Update on CCCC 2027 I just got off a call with Antero Garcia and Emily Kirkpatrick. 1/21

Anyone successfully manage to cancel their @ncte.org membership yet? I keep emailing and get nothing.

shorter NCTE message: we want to get rid of all the infrastructure that costs money and carries any political risk, BUT we will take your membership money. For what? Isn't it exciting that we don't know?!!!

Wake up, babe: new NCTE email just dropped.

Feels like a good time to share my most recent (open access!) publication: “many [participants] see state DEI bans as a warning shot of sorts, a preface to the larger project of dismantling higher education.” publicationsncte.org/content/jour...

please check in on your local compositionist. what a week.

Seth Kahn (he/him)@badpacifist.bsky.social · last wk.

Sending vibes to @janerosenzweig.bsky.social. What an appalling decision.

It’s hard not to see NCTE’s decision to de-charter CCCC as particularly disastrous as attacks on academic freedom and shared governance escalate. Conservative politicians across the country have successfully exerted more and more control over curricula at universities across the country.

It's a cold and nasty little piece of PR speak. NCTE "acknowledges the communications it has received"—tell us how many emails, come on, tell us. "For many years"—77 years, you cowards. "In recent years, however, CCCC has struggled with its fiscal sustainability"—show us the numbers, please.

Trent Wintermeier@trentwintermeier.bsky.social · 2w ago

@ncte.org is wimpy as hell. but thanks for "acknowledging" (ignoring) our communications and dissolving our "special topics conference" (the largest professional org for writing studies) that has been happening for "many years" (literally 77!!!!)... wish y'all asked us to help write that lazy letter

Just throwing this out there: projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/o...

If there’s no 2027 CCCC I’d be happy to watch recordings of 5-7 presentations and write feedback for each one. Especially for grad students. I usually go to like 7ish sessions (maybe more?) so would be similar kind of deal #teamrhetoric

@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.

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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idk man, but it sure looks like the encroachment of big tech on executive boards for professional orgs may be the death knell for my discipline

The University Press of Colorado / Utah State University Press wholeheartedly supports #CCCC and our #writingstudies and #teamrhetoric scholars in their endeavor to maintain this important association for the field.

Dan Libertz@dlib24.bsky.social · 2w ago

From Kathleen Blake Yancey with clearest info about possible actions: docs.google.com/document/d/1...

In a few minutes, Auburn's Board of Trustees will vote on a proposal to dissolve our Faculty Senate and revamp our Core Curriculum. Faculty weren't given any notice and have had zero input on these changes.

Auburn U. Is Upending Faculty Governance and Curriculum Even Though It’s Not Required

Despite an exemption in state law, Auburn University’s board will consider proposals Friday to eliminate the central faculty-governance body and grant trustees authority over course decisions.

chronicle.com

This is a very writing studies-centered skeet, but… the way that some in the field are tying themselves into knots to advocate for some “ethical uses” of GenAI really emphasizes the field’s shallow investment in anything like “justice” or “decolonization” or “abolition.”

Any Writing Studies folks thinking about CCCC 2026? I want to do a panel about teaching in the South amid... all this.

What's the longest a journal has sat on one of your submissions? (trying to decide if it's time to email the editors)

👀 Enduring Digital Damage Rhetorical Reckonings for Planetary Survival by Dustin Edwards www.uapress.ua.edu/978081736219...

Enduring Digital Damage

Examines digitality’s connection to land, water, and landscapes, and its implication in conditions of environmental harm.

uapress.ua.edu

Everyday there’s some new report that AI is further consolidating wealth and control, procuring energy development and steering energy policy, and using non-transparent and non-consensual training data. And university admins are like “make sure your students are ethical users of AI” 🤠

Give me your spiciest takes on The Rhetorical Tradition. I've assigned it for my grad class but want them to understand exactly why people hate it so much.

I am happy to write letters of recommendation but can we PLEASE stop with these godawful submission portals that ask me to quantify someone's "personal ethics" and "motivation"?!

Hey Rhet/Comp Grad Students (and the folks who support them. We're hosting two, virtual grad student open houses for the CFSHRC next week. Spread the word. It's super casual, but you have to register to get the link. Here's the info: cfshrc.org/youre-invite...

Writing Studies friends: where might I direct a MA student to find sample personal statements for PhD apps?

Good morning! The West Alabama Women’s Center provides much-needed health care services to low income and uninsured Alabamians. If they don’t raise $50K they will close their doors at the end of May. More info from clinic director Robin Marty in the 🧵and a donation link here

Building Advocacy and Action across State Lines

By West Alabama Women's Center

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Robin Marty @robinmarty.com · 2y ago

Told my staff yesterday that unless my fundraiser in NYC in two weeks does stellar AND a grant I was told was coming in May actually shows (we are sitting at about a 50/50 on it) we are looking at shutting end of May. With no severance. So that’s fun.

AUBURN!

What are your favorite resources for graduate student writing/research in Writing Studies?

well shit, this should've been the cover for my book.

Catbus@catbus.phd · 3y ago

why does every online academic submission portal suck so much butt

Just asked ChatGPT to summarize an article I wrote. It did a pretty great job. Writing my annual review just got that much easier!