Conference on College Composition & Communication 2019 Year In Review

2019 YEAR IN REVIEW

Reflections on the Year

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What I found most rewarding in serving as CCCC 2019 Chair is really the work that the EC, committees, and task forces accomplished… I’m thinking of the EC’s work this year in passing our first balanced budget. That’s never happened. I’m also thinking of the important work of the Committee for Change and the Review Committee that… work together to change the structures of CCCC so that we have less white supremacy and structural racism in the organization and Annual Convention. Those committees have much work ahead of them, but they are filled with wonderful, younger colleagues who I have a lot of confidence in. These achievements, ones that are really communal, are what I’m most proud to be a part of.

—Asao B. Inoue,

2019 CCCC Chair

If I were to choose one recent contribution (though certainly not one fully contained in 2019), I think CCCC’s attention to equity and social justice, particularly under Asao’s leadership, will prove to be the most influential. We have long talked about issues of diversity and inclusion in the organization, but we are now taking more strategic actions to pinpoint and address inequities, and I think this work, which touches all aspects of CCCC (its programming, its funding priorities, its new initiatives, even its governance), has the potential to change the field in significant and productive ways in the years ahead.

—Carolyn Calhoon-Dillahunt,

2019 Immediate Past Chair

I’m tremendously proud to be a member of an organization that demonstrates its values through, among other things, the allocation of funds for research grants and the production and circulation of research-informed position statements. During my term as Secretary, the officers and EC made a commitment to supporting emerging researchers, and this year—as in each prior year since the inaugural 2016–2017 application cycle—the review committee had the privilege of reading a robust set of Emergent Researcher Award applications. While CCCC grant-funded projects aren’t the only source of research informing CCCC position statements, CCCC has made a commitment both to fostering new inquiry and to ‘translating’ research into practices that members can implement across their diverse institutions and in their conversations with others committed to enhancing the teaching and learning of writing.

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—Jessie L. Moore,

2019 CCCC Secretary

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Living Our Mission

Vibrant organizations are those that respond to the needs of their community and adapt and change to grow with the times in which they exist. In 2019 the Conference on College Composition and Communication endeavored to do both, and the accomplishments outlined on the following pages illustrate these efforts.

Mission Statement The Conference on College Composition and Communication (CCCC) is committed to supporting the agency, power, and potential of diverse communicators inside and outside postsecondary classrooms.

CCCC advocates for broad and evolving definitions of literacy, communication, rhetoric, and writing (including multimodal discourse, digital communication, and diverse language practices) that emphasize the value of these activities to empower individuals and communities. CCCC promotes intellectual and pedagogical freedom and ethical scholarship and communication. To this end, CCCC and its members

• s ponsor and conduct research that produces knowledge about language, literacy, communication, rhetoric, and the teaching, assessment, and technologies of writing;

•c reate collaborative spaces (such as conferences, publications, and online spaces) that enable the production and exchange of research, knowledge, and pedagogical practices;

•d evelop evidence- and practice-based resources for those invested in language, literacy, communication, rhetoric, and writing at the postsecondary level; and

•a dvocate for students, teachers, programs, and policies that support ethical and effective teaching and learning.

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Folks in CCCC work hard to make sure those not in official leadership positions have a voice, that those who represent the wider membership are listening, and that decisions are made as equitably as possible.

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—Julie Lindquist,

2019 Assistant Chair

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Over the last few years through Linda Adler-Kassner’s and Carolyn Calhoon-Dillahunt’s leadership, CCCC has established a mission statement, which came out of a deep list of bedrock beliefs about our mutual work as writing, rhetoric, and communication researchers and teachers. From that important work, the Executive Committee took significant time this year to brainstorm a set of short- and long-term goals for the organization and its Annual Convention. This mutual work with the EC guided our efforts to make some changes in how we work, investigate other new ideas, and decide on some projects that might also produce changes that create more value to our members and increase membership.

