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<DIV dir=ltr><FONT color=#000000 size=2 face=Arial></FONT>1. "administrative issue" now solved! New EB members now on EB listserv. Welcome!! </DIV>
<DIV dir=ltr>2. Yay for Sugie!! </DIV>
<DIV dir=ltr>3. Yay for suggested CBW theme (I'm trying to keep my mouth shut but unable. to. stop. myself. :)</DIV>
<DIV dir=ltr>4. Yay for the race/other balance with poster sessions and Victor Villanueva, who, as Bill suggets, would be a major draw (also former CCCC exemplar award winner, so there is that too, and I don't think he's been involved with CBW before) </DIV>
<DIV dir=ltr>5. If we go with race as major theme, which I think is a wonderful and important idea, I urge you to consider Steve Lamos and Wendy Olson on whiteness in BW, which Steve mentioned was a possibility. Steve is too humble to say it, but his recent book Interests and Opportunities: Race, Racism, and University Writing Instruction in the Post-Civil Rights Era (U of Pittsburgh P, 2011) is groundbreaking in this area. As you may recall, his research interests are race and BW. As is Wendy Olson, whose presentation you may recall from CBW 2010--powerful, smart, thoughtful. I think this would be a marvelous pairing if there is room for this. </DIV>
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<DIV dir=ltr>And if anyone is looking to reach out to Writing Centers, Frankie Condon would be a great fit. Also, <A href="http://www.amazon.com/Writing-Centers-New-Racism-Sustainable/dp/0874218616">http://www.amazon.com/Writing-Centers-New-Racism-Sustainable/dp/0874218616</A>#</DIV>
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<DIV dir=ltr>I would highly recommend Carmen Kynard, but we are trying to steal her for a competing workshop on writing democracy. </DIV>
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<DIV dir=ltr>In any case, looking VERY good!</DIV>
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<DIV dir=ltr><FONT size=2 face=Tahoma><B>From:</B> cbw_exec-bounces@tamu-commerce.edu on behalf of Lalicker, William<BR><B>Sent:</B> Wed 4/18/2012 7:46 AM<BR><B>To:</B> Conference of Basic Writing Executive Board; Laura A Gray-Rosendale; cheryl.smith@baruch.cuny.edu; rmiller2@ccbcmd.edu; Michelle.Stevier@dickinsonstate.edu; lynn.reid14@gmail.com; mdhill1@hfcc.edu; J. Elizabeth Clark<BR><B>Subject:</B> Re: [CBW_Exec] CBW 2013--Important to READ and REPLY ALL! REPLY ALL! REPLY ALL!<BR></FONT><BR></DIV></DIV>
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<P><FONT size=2>First, I have to second the YAYs! Sugie will be a great co-chair, continuing with Liz in the ambitious and progressive work that Liz and Hannah have enacted, with the support of our excellent board and supporters. I join in the welcome of Cheryl, Bob, Michelle, Mike, and Lynn. (And I'm glad you'll be attending, Laura.)<BR><BR>Next, I think this is a very good conversation that Steve and Hannah are engaging. I am substantially supportive of Hannah's position, but am sympathetic to Steve's and I have a hybrid in mind that can honor both, I think. I would like to foreground race as the focus of the workshop overall, but look for mini-presentation poster sessions (the structure we piloted in St. Louis and which I think worked very well) that complicate identity matters along the lines Steven proposes. After all, as Hannah's parenthetical comment shows, identity is often complicated anyway: race overlaps with class; disability and sexuality coexist with race and class in every individual and community. Some items on Steve's "possibilities" list might be our priorities for the mini-presentation poster sessions.<BR><BR>This would allow us to keep a focus that responds to what I would think is the most constant issue for BW (and for CBW membership, board membership, and workshop participation) in our discussions over the years, while addressing matters of marginalization and oppression more holistically over the all-day workshop.<BR><BR>On the "keynoter" question: Malea Powell would be fine, of course, and might do a reprise or spinoff of her St. Louis talk. Another possibility would be Victor Villanueva: he's on target on the main issues, has not actually engaged with the CBW workshop before, and would definitely be a draw. (And since he's a friend of mine from grad school, I think I could get a yes from him; let me know if you want me to ask him.)<BR><BR>Okay, I've overspent my two cents...<BR><BR>Collegially,<BR><BR>Bill<BR><BR>William B. Lalicker, Ph.D.