<FONT face="Default Sans Serif,Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif" size=2>Marcia:<br><br>Thanks for posting this news. You are truly an inspiration (and with a broken shoulder, no less! I hope you are healing well).<br><br>If you would e-mail me your CV (just so I have a list of your accomplishments and get all the details straight), I'd be happy to send a P and T letter on your behalf.<br><br>Sincerely,<br><br>Kelly<br><br><div><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 <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:cbw_exec@tamu-commerce.edu"><cbw_exec@tamu-commerce.edu></a><br>From: "Ribble, Marcia (ribbleml)" <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:ribbleml@ucmail.uc.edu"><ribbleml@ucmail.uc.edu></a><br>Sent by: <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:cbw_exec-bounces@tamu-commerce.edu">cbw_exec-bounces@tamu-commerce.edu</a><br>Date: 08/17/2009 12:09PM<br>Subject: Re: [CBW_Exec] Fwd: response to "UC Admissions Changes Align withState Strategic Higher Education Plan."<br><br><font face="Courier New,Courier,monospace" size="3">Hi All, and especially Susan,<br><br>Susan, I really appreciate your willingness to write a letter in support of the CAT. Your <br>efforts and the support of the others in the CBW are indeed precious to us as we fight for<br>survival against mighty powerful odds. <br><br>Although Susan read the tea leaves and left UC before the hammer fell, I have chosen to stay and <br>continue the fight from within instead of retiring. Rather than retiring, I'm going up for tenure and <br>promotion, not particularly expecting to be granted either, but willing to use this opportunity to <br>address the colleges and university on a more personal level and to argue that many sophomore,<br>junior, senior, and grad students have ongoing issues with writing, particularly when they approach<br>new formats, new expectations, and new documentation rules, but also including some problems <br>with writing not easily resolved in a few semesters of first year composition classes. <br><br>Given the probability that public pressure is unlikely to persuade Perzigian et al to retain the <br>CAT despite the Ohio state mandates, I am trying to refocus my efforts toward insisting that<br>struggling writers are often not developmental students at all, but students whose writing challenges<br>are such that they still need experts who can help them to succeed in writing assignments of many<br>kinds and at many levels, and that our expertise is also needed in teacher development programs<br>in the College of Education. <br><br>To accomplish these goals, I would invite those of you who feel comfortable doing so to write <br>letters in support of my efforts to gain promotion and tenure despite the intended closing of the<br>CAT for the students whose profs will read your letters as my dossier goes through the process <br>in various committees and administrative levels. I know that letters like yours actually do have a<br>substantive effect, often far more able to persuade than whatever I might say or do. To place <br>them in my dossier, I would need for them to reach me by the second week of September. <br><br>Letters can be sent in care of Janet Reed Head, Humanities, Media, and Cultural Studies<br>ML0205 4428 French Hall West University of Cincinnati Cincinnati, OH 45221. <br><br>On a side bar more personal level, I fell July 15th and broke my shoulder, so the fact that I<br>am typing at this point of recovery is only due to a profound determination not to allow the<br>powers that be to silence me and the others in our departments...determination and some<br>extra strength tylenol...... ;-) And a lot of spell checking to correct the poor typing. <br><br>Thank goodness it happened down in Grovetown, GA so I have had family to help with <br>the things I haven't been able to do myself. Retirement is still an eventual goal, so I bought <br>myself a sweet little house down here and have it furnished now and all that jazz. <br><br>My contact info for here is 4745 West Creek Mill Court Grovetown, GA 30813, and my<br>phone number is 706-955-9780 if you have any questions, want more information, or etc.<br><br>Marcia Ribble<br><br> <br>________________________________________<br>From: <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:cbw_exec-bounces@tamu-commerce.edu">cbw_exec-bounces@tamu-commerce.edu</a> [<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:cbw_exec-bounces@tamu-commerce.edu">cbw_exec-bounces@tamu-commerce.edu</a>] On Behalf Of Adams, Peter [<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:padams2@ccbcmd.edu">padams2@ccbcmd.edu</a>]<br>Sent: Friday, August 14, 2009 1:32 PM<br>To: Conference of Basic Writing Executive Board<br>Subject: Re: [CBW_Exec] Fwd: response to "UC Admissions Changes Align withState Strategic Higher Education Plan."<br><br>I didn't know about the CAEL site, Barb. Thanks for the info. The state-by-state info is very useful. I plan to share it with students in my basic writing class in the fall. I want them to know, in dollars and cents, how much it will mean to them to complete college.