[CBW_Exec] CCCC 2012--featured session query to Peter Adams and Bill Lalicker

[Shannon Carter]

 From Lynn: (Lynn, just reply all and everyone on this smaller list  
will get your response).

And I'm completely in agreement.

Sent from my iPhone

On Apr 15, 2011, at 3:37 PM, Lynn Troyka <ltroyka2 at gmail.com> wrote:

> My friends,
>
> I'd worry about asking for two Featured Sessions (FSs) on BW. We  
> need to remember that the whole idea behind FSs is to give the  
> Program Chair the chance to express/feature his/her agenda/vision  
> for our profession. Even asking Chris for one of his was taking  
> quite a chance; his graciousness in replying as he did is a tribute  
> to his generosity of spirit.
>
> The session about the books would make a fine panel. The FS has to  
> draw big time--as I've said before, NCTE staff counts attendance at  
> each and every CCCC session, FS or regular, and they report those  
> figures to the next year's CCCC Program Chair.
>
> Also, I suggest we clarify if this is the FS is to be on community  
> colleges or on BW written LARGE. I vote for the latter, though I was  
> a community college BW teacher for 17 truly happy, exciting years. I  
> now love teaching about BW (and sometimes about community colleges)  
> to MA students preparing to teach in colleges.
>
> Shannon--help . . .I don't know what you mean by pulling the  
> conversation into the "EB." Thanks.
>
> Cheers,
> Lynn Troyka
> Gotta close up for the night. I'll be tuning in again tomorrow (Sat  
> 4/14).
> On Fri, Apr 15, 2011 at 4:12 PM, Shannon Carter <cartershannon at gmail.com 
> > wrote:
> I pulled convo into CBW EB, if that works for you guys.
>
> I'd go with Kelly on this one. She's on CCCC EC and has been  
> featured before. I have no experience. Just parroting what I've been  
> told second and third hand.
>
> I love the ideas already kicked about and am excited about  
> possibility of foregrounding rich work in community colleges--like  
> those mentioned and like that represented via Howard Tinberg. I love  
> the idea of a featured panel that brings Peter and Lynn together  
> with Bartholomae and/or Rose and/or Horner. Nice! (as an aside: I  
> was just revisiting rose's Why School? and his blog. Man that stuff  
> resonates, doesn't it.
>
> In short, i'm eager to see such a panel (however configured)  
> featured at next CCCC.
>
> Also, this: was beginning convos on another possible featured panel  
> that would come at BW from a bit more narrow focus--emerging (and  
> recently published) research in BW, with Kelly Ritter as respondent.  
> Asked steve lamos and perhaps Jane Stanley. This comes from out CBW  
> 2011 conversations, and I see it as direct complement to the larger  
> issues that may be the focus of the panel you guys are drafting.
>
> Would it be appropriate to refer to each proposal in the other, as  
> we'd like to see both considered as featured as they address  
> conference theme from different and complementary angles?
>
> Seth's labor caucus/ CBW/Diversity committee panel will also be put  
> forward for consideration as featured but this one draws in enough  
> groups I think it CSM stand well enough on its own.
>
> Thoughts?
>
>
>
> Sent qfrom my iPhone
>
>
> On Apr 15, 2011, at 2:33 PM, "Adams, Peter D." <padams2 at CCBCMD.EDU>  
> wrote:
>
> I would, of course, be honored to do this.  My presentation would  
> grow out of the institute Kelly and I are giving at the WPA  
> conference this summer which is growing out of the presentation that  
> I gave with Lynn and Sugie in Atlanta.  I want to examine what it  
> means--both for universities and for community colleges--that the  
> primary responsibility for basic writing is migrating to community  
> colleges.  For example, I would address the following:
>
> • what are the positives and negatives of this change?
> • who will be doing the kinds of important scholarship on basic writ 
> ing that in the past has been done, primarily, by people at universi 
> ties?
> • where will grad students at universities learn about teaching basi 
> c writing?
> • will universities conduct research about bw at community colleges?
> • if not, will community colleges sponsor research into bw?
> • will community colleges need to develop some faculty positions tha 
> t include scholarship rather than a 15 hour teaching load?
> • what innovations in bw are underway in community colleges today?
> • where will bw instructors get their preparation for teaching in th 
> e bw classroom?
>
> That's the kind of talk I have in mind, although I hope it will be  
> much better developed by next year.  As those of you organizing this  
> possible featured session try to pull things together, you may find  
> that what I have in mind doesn't mesh well with other proposals you  
> are considering. I'll completely understand.  But I thought it might  
> help Liz and Hannah and others decide what to propose if I sketched  
> out what I'm thinking about.
>
> Again, I'd love to do this, but I also understand that CBW has to  
