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<FONT FACE="Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:11pt'>Will do, Alan! You have contributed so much over the years, and we want to celebrate that extensive and wonderful work. <BR>
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Thanks for everything! And congrats on such a good report from HLC! <BR>
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On 4/29/10 7:36 PM, "Alan Meyers" <<a href="Meyersalan@aol.com">Meyersalan@aol.com</a>> wrote:<BR>
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On Apr 29, 2010, at 7:30:50 PM, <a href="cbw_exec-request@tamu-commerce.edu">cbw_exec-request@tamu-commerce.edu</a> wrote:<BR>
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<FONT COLOR="#808080"><B>Subject:</B></FONT><B>CBW_Exec Di! ge st, Vol 25, Issue 20<BR>
<FONT COLOR="#808080">Date:</FONT></B>April 29, 2010 7:30:50 PM CDT<BR>
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1. Re: CCCC 2011 planning (CFP and Schedule) (Sugie Goen-Salter)<BR>
2. CFP: Council on Basic Writing (CBW) (Shannon Carter)<BR>
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Date: Thu, 29 Apr 2010 10:26:24 -0700<BR>
From: Sugie Goen-Salter <<a href="sgoen@sfsu.edu">sgoen@sfsu.edu</a>><BR>
Subject: Re: [CBW_Exec] CCCC 2011 planning (CFP and Schedule)<BR>
To: Conference of Basic Writing Executive Board<BR>
<<a href="cbw_exec@tamu-commerce.edu">cbw_exec@tamu-commerce.edu</a>><BR>
Cc: Steven Joseph Lamos <Steve.Lamos@co! lo rado.edu><BR>
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Hi everyone,<BR>
This looks good to me too (with Rebecca's edits). I have asked Mary <BR>
Soliday and will let you know her response just as soon as I can.<BR>
Sugie<BR>
On Apr 28, 2010, at 10:09 AM, Shannon Carter wrote:<BR>
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> Hi, all--<BR>
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> Attached, please find two documents for your review: (1) the CFP, <BR>
> which I?d love for us to begin circulating in the next couple of <BR>
> days (I?ve added your recommended changes and would love for you to <BR>
> give it another close read before we start sending it out); (2) a <BR>
> rough schedule for the workshop itself (not yet a proposal but will <BR>
> be soon).<BR>
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> Proposal deadline: May 7<BR>
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> A few questions:<BR>
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> We?d like to invite Rebecca Mylanarcik and Mary Soliday to open the <BR>
> event (see rough schedule). We definitely need a speaker or two who <BR>
> can help us situate the 2011 conversations within the history and <BR>
> future of BW.<BR>
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> Rebecca: Are you available? Interested?<BR>
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> Sugie: Do you think Mary might be available and interested in this? <BR>
> Kicking off our day in keynoter position? Would you mind asking?<BR>
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> Kelly Ritter?s Before Shaughnessy is another fine work that helps <BR>
> move that conversation along, but she?s in meetings with CCCC EB <BR>
> all day. She?s generously offered to slip out to address our group <BR>
> after lunch, which sounds most excellent to us (again, check out <BR>
> schedule)<BR>
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> 2. Can you do a close edit of the CFP and let me know if it is <BR>
> ready to circulate?<BR>
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> Thanks!<BR>
> Shannon (and Hannah!) <CBWworkshopCFP5.docx><DRAFT OF PROPOSED <BR>
> SCHEDULE FOR CBW 2012.docx><BR>
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Date: Thu, 29 Apr 2010 19:29:21 -0500<BR>
From: Shannon Carter <<a href="Shannon_Carter@tamu-commerce.edu">Shannon_Carter@tamu-commerce.edu</a>><BR>
Subject: [CBW_Exec] CFP: Council on Basic Writing (CBW)<BR>
To: Conference of Basic Writing Executive Board<BR>
<<a href="cbw_exec@tamu-commerce.edu">cbw_exec@tamu-commerce.edu</a>><BR>
Cc: JP Sloop <<a href="jpsloop@gmail.com">jpsloop@gmail.com</a>><BR>
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Hi, all--<BR>
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We need your help: distribute far and wide!<BR>
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I?ll post this to the CBW-L, WPA-L, and SCWCA-L.<BR>
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Where will you share it?<BR>
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Liz: Can you post the call to the blog? (I?ve attached a pdf, if that?s<BR>
easier)<BR>
Susan: Can you post to the CBW FB page?<BR>
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JP: Can we add this to the BWe Double Issue? I think we need to add an<BR>
announcements section to the index page.<BR>
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Thanks, all!<BR>
Shannon (with Hannah)<BR>
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Please consider submitting a proposal to CBW 2011!<BR>
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CBW is an ! al l-day workshop held each year on the Wednesday before CCCC.<BR>
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Deadline for proposals: June 15, 2010<BR>
Notification by August 2010<BR>
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We Are Not Alone: Strategic Coalition Building Across (Contested) Spaces<BR>
Serving Basic Writers<BR>
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Access to higher education has rarely been more important or more contested.<BR>
In fact, colleges and universities across the nation find themselves no less<BR>
vulnerable in this fight for dwindling resources than the struggling masses<BR>
knocking at their doors.<BR>
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In many cases, BW programs are the first to go (Soliday 2002, 2004: Greene<BR>
and McAlexander 2008; Otte and Mlynarczyk 2010). Long committed to serving<BR>
writers otherwise denied admittance, such programs draw their very existence<BR>
from increasingly contested spaces.<BR>
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We are not alone. In fact BW?s very survival may depend on an ability to<BR>
recognize and build strategic coalitions across the same programs and<BR>
services with which a great many of us now compete?student support services,<BR>
TRIO programs, adult l iteracy programs, ESL programs, and others across area<BR>
colleges, schools, universities, and communities.<BR>
