{"title":"Access and Exclusion: Chinese Undergraduates and Basic Writing in the Global University","authors":"Tom McNamara","doi":"10.37514/jbw-j.2023.42.1.05","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.37514/jbw-j.2023.42.1.05","url":null,"abstract":": This article draws on a qualitative study of Chinese international undergraduates at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Throughout, I argue that these students’ FYW experiences compel BW instructors and WPAs to reevaluate pedagogies long thought to empower underrepresented students, ones rooted in our encounters since Open Admissions with working-class students, multilingual writers, and students of color. For my participants, these pedagogies narrowed their educational goals, casting them to the margins of a campus where they had been given unprecedented access (and where access had contracted for domestic students of color). Their stories reveal a university transformed by profit-driven internation-alization, one that requires new approaches to writing assessment, assignment design, and programmatic activism in order to secure access for historically underrepresented domestic students and international students.","PeriodicalId":473608,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Basic Writing","volume":"283 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135801645","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Editors' Column: Open Admissions at 50: The JBW Special Issue on Democracy and Basic Writing","authors":"Jack Morales, Lynn Reid","doi":"10.37514/jbw-j.2023.42.1.01","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.37514/jbw-j.2023.42.1.01","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":473608,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Basic Writing","volume":"10 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135801642","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Open Admissions, Resilience, and Basic Writing Ecologies: A New Cultural Narrative","authors":"Joyce Olewsky Inman","doi":"10.37514/jbw-j.2023.42.1.03","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.37514/jbw-j.2023.42.1.03","url":null,"abstract":".","PeriodicalId":473608,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Basic Writing","volume":"9 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135801646","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Valuing an Embodied Epistemology to Counter Neoliberal Programmatic Reform at the Two-Year College","authors":"Alison Cardinal, Kirsten Higgins, Anthony Warnke","doi":"10.37514/jbw-j.2023.42.1.04","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.37514/jbw-j.2023.42.1.04","url":null,"abstract":",","PeriodicalId":473608,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Basic Writing","volume":"67 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135801643","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"\"Admission to One. . . Admission to All\": The (End of the) Radical Dream of Open Admissions in the Post- Desegregation South","authors":"Annie S. Mendenhall","doi":"10.37514/jbw-j.2023.42.1.02","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.37514/jbw-j.2023.42.1.02","url":null,"abstract":": This essay describes Open Admissions in the South during postsecondary deseg-regation, providing a comparative analysis of policies and debates in Tennessee, Louisiana, and Georgia. Statewide Open Admissions policies emerged in the 1960s as part of superficial efforts to comply with desegregation but were ineffective; consequently, they were overturned in court in favor of increased remediation and selective admissions in four-year colleges and universities. Desegregation litigation consistently presented literacy remediation as key to desegregation, undermining civil rights activists’ arguments for transformative Open Admis-sions programs that proposed nonselective admissions coupled with the transformation of historically white universities’ programs and policies. Desegregation enforcement may have delegitimized radical Open Admissions by presenting remediation, particularly Basic Writing, as key to accessing higher education for students of color—a persistent rhetoric in Basic Writing scholarship that must be reexamined in light of this history.","PeriodicalId":473608,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Basic Writing","volume":"57 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135801644","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}