[CBW_Exec] CBW 2013

Thu Apr 12 11:10:36 CDT 2012

All:

I'm also certainly in favor of a combination of 1 and 2--leaning toward 2 as the primary focus for next year.  In this sense, I echo much of what both Susan and Bill have said...

Steve

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From: cbw_exec-bounces at tamu-commerce.edu [cbw_exec-bounces at tamu-commerce.edu] On Behalf Of Lalicker, William [WLalicker at wcupa.edu]
Sent: Thursday, April 12, 2012 9:48 AM
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Liz, thanks for starting this conversation. My own priority for the themes would be #2. Though I think there are links between #1 and #2, I'd like to see HBCUs, HSIs, tribal colleges, and other institutions serving historically underserved or underresourced students highlighted. (Doing so would naturally bring in the issue of politics, access, and budget cuts, as well as wrongheaded placement and assessment schemes.)

The reasons I want to focus on HBCUs and their HSI and tribal counterparts are:

a. CBW has been working to make our membership reflect our student constituency for some time: not to get essentialist about it, but we're still way too white to claim that all voices are being heard. Let's invite a broader conversation.

b. Transcultural and translingual inclusion is becoming a key ingredient in composition generally; this follows on the rhetorical principles articulated by Freire, Macrorie, Villanueva, Delpit and others that inclusive engagement with multiple cultural voices is necessary if discourses (including academic discourses) are to have creative and social power. HBCUs, HSIs, and tribal colleges are nodes of transcultural and translingual inclusion.

Next step: finding a keynoter, and connecting with our audience for the workshop with this emphasis (if the Exec agrees that this is the way to go, of course). The Council on WPA has both regional chapters and "theme" chapters (I've heard of a small-college WPA chapter, and a Jesuit-colleges WPA chapter); is there, say, an HBCU WPA chapter?

On the structure that Liz described: my own two cents is that the poster sessions and subsession setup was highly successful both in getting some new folks involved in the workshop, and in diversifying the number of BW program issues introduced to serve the attendees. It was a great idea--thanks!--and let's do it again, I'd say.

Okay...that's enough from me for now. Good to talk with you all...

Collegially,

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

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From: cbw_exec-bounces at tamu-commerce.edu [mailto:cbw_exec-bounces at tamu-commerce.edu] On Behalf Of J. Elizabeth Clark
Sent: Wednesday, April 11, 2012 7:21 PM
To: cbw_exec at tamu-commerce.edu; Ashley, Hannah
Subject: [CBW_Exec] CBW 2013

Hi Folks,

Starting work on CBW 2013.  What is more interesting to you right now?

1.  A focus on basic writing & political issues (access, cutting back on
programs, etc.)
2.  A focus on basic writing in HBCU and HSIs?
3.  A focus on basic writing & technology
4.  Something else?

I'm thinking that we would do a similar flow to this year:

1.  Opening keynote (on theme)
2.  Networking
3.  Poster presentations
4.  Afternoon keynote (on theme)
5.  Maybe (?) a second round of poster presentations (?)  OR a session
on publishing & grant writing

What do you think?

Liz

>>> "Ashley, Hannah" <HAshley at wcupa.edu> 04/09/12 09:49 AM >>>
Friends--Below and attached please find the minutes of our fantastic
meeting, include the commitments we made to this year:

Council on Basic Writing Executive Board Meeting

MINUTES

3/20/2012    6-8pm  St. Louis

In personal attendance:

Debra Mutnick

Marissa Klages

Liz Clark

Peter Adams

Steve Lamos

Hannah Ashley

Bill Lalicker

Sarah Kirk

Alan Myers

Greg Glau

Rebecca M

Call in: Susan Bernstein

Not present:  Sugie, Kathleen, Tom, Eileen, Barbara

Agenda

1. Celebrate what we did last year: say your name (just in case), say in
one sentence how last year's work made a difference for you in your
individual work, your institution, or the discipline

2. Thanks and kudos and thanks again to board members stepping down
(Peter, Rebecca, Sonya, Shannon, Alan); thanks to Chris Anson and Howard
Tinberg in the form of Sense of House resolution.

3. Discussion items

(a) Sub-committees were formed and their 2012-2013 work focus decided
(Chairs and FY12-13 focus in bold below)

  *   Community Development:  electronic community/membership (blog,
fb); local area development*Liz, Debra (chair)
     *   Connecting to larger network of developmental (e.g., NADE)
     *   research a list of all the possible partners (organizations,
foundations)*deliverable is a White Paper (focus)
     *   Membership formalization

  *   Institutionalization & Activism: mission & charter; NCTE/CCCC
Statement development*Marissa (chair), Steve, Hannah, Bill (Alan ex
officio)

     *   Draft a CCCC/NCTE statement toward a formal resolution to be
introduced in February (focus)*notes toward that*basic writing as a
discipline that integrates developmental, social justice, students
rights, not preparation is college work, some practices to emphasize and
deemphasize, reading and writing are inseparable (key principles and
practices), framework for post-secondary writing, erro*TYCA
     *   Threat to non-elite students
     *   Foundations and publishing companies*Lumina, testing

  *   Scholarship:  Basic Writing e-journal; work on the pre-con
workshop (e.g., reviewing  submissions, etc.) supporting the co-chairs;
mentoring scholars *Susan (Rebecca ex officio)
     *   Mentoring of new scholars*starting a way to connect mentors and
mentees partnership (focus)

  *   Funding and Awards: Innovation, Scholarship*Sarah & Greg
(chair)*Bedford, other (e.g., Evaluation Program/Speakers bureau);
Pearson?

     *   Make the awards happen and reexamine the parameters of the
awards (focus)
     *   Expansion/change to "bigger" more impactful exemplar
     *   Get a good pool of innovation
     *   Raise funds*Rebecca shared that there was money raised several
years ago for JBW that can be reallocated toward awards

(b) Reconstitution of board*Decisions to ask the following applicants to
join the Board (Liz will formally ask them)

Cheryl Smith

Mike Hill

Bob Miller

Michelle Flemming

Lynn Reid

*        Ideas were discussed about how to formalize membership of board
with terms and rotation and representation, diversification of board and
CBW being a big priority; ideas to use the pre-con workshop to build
connections to diverse communities (e.g., a focus on HBCU's and other
minority-serving institutions)

Hannah Ashley, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of English, Composition & Rhetoric
Composition Director
Service Learning Faculty Associate
Director, Writing Zones 12.5
(www.writingzones.net<http://www.writingzones.net/>)
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