This is indeed sad. And how could Inkshed have metamorphosed to
include other languages and dual language learning, bilingual language
learning and interlanguage learning at a time when our society most
needs intercommunication ...
Lois
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University of Toronto
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Reply-To: "casll-l: Canadian Association for the Study of Language and
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Subject: Re: Farewell to Inkshed
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> As a participant at the first Inkshed conference, a regular attendee
> for 13 years in a row, an Inkshed conference organizer (twice), an
> early Inkshed Newsletter editor, and a frequent newsletter
> contributor, this news makes me feel sad and nostalgic. The
> community was absolutely central to my development as a teacher and
> researcher. And, most importantly, as a human being; no other
> scholarly collective in my experience was so welcoming of me as a
> whole person.
>
> But I do reluctantly support the Board’s decision. I think Brock is
> right on in his analysis; all things must pass.
>
> Thanks to Brock, Clare, Kim, J. Barbara, and Dena for steering the
> ship to shore.
>
> Anthony
>
>
>
> From: "casll-l: Canadian Association for the Study of Language and
> Learning (Inkshed)"
> <[log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>>
> on behalf of Brock MacDonald
> <[log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>>
> Reply-To: "casll-l: Canadian Association for the Study of Language
> and Learning (Inkshed)"
> <[log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>>
> Date: Monday, April 10, 2017 at 7:57 AM
> To:
> "[log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>"
> <[log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>>
> Subject: Farewell to Inkshed
>
> Hi, all.
>
> (I’m sending this message to both the CASLL and CASDW lists, in the
> hope of reaching all former Inkshedders. Apologies for duplications!)
>
> The announcement Roger Graves recently sent out re the latest book
> from Inkshed Publications makes this a timely message . . .
>
> This is the second year in a row without an Inkshed conference.
> None of our efforts to reboot and reinvigorate the conference in the
> years 2012 through 2015, though sometimes moderately successful as
> one-off meetings, have generated the collective commitment needed to
> truly revive Inkshed and keep it going. Taking stock of this
> situation, the CASLL Board of Directors has decided that it’s
> finally time to face the music and accept that Inkshed and its
> parent association aren’t coming back. (Re the association, it
> effectively no longer exists: for several years now there have been
> no paid-up members apart from some of us on the Board and Margaret
> Procter, who manages the Inkshed/CASLL website.)
>
> No doubt there are a number of reasons for this situation: one is
> the growth of CWCA in recent years, based on its great success in
> bringing together the Canadian Writing Centre community; another is
> the way that CASDW has become a big tent association for Canadian
> writing studies and writing pedagogy in general since its
> metamorphosis from CATTW. Most pertinent of all may be the fact
> that a great many (almost all?) of Inkshed’s founding generation of
> members have retired in recent years: the core of the community that
> once sustained the conference and its parent association just isn’t
> there any more.
>
> I’m sure many of us will feel some sadness about this, remembering
> how significant Inkshed has been in our professional lives.
> However, although the Board has decided that it’s time to shut CASLL
> down, this isn’t an absolute ending. The Board proposes to
> transfer the remaining funds in the CASLL bank account, roughly
> $7000.00, to Inkshed Publications. Unlike the Inkshed conference,
> Inkshed publications is very much alive: besides the recently
> published Cross-Border Networks in Writing Studies, it has two more
> books coming out in the near future, following which it will still
> have sufficient funds to produce perhaps one more. The infusion of
> the funds from CASLL will make possible up to four more books over
> the next few years, following which new funding will be needed,
> perhaps from CASDW and CWCA. According to its Constitution, the
> purpose of CASLL is "to provide a forum and common context for
> discussion, collaboration, and reflective inquiry in discourse and
> pedagogy in the areas of writing, reading (including the reading of
> literature), rhetoric, and language.” We on the CASLL Board feel
> that devoting the association’s remaining funds to supporting
> Inkshed Publications, the one and only Canadian imprint devoted to
> work in our field, is the best way to ensure that CASLL’s
> dissolution is in keeping with its fundamental purpose.
>
> Regarding the association's online presence: it's currently (and
> rather awkwardly) in two cyber-places, the Inkshed newletter/blog
> site that Margaret maintains (http://www.inkshed.ca/blog/) and the
> older Inkshed site (http://inkshed.ca/), now essentially an archive
> of material from the association’s earlier years. Ideally all the
> association’s records should be brought together on one site, either
> under the aegis of CASDW or as part of an independent Inkshed
> Publications site (which would be effectively a repurposed version
> of the Inkshed newsletter site, where Inkshed Publications currently
> has its online presence). The key thing is that the association’s
> archive needs to be maintained by an active organization to ensure
> its long-term viability. This will be on the agenda for discussion
> at the CASDW AGM at Congress. As for the CASLL list serve, once the
> association has been dissolved it would be shut down.
>
> I should say something regarding the constitutional aspects of
> dissolving CASLL. The one explicit mention of dissolution
> procedures in the CASLL constitution is a clause that says "In case
> of dissolution of the association, the profits and liabilities of
> the association will be shared equally among all of the paid-up
> current voting members.” The Board’s plan to transfer the
> association’s remaining funds to Inskhed Publications is in effect
> an agreement among the paid-up current voting members to use their
> “shares” that way, rather than simply cashing out (!!).
>
> As for the decision to dissolve the association, while there is no
> specified procedure for this, the constitution does say that "The
> Board of Directors of the association shall have the responsibility
> of carrying out the management of the association. This
> responsibility should be carried out with the knowledge and
> cooperation of the membership.” In our view, in the absence of any
> specific clause re dissolution, it clearly comes under “management
> of the association.” As for "the knowledge and cooperation of the
> membership," as I’ve already mentioned, at present the membership is
> effectively non-existent, leaving the Board on its own. However,
> in keeping with the spirit of the constitution, the Board agreed
> that this notice should be sent out: we hope it will reach all
> former CASLL members and prompt some discussion, from which we
> further hope will emerge general agreement in support of the
> decision we’ve taken.
>
> If there is strong opposition to the Board's decision, those opposed
> would need to take a number of steps to give their opposition
> effect, starting with paying fees in order to become current CASLL
> members and thus be entitled to vote on the Board’s plan. If a
> sudden flood of membership payments materializes, obviously we’ll
> have to think again! However, we sincerely hope that this will not
> happen — that everyone will agree that it’s best to bid CASLL and
> Inkshed a fond farewell and let them rest in peace.
>
> Best wishes,
> Brock
>
> On behalf of the CASLL Board of Directors (membership as of 2016,
> when we met and made this decision): Clare Bermingham, Kim Garwood,
> J. Barbara Rose, and Dena Taylor
>
>
>
> W. Brock MacDonald
> Vice-Principal
> Director, Academic Writing Centre
> Woodsworth College, University of Toronto
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> Toronto, ON M5S-1A9
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