The next election for this forum’s Delegate Assembly representative will be held in the fall of 2025, and the forum’s executive committee will take up the matter of nominations for this election when it meets in January 2025. Though the executive committee is responsible for making nominations, it is required to nominate at least one can…[Read more]

Engaged Activism, Arts, Public Humanities, and Scholarship at Community Colleges

This panel explores the past, present, and future of critically engaged work at community colleges. We invite proposals for presentations that…[Read more]

I hope all of you have arrived safely in San Francisco and are having a great experience at the MLA this year.

This is a friendly reminder that our session, “Ecology of the Community College Classroom” is tomorrow, Saturday, 1/7/23, at 10:15 am, in Moscone West – 3018.

For more information about the panel, click here.

This…[Read more]

We look forward to seeing you this winter at MLA 2023, in San Francisco, CA!

Our panel, “The Ecology of the Community College Classroom,” will have presentations by Swan Kim, Nayah Boucaud, and Amanda Christie. We have an incredibly diverse group of topics under the panel’s theme, and the MLA has seen fit to place our panel under…[Read more]

CFP for MLA 2023: The…[Read more]

I recently posted information regarding the election for the community colleges representative in the MLA Delegate Assembly. The HEP Community Colleges Executive Committee is also interested in hearing from forum members who might be interested in serving on the Executive Committee. If you are interested in the committee,…[Read more]

My name is Dr. Grisel Y. Acosta, and I am the current Chair of the HEP Community Colleges Executive Committee. I hope all of you are well.

We are currently asking for nominees for the MLA Delegate Assembly election that will take place later this year. Folks who would like to represent the HEP Community Colleges forum in the…[Read more]

The HEP Community College Panel, 600AV – Conflict and Contradiction: Anti-Racist Pedagogy, Language Justice, and Institutional Priorities has been moved online. Panel time is still Saturday, January 8, 5:15 – 6:30 PM.

To access the panel, follow these instructions from the MLA Convention Online Session FAQ page. We hope to see you…[Read more]

I’m writing to invite you to join a new group on MLA Commons: Teaching Remotely. The group was created to provide a space for MLA members to build collective resources, share their experiences with one another, and ask questions about teaching remotely.

I thought that members of this Commons group may be interested in—and would h…[Read more]

I hope you will consider Columbus State in your search or share our posting with colleagues.

For more information and to apply: https://www.cscc.edu/about/faculty-recruitment/

This is a great time to join the college with a cohort of focused hires targeted for our…[Read more]

The call can also be found here: https://www.womenandlanguage.org/submissions

Call for Papers | Women & Language

Editor: Leland G. Spencer, PhD | Miami University

Women & Language, an international, interdisciplinary, peer-reviewed journal…[Read more]

This week I return to…[Read more]

250-word proposals  may be submitted directly to Shawn Casey scasey5@cscc.edu by 15 March 2020.

250-word proposals or questions may be submitted directly to Shawn Casey scasey5@cscc.edu by 15 March 2020.

If you are interested in being nominated to serve on the MLA Delegate Assembly during the 2021-2023 MLA Conventions or to serve a five-year term on the Forum Executive Committee (starting with the 2021 convention through 20…[Read more]

*#humsCC*

A National Conference Convened by LaGuardia Community College and the
Graduate Center, City University of New York

October 18 and 19, 2018

Community colleges are redefining the importance and centrality of the
humanities to the lives of the “new majority” of…[Read more]

300-word abstracts to Mike Burke, mburke@stlcc.edu, by 9 March 2018.

The focus of this volume is the powerful connection between the pedagogical aims of ecocomposition and the pedagogical philosophy of community colleges. Today, all higher education faces a greater…[Read more]

YMCA of the Rockies, Estes Park, CO
June 22-25, 2017

Inspired by keynote speaker Robert Yagelski’s Writing as a Way of Being, the Assembly for Expanded Perspectives on Learning (AEPL)’s summer 2017 conference will bring together tea…[Read more]

We’ll pursue another session separately, and I’ll connect with others on the thread as we begin planning.

Best,
Katina

The CC Executive Committee is going in a different direction with our one session this year, focusing on external pressures that affect academic freedom and student learning and how we can respond.

However, Ian Sherman-Youngblood of the ADE Executive Committee is going to be in contact with you to discuss a possible collaborative…[Read more]

Our Humanities Alliance team at the Graduate Center is beginning to plan for next year’s conference opportunities, and I wanted to check back and see how the CC Forum Executive Committee meeting went. If there was interest in a…[Read more]

Indeed, I’m thinking of something precisely on this topic! I’ve been working quite a bit with the Simpson Center for Humanities at the University of Washington, and they offer a fellowship program in which current grad students mentor with faculty at Seattle-area community colleges.

I’ve heard of similar /…[Read more]

Best,
Katina

I, too, love this idea! The Two Year College Forum Executive Committee will discuss this in January as we plan for the New York convention for sure, and I’ll be in touch.

I also know that Ian Sherman, faculty member at Olympic College in Washington and member of the Association of Departments of English (ADE) Executive…[Read more]

I love the idea of “connecting graduate education and community college teaching.” I just finished a six-year stint as director of graduate studies in English at Idaho State University, where the Ph.D. in English and the Teaching of English explicitly aims to train students for and place students in tenure-track (or…[Read more]

I’m part of a team at CUNY Graduate Center that is working to connect graduate education and community college training. We are in our first year implementing the Humanities Alliance, which embeds Graduate Center students as teaching fellows at LaGuardia Community College. The team has discussed a few…[Read more]

The Forum Executive Committee members sign on for a 5 year appointment (something that needs to be changed—I think that’s too long–though each member only spends one year as secretary and one of those years as chair).  The Executive Committee meets annually at the convention to discuss possible nominees for the co…[Read more]