Hi Liz,<br><br>I second Kelly's suggestion about the call for CBW members. Would you also post this direct link to BWe: <a href="http://orgs.tamu-commerce.edu/BWe/">http://orgs.tamu-commerce.edu/BWe/</a>? Right now the link on the blog takes me to the word press blog "Prayers for Southern Baptist Women." <br>
<br>If there is already a link to the BWe that I'm missing, please let me know.<br><br>Thanks and peace,<br><br>Susan<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">2009/3/25 Kelly Ritter KARITTER <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:KARITTER@uncg.edu">KARITTER@uncg.edu</a>></span><br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><font face="Default Sans Serif,Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif" size="2"><div>Hi Elizabeth: The blog looks good! Could you just please add me to the executive board roster?<br>
<br>We might want to also post a call for members on the blog, similar to the one I sent to the WPA-L after the conference. That call, plus the sign-up sheets at the Cs sessions, has generated 128 "new" (I assume they are new) members already!<br>
<br>Thanks,<br><br>Kelly<br><br><div>Dr. Kelly Ritter<br>Associate Professor of English<br>Director of Composition<br>University of North Carolina at Greensboro<br>Greensboro NC 27402<br><a href="mailto:karitter@uncg.edu" target="_blank">karitter@uncg.edu</a><br>
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To: <<a href="mailto:cbw_exec@tamu-commerce.edu" target="_blank">cbw_exec@tamu-commerce.edu</a>><br>From: "J. Elizabeth Clark" <<a href="mailto:lclark@lagcc.cuny.edu" target="_blank">lclark@lagcc.cuny.edu</a>><br>
Sent by: <a href="mailto:cbw_exec-bounces@tamu-commerce.edu" target="_blank">cbw_exec-bounces@tamu-commerce.edu</a><br>Date: 03/25/2009 01:18PM<br>Subject: [CBW_Exec] CBW Blog<div><div></div><div class="h5"><br><br><font face="Courier New,Courier,monospace" size="3">Hi Everyone,<br>
<br>The beta version of the blog is up. Send ideas, comments and<br>material!<br><br>Liz<br><br><a href="http://cbwblog.wordpress.com/" target="_blank">http://cbwblog.wordpress.com/</a><br><br><br>J. Elizabeth Clark, Ph.D.<br>
Professor of English <br>LaGuardia Community College--CUNY<br>e-mail: <a href="mailto:lclark@lagcc.cuny.edu" target="_blank">lclark@lagcc.cuny.edu</a><br>Phone: 718.482.5665 <br><br>>>> "Ashley, Hannah" <<a href="mailto:HAshley@wcupa.edu" target="_blank">HAshley@wcupa.edu</a>> Thursday, March 19, 2009 12:29<br>
PM >>><br>Hi Folks--Happy re-entry. As promised: CHECK FOR YOUR NAME AND YOUR<br>COMMITMENTS. Don't forget to add it to your CV, you new associate<br>editors and chairs... If not for your professional benefit, than for<br>
organizational exposure.<br> <br>Hannah<br> <br><br>Conference on Basic Writing Executive Board Meeting<br><br>Thursday, March 12, 2009 -- 8:30-10:00 a.m.<br><br>Notes, Minutes and Decisions <br><br> <br><br>1. Awards<br>
<br> <br><br>· Innovation Award committee: Greg*, Sugie, Peter<br><br>· BW Fellowship committee: Sonya, Liz , Kelly, Bill<br><br> <br><br>2. Building membership<br><br> <br><br>*<span> </span> Membership chair (Kelly)--<br>
*<span> </span> Revitalizatioin of current membership list and add to it from<br>this year's SIG and panels. Later: $5-10 per membership. <br>*<span> </span> Put announcement in TYC/Jeff (Bill & Hannah)<br>
*<span> </span> Get CBW mailing list-contact Tom Reynolds (Bill)<br>*<span> </span> Next year? Booth? Buttons? "I am basic writing" Newcomers<br>workshop?<br>*<span> </span> Minutes of Exec Board goes out to membership through<br>
blog--Sonja--blog & membership list<br><br> <br><br> <br><br>3. Basic Writing social justice policy statement<br><br> <br><br>*<span> </span> Adoption process for any policy statement will be as follows:<br><br> <br>
<br><span> </span> *<span> </span> Policy can be initiated by any member, goes to exec<br>board, goes back to larger membership for vote at SIG, exec board may<br>send it to CCCC as a resolution<br><br> <br><br>*<span> </span> The social justice policy statement committee--Susan, Debra,<br>
Eileen, Sugie, Bill-these individuals will meet, speak, solicit input<br>on, or communicate about statement as currently written, to take it to a<br>next draft.<br><br> <br><br>4. Basic Writing e-journal<br><br> <br><br>
