[CBW_Exec] CCCC Planning (getting CBW Out there!)

[Shannon Carter]

Hi, all--
 
Wow! What a time to be a part of CBW! I am so proud to be affiliated with this group! 
 
Thanks so much for the kudos and for the honor of working with all of you these past few years. 
 
 So many other things to say in thanks (and I will), but I'll table for a short time to push out this. 
 
Here's Chris Anson, in response to the IHE article on BW:
*	Posted by Chris Anson , Professor and Director, CWSP at North Carolina State University on April 11, 2011 at 9:00am EDT 
*	If the intuitions of those who spoke at the annual business meeting are right, then this is a problem that needs attention. Basic writing has always been an important part of the CCCC and its membership, and it remains a crucially important area of higher education and our continuing efforts toward access and the further preparation for all aspiring students. The theme of next year's conference--which focuses on both the positive and negative aspects of "gateways" and the transitions students make as learners--lends itself to a strong focus on these issues, and I'll be working hard to ensure that they are represented in St. Louis.

We have a moment! 
While we wait to get access to CBW-L, perhaps I can share with you a proposal from Seth Kahn I just received via FB. Our fabulous new leadership (Liz and Hannah) will help us develop the best action plan. I'm just tossing this out there because Seth sent the message. 
 
A little background: Seth chairs the labor caucaus, a group with many overlapping concerns to our own. It seems worth pursuing and highlighting these potential connections. I believe Seth is hoping to propose a featured Double Session that would allow conference goers the opportunity for workshop atmosphere during conference itself so they don't have to stay an extra night or so and spend that $
 
Seth: 
Seth Kahn <https://outlook.tamu-commerce.edu/exchweb/bin/redir.asp?URL=http://www.facebook.com/n/?rabblerouser%26mid=40d1a7fG3bf812beG26f4e3eG0%26bcode=Z3LSUmYp%26n_m=shannon_carter%2540tamu-commerce.edu> 11:25am Apr 11th
Subject: Pitching a featured session for next year's CCCC
Shannon:

I wasn't kidding Sat morning at Cs that we need to pitch a featured session for CCCC 2012. My current working (so to speak) title is something like, "Revisiting the Politics of Writing Instruction: Postsecondary" (riffing on the book from what, 1991?). 

The idea would be to invite CBW, Labor, Adjunct, Diversity and other constituencies with overtly political issues/agendas to talk about the current state of the field in those terms. We'd have to flesh out what that means, of course, but ...

I kind of have Chris Anson's ear these days, although he's so nice it's hard to tell whether he's just humoring me, but if you're interested in having a go at this, I'm happy to start rapping him on it.

Let me know what you think.

--Seth
 
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Other suggestions I've gathered include: 
 
1. A panel on the new bw (featuring research in BW, coming out now and/or soon). Steve Lamos, for example, and others we can suggest and to which Kelly Ritter has agreed to respond if interested in proposing this direction). 
 
2. Mike Rose, Lynn Troyka? 
 
 
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