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      <font size="4" face="Verdana">Thanks. Will get to the statements later. Glad I can publish yours. I did get the message about Marcia. I never took her off&#44; so she&#39;s still listed.</font>    </p>
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      <font size="4" face="Verdana">Liz</font><br><br><font face="Verdana" STYLE="font-size: 14pt"><br>J. Elizabeth Clark, Ph.D.<BR>Professor of English <BR>LaGuardia Community College--CUNY<BR>e-mail:&nbsp; lclark@lagcc.cuny.edu<BR>Phone:&nbsp; 718.482.5665 <BR><a href="http://www.jelizabethclark.com">www.jelizabethclark.com</a><BR><br><br></font>&gt;&gt;&gt; Susan Bernstein &lt;susan.naomi@gmail.com&gt; 4/12/2011 9:43 AM &gt;&gt;&gt;<br>Good morning&#44; Liz. It&#39;s fine to publish my statement. In addition&#44; Marcia Ribble write that she would be happy to be listed as an emerita member of the CBW executive board. Thanks again for all your hard work and dedication.<br><br>As ever&#44;<br><br>Susan<br><br>    </p>
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        On Tue&#44; Apr 12&#44; 2011 at 7:47 AM&#44; Adams&#44; Peter D. <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:padams2@ccbcmd.edu">padams2@ccbcmd.edu</a>&gt;</span>&nbsp;wrote:<br>      </p>
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          Sure&#44; Liz. Ask him. I&#39;d be surprised if he had any objection.<br><br>Peter<br><br>Peter Adams&#32;&#124;&#32;Director of Accelerated Learning Program<br>Department of English<br>Essex Campus<br>Community College of Baltimore County<br>7201 Rossville Blvd<br>Baltimore&#44; MD 21237<br>443&#8226;710&#8226;1852&#32;&#124;&#32;<a href="mailto:padams2@ccbcmd.edu">padams2@ccbcmd.edu</a><br>        </p>
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              -----Original Message-----<br>From: <a href="mailto:cbw_exec-bounces@tamu-commerce.edu">cbw_exec-bounces@tamu-commerce.edu</a>&nbsp;on behalf of J. Elizabeth Clark<br>Sent: Tue 4/12/2011 5:32 AM<br>To: <a href="mailto:rebecca.mlynarczyk@gmail.com">rebecca.mlynarczyk@gmail.com</a>&#59; <a href="mailto:cbw_exec@tamu-commerce.edu">cbw_exec@tamu-commerce.edu</a><br>Cc: <a href="mailto:HopeKCC@aol.com">HopeKCC@aol.com</a>&#59; <a href="mailto:mdhill1@hfcc.edu">mdhill1@hfcc.edu</a><br>Subject: &#91;CBW_Exec&#93; Sense of House Update<br><br>Hi All&#44;<br><br><br>I&#39;m working on the listserv. I thought it was fixed&#44; but it doesn&#39;t seem<br>to be. I&#39;ve touched base and already heard back from Tom Reynolds who is<br>on the ground at UMN.<br><br><br>Rebecca &amp; Susan: is it okay to publish your statements in support of the<br>Sense of the House on the blog&#63; I don&#39;t want to put them there without<br>your explicit permission.<br><br><br>Peter: do you think it&#39;s okay to e-mail David to ask&#63; &#40;I can do this--I<br>know you&#39;re already at another conference&#41;.<br><br><br>Thanks&#44;<br><br><br>Liz<br><br>J. Elizabeth Clark&#44; 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 target="_blank" href="http://www.jelizabethclark.com">www.jelizabethclark.com</a><br>&gt;&gt;&gt; Rebecca Mlynarczyk 04/10/11 9:28 AM &gt;&gt;&gt;<br>Congratulations and thanks to all for getting this done--and with a<br>unanimous vote&#33;&#33; I&#39;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&#39;s<br>great that you pulled together the piece for &quot;Inside Higher Ed&#44;&quot; and<br>it&#39;s<br>fine if you did or didn&#39;t end up including my statement.<br><br>A further update: The BW session from 11 to 12:45 on Saturday&#44; at which<br>Sugie&#44; Peter&#44; and Lynn spoke&#44; 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 &#42;JBW&#42;.<br><br>Kudos to all for a great conference and for this renewed focus and<br>energy&#33;&#33;<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&#44; remember to start working on<br>proposals<br>for next year. I believe the submission deadline is May 6.<br>On Fri&#44; Apr 8&#44; 2011 at 8:30 PM&#44; J. Elizabeth Clark wrote:<br><br>&gt; Hi&#44;<br>&gt;<br>&gt;<br>&gt; Mike Hill suggested that we have a press release prepared because<br>Inside<br>&gt; Higher Ed is coming to the meeting tomorrow. I&#39;m far afield here&#44; but<br>I<br>&gt; copied the format for a press release. Rebecca&#44; I used your statement<br>as<br>&gt; the &quot;significant quote.