<div>Congratulations and thanks to all for getting this done--and with a unanimous vote!! I'm sorry I missed all the excitement. I was out of e-mail contact and re-connecting with old friends who live in Atlanta. I think it's great that you pulled together the piece for "Inside Higher Ed," and it's fine if you did or didn't end up including my statement.</div>
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<div>A further update: The BW session from 11 to 12:45 on Saturday, at which Sugie, Peter, and Lynn spoke, was truly excellent. It was well attended and the three talks were great as was the 20-minute discussion that followed. Print versions of these three talks will be featured in an upcoming issue of <em>JBW</em>.</div>
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<div>Kudos to all for a great conference and for this renewed focus and energy!!</div>
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<div>Rebecca<br></div>
<div>P.S. We really need to make the 2012 CCCC in Atlanta one in which BW will shine. After catching your breath, remember to start working on proposals for next year. I believe the submission deadline is May 6.<br></div>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Apr 8, 2011 at 8:30 PM, J. Elizabeth Clark <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:lclark@lagcc.cuny.edu">lclark@lagcc.cuny.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote style="BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; PADDING-LEFT: 1ex" class="gmail_quote">Hi,<br><br><br>Mike Hill suggested that we have a press release prepared because Inside<br>Higher Ed is coming to the meeting tomorrow. I'm far afield here, but I<br>
copied the format for a press release. Rebecca, I used your statement as<br>the "significant quote." Thoughts?<br><br><br>How do you feel about this? Is this too much, or do we want to run with<br>it?<br><br><br>
Since I won't be there, I put Bill and Shannon as the contacts. What do<br>you think? I am including the EXEC board and Mike on this discussion.<br><br><br>Liz<br>____________________<br><br><br>For Immediate Release:<br>
<br>The Council on Basic Writing, an open community of teacherscholars in<br>the field of Basic Writing, calls for a recommitment to the centralrole<br>of basic writing in the composition community.<br><br>Atlanta, Georgia, 9 April 2011: Although many luminaries inthe field of<br>
composition studies trace their roots to teaching and writingabout Basic<br>Writing, Basic Writing has become increasingly marginalized withinthe<br>CCCC community and in the field of composition studies. Virtually<br>invisibleat the national CCCC convention, Basic Writing is gone as a<br>
strand, as afeatured session, and even as a central word in conference<br>session titles.<br>That point was driven home in the 2011 Chair's address, asprinted in the<br>program that "the fields that make up CCCC--composition,rhetoric,<br>
creative writing, language/linguistics, visual and digital<br>rhetorics,professional writing and communication--are diverse."<br>In response to the absence of Basic Writing at CCCC, Rebecca Mlynarczyk,<br>Co-editor, Journal of Basic Writing said, "Basic Writing is an important<br>
sub-set of composition studies with a significant student population and<br>with a long and distinguished history and scholarship. We feel it is<br>important that Basic Writing be acknowledged explicitly by CCC in a time<br>
of waning public support for this important endeavor."<br>To help to encourage CCCC to provide support for basicwriting faculty<br>and students, and to recommit to the central role Basic Writinghas in<br>the field of composition, we are introducing the following sense of<br>
thehouse resolution at the business meeting tomorrow morning. "Be it<br>resolvedthat Basic Writing, a vital field and its students and teacher<br>scholars aproductive force within composition; is under attack
by<br>exclusionary publicpolicies; and therefore must be recognized publicly<br>
and supported by CCCC as aconference cluster and with featured<br>sessions."<br><br>Contact:<br>William Lalicker<br>Executive Board of CBW<br><a href="mailto:WLalicker@wcupa.edu">WLalicker@wcupa.edu</a><br><br>Shannon Carter<br>
Outgoing Chair of CBW<br><a href="mailto:cartershannon@gmail.com">cartershannon@gmail.com</a><br><br><br><br>J. Elizabeth Clark, Ph.D.<br>Professor of English<br>LaGuardia Community College--CUNY<br>e-mail: <a href="mailto:lclark@lagcc.cuny.edu">lclark@lagcc.cuny.edu</a><br>
Phone: <a href="tel:718.482.5665" value="+17184825665">718.482.5665</a><br><a href="http://www.jelizabethclark.com/" target="_blank">www.jelizabethclark.com</a><br>_______________________________________________<br>CBW_Exec mailing list<br>
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