—Asao B. Inoue, 2019 Chair’s Letter

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A Year of College Composition and Communication

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Editing CCC has been one of the highlights of my career, and I’ve considered it a singular honor to helm the flagship journal of the field of composition studies. More than anything, I’ve come to understand editing as a form of mentoring, a way to help writers discover their best thinking, their best words. In the process, I’ve also come to appreciate all the more the valuable work of our field and our profession. As scholars of writing and the teaching of writing, we seek the very best ways both to enliven students’ interests in the power of words and to empower them to use their words and writing wisely. At an historical moment when we see, on a daily basis, the ways in which words are used to divide, antagonize, and hurt, we need writers who can craft language to imagine, envision, and enact a world of greater justice, equality, and possibility. With that hope, I invite you to read the work of scholars striving for ways of understanding writing and teaching writing that will help all of us imagine and enact that better world.

4 Issues / 26 Articles / 52 Authors

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—Jonathan Alexander,

CCC Editor

Congratulations to These Braddock Award Winners 2019 Deborah Mutnick, “Pathways to Freedom: From the Archives to the Street,’” from the February 2018 issue of CCC

2020 Aneil Rallin, “‘Can I Get a Witness?’: Writing with June Jordan,” from the June 2019 issue of CCC

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CCC Podcast CCC editor Jonathan Alexander and editorial assistants Jasmine Lee, Jens Lloyd, and Allison Dziuba recorded a series of podcasts with CCC authors about their articles. Here are a few excerpts from these thought-provoking conversations:

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Frankly, the idea that writing a shopping list, writing a lab report, and writing an email are all the same practice is really a conceptual construction that’s useful for what our community does, which is study writing. It’s not necessarily a useful perspective for doing things like chemistry or shopping. I think in my more radical moments, I want to say a future article is going to be titled, ‘Writing Doesn’t Really Exist and We Need to Stop Talking Like it Does.’

PODCAST

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— From a conversation with Jerry Stinnett, author of “Using Objective-Motivated Knowledge Activation to Support Writing Transfer in FYC” (February 2019 CCC)

I hope from this article, scholars in our field and practitioners, administrators, and teachers could rethink difference as not ‘give us a set of terms to simplify our communication or consequently our thinking’ but to help us to notice, and to be aware, and to be more sensitive.

PODCAST

— From a conversation with Zhaozhe Wang, author of “Relive Differences through a Material Flashback” (February 2019 CCC)

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A Year of Studies in Writing and Rhetoric

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One of the interesting aspects of editing a series is the unseen work that goes on for years prior to a book being published. In my case, one of my goals as editor was to build off the work of Victor Villanueva and to continue to expand the reach of the series across the field. I wanted to be sure that the series fully benefited from (and supported) the important work being done by scholars of color, that scholars from community colleges or HBCUs as well as non-tenuretrack or adjunct faculty felt the series could be a home to their work.

And within that framework, I wanted all scholars to understand the need to situate their own identity within their work and the field.

Now that the books are starting to appear, I hope to have begun to realize those goals. And I hope they give an indication of the work that will follow.

Here I would add that this work has probably been more difficult than I expected. I think as an editor, I had to build trust with previously underrepresented scholars/laborers in the field. That is why I say this isn’t a one-and-done enterprise, but a long-term commitment to such scholarship. Trust takes time to develop. I recognize it takes more than one book, one collection, to be realized. I also had to learn about my own gaps in knowledge. I had to be humble, listen and learn, from SWR Board members, authors, caucuses/special interest groups. That’s the other part of editing folks don’t often realize. You just learn a lot and, I think, as a result become a better scholar, teacher, and administrator.

It’s an underreported benefit of the job.

I’m looking forward to hearing what folks think about the books, how I can do a better job as editor. I hope they write me at sjp3st@virginia.edu.

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— Stephen Parks,

University of Virginia; Editor, Studies in Writing and Rhetoric

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Beyond Progress in the Prison Classroom: Options and Opportunities

Through a mix of history, theory, and story, Anna Plemons explores the fate of the Arts in Corrections (AIC) program at New Folsom Prison in California in order to study prison education in general as well as the disciplinary goals of rhetoric and composition classrooms.

