The Organization Formerly Known as CCCC

CCCC Leadership Response to NCTE’s De-Chartering of CCCC

September 19, 2026

Dear Current and Former CCCC Members:

We are a group of individuals who were elected by CCCC membership to serve as leaders of the organization—or who were appointed to CCCC positions by elected leaders—writing to register our response to the NCTE Executive Committee’s decision to de-charter “its special topics conference” CCCC, per their July 24, 2026 statement. We are highly concerned about misinformation and misrepresentation in NCTE’s statements about the de-chartering of CCCC. Much of what has taken place across the organizations has occurred under the cover of confidentiality agreements as well as governance structures and a culture of leadership within NCTE that actively discourages dissent. We believe it is important that our community has a clear and full picture of how misleading NCTE’s messaging has been and continues to be. 

Among the NCTE Executive Committee’s stated rationales for the de-chartering are their views that “CCCC has struggled with its fiscal sustainability, declining participation, and governance challenges.” In an August 13, 2026 email to NCTE membership, NCTE President Antero Garcia added that “CCCC’s efforts over three task forces to enact change since 2019, coupled with other circumstances spanning governance challenges, declining participation, and financial sustainability, eventually created an untenable situation.” 

In light of these claims, we wish to share some facts.

Facts about Fiscal Sustainability

  • According to the CCCC Executive Secretary-Treasurer Emily Kirkpatrick’s 2026 Financial Report delivered at the Annual Business Meeting in March, CCCC had a total of $4,912,315 in reserves, with $345,243 of that amount in future liabilities. It is important to emphasize that this figure does not reflect CCCC’s balance at the end of the fiscal year, which is typically higher than what is reported at the time of the Annual Business Meeting in the Spring. This distinction is especially important to note when making cross-year comparisons and looking at CCCC financials over time.
  • The last end-of-fiscal-year reporting that NCTE provided CCCC leadership was for 2025. At that time, CCCC reserves reflected an all-time high of $5.11 million. This figure reflects a 10.5% increase compared to the COVID-19 fiscal year of 2021 (“2025 CCCC Chair’s Letter“) and a 40% increase since 2019. 
  • Despite net losses in convention income, CCCC ended 2023, 2024, and 2025 with a profit when including investment income. In contrast, NCTE ended 2023, 2024, and 2025 with net losses when including investment income (ProPublica). During that time (2023–2025), NCTE Executive Director Emily Kirkpatrick’s pay increased $32,676, or 13.86% (ProPublica).
  • The CCCC Executive Secretary-Treasurer Emily Kirkpatrick stated in her 2026 Financial Report that “CCCC has a budgeted [not actual] operating loss before investment income of ($403,475) in Fiscal Year 2026.” For comparison, NCTE ended the fiscal year with a net operating loss before investment income of ($3.75 million) in 2025, ($4.37 million) in 2024, and ($2.26 million) in 2023 (ProPublica). 
  • CCCC leadership offered numerous ideas (see Appendix A; Whitford) to increase revenue and close the operating deficit. These ideas were almost always either dismissed or ignored by NCTE.
  • CCCC leadership has, on numerous occasions over the years, asked NCTE to provide more specific itemized details for CCCC’s budget. CCCC leadership explained that this information was necessary for a full review of CCCC’s spending to address the financial concerns raised by Kirkpatrick. Most recently, in May 2026, members of the CCCC Executive Committee requested itemized details for the 34% of the proposed operating budget that appeared to go to NCTE. Despite multiple requests, NCTE would not provide itemized numbers, instead sending a qualitative, descriptive list, without any dollar amounts. 
  • In May 2026, NCTE reported that salaries and personnel costs being charged to CCCC had increased 59.2% in the past year. NCTE stated this was a result of CCCC’s complex governance structure as well as the CCCC EC deciding to include limited remote participation options for the 2026 Convention. Again, NCTE would not provide any itemized accounting of these costs. 
  • Annual budgets are drafted and proposed by CCCC Executive Secretary-Treasurer Emily Kirkpatrick. NCTE staff draws up contracts and estimates convention attendance. Overestimations have at times led to CCCC having to pay hefty financial penalties. The CCCC EC votes to approve the operating budget every year, yet CCCC leaders are not involved in the negotiation of contracts and there is little to no opportunity for CCCC leaders to make adjustments to these contracts after they have been signed. When CCCC leaders raised concerns about NCTE’s attendance estimates, they were dismissed. 
  • The CCCC Constitution states, “Regular reports of the financial status of CCCC will be made to the Officers and the Executive Committee by the Executive Secretary-Treasurer.” Kirkpatrick has delivered these reports by proxy over the last several years, making it impossible to ask her direct questions about her reporting. Kirkpatrick’s financial reports delivered at the Annual Business meeting tend to focus on dire future projections based on budgeted numbers and a highly conservative outlook on future investment performance as opposed to actual financial outcomes. 
  • NCTE does not provide clear, transparent, and easy-to-access long-term financial and membership data consistently reflecting the status of the organization at the end of every fiscal year, including longitudinal information about required reserves, contingency fund, and total reserves; membership numbers (individual and institutional); convention data including location/modality, registration numbers, revenue, expenses, and income; annual net operating income. Instead, this information is distributed across multiple documents over several years, and numbers reflect different moments within the fiscal year, making it challenging for EC members—the vast majority of whom have limited experience working with organizational budgets—to have a clear and full picture of CCCC’s financial status.
  • NCTE President Antero Garcia cited three CCCC Task Forces to enact change since 2019 as contributing to an “untenable problem.” For every one of these Task Forces, NCTE presented barriers that kept them from making meaningful progress:
    1. The Committee for Change (2019–2022), which transitioned to the Accountability for Equity and Inclusion Committee (2022–present) repeatedly asked to see detailed budgets and financials for CCCC that NCTE would not provide, arguing that approval of the budget is the purview of the CCCC Executive Committee.
    2. The Future of CCCC Task Force (2023–2024) worked on a survey of members that NCTE would not move forward or administer. 
    3. The Task Force on Operations and Sustainability (2026–present) was convened by CCCC leadership in 2025. NCTE staff had to be reminded multiple times to move this Task Force forward. One month before the de-chartering, NCTE recommended that this Task Force be sunsetted. This was also soon after the Task Force chair asked for background information regarding CCCC operations and finances.

Facts about Declining Participation

  • According to Kirkpatrick’s 2026 Financial Report, CCCC membership had declined 37.5% since 2019. 
  • In 2025, CCCC individual memberships were reportedly “up 12.6 percent in 2025, with an increase of more than 280 members as compared to the prior fiscal year. This is also a five-year high—our highest numbers since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2021.” (“2025 CCCC Chair’s Letter“)
  • Based on data provided by NCTE, at the time of the “de-chartering,” CCCC individual memberships had increased some 24% since 2023, (post-pandemic low, first time back to an in-person Convention after COVID).
  • CCCC leadership asked, on numerous occasions, to see post-convention survey results to develop plans to improve the convention experience and thus shore up membership. NCTE would not share this information with CCCC Chairs nor with the CCCC Executive Committee. To reiterate, CCCC’s elected leaders had never seen the post-convention survey responses that convention attendees were asked to complete every year.
  • CCCC had some 2500 members at the time of the de-chartering.

