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<br>Good weekend to all,<br><br>Susan<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Apr 29, 2010 at 8:29 PM, Shannon Carter <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:Shannon_Carter@tamu-commerce.edu">Shannon_Carter@tamu-commerce.edu</a>></span> wrote:<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 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 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 all-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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<font size="2"><font face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><b>We Are Not Alone: Strategic Coalition Building Across (Contested) Spaces Serving Basic Writers
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Access to higher education has rarely been more important or more contested. In fact, colleges and universities across the nation find themselves no less vulnerable in this fight for dwindling resources than the struggling masses knocking at their doors.<br>
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In many cases, BW programs are the first to go (Soliday 2002, 2004: Greene and McAlexander 2008; Otte and Mlynarczyk 2010). Long committed to serving writers otherwise denied admittance, such programs draw their very existence 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 recognize and build strategic coalitions across the same programs and services with which a great many of us now compete—student support services, TRIO programs, adult literacy programs, ESL programs, and others across area colleges, schools, universities, and communities.<br>
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Like many BW programs, these services identify with core objectives including: <br>
</span></font><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><font face="Symbol">· </font><font face="Times New Roman">serving the literacy needs of first-generation and underrepresented students, including underrepresented minority students;<br>
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</span></font><font size="2"><font face="Symbol"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">· </span></font><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><font face="Times New Roman">offering personalized instruction that both recognizes students’ existing strengths and promotes intellectual and literate growth;<br>
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</span></font><font size="2"><font face="Symbol"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">· </span></font><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><font face="Times New Roman">offering individual and small-group support designed to improve student retention and graduation rates;<br>
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</span></font><font size="2"><font face="Symbol"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">· </span></font><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><font face="Times New Roman">helping students to meet linguistic “standards” even while recognizing and cultivating linguistic and literate diversity; and<br>
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</span></font><font size="2"><font face="Symbol"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">· </span></font><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><font face="Times New Roman">making campus environments, especially during the first two years of instruction, more friendly, welcoming, and supportive to students from diverse backgrounds.<br>
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</span></font><font size="2"><font face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"> At the 2011 CBW conference in Atlanta, Georgia, we invite participants to consider-- invoking the conference theme—“all our relations.” When establishing productive responses to what appears to many as the systematic dismantling of basic writing programs across the nation, how can we build strategic coalitions with those we already think of as “our relations” and, perhaps, those we might currently think of as “beautiful enemies”?<br>
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In other words, participants at CBW 2011 will explore together questions like the following: <br>
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</span></font><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><font face="Symbol">· </font><font face="Times New Roman">As a field, what are BW’s core values and objectives? <br>
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</span></font><font size="2"><font face="Symbol"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">· </span></font><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><font face="Times New Roman">Where might we find others who share BW’s core values, and what might all partners involved gain from strategic coalition building? How can we work with others who may not share all or even some of our core values?<br>
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</span></font><font size="2"><font face="Symbol"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">· </span></font><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><font face="Times New Roman">How might CBW help build and sustain productive relations and coalitions across campuses, communities, and regions—especially as these “relations” share and build upon BW’s core values? <br>
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</span></font><font size="2"><font face="Symbol"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">· </span></font><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><font face="Times New Roman">What resources (financial and otherwise) might BW programs and newly formed (or well established) strategic coalitions productively target together, and how? <br>
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</span></font><font size="2"><font face="Symbol"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">· </span></font><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><font face="Times New Roman">How might we (including “all our relations”) further establish productive and sustainable systems for communicating BW’s core and common goals (and needs) with campus administrators, community members, policy makers, and taxpayers?<br>
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</span></font><font size="2"><font face="Symbol"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">· </span></font><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><font face="Times New Roman">Where has BW been? Studies like Kelly Ritter’s <i>Before Shaughnessy</i> (2009) and Mary Soliday’s <i>The Politics of Remediation</i> (2002) remind us BW didn’t begin with Open Admissions. What can we learn by investigating different origin stories, perhaps those from which our own institutions’ BW programs originated?<br>
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</span></font><font size="2"><font face="Symbol"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">· </span></font><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><font face="Times New Roman">Where should BW be headed? Given increasingly scarce resources for all Americans, what might BW’s future be? In all of this, what can the Council on Basic Writing do to help? <br>
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</span></font><font size="2"><font face="Symbol"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">· </span></font><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><font face="Times New Roman">What has already been lost, who has lost it (what communities? what relations?), and what can we do to make these losses visible and tangible to our colleagues and to the general public? <br>
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</span></font><font size="2"><font face="Symbol"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">· </span></font><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><font face="Times New Roman">What can we do in coalition with under-served communities to regenerate improved and sustained access to Basic Writing for those who have lost it? In what ways can we support communities that have lost the most?<br>
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</span></font><font size="2"><font face="Symbol"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">· </span></font><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><font face="Times New Roman">In what ways can the conversations and innovations of our field engage current stakeholders in the higher education reform movement (such as state legislatures, private foundations, and the Department of Education)?<br>
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</span></font><font size="2"><font face="Symbol"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">· </span></font><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><font face="Times New Roman">What can we do to improve working conditions and opportunities for research and other kinds of professional development, for contingent faculty, who teach the majority of Basic Writing courses at many post-secondary institutions?<br>
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</span></font><font size="2"><font face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"> We invite proposals for panels and individual presentations contributing to the CBW workshop theme as described above. We are especially interested in proposals that balance the (realistic) institution- and program-specific constraints often placed upon BW programs and classrooms with serious attention to issues and trends across the country. Specifically, we are interested in hearing brief (8-12 minute) presentations that describe key issues affecting local programs, classrooms, universities, and communities, while placing those practices and issues in the larger context.<br>
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Accepted presenters and titles will be listed on the Council of Basic Writing program, coupled with an official letter from CBW inviting you to present during the Council on Basic Writing conference in Atlanta, Georgia, on Wednesday, April 6, 2011. Multimedia and interactive presentations encouraged, and CBW is especially interested in proposals from individuals interested in building strategic coalitions with BW—including those not currently associated with BW: writing program administrators for college composition & advanced writing classes; adult literacy educators/program administrators; ESL/ELL writing instructors/program directors; WAC coordinators; international student coordinators/program administrators; adult oriented college degree program instructors/program administrators; policy-makers and activists. <br>
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We welcome submissions from those of you who are also submitting proposals to the regular CCCC conference in 2011. Presenting at CBW 2011 will not interfere with your ability to present at CCCC 2011. <br>
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Please submit abstracts to <a href="http://Shannon_Carter@tamu-commerce.edu" target="_blank">Shannon_Carter@tamu-commerce.edu</a> and <a href="http://hashley@wcup.edu" target="_blank">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="http://Shannon_Carter@tamu-commerce.edu" target="_blank">Shannon_Carter@tamu-commerce.edu</a><br>
<a href="http://www.shannoncarter.info" target="_blank">http://www.shannoncarter.info</a><br>
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