<div>Hello again and happy Super Tuesday!</div>
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<div>So far it looks like most of us are available at 9 AM on Thursday April 3-- so let's do it! Kathleen and I will be back to you soon with a meeting place and an agenda.</div>
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<div>If anyone has serious objections to this time/day, please let us know. Some of us don't have funding to stay for the entire week and many of us still need to make travel plans-- so Thursday morning seems to be the best compromise.</div>
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<div>ALSO-- looking forward to hearing which sessions you would like to review. I'd like to send out a CFP to the CBW and WPA lists for other reviews as well. Again, let me know if there are any objections.</div>
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<div>Thanks and best,</div>
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<div>Susan<br> </div>
<div><span class="gmail_quote">On 2/2/08, <b class="gmail_sendername">Susan Bernstein</b> <<a href="mailto:susan.naomi@gmail.com">susan.naomi@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</span>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">Greetings everyone!<br><br>It's almost that time of year again. 2 months from today we will<br>reconvene at the CBW workshop in New Orleans. Kathleen and I will<br>
talk soon to draft an agenda. Meanwhile here are some items for your<br>consideration:<br><br>1) Executive Board Meeting: Let's plan a date/time for this meeting<br>before our dance cards get too full. I'd like the propose that we<br>
meet at Thursday April 3 at 8 AM. This date/time will allow folks to<br>attend the WPA breakfast -- and will help out those of us who won't be<br>able to stay for Friday or Saturday.<br><br>If this time/date doesn't work for you, please suggest another.<br>
<br>2) Last year Kathleen and I attended a dynamite session on Mina<br>Shaunessy's legacy at CUNY. I believe it was Mary Soliday who<br>reminded us that Mina Shaughnessy used to assign her colleagues to<br>attend CCCC sessions related to Basic Writing so that they could<br>
review together important trends in the field.<br><br>Kathleen and I agreed that we wanted to try this strategy for 2008.<br>So we'd like to propose that each of us on the Executive Board choose<br>at least one session to attend and to briefly review. We would like<br>
to publish these reviews in a forthcoming issue of BWe.<br><br>To find a session of interest to you, please complete the following steps:<br><br>--Go to the CCCC searchable program at <a href="http://www.ncte.org/CCCC/program/">http://www.ncte.org/CCCC/program/</a><br>
<br>--Go to KEY WORD and type in BASIC WRITING. You can also go to FOCUS<br>and scroll down to BASIC WRITING. However, KEY WORD will yield more<br>sessions-- and happily there are a lot of them this year.<br><br>--Write back to Kathleen and me by February 22 stating which session<br>
you would like to<br>review. We'd like to request that you not review your<br>own presentations (wonderful as those will be!)-- but to choose<br>something that is perhaps new to you or outside of your area. This<br>
way we'll be able to cover a good cross section of the interesting<br>work that our colleagues are doing across the country.<br><br>Thanks so much for your continued committment to CBW. Kathleen and I<br>look forward to hearing from you soon!<br>
<br>Peace and happy Groundhog Day,<br><br>Susan Naomi Bernstein<br>Co-chair, Conference on Basic Writing<br>LaGuardia Community College, CUNY<br><br>PS For those of you who don't know yet-- due to the confluence of many<br>
serendipitous circumstances-- I am now living and working in Queens, NY.<br></blockquote></div><br>