<BR>Professor of English (Main Hall, Room 534, 610.436.2268)<BR>Dean's Assistant for Student Issues (Anderson Hall, Room 119C, 610.436.3521)<BR>College of Arts and Sciences<BR>West Chester University<BR>West Chester, PA 19383<BR>wlalicker@wcupa.edu<BR><BR>-----Original Message-----<BR>From: cbw_exec-bounces@tamu-commerce.edu [<A href="mailto:cbw_exec-bounces@tamu-commerce.edu">mailto:cbw_exec-bounces@tamu-commerce.edu</A>] On Behalf Of Ashley, Hannah<BR>Sent: Wednesday, April 18, 2012 8:21 AM<BR>To: Laura A Gray-Rosendale; Conference of Basic Writing Executive Board; cheryl.smith@baruch.cuny.edu; rmiller2@ccbcmd.edu; Michelle.Stevier@dickinsonstate.edu; lynn.reid14@gmail.com; mdhill1@hfcc.edu; J. Elizabeth Clark<BR>Subject: Re: [CBW_Exec] CBW 2013--Important to READ and REPLY ALL! REPLY ALL! REPLY ALL!<BR><BR>I confess to (on first read) not loving the over-arching formulation of "difference," for a few reasons:<BR><BR>* the term "difference" to me connotes a watered-down version of understandings of systemic oppression that folks out in the wide world like to use but which I do not believe any of us on this EB have, so I am resistant to invoking it<BR>* even if we could get around that terminology issue, our EB meeting last month resulted in us saying that it is that a particular commitment is to work on issues of race in CBW as an organization. While disability and sexuality and class (and pardon the etc. here--this is coming from a lesbian Marxist with a daughter who at one point was diagnosed with a disability) are all hugely important ways folks get marginalized and/or key lenses through which to view issues of BW, I would advocate for a clear focus on race itself. False as any essentialist conception of race is, still, discourses around, and actual material injustices targeting, people of color are worth their own focus. My big-worded two-cents.<BR><BR>That being said, I could see a combination of two themes: IHE-serving institutions/issues/research and Generation 1.5 students: Powell, Villanueva, Lu, Jordan, Mendez-Newman (I don't know the last two's work personally)...all sound great.<BR><BR>Yay, Sugie! Yay Liz. Yay new board members. Yay continuing board members.<BR><BR>H<BR><BR>Hannah Ashley, Ph.D.<BR>Associate Professor of English, Composition & Rhetoric<BR>Composition Director<BR>Service Learning Faculty Associate<BR>Director, Writing Zones 12.5 (www.writingzones.net)<BR>543 Main Hall, West Chester University<BR>West Chester, PA 19383<BR>845-337-5000<BR><BR>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 Hip Hop Genius: Remixing High School Education<BR><BR>________________________________________<BR>From: Laura A Gray-Rosendale [Laura.Gray-Rosendale@nau.edu]<BR>Sent: Tuesday, April 17, 2012 9:09 PM<BR>To: Conference of Basic Writing Executive Board; cheryl.smith@baruch.cuny.edu; rmiller2@ccbcmd.edu; Michelle.Stevier@dickinsonstate.edu; lynn.reid14@gmail.com; mdhill1@hfcc.edu; J. Elizabeth Clark; Ashley, Hannah<BR>Subject: RE: [CBW_Exec] CBW 2013--Important to READ and REPLY ALL! REPLY ALL! REPLY ALL!<BR><BR>That sounds just fabulous, Steve! Since I've been doing mostly nonfiction writing in recent years, I haven't been at CCCCs in a while. But I am planning on attending next year and would like to come to the CBW. Please let me know if I can do anything to help out. I could see being involved in something on BW students and the importance of personal narrative, for example. All the folks you mention as key note speakers are great options. I would be so glad to have any of them. But I must confess that I am partial to Victor. He's such a fantastic speaker and thinker. Just my two cents. Thanks! Laura<BR><BR>Dr. Laura Gray-Rosendale<BR>President's Distinguished Teaching Fellow<BR>Professor of English, Director of STAR English<BR>Northern Arizona University<BR>Box 6032<BR>Flagstaff, AZ 86011-6032<BR><BR>Office: 928-523-0956<BR>Fax: 928-523-7074<BR>________________________________________<BR>From: cbw_exec-bounces@tamu-commerce.edu [cbw_exec-bounces@tamu-commerce.edu] on behalf of Steven Joseph Lamos [Steve.Lamos@colorado.edu]<BR>Sent: Tuesday, April 17, 2012 4:20 PM<BR>To: Conference of Basic Writing Executive Board; cheryl.smith@baruch.cuny.edu; rmiller2@ccbcmd.edu; Michelle.Stevier@dickinsonstate.edu; lynn.reid14@gmail.com; mdhill1@hfcc.edu; J. Elizabeth Clark; HAshley@wcupa.edu<BR>Subject: Re: [CBW_Exec] CBW 2013--Important to READ and REPLY ALL! REPLY ALL! REPLY ALL!<BR><BR>Hi all:<BR><BR>1) Congrats to Sugie--and serious thanks to Hannah!<BR><BR>2) A big hello to Cheryl, Mike, Bob, Michelle, and Lynn!<BR><BR>3) Just thinking out loud here:<BR><BR>How about a CBW theme for next year called something like "BW and Issues of Difference: A Symposium"?<BR><BR>We could start with a general keynote in the morning from someone like Malea Powell (or, alternatively, Min-Zhan Lu or Victor Villanueva). Or, if we wanted to highlight the work of faculty at Minority-Serving Institutions in particular, perhaps someone like Zandra Jordan from Spelman or Beatrice Mendez-Newman from Texas-Pan Am..