<br><br>Peter<br><br>Peter Adams | Director of Accelerated Learning<br>Department of English<br>Community College Baltimore County<br>443•710•1852 | <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:padams2@ccbcmd.edu">padams2@ccbcmd.edu</a><br><br><br><br>-----Original Message-----<br>From: <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:cbw_exec-bounces@tamu-commerce.edu">cbw_exec-bounces@tamu-commerce.edu</a> on behalf of <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:GlsnBarb@aol.com">GlsnBarb@aol.com</a><br>Sent: Fri 8/14/2009 1:17 PM<br>To: <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:susan.naomi@gmail.com">susan.naomi@gmail.com</a>; <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:kerleyam@ucmail.uc.edu">kerleyam@ucmail.uc.edu</a>; <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:winansa@dickinson.edu">winansa@dickinson.edu</a>; <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:annettagreen@gmail.com">annettagreen@gmail.com</a>; <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:sarmstrong@niu.edu">sarmstrong@niu.edu</a>; <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:lexaberry14@gmail.com">lexaberry14@gmail.com</a>; <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:thebuzzmonkee@gmail.com">thebuzzmonkee@gmail.com</a>; <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:Shannon_Carter@tamu-commerce.edu">Shannon_Carter@tamu-commerce.edu</a>; <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:beercanpete@snet.net">beercanpete@snet.net</a>; <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:bgleason6@gmail.com">bgleason6@gmail.com</a>; <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:sanchezdeborah@yahoo.com">sanchezdeborah@yahoo.com</a>; <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:dsternecky@gmail.com">dsternecky@gmail.com</a>; <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:Deborah.Mutnick@liu.edu">Deborah.Mutnick@liu.edu</a>; <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:jkwondobbs@gmail.com">jkwondobbs@gmail.com</a>; <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:cbw_exec@tamu-commerce.edu">cbw_exec@tamu-commerce.edu</a>; <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:mastea@ucmail.uc.edu">mastea@ucmail.uc.edu</a>; <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:PAULSOE@ucmail.uc.edu">PAULSOE@ucmail.uc.edu</a>; <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:jfalexan@uci.edu">jfalexan@uci.edu</a>; <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:WLalicker@wcupa.edu">WLalicker@wcupa.edu</a>; <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:rebecca.mlynarczyk@gmail.com">rebecca.mlynarczyk@gmail.com</a>; <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:MPRaupach@aol.com">MPRaupach@aol.com</a>; <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:holleyma@ucmail.uc.edu">holleyma@ucmail.uc.edu</a>; <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:claudine.debray@uc.edu">claudine.debray@uc.edu</a><br>Subject: Re: [CBW_Exec] Fwd: response to "UC Admissions Changes Align withState Strategic Higher Education Plan."<br><br><br>Hi Susan,<br><br>Thanks for forwarding your excellent letter and the published memo you are<br>responding to. Great Work!<br><br>A state by state analysis of recent stuctural changes in both public and<br>private colleges would be useful to have ready-to-hand. I'd love to read it if<br>anyone knows of one.<br><br>Council of Adult and Experiential Learning (CAEL) did something similar and<br>produced a very rich analysis of state by state educational and workforce<br>participation for adults. Here is just a sample of a finding reported on: "In<br>35 states, more than 60 percent of the population does not have an<br>associate's degree or higher." A major focus of this report is an argument for<br>encouraging adults to return to college. (I heard from a CAEL official that in<br>an exchange that took place at a conference, Cliff Adelman disagreed with<br>some of the data or conclusions.)<br><br>Here is a link to a summary of Adult Learning in Focus: National and<br>State-by-State Data (2008):<br><a href="http://www.cael.org/adultlearninginfocus.htm">http://www.cael.org/adultlearninginfocus.htm</a><br>Here is a link to the full report:<br><a href="http://www.cael.org/pdf/State_Indicators_Monograph.pdf">http://www.cael.org/pdf/State_Indicators_Monograph.pdf</a><br>If you haven't read this already, you might want to check it out. If you<br>have read it, I'd like to know what you think. Maybe in an off-line response<br>to avoid flooding people's emails?<br><br>Warm regards to you all, Barbara Gleason<br><br><br><br>--<br>BEGIN-ANTISPAM-VOTING-LINKS<br>------------------------------------------------------<br><br>Teach CanIt if this mail (ID 26145922) is spam:<br>Spam: <a href="https://ssl.ccbcmd.edu:7726/canit/b.php?i=26145922&m=d3f9b9de18a8&t=20090814&c=s">https://ssl.ccbcmd.edu:7726/canit/b.php?i=26145922&m=d3f9b9de18a8&t=20090814&c=s</a><br>Not spam: <a href="https://ssl.ccbcmd.edu:7726/canit/b.php?i=26145922&m=d3f9b9de18a8&t=20090814&c=n">https://ssl.ccbcmd.edu:7726/canit/b.php?i=26145922&m=d3f9b9de18a8&t=20090814&c=n</a><br>Forget vote: <a href="https://ssl.ccbcmd.edu:7726/canit/b.php?i=26145922&m=d3f9b9de18a8&t=20090814&c=f">https://ssl.ccbcmd.edu:7726/canit/b.php?i=26145922&m=d3f9b9de18a8&t=20090814&c=f</a><br>------------------------------------------------------<br>END-ANTISPAM-VOTING-LINKS<br>_______________________________________________<br>CBW_Exec mailing list<br><a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:CBW_Exec@tamu-commerce.edu">CBW_Exec@tamu-commerce.edu</a><br><a href="http://mailman.tamu-commerce.edu/mailman/listinfo/cbw_exec">http://mailman.tamu-commerce.edu/mailman/listinfo/cbw_exec</a><br></font>
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