[CBW_Exec] Featured Sessions, CCCC 2012

[Shannon Carter]

Hi, all---
 
Liz and Hannah are leading us into a fabulous workshop plan and opening up opportunities to bring in loads of new and smart voices on BW into CCCC 2012. You'll hear more about that soon, though you likely already saw Hannah's post on CBW-L offering to help coordinate CCCC 2012 panel ideas. 
 
The other prong for this CCCC 2012 high visibility is Featured Sessions. How would you guys like to go about this? 
 
One avenue is to simply prepare a panel or two CBW would like to put forward as "Featured" and propose them in regular submission cycle, which is actually what Chris Anson himself suggested in response to Seth Kahn's request for a featured session, 
 
Here's Anson
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I like this idea a lot. I'm creating a file of every idea, suggestion, and solicitation that I get, and as I begin assembling the program, I'll be giving due consideration to all of them.

Here's what I'd suggest: put together a proposal (using the form) for a panel session and submit it using the regular channel. When we do Stage II review, I'll be culling my notes about various ideas and things to feature. At that time, I can get a better sense of the shape of the entire program and then make more informed decisions about where things should go, what should get prominence, etc. If I make promises now to the (many!) folks who are writing, I'll leave myself little room for flexibility in June.
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Seth's idea was this:  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 ...
 
My own work isn't really very well suited to resond to this call, but I know folks throughout CBW who are and we often share presenters during workshop sessions. 
 
 
More from Seth:
I wasn't kidding Sat morning at Cs that we need to pitch a featured session for CCCC 2012.
So, next step is to figure out who else to invite. I tend to like 4 people, but that's a matter of taste. In terms of groups, off the top of my head: Labor Caucus, CBW, TYCA, Diversity Committee?

Is there an obvious logic to that? Anybody obvious that shouldn't be excluded? 


 
Remember this, also from Anson in response to IHE piece 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.
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