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A Directory of Rhetoric and Writing Research Centers, 1962-1966

PDF: All Research Centers 1966-2010 View Research Centers 1980-1999 on the Web | View Research Centers 2000-2010 on the Web

The following center directory assembles information collected from center articles, reports, newsletters, and websites, as well as from interviews with various center personnel. The list has been verified as of 2010; however, it is not comprehensive. Please contact CCCC to add to this list, share center strategies, and develop connections that will perpetuate the associative work of research centers in rhetoric and writing.  You can also engage in conversations about this work in the CCCC Connected Community.

 

The Nebraska Curriculum Development Center  |  1962

Location:  University of Nebraska 

Served as Directors:  Paul A. Olson, Frank Rice

Affiliated Names:  Dudley Bailey, Mary Mielenz, Millicent Savery, Eldonna Evertts, Ned Hedges, Leslie Whipp, Sam Sebesta, Nell C. Thompson, Milton Ploghoff, Barbara Grothe, Douglas Sjorgen, Kenneth Orton, Donald Nemanich, Elizabeth Carpenter, Margaret E. Ashida

Consultants:  Edward P.J. Corbett, Kenneth Pike, George Hillocks, Jr., Donald King, Priscilla Tyler, Ella DeMers, Donald Rasmussen, Daniel Bernd, P. Albert Duhamel, Frances Christensen, Andrew Schiller, Albert Marckwardt, Orrington Ramsay, Falk Johnson, Mauree Applegate, Martin Parry, Barbara Gordon, Sue Brett, Fred Brengelmann, G. Thomas Fairclough

Northwestern Curriculum Study Center in English  |  1962

Location:  Northwestern University

Administrators:  Wallace W. Douglas, Jean H. Hagstrum, Stephen Dunning, Eldrige McSwain

Research Associates:  Carl A. Barth, Michael Flanigan, Gearld Gaughan, Rita Hansen, Stephen N. Judy, Daniel Murtaugh, Osanna Nesper, Mitchell Schrow

Teacher Associates:  Sister Ann Carol, O.P., Katherine Andrews, Odile Beasdale, Kathy Kilday Daniels, Ann C. Davis, John Dowell, Elinore Jordan, Thelma Miller, Doris Muir, Richard Pace, Josephine Roane, Marjorie Skoglund, Carroll Stein, Elinor Turbov, Helen S. Wolf

Editorial and Secretarial Associates:  Judith Beavins, Edna Polakoff, Dorothy Poletsek, Margaret E. Potts

Production Typists:  Eileen Baumann, Ann McLaren, Marilyn Moats, Linda Darnell, Carolyn Dessent, Deborah deSchweinitz, Carol Helmstetter, Sherry Narens, Helen Perce, Leslie Phillips, Mary Shanley, Flora Strohm

Consultants:  James Barry, Robert Francis, Wilbur Gilman, Donal J. Henahan, Gerald Kusler, Oliver McKracken, Jr., Jay Robinson, Marcia Masters Schmidt, Karl Wallace

 

The Curriculum Study Center at Carnegie Institute of Technology  |  1962

Location:  Carnegie Institute of Technology

Served as Directors:  Erwin R. Steinberg, Robert C. Slack

Affiliated Names:  Beekman W. Cottrell, Lois S. Josephs

Teacher Associates:  Maxine N. Brandenburg, Patricia P. Sellars, Marjorie W. Weinhold, Lillian Ryave, Philiane Katz, Richard S. Wells

 

The Minnesota Project English Curriculum Development Center  |  1962

Location:  University of Minnesota

Served as Directors:  Stanley B. Kegler, Harold B. Allen, Donald K. Smith

Affiliated Names:  Lee Pederson, Donn Parsons, Thomas E. Melchior, Rodger L. Kemp, George M. Robb, Gene l. Piche, John T. Caddy, Thomas D. Bacig, JoAnne M. Sheldon

 

The Hunter College Curriculum Development Center in English  |  1962

Location:  Hunter College of the City University of New York

Served as Directors:  Marjorie B. Smiley, Maria Finocchiaro, Paul King

Affiliated Staff:  Robert F. Beauchamp, Frank E. Brown, Margaret L. Clark, Richard Corbin, Florence B. Freedman, Evelyn Gott, Carolyn D. Jones, John J. Marcatante, John G. McMeekin, Sandra E. Motz, Domenica Paterno, Charles G. Spiegler, Jacqueline Tilles, Gordon Fifer, Robert E. Shafer, Nancy Van Dyke, Marguerite M. Wilke, E. Alice Beard, Geraldine Clark, Doris K. Coburn, Max Francke, Robert R. Potter, Edith Stull  

