<FONT face="Default Sans Serif,Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif" size=2><div>That's OK--thank you!<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">karitter@uncg.edu</a><br><div><br></div><font color="#990099">-----cbw_exec-bounces@tamu-commerce.edu wrote: -----<br><br></font><blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid #000000; padding-right: 0px; padding-left: 5px; margin-left: 5px; margin-right: 0px;">To: "Conference of Basic Writing Executive Board" <cbw_exec@tamu-commerce.edu><br>From: "J. Elizabeth Clark" <lclark@lagcc.cuny.edu><br>Sent by: cbw_exec-bounces@tamu-commerce.edu<br>Date: 03/26/2009 01:18PM<br>Subject: Re: [CBW_Exec] CBW Blog<br><br><font face="Courier New,Courier,monospace" size="3">Hi Kelly,<br><br>It's taken care of. Sorry about that. I copy & pasted from the<br>website, which wasn't updated yet!<br><br>Liz<br><br>J. Elizabeth Clark, Ph.D.<br>Professor of English <br>LaGuardia Community College--CUNY<br>e-mail: lclark@lagcc.cuny.edu<br>Phone: 718.482.5665 <br><br>>>> Kelly Ritter KARITTER <KARITTER@uncg.edu> Wednesday, March 25, 2009<br>2:26 PM >>><br><br>Hi Elizabeth: The blog looks good! Could you just please add me to the<br>executive board roster?<br><br>We might want to also post a call for members on the blog, similar to<br>the one I sent to the WPA-L after the conference. That call, plus the<br>sign-up sheets at the Cs sessions, has generated 128 "new" (I assume<br>they are new) members already!<br><br>Thanks,<br><br>Kelly<br><br>Dr. Kelly Ritter<br>Associate Professor of English<br>Director of Composition<br>University of North Carolina at Greensboro<br>Greensboro NC 27402<br>karitter@uncg.edu <br><br>-----cbw_exec-bounces@tamu-commerce.edu wrote: -----<br><br><br><br>To: <cbw_exec@tamu-commerce.edu><br>From: "J. Elizabeth Clark" <lclark@lagcc.cuny.edu><br>Sent by: cbw_exec-bounces@tamu-commerce.edu <br>Date: 03/25/2009 01:18PM<br>Subject: [CBW_Exec] CBW Blog<br><br>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/">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: lclark@lagcc.cuny.edu <br>Phone: 718.482.5665 <br><br>>>> "Ashley, Hannah" <HAshley@wcupa.edu> Thursday, March 19, 2009<br>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>* Membership chair (Kelly)--<br>* Revitalizatioin of current membership list and add to it from<br>this year's SIG and panels. Later: $5-10 per membership. <br>* Put announcement in TYC/Jeff (Bill & Hannah)<br>* Get CBW mailing list-contact Tom Reynolds (Bill)<br>* Next year? Booth? Buttons? "I am basic writing" Newcomers<br>workshop?<br>* 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>* Adoption process for any policy statement will be as follows:<br><br> <br><br> * 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>* 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<br>a<br>next draft.<br><br> <br><br>4. Basic Writing e-journal<br><br> <br><br>* Associate Editor positions: Barbara--Pedagogy; Peter--linkages;<br>Sonja & Kathleen--book review; Liz, Greg, Kelly, Bill,<br>Rebecca--Editorial board. <br><br> <br><br>* Other notes: possible special issue editors, on occasion, or<br>special sections; mission add privileging newer authors--first one<br>might<br>be newer scholars; "news" section/media action section, subscription<br>list, blog section<br><br> <br><br>* 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<br>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 (www.wcupa.edu/writingzones)<br>551 Main Hall, West Chester University <br>610-738-0499, hashley@wcupa.edu <br>"If you're not terrified when you are writing, you're writing about<br>the<br>wrong things." --Dorothy Alison--<br><br>________________________________<br><br>From: cbw_exec-bounces@tamu-commerce.edu on behalf of Rebecca<br>Mlynarczyk<br>Sent: Mon 3/9/2009 2:30 PM<br>To: Shannon_Carter@tamu-commerce.edu; kbaca@nmsu.edu <br>Cc: cbw_exec@tamu-commerce.edu <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<br>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<br>writing<br>courses, was able to hire 8 impressive new professors. It's a good<br>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<br>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<br>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<br>are<br>collaborating, is progressing well. We hope to have a final draft to<br>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<br>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 <kbaca@nmsu.edu> wrote:<br><br><br> It's been great to hear what you all are doing, both<br>professionally and<br> personally. I can't even begin to think how you all manage to<br>accomplish<br> it all. Thanks, Hannah and Shannon, for planning to do this<br>online, and<br> thanks to all for sharing.<br> <br> Work Stuff:<br> Doņa Ana Community College dropped "Branch" from its name and<br>now is<br> officially NMSU-DACC. The other CC's in the NMSU system didn't<br>get to<br> keep, or maybe didn't want to keep, the community college part.<br> <br> I'm still keeping the faith and fighting the good fight<br>regarding some<br> egregious practices by administration regarding the removal of<br>tenure<br> rights and responsibilities. After reading a huge document<br>detailing some<br> of what has gone on the past few years, NMSU faculty appeals<br>board wrote a<br> letter critical of how things have been handled and asking for<br>immediate<br> changes. This received no response, and the buck has been passed<br>or we<br> have been stonewalled since then.<br> <br> A math colleague and I were able to teach credit classes at our<br>Mesquite<br> Neighborhood Learning Center last fall, a long-overdue happening<br>for that<br> historic and poor area of Las Cruces. Unfortunately, the<br>college offers<br> very little support so only one course had enough enrolment for<br>the spring<br> semester, but it was a great experience that I will repeat Fall<br>09.<br> <br> I continue to teach mostly basic writing courses and am in the<br>classroom<br> 20 hours a week. I notice that there is an attitude of<br>entitlement among<br> a greater percentage of students. I think that NCLB is partly<br> responsible, and I grieve for these students who have never been<br>expected<br> to work hard and thus do not believe in their own capabilities.<br> <br> Life Stuff:<br> My husband and I both turned 50 last year. A niece told me<br>she's never<br> seen anyone so excited about being old! Also, our youngest<br>daughter left<br> for Santa Clara University last September, so we are on our own<br>for the<br> first time ever. Life is different after 32! years of having<br>children<br> around. I have to say that the good outweighs the bad, and my<br>husband and<br> I are loving growing old together.<br> <br> I resigned from one local board last fall and from the Colonias<br> Development Council last month. The second was a tough decision<br>for me,<br> as working with colonia residents is part of my understanding of<br>my call<br> to promote social justice, but I'm the chair of Catholic<br>Charities of the<br> Diocese of Las Cruces (covering the southern half of NM), so it<br>made<br> sense.<br> <br> I'm so looking forward to seeing you Wednesday. Today I teach<br>three<br> two-hour classes, and I'm suffering from daylight rearranging<br>time. kb<br> <br> <br> Kathleen A. 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