About our SIG this year

[Geoff Clegg]

Hello WP Writing SIGateers,

As you may know, the CCCC's decided to uninvite panels due to a glut of participants but very limited room. Sadly, our SIG was one of those that were cut from the conference.

Fear not! We will still host an online event via Zoom to connect with each other and plan for ABC 2021! 

What I need from everyone is the best possible dates and times we can meet to accomplish this. It does not have to be the week of C's, but we do need to meet before the ABC submission deadline. If you could please send me a list of possible times, I will go through them and offer some choices to the group.

Best,

Geoff

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Geoffrey Clegg, PhD | Assistant Professor of English

English Department
Midwestern State University 

Wichita Falls, TX 76308

geoffre...@mwsu.edu

geoffre...@gmail.com

[Rentz, Kathryn (rentzkc)]

I can meet pretty much any day/time except late Wednesday and Thursday afternoons.

 

Kathy R

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[Geoff Clegg]

Hi everybody,

I know that it has been a couple days since I sent this out. I had to make sure that the CCCC's listed our event on their webpage and that I could set up a Google Form so that I could attract others. We are now listed: https://cccc.ncte.org/cccc/2021-cccc-standing-group-and-sig-business-meeting-information/?fbclid=IwAR0SfDyobG7cul_07-M4bN95oa2aWh3w3t3zPtVLm8jAn2kUJNvzBwBrLZU

I am shooting for Wednesday, April 8 to set up the Zoom. I can adjust the time/date but will see how many outside responses I get through the Form. 

[Geoff Clegg]

Update:

Matt Barker made sure to remind me that we have the SIG workshop on Wednesday. So, I will actually be moving the date of our meeting to Thursday so we don't interfere with the workshop. I do apologize for this, but I'm juggling about fifty things atm. 

So, Thursday, April 8th at 4PM is our date for the Zoom. We will record this and make it available if you cannot make it.

On Fri, Mar 5, 2021 at 8:26 AM Rentz, Kathryn (rentzkc) <ren...@ucmail.uc.edu> wrote:

[kathry...@uc.edu]

Hello, everyone, and thanks for setting up our meeting, Geoff! An issue we need to sort out during our SIG meeting (perhaps with posts to this forum beforehand) is how to create an official presence for ourselves in ABC. Right now, the team behind this CCCC Workshop Writing SIG is a subset of ABC's Marketing and Membership Committee. But if we want ABC to continue to be the steward for our efforts to connect to CCCC, we need to be either a SIG or committee within ABC so that we have better stability and visibility. I'd like to propose that we consider asking ABC's first VP,  who's in charge of authorizing the creation of ABC SIGs/committees, to authorize the creation of a "4Cs Liaison SIG," one of whose main jobs would be to sponsor the CCCC Workplace Writing SIG (but the liaisons could take other forms, too, such as getting SIG-sponsored panels/presentations on the CCCC program, in much the same way that ABC's MLA Liaison Committee does this). But certainly we could consider other options for how to become "official" in ABC.

FYI, here's the text from ABC's Operational Guidelines that explains the requirements for ABC SIGs:

The Association’s members pursue a variety of professional objectives through voluntary Special Interest Groups. Each SIG is responsible for selecting an appropriate designation for itself and for developing its own agenda. An interest group is required to submit a yearly report on activities and a plan for the upcoming year. No evaluation of members is necessary. This report should be submitted electronically to the Executive Director and the First Vice President witin 30 days after the annual conference concludes. A Special Interest Group must secure prior approval from the Board of Directors to represent the Association to external groups or persons. A Special Interest Group may be initiated in either of two ways: (a) the First Vice President may designate a member as coordinator of an interest group and ask her or him to convene a group, or (b) ten or more members may elect a coordinator and apply to the First Vice President for recognition. Once a group has been formed, it is responsible for electing its own chair. An interest group will retain official recognition so long as (a) the group meets during the annual conference and (b) at least 10 members (identified by name) indicate that they wish to be affiliated with the group.   

Kathy