 

The Oregon Curriculum Study Center  |  1962

Location:  University of Oregon

Served as Directors:  Albert R. Kitzhaber

Affiliated Names:  Annabel Kitzhaber, Glen Love, Clarence Sloat, Lucile Aly, Ellen Kolba, Jacqueline Snyder, Sheila Juba, Arthur Lorentzen, Grant Mortenson, June Robb, Oliver Willard, James Barchek, James Britain, Peggy Covey, Barbara Drake, Jean Hundley, Janice LaFollette, Lois McKenna, Michael Payne, Harriet Wilson, Arthur Mittman, Frederick G. Burton

School Administrators:  Millard Z. Pond, Lloyd F. Millhollen, Erwin Juilfs, Walter A. Commons, George M. Zellick, Tom Powers, Glen M. Hankins, Tom Woods, George Russell, Russell Esvelt, Kent Myers, Marion Winslow, Forbes Bottomley, Lyle Stewart, Helen Olson, Robert Mahan

Publishing Consultants:  Howard Battles, Walter Bemak, Paula Hartz, Margaret Landis

 

The Euclid English Demonstration Center  |  1963

Location:  Western Reserve University

Served as Directors:  George Hillocks, Jr., John C. Ingersoll, Joseph H. Friend, James F. McCampbell

Affiliated Names:  Susan Bailey, Michael C. Flanigan, Jack L. Granfield, Betty Lou Miller, Lynn Reppa, Janice Rack, Caroline Baird, Barbara Brode, Jack L. Granfield, Tina Tinkman, Paula Winski

 

The Wisconsin English-Language-Arts Curriculum Project  |  1963

Location:  University of Wisconsin at Madison

Served as Directors:  Robert C. Pooley, Leonard V. Kosinski

Literature Program Affiliated Names

At-Large:  Mary Elizabeth Smith

Elementary:  Harriet Angelich, Ann Dubbe, Violet Littlefield, Myrtle Nyberg, Margaret Moss, Sister John Mary, Ella Stedman, Clarence Sylla, Esther Utoft, Alice Wittkopf, Bernice Wirth, Marian Zaborek

Secondary:  Frederic B. Baxter, Mary Beranek, Edythe Daniel, George Kanselberger, John Karis, Robert Pickering, Irna Rideout, Lela B. Stephens, Joyce Steward, Hazel Thomas, Gladys Veidmanis, Edna Weed, Margaret E. Zielsdorf

Speaking and Writing Program Affiliated Names

At-Large:  Nicholas J. Karolides, Walter Engler, Ruth E. Falk

Elementary:  Iris D. Brown, Martha Kellogg, Grace Feller, Helen E. Hansen, Ruth B. Ostrander, Jean Russert, Gertrude Urquhart, Thelma Vanasse, Peg Wells 

Secondary:  Robert P. Ademino, Roy V. Boyer, Lillie Carlson, Judith Davies, Geraldine Droegkamp, Elda Reddeman, Lond Rodman, Sister Mary Hester, Marylou Patterson

Language and Grammar Program Affiliated Names

At-Large:  Verna Newsome, Chester Pingry, Susan Wood, Alison H. Dawson, Kirkland C. Jones

Planning Committee: Clarence A. Brown, Jarvis E. Bush, Lura B. Carrithers, Edythe Daniel, Sister M. Francele, Nicholas Karolides, Corrine Forster  

Curriculum Committee—Elementary Level:  Margaret Johnson, Janice Lehnherr, Constance Nerlinger, Sister M. Jean Raymond

Curriculum Committee—Secondary Level:  Beatrice Antholz, Marie Cahill, Margaret Hanson, Ben Hawkinson, Al Jacobson, Forrest Johnson, Jane Reed, Fern Stefonik, Tom Swenson, Emily Timmons, Lois Wagner

 

Curriculum Center in English at Florida State University  |  1963

Location:  Florida State University

Served as Directors:  Dwight L. Burton

Affiliated Names:  John S. Simmons, Lois V. Arnold

 

