Supporting a New Home for the Writing Studies Community
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Frankie Condon
3 months ago
Signing because the future of the largest international organization of composition, communication, and rhetoric teacher-scholars in the world, should be determined by its members, not by folks who are neither experts in our disciplines nor respectful of our members.
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Julie Gamberg
3 months ago
The Conference on College Composition and Communication has been instrumental to the evolution of writing studies and to me personally in understanding and applying writing studies scholarship that has been life altering for so many students at the community college where I teach.
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Witt Salley
3 months ago
I am signing because NCTE’s decision and its handling have undermined the trust responsible stewardship requires. As an adjunct writing professor and public librarian, I support a transparent, accountable, and independent professional home that values disciplinary expertise and makes meaningful room for all who teach, study, and support writing across institutions and communities.
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Elizabeth Baddour
3 months ago
This unexpected but welcome divorce of two incompatible entities affords our field the opportunity to surge ahead apart from the encumbrance of a so called “partner” in NCTE who, bent on serving its own selfish interests, summarily cut us loose. Thanks! Let’s forge new ground in continuing to be a lodestar for future scholars who, like me, have long looked to the Cs for writing insights, paradigms, and research to enhance our own understanding of our complex and ever changing fascinating field.
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Heather McGovern
3 months ago
The relationship between NCTE and CCC was often somewhat complicated--from both sides. NCTE's actions in July 2026 have irrevocably broken my trust in it. We need to create something new--and can do that, build a new primary home, AND maintain a relationship with NCTE and its members.
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Albert Rouzie
3 months ago
It wasn’t broken, so don’t ‘fix’ it!
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Roxanne Mountford
3 months ago
I am for sustainable futures for our organization and its members. NCTE has proven they are no longer trustworthy.
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Keith Miller
3 months ago
NCTE's decision to de-charter CCCC is terrible.
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jiva Lamsal
3 months ago
Conference on College Composition and Communication is an excellent forum to meet and discuss ideas that brings writing teachers, students, and all related and interested to it one forum and help create and disseminate knowledge. It must survive.
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Clifton Justice
3 months ago
Wonderful development for the field!
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Tom miller
3 months ago
NCTE's first president was a compositionist (Fred Newton Scott), but it was the broader progressive engagements of the times that gave rise to both NCTE and modern composition studies. Collaborations with local teachers, community leaders and activists are even more urgent today. I hope collaborations with these networks will be considered as folks consider next steps.
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Marilyn Cooper
3 months ago
Writing teachers meed a strong organization separate from NCTE to support research and communication about writing. Join me in signing this petition.
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Supporter
3 months ago
Quite some time ago, Writing Studies grew beyond NCTE. It's time to have a discipline-specific professional organization.
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Jeanne Gunner
3 months ago
CCCC was so inclusive in scholarly and material ways, and this NCTE decision disperses us as a professional and intellectual community. As a former College English editor who valued NCTE’s role in democratizing the field, I’m deeply sorry to see its loss of commitment, especially at a time when higher ed needs to stand against demagoguery and for the rights and interests of writing and rhetoric scholars and teachers.
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Chris Geyer
3 months ago
I teach college writing, and I would love for the writing studies community to have a new home.
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S.J. Williamson
3 months ago
after swiftly voting and not informing CCCC members, NCTE cannot be trusted.
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Emad Hakim
3 months ago
Yes for an independent home for a critical investigation of writing and rhetoric.
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Florence Davies
3 months ago
Because composition studies deserves a voice supported by institutions that allegedly care about education.
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Colleen Bond
3 months ago
No academic censorship
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Darsie Bowden
3 months ago
I hope that as an organization independent of the current NCTE, we have the potential to more influential on how writing is understood, taught and studied at all levels (not just college).
Signing because the future of the largest international organization of composition, communication, and rhetoric teacher-scholars in the world, should be determined by its members, not by folks who are neither experts in our disciplines nor respectful of our members.
The Conference on College Composition and Communication has been instrumental to the evolution of writing studies and to me personally in understanding and applying writing studies scholarship that has been life altering for so many students at the community college where I teach.
I am signing because NCTE’s decision and its handling have undermined the trust responsible stewardship requires. As an adjunct writing professor and public librarian, I support a transparent, accountable, and independent professional home that values disciplinary expertise and makes meaningful room for all who teach, study, and support writing across institutions and communities.
This unexpected but welcome divorce of two incompatible entities affords our field the opportunity to surge ahead apart from the encumbrance of a so called “partner” in NCTE who, bent on serving its own selfish interests, summarily cut us loose. Thanks! Let’s forge new ground in continuing to be a lodestar for future scholars who, like me, have long looked to the Cs for writing insights, paradigms, and research to enhance our own understanding of our complex and ever changing fascinating field.
The relationship between NCTE and CCC was often somewhat complicated--from both sides. NCTE's actions in July 2026 have irrevocably broken my trust in it. We need to create something new--and can do that, build a new primary home, AND maintain a relationship with NCTE and its members.
It wasn’t broken, so don’t ‘fix’ it!
I am for sustainable futures for our organization and its members. NCTE has proven they are no longer trustworthy.
NCTE's decision to de-charter CCCC is terrible.
Conference on College Composition and Communication is an excellent forum to meet and discuss ideas that brings writing teachers, students, and all related and interested to it one forum and help create and disseminate knowledge. It must survive.
Wonderful development for the field!
NCTE's first president was a compositionist (Fred Newton Scott), but it was the broader progressive engagements of the times that gave rise to both NCTE and modern composition studies. Collaborations with local teachers, community leaders and activists are even more urgent today. I hope collaborations with these networks will be considered as folks consider next steps.
Writing teachers meed a strong organization separate from NCTE to support research and communication about writing. Join me in signing this petition.
Quite some time ago, Writing Studies grew beyond NCTE. It's time to have a discipline-specific professional organization.
CCCC was so inclusive in scholarly and material ways, and this NCTE decision disperses us as a professional and intellectual community. As a former College English editor who valued NCTE’s role in democratizing the field, I’m deeply sorry to see its loss of commitment, especially at a time when higher ed needs to stand against demagoguery and for the rights and interests of writing and rhetoric scholars and teachers.
I teach college writing, and I would love for the writing studies community to have a new home.
after swiftly voting and not informing CCCC members, NCTE cannot be trusted.
Yes for an independent home for a critical investigation of writing and rhetoric.
Because composition studies deserves a voice supported by institutions that allegedly care about education.
No academic censorship
I hope that as an organization independent of the current NCTE, we have the potential to more influential on how writing is understood, taught and studied at all levels (not just college).