CBW Mission Statement 
CBW 2011 will explore the ways in
which CBW must redefine its mission
in the current milieu, while not losing
sight of BW's core values, in order to
acknowledge the multifaceted work of
student support, retention, and
diversity being performed by many
contemporary BW programs.

Join us in St. Louis in 2012!  
CBW meets each year before CCCC for a day long workshop 
filled with presentations and interactive discussion toward 
concrete goals that support BW teachers and scholars across 
the country. In 2012, we will meet in St. Louis in response to the 
CCCC 2012 theme “Writing Gateways.”  

2011 
St. Louis, Missouri, March 21‐24, 2012.  

Cover Images 
“We Are Your Neighbors,” by Phil Roeder,  2/11/2011, East Fork, Des Moines, 
IA. “ Photos from the We Are One Rally in solidarity with labor protests in 
Wisconsin and in support of public employees in Iowa. It was held on the steps 
of the Iowa State Capitol on February 22, 2011 and, depending on who you 
choose to believe, attended by 800 people (local newspaper) or 3,000 people   Council on Basic Writing (CBW) 
(Iowa State Patrol).”  Creative Commons (CC), Some Rights Reserved 
(attribution) 
 
“Photo from Egypt: Egypt Supports Wisconsin Workers” (2/19/2011). Twitpics. 
We Are Not Alone 
 
by Zack Farley  Strategic Coalition Building Across  
Council on Basic Writing (CBW)  (Contested) Spaces Serving Basic Writers 
Blog: http://cbwblog.wordpress.com/ 
Facebook: CBW  CBW Co‐Chairs:  
Wednesday, April 6, 2011 
Shannon Carter, Texas A&M‐Commerce  Atlanta, Georgia 
Hannah Ashley, West Chester University 
 
 
 
Coffee Breaks  
Schedule  @ 9:30 and 2:30  Overview 
9:00—Featured Presentations  Access to higher education has rarely been more important or more
Setting the Stage: History and Future of Basic Writing  contested. In fact, colleges and universities across the nation find
Mary Soliday, San Francisco State University  themselves no less vulnerable in this fight for dwindling resources than
Rebecca Mlynarczyk, Kingsborough Community College, CUNY  the struggling masses knocking at their doors. In many cases, BW
 
9:45—Panelists and Discussion  programs are the first to go (Soliday 2002, 2004: Greene &
Strategic Collaboration Across Disciplinary and Institutional Cultures: Coalition  McAlexander 2008; Otte & Mlynarczyk 2010; Bernstein 2011). Long
Building, Strategic Instruction, and Grantsmanship, Melissa Ianetta and Joseph  committed to serving writers otherwise denied admittance, such
Turner, University of Delaware  programs draw their very existence from increasingly contested spaces.
 
Building Campus Coalitions: A Case Study, Rachel Rigolino and Penny Freel,  We are not alone. In fact BW's very survival may depend on an ability to
SUNY New Paltz  recognize and build strategic coalitions across the same programs and
  services with which a great many of us now compete. These services
Basic Writing and Community Colleges: Another Open Admissions Context,  often identify with core objectives shared by BW programs, including:
Wendy Olson, Washington State University  serving the literacy needs of first-generation, minority and other
 
11:00—Workshop  underrepresented students and making campus environments more
 
Stating Our Mission  welcoming and supportive to those students; offering individual and
small-group support designed to improve retention and graduation rates;
Steve Lamos, University of Colorado‐Boulder 
offering instruction that both recognizes students' existing strengths and
1:00—Panelists and Discussion  promotes intellectual and literate growth, helping students to meet
Building Coalitions with Student Support Services, Lizbeth A. Bryant and 
Miranda Morley, Purdue University‐Calumet  linguistic "standards" while cultivating linguistic and literate diversity.
  This workshop will explore "all our relations." When establishing
Basic Writing among the Natives, or How to Change Survive a Program from the 
responses to what appears to be the systematic dismantling of basic
Inside, Michael D. Hill, Henry Ford CC 
  writing programs across the nation, how can we build strategic coalitions
Empowering Basic Writing Faculty through Strategic Relationship Building,  with those we already think of as "our relations" and, perhaps, those we
Jessica Schreyer, University of Dubuque  might currently think of as "beautiful enemies"? 
2:00—Featured Presentation 
 
The Local Matters: Defining “Basic” in Local Contexts  CBW 2011 is a working conference. Expert panelists will prompt
participant conversation toward concrete recommendations for the future
Kelly Ritter, University of North Carolina‐Greensboro 
of the Council on Basic Writing, specifically in response to BW's
3:00‐4:30—Roundtable Discussions  increasing vulnerability. Featured Speakers and Panelists will alternate
with interactive roundtable discussions designed to move the Council on
Toward Recommendations for CBW 
Basic Writing toward greater focus on serving its current constituents as
4:30‐5:00—Group Discussion  well as broadening those constituencies and helping those constituents
cross institutional, communal and theoretical boundaries. As we’ve
Recommendations for CBW  learned in so many recent events across the globe, we are not alone.