Facts about Governance Challenges

  • According to the CCCC Constitution, the CCCC Executive Secretary-Treasurer—a position presently occupied by Emily Kirkpatrick—serves as an ex officio member of the CCCC Officers’ Committee and is responsible for “assisting the other officers and other committees in carrying out their responsibilities.”
  • CCCC Executive Secretary-Treasurer Emily Kirkpatrick is the one person with a paid leadership role in CCCC (ProPublica). CCCC contributes financially to Kirkpatrick’s salary. She is also the only member of the CCCC Officers’ Committee who has not attended a single CCCC Annual Business Meeting, CCCC Officers’ Retreat, or CCCC Officers’ Committee Meeting in at least the last few years. 
  • The CCCC Constitution states that the Executive Secretary-Treasurer typically prepares a list of siting options for the CCCC Annual Convention at least three years in advance. Kirkpatrick has not provided a list of siting options beyond the 2027 Annual Convention. When CCCC leaders asked about siting for future conferences, clear answers were not provided.
  • NCTE’s Executive Committee voted in 2025 to remove CCCC’s non-voting member from the NCTE EC. This change created a disparity—all other members of the NCTE Executive Committee would serve for at least two years, while the CCCC’s Chair would serve for only one year. When CCCC leadership asked to allow one representative on the Officers’ Committee to serve as the NCTE representative for two years to make things more equitable, that request was denied.

    NCTE has since stated that “the NCTE EC did advise CCCC officers that the CCCC Chair could serve for two years if CCCC changed the term of service for its Chair from one year to two years.” They did not acknowledge that doing so would require upending the entire CCCC Officers’ rotation, nor did they acknowledge that their decision exacerbated the marginalization of composition and rhetoric teacher-scholars in NCTE’s governance structure.
  • The CCCC EC was given one month during summer 2026 to provide the NCTE Presidential Team with four items: (1) a revised operational budget (2) a prioritization plan for CCCC functions; (3) a “state of the field” and evaluation of CCCC’s impact; (4) an explanation of how “CCCC will prioritize partnership over independence if its conference continues within NCTE in the future.”

    The CCCC EC responded with significant budget cuts eliminating the projected budget deficit and presenting a list of priorities for moving forward. The EC explained that given the timing of this request over the summer, the all-volunteer, unpaid EC was not able to provide the third or fourth items, and instead opted to prioritize items that directly pertain to their fiscal responsibilities.

    Members of NCTE’s Presidential Team met with the CCCC Chair and Associate Chair informing them that the response was not complete, CCCC was jeopardizing NCTE’s non-profit status, and NCTE would dissolve CCCC and absorb its membership into the college section.
  • Neither the NCTE Presidential Team nor the NCTE Executive Committee ever met with either the CCCC Officers Committee or the CCCC Executive Committee to investigate or otherwise discuss concerns with regard to CCCC’s budget, membership numbers, or “governance challenges” at any time within at least the last four years. 
  • CCCC leaders made multiple requests to meet with NCTE leadership in the summer of 2026 prior to the de-chartering. CCCC leadership also asked NCTE Executive Director Emily Kirkpatrick to host a Town Hall with the CCCC Executive Committee. All such requests were either ignored or declined.
  • Among the “governance challenges” mentioned by NCTE leadership was the size of the CCCC Executive Committee, a result of governance revisions that took place in 2022. Yet two members of the committee that led the governance revisions were selected to serve on the “transition team” convened by NCTE leadership after the de-chartering.

Given the facts listed above, we find NCTE’s stated reasons for de-chartering CCCC to be baseless and without merit.

Although we continue to have more questions than answers, we believe there are other, far more plausible reasons that may have led to NCTE’s decision to dismantle CCCC: 

  • CCCC Executive Secretary-Treasurer Emily Kirkpatrick’s failure to serve as an actual leader of CCCC, including her unwillingness to attend Officers, Executive Committee, or Annual Business Meetings over the last few years let alone to get to know CCCC members, our profession, or the concerns that have been impacting us.
  • CCCC leadership repeatedly pressing NCTE for answers to important and necessary questions about the organization’s finances that NCTE Executive Director Emily Kirkpatrick did not want to have to answer. 
  • NCTE may be seeking to co-opt CCCC’s reserves to address its own budgetary deficit.
  • NCTE taking Big Tech money via its Google.org AI grant at the same time that CCCC leadership had been taking a much more critical view of generative AI and not long before CCCC passed the 2026 resolution insisting on academic freedom and the right for students and teachers to refuse generative AI by a vote of attendees at the Annual Business Meeting in Cleveland.
  • CCCC’s culture of democratic deliberation and open dissent being at odds with NCTE and Emily Kirkpatrick’s authoritarian leadership style.
  • Hurt feelings and a bruised ego since the time Past CCCC Chair Adam Banks presciently resigned in protest of racial discrimination in the hiring process that led to Kirkpatrick being named NCTE Executive Director in 2015 (Beare; Burns et al.). 

With that being said, we have no confidence in the leadership of NCTE Executive Director Emily Kirkpatrick, the NCTE Presidential Team Antero Garcia, Detra Price, Jamal A. Cooks, and Tonya B. Perry, and the NCTE Executive Committee.

Not only do they fail to understand the gravity of their votes, but their utter lack of care or concern for the CCCC community demonstrates that they are not able to responsibly lead any effort in support of college composition and writing studies. 

Moving forward, we support the creation of a new independent writing studies organization that continues the best parts of CCCC’s 77-year legacy—that foregrounds social justice, equity, and Black linguistic justice in composition, rhetoric, and writing studies teaching, research, and program administration; that understands that all writing is political; that pushes for more livable and equitable working conditions for all members of our profession; that continually strives for access; and that supports the continuation of our caucuses, SGs, and SIGs.

In other words, all things made possible as a result of the long history of dedicated work and advocacy of CCCC’s Black, Indigenous, Latinx, Asian/Asian American, queer, disabled, working class, and other multiply marginalized members and leaders. Independence from NCTE will enable us to create a new organization where leaders are open and honest with members, unhindered by secretive confidentiality agreements; can communicate with members openly and access any member feedback including post-convention survey responses; and are transparent about the financial workings of the organization. 

We invite you to stand with us by:

  • adding your signature in support of this letter by completing the form below; 
  • sharing this letter with other past or current CCCC members;
  • speaking up about your questions and concerns with regard to the de-chartering:
  • donating to the GoFundMe for legal representation if you are able to do so; and 
  • standing alongside us as we finish out our respective terms as CCCC leaders, and as we move toward the creation of an independent writing studies organization.

Signatures

Listed in alphabetical order.

Add your signature in support of this letter.

