[CBW_Exec] featured session on BW research (next gen)

Sun Apr 17 13:26:24 CDT 2011

I agree with the consensus that we should only propose one featured session. I also heartily second Shannon's suggestion of including a new scholar in that session and think Steve Lamos would be a terrific choice if he's available and willing.

Deborah

Deborah Mutnick, Director of Writing
English Department
Long Island University
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From: cbw_exec-bounces at tamu-commerce.edu [cbw_exec-bounces at tamu-commerce.edu] on behalf of Shannon Carter [Shannon_Carter at tamu-commerce.edu]
Sent: Friday, April 15, 2011 8:45 PM
To: Conference of Basic Writing Executive Board; Conference of Basic Writing Executive Board
Cc: Conference of Basic Writing Executive Board; Shannon Carter; Lynn Troyka
Subject: [CBW_Exec] featured session on BW research (next gen)

I agree with what appears to be emerging as consensus concerning these suggested Featured Sessions. It does make sense to request just one BW panel, for all the reasons everyone suggested. I don't want BW to appear greedy and, like everyone else, am grateful to Chris for the oppotunity to foreground BW in one of his featured sessions. I also see no reason to pit two BW panels against one another. That was the opposite of my intent.

With that, I have decided against requesting any consideration for featuring this other panel I asked you all about. When I began thse conversations, I did not know how it worked and wanted to be sure CBW put forward a panel proposal to be (potentially) featured. We have that in the one you guys are planning. It will certainly be a draw, which is what we want.

Suggestion: Be neat to include someone on featured panel who entered field in last few years, too. As we know quite well, there is some amazing work going on in publications emerging from recent graduates and junior faculty too, much of which would also be quite a draw and worthy of inclusion in a Featured Session.

My 2cents. :)

--Shannon

-----Original Message-----
From: cbw_exec-bounces at tamu-commerce.edu on behalf of Shannon Carter
Sent: Fri 4/15/2011 3:32 PM
To: Conference of Basic Writing Executive Board
Cc: Conference of Basic Writing Executive Board; Shannon Carter; Lynn Troyka
Subject: Re: [CBW_Exec] CCCC 2012--featured session query to Peter Adams andBill Lalicker

I like your thinking on this, Kelly. I think CBW should foreground the
panel bill, Peter, and Lynn are building as that seems likely to have
the greatest impact.

I was a little frustrated with heavy featuring of one group at cccc
2011. I don't want to be that group.

How about this angle:
We press forward with panel on bw research, as planned. We suggest in
proposal we see this linked to proposal discussed above and, if both
are accepted, would welcome opportunity to foreground these links in
program, perhaps even as double featured session. However, we would
rather any suggested link be set aside when determining merits of
individual proposals and are eager to see (other panel title) featured
whether or not it seems appropriate to likewise feature this one.

It's a panel I'd like to see whether featured or not.

The one above should be featured, tho. Hope review team agrees.

Sent from my aiPhone

On Apr 15, 2011, at 3:17 PM, "Kelly Ritter" <karitter at uncg.edu> wrote:

> Shannon, you might explicitly link the two panels when you propose
> them (like Panel X1 and Panel X2). That could work. The danger is
> the reviewers feel that to accept one, they must accept both, and
> that could backfire. So. . .
>
> I have no idea what other constituencies within the Cs are planning
> (plotting?) to ask for featured sessions. But assuming there are
> many, my gut thinks you might ask for *one* of these two possible
> panels to be featured, lest it seem we want more than our share. I
> realize this may feel conservative, and I know we have a little
> momentum right now. But I also am sensitive to how overwhelmed Chris
> (or any conference chair) might feel when trying to provide a fair
> range of representation from all groups who ask for it (via
> featured). If I were him, and this is just my view, I'd strive for a
> featured from each group that asks for it, but not more than one
> featured for any. We might look to the "double-featured" structure
> of this last Cs, with the doubling always being a Native American
> presentation/topic, to see how over-representing one group can lead
> to a feeling of sameness, or at worst favoritism (just my view--
> doesn't have to be others').
>
> Kelly
>
> 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 wr
> it
> > ing that in the past has been done, primarily, by people at universi
> > ties?
> > . where will grad students at universities learn about teaching ba
> si
> > c writing?
> > . will universities conduct research about bw at community college
> s?
> > . if not, will community colleges sponsor research into bw?
> > . will community colleges need to develop some faculty positions t
> ha
> > 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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