Supporting a New Home for the Writing Studies Community
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Sonia Feder-Lewis
2 months ago
Writing studies has a college and graduate level focus the NCTE cannot fully support, given their primarily K-12 orientation. They have also shown a level of hostility to the very culture that makes CCCC meaningful to me.
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Supporter
2 months ago
Composition, Rhetoric, and Literacy Studies is bigger than NCTE -- and international. Let's seize independence. And believe NCTE just showed their values (capitulation, ignorance, and disdain).
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Tom Friedrich
2 months ago
CCCC is all-inclusive of my greatest concerns regarding post-secondary writing and literacy. Thank you, 4Cs!
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J K
2 months ago
An independent home for Writing Studies! Time to control the means of our intellectual production.
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Amy Quan
2 months ago
As a new faculty member (30+ years ago) at a large R1 hostile to writing instruction and instructors, CCCs gave me the professional language and support to speak with deans and provosts and to grow a successful and sustainable writing program that I was proud of. NCTE was never my professional home and it absolutely is not now. Memebership cancelled.
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James T0 Zebroski
2 months ago
I am 74 and have been ncte member for over 45 years. Happily a member. Now it is clear that ncte thinks writing studies has no place there. I fully support an independent writing studies organization and will not renew my long term membership in ncte.
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Xinqiang Li
2 months ago
To dissolve CCCC would mean losing a vital source of creativity in American academia. CCCC, be strong—and survive.
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Robert Lively
2 months ago
I stand firm with my colleagues. CCCs needs to be an independent org.
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Yogesh Sinha
2 months ago
I support a new home for my discipline. NCTE has let us down.
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Phillip Lovas
2 months ago
Because removing spaces for academics to speak about their fields, especially the Humanities, is important because we are already losing so many spaces for good work to happen and be shared.
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Amy Devitt
2 months ago
Although I was shocked at NCTE’s actions, I recognize the opportunity to reorganize writing studies elsewhere. Thanks to all who are committed to taking on this work.
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SARAH SLOANE
2 months ago
After 77 years, it’s time for CCCC to find a new home. The field of writing studies has changed immensely and our numbers have grown. I’m looking forward to being part of whatever new organization evolves for us. Good bye, NCTE. Hello, the future!
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Brad Lucas
2 months ago
Onward in the cause!
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Supporter
2 months ago
Though it will take work, I'm excited to build something new, especially for disabled members of our field.
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Susannah Carney-Waddy
2 months ago
Academic freedom, student centered pedagogy, and the humanities generally are under assault everywhere by corporatists and fascists who don't want equity or people to even be able to think for themselves. The NCTE is not the only institution to cave to this pressure, but it is an especially egregious betrayal of its (purported) mission that it has.
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Paula Rawlins
2 months ago
If there was something inappropriate about the "culture" of CCC, then I see no reason to believe any other college-focused group of writing-education scholars would resemble the "culture" NCTE feels comfortable supporting.
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tara lockhart
2 months ago
This is an opportunity to build a bigger tent for those in our field - including beyond the US - that centers the broad participation, transparency, and accessibility that did not occur in this short-sighted decision.
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April Witt
2 months ago
I value writing studies for all grade levels, from preschool to postgraduate work. And it seems to me that cloaking the decision by using language about money is cowardly and disgusting. Shame on NCTE's decision-making leadership.
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Kate Navickas
2 months ago
This situation has more explicitly shown us who NCTE is and what they value. I think there are plenty of independent disciplinary organizations we can look to as models as we move forward. Building a new organization from the ground up will allow us to work on inviting more people in.
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Tina Matuchniak
2 months ago
NCTE has already proven itself to be an unreliable ally (at best) and advocate of college writing, and we, clearly, have the numbers and the know-how to define the way forward.
Writing studies has a college and graduate level focus the NCTE cannot fully support, given their primarily K-12 orientation. They have also shown a level of hostility to the very culture that makes CCCC meaningful to me.
Composition, Rhetoric, and Literacy Studies is bigger than NCTE -- and international. Let's seize independence. And believe NCTE just showed their values (capitulation, ignorance, and disdain).
CCCC is all-inclusive of my greatest concerns regarding post-secondary writing and literacy. Thank you, 4Cs!
An independent home for Writing Studies! Time to control the means of our intellectual production.
As a new faculty member (30+ years ago) at a large R1 hostile to writing instruction and instructors, CCCs gave me the professional language and support to speak with deans and provosts and to grow a successful and sustainable writing program that I was proud of. NCTE was never my professional home and it absolutely is not now. Memebership cancelled.
I am 74 and have been ncte member for over 45 years. Happily a member. Now it is clear that ncte thinks writing studies has no place there. I fully support an independent writing studies organization and will not renew my long term membership in ncte.
To dissolve CCCC would mean losing a vital source of creativity in American academia. CCCC, be strong—and survive.
I stand firm with my colleagues. CCCs needs to be an independent org.
I support a new home for my discipline. NCTE has let us down.
Because removing spaces for academics to speak about their fields, especially the Humanities, is important because we are already losing so many spaces for good work to happen and be shared.
Although I was shocked at NCTE’s actions, I recognize the opportunity to reorganize writing studies elsewhere. Thanks to all who are committed to taking on this work.
After 77 years, it’s time for CCCC to find a new home. The field of writing studies has changed immensely and our numbers have grown. I’m looking forward to being part of whatever new organization evolves for us. Good bye, NCTE. Hello, the future!
Onward in the cause!
Though it will take work, I'm excited to build something new, especially for disabled members of our field.
Academic freedom, student centered pedagogy, and the humanities generally are under assault everywhere by corporatists and fascists who don't want equity or people to even be able to think for themselves. The NCTE is not the only institution to cave to this pressure, but it is an especially egregious betrayal of its (purported) mission that it has.
If there was something inappropriate about the "culture" of CCC, then I see no reason to believe any other college-focused group of writing-education scholars would resemble the "culture" NCTE feels comfortable supporting.
This is an opportunity to build a bigger tent for those in our field - including beyond the US - that centers the broad participation, transparency, and accessibility that did not occur in this short-sighted decision.
I value writing studies for all grade levels, from preschool to postgraduate work. And it seems to me that cloaking the decision by using language about money is cowardly and disgusting. Shame on NCTE's decision-making leadership.
This situation has more explicitly shown us who NCTE is and what they value. I think there are plenty of independent disciplinary organizations we can look to as models as we move forward. Building a new organization from the ground up will allow us to work on inviting more people in.
NCTE has already proven itself to be an unreliable ally (at best) and advocate of college writing, and we, clearly, have the numbers and the know-how to define the way forward.