  1. Jessica C. Adams, Associate Professor of English, Clark State College
  2. Whitney Jordan Adams, Assistant Professor of English, Rhetoric, and Writing l
  3. Kofi J Adisa, De-chartered CCCC Chair
  4. Rebecca Agosta, Senior Lecturer
  5. Kati Ahern, Associate Professor
  6. Bahareh Alaei, Assistant Professor, English
  7. Lindsey Albracht, Assistant Professor, Queens College, CUNY
  8. Kara Poe Alexander, Professor of English in Professional Writing and Rhetoric and Managing Director of the Center for Writing Excellence, Baylor University
  9. Caddie Alford, Associate Professor
  10. Ira Allen, Professor
  11. Julia M. Allen, Professor Emerita, Sonoma State University
  12. Laura L. Allen, Associate Professor, York University
  13. Steven Alvarez, Professor
  14. Timothy R. Amidon, Chair and Associate Professor, Department of Professional and Public Writing, University of Rhode Island
  15. Deatra Anderson, Professor
  16. Erin M. Andersen, Associate Professor, Bergen Community College
  17. Chris Andrews, Associate Professsor of English, Writing Studies
  18. Kendra Andrews, Assistant Teaching Professor
  19. Yanni Angelis, PhD student
  20. Patricia Armendariz, Retired university lecturer
  21. Lisa Arnold, Professor, North Dakota State University
  22. Lucy Arnold, Assistant Professor of Education
  23. Kristin L. Arola, Professor
  24. James Arrington, Academic Coach
  25. Jacob Babb, Professor
  26. Florence Elizabeth Bacabac, Professor
  27. Erin Kathleen Bahl, Associate Professor
  28. Katie Baillargeon, Writing Program, UC Santa Barbara
  29. Neil Baird
  30. Sophia Bamert, Doctoral Lecturer in Composition
  31. Paige Banaji, Associate Professor
  32. Sweta Baniya, Associate Professor of Rhetoric, Professional and Technical Writing
  33. William P Banks, Professor of Writing, Rhetoric, & Professional Communication; Director, University Writing Program, East Carolina University
  34. Morgan Banville, Assistant Professor of English
  35. Mairin Barney, Assistant Director of Writing Center
  36. Kyle L. Barron, Writing Center Director, Cleveland State University
  37. Joshua Barsczewski, Assistant Professor and Writing Program Director, Muhlenberg College
  38. Joseph Bartolotta, Professor, Hofstra University
  39. Christopher Basgier, Director of University Writing, Auburn University
  40. Todd Battistelli, Lecturer
  41. Charles Bazerman, Distinguish Professor Emeritus
  42. Sara N. Beam, Senior Lecturer of First-Year Writing, former WPA
  43. Zachary Beare, Associate Professor and Director of First-Year Writing
  44. Aaron Beasley, Former English Professor
  45. Jennifer Ann Beech, Professor of English
  46. Morgan Beers, Assistant Professor
  47. Nicholas Behm, Professor
  48. Erin Bell, Director, Writing Center, University of Detroit Mercy
  49. Hannah Bellwoar, Professor of English
  50. Jean Bessette, Associate Professor of English, University of Vermont
  51. Durga Bhusal, Graduate Teacher of the Record
  52. Michael L. Black, Associate Professor
  53. David Blakesley, Campbell Chair and Professor, Clemson University
  54. Glenn Blalock, Retired, Associate Professor
  55. Kevin M. Blume, Graduate Teaching Assistant/PhD Student in Composition and Rhetoric
  56. Colleen K. Bond, Assistant Professor of English
  57. Ruth Book, Senior Lecturer and Writing Center Coordinator
  58. Jessica Jorgenson Borchert, Associate Teaching Professor
  59. Emily Bouza, Disciplinary Writing Coordinator
  60. Lauren Marshall Bowen, Associate Professor of English
  61. Anthony Box, Lecturer
  62. Lil Brannon, Professor of English (Emerita), UNC Charlotte
  63. Tyler S. Branson, Associate Professor, University of Cincinnati
  64. Nancy Bray, Associate Lecturer, University of Alberta
  65. Daniel Brengel
  66. Lauren Brentnell, Assistant Professor of Instruction and Associate Director of the University Writing Center, Texas State University
  67. Cori Brewster, Professor
  68. Emily Brier, Associate Instructor in English Studies, Western Carolina University
  69. Kevin Brock, Associate Professor of Composition and Rhetoric
  70. Ronald Brooks, Associate Professor, Montclair State University
  71. Marilee Brooks-Gillies, Associate Professor of Rhetoric and Communication and Director of the Writing Center, Alma College
  72. Tessa Brown, CEO and cofounder, Germ Network
  73. Heather E. Bruce, Professor of English-Education, Emerita, Univ. of Montana
  74. Katie Bruner, Lecturer, MIT
  75. Amber Buck, Associate Professor of English, University of Alabama
  76. Justiss Burey, Assistant Professor Writing, Rhetoric and Tech Comm
  77. Jennifer Burke Reifman, Assistant Professor
  78. Rebecca E. Burnett, Emerita Professor of Literature, Media, and Communication; Former Class of ’58 Professor; Former Director of Writing and Communication, Georgia Institute of Technology
  79. Joseph Burzynski, Associate Professor of English, Texas A&M-Texarkana
  80. Antonio Byrd, Associate Professor
  81. Kathleen Shine Cain, Professor of Writing Emerita
  82. Carolyn Calhoon-Dillahunt, Former CCCC Chair (2018), English Instructor, Yakima Valley College
  83. Darren Cambridge, Managing Director , TRAILS, University of Maryland
  84. Molly Campbell, Principal Lecturer, University of New Hampshire
  85. Tamika L. Carey, Associate Professor of English, University of Virginia
  86. Rosanne Carlo, Associate Professor
  87. Erin Brock Carlson, Associate Professor, West Virginia University
  88. Harrison Carpenter, Associate Teaching Professor
  89. Melissa Carrion, Associate Professor, UNLV
  90. Elizabeth Carroll, Professor, WAC Director, & Writing Center Director at Appalachian State University
  91. Genesea Carter, Assistant Professor of English, Texas A&M University
  92. Alexandra Cavallaro, Professor of English
  93. Steph Ceraso, Associate Professor, University of Virginia
  94. Curtis Chamblee, Lecturer
  95. Nikki Chasteen, Instructor
  96. Chen Chen, Associate Professor, past Cs EC member (2021-2024)
  97. Andy Cheng, Professor
  98. Scott Chiu, Associate Professor of English & Writing Center Director
  99. Philip Choong, Instructor
  100. J. Elizabeth Clark, Writing Program Administrator and Professor of English
  101. Angela Clark-Oates, Professor
  102. Jennifer Clary-Lemon, Professor
  103. Geoffrey Clegg, Assistant Teaching Professor
  104. Billy Clem, Professor of English, Waubonsee Community College
  105. Kaitlin Clinnin, Associate Professor, UNLV
  106. Kimberly Coates, Writing Lecturer, Stony Brook University
  107. James M. Cochran, Assistant Professor of English; Director of the Writing Program and Writing Center, Hartwick College
  108. Tanya R. Cochran, English Program and Writing Studio Director, Union Adventist University
  109. Hillary Coenen, Associate Professor
  110. Jennifer Cognard-Black, Professor of English, St. Mary’s College of Maryland
  111. Keaton Kirkpatrick, Assistant Professor
  112. Kirsti Cole, Professor
  113. Tara Coleman, Professor and Co-Director of the Writing Program at LaGuardia CC, CUNY
  114. Joanna Collins, Professor of Instruction
  115. Carolyn Commer, Associate Professor and Director of the Rhetoric and Writing PhD Program, Virginia Tech
  116. Tammy S Conard-Salvo, College Transition and Retention Specialist
  117. Dr. Frankie Condon, Professor of Critical and Creative Humanities
  118. Moira Connelly, Professor
  119. José Cortez, Associate Professor
  120. Matthew B. Cox, Assistant Professor of English, East Carolina University
  121. Sherri Craig, Assistant Professor
  122. Kate Crane, Professor, Eastern Washington University
  123. Ginny Crisco, Professor, Co-director of First-year Writing
  124. Angela Crow, Professor
  125. Jennifer M. Cunningham, Professor, Kent State University
  126. Caroline Dadas, Associate Professor
  127. James Rushing Daniel, Assistant Professor
  128. Christie L. Daniels, Instructional Specialist, Florida State University
  129. Gita DasBender, Clinical Professor, New York University
  130. Cynthia A Davidson, Advanced Senior Lecturer
  131. Michelle Davidson, Distinguished University Lecturer
  132. Bethany Davila, Associate Professor, University of New Mexico
  133. Rachel Dean-Ruzicka, Senior Lecturer of Writing and Communication
  134. Tom Deans, Professor and Writing Center Director, UConn
  135. William DeGenaro, Professor of Composition and Rhetoric
  136. Katherine DeLuca, Associate Professor UMass Dartmouth
  137. Danielle DeRise, Senior Lecturer & Director of First-Year Writing
  138. Lisa DeTora, Professor and Chairperson of Writing Studies and Rhetoric
  139. Eric Detweiler, Professor
  140. Kefaya Diab, Assistant Professor of Writing, Rhetoric, and Digital Studies
  141. Rasha Diab, Associate Professor
  142. Sara DiCaglio, Associate Professor
  143. Linh Dich, Associate Professor
  144. Taylor Dickson, PhD Candidate, University of Wisconsin-Madison
  145. Brandy Dieterle, Assistant Professor of English, Purdue Northwest
  146. Ryan J. Dippre, Professor of English
  147. Tiane Donahue, De-chartered CCCC EC member, De-chartered Standing Group member (International Researchers Consortium), Professor of Linguistics Dartmouth
  148. William Donohue, Associate Professor
  149. Sam Dragga, Professor Emeritus, Texas Tech University
  150. Renee Ann Drouin, Assistant Teaching Professor of Rhetoric and Composition
  151. Dr. Dana Lynn Driscoll, Professor of Writing, Founding Director of the Center for Scholarly Communicaiton, Indiana University of Pennsylvania