The English Curriculum Study Center at the University of Georgia  |  1963

Location:  University of Georgia

Served as Directors:  J. W. Richard Lindemann, Rachel Sutton, Mary J. Tingle

Coordinating Staff:  Sue Cromartie, Emeliza Swain, William J. Free, Jane Appleby, Wilfrid C. Bailey, Raymond Payne, John M. Smith, Jr.,  G. Findley

Graduate Research Assistants:  Alice Christmas, Carmie T. Cochrane, Marya DuBose, Cornelia C. Eldridge, June Ewing, Joanne Fudge, Jessie Post Gough, Emily B. Gregory, Ethel Harris, Emmaline Hendricksen, Rose Nell Horne, Virginia Howard, Nellie Maze, James Monday, Rhoda Newman, Pamela Roffman, Nan Tomlinson, Audrey Walker, Lavinia Wood

Consultants:  Dorothea McCarthy, Walter Loban, Margaret Early, Ruth Strickland, Alvina Burrows, Helda Grobman, Kellogg Hunt, Ralph Tyler, J. N. Hook      

 

TESL Materials Development Project  |  1963

Location:  Teachers College, Columbia University

Served as Directors:  Gerald Dykstra, Charlotte Kuenstler

 

The Syracuse University-Jamesville-DeWitt Demonstration Center  |  1963

Location:  Syracuse University

Served as Directors:  Margaret J. Early, William D. Sheldon

Associate Researchers:  Harold L. Herber, Joan Nelson, Donald R. Lashinger, Donald L. Meyer, Margaret Brown

Assistants:  Mary Duncan, Betty Sterzer, Eleanor Weir   

Affiliated Teachers:  Genevieve Andrek, Cleona Bassett, Barbara Becker, Janice Bedell, Anne Croucher, Mary Curran, Marie Elwood, Elizabeth Fancher, Betty Foppes, Marilyn Geraty, Frances Kemp, Janice Lathi, Martha Leon, Diana Mautino, Mary Jane McCarthy, Olga McGee, Honey Molis, Alice Moth, Bettie Raugh, Ann Reagan, Marilyn Schonfeld  

Affiliated Principals:  Frank Araniti, Theodore Calver, Pauline Clair, Wilhelmina Clarke, Mary Farley, James Kendrick, Veronica Lynch, Fred Maziarz, Andre Pinkes, Elsie Platto, Evelyn Schramm, Helen Sheridan, Charles Sutton, Dorothy Ward, Joseph Zappala, Doug Zoller

Affiliated Superintendents:  LaVerne H. Boss, Lee Rising, William Klubko, Harold J. Rankin, Franklyn S. Barry, Gerald A. Cleveland, Margaret A. Perry, David Sine

Publishing Consultants:  Clarence L. Barnhart, Richard Drdek, Carolyn Mullin, William Carney

 

 

The Indiana University English Curriculum Study Center  |  1963

Location:  Indiana University

Served as Directors:  Edward Jenkinson

Affiliated Names:  James S. Ackerman, Jane Stouder Hawley, Marshall L. Brown, Phillip B. Daghlin, Elmer G. White, Donald A. Seybold

 

 “English in Every Classroom” Program  |  1963

Location:  Univeristy of Michigan

Served as Directors:  Daniel Fader

Affiliated Names:  Elton B. McNeil, Evelyn E. George, Laborah Bolden, Brittania Capers, Anna Hill 

 

The New York University Linguistics Demonstration Center  |  1963

Location:  New York Univeristy

Served as Directors:  Neil M. Postman

 

Illinois State-Wide Curriculum Study Center in the

Preparation of Secondary School English Teachers  |  1964

Location:  University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Served as Directors:  J. N. Hook, William H. Evans, Paul H. Jacobs, Raymond D. Crisp

Affiliated Names:  Janet Emig, James F. McCampbell, Justus R. Pearson, John S. Gerrietts, Margaret M. Neville, A. L. Davis, Michael G. Crowell, Carl Eisemann, Thomas L. Fernandez, Ellen A. Frogner, Joan Harris, John M. Heissler, Stephen Judy, Alfred J. Lindsey, Thomas Filson, George K. McGuire, Alan L. Madsen, William O. Makely, Sister Mary Constantine, Alfred L. Papillon, James R. Reese, Donald R. Pennington, Erling W. Peterson, Lottie Phillips, June Snider, Donald A. Fuller, Ethel W. Tapper, Joseph Wolff, Frances L. McCurdy, Allen Bales, William J. Friederich, Elizabth Worrell, Clarence W. Hach, Vernell G. Doyle, Dorothy Matthews, Roy L. Crews, W. F. Elwood, William L. Gillis, I. D. Baker, Henry Knepler, Victor E. Gimmestad, Clifford Pfeltz, James Barry, Grace Boswell, Ben T. Shawver, Richard M. Eastman, Sidney Berquist, Wallace Douglas, Fordyce Bennett, Vernon T. Groves, William D. Baker, Ronald Podeschi, William Leppert, Sister Mary Mark, Roy Weshinskey, Sherman Rush   

