussion. We'd like to limit the Morning and Afternoon Panel Sessions to no more than Four presenters. We can offer as many roundtables as we'd like since those will run concurrently. 

3. Send those evaluations to me (and Hannah) by Wednesday of next week. 

4. We'll get notifications out soon after, and continue working with graduate students and one another to place accepted presenters on program for CBW 2011. 

Thanks!
Shannon

-----Original Message-----
From: cbw_exec-bounces at tamu-commerce.edu on behalf of Shannon Carter
Sent: Wed 9/1/2010 9:42 AM
To: Conference of Basic Writing Executive Board
Subject: RE: [CBW_Exec] CBW 2011 update and request

Crisis?! Yikes. Our new department head wants to get t-shirts printed up that read, "No Drama!" and make them required uniform for everyone. I love that! If only for the power of suggestion. 

I think the crew available has it covered. Totally understand. Thanks, Peter! 

--Shannon

-----Original Message-----
From: cbw_exec-bounces at tamu-commerce.edu on behalf of Adams, Peter D.
Sent: Tue 8/31/2010 3:24 PM
To: Conference of Basic Writing Executive Board
Subject: RE: [CBW_Exec] CBW 2011 update and request

Shannon,

The plans for the workshop sound quite interesting.  I wish I had time to join you in reading the proposals, but I am up to my neck in crises.

Peter

Peter Adams | Director of Accelerated Learning
Department of English
Essex Campus
Community College Baltimore County
7201 Rossville Blvd
Baltimore, MD 21237
443.710.1852 | padams2 at ccbcmd.edu

-----Original Message-----
From: cbw_exec-bounces at tamu-commerce.edu on behalf of Shannon Carter
Sent: Tue 8/31/2010 1:51 PM
To: CBW_Exec at tamu-commerce.edu
Subject: [CBW_Exec] CBW 2011 update and request

Hello, CBW EB--

By now I'm sure the roar of the new semester is upon you, but we wanted to touch base with you about CBW and the rest. 

Update 1: Our open CFP for CBW 2011 resulted in about 10 proposals, the vast majority of which bring new BW voices into our organization and contribute to the conversation in some fresh and important ways. Given that we have set aside two Open Panels and a Roundtable Discussion for the presentations resulting from our open call, we can actually accommodate all of them and we'd like to. But we want to be certain the proposals we have meet EB  approval. 

Request 1: Are some of you available to review this handful of short proposals to determine if any should be rejected or redirected? We have two options for accepted presenters: (1) present to the entire CBW Workshop during one of the Open Panels (one in morning, one in afternoon) or (2) present at one of our Roundtables during the Roundtable Discussion at the end of the day. All presenters were asked to limit their proposed presentations to 8-10 minutes, so any proposal submitted can accommodate either format (traditional panel--up to 4 per panel; roundtable--as many as we like). 

We'd like to notify those who submitted by next week, if possible. We expect to hear back from CCCC about proposal by September as well, and it would be nice to cluster our CBW notifications with theirs. In the meantime, I'll ask our graduate students here on my campus to help us sort potential placement of proposed sessions on our CBW 2011 workshop schedule, bringing like themes together and offering a fresh, sometimes relatively new-to-the-field perspective to the conference. 

Update 2: BWe! At long, long last, BWe is live (http://orgs.tamu-commerce.edu/BWe). We are very proud of this Double Issue and the new infrastructure of Associate Editors it introduces. For that and so much more, we have you to thank! So thanks: for your amazing work, insight, generosity, and patience. For the long, long delay, . . . I must should the lion's share of the blame on that one. In the last few months I've been buying a new home, moving, preparing for a wedding, finishing up an NEH grant application (weren't awarded), and some other good stuff. The professional/personal balance has been one I'm working to figure out. But it's out now! 

Update 3: Barbara Gleason is Editor for the next BWe Special Issue on multimodal composing. Check out the call for submissions and see if that doesn't get you excited! 

Thanks, all! 
Shannon (and Hannah)

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