Rhet/comp: Yeah we do not want to work with you ever again and you do not represent college writing instruction NCTE:

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

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Support an Independent Future for Writing Studies

Writing studies professionals urge a transition away from the NCTE to establish an independent organization for the field. Add your name to support this move.

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I'm looking forward to working with folks to build a better organization. This is a time to be visionary. At a bare minimum, I'd like: *No NDAs for board members *FULL financial transparency once a year sent to all members *Public comment periods before any major organizational change

Joshua Barsczewski@joshuabarsczewski.bsky.social · 6d ago

I have tremendous respect for & trust in the named Transition chair, but at this point I am done with NCTE entirely. They burned us too much. I’m near tenure and in a place where I don’t need a national org in the near future so I’d rather spend the time to build something new and get it right.

@ncte.org with another awful email. If college writing teachers really mattered to the org, you’d have talked to the membership about this decision. And then you would have worked with our elected leaders, rather than a hand-picked transition team.

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

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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While you're canceling, ask NCTE what they plan to do with the $4.6 million of members' dues and fees that they held as recently as March 6, 2026, in CCCC reserves, $500K more than was in those same reserves in 2024, according to the Executive Secretary Treasurer's report.

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

Anybody on Reddit want to upvote a call to leave NCTE? www.reddit.com/r/ELATeacher...

“For fear of retribution.” From a professional org. Unbelievable. @ncte.org, burning through over a century of goodwill can’t be as easy as you’re making it look. This must be what it felt like watching Ruth hit 50 homers when the second place guy hit 4. Otherworldly, in a horrible way.

Rachel Herzl-Betz@rachelherzl-betz.bsky.social · last wk.

"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."

The #NCTE is looking forward to re-marginalizing first-year academic writing as a field for reasons that are “exciting” and should certainly escape linkage to status or to institutional resistance to equity& access advocacy.

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

There it is. #CCCC #NCTE

it seems like @ncte.org will now be unimpeded in their delirious pro-AI pursuits now that they destroyed CCCC, which actually hosted rigorous conversations not about how to use AI but is ethical use even possible. so yay for them.

Hey folks: even if you aren't involved, consider signing this petition in solidarity with your fellow academics? Interdisciplinary translation: this is like if they canceled APSA for political scientists, AMS for musicologists, AHA for historians, MLA for lit studies, etc. etc.

Chaucer Doth Tweet@levostregc.bsky.social · 2w ago

Important petition re CCCC "If you are currently a CCCC member, we ask that you commit to cancelling your NCTE membership should these changes be made." Petition: "Join us in calling on the NCTE to halt any actions leading to the dissolution of the CCCC member group." www.change.org/p/halt-disso...

"The NCTE’s own constitution Article IV, Subsection C, states that the Chairs of all NCTE conferences—incl CCCC—must be present for a binding vote on 'decisions concerning internal NCTE operations and structure.' No conference chairs were invited to the meeting."

Dr. Jennifer (she/her)@drjags.bsky.social · 2w ago

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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 keep trying and failing to say it more eloquently, so: @ncte.org’s behavior around the decision to dissolve CCCC is shameful.

the SUNY council on writing passed two new resolutions, including this one against AI "grading" sunycouncilonwriting.org/resolution-o...

Resolution on Human Readers for Student Writing

Resolution on Human Readers for Student Writing June 2026 Student writers at all levels have the right to have their work read, responded to, and evaluated by human experts in the field in which th…

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In case you missed it.... #USUPress books swept the #4C25 Book Awards! Congrats to Erin Clark,Darin Jensen and Brett Griffiths, and Todd Craig 🌟 upcolorado.com/about-us/new...

I'm so excited to share that my very first peer-reviewed journal article has officially been published in Technical Communication Quarterly! Please share and read if you're interested! doi.org/10.1080/1057...

Journals as Disciplinary Archives: A Linguistic Corpus Analysis of Technical Communication Quarterly Abstracts, 1992–2023

Although archives are common in technical and professional communication (TPC) research, disciplinary reviews are not typically characterized as archival. By examining a key disciplinary archive, T...

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Improvisations: Methods and Methodologies in Lifespan Writing Research edited by Ryan J. Dippre and Talinn Phillips is out in print! Get it 40% off with promo code DITA25: upcolorado.com/wac-clearing...

My awesome sister in law worked at USIP. Anyone interested in supporting the people and families impacted by the layoffs (or just buying a cool shirt!) please check out this link: www.bonfire.com/usip-defunde...

USIP: Defunded Not Defeated | Bonfire

Support former USIP staff seeking justice for lost pay and benefits.. This fundraising campaign supports the legal efforts of former U.S. Institute of Peace employees...

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my 75+ text OER Annotated Bibliography on Belonging in Education is live! it's the academic foundation underpinning my sabbatical Belonging Project: bonstewart.com/belonging/th... if you know of a book/paper on belonging that would enrich this collection, let me know :)

I’m only 12 pages in but very excited to learn from Laura Wilder’s”Tracing the Impact of First-Year Writing.” An excellent lit review to start the book on longitudinal research of FYW. Wilder has unique research situation of studying students who did and did not take FYW #teamrhetoric

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