Two-Year College English Association of the Pacific Northwest

Conference Hotel: Best Western on the Green

Online Registration

Read the full call for papers here

Keynote Speaker: Josesph Janangelo, Loyola University, Chicago

Joseph Janangelo's Bio

Horizons: Colleges—two-year and four-year—as well as writing centers across the country have faced dramatic changes recently, to budgets, staffing, and mission. Consequently, we find ourselves in new conversations. Rather than dwell on the difficulties, we ask how we can create successful strategies to get us to a different and better horizon than the one we may have anticipated. We invite you to gather at Highline Community College to share your strategies, theories, pedagogical changes, technological adjustments, and whatever else you are creating as the landscape changes under our feet. We encourage multi-media presentations and interactive sessions, as well as traditional conference presentations. We welcome individual proposals, panel presentations, interactive workshops, and facilitated discussions. Full-time faculty, adjunct faculty, writing center staff, and peer tutors are encouraged to submit a proposal.

Note: We will have a “writing-center” thread of sessions running throughout the conference.

Possible topics include but are not limited to:

Changing student populations: who are the students, what do students want out of college, what support do students want and need, what support and instruction do students view as successful, etc.?
Changing classrooms: what are the challenges and opportunities in online/hybrid classes, what impacts do new technologies have, what impact do program changes—class size, budgets, labor issues—have, etc.?
Changing institutions: how has financial support changed and to what effect, what outside pressures—accreditation, combining services, cuts to work-study, etc.—have demanded change, how do we do more with less, choose what is important, etc.?

Guidelines: All proposals should address the following:

A particular question, issue, or problem
Your contribution or potential solution
A statement of what participants will learn and be able to contribute
A clear plan for how you will engage participants

Session Formats: all should allow 15-20 minutes for discussion, minimum.

(A) 50-minute individual presentation
(B) 15-20 minute individual presentations: the program chairs will form groups
(C) 50-minute panel presentations (3-4 individuals present on a central theme)
(D) 50-minute roundtable discussion: presenters address a specific question and facilitate audience discussion.
(E) 50-minute workshops: audience interaction via hands-on practice of a particular learning strategy or central theme

Submissions: Please send by June 1, 2012 . . .

Contact information: Name, affiliation, preferred address, email, phone.
Format type: A-E (see above)
A 250-word description of your proposal (see guidelines above)
Preferred technology support (ohp, Internet, etc.)

Welcome! TYCA-Pacific Northwest is part of the College Section of the National Council of Teachers of English. We remain committed to our original purposes:

• to provide professional activities for teachers in two-year colleges of the Pacific Northwest region;
• to sponsor an annual conference on the teaching of English in two-year colleges in the region;
• to encourage research, study and writing by teachers in two-year colleges (see links at our resources page);
• to recognize excellence in teaching, we invite nominations for the Lisa Ede Teaching Excellence Award; two faculty, one full-time and one adjunct, may receive this award each year, which includes a cash grant of $500.

As the fastest-growing of the seven regions of the TYCA, we welcome your interest and invite your membership in the organization.

Jeffrey Klausman and Dodie Forrest
Co-Chairs, Regional Executive Committee