Rhetorics Elsewhere and Otherwise: Contested Modernities, Decolonial Visions

This collection from editors Romeo GarcĂ­a and DamiĂĄn Baca explores decolonial shifts in composition and rhetoric informed by strategies for potentially decolonizing language and literacy practices, writing and rhetorical instruction, and research practices and methods.

Black Perspectives in Writing Program Administration: From the Margins to the Center

This collection from editors Staci M. Perryman-Clark and Collin Lamont Craig centers writing program administration (WPA) discourse as intersectional race work.

CCCC Outstanding 2020 Book Award Winner

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2019 CCCC Annual Convention

Performance-Rhetoric, Performance-Composition March 13–16, 2019 / Pittsburgh, PA

This year’s CCCC Annual Convention was filled with innovation and energy and introduced many new experiences for the 3,463 attendees. More than 750 sessions were made possible through the review and coaching of 412 volunteers.

In addition, the Local Arrangements, Newcomers Orientation, Disability Issues, and Social Justice at the Convention committees dedicated time and expertise to crafting supports and meaningful learning opportunities for all who attended.

TYCA hosted its first National Annual Convention on the first day of the CCCC Annual Convention. This new collaboration was designed to create more synergy between the members of both organizations and was both well attended and well received. The event included a keynote address by Kiese Laymon, Ottilie Schillig Professor of English and Creative Writing at the University of Mississippi, and author of the memoir Heavy, 2019 Andrew Carnegie Medal winner.

In recognition of the October 27, 2018, attack at Squirrel Hill’s Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh, participants were invited to share their reflections on how to “bring compassion and dialogue to a hate-filled discourse environment” via a memorial installation.

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Asao B. Inoue, 2019 CCCC Chair

CCCC began with its first-ever land acknowledgment both in its formal documents and sessions. The land acknowledgment was created with the help of Melissa Borgia-Askey, Sandy Gajehsoh Dowdy, Andrea Riley-Mukavetz, and the American Indian Caucus. Asao B. Inoue opened his address with the acknowledgment (this is an excerpt): “To open our session, I as the chair of this session, and our panelists would like to recognize and acknowledge the Indigenous people of this land: the Lenni Lenape, Shawnee, and Hodinöhšönih (hoe-den-ah-show-nee)—the six Nations, that is, the Mohawk, Oneida, Onondaga, Seneca, Cayuga, and Tuscarora.”

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“As the program chair for 2019, I wanted to bring to the Convention a general feeling of Black-goodwill and Black-love, along with an understanding that performance undergirds all that we do. It was important to me to showcase Blackness, to put it upfront and center, from the lingo-rhetoric of the CFP, to artwork, like the program cover and posters… What was exciting is the way that people embraced the call and conference theme and came with unabashed enthusiasm. I learned so much from the sessions, like the spotlights including Dr. Geneva Smitherman, the writing session with Nancy Sommers and nem, and folks doing actual performances as panels. I’m still reeling in and feeling the excitement.”

—V ershawn Ashanti Young, 2019 CCCC Associate Chair

A Sampling of Spotlight Sessions • Black Rhetoric Matters! The Routledge Reader of African American Rhetoric • “Walk It Like I Talk It”: Performance-Composition in Black Education and Beyond • On African American Rhetoric • African American Language (AAL): Give It Propers and Put Some R-E-S-P-E-C-K on It!

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“The Avengers Save Composition: A Live Comic Book Performance on How to Teach Writing Using Graphic Novels,” was one of the Spotlight Sessions.

The presenters gave a performance in superhero costumes of a comic book-style adventure that examined the complexities of using graphic novels in the classroom.

On Friday of the Convention, attendees were invited to a cultural event featuring a live band and performances from Dr. Elaine Richardson and Christopher Henderson, music by DJ Todd Craig, dancing, and dinner. “CCCC often felt to me like an overwhelmingly White and many times unwelcoming space. But the caucuses helped make it home-feeling, cozy. And I wanted to honor those caucuses with poster displays, letting them know that their work is super important and that we see em, need em all. I wanted the cultural event to be sho nuff Black, Black, Blackity Black Black and Black—with the blues of Chris Henderson and the jazz and the RB vocals of our own Dr. E.”

