CFP: MLA 2024 Convention in Philadelphia specifically seeking community college presenters
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Please share these CFPs, especially if you know of community college faculty and administrators living near Philadelphia who want to attend the MLA Convention there in early January 2024.
Defining the Challenges of Inclusion: DEI and Academic Freedom at the Community College
Seeking proposals on the implementation of DEI from faculty and administrators at community colleges, focusing on solutions to achieve productive interaction among DEI initiatives, individual values, and academic freedom. Email 500-word proposals
Deadline for submissions: Monday, 20 March 2023
Amee Schmidt, Marshalltown Comm C (Amee.S...@iavalley.edu ) Heather Harris, Community College of Baltimore County (HHa...@ccbcmd.edu )
One Year in: ChatGPT and Departments of English/Modern Languages at Two-year Colleges
Submit proposals that report, analyze, research, etc. where two-year colleges are with ChatGPT one year after its widespread introduction. Are there productive uses to ChatGPT? Problems? Solutions? Has teaching changed in response to ChatGPT?
Deadline for submissions: Monday, 20 March 2023
William Christopher Brown, MLA Committee on Community Colleges (c_bro...@hotmail.com )
Public Humanities and the Community College Mission
Seeking abstracts on how public humanities initiatives at community colleges provide opportunities for faculty and student scholarship, communicate the value of humanities education to regional employers, and further the equity-focused mission of two-year institutions.
Deadline for submissions: Monday, 20 March 2023
Michael Jacobs, Monroe Community C, State U of New York (mjac...@monroecc.edu )
Teaching Literature at Community Colleges Now
How do faculty keep literature relevant when colleges are dealing with initiatives imposed from above, funding shortfalls, the pandemic, the focus on STEM and changing ideas about what a college education should be? 250 words.
Deadline for submissions: Wednesday, 15 March 2023
Susan Jacobowitz, Queensborough Comm C, CUNY (sjaco...@qcc.cuny.edu )
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Stacey Donohue, Ph.D.
Professor of English
Central Oregon Community College
2600 NW College Way
Bend, OR 97703
Email: sdon...@cocc.edu