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The following resolutions were passed at the CCCC Annual Business Meeting held on Saturday, March 22, 2014, in Indianapolis.

Resolution 1

Whereas Adam Banks has worked as program chair to ensure all the voices in the profession are provided a platform to share their traditions and insights, especially helping us see the opportunities in the changing landscapes of technology, media, disabilities issues, LGBQT issues, rhetoric, and other venues;

Whereas he has organized our time together to foster dialogue not only among ourselves, but also with organizations and diverse individuals whose work and insights can inform our classroom and disciplinary practices, as well as our hearts and minds;

Whereas his scholarship in African American rhetoric and new media helps us see tradition and the future in new ways, and whereas his teaching inspires ways of envisioning tradition and theory to inspire a generation of young scholars; and

Whereas he has done all this work in a spirit of generosity, goodwill, collaboration, and swag;

BE IT THEREFORE RESOLVED that the 2014 Conference on College Composition and Communication express our deep appreciation to Adam Banks for his many contributions to us and to the profession.

Resolution 2

Whereas Tracy Donhardt and the Local Arrangements Committee have provided a remarkably comprehensive Hospitality Guide that informs convention attendees of entertainment, cultural, edible, and drinkable options in Indianapolis;

Whereas Tracy Donhardt and the Local Arrangements Committee members have made themselves readily available to attendees as resources for getting around the city and the convention;

Whereas Tracy Donhardt and the Local Arrangements Committee have included a section of the guide specifically to provide information on a variety of gender-friendly nightlife options;

Whereas Tracy Donhardt and the Local Arrangements Committee have followed in the long tradition of helping convention attendees have satisfying experiences with the convention and in this year’s location of Indianapolis; and

Whereas Tracy Donhardt and many members of the Local Arrangements Committee have made these contributions to support us at the convention in spite of the limited support generally afforded contingent faculty;

BE IT THEREFORE RESOLVED that the 2014 Conference on College Composition and Communication express our deep appreciation to Tracy Donhardt and the Local Arrangements Committee by applauding their energy and efforts.

The following resolutions were passed at the CCCC Annual Business Meeting held on Saturday, April 9, 2016, in Houston.

Resolution 1

Whereas, in the spirit of activism and public engagement emerging from her scholarship in assessment, basic writing, and writing program administration, Linda Adler-Kassner has reimagined the CCCC Annual Convention as a catalytic converter for public action and a celebration of our diversity, creating a rich forum for composition scholars/teachers not only to share their theories and practices through posters, workshops, and presentations, but also to practice public scholarship and advocacy in venues such as the Taking Action Workshops and the Pitch Practicing, Knowledge Shaping, and Writing for Change stations in the Action Hub, not to mention the whiteboards, suggestion postcards, and Closing Plenary Session that will synthesize all the Taking Action suggestions;

Whereas she has connected with convention presenters and attendees through social media to tell the emerging story of CCCC 2016 and energize presenters and attendees for this signature event, setting the bar even higher for future conference chairs;

Whereas we all spent time with Linda in her office as she delivered key information to us in her informational videos, spoke directly to each of us whenever there was a key deadline, process, or idea that needed to be translated or communicated, and encouraged us to ask questions;

Whereas we can see the tangible evidence of change in every convention space, and we have seen her everywhere; and

Whereas she has done all this work in a spirit of generosity, goodwill, and collaboration;

BE IT THEREFORE RESOLVED that the 2016 Conference on College Composition and Communication thank Linda Adler-Kassner for her many contributions to us and to the profession.

Resolution 2

Whereas in the spirit of inclusiveness and in response to Houston’s vote to abolish the Houston Equal Rights Ordinance, the Local Arrangements Committee moved to build and foment connections between our organization and members of the Houston LGBTQ community;  

Whereas the local committee designed and curated a web guide that facilitated convention attendees’ exploration of Houston’s identity through its businesses, neighborhoods, and other cultural centers; and

Whereas in the spirit of accessibility, the Local Arrangements Committee collaborated with the Committee on Disability Issues in College Composition to ensure that the 2016 CCCC was an accessible convention by providing an accessibility guide, producing a video on how to use the accessibility guide, as well as encouraging presenters to consider how they could make their presentations accessible and advocating that future CCCC conventions be accessible;  

BE IT THEREFORE RESOLVED that the 2016 Conference on College Composition and Communication thank its Local Arrangements Committee co-chair Jen Wingard and committee members Geneva Canino, Casie Cobos, TJ Geiger, Allison Laubach-Wright, and Nathan Shepley and applaud their efforts.

