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CCC 61:2 / deCember 2009

CCCC News

2009 CCCC Election Results: Malea Powell, Michigan State University, East Lansing, was elected to the post of Assistant Chair. She will succeed, in ac-cordance with the CCCC Constitution and By-laws, to the posts of Associate Chair, Chair, and Immediate Past Chair. Joyce Irene Middleton, East Carolina University, was elected to the post of CCCC Representative to the NCTE Col-lege Forum Committee for a four-year term. Seven colleagues were elected to three-year terms on the Executive Committee: Linda S. Bergmann, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana; David Blakesley, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana; Nancy C. DeJoy, Michigan State University, East Lansing; Roger Graves, University of Alberta, Edmonton; Paula Mathieu, Boston College, Massachusetts; Rochelle (Shelley) Rodrigo, Mesa Community College, Arizona; and Michael Stancliff, Arizona State University, Phoenix. William Condon, Washington State University, Pullman, was elected Chair of the 2010 Nominat-ing Committee. Other colleagues elected to the Nominating Committee were Damián Baca, University of Arizona, Tucson; Susan K. Miller-Cochran, North Carolina State University, Raleigh; Mary P. Sheridan-Rabideau, University of Wyoming, Laramie; and Katherine Kelleher Sohn, Pikeville College, Kentucky.

Call for Nominations: The 2010 CCCC Nominating Committee invites nomi-nations for the posts of CCCC Assistant Chair, Executive Committee member

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(seven members), and 2011 Nominating Committee (five members). The Nominating Committee seeks to identify CCCC members who are commit-ted to the organization and willing to do its work. The post of Assistant Chair involves a four-year commitment, beginning in December 2010. During the first year of the term, the Assistant Chair also serves as Program Chair for the 2012 CCCC Convention. He or she becomes Associate Chair (December 2011), Chair (December 2012), and Immediate Past Chair (December 2013). Members of the Executive Committee are expected to make a three-year commitment to serving CCCC, beginning in December 2010. The Executive Committee meets for a full day immediately prior to the CCCC Annual Convention in the spring as well as for two days at the NCTE Annual Convention in the fall. Executive Committee and Nominating Committee members are chosen to represent a mix of institutions and regions. The officers and Executive Committee are commit-ted to increased recruitment, representation, and participation of members of historically underrepresented groups in every aspect of the committee’s work as well as throughout its activities. Please send nominations, with biographical information, by February 19, 2010, via email to cccc@ncte.org. Members are encouraged to nominate themselves.

Call for Resolutions: The Chair of the 2010 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 Louisville. To obtain copies of resolutions passed at recent CCCC conventions, please contact the CCCC Administrative Liaison at cccc@ncte.org, or visit the CCCC website at http://www.ncte.org/cccc/resolutions. The signatures of at least five CCCC members are required for each proposed resolution. Proposed resolutions, with these signatures, should be mailed to Chair, CCCC Resolutions Committee, NCTE, 1111 W. Kenyon Road, Urbana, IL 61801; or emailed to cccc@ncte.org; or faxed to (217) 328-0977. Resolutions must be postmarked on or before March 3, 2010.

Call for Submissions: The editor of Forum, an NCTE/CCCC publication that highlights issues related to contingent labor, welcomes articles related to non-tenure-track faculty in college English or composition. We are particularly interested in essays that complicate and extend our understanding of how

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contingency affects disciplinarity, pedagogy, the material lives of instructors, institutions, and the quality of instruction. Forum is published twice annually, in September CCC and March TETYC. For further information, go to http://www.ncte.org/cccc/forum; to submit, please contact Brad Hammer at 919-621-1000 or bhammer@unc.edu.

Call for Nominations: The CCCC Outstanding Book Award is presented annu-ally for work in the field of composition and rhetoric. A work eligible for the 2011 award will have been published in calendar year 2009 or 2010. Single- or multiple-authored books, as well as edited volumes, are evaluated for scholar-ship and research in the areas of pedagogy, practice, history, and theory that has informed the work of past award recipients. To be eligible for the award, a nominee must be a member of CCCC and/or NCTE at the time of nomination. To nominate a volume for the award, the author, editor, publisher, or reader must be a CCCC and/or NCTE member. Nominations must be received by May 1, 2010, and must include a brief statement of the book’s contribution to the profession. Please send the statement of the book’s contribution to the CCCC Outstanding Book Award Committee at cccc@ncte.org.

CCCC Studies in Writing & Rhetoric: The aim of the CCCC Studies in Writing & Rhetoric (SWR) series, edited by Joseph Harris, Duke University, is to influence how writing gets taught at the college level. The methods of studies vary from the critical to historical to linguistic to ethnographic, and their authors draw on work in various fields that inform composition—including rhetoric, com-munication, education, discourse analysis, psychology, cultural studies, and literature. Their focuses are similarly diverse—ranging from individual writers and teachers, to classrooms and communities and curricula, to analyses of the social, political, and material contexts of writing and its teaching. Still, all SWR volumes try in some way to inform the practice of writing students, teachers, or administrators. Their approach is synthetic, their style concise and pointed. Complete manuscripts run from 25,000 to 40,000 words, or about 125–200 pages. Authors should imagine their work in the hands of writing teachers as well as on library shelves.

SWR was one of the first scholarly book series to focus on the teaching of writing. It was established in 1980 by the Conference on College Composition and Communication (CCCC) to promote research in the emerging field of writ-

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ing studies. Since its inception, the series has been copublished by Southern Illinois University Press. As the field has grown, the research sponsored by SWR has continued to articulate the commitment of CCCC to supporting the work of writing teachers as reflective practitioners and intellectuals.

We are eager to identify influential work in writing and rhetoric as it emerges. We thus ask authors to send us project proposals that clearly situate their work in the field and show how they aim to redirect our ongoing conver-sations about writing and its teaching. Proposals should include an overview of the project, a brief annotated table of contents, and a sample chapter. They should not exceed 10,000 words. To submit a proposal or to contact the series editor, please go to http://uwp.duke.edu/cccc/swr/.

TYCA Fame and Shame Nominations: The Two-Year College English Associa-tion is accepting nominations for the 2010 TYCA Fame and Shame Awards. Nominations for the TYCA Fame Award should be representations of two-year students and faculty that reflect truthfully on the community college at its best. Nominations for the TYCA Shame Award should be representations that perpetuate negative stereotypes or insult the work of students and faculty at two-year colleges. The mentions or portrayals of two-year colleges must have been made publicly between March 2009 and March 2010 and in verifiable form—a news story, magazine reference, movie scene, or TV remark. Winners for the 2010 Awards will be decided during the 2010 CCCC Convention, to be held in March in Louisville. Submit nominations online by March 8, 2010, to http://www.ncte.org/tyca/awards/fameshame , or by mail to Sterling Warner, TYCA Fame and Shame Award, Evergreen Valley College, 3095 Yerba Buena Road, San Jose, CA 95135.

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