  152. Suellynn Duffey, Associate Professor, Emerita. University of Missouri-St. Louis
  153. chad iwertz duffy, Independent Scholar
  154. John Duffy, The William T. and Helen Kuhn Carey Professor of Modern Communication, University of Notre Dame
  155. Mike Duncan, Professor of English, University of Houston-Downtown
  156. Sarah Dwyer, Senior Lecturer
  157. Anthony Edgington, Professor, University of Toledo
  158. Dustin Edwards, Associate Professor, San Diego State University
  159. Jennifer Eidum, Associate Professor, Elon University
  160. David Elder, Professor of Writing & Rhetoric
  161. John Eliason, Professor of English and Writing Center Director, Gonzaga University
  162. Mary Grace Elliott, Lecturer of English
  163. Kathy Elrick, Assistant Professor of Teaching, English, Wayne State University
  164. Amber Engelson, Professor, Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts
  165. Jessica Enoch, Professor of English
  166. Alex Evans, Director of Composition & Assistant Professor, University of Cincinnati
  167. Karin Evans, retired, Professor of English
  168. Rosalyn Eves, Associate Professor of English, Writing Center Director, Southern Utah University
  169. Douglas Eyman, Associate Professor of English, George Mason University
  170. Wonderful Faison, Writing Center Director, Jackson State University
  171. Heather Falconer, Associate Professor
  172. Rob Faunce, Associate Professor of Instruction, Temple University
  173. Sonia Feder-Lewis, Professor Emerita, Saint Mary’s University of Minnesota, Graduate School of Education
  174. Maggie Fernandes, Assistant Professor
  175. Linda Ferreira-Buckley, Associate Professor, UTexas Austin
  176. Scott Filkins, Director, University of Illinois Writing Project
  177. Grace Fillenwarth, Associate Professor of Writing Arts
  178. Jaclyn Fiscus-Cannaday, Associate Professor at UMN Twin Cities
  179. Rick Fisher, Senior Instructional Professor
  180. Jenn Fishman, Professor, Marquette U
  181. Maureen L Fitzpatrick, Professor
  182. Wilfredo Flores, Assistant Professor
  183. Katherine Flowers, Associate Professor, University of Massachusetts Lowell
  184. Rachel Flynn, Assistant Professor and Director of Composition
  185. Robin Ford, Associate Professor
  186. Michele Forte, associate professor
  187. Chris Fosen, Professor, CSU Chico
  188. Amber Foster, Professor of Writing, The University of Southern California
  189. Alanna Frost, Associate Professor
  190. Bridget Fullerton, Director of Student Writing
  191. John Gagnon, PhD, U-M
  192. John Gallagher, Professor, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
  193. Nidhi Gandhi, Adjunct Assistant Professor of English, John Jay College of Criminal Justice; Assistant Director, Center for Scholarly Communication; PhD Student, Indiana University of Pennsylvania; Participant, CCCC Prison Literacies and Pedagogies Standing Group; Participant, CCCC Undergraduate Research Standing Group
  194. Bonnie Garcia, Lecturer III
  195. Elena G. Garcia, Associate Professor of English and Director of the Writing Program, University of Detroit Mercy
  196. Mike Garcia, Associate Professor of English
  197. Susan Garza, Retired Professor
  198. T J Geiger, Associate Professor
  199. Anne Ellen Geller, Professor, St. John’s University
  200. Kendall Gerdes, Associate Professor of Writing and Rhetoric Studies
  201. Jeffrey M. Gerding, Ph.D., Associate Professor of English
  202. Anne Ruggles Gere, Professor of English and Professor of Education Emerita
  203. Timothy D. Giles, Professor Emeritus
  204. Kelli R. Gill, Assistant Professor of Rhetoric and Writing Studies and Writing Program Director, Montana State University
  205. Barbara Gleason, Professor and Director, MA in Language & Literacy, English Department, City College of New York, CUNY
  206. Angela Glotfelter, Assistant Professor of English, University of Maryland, College Park
  207. Beth Godbee, Public educator and former tenure professor
  208. Mathew Gomes, Associate Professor
  209. Axel S. Gonzalez, Independent Scholar / Researcher
  210. Caleb González, Assistant Teaching Professor
  211. Risa Gorelick, Co-Chair, Research Network Forum and Senior University Lecturer, New Jersey Institute of Technology
  212. Catherine Gouge, Professor, West Virginia University
  213. Michelle Graber, Instructor, Mitchell Technical College
  214. Maura Grady, Associate Professor
  215. David M. Grant, Professor
  216. Brian Graves, Senior Lecturer & First-Year Writing Coordinator, University of North Carolina Asheville
  217. Kat M. Gray, Assistant Director of the Program in Rhetoric and Composition, University of Arkansas
  218. Sami Grayson, Assistant Professor of English and Coordinator of the Reading & Writing Center
  219. Ann E. Green, Professor, Saint Joseph’s University
  220. McKinley Green, Assistant Professor, George Mason University
  221. Beth Greene, Teaching Assistant Professor, UNR
  222. Rhonda C. Grego, Retired, Dean of the School of English and Humanities, Midlands Technical College, Columbia, SC
  223. Christine Gregory, Teaching Professor
  224. Emily Gresbrink, Technical Communications Coach, University of St. Thomas
  225. Teresa Grettano, Associate Professor, The University of Scranton
  226. Claire Oldham Griffith, Independent Scholar
  227. Rachael Groner, Director of First Year Writing and Professor of Instruction, Temple University
  228. Jennifer Grouling, Lecturer
  229. Leigh Gruwell, Associate Professor of English, Auburn University
  230. Joshua Gunn, Professor of Communication Studies (here as a private citizen)
  231. Carrie Hall, Associate Professor and WPA, New York City College of Technology (CUNY)
  232. Emily Hall, Director, Program in Writing across the Curriculum and Writing Fellows Program, UW-Madison
  233. Jonathan Hall, Professor of English, York College CUNY
  234. Susanne Hall, Teaching Professor of Writing and Hixon Writing Center Director
  235. Cristina Hanganu-Bresch, Professor
  236. Joe Marshall Hardin, Former Dean, Professor Emeritus, Former WPA board, UAFS
  237. Kendyl Harmeling, Assistant Teaching Professor of Writing and Rhetoric
  238. Susanmarie Harrington, Professor of English, Writing in the Disciplines Director, University of Vermont
  239. Christopher Sean Harris, Professor of Writing Studies
  240. Kelsey Hawkins, Graduate Student
  241. Cynthia Haynes, Professor Emerita of Rhetorics, Communication, and Information Design – Clemson University
  242. Sarah Hakimzadeh, Lecturer, SUNY Stonybrook, Department of Writing and Rhetoric
  243. Sara Anderson Heaser, Teaching Professor & Writing Center Director
  244. Stephanie Hedge, Assistant Professor of English and WPA, University of Illinois Springfield
  245. Barbara Heifferon, Professor of English
  246. Alexandra Hidalgo, Associate Professor and Crow Chair, University of Pittsburgh
  247. Nabila Hijazi, Teaching Assistant Professor
  248. Nels P. Highberg, Professor, U. of Hartford
  249. Millie Hizer, Assistant Professor of Rhetoric and Composition
  250. Titcha Ho, Lecturer
  251. Haivan Hoang, Associate Professor, English, University of Massachusetts Amherst
  252. Marisa Koulen Holmes, Assistant Teaching Professor
  253. Analeigh E. Horton, Assistant Professor
  254. Veronica House, Associate Professor of the Practice
  255. Joanna Howard, Professor of English, retired.
  256. Shannon Howard, Professor of English
  257. Cody Hmelar, Graduate Student, University of Pittsburgh; Chair, Undergraduate Research Standing Group; Associate Chair, Asian/Asian American Caucus
  258. Jo Hsu, Associate Professor, University of Texas at Austin
  259. Ada Hubrig, Associate Professor
  260. Courtney Hughes, Writing Center Assistant Director, California State University, Fresno
  261. Peter Huk, Senior Continuing Lecturer, Writing Program, UCSB
  262. J Gordon Hultberg, Tutor
  263. David Hurst, Professor of English, College of the Sequoias
  264. Mohammed Iddrisu, Assistant Professor
  265. Tracy Tsui Iftikar, Graduate Student
  266. Shereen Inayatulla, Professor, York College, CUNY
  267. A B M Shafiqul Islam, PhD Candidate at Illinois State University
  268. N. Claire Jackson, Assistant Professor of Writing Studies & Director of Writing, SUNY Geneseo
  269. Dr. Cody Jackson, Secondary English Teacher
  270. Whitney Lew James, Associate Teaching Professor
  271. Sandra Jamieson, Director of Writing Across the Curriculum, Drew University
  272. Adrienne Jankens, Associate Professor, Wayne State University
  273. Emily January, Associate Professor
  274. Florianne Jimenez, Assistant Professor, University of New Hampshire
  275. Gavin Johnson, Assistant Professor; CCCC EC 2024-2027 (resigned July 2026)
  276. Kristine Johnson, Professor
  277. Lisa Johnson, Office and Graduate Program Manager
  278. Bryan “jonesy” Jones, Lecturer, Composition and Rhetoric
  279. Madison Jones, Associate Professor
  280. Rebecca Jones, Former, Writing Program Administrator (Montana State), Former Assistant Dean, UTC, Current, Communications Director
  281. Rachael Jorzan, Assistant Professor
  282. Veronica Joyner, Assistant Professor of Technical Writing
  283. Jen Justice, Instructor
  284. Seth Kahn, Professor of English, West Chester University of PA
  285. Elena Kalodner-Martin, Assistant Professor
  286. Matthew Kaminski, Adjunct
  287. Chris Kamrath, Advanced Lecturer
