[CBW_Exec] Press Release?

[Rebecca Mlynarczyk]

Congratulations and thanks to all for getting this done--and with a
unanimous vote!! I'm sorry I missed all the excitement. I was out of e-mail
contact and re-connecting with old friends who live in Atlanta. I think it's
great that you pulled together the piece for "Inside Higher Ed," and it's
fine if you did or didn't end up including my statement.

A further update: The BW session from 11 to 12:45 on Saturday, at which
Sugie, Peter, and Lynn spoke, was truly excellent. It was well attended and
the three talks were great as was the 20-minute discussion that
followed. Print versions of these three talks will be featured in an
upcoming issue of *JBW*.

Kudos to all for a great conference and for this renewed focus and energy!!

Rebecca
P.S. We really need to make the 2012 CCCC in Atlanta one in which BW will
shine. After catching your breath, remember to start working on proposals
for next year. I believe the submission deadline is May 6.
On Fri, Apr 8, 2011 at 8:30 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
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