*<span> </span> Associate Editor positions: Barbara--Pedagogy; Peter--linkages;<br>Sonja & Kathleen--book review; Liz, Greg, Kelly, Bill,<br>Rebecca--Editorial board. <br><br> <br><br>*<span> </span> Other notes: possible special issue editors, on occasion, or<br>
special sections; mission add privileging newer authors--first one might<br>be newer scholars; "news" section/media action section, subscription<br>list, blog section<br><br> <br><br>*<span> </span> Suggestion that since we did not agree to add new board members,<br>
that those individuals could be invited on to Editorial Board for BWe as<br>first step.<br><br> <br><br> <br><br>5. Issues for follow up: Change name? Process for getting new board<br>members, leaving the board, purpose of board, size of board; Advisory<br>
vs. governing or executive board?<br><br> <br>Hannah Ashley, Ph. D. <br>Associate Professor, Composition and Rhetoric Program, Department of<br>English<br>Director, Writing Zones 12.5 (<a href="http://www.wcupa.edu/writingzones" target="_blank">www.wcupa.edu/writingzones</a>)<br>
551 Main Hall, West Chester University <br>610-738-0499, <a href="mailto:hashley@wcupa.edu" target="_blank">hashley@wcupa.edu</a> <br>"If you're not terrified when you are writing, you're writing about the<br>
wrong things." --Dorothy Alison--<br><br>________________________________<br><br>From: <a href="mailto:cbw_exec-bounces@tamu-commerce.edu" target="_blank">cbw_exec-bounces@tamu-commerce.edu</a> on behalf of Rebecca<br>
Mlynarczyk<br>Sent: Mon 3/9/2009 2:30 PM<br>To: <a href="mailto:Shannon_Carter@tamu-commerce.edu" target="_blank">Shannon_Carter@tamu-commerce.edu</a>; <a href="mailto:kbaca@nmsu.edu" target="_blank">kbaca@nmsu.edu</a> <br>
Cc: <a href="mailto:cbw_exec@tamu-commerce.edu" target="_blank">cbw_exec@tamu-commerce.edu</a> <br>Subject: Re: [CBW_Exec] CBW Exec Board meeting Agenda +<br><br><br>Hello everyone,<br> <br>It's been great hearing about all the personal and professional<br>
developments of the last year. It's nice to get more detail here than we<br>would be able to get in a brief report before the exec board meeting.<br> <br>At Kingsborough Community College, last year was a very good year. Our<br>
English Department, which offers many developmental reading and writing<br>courses, was able to hire 8 impressive new professors. It's a good thing<br>because this year all of CUNY, like so many other institutions, has a<br>
hiring freeze. A lot of good work is happening at Kingsborough, much of<br>it in our Learning Community programs, in which students take English<br>and several other courses in an interdisciplinary block program, where<br>
faculty from different departments collaborate to make the students'<br>learning more meaningful.<br> <br>I am also on the faculty of the CUNY Graduate Center, and in the fall<br>of 2008 I taught a seminar for doctoral students on Narrative and<br>
Ethnographic Inquiry. It's wonderful for me to be working on both ends<br>of the CUNY spectrum.<br> <br>The Journal of Basic Writing has had another good year. Our Fall 2008<br>issue is finally in print (I'll bring a few copies on Wed.), and it<br>
features a very impressive article by Sugie Goen-Salter and another by<br>Brian Ray, the young scholar who received last year's fellowship to<br>attend CCCC in New Orleans.<br> <br>This spring, I'm enjoying the 2nd half of my sabbatical, which began<br>
last spring. Soon to be published (finally!) is a co-authored chapter<br>written mostly in 2005. It's based on my work with Austrian teachers in<br>the City College M.A. Program and will be published online in TESL-ej.<br>
The book on the history of basic writing, on which George Otte and I are<br>collaborating, is progressing well. We hope to have a final draft to the<br>publisher sometime in April. I hope to talk with many of you in a few<br>
days about your thoughts on the future of basic writing in the U.S. <br> <br>It was great hearing your personal updates. My big news is that my<br>husband and I became grandparents last year. Liberty Mahala Evans was<br>born in July, and she is an adorable little person. I'm actually<br>
babysitting for her today. I'll be staying with our daughter's family in<br>Mountain View, CA, for the month of March to help out and enjoy the<br>baby. Her latest accomplishment? Today she learned to clap her hands.<br>