<BR><BR>After that, we could have some interactive discussion regarding issues of difference in BW programmatic or pedagogical contexts (e.g. pedagogical talk about "error" and the BW writer or something).<BR><BR>Then, in the afternoon, we might imagine either poster sessions or perhaps three- or four-person roundtables dedicated explicitly to various aspects of difference:<BR><BR>Some possibilities that come to mind for me include things like<BR><BR>-BW at Minority-Serving Institutions;<BR>-BW and Generation 1.5 Students;<BR>-BW and Universal Design / Disability Studies;<BR>-BW and Gender / Sexuality;<BR>-BW and Whiteness (which is a topic that Wendy Olson and I are thinking about, although perhaps in the context of a traditional CCCC panel);<BR>-BW and social class; etc.<BR><BR>After that, more hands-on work focused on program and pedagogy issues, perhaps specifically related to our posters / roundtables.<BR><BR>In my view, such a general "difference" theme might let us cast a relatively wide net while at the same time allowing us to focus at least some talk on Minority-Serving Institutional contexts.<BR><BR>Again, I'm just thinking out loud here. Thoughts?<BR><BR>Steve<BR><BR><BR><BR><BR>________________________________________<BR>From: cbw_exec-bounces@tamu-commerce.edu [cbw_exec-bounces@tamu-commerce.edu] On Behalf Of J. Elizabeth Clark [lclark@lagcc.cuny.edu]<BR>Sent: Tuesday, April 17, 2012 3:19 PM<BR>To: cheryl.smith@baruch.cuny.edu; rmiller2@ccbcmd.edu; Michelle.Stevier@dickinsonstate.edu; lynn.reid14@gmail.com; mdhill1@hfcc.edu; J. Elizabeth Clark; cbw_exec@tamu-commerce.edu; HAshley@wcupa.edu<BR>Subject: [CBW_Exec] CBW 2013--Important to READ and REPLY ALL! REPLY ALL! REPLY ALL!<BR><BR>Hi Everyone,<BR><BR><BR>Hope this finds you all well! First, we have an administrative issue: our new executive committee members aren't yet on the EXEC BOARD mailing list, so I've added them manually here. Would you please make sure that you hit "REPLY ALL" when you respond to this so that they are included in the conversation? Please "REPLY ALL!" Thank you!<BR><BR><BR>I'm writing with a welcome, exciting news, and questions about CBW 2013.<BR><BR><BR>So, first up: I'm DELIGHTED to announce that our friend and colleague Sugie Goen-Salter will be joining me as co-chair of CBW (Liz: 2011-2014, Sugie: 2012-2015). Yay! I know that she will do a wonderful job and I'm excited to work with her, and all of you.<BR><BR><BR>Let's also offer a warm work of welcome to Cheryl, Mike, Bob, Michelle, and Lynn! We're so excited that you are joining us!<BR><BR><BR>Now, down to business. From your responses last week, I think that people are inclined to go with a program that combines the following two threads:<BR><BR><BR><BR><BR>1. A focus on basic writing & political issues (access, cutting back on<BR>programs, etc.) AND 2. A focus on basic writing in HBCU and HSIs?<BR><BR><BR>A. Hannah has suggested that we approach Malea Powell for the keynote. What do you think about that? And, do you have additional ideas for a keynote?<BR><BR><BR><BR><BR>B. Steve--I know that you have ideas about this program/focus. Do you want to share some of those with the group? How might you and Wende fold into this program? Do you want to?<BR><BR><BR>Based on your feedback, we're thinking about 1 keynote. I think that leaves the afternoon open. Do we want to do 2 sets of poster presentations? Additional ideas?<BR><BR>I'm thinking that we would do a similar flow to this year:<BR><BR>1. Opening keynote (on theme)<BR>2. Networking<BR>3. Poster presentations<BR>4. Something in place of the afternoon keynote (what?)<BR>5. Maybe (?) a second round of poster presentations (?) OR a session<BR>on publishing & grant writing<BR><BR>What do you think?<BR><BR><BR>Also, please note, I will be off-line next week, 4/21-5/1 because I'm going diving in the the Keys doing a coral reef restoration project. We will make our deadline with no problem, but if you could respond sooner rather than later, that would be great! :-)<BR><BR>Liz<BR><BR><BR><BR><BR><BR>J. Elizabeth Clark, Ph.D.<BR>Professor of English<BR>LaGuardia Community College--CUNY<BR>e-mail: lclark@lagcc.cuny.edu<BR>Phone: 718.482.5665<BR>www.jelizabethclark.com<BR><BR>_______________________________________________<BR>CBW_Exec mailing list<BR>CBW_Exec@tamu-commerce.edu<BR><A href="http://mailman.tamu-commerce.edu/mailman/listinfo/cbw_exec">http://mailman.tamu-commerce.edu/mailman/listinfo/cbw_exec</A><BR><BR>************IMPORTANT - PLEASE NOTE ADDRESS FORMAT CHANGE****************<BR>Our domain address is changing from tamu-commerce.edu to tamuc.edu. Please be aware that anything sent to a faculty or staff email address ending in @TAMU-COMMERCE.EDU after September 2012, will NOT be received. EMAILS WILL BE REJECTED. 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