[CBW_Exec] Other thoughts from the EB on CBW Mission Statement?

Tue May 3 17:40:04 CDT 2011

Another great workshop in the works. Congratulations.

My one negative is that I don't like "seminal," but I'm okay with it if others are. 

On a different note, I think you're right about some messages not going through. I had one a while back that did not, but then it appeared a week later. Not sure what's up with that. 

Thanks. kb 

----- Original Message -----
From: Gregory R Glau 
Date: Tuesday, May 3, 2011 3:38 pm
Subject: Re: [CBW_Exec] Other thoughts from the EB on CBW Mission Statement?
To: Conference of Basic Writing Executive Board 

> Thanks, Liz,
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> gg
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> Greg Glau
> Associate Professor and Director, University Writing Program
> Northern Arizona University
> Department of English - PO 6032
> Flagstaff, AZ 86011-6032
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> Office: 928 523 6713
> Fax: 928 779 0665
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> On May 3, 2011, at 2:17 PM, J. Elizabeth Clark wrote:
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> Hi Greg,
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> Great. We'd like to prioritize people who need to be listed for 
> funding, so you're in! Others in the same situation?
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> 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
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> >>> Gregory R Glau 
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> Hi, all,
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> it'd help me get CCCC funding if I can be listed as a 
> Facilitator -- and I expect there are others who could use that 
> help, too, with funding.
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> gg
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> Greg Glau
> Associate Professor and Director, University Writing Program
> Northern Arizona University
> Department of English - PO 6032
> Flagstaff, AZ 86011-6032
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> Office: 928 523 6713
> Fax: 928 779 0665
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> On May 3, 2011, at 2:00 PM, J. Elizabeth Clark wrote:
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> Hmm... Now I think it didn't go through at all. So, here's the 
> workshop description again. In case my original message didn't 
> go through:
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> This mirrors our most recent on-line discussion and the outline 
> I sent last week.
> We could use 2 more facilitators. Anyone willing? Because of our 
> combined ALP/CBW approach, we have fewer "slots" than usual. I 
> hope everyone is still okay with that!
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> Thoughts? Responses? Minor Edits?
> Liz
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> _________
> 
> Gathered at the Gate: Basic Writing in Evidence
> 
> A swift rhetorical analysis of the Call for Proposals for CCCC 
> 2012 reveals this: it is replete with the language of basic 
> writing but sidesteps direct reference to it. Neither the word 
> “basic” nor “developmental” appears in the body CFP, yet the 
> tropes emerging from the narratives of and theory on basic 
> writing reverberate everywhere in it. For example, when we read 
> “…our field is fundamentally about the transitions that literacy 
> brings to individual lives and collective destinies” (Anson 
> 2011), we cannot help but think about Mike Rose’s Lives on the 
> Boundary. And “…a successful passage can also mean loss: 
> leaving behind one’s culture or language, taking on questionable 
> new roles, or joining exclusionary communities of practice” 
> brings to mind immediately the dialogue between Rodriguez’s The 
> Hunger of Memory and Villanueva’s Bootstraps, while 
> “…checkpoints—thresholds that promise a welcome transformation, 
> new state of being, or a journey onward, and borders that can 
> block, reject, and turn away” echoes Bartholomae’s “Inventing 
> the University.” And of course, “How does our field monitor 
> gateways created by others?” raises Shaughnessy’s Errors and 
> Expectations to the foreground.
> 
> Yet the most recent of those texts was published in 1993—what of 
> basic writing almost two decades later? Perhaps the questions 
> raised by these seminal texts have been fully integrated into 
> discipline writ large and no longer require the “pull-out” or 
> “remediation” of separate, specialized attention? Yet basic 
> skills continues to dominate the cultural and social landscape 
> as a central concern. Public policies focused on everything from 
> financial aid to credit accumulation have become part of a very 
> public discussion about basic skills in general. And, 
> increasingly, foundations like Lumina and Gates have begun to 
> consider the issue of basic skills in higher education. Despite 
> this, those who teach, research, and study basic skills continue 
> to be pushed to the sidelines of discussions about higher education.
> 
> This workshop will follow up on the Sense of the House motion 
> passed at CCCC 2011 which stated, “Be it resolved that Basic 
> Writing is a vital field and its students and teacher scholars a 
> productive force within composition; is under attack by 
> exclusionary public policies; and therefore must be recognized 
> publicly and supported by CCCC as a conference cluster and with 
> featured sessions.” It will do so by highlighting both the 
> exclusionary forces at work as well as productive responses on 
> local campuses demonstrated through evidence-based practices. 
> This workshop will also provide critical support for basic 
> writing educators by creating networking opportunities to work 
> with faculty from across the United States in a focused, 
> sustained way.
> 
> 
> WORKSHOP OUTLINE
> 
> 1. 9-9:20 Welcome/Opening Remarks (Hannah Ashley, Westchester 
> University)
> 2. 9:20-9:40 CBW’s New Mission as a Response to Exclusionary 
> Public Policies (J. Elizabeth Clark, LaGuardia Community 
> College, CUNY)
> 
> 3. 9:45-10:30 Bruce Horner, Relocating Basic Writing
> 
> This featured presentation will frame the continuing value of 
> basic writing as part of a long tradition in composition studies 
> challenging dominant beliefs about literacy and language 
> abilities, and link basic writing to contemporary concerns about 
> "translingual" approaches to language--with illustrations from 
> scholarship on "error."
> 
> 4. 10:45-12 Basic Writing in Evidence: This featured 
> presentation slot will bring together basic writing educators 
> from around the United States. The participants will be selected 
> by an open call/poster session where local models for success 
> are featured, including but not limited to: preparing and 
> supporting basic writing faculty, technology in the basic 
> writing classroom, new models for basic writing instruction, 
> innovative programs, responding to local challenges and meeting 
> challenges and attacks on basic writing programs.
> 
> LUNCH BREAK
> 
> 5. 1-3 The Accelerated Learning Program as an Evidence-Based 
> Success Model
> The Accelerated Learning Program is an innovative strategy for 
> increasing student success in developmental education. The 
> Accelerated Learning Program targets students who place into 
> upper-level developmental writing courses and features a 
> “mainstreaming” approach by which students bypass remedial 
> English, enrolling directly in freshman English along with a 
> supplemental support section. The program has doubled the 
> success rate for students placed in developmental writing at 
> Community College of Baltimore County. This presentation will 
> focus on CCBC's model and the ways that other colleges are using 
> the model on their campuses.
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> Peter Adams, Community College of Baltimore County
> Heidi Johnsen, LaGuardia Community College
> Michelle Zollars, Patrick Henry Community College
> Jan Allen, Community College of Baltimore County
> Nejla Camponeschi, Community College of Baltimore County
> 
> 6. 3:15-4 Smaller working group session
> Local contexts: This last segment of the day will focus on small 
> group networking, helping basic writing educators to make 
> connections across local contexts. By the end of the session, 
> based on the work of the day and people's interests, we will 
> connect people with similar interests to begin to create a 
> larger structure of support for basic writing instructors 
> outside of the annual CBW Workshop at CCCC.
> 
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> 7. 4:00-5:00 Business Meeting (Hannah Ashley, Westchester University)
> For the final part of the day, we will consider the CBW mission 
> statement and the newly written charter. We will also consider 
> new business.
> 
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