[CBW_Exec] CBW EB Nominees: Call to Vote?

[J. Elizabeth Clark]

Third!


(And a procedural question--does that mean they join us on Wednesday for the EB meeting?)


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
>>> Susan Bernstein  03/27/11 10:52 PM >>>
Second!

On Sun, Mar 27, 2011 at 10:46 PM, Shannon Carter <
Shannon_Carter at tamu-commerce.edu> wrote:

>  Great!
>
> So the slate is now:
>
> 1. Tom Peele (so sorry I butchered that name so badly, but glad to see he
> still has great support)
> 2. Marisa Klages
> 3. Steve Lamos
>
> I move we accept the slate above as newest members of our CBW Executive
> Board. Anyone care to second? Discuss?
>
> Yours,
> Shannon
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: J. Elizabeth Clark [mailto:lclark at lagcc.cuny.edu
> ]
> Sent: Sun 3/27/2011 5:43 AM
> To: cbw_exec at tamu-commerce.edu; Shannon Carter
> Subject: Re: [CBW_Exec] CBW EB: Announcements, Discussion
>
> Hi Shannon,
>
>
> I'd love to add Marisa Klages to our group, so I am nominating her for the
> board. I teach with Marisa at LaGuardia. She's very committed to Basic
> Writing and is currently leading a national project on Basic Writing
> pedagogy, which Peter Adams and I are a part of. [Full disclosure: project
> is funded by Gates]
>
>
> Marisa is enthusiastic, very tapped into C's (she's on the assessment
> committee), very energetic. She has 2-3 publications in BW, 1 co-authored
> with me in JBW on teaching with technology in BW.  She has presented at CBW
> (in Chicago), and usually presents on Basic Writing at CCCC.
>
>
> Liz
>
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>
> 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
> >>> "Shannon Carter"  03/26/11 6:13 PM >>>
> Hi, all--
> A couple of items worth announcing and exploring before we meet it Atlanta
> April 6th:
>
> I. New CBW Executive Board Members:
> II. BWe, Special Issue and Future
> III. CBW Co-Chairs
>
> I. New CBW Executive Board Members
>
> SLATE:
>
> a. Tim Peeples (nominated by Barbara Gleason)
> b. Steve Lamos (nominated by Shannon Carter)
> c. Others?
>
> REASONING: Individuals suggested bring experiences that can help advance
> the organization in ways CBW EB and membership identified as
> important--relevant use of new media (Peeples) and organizational structures
> (Lamos).
>
> Lamos will lead the discussion on mission statements and his 2010 CBW
> Workshop presentation was well received. He is excited to get involved and
> eager to help in any way he can. Bio: Steve Lamos is Assistant Professor of
> English and Associate Director of the Program for Writing at the University
> of Colorado-Boulder.  His forthcoming book, _Interests and Opportunities:
> Race, Racism, and University-Level Writing Instruction in the Post-Civil
> Rights Era_ (University of Pittsburgh Press 2011), examines historical
> relationships between race-based educational opportunity programs and basic
> writing instruction.  He has also published related essays in _College
> Composition and
> Communication_, _College English_, and the _Journal of Basic Writing_.
>
> Barbara: will you share more in support of Peeples? I can certainly
> highlight several things, including his marvelous article (BWe's first
> multimodal one!) published in previous issue of BWe. Smart, rich, and
> important.
>
> II. BWe, Special Issue and Future
>
> The current co-editors of BWe (Carter and Bernstein) nominate Barbara
> Gleason as next editor of BWe.
>
> As you know, Barbara Gleason is currently serving as guest editor of a
> Special Issue of BWe, which has been a huge undertaking given some of the
> complexities in how our website was reconstructed over here on my campus
> (Sylwester's first web project and iWeb not terribly forgiving) and rest.
>
> The Special Issue is well underway, and Barbara is well positioned to take
> BWe to the next level as a national, sustainable and world-class publication
> that might better serve as vehicle for CBW and its future.
>
> An added benefit: BWe can go back "home," in essence," to City College
> where basic writing as it is often understood today got its start under Mina
> Shaughnessy.
>
> We've approached Barbara about this possiblity, and she is agreeable and
> has some wonderful ideas already underway.
>
> We ask CBW EB to discuss this suggested move and new editorship and
> respectfully request your endorsement.
>
> III. New CBW Co-Chairs
>
> As you know, Hannah Ashley and I were elected to serve as CBW Co-Chairs
> from 2008-2011. We decided at last year's meeting that it would be better to
> stagger Co-Chairs with new chair coming on to join one already in place. To
> this end, Hannah Ashley has generously agreed to serve a forth year,
> allowing future years to stagger new leadership.
>
> CBW 2011 in Atlanta is, therefore, my last year. It has been fabulous,
> folks!
>
> CBW 2012 in St. Louis will be Hannah's last.
>
> Last year CBW asked Liz Clark to join on as CBW Co-Chair, 2012-2014. Liz
> has kindly agreed to step in in Hannah's place this year to help me
> coordinate workshop and SIG on day of since Hannah can't be here with us at
> 2011 events. Hannah's been deeply involved throughout process and will
> remain so until we head to Atlanta.
>
> The upshot: We will need to begin discussing protocol (and individuals) to
> replace Hannah in 2012.
>
> So FYI on that front!
>
> Also, additional items to keep in mind during workshop and later: 1)
> Processing recommendations from what just happened at CBW (which you'll get
> from workshop)
>
>     * What recommendations/outcomes came out of each
> talk/session/roundtable?
>     * How can we take advantage of networking/media venues to make this
> work more visible? Ideas such as...
>
>                     **the virtual conference structure CCCC has set up
>
>                     **New editor BWe Barbara Gleason; Special Issue on
> multimodality; more Special Issues to raise visibility/collaborate with
> other programs/journals/orgs?  E.g., College English (Yay Kelly!) JBW (Yay
> Rebecca and Yay new editors), Kairos, CCC Online, and the like.
>
>
>
> 2. Revisit last year's EB mintutes, assess how we did on what we committed
> to do/intersections with #1 above
>
>
>
> 3. Where do we go from here? Next action steps
>
>
>
> Shannon Carter
> Associate Professor of English
> Texas A&M-Commerce
> shannon_carter at tamu-commerce.edu
> http://faculty.tamu-commerce.edu/scarter/
> 903-886-5492
>
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