 

The Gallaudet College English Curriculum Development Center  |  1964

Location:  Gallaudet College

Served as Directors:  Harry Bornstein

Affiliated Names:  William C. Stokoe, Jr., Virginia C. Covington, J. Phillip Goldberg, Mary S. LaRue, Anne Womeldorf

 

The Northern Illinois University Curriculum Center  |  1964

Location:  Northern Illinois University

Served as Directors:  Andrew MacLeish, William Seat

Teacher Associates:  Ralph Blackman, David Bloomstrand, William Cantrall, Sister Mary Celsa, Frank Church, Mary Endres, Sister John Eudes, Margaret Miller, Marion Olson, Sister Mary Placide, Lotitia Saunders, Evelyn D. Smith, Richard Tryba, Elmer Waldschmidt, William Wilson

 

The OEO-SEAW Basic Adult Education Program  |  1964

Location:  Tuskegee Institute

Served as Directors:  G. T. Dowdy

Affiliated Names:  Theodore James Pinnock, A. P. Torrence, G. W. Taylor, Herman Franklin, Janie Piland

 

The English Curriculum Study Center at Ohio State University  |  1965

Location:  The Ohio State University

Served as Directors:  Donald R. Bateman, Frank J. Zidonis

Consultants:  Jane Stewart, Charles J. Fillmore

Research Associates:  William E. Craig, Thomas G. Shroyer, Bruce Gansneder, Elizabeth Stockover

Teacher Associates:  Sister Barbara Geary, Sister Mary Harrigan, Carol Ellen Hazard, Sister Ann Mary Jurka, Sister Mary Seraphine Kuntz, Sister Helen Marks, Sister Mary Norbert McLaughlin, Patrick J. Mooney, Sister Mildred Uhl, Virginia Van Camp, Sister Barbara Wallace

Secretary:  Ferne Caekey

 

Purdue Center  |  1965

Location:  Purdue University

Served as Directors:  Arnold Lazarus

Affiliated Names:  Thomas Pietras, Adrian Van Mondfrans

 

TESL to Elementary School Pupils  |  1965

Location:  University of California at Los Angeles

Served as Directors:  Helen Heffernan, Clifford H. Prator, Afton Dill Nance

Affiliated Names:  Robert Wilson, Evelyn Bauer, Eddie Hanson, Jr., Donald Meyer, Lois Michael  

 

The English Teacher Preparation Study |  1966

Location:  Western Michigan University

Served as Directors:  William P. Viall

Affiliated Names:  Eldonna L. Evertts, Michael F. Shugrue

CCCC Resolutions

Call for Resolutions

The Chair of the 2024 CCCC Resolutions Committee, urges all CCCC members who care deeply about key issues, external and internal, that bear on the teaching of writing and communications to compose resolutions that can facilitate our collective efforts. Proposed resolutions will be considered for presentation at the Annual Business Meeting in Spokane, WA. To obtain copies of resolutions passed at recent CCCC conventions, please see the links below or contact the CCCC Liaison at cccc@ncte.orgThe signatures of at least five CCCC members are required for each proposed resolution. Proposed resolutions, with these signatures, should be emailed the CCCC Resolutions Committee cccc@ncte.orgResolutions must be received on or before March 20, 2024.

Do you have questions about the handling of resolutions at the CCCC Annual Business Meeting?  Click here for the “Basic Rules” (also see these rules for information on sense of the house motions).

2024 Resolutions

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For resolutions prior to 2000, please email cccc@ncte.org.