— Vershawn Ashanti Young 2019 CCCC Associate Chair

Saturday Workshops Teacher 2 Teacher (T2T)

DBLAC Writing Workshop

Participants were invited to

Digital Black Lit (Literatures and

learn about a range of activities,

Literacies) and Composition

assignments, and methods from

or DBLAC is a digital network

more than 40 teacher-presenters.

of Black scholars in the United

T2T presenters included full-and

States. This writing workshop was

part-time faculty, graduate and

an extension of DBLAC’s goal

undergraduate students, and

to foster a learning community

aspiring educators, as well as

where members are able to

colleagues representing

present their ideas, research, and

secondary, two-year, and

writing among emerging scholars

four-year institutional homes.

as a means of professional

“Power to the People, No Delay”: The Transformative Force of Hip-Hop as Social Justice Catalyst This workshop explored hip-hop’s roots in social justice and how this artistic, social, and cultural movement has and continues to open up spaces for oppressed peoples’ voices, experiences, and resistance.

support and development.

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2019 Summer Conference

Attending to Transfer: Programs, Pedagogies, and the Complex Writing Lives of Students Old Dominion University | Norfolk, VA | May 30-31, 2019 24 Sessions and Workshops | 164 Attendees | 92 Presenters For the third year in a row, CCCC supported a regional summer conference, continuing an initiative launched in 2017 to bring existing CCCC members together with potential new audiences who may not be able to reach the Annual Convention. CCCC provided $7,000 to support organizational costs associated with presenting this conference, in addition to help with conference planning, registration, and communications.

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There are so many teachers and scholars who identify with CCCC as their primary organization, but might find the national event daunting or overwhelming or difficult to afford. What struck me most about the regional event was the cozy atmosphere of like-minded individuals who care deeply about the teaching of writing and who were able to present their work—many for the first time!—in a personable space around a more focused topic. The amount of synthesis between the sessions was incredible, and the experience of all attendees being in lock-step with schedule and meals really helped generate meaningful conversations.

— Daniel P. Richards, Program Chair

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Jessie L. Moore provided a keynote address titled “Who’s (At)Tending to Transfer? An Invitation.” Moore is director of the Center for Engaged Learning and professor of English: Professional Writing & Rhetoric at Elon University.

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A New Webinar Series

As CCCC seeks ways to support members beyond the Annual Convention, in 2019 we launched a new webinar series designed to tackle some of the challenges of our profession by offering insights from scholars within it.

The first webinar ran on October 24 and addressed “Academic Publishing.” Three editors—Holly Hassel (TETYC), Malea Powell (CCC), and Steve Parks (Studies in Writing and Rhetoric book series)—advised viewers on navigating the sometimes confusing publishing process. In addition to discussing what they each look for in reviewing submitted works, they addressed ways to improve your odds of avoiding rejection straight away due to easy-to-fix issues. An audience-driven Q&A with the editors was facilitated

by Purdue University graduate student Sweta Baniya.

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Grants and Awards Cheryl Glenn

This year CCCC awarded 12% of its overall budget in grants for research or to facilitate travel to the Annual Convention.

Research Initiative Awards ($44,438)

Emergent Researcher Awards ($29,562)

Disciplinarity and Transfer Ten Years Later: A

Writing Knowledge Transfer from Basic

Multi-Institutional Investigation into

Writing to Workplace Writing

Student Perceptions of Learning to Write

Melissa Bugdal, Salisbury University

Dana Lynn Driscoll, Indiana University of Pennsylvania

Making the English-Only Movement:

Katherine Field-Rothschild, St. Mary’s

Writing, Scaling, and Resisting

College

Language Policy

Roger Powell, Buena Vista University

Katherine S. Flowers, Mississippi State

Jennifer Wells, New College of Florida

University

How Do Rhetoric, Composition, and Writing

An Ideology of Apologia: Hedging

Studies Faculty Engage Wikipedia?

