Dear Liz,<div><br></div><div>Thanks again for all you've done to inspire this resurgence of energy and interest. </div><div><br></div><div>It's certainly fine to post my statement, and I think it would be fine to e-mail David (I'm assuming you mean David Bartholomae). I've e-mailed him a few times in connection with professional things, and he always gets right back and is glad to be contacted.</div>
<div><br></div><div>All the best,</div><div><br></div><div>Rebecca<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Apr 12, 2011 at 5:32 AM, J. Elizabeth Clark <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:lclark@lagcc.cuny.edu">lclark@lagcc.cuny.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">Hi All,<br>
<br>
<br>
I'm working on the listserv. I thought it was fixed, but it doesn't seem<br>
to be. I've touched base and already heard back from Tom Reynolds who is<br>
on the ground at UMN.<br>
<br>
<br>
Rebecca & Susan: is it okay to publish your statements in support of the<br>
Sense of the House on the blog? I don't want to put them there without<br>
your explicit permission.<br>
<br>
<br>
Peter: do you think it's okay to e-mail David to ask? (I can do this--I<br>
know you're already at another conference).<br>
<br>
<br>
Thanks,<br>
<br>
<br>
Liz<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>
>>> Rebecca Mlynarczyk 04/10/11 9:28 AM >>><br>
Congratulations and thanks to all for getting this done--and with a<br>
unanimous vote!! I'm sorry I missed all the excitement. I was out of<br>
e-mail<br>
contact and re-connecting with old friends who live in Atlanta. I think<br>
it's<br>
great that you pulled together the piece for "Inside Higher Ed," and<br>
it's<br>
fine if you did or didn't end up including my statement.<br>
<br>
A further update: The BW session from 11 to 12:45 on Saturday, at which<br>
Sugie, Peter, and Lynn spoke, was truly excellent. It was well attended<br>
and<br>
the three talks were great as was the 20-minute discussion that<br>
followed. Print versions of these three talks will be featured in an<br>
upcoming issue of *JBW*.<br>
<br>
Kudos to all for a great conference and for this renewed focus and<br>
energy!!<br>
<br>
Rebecca<br>
P.S. We really need to make the 2012 CCCC in Atlanta one in which BW<br>
will<br>
shine. After catching your breath, remember to start working on<br>
proposals<br>
for next year. I believe the submission deadline is May 6.<br>
On Fri, Apr 8, 2011 at 8:30 PM, J. Elizabeth Clark wrote:<br>
<br>
> Hi,<br>
><br>
><br>
> Mike Hill suggested that we have a press release prepared because<br>
Inside<br>
> Higher Ed is coming to the meeting tomorrow. I'm far afield here, but<br>
I<br>
> copied the format for a press release. Rebecca, I used your statement<br>
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<br>
with<br>
> it?<br>
><br>
><br>
> Since I won't be there, I put Bill and Shannon as the contacts. What<br>
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<br>
centralrole<br>
> of basic writing in the composition community.<br>
><br>
> Atlanta, Georgia, 9 April 2011: Although many luminaries inthe field<br>
of<br>
> composition studies trace their roots to teaching and writingabout<br>
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<br>
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<br>
Mlynarczyk,<br>
> Co-editor, Journal of Basic Writing said, "Basic Writing is an<br>
important<br>
> sub-set of composition studies with a significant student population<br>
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<br>
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>
>> 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>
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