> take advantage of this opportunity to propose something coherent,  
> and that might not include what I've described.
>
> Peter
>
> Peter Adams | Director of Accelerated Learning Program
> Department of English
> Essex Campus
> Community College of Baltimore County
> 7201 Rossville Blvd
> Baltimore, MD 21237
> 443•710•1852 | padams2 at ccbcmd.edu
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Conference on Basic Writing on behalf of Shannon Carter
> Sent: Fri 4/15/2011 3:16 PM
> To: CBW-L at LISTS.UMN.EDU
> Subject: Re: CCCC 2012--featured session query to Peter Adams and  
> Bill Lalicker
>
> This is exactly what Chris suggested to another for 2012. Well, sort
> of...
>
> The suggestion from Chris was to submit via regular channels, and he
> would later sort in consultation with his notes and files gathered
> from numerous similar requests. He is very encouraging. Seems
> appropriate to do as Kelly suggests and add that tag, which, as she
> notes, had been sucessful.
>
> Bill: For exact wording on Chris's response, please see my recent post
> on subject at cbw eb list.
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> On Apr 15, 2011, at 2:08 PM, Kelly Ritter <karitter at UNCG.EDU> wrote:
>
> Hi Bill:
>
> Just to jump in: Usually the procedure is to include, typically as
> the last session of your panel description, a note that "we request
> that this session, if accepted, be considered for a featured session
> slot." That's how Joe Harris did it the year our SWR panel was a
> featured panel.
>
> Sincerely,
>
> Kelly
>
> On Fri, Apr 15, 2011 at 3:05 PM, Lalicker, William  
> <WLalicker at wcupa.edu
> wrote:
> Hi, Lynn. I think we should have a featured session, with recognized
> scholars of BW as headliners (you would be a great candidate, Lynn,
> as would Peter!). But I don't know the process by which a session be
> comes "featured": whether the CCCC program folks approach
> individuals, or whether regular session proposers can ask that the s
> ession be featured. Chris Anson is probably our best source of infor
> mation: we should email him and ask for his advice on procedure.
>
>
>
> Once we have done that, we can all decide the structures for our
> proposals (individual or panel). Who's like to contact Chris Anson?
>
>
>
> Bill
>
>
>
> William B. Lalicker, Ph.D.
>
> Professor of English (Main Hall, Room 534, 610.436.2268)
>
> Dean's Assistant for Student Issues (Anderson Hall, Room 119C, 610.436.3521
> )
>
> College of Arts and Sciences
>
> West Chester University
>
> West Chester, PA 19383
>
> wlalicker at wcupa.edu
>
>
>
> From: Conference on Basic Writing [mailto:CBW-L at LISTS.UMN.EDU] On
> Behalf Of Lynn Troyka
> Sent: Friday, April 15, 2011 2:31 PM
> To: CBW-L at LISTS.UMN.EDU
> Subject: Re: CCCC 2012--featured session query to Peter Adams and
> Bill Lalicker
>
>
>
> Hi especially to Peter Adams and Bill Lalicker:
>
>
>
> In Atlanta, just before the IHE interview, when our group was
> hanging out, you two talked of putting together a Featured Session
> for CCCC12. Is that plan still in the works? If so, I'll not propose
> an individual session or send my idea to Hannah because all
> proposers are required to check off on the proposal form that we've
> proposed (or have been proposed) only once.
>
>
>
> Cheers,
>
> Lynn Troyka
>
> troykalq at nyc.rr.com
>
>
>
>
> On Thu, Apr 14, 2011 at 11:09 AM, Ashley, Hannah <HAshley at wcupa.edu>
> wrote:
>
> Colleagues--As the energy at CCCC 2011 demonstrated, we are here, we
> are to be heard, we are professionals, we are central.
>
>
>
> Liz Clark and I, as co-chairs of CBW, would like to help coordinate
> panels of basic writing presentations for CCCC 2012.  Please look on
> this list in the next few days for a link to a Google Doc, which
> will allow you to post your contact information and a very short
> description of a basic writing presentation for 4C 2012.  We will
> look through them and link people up by theme. Remember that the
> deadline is May 6, 2011, so in order to coordinate with others, you
> will probably have to post your idea up there in the next week or so.
>
>
>
> Why panels?  Panels are more likely to get in the CCCC.  They also
> have a certain weight.  And they will allow us to continue to
> connect with each other across institutions.
>
>
>
> There  will also be an open call for the Wednesday preconference CBW
> workshop.
>
>
>
> Stay tuned.
>
>
>
> Hannah Ashley (for Hannah and Liz)
>
>
>
> Hannah Ashley, Ph.D.
>
> Associate Professor of English, Composition & Rhetoric
>
> Director, Writing Zones 12.5  (www.writingzones.net)
>
> 543 Main Hall, West Chester University
>
> West Chester, PA 19383
>
> 610-436-2371
>
>
>
> "For years I pulled my own existence out  of emptiness. Then one
> swoop, one swing of the arm, that work is over."  Rumi
>
>
>
>
>
> -- 
> Dr. Kelly Ritter
> Associate Professor of English
> Director of Composition
> UNCG
> karitter at uncg.edu
> (336) 334-4689
>
>
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