[CBW_Exec] CBW Exec Agenda, Gratitude and Energy

[Ashley, Hannah]

Hello friends;

I have not written in response to the resignations of Peter, Rebecca, Sonya and Shannon because I had not resigned myself to them.  However, I now see that I have to do so.  I have been honored to work alonside each of you, to learn from and with you, and to share in the commitments of our discipline and the laughter of our gatherings.  Thank you.  

To everyone:  below, please find the agenda for our Executive Board meeting on Tuesday.  Liz and I ask that you do two tasks prior to the meeting.

1.  Please read the agenda and note that we are asking everyone to take on one subcommittee commitment; they are listed below.  Please consider where you would most joyfully put your efforts over the next academic year.

2. Please take the time to read the attached applications for new Exec Board members.  Folks have taken the time to be detailed in their experiences and enthusiasms, and we should choose well based on those as well as what the Board needs to continue to grow and develop.  (These will be available in print at the meeting, but they are fairly long and need review prior; additionally some of you are calling in and so need them yourselves.)

See you in St. Louis--Hannah

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Council on Basic Writing Executive Board Meeting AGENDA

3/20/2012 6-8pm
Drury Inn & Suites Convention Center 
711 North Broadway (Convention Plaza), St. Louis

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 (5 minutes)

2. Thanks to board members stepping down (Peter, Rebecca, Sonya, Shannon); Thanks to Chris Anson (how do we do this?) (5 minutes)

3. Discussion items 

(a) Forming sub-committees and deciding their 2012-2013 work (1 hour total)

• everyone choose one subcommittee on which to serve over the year (some suggestions below based on previous work, but you can choose), including one person willing to chair that subcommittee (a commitment to move the work forward through emails, phone calls, etc.)
• group discusses/brainstorms possible goals for that area
• ultimately, members of subcommittee choose ONE goal for 2012-2013

Subcommittees (please consider where you would like to dedicate time prior to our meeting)

• Funding:  Bedford, other (e.g., Evaluation Program/Speakers bureau)—Greg?
• Community Development:  electronic community/membership (blog, fb); local area development—Liz?
• Institutionalization: mission & charter; NCTE/CCCC Statement development—Marissa?, Steve?, Hannah?
• Scholarship:  Basic Writing e-journal; work on the pre-con workshop (e.g., reviewing  submissions, etc.) supporting the co-chairs; mentoring scholars –Susan?
• Awards: Innovation, Scholarship

(b) Reconstitution of board—discussion of how to choose new board members and how many; choose new board members? (30 min).  Please read the applications (attached) prior to Tuesday’s meeting; they will also be available in print.

Go forth and enjoy the night…


Hannah Ashley, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of English, Composition & Rhetoric
Composition Director
Service Learning Faculty Associate
Director, Writing Zones 12.5  (www.writingzones.net)
543 Main Hall, West Chester University
West Chester, PA 19383
845-337-5000

If you can find a way to get somebody interested enough to learn, they'll do it themselves...[we need more places that fashion themselves] to help those young people dive so deep into their dreams that they become their realities   --George Clinton, in Foreward to Hip Hop Genius: Remixing High School Education
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