Resolution 3

Whereas the Indianapolis Resolution, a collaboratively drafted resolution reenvisioning the Wyoming Resolution, provides a needed response to unfair labor practices experienced by contingent labor and other writing instructors;

Whereas the majority of postsecondary writing instruction is the responsibility of contingent labor who need and deserve the support of our professional organization; and

Whereas, as of March 2016, the Indianapolis Resolution has received well over 300 endorsements, including current members of the Conference on College Composition and Communication Executive Committee and several other former members and officers;

BE IT THEREFORE RESOLVED that:

• We ask that the chair commit to appointing a member to an interorganizational labor board in keeping with Section A of the Indianapolis Resolution.
• We ask CCCC to work with relevant committees, task forces, and the general membership to mentor graduate students and contingent faculty on the realities of our labor conditions.
• We ask CCCC journal editors and convention organizers to encourage labor-oriented research in keeping with Section C of the Indianapolis Resolution.

Resolution 4

Whereas the contingent status of an increasing cadre of writing instructors is seemingly entrenched in our institutions; and

Whereas advocates for contingent writing faculty often need support on an ad hoc basis;

BE IT THEREFORE RESOLVED that the Conference on College Composition and Communication dedicate a liaison for contingency issues (e.g., fair labor standards, unemployment insurance claims, legal issues related to hiring/nonrenewals).

Resolution 5

Whereas contingent faculty often receive low pay for their work and are often precluded from summer teaching;

Whereas contingent faculty may lose teaching assignments at the last minute, thus making it impossible to find replacement work; and

Whereas many universities and unemployment offices invoke “reasonable assurance of continued employment” as grounds to deny unemployment claims between academic terms;

BE IT THEREFORE RESOLVED that the Conference on College Composition and Communication Chairperson issue a statement affirming that faculty on contingent appointments do not have “reasonable assurance of continued employment.”

Resolution 6

Whereas the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) collects employment data for tenure-track/tenured (TT/T) faculty but much less systematically for non-tenure-track (NTT) faculty; and

Whereas more complete employment data for NTT faculty improve advocacy efforts at the department, college, campus, and national levels;

BE IT THEREFORE RESOLVED that the Conference on College Composition and Communication call for NCES to reinstate the National Survey of Postsecondary Faculty (and to collect the same employment data through the Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System) for part­time and full­time NTT faculty as it does for TT/T faculty.

Resolution 7

Whereas laws such as the Affordable Care Act and the Public Student Loan Forgiveness Act stipulate minimum number of hours worked per week in order to determine eligibility based on guidelines that institutions sometimes use to report actual hours to the IRS and Department of Labor; and

Whereas CCCC is best positioned to articulate the ratio of in-class/out-of-class hours worked based on research and best practices in writing instruction;

BE IT THEREFORE RESOLVED that the Conference on College Composition and Communication articulate a minimum acceptable ratio of in-class/out-of-class hours worked for the purposes of calculations to determine eligibility for both health insurance and public student loan forgiveness.

The following resolutions and sense of the house motions were passed at the CCCC Annual Business Meeting held on Saturday, March 24, 2007, in New York City.

Resolution 1

Whereas, in 1990, the U.S. Census Bureau began categorizing individuals and families as “linguistically isolated” if their household is one in which no member l4 years old and over (1) speaks only English or (2) speaks a non-English language and speaks English “very well” [Source; U.S. Census Bureau, Census 2000 Summary File 3, Matrices P19, P20, PCT13, and PCT14]; and

Whereas there is no threat to the primacy of English, since 82% of the U.S. population speaks only English at home and more than two-thirds of those who do speak a language other than English at home, primarily Spanish speakers, also speak English “well” or “very well” (2000 Census); and

Whereas the Census does not ask about proficiency in any language except English, even though multilingualism is a valued norm in most communities worldwide, and even though every national study of education in the U.S. decries the failure of most of the U.S. population to speak a second language, including the failure of immigrants’ children to keep their heritage language; and

Whereas a widespread and growing English-only ideology, fostered by misinformation about the desire and ability of immigrants to speak English, has led numerous states to declare English their official language, thus denying bilingual services and/or making it illegal to teach children in their heritage language even when they are also taught in English; and

Whereas increasing linguistic intolerance and linguistic profiling in housing, employment, education, health, and child custody cases have been documented throughout the U.S.; and

