Supporting a New Home for the Writing Studies Community

Susan Pagnac

Our work--as teachers of writing, writing program admins, and writing center directors--is crucial in this time of AI's burgeoning influence, and having a separate, distinct disciplinary home is necessary to move the field forward.

Deirdre Vinyard

Writing and writing pedagogy have never been so important-- we are seeing the diminution of our place due to AI and the the decline of perceived value in the humanities. Cs provides a place to highlight our role in fostering pedagogy that puts thinking and process at the center of writing rather than product.

Jonathan Adams

Periods of transition are often moments where the priorities of an institution and it's people are made transparent. Composition deserves both an institution and a gathering of people that place it's essential qualities at the forefront.

Adrienne Daly

I found my footing and intellectual home in CCCC, and as someone who helped to set up the Accountability for Equity and Inclusion Committee in Cs, I have been stunned by the lack of accountability and transparency demonstrated by NCTE in this decision.

Dan Emery

Better an independent organization than continuing mistreatment and disrespect. Good riddance to bad rubbish.

Daniel Hocutt

NCTE has broken faith with the CCCC community.

Angela Glotfelter

Rhetoric, Composition, and Writing Studies has always been a field interested in charting its own course. Maybe it's time to find our own way again—and in a way that brings us into more equitable, engaged, and exciting futures.

Caitlin Martin

Composition, communication, rhetoric, and writing studies teacher-scholars must play an active role in developing the organization that shepherds their work.

D Alexis Hart

The CCCCs community and its scholarship and teaching are distinct in ways that will be better served as an independent organization separate from the NCTE College Division.

Holly Thompson

Onward and upward!

Bridgette Callahan

I can't imagine the writing studies world without CCCCs.

Betsy Bowen

I've been an NCTE member for nearly 40 years, but this is the end for me. Writing studies at the college level needs a new plan.

Madeline Sutton

As a recipient of a CCCC Chairs' Memorial Award, I support a sustainable future for writing studies outside of NCTE.

Zak Lancaster

Writing studies should determine its own institutional future.

william macauley

I sign this petition because we, in writing studies, are certainly qualified and equipped to stand on our own. And we can do so even more effectively freed from the burden of sustaining another organization that clearly does not have the interests of writing studies at their heart.

KM Gray

We deserve to choose our own future.

Brian Paltridge

I fully support a new home for the wriitng studies community

Max Sala

Sustaining CCCC means sustaining our disciplinary knowledge ecosystem

Justin Lewis

Independence from the yolk of corporate publishing - even supposedly benevolent corporate publishing - should be the goal of our field.

Supporter

The top-down decision to by NCTE to dismantle CCCC is a betrayal of what I once believed were shared values. We are a field of innovators and builders who know how to revise. I look forward to participating in a new organization, centered on our own expertise, visions, and values.