[CBW_Exec] Press Release?

[Shannon Carter]

I think this looks fabulous! Thanks, Liz!

What do the rest of you think?

Sent from my iPhone

On Apr 8, 2011, at 8:31 PM, "J. Elizabeth Clark"  
<lclark at lagcc.cuny.edu> wrote:

> Hi,
>
>
> Mike Hill suggested that we have a press release prepared because  
> Inside
> Higher Ed is coming to the meeting tomorrow. I'm far afield here,  
> but I
> copied the format for a press release. Rebecca, I used your  
> statement as
> the  "significant quote." Thoughts?
>
>
> How do you feel about this? Is this too much, or do we want to run  
> with
> it?
>
>
> Since I won't be there, I put Bill and Shannon as the contacts.   
> What do
> you think? I am including the EXEC board and Mike on this discussion.
>
>
> Liz
> ____________________
>
>
> For Immediate Release:
>
> The Council on Basic Writing, an open community of teacherscholars in
> the field of Basic Writing, calls for a recommitment to the  
> centralrole
> of basic writing in the composition community.
>
> Atlanta, Georgia, 9 April 2011: Although many luminaries inthe field  
> of
> composition studies trace their roots to teaching and writingabout  
> Basic
> Writing, Basic Writing has become increasingly marginalized withinthe
> CCCC community and in the field of composition studies. Virtually
> invisibleat the national CCCC convention, Basic Writing is gone as a
> strand, as afeatured session, and even as a central word in conference
> session titles.
> That point was driven home in the 2011 Chair's address, asprinted in  
> the
> program that "the fields that make up CCCC--composition,rhetoric,
> creative writing, language/linguistics, visual and digital
> rhetorics,professional writing and communication--are diverse."
> In response to the absence of Basic Writing at CCCC, Rebecca  
> Mlynarczyk,
> Co-editor, Journal of Basic Writing said, "Basic Writing is an  
> important
> sub-set of composition studies with a significant student population  
> and
> with a long and distinguished history and scholarship. We feel it is
> important that Basic Writing be acknowledged explicitly by CCC in a  
> time
> of waning public support for this important endeavor."
> To help to encourage CCCC to provide support for basicwriting faculty
> and students, and to recommit to the central role Basic Writinghas in
> the field of composition, we are introducing the following sense of
> thehouse resolution at the business meeting tomorrow morning. "Be it
> resolvedthat Basic Writing, a vital field and its students and teacher
> scholars aproductive force within composition; is under attack
 
> by
> exclusionary publicpolicies; and therefore must be recognized publicly
> and supported by CCCC as aconference cluster and with featured
> sessions."
>
> Contact:
> William Lalicker
> Executive Board of CBW
> WLalicker at wcupa.edu
>
> Shannon Carter
> Outgoing Chair of CBW
> cartershannon at gmail.com
>
>
>
> J. Elizabeth Clark, Ph.D.
> Professor of English
> LaGuardia Community College--CUNY
> e-mail:  lclark at lagcc.cuny.edu
> Phone:  718.482.5665
> www.jelizabethclark.com