Racial Discourse in Scholarly Conceptions

Advancement of Knowledge Award

A Scaled Survey of Attitudes and Uses

of Critical Pedagogy

Brice Nordquist, Syracuse University

Alexandria Lockett, Spelman College,

Mara Lee Grayson, California State

Literacy and Mobility: Complexity,

Atlanta

University, Dominguez Hills

Uncertainty, and Agency at the Nexus of High School and College

Matthew A. Vetter, Indiana University of Pennsylvania

PUBLICATION AND SCHOLARSHIP AWARDS

Exploring Practice, Praxis, and Value in

(Routledge, 2017)

Professional Collaborative Writing in Building Sustainable Writing Across the

Rhetoric and Composition

Curriculum Programs

Jenna Morton-Aiken, Massachusetts

“Teaching is about our movement between

Dan Melzer, University of California-Davis

Maritime Academy

worlds, arms out, touching students’ lives at

Michelle Cox, Cornell University

Christina Santana, Worcester State

Jeffrey R. Galin, Florida Atlantic University

University

the same time that they touch ours, making

Electrate Ethnography: Observing and

LEADERSHIP AND PROGRAM AWARDS

to articulate a vision of hope and expectation.

Testing the Composing Processes of

Exemplar Award

Toward such a future, we support our students

Digital and Multimodal Writers

Cheryl Glenn, Penn State University

as they come to voice; feel empowered in

Scott Sundvall, University of Memphis

critical discussions; and write, speak, sign, and

Katherine Fredlund, University of

Stonewall Service Award

Memphis

Harry Denny, Purdue University

Elizabeth Lane, University of Memphis William Duffy, University of Memphis

the connections that count. Our shared goal is

perform the words that reshape and repair the world, that pave our future. Of course, our

Writing Program Certificate of Excellence

imagination of the future will always be richer

Indiana University, Composition Program

than any actualized time to come. But to have

Teaching Research Differently: Assessing

National University of Singapore, Writing

the Efficacy of an Information Literacy-

such hope is to envision a future that requires

and Critical Thinking Programme,

Based Composition Course

University Scholars Programme

Shevaun E. Watson, University of

Temple University, First-Year

Wisconsin-Milwaukee

Writing Program

not only imagination but rhetorical action— and that is exactly the kind of work our village does so very well.”

Texas A&M University – Commerce, Writing Program

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— Cheryl Glenn (Excerpted from her acceptance speech)

James Berlin Memorial Outstanding

Dissertation: Seth E. Davis, Curry College

Best Original Collection of Essays in

Dissertation Award

“Fierce: Black Queer Literacies of Survival”

Technical or Scientific Communication

Miriam Lizette Fernandez, Washington

Natalia Matveeva, Michelle Moosally, and

State University

Outstanding Book Award

Russell Willerton (editors), Special Issue

“Tropes of the Nation: Tracing the Colonial

Rebecca Lorimer Leonard, Writing on

on Plain Language, IEEE Transactions on

Origins of the Matriarchal Figures of Mexi-

the Move: Migrant Women and the Value

Professional Communication, 2017

can Nationalism”

of Literacy (University of Pittsburgh Best Article Reporting Historical

Press, 2018) Honorable mention:

Research or Textual Studies in Technical

Liane Malinowski, University of

Patrick Sullivan, Howard Tinberg, and

and Scientific Communication

Massachusetts Amherst

Sheridan Blau

Lilly Campbell, “Simulation Genres and

“Civic Domesticity: Rhetoric, Women and

Deep Reading: Teaching Reading in the

Student Uptakes: The Patient Health

the Space at Hull House 1889-1910”

Writing Classroom (National Council of

Record in Clinical Nursing Simulations,”

Teachers of English, 2017)

