[CBW_Exec] CBW 2013--Important to READ and REPLY ALL! REPLY ALL! REPLY ALL!

Wed Apr 18 07:31:46 CDT 2012

Congrats to Sugie! 

Welcome  Cheryl, Mike, Bob, Michelle, and Lynn

Any of the suggested keynotes sound terrific, though given that 4C's has shown a willingness to revitalize Basic Writing at the conference, I think that Powell might be a good strategic choice, if she is available and willing. 

Marisa 

Dr. Marisa A. Klages
Associate Professor
Director, Outcomes Assessment
LaGuardia Community College-- CUNY
718-482-5677
mklages at lagcc.cuny.edu

>>> "Ashley, Hannah" <HAshley at wcupa.edu> 4/18/2012 8:21 AM >>>
I confess to (on first read) not loving the over-arching formulation of "difference," for a few reasons:

* the term "difference" to me connotes a watered-down version of understandings of systemic oppression that folks out in the wide world like to use but which I do not believe any of us on this EB have, so I am resistant to invoking it
* even if we could get around that terminology issue, our EB meeting last month resulted in us saying that it is that a particular commitment is to work on issues of race in CBW as an organization.  While disability and sexuality and class (and pardon the etc. here--this is coming from a lesbian Marxist with a daughter who at one point was diagnosed with a disability) are all hugely important ways folks get marginalized and/or key lenses through which to view issues of BW, I would advocate for a clear focus on race itself.  False as any essentialist conception of race is, still, discourses around, and actual material injustices targeting, people of color are worth their own focus.  My big-worded two-cents.

That being said, I could see a combination of two themes:  IHE-serving institutions/issues/research and Generation 1.5 students:  Powell, Villanueva, Lu, Jordan, Mendez-Newman (I don't know the last two's work personally)...all sound great.

Yay, Sugie!  Yay Liz.  Yay new board members.  Yay continuing board members.

H

Hannah Ashley, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of English, Composition & Rhetoric
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That sounds just fabulous, Steve! Since I've been doing mostly nonfiction writing in recent years, I haven't been at CCCCs in a while. But I am planning on attending next year and would like to come to the CBW. Please let me know if I can do anything to help out. I could see being involved in something on BW students and the importance of personal narrative, for example. All the folks you mention as key note speakers are great options. I would be so glad to have any of them. But I must confess that I am partial to Victor. He's such a fantastic speaker and thinker. Just my two cents. Thanks! Laura

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President's Distinguished Teaching Fellow
Professor of English, Director of STAR English
Northern Arizona University
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Hi all:

1) Congrats to Sugie--and serious thanks to Hannah!

2)  A big hello to Cheryl, Mike, Bob, Michelle, and Lynn!

3)  Just thinking out loud here:

How about a CBW theme for next year called something like "BW and Issues of Difference: A Symposium"?

We could start with a general keynote in the morning from someone like Malea Powell (or, alternatively, Min-Zhan Lu or Victor Villanueva).  Or, if we wanted to highlight the work of faculty at Minority-Serving Institutions in particular, perhaps someone like Zandra Jordan from Spelman or Beatrice Mendez-Newman from Texas-Pan Am..

After that, we could have some interactive discussion regarding issues of difference in BW programmatic or pedagogical contexts (e.g. pedagogical talk about "error" and the BW writer or something).

Then, in the afternoon, we might imagine either poster sessions or perhaps three- or four-person roundtables dedicated explicitly to various aspects of difference:

Some possibilities that come to mind for me include things like

-BW at Minority-Serving Institutions;
-BW and Generation 1.5 Students;
-BW and Universal Design / Disability Studies;
-BW and Gender / Sexuality;
-BW and Whiteness (which is a topic that Wendy Olson and I are thinking about, although perhaps in the context of a traditional CCCC panel);
-BW and social class; etc.

After that, more hands-on work focused on program and pedagogy issues, perhaps specifically related to our posters / roundtables.

In my view, such a general "difference" theme might let us cast a relatively wide net while at the same time allowing us to focus at least some talk on Minority-Serving Institutional contexts.

Again, I'm just thinking out loud here.  Thoughts?

Steve

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Hi Everyone,

Hope this finds you all well!  First, we have an administrative issue:  our new executive committee members aren't yet on the EXEC BOARD mailing list, so I've added them manually here.  Would you please make sure that you hit "REPLY ALL" when you respond to this so that they are included in the conversation?  Please "REPLY ALL!"  Thank you!

I'm writing with a welcome, exciting news, and questions about CBW 2013.

So, first up:  I'm DELIGHTED to announce that our friend and colleague Sugie Goen-Salter will be joining me as co-chair of CBW (Liz: 2011-2014, Sugie: 2012-2015).  Yay!  I know that she will do a wonderful job and I'm excited to work with her, and all of you.

Let's also offer a warm work of welcome to Cheryl, Mike, Bob, Michelle, and Lynn!  We're so excited that you are joining us!

Now, down to business.  From your responses last week, I think that people are inclined to go with a program that combines the following two threads:

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

A.  Hannah has suggested that we approach Malea Powell for the keynote.  What do you think about that?  And, do you have additional ideas for a keynote?

B.  Steve--I know that you have ideas about this program/focus.  Do you want to share some of those with the group?  How might you and Wende fold into this program?  Do you want to?

Based on your feedback, we're thinking about 1 keynote.  I think that leaves the afternoon open.  Do we want to do 2 sets of poster presentations?  Additional ideas?

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

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

What do you think?

Also, please note, I will be off-line next week, 4/21-5/1 because I'm going diving in the the Keys doing a coral reef restoration project.  We will make our deadline with no problem, but if you could respond sooner rather than later, that would be great!  :-)

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 

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