  288. Stephie Kang, Assistant Teaching Professor
  289. Alisha Karabinus, Associate Professor of Writing and Interdisciplinary Studies, Grand Valley State University
  290. Martha Karnes, Assistant professor
  291. Stacy Kastner, Director of the Writing & Speaking Center
  292. Trent M Kays, Assistant Professor
  293. Gabrielle Kelenyi, Assistant Professor, Assistant Director of CWP
  294. Elizabeth Keller, Associate Professor
  295. Jessica Ketcham, Professor of English & Chair of Humanities
  296. Carrie Byars Kilfoil, Assistant Professor of English
  297. Swan Kim, Professor, Brooklyn College, CUNY
  298. Elizabeth Kimball, Associate Professor of English; Director, University Writing Program, Drexel University
  299. Lisa King, Associate Professor and Director of First Year Composition
  300. Kelly Kinney, Associate Professor & 2026 CWPA Conference Chair
  301. Stacie Klinowski, Coordinator of Writing Across the Curriculum, Berkshire Community College
  302. Kathleen J Klompien, Teaching Professor
  303. Callie F. Kostelich, Assistant Professor
  304. Bruce Kovanen, Assistant Professor, Chair of CCCC Labor Caucus
  305. Steven D Krause, Professor, Eastern Michigan University
  306. Brinson Leigh Kresge, Instructor
  307. Mariel Krupansky, Lecturer III in Technical Communication
  308. Dr. Ashanka Kumari, Associate Professor & Associate Graduate Dean
  309. A. Eric Lehman, Teaching Assistant Professor of Rhetoric and Writing Studies, University of Nevada Reno
  310. dr bonnie lenore kyburz, instructor
  311. Barbara L’Eplattenier, Professor
  312. Carmen Kynard, Professor and Lillian Radford Chair of Rhetoric & Composition Studies
  313. Dundee Lackey, Associate Professor
  314. Angela Laflen, Associate Professor of English and Coordinator of University Reading & Writing Center
  315. Ana Cortes Lagos, Assistant Professor
  316. William B. Lalicker, Professor Emeritus of English, West Chester University; former Co-chair, Council on Basic Writing
  317. Tika Lamsal, Associate Professor
  318. Sara Bartlett Large, Associate Professor of Writing
  319. Christina LaVecchia, Assistant Professor of English
  320. Daniel Lawson, Professor
  321. Eunjeong Lee, Associate Professor
  322. Erica Vivian Leigh, Assistant Professor
  323. Mary Le Rouge, Associate Professor, Cleveland Institute of Music
  324. Jennifer Lin LeMesurier, Associate Professor of English
  325. Rebecca Lorimer Leonard, Professor of English, University of Massachusetts Amherst
  326. Dr. Katie Levin, Education Professional 6
  327. Reymond Levy, Assistant Teaching Professor
  328. Justin Lewis, English Faculty, Olympic College
  329. Lynn C. Lewis, Teaching Professor
  330. Weijia Li, Writing & Teaching Consultant, Bucknell University Writing Center
  331. Daniel Libertz, Assistant Professor, Baruch College
  332. Anthony Lince, Assistant Professor of English
  333. Chris Lindgren, Associate Professor, North Carolina State University
  334. Lisa Lister, Professor & Associate Director of Composition, George Mason University
  335. Heather Listhartke, Assistant Professor of Writing, Director of Individualized Studies
  336. Chad Eric Littleton, Senior Lecturer
  337. Robert Lively, Professor of English, Truckee Meadows Community College
  338. Hannah Locher, PhD Candidate
  339. Sarah Lonelodge, Assistant Professor and Director of First-Year Writing, University of Louisiana at Lafayette
  340. Kari Lundgren, Professor of Rhetoric and Writing
  341. Jason Luther, Associate Professor of Writing Arts and Director of the Writing Center, Rowan University
  342. Eduardo Mabilog, Graduate Student
  343. Michael T. MacDonald, Associate Professor of Composition & Rhetoric
  344. Nancy Mack, Professor Emerita
  345. Christen Madrazo, Director of First-Year Writing & Lecturer at CUNY, John Jay College College of Criminal Justice
  346. Cat Mahaffey, Teaching Professor
  347. Barry Maid, Professor Emeritus, Arizona State University
  348. Vyshali Manivannan, Associate Professor
  349. Travis Margoni, YVC English Faculty
  350. Jason Markins, Assistant Professor of Instruction
  351. Rebecca Hallman Martini, Associate Professor of English
  352. Lisa Mastrangelo, Department Chair, Director of Composition
  353. Keith W. Mathias, Associate Professor
  354. Paula Mathieu, Associate Professor, English. Boston College
  355. Mark McBeth, Professor, English, John Jay College of Criminal Justice
  356. Michael McCamley, Professor
  357. Nora McCook, Associate Professor, Bloomfield College of Montclair State University
  358. Tim McCormack, Associate Professor and Dir of Vertical Writing Program
  359. Meg McGuire, Professor
  360. Megan McIntyre, Director, Program in Rhetoric and Composition, University of Arkansas
  361. Heidi A. McKee, Professor
  362. Susan H. McLeod, Research Professor (retired)
  363. Amy Mecklenburg-Faenger, Professor and Director of ParkWrites, Park University
  364. Dan Melzer, Professor, University of California Davis University Writing Program
  365. Sue Mendelsohn, Writing Center Director, Columbia University
  366. Cara Marta Messina, Assistant Professor of English
  367. Chloe Anna Milligan, Lecturer, University of Pennsylvania
  368. Becky L. Mitchell
  369. Tiffany N. Mitchell, Senior Lecturer
  370. Jennifer R Mollberg, Associate Professor, Writing Center Director
  371. Sarah Moon, Assistant Professor of English
  372. Shannon Mooney, Assistant Teaching Professor, Babson College
  373. Jessie L. Moore, Professor of Professional Writing & Rhetoric and Director of the Center for Engaged Learning, Elon University
  374. Oksana Moroz, Assistant Professor of English
  375. Talisha Haltiwanger Morrison, Associate Professor, Writing Center Director
  376. Tracy Ann Morse, Professor & Director of Writing Foundations
  377. Roxanne Mountford, Professor and Director of First-Year Composition
  378. Joseph Moxley, Professor
  379. Derek Mueller, Director, Sweetland Center for Writing; Professor, Department of English Language and Literature, University of Michigan
  380. Mark Mullen, Associate Professor
  381. Zakery Rey Muñoz, Assistant Professor
  382. Melinda Myers, Associate Professor of English
  383. Kate Navickas, Associate Teaching Professor & Writing Center Director
  384. Liliana Naydan, Professor of English
  385. Matthew Nelson, Professor, College of the Sequoias
  386. Amy Nishimura, English Professor, University of Hawai’i West O’ahu
  387. Maria Novotny, Associate Professor of English
  388. David Nowak, Assistant Professor
  389. Lauren Obermark, Associate Professor of English, University of Missouri-St. Louis
  390. Timothy Oleksiak, Associate Professor (CCCC EC 2021-2023)
  391. Andrea Olinger, Associate Professor of English
  392. Sean Oros, Lecturer of English
  393. Bridget O’Rourke, Professor of English
  394. Ruth Osorio, Associate Professor, Past CCCC EC member, Past Co-Chair of the CDICC
  395. Lori Ostergaard, Professor, Oakland University, former CCCC EC & NC member, College English Editor
  396. Rebecca Ottman, Assistant Professor
  397. Kim Hensley Owens, Professor of English, Northern Arizona University
  398. Gian Pagnucci, Chair of Language, Literature, & Writing
  399. Michael Pak, Associate Professor, University of Hawaii – West Oahu
  400. Megan Palmer, PhD Student
  401. J Palmeri, Professor of English and Director of the Writing Program, Georgetown University
  402. Mike Palmquist, Publisher, The WAC Clearinghouse; Emeritus Professor, Associate Provost, and University Distinguished Teaching Scholar, Colorado State University
  403. Shyam Pandey, Assistant Professor, Towson University
  404. Steph D.C. Parker, Assistant Teaching Professor, Rice University
  405. Steve Parks, Professor University of Virginia
  406. Sunshine Passwater, Lecturer III
  407. Jennifer Lebowitz Patel, Learning Specialist, Weill Cornell Medicine
  408. Khushi Patel, Graduate Student
  409. Matthew Pavesich, Teaching Professor and Director of the Johns Hopkins University Writing Program
  410. Julia Pavlick, Predoctoral Instructor/PhD Student UW Seattle
  411. Katie Peel, Professor
  412. Michael Pemberton, Professor of English, Emeritus, Georgia Southern University
  413. Sarah Tinker Perrault, Associate Professor Emerita
  414. Alison Perry, Doctoral Lecturer, CUNY-John Jay College of Criminal Justice
  415. Staci Perryman-Clark, 2023 CCCC Chair
  416. Inhye Peterson, Adjunct Professor of English/Rhet.Composition
  417. Ehren Helmut Pflugfelder, Professor
  418. Adam J. Phillips, Assistant Professor of Instruction and Associate Director of First-Year Composition, University of South Florida
  419. Lisa L. Phillips, Associate Professor of English
  420. Beau Pihlaja, Associate Professor, Director of Graduate Studies Technical Communication and Rhetoric
  421. Patti Poblete, Faculty, SPSCC
  422. Mya Poe, Professor of English, Northeastern University
  423. Megan Poole, Assistant Professor
  424. Gwendolyn D. Pough, Professor, Syracuse University
  425. Floyd Pouncil, Assistant Professor, Mott Community College
  426. Roger Powell, English Instructor, Writing Center Director, Crowder College
  427. Amanda Pratt, Assistant Professor, Kennesaw State University
  428. Amanda Presswood, Assistant Professor SNUU
  429. Sarah Prielipp, Lecturer
  430. Annie Del Principe, Professor & Chairperson of English, Kingsborough CUNY
  431. Mary Beth Pringle, Emerita Professor of English, Wright State University
