NCTE with the Google Grant. Anna Mills working as a consultant for OpenAI and then going on to usher in the GenAI adoption of writing studies. The list goes on in higher education 🫩

Tech Won’t Save Us@techwontsave.us · 6d ago

Cloud giants wield influence in so many ways that we don’t even consider — including shaping and capturing research. This week @ceciliarikap.bsky.social joins @parismarx.com to discuss how major tech companies shape society and why we need to push back. Full ep: techwontsave.us/episode/339_...

Imagine the conversation we could have about this travesty if NCTE didn’t require Cs officers and executive committee members to sign confidentiality agreements. Folks should also ask NCTE about how and whether their lucrative grant/partnership with Google was part of what Cs “culture” threatened.

NCTE Dissolves 77-Year-Old Composition Association

The National Council of Teachers of English’s decision was met with swift backlash from Conference on College Composition and Communication members, who say their organization is vital to advancing co...

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So, I’ve created a form where current and former CCCC Caucus/SIG/SG-affiliated leaders/folks can sign up if they want to be part of an ongoing conversation about how to respond (and how we might preserve and/or continue the work of our Caucus/SIG/SG after the loss of Cs).

CCCC Cross-Caucus/SIG/SG Conversation about the Future

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Regional networks and support are SO important, but following CCCC‘s dechartering, I believe we need national and international organizing to maintain our discipline and combat the intensifying authoritarianism that brought down our org in the first place.

www.thecrimson.com/article/2026... Disgusting. Disgraceful.

Harvard College Lays Off Writing Center Director, Consolidates Center | News | The Harvard Crimson

The Harvard College Writing Center will no longer operate as a standalone unit after its director was laid off and its functions were consolidated as part of a restructuring in the Faculty of Arts and...

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I wish the reporter had expiunded on the differences between the organizations’ AI stances. NCTE, for example, has partnered with Google, while CCCC has started recognizing a range of student and teacher responses, including refusal.

Joshua Barsczewski@joshuabarsczewski.bsky.social · last wk.

"On July 15, the CCCC executive committee presented cuts to NCTE that closed the budget gap, but 'that was not acceptable,' the source said." Anyone not bound by an NDA able able to explain this?

The CCCC Exec Committee released a brief statement on the NCTE’s intention to dissolve CCCC. "CCCC is the professional home for thousands of scholars, teachers, and researchers...with a decades-long record of shaping how writing is taught, studied, and understood."

CCCC EC Quick Response July 23

Public Facing Statement To be Shared With the General CCCC Membership We, members of the CCCC Executive Committee, were alarmed to learn of the NCTE Presidential Team’s plans to dissolve CCCC, which ...

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"All of the [financial] suggestions were dismissed by NCTE staff, according to a source familiar with CCCC governance who wished to remain anonymous for fear of retribution."

NCTE Dissolves 77-Year-Old Composition Association

The National Council of Teachers of English’s decision was met with swift backlash from Conference on College Composition and Communication members, who say their organization is vital to advancing co...

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It often feels like institutions of higher ed are slow to make progressive change but very quick to go forward with bad & harmful changes. Anyway, here’s the sticker I was buying at an art fair when the news dropped that NCTE voted to de-charter CCCC

Middle level educators should know that NCTE is willing to decharter the 77 year old organization that supports writing when those 8th graders go to college because they’re preemptively obeying a political regime.

I will never choose to affiliate with @ncte.org, given the absolutely disgraceful way they have chosen to dissolve CCCC, a 70+ year organization central to the discipline of writing and literacy studies. I am so disappointed in the NCTE leadership. May they come to view their actions with horror.

Statement from the CFSHRC's Executive Board #SaveCCCC 💔

I should’ve cancelled my membership as soon as they announced their Google partnership.

Cara Marta Messina@caramartamessina.com · 6mo ago

NCTE is compliant in getting our children, our young generation, reliant on and addicted to a product developed by some of the worst people in the world.

Remember when this happened lol

National Council of Teachers of English@ncte.org · 3mo ago

PRESS RELEASE: NCTE, with support from a national grant from Google.org, has published a working framework for ELA educators seeking to understand the appropriate role of AI in the discipline and help students think critically about AI. ELA educators can contribute feedback: https://bit.ly/4uOxpzD

This is because NCTE complied with fascists and has a partnership with Google, while CCCC continued to advocate for anti-racism and caution against AI. I just emailed customerservice@ncte.org to request a refund and you should, too. Absolutely devastating.