<br>I'll be taking the CalTrain to San Francisco early on Wed. morning and<br>am really looking forward to seeing all of you at the CBW Conference.<br> <br>Rebecca<br> <br>Rebecca Mlynarczyk<br>Professor of English, Kingsborough Community College & the Graduate<br>
Center, CUNY<br>Co-Editor, Journal of Basic Writing<br><br><br>On Mon, Mar 9, 2009 at 10:41 AM, Kathleen Baca <<a href="mailto:kbaca@nmsu.edu" target="_blank">kbaca@nmsu.edu</a>> wrote:<br><br><br><span> </span> It's been great to hear what you all are doing, both<br>
professionally and<br><span> </span> personally. I can't even begin to think how you all manage to<br>accomplish<br><span> </span> it all. Thanks, Hannah and Shannon, for planning to do this<br>online, and<br><span> </span> thanks to all for sharing.<br>
<span> </span> <br><span> </span> Work Stuff:<br><span> </span> Doña Ana Community College dropped "Branch" from its name and<br>now is<br><span> </span> officially NMSU-DACC. The other CC's in the NMSU system didn't<br>
get to<br><span> </span> keep, or maybe didn't want to keep, the community college part.<br><span> </span> <br><span> </span> I'm still keeping the faith and fighting the good fight<br>regarding some<br><span> </span> egregious practices by administration regarding the removal of<br>
tenure<br><span> </span> rights and responsibilities. After reading a huge document<br>detailing some<br><span> </span> of what has gone on the past few years, NMSU faculty appeals<br>board wrote a<br><span> </span> letter critical of how things have been handled and asking for<br>
immediate<br><span> </span> changes. This received no response, and the buck has been passed<br>or we<br><span> </span> have been stonewalled since then.<br><span> </span> <br><span> </span> A math colleague and I were able to teach credit classes at our<br>
Mesquite<br><span> </span> Neighborhood Learning Center last fall, a long-overdue happening<br>for that<br><span> </span> historic and poor area of Las Cruces. Unfortunately, the<br>college offers<br><span> </span> very little support so only one course had enough enrolment for<br>
the spring<br><span> </span> semester, but it was a great experience that I will repeat Fall<br>09.<br><span> </span> <br><span> </span> I continue to teach mostly basic writing courses and am in the<br>classroom<br>
<span> </span> 20 hours a week. I notice that there is an attitude of<br>entitlement among<br><span> </span> a greater percentage of students. I think that NCLB is partly<br><span> </span> responsible, and I grieve for these students who have never been<br>
expected<br><span> </span> to work hard and thus do not believe in their own capabilities.<br><span> </span> <br><span> </span> Life Stuff:<br><span> </span> My husband and I both turned 50 last year. A niece told me<br>
she's never<br><span> </span> seen anyone so excited about being old! Also, our youngest<br>daughter left<br><span> </span> for Santa Clara University last September, so we are on our own<br>for the<br><span> </span> first time ever. Life is different after 32! years of having<br>
children<br><span> </span> around. I have to say that the good outweighs the bad, and my<br>husband and<br><span> </span> I are loving growing old together.<br><span> </span> <br><span> </span> I resigned from one local board last fall and from the Colonias<br>
<span> </span> Development Council last month. The second was a tough decision<br>for me,<br><span> </span> as working with colonia residents is part of my understanding of<br>my call<br><span> </span> to promote social justice, but I'm the chair of Catholic<br>
Charities of the<br><span> </span> Diocese of Las Cruces (covering the southern half of NM), so it<br>made<br><span> </span> sense.<br><span> </span> <br><span> </span> I'm so looking forward to seeing you Wednesday. Today I teach<br>
three<br><span> </span> two-hour classes, and I'm suffering from daylight rearranging<br>time. kb<br><span> </span> <br><span> </span> <br><span> </span> Kathleen A. Baca<br><span> </span> English and Communication Department<br>
<span> </span> Doña Ana Community College<br><span> </span> MSC 3DA<br><span> </span> PO Box 30001<br><span> </span> Las Cruces, NM 88003<br><span> </span> 575-527-7626<br><span> </span> <a href="mailto:kbaca@nmsu.edu" target="_blank">kbaca@nmsu.edu</a> <br>
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