&quot; Thoughts&#63;<br>&gt;<br>&gt;<br>&gt; How do you feel about this&#63; Is this too much&#44; or do we want to run<br>with<br>&gt; it&#63;<br>&gt;<br>&gt;<br>&gt; Since I won&#39;t be there&#44; I put Bill and Shannon as the contacts. What<br>do<br>&gt; you think&#63; I am including the EXEC board and Mike on this discussion.<br>&gt;<br>&gt;<br>&gt; Liz<br>&gt; ____________________<br>&gt;<br>&gt;<br>&gt; For Immediate Release:<br>&gt;<br>&gt; The Council on Basic Writing&#44; an open community of teacherscholars in<br>&gt; the field of Basic Writing&#44; calls for a recommitment to the<br>centralrole<br>&gt; of basic writing in the composition community.<br>&gt;<br>&gt; Atlanta&#44; Georgia&#44; 9 April 2011: Although many luminaries inthe field<br>of<br>&gt; composition studies trace their roots to teaching and writingabout<br>Basic<br>&gt; Writing&#44; Basic Writing has become increasingly marginalized withinthe<br>&gt; CCCC community and in the field of composition studies. Virtually<br>&gt; invisibleat the national CCCC convention&#44; Basic Writing is gone as a<br>&gt; strand&#44; as afeatured session&#44; and even as a central word in conference<br>&gt; session titles.<br>&gt; That point was driven home in the 2011 Chair&#39;s address&#44; asprinted in<br>the<br>&gt; program that &quot;the fields that make up CCCC--composition&#44;rhetoric&#44;<br>&gt; creative writing&#44; language/linguistics&#44; visual and digital<br>&gt; rhetorics&#44;professional writing and communication--are diverse.&quot;<br>&gt; In response to the absence of Basic Writing at CCCC&#44; Rebecca<br>Mlynarczyk&#44;<br>&gt; Co-editor&#44; Journal of Basic Writing said&#44; &quot;Basic Writing is an<br>important<br>&gt; sub-set of composition studies with a significant student population<br>and<br>&gt; with a long and distinguished history and scholarship. We feel it is<br>&gt; important that Basic Writing be acknowledged explicitly by CCC in a<br>time<br>&gt; of waning public support for this important endeavor.&quot;<br>&gt; To help to encourage CCCC to provide support for basicwriting faculty<br>&gt; and students&#44; and to recommit to the central role Basic Writinghas in<br>&gt; the field of composition&#44; we are introducing the following sense of<br>&gt; thehouse resolution at the business meeting tomorrow morning. &quot;Be it<br>&gt; resolvedthat Basic Writing&#44; a vital field and its students and teacher<br>&gt;&gt; exclusionary publicpolicies&#59; and therefore must be recognized publicly<br>&gt; and supported by CCCC as aconference cluster and with featured<br>&gt; sessions.&quot;<br>&gt;<br>&gt; Contact:<br>&gt; William Lalicker<br>&gt; Executive Board of CBW<br>&gt; <a href="mailto:WLalicker@wcupa.edu">WLalicker@wcupa.edu</a><br>&gt;<br>&gt; Shannon Carter<br>&gt; Outgoing Chair of CBW<br>&gt; <a href="mailto:cartershannon@gmail.com">cartershannon@gmail.com</a><br>&gt;<br>&gt;<br>&gt;<br>&gt; J. Elizabeth Clark&#44; Ph.D.<br>&gt; Professor of English<br>&gt; LaGuardia Community College--CUNY<br>&gt; e-mail: <a href="mailto:lclark@lagcc.cuny.edu">lclark@lagcc.cuny.edu</a><br>&gt; Phone: <a href="tel:718.482.5665" value="+17184825665">718.482.5665</a><br>&gt; <a target="_blank" href="http://www.jelizabethclark.com">www.jelizabethclark.com</a><br>&gt; _______________________________________________<br>&gt; CBW_Exec mailing list<br>&gt; <a href="mailto:CBW_Exec@tamu-commerce.edu">CBW_Exec@tamu-commerce.edu</a><br>&gt; <a target="_blank" href="http://mailman.tamu-commerce.edu/mailman/listinfo/cbw_exec">http://mailman.tamu-commerce.edu/mailman/listinfo/cbw_exec</a><br>&gt;<br><br><br>_______________________________________________<br>CBW_Exec mailing list<br><a href="mailto:CBW_Exec@tamu-commerce.edu">CBW_Exec@tamu-commerce.edu</a><br><a target="_blank" href="http://mailman.tamu-commerce.edu/mailman/listinfo/cbw_exec">http://mailman.tamu-commerce.edu/mailman/listinfo/cbw_exec</a><br><br><br>            </p>
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