History of Labor in Writing Postsecondary Writing

The working conditions of writing teachers first gained disciplinary attention at the 1986 Wyoming Conference on English, during which the initial draft of what has since been called “the Wyoming Resolution.” This document called for improvements in the minimum standards for working conditions of writing teachers, asserting the needs

  1. To formulate, after appropriate consultations with post-secondary teachers of writing, professional standards and expectations for salary levels and working conditions of post-secondary teachers of writing.
  2. To establish a procedure for hearing grievances brought by post-secondary teachers of writing–either singly or collectively– against apparent institutional non-compliance with these standards and expectations.
  3. To establish a procedure for acting upon a finding of non-compliance; specifically, to issue a letter of censure to an individual institution’s administration, Board of Regents or Trustees, State legislators (where pertinent), and to publicize the finding to the public-at-large, the educational community in general, and to our membership.

Though only some component parts of the resolution ultimately made it into the more expansive document, CCCC’s “Statement of Principles and Standards for the Postsecondary Teaching of Writing” that document is considered to be a foundational one in setting the expectations for reasonable conditions for the teaching of college writing, particularly in the face of the increasing institutionalization of “Composition I and II” as a standard for college curricula nationally. Subsequently revised in 2013 and 2015, what is now called the “Principles for the Postsecondary Teaching of Writing” is the position statement addressing working conditions, along with “Best Practices in Faculty Hiring for Tenure-Track and Non-Tenure-Track Positions in Rhetoric and Composition/Writing Studies” and “Working Conditions for Non-Tenure-Track Writing Faculty,” and “Preparing Teachers of College Writing.”

The history of the Wyoming Resolution and its direct attention to labor conditions within writing studies is addressed in James McDonald and Eileen Schell’s “The Spirit and Influence of the Wyoming Resolution: Looking Back to Look Forward” in the March 2011 issue of College English focused specifically on contingency in English, an effective review of the complex tensions and negotiations that emerged over taking an organizational stance on working conditions in the teaching of college writing. Multiple book length studies address the theoretical, practical, ideological, disciplinary, and material considerations that shape the environments within which and the resources we draw from to teach college writing.

Besides the formal stances taken in position statements, the organization has committed resources and efforts to address questions and conflicts about labor in writing studies, including the publication of Forum: Issues about Part-Time and Contingent Faculty: “a peer-reviewed publication concerning working conditions, professional life, activism, and perspectives of non-tenure-track faculty in college composition and communication. The organization also sponsors grassroots efforts such as the Standing Group, the “Labor Caucus,” whose collaborative efforts with the CCCC Committee on Part-Time, Adjunct, or Contingent Labor led to resolutions passed at the Houston convention endorsing scholarly and organizational attention to labor issues within the field.

Most recently, multiple national organizations governing the work of postsecondary English (and postsecondary teaching more broadly) have tackled research, policy advising, and media-relations approaches to trying to address the increasing casualization of academic labor. These include the American Association of University Professors, the Modern Language Association, the Committee on the Academic Workforce, among others. Positions that offer stability continue to decline in their availability, as a November 2017 news story reported, noting that “The association’s Job Information List — a proxy for the tenure-track (or otherwise full-time) job market in English and foreign languages — included 851 jobs last year in English, 11 percent (102 jobs) fewer than the year before.” As institutional commitments to investing in stable, tenure-line positions decreases, so too does the exigency for identifying core components of positions for writing teachers that will allow the field and teachers and students within it to flourish.

Research

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A Directory of Rhetoric and Writing Research Centers

This list of Research Centers Published in the December 2010 CCCC by Grogan et. Al. The complete directory can be downloaded in PDF or viewed on the web in three parts: 1962-1966; 1980-1999; 2000-2010

Please note that the directory does not contain any research centers between 1967-1980.

 

CCCC Research Committee (2011)

 


FORUM Call for Articles: Academic Freedom & Non-Tenure-Track Positions

The editor of FORUM is seeking short articles (1,800-4,000 words) considering the impact that contingency has on academic freedom.

Essays should acknowledge the current disciplinary conversation and may address the call in a variety of ways, including but not limited to contingency’s effects on

  • pedagogical or curricular choices
  • research focus and opportunities
  • engagement with departmental or university committees or service
  • collegiality
  • public engagement

Please submit manuscripts for consideration electronically to editor Amy Lynch-Biniek at lynchbin@kutztown.edu.

Write “FORUM: Academic Freedom” in your subject line.

Submissions should include the following information:

  • your name
  • your title(s)
  • your institution(s)
  • home address and phone number; institutional address(es), and phone number(s)
  • if applicable, venue(s) where submission was presented on previously (previously published submissions will not be considered)

Note: submissions will not be returned.

Deadline for submissions is August 15, 2017.