  432. Kristin Prins, Associate Professor, Cal Poly Pomona
  433. Marie Pruitt, Assistant Professor
  434. James Purdy, Professor of English
  435. Kristopher Purzycki, Associate Professor
  436. Donna Qualley, Professor Emertita, Western Washington University
  437. Candice Rai, Professor of English, Former Director of Composition, University of Washington
  438. Joyce Rain, Professor Bridgewater State University
  439. Clancy Ratliff, Professor, University of Louisiana at Lafayette
  440. John Raucci, Professor of Communication and Literature
  441. Joshua M. Rea, Assistant Professor of Writing Studies, Millersville University
  442. Lynn Reid, University Director of Writing
  443. Shelley Reid, Professor of Writing and Rhetoric, English Department, and Executive Director, Stearns Center for Teaching and Learning, George Mason U
  444. Cody Reimer, Professor, University of Wisconsin-Stout Polytechnic
  445. Jessica Restaino, Professor and Chair, Department of Writing Studies, Montclair State University
  446. Jacqueline Rhodes, Professor Emerita of English, CSU San Bernardino
  447. Ana Milena Ribero, Associate Professor
  448. Daniel P. Richards, Professor of English, Old Dominion University
  449. Rebecca S. Richards, Professor of English, UMass Lowell
  450. Jacob Richter, Teaching Assistant Professor, George Washington University
  451. Jim Ridolfo, Professor, University of Kentucky
  452. Kerri Rinaldi, Director of Writing
  453. Joseph W. Robertshaw, Senior Lecturer
  454. Amy Robillard, Professor, Illinois State University
  455. Kimberly A Robinson Neary, Adjunct Associate Professor
  456. Rebecca J Robinson, Professor of English
  457. Liz Rohan, Professor, Composition and Rhetoric
  458. Julia Romberger, Associate Professor
  459. Yasmine Romero, Professor of English, University of Hawai’i-West O’ahu
  460. Ray Rosas, Assistant Professor
  461. Shirley K Rose, Emeritus Professor of English
  462. Lauren Rosenberg, Professor Rhetoric & Writing Studies, University of Texas at El Paso
  463. Philip M Ross, Co-Chair (English) and Writing Center Coordinator
  464. Angela Rounsaville, Associate Professor, Arizona State University
  465. Karen Rowan, Professor of English
  466. Cathleen Rowley, Lecturer
  467. Suzanne Kesler Rumsey, Professor and Chair of English, Purdue Fort Wayne
  468. Alison Russell, Professor Emerita, Xavier University
  469. Clare Russell, Associate Teaching Professor, University of Pittsburgh
  470. Sheryl Ruszkiewicz, Special Lecturer, Oakland University
  471. Rachael Ryerson, Associate Professor of English
  472. Donnie Johnson Sackey, 2027 CCCC Program Chair
  473. Christina Saidy, Associate Professor of English
  474. Danny Saldaña, English Composition Instructor
  475. Michael Salvo, Professor
  476. Raúl Sánchez, Associate Professor
  477. Nick Sanders, Assistant Professor & Director, Professional and Digital Writing, Oakland University
  478. Jennifer Sano-Franchini, Past CCCC Chair
  479. Cassandra Santos, Assistant Professor (Teaching)
  480. Geoffrey Sauer, Associate Professor of Technical Communication and Rhetoric
  481. Chris Scheidler, Associate Professor, Weber State University
  482. Eileen E. Schell, Professor of Writing and Rhetoric, Syracuse University
  483. Joe Schicke, PhD Candidate/Senior Instructor
  484. Kristie Schlauraff, Lecturer
  485. Megan Schoen, Associate Professor of Writing and Rhetoric, Oakland University
  486. Joanna Schreiber, Professor of Technical and Professional Communication, Georgia Southern University
  487. Blake Scott, Professor of Writing and Rhetoric
  488. Graham (Gray) Scott, Professor of English
  489. Grete M Scott, Director of the Milligan University Writing Center, Instructor of Composition
  490. Maclain Scott, Assistant Professor
  491. Justin Sevenker, Professor of English
  492. Tricia Serviss, Associate Professor of Writing and Rhetoric, University of California, Davis
  493. Shawna Shapiro, Professor of Writing and Linguistics
  494. Shyam Sharma, Professor
  495. Sonia Sharmin, Lecturer
  496. Ryan Shepherd, Associate Professor, Northern Illinois University
  497. Lisa Shaver, Professor, Professional Writing & Rhetoric
  498. Staci Shultz, Assistant Professor of English/Director of Writing
  499. AJ Siegel, Ph.D. Student at University of Minnesota Twin Cities
  500. April Sikorski, Associate Professor of English
  501. Naomi Silver, Teaching Professor, University of Michigan
  502. Katie Silvester, Associate Professor, Director of Composition
  503. Kaia L. Simon, Associate Professor of English and WPA, U of WI-Eau Claire
  504. Neil Simpkins, Associate Professor, University of Washington-Bothell
  505. Kathleen Sims, Member
  506. Ryan Skinnell, Professor of Rhetoric & Wrtiing, Director of First-Year Writing Programs, and Chair of the Department of English & Comparative Literature at San Josée State University
  507. Amanda Sladek, Associate Professor of English, University of Nebraska at Kearney
  508. Alexander Slotkin, Assistant Professor of Rhetoric and Composition
  509. Maurika Smutherman, Assistant Professor
  510. Vanessa Kraemer Sohan, Associate Professor
  511. Nancy Sommers, Lecturer: Harvard Graduate School of Education
  512. Glen T. Southergill, Professor of Writing
  513. Kurt Spellmeyer, Professor
  514. Kiera Squires, Senior Associate Professor of English, Columbia Basin College
  515. Jennifer Staben, Professor of English, College of Lake County
  516. Kyle Stedman, Professor and Chair of English, Rockford University
  517. Jennifer Stewart, Associate Professor of English
  518. Samuel Stinson, Associate Professor
  519. Amy Ferdinandt Stolley, Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of Writing, Grand Valley State University
  520. Jonathan Stone, Associate Professor, University of Utah
  521. Melissa Stone, Assistant professor, Appalachian State University
  522. S. Andrew Stowe, Associate Professor of English
  523. Xiao Tan, Assistant Professor
  524. Nicole Tanquary, Visiting Assistant Professor of Writing and Rhetoric
  525. Cindy Tekobbe, Associate Professor
  526. Jason Tham, Associate Professor
  527. Katja Thieme, Associate Professor of Teaching, University of British Columbia
  528. Howard Tinberg, Professor of English (Emeritus)
  529. Andrew Tolhurst, Lecturer
  530. Joseph V. Torok, Associate Professor of Teaching
  531. Martha A. Townsend, Professor Emerita, English, University of Missouri
  532. Joonna Smitherman Trapp, Emerita Director of the Writing Program and Associate Teaching Professor, Emory University
  533. Michael Trice, Lecturer II
  534. Phillip Troutman, Assistant Professor of Writing and of History
  535. Keli Tucker, Assistant Professor & Coordinator of the Writing Center, St. Catherine University
  536. Kathryn Valentine, Associate Professor
  537. Matthew A Vetter, Professor of English
  538. Yesenia Villabol, Instructor
  539. Victor Villanueva, Retired Regents Professor
  540. Ethan Voss, PhD Student
  541. Stephanie Wade, Lecturer
  542. Stacey Waite, Associate Professor
  543. Paul Walker, Professor
  544. Elise Wallace, Graduate Student / Instructor
  545. Jonathan Wallin, Chief of Staff
  546. Amy J. Wan, Professor, Queens College, CUNY
  547. Xiaobo Wang, Previous EC member of CCCC and Co-Chair of Asian/Asian American Caucus
  548. Sara Webb-Sunderhaus, Associate Professor of English, Miami University
  549. Rebecca Weber, Senior Lecturer
  550. Zoe Wendler, Professor
  551. Ben Wetherbee, Assistant Professor of English, Norther Michigan University
  552. Kate White, associate professor of English and WPA
  553. Sara Whitestone, Lecturer in English
  554. Patty Wilde, Associate Prof & Director of Grad Studies, Washington State University
  555. Laura Wilder, Professor and Department Chair, University at Albany
  556. Sara Wilder, Associate Professor, Writing Center Director
  557. Lydia Wilkes, Assistant Professor
  558. Margaret Willard-Traub, Associate Professor Emerita
  559. S.J. Williamson, English lecturer
  560. Joseph Wilson, Assistant Professor, Syracuse University
  561. Gabriella Wilson-Kopko, Assistant Professor, Towson University, Co-chair of the Disability Studies Standing Group
  562. Ashleah Wimberly, Assistant Professor, Director of First-Year Year Writing, North Dakota State University
  563. Trent Wintermeier, PhD Candidate
  564. Stacy Wittstock, Assistant Professor of English & Writing Center Director
  565. Tara Wood, Professor of English (and past EC member)
  566. Charles Woods, Assistant Professor
  567. Courtney Adams Wooten, Associate Professor
  568. Erin Workman, Associate Professor of Writing, Rhetoric, & Discourse
  569. Jennifer Wortman, Professor
  570. Emily Woster, Assistant Professor, College of St. Scholastica
  571. Elizabethada Wright, Professor, University of Minnesota Duluth
  572. Christopher Wu, Teaching Assistant Professor, SUNY Korea
  573. Anne Frances Wysocki, Emeritus, University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee
  574. Shui-yin Sharon Yam, Professor
  575. Melissa Yang, Emory Writing Center Director
  576. M. Remi Yergeau, Canada Research Chair in Critical Disability Studies and Communication, Carleton University
  577. Eric J York, Associate Professor
  578. Morris Young, Charles Q. Anderson Professor of English, University of Wisconsin-Madison, past CCCC EC member (2005-2007)
  579. Christy Zink, Writing Center Director and Assistant Professor of Writing