Whereas the term “linguistically isolated” conveys the false and damaging view that people who do not speak English “very well” have no contact with English speakers and/or are outside the pale of U.S. society; and

Whereas the Census Bureau’s application of the term “linguistically isolated” to all members of a family, in which no one over the age of l4 speaks English “very well,” incorrectly categorizes the children in those families under the age of l4 who do speak English very well; and

Whereas the Census Bureau categorizes as “isolated” only the small percentage of households in the U.S. where adults have some difficulty with English, rather than the majority of households in which only English is spoken;

BE IT THEREFORE RESOLVED that the Conference on College Composition and Communication join the American Anthropological Association and other professional organizations in urging the Census Bureau to include on the long-form questionnaire a question about proficiency in languages other than English.  Further, we urge that the Census Bureau discontinue classifying those who speak English less than “very well”–and all members of their household–as “linguistically isolated” because the term is inaccurate and discriminatory, and the classification promotes an ideology of linguistic superiority that foments linguistic intolerance and conflict.

Resolution 2

Where as Cheryl Glenn’s identities as Program Chair, grandmother, sister, rhetorician and scholar, and Jon’s girlfriend has helped us understand what matters; and

Whereas we are well acquainted with Cheryl’s kindness, gentleness, collegial generosity, great good humor, and willingness to share her cake; and

Whereas her scholarship on women, on rhetoric, and on the power of silence has inspired us; and

Whereas this conference in the heart of New York City has paid special attention to newcomers, graduate students, and international scholars and has allowed so many CCCC colleagues to represent their identities through reading, writing, speaking, listening, and silence;

BE IT THEREFORE RESOLVED that the 2007 Conference on College Composition and Communication thank Cheryl Glenn for her many gifts to us and to the profession.

Resolution 3

Whereas Paul Puccio and the Local Arrangements Committee have assembled a rich list of New York’s historical, cultural, and entertainment attractions; and

Whereas Paul Puccio and the Local Arrangements Committee have provided an intellectually rewarding, professionally valuable, and socially pleasurable conference; and

Whereas Paul has revealed to us in his own gentle and polite way his vision of the New York skyline from the vantage point of his own New Jersey terrace and delivered it to us in song; and

Whereas Paul Puccio thus has developed commendable expertise for the career he will assume upon retirement;

BE IT THEREFORE RESOLVED that the 2007 Conference on College Composition and Communication applaud Paul Puccio and the Local Arrangements Committee for their hard work and generous hospitality.

Resolution 4

Whereas we appreciate Akua Duku Anokye’s steady attention to issues of representation, community, and honesty within our organization and the profession; and

Whereas she has taught us to pay attention to the voices we hear and to appreciate the company we keep; and

Whereas she takes a little bit of New York with her everywhere she goes; and

Whereas she has the rare ability to be sincere and gracious and smart all at once; and

Where as she will soon be a grandmother and will pass along the gift of stories and the strength of women;

BE IT THEREFORE RESOLVED that the 2007 Conference on College Composition and Communication thank Akua Duku Anokye for her leadership and service to the profession.

Sense of the House Motions

S1. Even though the Committee on the Status of Women originally did not ask to be reconstituted, it now supports our motion urging the CCCC Executive Committee to reconstitute the Committee on the Status of Women with a streamlined charge.  This committee provides an essential component of the governance structure promoting strategic conversations about the social, political and economic conditions for women.

S2. CCCC should:

1. Support consideration of and strategic use of open source software whenever possible;
2. Explore use of open source software within its own organization;
3. Encourage and support CCCC members pursuing open source alternatives; and
4. Educate CCCC’s members about the results of these initiatives, including associated costs.

The following resolutions and sense of the house motions were passed at the CCCC Annual Business Meeting held on Saturday, April 5, 2008, in New Orleans, Louisiana.

Resolution 1

Whereas open source software is freely distributed software with open, accessible code that can be readily improved upon by communities; and

Whereas open source software has the potential to control spiraling technology costs because software and upgrades are often free; and

Whereas open source software allows teachers, students, and institutions to participate in customizing software according to the specific, situated needs of a program or institution; and

Whereas open source software development permits collaboration with other institutions and organizations in its creation and maintenance; and

Whereas investment in open source software can prevent vendor lock dependence, that is, dependence upon one software company because it controls maintenance, development, and support; and

Whereas the open source development model parallels the academic model of knowledge creation and distribution; and

Whereas open source embodies a set of principles in which collaboration, peer review, and public knowledge are highly valued; and

Whereas investment in open source software development by institutions results in software which can be freely shared with all of education with the benefits described above;

BE IT THEREFORE RESOLVED that the Conference on College Composition and Communication support consideration of and strategic use of open source software whenever possible; will explore the use of open source software within its own organization and recommend that educators, institutions, and other educational organizations do the same; will educate CCCC’s members about the results of CCCC initiatives to use open source software; and will inform CCCC’s members about the associated costs of any open source implementation by CCCC.

