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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
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).
2023 Resolutions & Sense of the House Motions
2017 Resolutions & Sense of the House Motions
2013 Resolutions & Sense of the House Motions
2012 Resolutions & Sense of the House Motions
2011 Resolutions & Sense of the House Motions
2009 Resolutions & Sense of the House Motions
2007 Resolutions & Sense of the House Motions
2006 Resolutions & Sense of the House Motions
2005 Resolutions & Sense of the House Motions
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
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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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.
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
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:
Note: submissions will not be returned.
Deadline for submissions is August 15, 2017.
Learn more at /cccc/forum/write
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:
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.
You must attend or participate virtually in the following additional meetings:
The NCTE Executive Committee meets four times annually:
- November NCTE Convention (Wednesday pre-Convention and Thursday)
- Executive Committee and Convention Planning Meeting held virtually (2.5 days with EC and 1.5 days for Convention Planning)
- May online budget approval meeting
- July/August in person (Thursday evening thru Sunday noon)
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.
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.
This position entails a four- year commitment.
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.
Wendy Warren Austin, Ph.D., Edinboro University of Pennsylvania
Martine Courant Rife, JD, Lansing Community College and WIDE Research Center, Michigan State University
Kim Dian Gainer, Ph.D., Radford University, Radford, VA
Clancy Ratliff, Assistant Professor of Rhetoric and Composition, Department of English, East Carolina University
 
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