[CBW_Exec] Sense of House Update

[J. Elizabeth Clark]

Hi All,


I'm working on the listserv. I thought it was fixed, but it doesn't seem
to be. I've touched base and already heard back from Tom Reynolds who is
on the ground at UMN.


Rebecca & Susan: is it okay to publish your statements in support of the
Sense of the House on the blog? I don't want to put them there without
your explicit permission.


Peter: do you think it's okay to e-mail David to ask? (I can do this--I
know you're already at another conference).


Thanks,


Liz

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
>>> Rebecca Mlynarczyk  04/10/11 9:28 AM >>>
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 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
>> 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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