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<P><FONT SIZE=2>I meant to say "How about this perspective. . ." Sorry. That missing "this" sounded rude to me, which wasn't at all what I intended.<BR>
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-----Original Message-----<BR>
From: Shannon Carter<BR>
Sent: Fri 3/6/2009 11:24 PM<BR>
To: kbaca@nmsu.edu<BR>
Cc: cbw_exec@tamu-commerce.edu<BR>
Subject: Re: [CBW_Exec] New EB members?<BR>
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Ah! Good point. I hadn't thought about that.<BR>
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How about perspective: Donna is the Director of Graduate English Studies in<BR>
our department, which includes a PhD and MA emphasis in rhetoric and<BR>
composition. With more direct involvement with the CBW EB, perhaps we'd be<BR>
in an even better position to offer top support for graduate education in<BR>
basic writing. We already offer one course. We see the potential to offer<BR>
more extensive support by integrating basic writing scholarship throughout<BR>
the program. Lots shows up in all our comp/rhet courses already. But we'd like to be<BR>
even more strategic about it.<BR>
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Tabetha will be directing our basic writing program, and she brings that<BR>
fresh perspective and the excitement we see in new faculty.<BR>
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The three of us plus one other (Bill Bolin) make up our comp rhet faculty,<BR>
and we will begin an extensive reworking of our PhD program next year which<BR>
will allow us to rename/rethink graduate courses/names to better identify<BR>
what we believe the graduate program at a university like ours can do for<BR>
students training to be college-level teachers. Especially teachers of<BR>
at-risk writers.<BR>
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Given all we were saying about graduate education in basic writing just a<BR>
couple of years ago, this seems like a good way to make certain this<BR>
organization has a very direct impact on the shape and function of BW in one<BR>
highly accessible grad program.<BR>
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Donna and I are on the graduate faculty, of course. Tabetha will be within<BR>
months of arrival. We'll make sure the impact is very real and then made<BR>
available to the larger community in whatever way we can think to.<BR>
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That's a heavy representation from one institution, but we do have some<BR>
precedent for it. Not three from any one campus, but two from at least two<BR>
campuses.<BR>
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If we are uncomfortable with three, perhaps we can go with just one<BR>
additional A&M-Commerce member for now?<BR>
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To be completely honest, my initial reasoning was really less strategic than<BR>
I implied above. (though I really do stand behind all I've said thus far)<BR>
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Here's the thing: I mainly want some more of the A&M-Commerce folks involved<BR>
so they can get involved with the maintenance of our CBW website and future<BR>
issues of BWe. I don't know how Greg did it all those years by his lonesome.<BR>
Whew!<BR>
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Thanks,<BR>
Shannon <BR>
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On 3/6/09 8:47 PM, "Kathleen Baca" <kbaca@nmsu.edu> wrote:<BR>
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> Shannon and all, my only concern would be having three board members from<BR>
> one institution. Did I read it correctly that they are both at Texas<BR>
> A&M-Commerce? kb<BR>
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>> They sound perfect to me.<BR>
>><BR>
>> Thanks, from cold (but not snowy!) Flagstaff,<BR>
>><BR>
>><BR>
>><BR>
>> gg<BR>
>><BR>
>><BR>
>> -----------------------------------------------------------------------<BR>
>> Greg Glau<BR>
>> Director, University Writing Program<BR>
>> Department of English<BR>
>> Northern Arizona University<BR>
>> Liberal Arts Building 18, Room 140<BR>
>> PO Box 6032<BR>
>> Flagstaff, AZ 86011<BR>
>> Office: 928 523 6713 FAX: 928 523 7074<BR>
>> ________________________________<BR>
>> From: cbw_exec-bounces@tamu-commerce.edu<BR>
>> [<A HREF="mailto:cbw_exec-bounces@tamu-commerce.edu">mailto:cbw_exec-bounces@tamu-commerce.edu</A>] On Behalf Of tamu commerce<BR>
>> Sent: Thursday, March 05, 2009 9:59 PM<BR>
>> To: cbw_exec@tamu-commerce.edu<BR>
>> Subject: [CBW_Exec] New EB members?<BR>
>><BR>
>> Hi, all--<BR>
>><BR>
>> I just wanted to put forward two more names for possible inclusion on our<BR>
>> Executive Board.<BR>
>><BR>
>> The first is my colleague and regular collaborator Donna Dunbar-Odom. She<BR>
>> came to composition studies by way of basic writing in the field. She<BR>
>> taught basic writing and directed the writing center at a regional campus<BR>
>> in Indiana in the 1980s. She knew there had to be something more to<BR>
>> teaching basic writing than grammar drills and sentence-to-paragraph<BR>
>> exercises. So she attended CCCC and ended up at a panel on basic<BR>
>> writing/reading connections with Mariolina Salvatore, David Bartholmoe,<BR>
>> and Anthony Petrosky. She was wowed, as you can imagine.<BR>
>><BR>
>> So she chose to enter the PhD program at Pitt to study with Barthomae and<BR>
>> Salvatore, both of whom ended up on her dissertation committee.<BR>
>><BR>
>> As she put it when I asked if she'd be interested in throwing her hat in<BR>
>> on this, "Absolutely! I'd be honored. Them's my roots!"<BR>
>><BR>
>> More on Donna can be found at<BR>
>> <A HREF="http://www.tamu-commerce.edu/litlang/dunbar-odom.asp?menuName=people&pageName">http://www.tamu-commerce.edu/litlang/dunbar-odom.asp?menuName=people&pageName</A><BR>
>> =faculty<BR>
>><BR>
>> The other is our new Director of the Writing Center and the Basic Writing<BR>
>> Program (beginning Fall 2009): Tabetha Adkins. She's doing some<BR>
>> fascinating work in new media and, especially, Amish literacies (the<BR>
>> subject of her dissertation). Lots of really exciting work on ethics in<BR>
>> ethnography and fabulously interesting ways to integrate the student's<BR>
>> lived experiences into the composition classroom. At University of<BR>
>> Louisville, she studied basic writing with Bruce Horner and Min Zhan-Lu.<BR>
>> She'll have tons to add as well, especially as she takes over our basic<BR>
>> writing program here at A&M-Commerce.<BR>
>><BR>
>> Her vita is available online at<BR>
>> <A HREF="http://tabethaadkins.com/main/page_curriculum_vitae.html">http://tabethaadkins.com/main/page_curriculum_vitae.html</A><BR>
>><BR>
>> What cha think? Can we add these two members to our crew? Not only are<BR>
>> they both wicked smart and committed to at-risk students. They are both SO<BR>
>> much fun!<BR>
>><BR>
>> Thanks!<BR>
>> Shannon<BR>
>><BR>
>> Shannon Carter<BR>
>> Associate Professor of English<BR>
>> Texas A&M-Commerce<BR>
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> Kathleen A. Baca<BR>
> English and Communication Department<BR>
> Doņa Ana Community College<BR>
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> PO Box 30001<BR>
> Las Cruces, NM 88003<BR>
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