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Appendix A: Ideas Provided by CCCC Leadership for Increasing Revenue

*Not an exhaustive list. 

  • Implementing an income-based tiered membership fee structure
  • Fundraising—enabling and inviting donations to the organization; allowing the option to earmark donations to CCCC specifically on NCTE’s donations page
  • Hiring a grant writer
  • Adjusting siting policy to rotate among a handful of (4–5) large metropolitan convention sites as a way to possibly negotiate better terms, enable attendees to know what to expect in terms of siting, and get to familiarize themselves with convention locales and the communities that reside in them. (Suggestion made on the basis of past attendance data.)
  • Adjusting marketing approach, e.g., inviting leadership or members to help brainstorm benefits that will speak to potential members, contacting writing faculty local to the convention site to invite them to submit a proposal to the CFP
  • Partnering with universities to provide some financial support (e.g., purchase books to give away or merch to sell for a small fee)
  • Adjusting approach to contracts to intentionally plan for a smaller convention
  • Announcing hybrid/remote participation options when the CFP is made available, to encourage broader participation.
  • Alternating or rotating between online and in person Convention years (the Convention is profitable when delivered entirely online).
  • Moving to a digital or print-on-demand program that convention attendees can purchase
  • Designing and selling CCCC merch (shirts, mugs, totes, pencils, etc.)
  • Developing a Summer Publishing Institute
  • Improving member communications

