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CFP deadline extended to June 30!

The Two-Year English Association, a subsidiary of the National Council of Teachers of English, invites proposals for the Pacific Northwest Regional Conference, to be held at Spokane Community College, in Spokane, WA, on October 12-13, 2007. We are looking forward to welcoming you with thought-provoking speakers, tasty meals, plenty of wine, and much more.

As instructors we realize the role we play in educating our students about their local, national, and global communities, and we find ourselves discussing matters of politics, religion, and academic freedom with them and with each other. We will consider these ideas through the conference theme, Pedagogy and Politics: Citizenship in the Classroom and the Community College. This theme invites discussion on topics ranging from the students’ responsibilities in the classroom, to the teachers’ responsibility to academic freedom and integrity, to the institution’s responsibilities to its members.

This year, a full registration waiver will be available for up to twenty adjuncts who are attending the fall TYCA conference for the first time. Registrants must send a check, which will be returned to them at the conference if they meet all requirements. For more details, please see the registration form.

Keynote Speaker

Conference Lodging

Registration Form

We welcome presentations addressing but not limited to the following:

• Community building within the classroom
• Academic citizenship in the classroom
• Participation in the academic discourse community
• Students’ roles in learning communities
• Classroom to community through service learning
• Pedagogy and curriculum freedom/restrictions
• The impact of Academic Bills of Rights
• Grappling with religion in the public classroom
• Incorporating global issues and world views in the classroom
• The politics of full-time/part-time inequities
• Negotiating the politics of employment
• The importance of campus climate studies
• Institutional responsibility to its members

Contact Name and Email

Please send abstracts of 100 words or less either electronically or by mail by June 30, 2007 to:

Betsy Lawrence, blawrenceATsccDOTspokaneDOTedu (509) 533-8103
Spokane Community College, English Department
1810 N. Greene Street, MS 2011, Spokane, WA 99217

Include the name, title, institution, address, phone number, and e-mail address of all presenters. In addition, indicate the type of session in which you wish to participate: poster, individual presentation, panel, or round-table discussion.

Also, please indicate what kinds of technology you will need for your presentation.