[CBW_Exec] Sense of House Update

[Rebecca Mlynarczyk]

Dear Liz,

Thanks again for all you've done to inspire this resurgence of energy and
interest.

It's certainly fine to post my statement, and I think it would be fine to
e-mail David (I'm assuming you mean David Bartholomae). I've e-mailed him a
few times in connection with professional things, and he always gets right
back and is glad to be contacted.

All the best,

Rebecca

On Tue, Apr 12, 2011 at 5:32 AM, J. Elizabeth Clark
<lclark at lagcc.cuny.edu>wrote:

> 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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>
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