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<p>Friends--Below and attached please find the minutes of our fantastic meeting, include the commitments we made to this year:</p>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><font size="3"><font face="Cambria">MINUTES<o:p></o:p></font></font></b></p>
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<font face="Cambria" size="3">3/20/2012<span style="mso-tab-count: 1"> </span>
6-8pm<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>St. Louis</font></p>
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<font face="Cambria" size="3">In personal attendance:</font></p>
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<font face="Cambria" size="3">Debra Mutnick</font></p>
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<font face="Cambria" size="3">Marissa Klages</font></p>
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<font face="Cambria" size="3">Liz Clark</font></p>
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<font face="Cambria" size="3">Peter Adams</font></p>
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<font face="Cambria" size="3">Steve Lamos</font></p>
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<font face="Cambria" size="3">Hannah Ashley</font></p>
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<font face="Cambria" size="3">Bill Lalicker</font></p>
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<font face="Cambria" size="3">Sarah Kirk</font></p>
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<font face="Cambria" size="3">Alan Myers</font></p>
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<font face="Cambria" size="3">Greg Glau</font></p>
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<font face="Cambria" size="3">Rebecca M</font></p>
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<font face="Cambria" size="3">Call in: Susan Bernstein</font></p>
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<font face="Cambria" size="3">Not present:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>
Sugie, Kathleen, Tom, Eileen, Barbara</font></p>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><font size="3"><font face="Cambria">Agenda<o:p></o:p></font></font></b></p>
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<font face="Cambria" size="3">1. Celebrate what we did last year: say your name (just in case), say in one sentence how last year’s work made a difference for you in your individual work, your institution, or the discipline</font></p>
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<font face="Cambria" size="3">2. Thanks and kudos and thanks again to board members stepping down (Peter, Rebecca, Sonya, Shannon, Alan); thanks to Chris Anson and Howard Tinberg in the form of Sense of House resolution.</font></p>
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<font face="Cambria" size="3">3. Discussion items </font></p>
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<font face="Cambria" size="3">(a) Sub-committees were formed and their 2012-2013 work focus decided (Chairs and FY12-13 focus in bold below)</font></p>
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<li class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo1"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><font size="3"><font face="Cambria">Community Development:
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>electronic community/membership (blog, fb); local area development—Liz,
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">Debra (chair)</b><o:p></o:p></font></font></span>
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<li class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-list: l1 level2 lfo1"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><font size="3"><font face="Cambria">Connecting to larger network of developmental (e.g., NADE)<o:p></o:p></font></font></span>
</li><li class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-list: l1 level2 lfo1"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><font size="3"><font face="Cambria">research a list of all the possible partners (organizations,
foundations)—deliverable is a White Paper (focus)<o:p></o:p></font></font></span></b>
</li><li class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-list: l1 level2 lfo1"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><font size="3"><font face="Cambria">Membership formalization<o:p></o:p></font></font></span></li></ul>
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<li class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo1"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><font size="3"><font face="Cambria">Institutionalization & Activism: mission & charter; NCTE/CCCC Statement development—<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">Marissa
(chair),</b> Steve, Hannah, Bill (Alan ex officio)<o:p></o:p></font></font></span></li></ul>
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<li class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-list: l1 level2 lfo1"><font size="3"><font face="Cambria"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">Draft a CCCC/NCTE statement toward a formal resolution
to be introduced in February (focus)</span></b><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">—notes toward that…basic writing as a discipline that integrates developmental, social justice, students rights, not preparation is college work, some practices
to emphasize and deemphasize, reading and writing are inseparable (key principles and practices), framework for post-secondary writing, erro…TYCA<o:p></o:p></span></font></font>
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</span>Basic Writing e-journal; work on the pre-con workshop (e.g., reviewing<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>submissions, etc.) supporting the co-chairs; mentoring scholars –Susan (Rebecca ex officio)<o:p></o:p></font></font></span>
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<li class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-list: l1 level2 lfo1"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><font size="3"><font face="Cambria">Mentoring of new scholars—starting a way to connect
mentors and mentees partnership (focus)<o:p></o:p></font></font></span></b></li></ul>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">Greg (chair)</b>…</span>Bedford, other (e.g.,
<span style="mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">Evaluation Program/Speakers bureau); Pearson?
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<li class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-list: l1 level2 lfo1"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><font size="3"><font face="Cambria">Make the awards happen and reexamine the parameters of the awards (focus)<o:p></o:p></font></font></b>
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</li><li class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-list: l1 level2 lfo1"><font face="Cambria" size="3">Raise funds—Rebecca shared that there was money raised several years ago for JBW that can be reallocated toward awards</font></li></ul>
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<font face="Cambria" size="3">(b) Reconstitution of board—Decisions to ask the following applicants to join the Board (Liz will formally ask them)</font></p>
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<font face="Cambria" size="3">Cheryl Smith</font></p>
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<font face="Cambria" size="3">Mike Hill</font></p>
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<font face="Cambria" size="3">Bob Miller</font></p>
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<font face="Cambria" size="3">Michelle Flemming</font></p>
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<font face="Cambria" size="3">Lynn Reid</font></p>
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</span></span></span><font face="Cambria" size="3">Ideas were discussed about how to formalize membership of board with terms and rotation and representation, diversification of board and CBW being a big priority; ideas to use the pre-con workshop to build
connections to diverse communities (e.g., a focus on HBCU’s and other minority-serving institutions)</font></p>
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<div><font face="Tahoma" color="#cc99ff" size="2">Hannah Ashley, Ph.D.</font></div>
<div><font face="tahoma" color="#cc99ff" size="2">Associate Professor of English, Composition & Rhetoric</font></div>
<div><font face="tahoma" size="2"><font color="#cc99ff">Composition Director</font></font></div>
<div><font color="#cc99ff" size="2">Service Learning Faculty Associate</font></div>
<div><font face="tahoma" size="2"><font color="#cc99ff">Director, Writing Zones 12.5 (<a href="http://www.writingzones.net/">www.writingzones.net</a>)
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<div><font face="tahoma" color="#cc99ff" size="2">543 Main Hall, West Chester University</font></div>
<div><font face="tahoma" color="#cc99ff" size="2">West Chester, PA 19383</font></div>
<div><font face="tahoma" color="#cc99ff" size="2">845-337-5000</font></div>
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<em><font color="#0000ff"><font size="2"><dt>If you can find a way to get somebody interested enough to learn, they'll do it themselves...[we need more places that fashion themselves] to help those young people dive so deep into their dreams that they become
their realities --George Clinton, in Foreward to <u>Hip Hop Genius: Remixing High School Education</u></font></font></em></font></font></dt></div>
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