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Like many BW programs, these services identify with core objectives<BR>
including: <BR>
? serving the literacy needs of first-generation and underrepresented<BR>
students, including underrepresented minority students;<BR>
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? offering personalized instruction that both recognizes students?<BR>
existing strengths and promotes intellectual and literate growth;<BR>
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? offering individual and small-group support designed to improve<BR>
student retention and graduation rates;<BR>
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? helping students to meet linguistic ?standards? even while<BR>
recognizing and cultivating linguistic and literate diversity; and<BR>
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? making campus environments, especially during the first two years of<BR>
instruction, more friendly, welcoming, and supportive to students from<BR>
diverse backgrounds.<BR>
<BR>
At the 2011 CBW conference in ! At lanta, Georgia, we invite participants to<BR>
consider-- invoking th e conference theme??all our relations.? When<BR>
establishing productive responses to what appears to many as the systematic<BR>
dismantling of basic writing programs across the nation, how can we build<BR>
strategic coalitions with those we already think of as ?our relations? and,<BR>
perhaps, those we might currently think of as ?beautiful enemies??<BR>
<BR>
In other words, participants at CBW 2011 will explore together questions<BR>
like the following:<BR>
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? As a field, what are BW?s core values and objectives?<BR>
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? Where might we find others who share BW?s core values, and what might<BR>
all partners involved gain from strategic coalition building? How can we<BR>
work with others who may not share all or even some of our core values?<BR>
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? How might CBW help build and sustain productive relations and<BR>
coalitions across campuses, communities, and regions?especially as these<BR>
?relations? share and build upon BW?s core values?<BR>
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? What resources (financial and othe rwise) might BW programs and newly<BR>
formed (or well established) strategic coalitions productively target<BR>
together, and how? <BR>
<BR>
? How might we (including ?all our relations?) further establish<BR>
productive and sustainable systems for communicating BW?s core and common<BR>
goals (and needs) with campus administrators, community members, policy<BR>
makers, and taxpayers?<BR>
<BR>
? Where has BW been? Studies like Kelly Ritter?s Before Shaughnessy<BR>
(2009) and Mary Soliday?s The Politics of Remediation (2002) remind us BW<BR>
didn?t begin with Open Admissions. What can we learn by investigating<BR>
different origin stories, perhaps those from which our own institutions? BW<BR>
programs originated?<BR>
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? Where should BW be headed? Given increasingly scarce resources for<BR>
all Americans, what might BW?s future be? In all of this, what can the<BR>
Council on Basic Writing do to help?<BR>
<BR>
? What has already been lost, who ! ha s lost it (what communities? what<BR>
relations?), and what can we d o to make these losses visible and tangible to<BR>
our colleagues and to the general public?<BR>
<BR>
? What can we do in coalition with under-served communities to<BR>
regenerate improved and sustained access to Basic Writing for those who have<BR>
lost it? In what ways can we support communities that have lost the most?<BR>
<BR>
? In what ways can the conversations and innovations of our field<BR>
engage current stakeholders in the higher education reform movement (such as<BR>
state legislatures, private foundations, and the Department of Education)?<BR>
<BR>
? What can we do to improve working conditions and opportunities for<BR>
research and other kinds of professional development, for contingent<BR>
faculty, who teach the majority of Basic Writing courses at many<BR>
post-secondary institutions?<BR>
<BR>
We invite proposals for panels and individual presentations contributing to<BR>
the CBW workshop theme as described above. We are especially interested in<BR>
proposals that balance the ( realistic) institution- and program-specific<BR>
constraints often placed upon BW programs and classrooms with serious<BR>
attention to issues and trends across the country. Specifically, we are<BR>
interested in hearing brief (8-12 minute) presentations that describe key<BR>
issues affecting local programs, classrooms, universities, and communities,<BR>
while placing those practices and issues in the larger context.<BR>
<BR>
Accepted presenters and titles will be listed on the Council of Basic<BR>
Writing program, coupled with an official letter from CBW inviting you to<BR>
present during the Council on Basic Writing conference in Atlanta, Georgia,<BR>
on Wednesday, April 6, 2011. Multimedia and interactive presentations<BR>
encouraged, and CBW is especially interested in proposals from individuals<BR>
interested in building strategic coalitions with BW?including those not<BR>
currently associated with BW: writing program administrators for college<BR>
composition & advanced writing! c lasses; adult literacy educators/program<BR>
administrators; ESL/ELL writing instructors/program directors; WAC<BR>
coordinators; international student coordinators/program administrators;<BR>
adult oriented college degree program instructors/program administrators;<BR>
policy-makers and activists.<BR>
<BR>
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We welcome submissions from those of you who are also submitting proposals<BR>
to the regular CCCC conference in 2011. Presenting at CBW 2011 will not<BR>
interfere with your ability to present at CCCC 2011.<BR>
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Please submit abstracts to <a href="Shannon_Carter@tamu-commerce.edu">Shannon_Carter@tamu-commerce.edu</a> and<BR>
<a href="hashley@wcup.edu">hashley@wcup.edu</a> before June 15, 2010.<BR>
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Shannon Carter, PhD<BR>
Associate Professor of English<BR>
Director, Writing Programs<BR>
Department of Literature and Languages<BR>
Texas A&M University-Commerce<BR>
Commerce, Texas 75429-3011<BR>
<a href="Shannon_Carter@tamu-commerce.edu">Shannon_Carter@tamu-commerce.edu</a><BR>
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