Written Communication, 2017

Outstanding Dissertation Award in

Best Article on Pedagogy or Curriculum

Technical Communication

in Technical or Scientific Communication

Julie Collins Bates, Millikin University

Julie Watts, “Beyond Flexibility and Con-

“Toward an Interventionary Rhetoric

venience: Using the Community of Inquiry

for Technical Communication Studies”

Framework to Assess the Value of Online Graduate Education in Technical and Pro-

Research Impact Award

fessional Communication,” Journal of Busi-

Derek N. Mueller, Virginia Tech

ness and Technical Communication, 2017

Network Sense: Methods for Visualizing a Discipline (WAC Clearinghouse

Best Article on Philosophy or Theory of

Press, 2017)

Technical or Scientific Communication Jordan Frith, “Big Data, Technical Com-

Lavender Rhetorics Award for Excellence

Richard Braddock Award

munication, and the Smart City,” Journal of

in Queer Scholarship

Deborah Mutnick, Long Island University

Business and Technical Communication, 2017

Article: Joyce Olewski Inman, University of

“Pathways to Freedom: From the Archives

Southern Mississippi

to the Street,” College Composition and

Best Article Reporting Qualitative or

“Breaking Out of the Basic Writing Closet:

Communication, February 2018

Quantitative Research in Technical or Scientific Communication

Queering the Thirdspace of Composition,” Pedagogy: Critical Approaches to Teaching

TECHNICAL AND SCIENTIFIC

Lynda Walsh, “Visual Invention and the

Literature, Language, Composition, and

COMMUNICATION AWARDS

Composition of Scientific Research

Culture, 2018 Book: Melanie Yergeau, University of Michigan Authoring Autism: On Rhetoric and Neurological Queerness (Duke University Press, 2017)

Graphics: A Topological Approach,”

Best Book in Technical or Scientific

Written Communication, 2018

Communication Christa Teston, Bodies in Flux: Scientific Methods for Negotiating Medical Uncertainty (University of Chicago Press, 2017)

Travel Grants ($64,750) Participants pictured here were among the Scholars for the Dream Travel Award recipients in 2019.

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CCCC Committee Work

(Newcomers’ Station)

CCCC accomplishes much of its work through the use of committees. It is due to the work of these groups of volunteers that we have position statements, award programs, and the conference itself. Here are a few highlights from committee work in 2019.

CCCC Committee on Disability Issues in Composition and Communication CCCC is committed to making arrangements that allow all of its members to participate in the Convention. This year, wheelchair space was available in meeting rooms, and all speakers and session chairs were provided with guidelines to make sessions more accessible to all Convention participants.

These arrangements were the result of conversations between this committee, NCTE staff, the CCCC Program Chair, disability studies specialists at the University of Pennsylvania, and other professional associations. This committee also created an extensive Accessibility Guide and provided resources at the Accessibilities Table during the Convention.

Language Policy Committee

Committee for Change (CFC) and Committee for Change— Reviewer Committee (RC) These committees are charged to research and come up with proposals for up to four structural changes to CCCC (e.g., policies, practices, guidelines, changes to the Constitution or Bylaws) that address white supremacy and other social justice problems in the organization and its Annual Convention.

In 2019 two proposals from these committees were accepted that will •c reate a webpage on the NCTE/CCCC site that is updated regularly and provides one place to see the various efforts caucuses, special interest groups (SIGs), and other CCCC committees and task forces are doing around equity, diversity, and inclusion.

•c reate new ways to gather member feedback about these committees’ activities at the 2020 CCCC Annual Convention by dedicating time at the annual Town Hall meeting for feedback, setting up a feedback table in the Action Hub, and adding a special session with the CFC and RC to the Convention program.

Discussions continue about structuring and proposing a permanent, elected committee dedicated to equity and inclusion in CCCC that would replace the current CFC and RC.

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The Language Policy Committee, co-chaired by Kim Brian Lovejoy and Elaine Richardson, is working on a new CCCC statement on the presence of white language supremacy in the evaluation/assessment of writing in higher education and civic spaces. This year the committee also appointed David Green to a joint NCTE-CCCC task force to update the Statement on Students’ Right to Their Own Language.

