[CBW_Exec] CBW 2011 update and request

[Sugie Goen-Salter]

Hi Shannon and all,
Peter, I feel ya (as they say)! Up to my eyebrows in change and  
crisis here as well. So sorry I'm not able to chip in, but glad to  
hear you have it covered.
On Sep 1, 2010, at 7:42 AM, Shannon Carter wrote:

> 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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