Learn more at /cccc/forum/write

Assistant Chair (4-year term to serve through the CCCC Chairs’ Rotation)

Responsibilities

When you agree to accept the nomination for Assistant Chair, you are making a serious four-year commitment as an Officer of CCCC. You may wish to consider the following issues before deciding on your candidacy:

1. Travel and Time Commitments

You must attend a one-time orientation and three annual meetings for four consecutive years. In addition, the CCCC Officers meet virtually either monthly or every two months, depending the time of year.

  • Attend an online orientation following election and prior to/at the start of the four-year term.
  • CCCC Convention, including one Officers’ Meetings (Tuesday afternoon), one Executive Committee meeting (all day Wednesday), Reception for new Executive Committee Members (Wednesday evening), Opening General Session (Thursday morning), Scholars for the Dream Reception (Thursday evening), Award Presentation (Friday evening), and Annual Business Meeting (Friday evening).
  • CCCC Officers’ Meeting in January (Arrive Friday afternoon, meet all day Saturday and a half day Sunday, return home on Sunday afternoon/evening).
  • NCTE Convention in November, CCCC Officers’ Meeting (Saturday afternoon), Executive Committee Retreat (Sunday afternoon), and Executive Committee Meeting (Monday)

You must attend or participate virtually in the following additional meetings:

  • As Assistant/Associate Chair, you will be planning the CCCC Convention.
    • Virtual participation in June or July after election for Stage II of review process (two to three days).
    • Spring/Summer after election Convention site visit.
  • As Assistant Chair, you will attend the following at the NCTE Convention in preparation for your service on the NCTE Executive Committee:
    • NCTE Executive Committee orientation on Wednesday before the start of the Convention; and
    • NCTE Executive Committee meeting on Thursday during the Convention, as a non-voting member.
  • As Associate Chair and Chair, you will represent CCCC on the NCTE Executive Committee.

The NCTE Executive Committee meets four times annually:

  1. November NCTE Convention (Wednesday pre-Convention and Thursday)
  2. Executive Committee and Convention Planning Meeting held virtually (2.5 days with EC and 1.5 days for Convention Planning)
  3. May online budget approval meeting
  4. July/August in person (Thursday evening thru Sunday noon)
  • As Chair, you will represent CCCC on the NCTE College Forum Committee. The NCTE College Forum Committee meets during the summer NCTE EC Meeting.
  • As Immediate Past Chair: Serve on the CCCC Nominating Committee.

2. Institutional Support and Commitments

Financial

In the past, Chairs have typically garnered support from their institutions for a 50% graduate assistant and/or professional clerical staff to help during the year of convention planning. This financial commitment is not a determining factor in selecting Chairs candidates, but it is nonetheless an important consideration to  take into account.

Release Time

Most chairs have negotiated time/course release with their institutions for the year of convention planning. We recommend holding preliminary conversations with your department chair and dean about possible release time and financial support.

 

Candidates agree not to campaign during the election process.

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CCCC Representative to the NCTE College Forum Committee

Responsibilities

This position entails a four- year commitment.

  • The CCCC Representative to the NCTE College Forum Committee serves a four-year term.
  • In the fourth year of the term, the Representative succeeds to the post of Chair of the NCTE College Forum Committee.
  • This standing committee facilitates collaboration among the college groups of NCTE. Committee members include the chairs and one representative from each college group.
  • The College Forum meets concurrently with NCTE Annual Convention and the CCCC Convention and, on occasion, holds a meeting during the summer. 
  • The CCCC Representative to the NCTE College Forum Committee is responsible for attending these meetings and working with the CCCC and NCTE Executive Committees to carry out the charges of the NCTE College Forum Committee.

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Major Intellectual Property Developments of 2006 for Scholars of Composition, Rhetoric, and Communication

The first of the enumerated goals in the Intellectual Property Committee of CCCC’s mission statement reads as follows: “keep the CCCC and NCTE memberships informed about intellectual property developments, through reports in the CCCC newsletter and in other NCTE and CCCC forums.”  To this end, the Intellectual Property Committee is, with this publication, delivering its second annual report on major developments in intellectual property law, policy, and research. The following four articles — written by volunteer scholars from the Intellectual Property Caucus (CCCC-IP) — will serve to inform and orient others in the field who increasingly find themselves engaged with intellectual property questions as they pursue their teaching and research. I am grateful for these contributions to our better understanding of these challenging and fluid concepts.