See also: Reimagining CCCC Since COVID-19

Appendix B: Questions Past and Present CCCC Members Can Ask NCTE’s Executive Committee

  • It’s been reported that NCTE leadership stated that “the ‘culture’ of CCCC threatened NCTE’s nonprofit status.” Can you help me understand how so? 
  • NCTE’s announcement about the de-chartering of CCCC states that “CCCC has struggled with its fiscal sustainability, declining participation, and governance challenges.” How is it that an organization that still has some 2500 members and $4.6 million in reserves was in such financial disrepair that it needed to be immediately de-chartered as a result? 
  • Why did CCCC need to be immediately de-chartered even though the CCCC EC submitted a proposed budget that addressed the deficit? 
  • Inside Higher Ed reported that “CCCC leaders suggested a variety of revenue-raising mechanisms, including income-based tiered membership fees, the option to earmark NCTE donations specifically for CCCC and partnering with universities for financial support.” Why were these (and potentially other) suggestions dismissed by NCTE if CCCC was in such a dire financial situation?
  • Will you be more specific about the “governance challenges” CCCC was facing?
  • Why was CCCC leadership required to sign confidentiality agreements every year?
  • What will happen to CCCC’s $4.6 million in reserves?
  • Will you tell me more about the past “attempts to work collaboratively with CCCC’s executive committees across multiple iterations.” How were these collaborations supposed to work when NCTE leadership was not meeting with the CCCC Executive Committee?
  • How is it that CCCC’s reserves were increasing substantially at the same time that membership had been declining?
  • NCTE President Antero Garcia’s letter states that “the history also includes decades of episodic conversations regarding CCCC’s interest in separating from NCTE and to have autonomy to operate outside of our organization.” What do these “episodic conversations” have to do with the decision to de-charter CCCC?
  • Why did the NCTE Executive Committee not meet with the CCCC EC before voting to de-charter a 77-year-old organization? Why didn’t the NCTE Executive Committee consult CCCC members before voting to de-charter the organization?
  • Will Emily Kirkpatrick and Antero Garcia be present at CCCC 2027 in Milwaukee? Will NCTE leadership host a town hall to answer questions and hold space for members of the CCCC community who are concerned about the future of the discipline and its place within NCTE?

Appendix C: NCTE Executive Committee Contact Information

If you wish to contact NCTE regarding the de-chartering, we encourage you to email the entire NCTE Executive Committee; the entire EC voted to de-charter CCCC, and any emails that are not sent directly to individual members are unlikely to be forwarded.

Executive Director: Emily Kirkpatrick

Presidential Team: Antero Garcia, Detra Price, Jamal Cooks, Tonya Perry

Representatives-at-Large: Kari Johnston, Vivett Dukes, Juliet Reed 

Section Leaders: Laura Ascenzi-Moreno, Alex Corbitt, Rex Ovalle, Jonathan Bush 

Conference and Association Leaders: Kofi Adisa, Nicholas Emmanuele, Keisha L. Green, Joanne Giordano, Lenny Sánchez

Full Email List: EKirkpatrick@ncte.org, antero.garcia@stanford.edu, price.151@osu.edu, jcooks@chabotcollege.edu, tperry@miles.edu, kari.johnston@austinisd.org, vivettdukes@gmail.com, julietr.reed@gmail.com, lascenzimoreno@brooklyn.cuny.edu, acorbitt@syr.edu, ROvalle@oprfhs.org, jonathan.bush@wmich.edu, kadisa@towson.edu, emmanuele@mtsd.org, klgreen@educ.umass.edu, joanne.giordano@slcc.edu, sanchezl@sc.edu