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<div dir="ltr"><font color="#000000" size="2" face="Tahoma">Kelly,</font></div>
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<div dir="ltr"><font size="2" face="tahoma">I'll send you the CV by this weekend. Thanks much for your kindness.</font></div>
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<div dir="ltr"><font size="2" face="tahoma">Marcia</font></div>
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<font size="2" face="Tahoma"><b>From:</b> cbw_exec-bounces@tamu-commerce.edu [cbw_exec-bounces@tamu-commerce.edu] On Behalf Of Kelly Ritter KARITTER [KARITTER@uncg.edu]<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Monday, August 17, 2009 12:13 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> Conference of Basic Writing Executive Board<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [CBW_Exec] Fwd: response to<br>
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<div><font size="2" face="Default Sans Serif,Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">Marcia:<br>
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Thanks for posting this news. You are truly an inspiration (and with a broken shoulder, no less! I hope you are healing well).<br>
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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>
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<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>
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To: Conference of Basic Writing Executive Board <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:cbw_exec@tamu-commerce.edu">
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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>
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<font size="3" face="Courier New,Courier,monospace">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>
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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>
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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>
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Subject: Re: [CBW_Exec] Fwd: response to "UC Admissions Changes Align withState Strategic Higher Education Plan."<br>
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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" target="_blank">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" target="_blank">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>
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