Newcomers’ Orientation Committee This committee planned several events to help first-time attendees get the most out of the 2019 Convention. These included • an orientation session that addressed how to navigate the Convention, use the program effectively, participate in the Convention’s many events, and meet others; •a “Think Tank” session for proposing presentations and panels for the 2020 CCCC Convention; and •a session called “Career Quest: Navigating a Future in Composition, Rhetoric, and Writing Studies” to help participants develop a plan in which opportunities at the Convention and within the organization can play an important part in their career development.

Social Justice at the Convention Committee The CCCC Social Justice at the Convention Committee (SJAC) collaborated with the Local Committee chair to develop social justice and local engagement activities that complemented the 2019 Convention theme. They hosted an interactive roundtable session featuring local activist organizations that deal with issues in Pittsburgh related to rape crisis, prison outreach, and gay advocacy. Participants interacted with activist leaders and brainstormed ideas for connecting with activist organizations in their own communities.

With Appreciation

All the accomplishments noted in these pages would not be possible without the 2019 Executive Committee.

CCCC wishes to thank these leaders for giving of their time and expertise.

Officers

Jay Jordan, University of Utah, Salt Lake City

Chair: Asao B. Inoue, Arizona State University, Phoenix

Suzanne Labadie, Oakland Community College, Royal Oaks, MI (TYCA Secretary)

Associate Chair: Vershawn Ashanti Young, University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada Assistant Chair: Julie Lindquist, Michigan State University, East Lansing Immediate Past Chair: Carolyn Calhoon-Dillahunt, Yakima Valley Community College, WA Executive Secretary/Treasurer: Emily Kirkpatrick, NCTE Executive Director

Amy Lynch-Biniek, Kutztown University, PA (Forum Editor) Aja Y. Martinez, Syracuse University, NY Bruce McComiskey, University of Alabama at Birmingham Steve Parks, Syracuse University, NY (SWR Editor) Sherry Rankins-Robertson, University of Arkansas Little Rock (beginning 7/19)

Secretary: Jessie L. Moore, Elon University, NC

Leslie Roberts, Oakland Community College, Farmington Hills, MI

Executive Committee

Michelle Bachelor Robinson, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa

Jonathan Alexander, University of California, Irvine (CCC Editor) Jeffrey Andelora, Mesa Community College, AZ (TYCA Past Chair) Kristin Arola, Michigan State University, East Lansing Resa Crane Bizzaro, Indiana University of Pennsylvania (through 9/19)

Donnie Johnson Sackey, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI Jennifer Sano-Franchini, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg Shyam Sharma, Stony Brook University, NY (beginning 9/19) Cheryl Hogue Smith, Kingsborough Community College, City University of New York, Brooklyn (TYCA Chair)

Chris Blankenship, Salt Lake Community College, UT

Trixie Smith, Michigan State University, East Lansing

Sheila Carter-Tod, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg

Christine Tulley, University of Findlay, OH

Christina Cedillo, University of Houston Clear Lake, TX

Karrieann Soto Vega, Syracuse University, New York (Graduate Student Representative)

Christine Peters Cucciarre, University of Delaware, Newark

Shelley Rodrigo, University of Arizona, Tucson (Parliamentarian)

Cristyn Elder, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque Candace Epps-Robertson, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill Heidi Estrem, Boise State University, ID Eli Goldblatt, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA (through 7/19) Bump Halbritter, Michigan State University, East Lansing Holly Hassel, North Dakota State University, Fargo (TETYC Editor)

“This was a vibrant and promising year for CCCC, both in the creation of exceptional programs and publications, and in their commitment to plans, including voting on strong budget measures that ensure a strong future for the organization.”

— Emily Kirkpatrick, Executive Secretary/Treasurer, NCTE Executive Director

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We should, and can, be a model for social justice to other organizations, and I’m hopeful to experience this in the coming years, as we and CCCC change.

— Asao B. Inoue, 2019 CCCC Chair Arizona State University

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