Sea(n) Otter 🦦@seemtoggle.bsky.social · 2w ago

There it is. #CCCC #NCTE

the audacity for the NCTE EC to say they're excited about the future. i just --

@ncte.org I’ll be calling first thing Monday morning to cancel my membership. I’ll spend the weekend encouraging all my CCCC colleagues to do the same.

NCTE has just summarily killed a 77-year-old organization that has shaped how writing is understood, taught, and learned, in higher education in particular. No member involvement. No transparency. No process to speak of. With friends and fellow educators like these, I guess who needs enemies.

Kendall Gerdes 📚🦕@kendalljoy.bsky.social · 2w ago

Here it is, folks. @ncte.org Executive Committee votes to "de-charter its special topics conference CCCC," i.e., to shitcan the Cs. mailchi.mp/ncte/ncte-up...

I find it very embarrassing for our field that we've been having to repeat this about "AI" and writing instruction since I was one-year old (from an article by Fred Kemp in a 1987 issue of Writing Center Journal)

Unregulated AI deployment risks significant job losses, increasing poverty while boosting corporate profits. It may also enable criminal activity through security breaches and scams, as its unchecked advancement overlooks serious societal consequences.

“In each section, the document includes background information on the activist, their contact information if available, their social media handles and follower count, then quotes each have previously said about MSG’s facial recognition program.”

Joseph Cox@josephcox.bsky.social · last mo.

New from 404 Media: Madison Square Garden made a dossier on activists who have opposed the venue's facial recognition program. MSG scans faces of people so some can be arbitrarily denied entry. Dossier includes specific activists, their contact info, tweets, etc www.404media.co/madison-squa...

there is no such thing as "responsible use of generative ai" in research

We (@caramartamessina.com, @nobugsnous.bsky.social, and I) invite you to participate in a research project on writing studies, rhetoric, and composition instructors’ and administrators’ experiences with, perspectives on, and feelings about generative AI: bit.ly/WS_AI.

We ( @nobugsnous.bsky.social, @rcmeg.bsky.social, and I) invite you to participate in a research project on writing studies, rhetoric, and composition instructors’ and administrators’ experiences with, perspectives on, and feelings about generative AI: bit.ly/WS_AI.

But I was told it was inevitable.

Norway imposes near ban on AI in elementary school

Norway is imposing a near ban on the use of generative AI tools by elementary school pupils while also restricting their ​use in the education of older children to prevent a ‌negative impact on learni...

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#ScholarSunday Thread 280 (6/14/26) – Black and White and Read All Over

It’s Flag Day, & let’s counter the dumpster fire at one of our most historic public sites with all the great public scholarly writing, podcasts, new & forthcoming books in my 280th #ScholarSunday thre...

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It's publication week! My book, Critical Fandom: Representations of Race, Gender, and Sexuality in Fan Fiction, is officially out through University of Iowa Press. Use code MESSINA40 for 40% off: uipress.uiowa.edu/books/critic...

The US Department of Education is currently overhauling federal accreditation rules for colleges & universities. The April 6, 2026, Proposed Changes to Initial Draft Regulations unacceptably seek to narrow & control what can be taught, learned, & researched on college & university campuses. 🧵 1

AIM Committee Negotiated Rulemaking Statement

If the regulations developed by the ED’s Accreditation, Innovation, and Modernization (AIM) negotiated rulemaking committee include a definition of academic freedom, it must be the foundational nation...

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The claim that AI will be used to boost productivity and improve everyone's lives would have just a little bit more credibility if the big tech companies weren't already using AI exactly as every knows they will, which is to fire people and extract more work from those remaining.

Timothy McBride@mcbridetd.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Meta Lays Off 8,000 Employees, as A.I. Casualties Mount www.nytimes.com/2026/05/19/t...

AI cannot destroy higher education without help from professors. Sadly, many are choosing to help. Peer review, GTAs and GRAs, tenure assessments, feedback to students . . . these are all systems we need to protect, not delegate to the robot prediction machines.

S.J. Pearce@homophonous.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Oh my god I almost fell out of my chair when a senior colleague told me he was using ChatGPT to evaluate a tenure file as an external reviewer because he wanted to help the candidate but didn’t have the time to read all the work.