Resolution 2

Whereas T.R. Johnson and the local arrangements committee invited us to “take the boat to the land of dreams” and “steam down the river down to New Orleans” and made sure that the band was “there to meet us/Old friends to greet us”;

Whereas they opened to us “Basin Street—Where black and white meet/In New Orleans, the land of dreams,” a city now dear to all of us, a home revived and reviving, soon to be thriving, where we celebrate our common bonds;

Whereas we acknowledge that providing local arrangements for several thousand writing teachers and rhetoricians is not an easy task, even in the Big Easy; and

Whereas T.R. Johnson and the Local Arrangements Committee gave us incomparable recommendations on local food, music, art, museums, and tourist attractions, making our stay in New Orleans truly one to be remembered;

BE IT THEREFORE RESOLVED that the 2008 Conference on College Composition and Communication applaud T. R. Johnson and the Local Arrangements Committee for their hard work and generous hospitality.  Laissez les bon temps rouler!

Resolution 3

Whereas Charles Bazerman has over the last thirty years been Involved in Constructing Experience, Shaping Written Knowledge, creating Informed Readers of All of Us, Side-by-Side, examining What Writing Does and How It Does It, and leading us as we strive toward Writing Selves, and Writing Societies;

Whereas he has in the 2008 Conference on College Composition and Communication asked us to (re)examine “Writing Realities, Changing Realities,” challenging us both to write and change our own and others’ realities in the midst of a city whose reality is written on, by, and through its people, its traditions, and its geographies and whose realities are indeed changing; and

Whereas, we all strive to meet his challenge and embrace his vision by emulating his humanity, civic responsibility, intellectual acuity, fancy footwork, and commitment to the profession;

BE IT THEREFORE RESOLVED that the 59th CCCC Annual Convention Conference on College Composition and Communication warmly and respectfully thank Charles Bazerman for his leadership and service to the profession.

Publications

• College Composition and Communication
• Studies in Writing & Rhetoric (SWR) Series
• FORUM: Issues about Part-Time and Contingent Faculty

Position Statements

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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

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

 

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

 

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

 

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  

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

Location:  Florida State University

Served as Directors:  Dwight L. Burton

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

 

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      

 

Location:  Teachers College, Columbia University

Served as Directors:  Gerald Dykstra, Charlotte Kuenstler

 

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

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

 

Location:  Univeristy of Michigan

Served as Directors:  Daniel Fader

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

 

Location:  New York Univeristy

Served as Directors:  Neil M. Postman

 

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   

 

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

 

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

 

Location:  Tuskegee Institute

Served as Directors:  G. T. Dowdy

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

 

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

 

Location:  Purdue University

Served as Directors:  Arnold Lazarus

Affiliated Names:  Thomas Pietras, Adrian Van Mondfrans

 

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  

 

Location:  Western Michigan University

Served as Directors:  William P. Viall

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

Call for Resolutions

The Chair of the 2025 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 Baltimore, MD. To obtain copies of resolutions passed at recent CCCC conventions, please see the links below or contact the CCCC Liaison at cccc@ncte.org. The 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.org. Resolutions must be received on or before March 26, 2025.

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

2023 Resolutions & Sense of the House Motions

2019 Resolutions

2017 Resolutions & Sense of the House Motions

2016 Resolutions

2015 Resolutions

2014 Resolutions

2013 Resolutions & Sense of the House Motions

2012 Resolutions & Sense of the House Motions

2011 Resolutions & Sense of the House Motions

2010 Resolutions

2009 Resolutions & Sense of the House Motions

2008 Resolutions

2007 Resolutions & Sense of the House Motions

2006 Resolutions & Sense of the House Motions

2005 Resolutions & Sense of the House Motions

2004 Resolutions & Sense of the House Motions

2003 Resolutions

2002 Resolutions

2001 Resolutions

2000 Resolutions

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

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.

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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)

 

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