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Community College English
Teaching writing and literature in the two-year college
Sunday, October 31, 2004
At Community College English, we invite faculty from all higher education institutions to discuss the theory and practice of teaching writing and literature at the two-year college. Topics may include--but are by no means limited to--classroom pedagogy, current trends, technology, and workplace/workload issues. All voices are welcome.
To become a contributing blogger or to suggest a link, e-mail me.
Essential Links
- Arts & Letters Daily
- Bartleby.com
- Chronicle of Higher Ed
- MLA
- NCTE
- The Two-Year College Teacher-Scholar
Journals
- Basic Writing e-Journal
- College Composition and Communication
- Computers and Composition
- Inventio
- Kairos
- Lore: An E-Journal for Teachers of Writing
- Teaching English in the Two-Year College
- The Writing Instructor
- Writing on the Edge
Writing Centers and Programs
- The Writing Center at Colorado State
- OWL at Purdue University
- MIT Writing Center
- The Writing Program at Syracuse
- Wooster Online Writing Center
Blogs
- Friends of Writing Center Journal
- Composition Mountain West
- Composition Southeast
- Culture Cat
- Kairosnews
- palimpsest
- Rhetoric and Democracy
- Steven D. Krause's Official Blog
- Teaching Writing in an Online World
- vitia
- A Writing Teacher's Blog
- Yellow Dog
- You Got Style
- Esperanza
- Dr. Gerald's Blog
- Revisionspiral
- A Delicate Boy
- Eastern Maine Community College
Previous Posts
- On Teaching/Assessing Timed Writing
- What Kind of Writing Really Matters?
- Let Us Entertain You
- Chiming In
- A Topic on Topics
- The Greatest Job (If Only)
- Sad Truths?
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Community colleges do not have a clear identity and their characteristics vary more with size and geographical location than anything else.
It's fair to say they are NOT two year anymore, they are not just for young folks anymore, they are not destined to serve freshmen or sophomores, they have replaced the high schools as a main provider of literacy and job training, their students and faculty often share nontraditional characteristics, and they are becoming social service agencies that provide multiple services with educational resources.
They are no longer viewed primarily as the first two years of a four-year college program, some offer baccalaureate degrees, the mission of many is economic development, and many of their courses and studies overlap with the high schools that they hace recently replaced as the characteristic educational imstitution of the United States.
Many started with voctional programs while most started with transfer studies as their main mission. Many also started as upward extensions of the high schools while others were downward extensions of large public universities. Some started in their own right somewhere between the secondary schools and the senior colleges with comprehensive missions.
Very little of this applies anymore as community colleges continue to evolve sharply from their earlier days. They have multiple missions that vary with time and geographic location; they no longer are what they once were.
It may not be a crisis of identity but it could be one of mistaken identity unless you look deeper into what they were and what they are becoming. They continually evolve!
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