John Logie
Chair, Intellectual Property Committee
Associate Professor of Rhetoric
University of Minnesota

For a downloadable version of these pieces, please click here.

Virginia High School Students Rebel Against Mandatory Use of Turnitin.com

Wendy Warren Austin, Ph.D., Edinboro University of Pennsylvania

Remix as “Fair Use”: Grateful Dead Posters’ Re-publication Held to Be a Transformative, Fair Use

Martine Courant Rife, JD, Lansing Community College and WIDE Research Center, Michigan State University

Joyce Estate Retreats in Copyright Battle With Carol Loeb Shloss

Kim Dian Gainer, Ph.D., Radford University, Radford, VA

“Walled Gardens”: How Copyright Law Can Impede Educators’ Use of Digital Learning Materials

Clancy Ratliff, Assistant Professor of Rhetoric and Composition, Department of English, East Carolina University

Preconvention Workshops

Preconvention workshops at CCCC 2017 are an amazing and relatively inexpensive way to expand your learning experience in Portland. These workshops take place on Wednesday, March 15, and are only $20 for morning or afternoon workshops and $40 for all-day workshops.

Register NowTo register for a preconvention workshop, simply visit the online registration form or register onsite in Portland.  If you have already registered for CCCC 2017 and would like to add a workshop registration, simply select “I would like to add items without a registration” on the registration form.

Full workshop descriptions are available in the following PDF files:

 

Morning Workshops

  • MW.01 Expanding Research Voices in Online Writing Instruction
  • MW.02 Information Literacy and Intellectual Property
  • MW.03 Community Writing Mentoring Workshop
  • MW.04 Handcrafted Rhetorics
  • MW.05 The Prison Next Door
  • MW.06 Using Digital Creative Arts
  • MW.07 Cultivating Archival Connections
  • MW.08 Foundations in Programming
  • MW.09 Career Pathways . . . Rhet/Comp Graduates
  • MW.10 Engaging the Global
  • MW.11 Cultivating New TPC Instructors
  • MW.12 Assessing Multimodal Writing
  • MW.13 Story-driven Podcasting
  • MW.14 Cultivating Consensus among Teachers
  • MW.15 Cultivating Community: Exploring the Affordances and Limitations of Custom Publishing
  • MW.16 Cultivating Inclusion and Integration
  • MW.17 Publishing in an Independent Journal

Afternoon Workshops

  • AW.01 Cultivating Inclusive, Multilingual Pedagogies
  • AW.02 Beyond Common Ground . . . Digital Story Project
  • AW.03 LatinX Taking Action In and Out of the Academy
  • AW.04 Cultivating Change Through Counter-Public Writing Pedagogy
  • AW.05 Austerity, Labor Conditions, and Academic Freedom
  • AW.06 Cultivating and Sustaining Social Media Analytics
  • AW.07 Defining, Locating, and Addressing Bullying
  • AW.08 Access and Justice
  • AW.09 Rethinking Technical, Professional, and STEM . . . WAW
  • AW.10 Making [Institutional] Ethnography Our Own
  • AW.11 Challenging Participatory Norms
  • AW.12 Engaging Disability and Accessibility in Class Assignments
  • AW.13 Writing for the Mountains
  • AW.14 Retention, Persistence, and Writing Programs
  • AW.15 Writing, Making, Cultivating, and Doing: An Indigenous . . .
  • AW.16 Beyond Professional and Technical Writing
  • AW.17 Cultivating Interdisciplinary Relationships

All-Day Workshops

  • W.01 Feminist Workshop: Intersectionality within Writing Programs and Practices
  • W.02 Cultivating Research Capacity Through International Exchanges
  • W.03 Cultivating Our Creative Capacities
  • W.04 TYCA Presents Cultivating Our Capacity: Preparation and Professional
    Development for Teachers of English at Two-Year Colleges
  • W.05 Rhetorics and Realities
  • W.06 High Touch Tech
  • W.07 Implementing Long-Term Changes to BW Programs
  • W.08 Moving Labor Advocacy
  • W.09 Cultivating Sustainable Writing Assessments
  • W.10 Cultivating Capacities, Creating Change . . . Activists and Video Makers
  • W.11 Cultivating Vernacular Eloquence – Peter Elbow
  • W.12 Launching and Developing Sustainable WAC/WID Programs
  • W.13 Leadership in Action

 

Full workshop descriptions are available in the following PDF files:

 

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