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Cara Marta Messina @caramartamessina.com · 19/09/2026

CCCC Leadership Response to NCTE’s De-Chartering of CCCC. (Ex)CCCC and writing studies folks, please read and sign: theorganizationformerlyknownascccc.com

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Stacy Wittstock @curiousmagpie.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

We're also hiring for a TT Assistant Professor of English specializing in Early Modern Literature: careers.marist.edu/cw/en-us/job...

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Careers at Marist - Marist University

Thank you for your interest in a career with Marist University!

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Stacy Wittstock @curiousmagpie.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

We are also fortunate to be hiring for TT Assistant Professor of English specializing in Technical and Professional Writing. @caramartamessina.com is chairing the committee, but I'm serving on it too and can answer any questions: careers.marist.edu/cw/en-us/job...

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Careers at Marist - Marist University

Thank you for your interest in a career with Marist University!

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Stacy Wittstock @curiousmagpie.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Hi all, The Marist University English Department is hiring a tenure-track Assistant Professor of Creative Writing specializing in Fiction. I am chairing the committee and am happy to answer any questions. Please share widely! careers.marist.edu/cw/en-us/job...

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Careers at Marist - Marist University

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Cara Marta Messina @caramartamessina.com · 25/08/2026

Marist is hiring an Assistant Prof of English, Technical and Professional Writing. I'm chairing the committee, so please feel free to reach out with any questions! Submit by Oct 31 for highest consideration (deadline not on ad). careers.marist.edu/en-us/job/49...

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Careers at Marist - Marist University

Thank you for your interest in a career with Marist University!

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Almost every single student who has found me this week wants to talk about AI. A couple reflections. One student has taken three AI courses in philosophy, health sciences and comm. They’re basically the same class. As it turns out, it doesn’t take a lot of classes to “learn” ai.

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Wil Flores, PhD @wilflores.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

“Dear colleagues, as our field falls apart—partly because of political machinations as a large literacy orgs cows to GenAI adoption, takes Big Tech money, and makes your job even more precarious—please consider submitting to another GenAI and writing project.”

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Wil Flores, PhD @wilflores.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

NCTE with the Google Grant. Anna Mills working as a consultant for OpenAI and then going on to usher in the GenAI adoption of writing studies. The list goes on in higher education 🫩

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Megan McIntyre @rcmeg.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Imagine the conversation we could have about this travesty if NCTE didn’t require Cs officers and executive committee members to sign confidentiality agreements. Folks should also ask NCTE about how and whether their lucrative grant/partnership with Google was part of what Cs “culture” threatened.

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NCTE Dissolves 77-Year-Old Composition Association

The National Council of Teachers of English’s decision was met with swift backlash from Conference on College Composition and Communication members, who say their organization is vital to advancing co...

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Megan McIntyre @rcmeg.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

So, I’ve created a form where current and former CCCC Caucus/SIG/SG-affiliated leaders/folks can sign up if they want to be part of an ongoing conversation about how to respond (and how we might preserve and/or continue the work of our Caucus/SIG/SG after the loss of Cs).

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CCCC Cross-Caucus/SIG/SG Conversation about the Future

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Dr. Mag 🌿👾 @nobugsnous.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Regional networks and support are SO important, but following CCCC‘s dechartering, I believe we need national and international organizing to maintain our discipline and combat the intensifying authoritarianism that brought down our org in the first place.

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Dr. Mag 🌿👾 @nobugsnous.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

I wish the reporter had expiunded on the differences between the organizations’ AI stances. NCTE, for example, has partnered with Google, while CCCC has started recognizing a range of student and teacher responses, including refusal.

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Megan McIntyre @rcmeg.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

The CCCC Exec Committee released a brief statement on the NCTE’s intention to dissolve CCCC. "CCCC is the professional home for thousands of scholars, teachers, and researchers...with a decades-long record of shaping how writing is taught, studied, and understood."

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CCCC EC Quick Response July 23

Public Facing Statement To be Shared With the General CCCC Membership We, members of the CCCC Executive Committee, were alarmed to learn of the NCTE Presidential Team’s plans to dissolve CCCC, which ...

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Phil Choong @philchoong.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

It often feels like institutions of higher ed are slow to make progressive change but very quick to go forward with bad & harmful changes. Anyway, here’s the sticker I was buying at an art fair when the news dropped that NCTE voted to de-charter CCCC

Black and white sticker with black text that reads “May we all continue a practice of refusal as a necessary form of resistance survival and refuge”

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Veronica Joyner✨🦖🫶🏾 @doctahroni.blacksky.app · 25/07/2026

Middle level educators should know that NCTE is willing to decharter the 77 year old organization that supports writing when those 8th graders go to college because they’re preemptively obeying a political regime.

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Le Cagle @lecagle.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

I will never choose to affiliate with @ncte.org, given the absolutely disgraceful way they have chosen to dissolve CCCC, a 70+ year organization central to the discipline of writing and literacy studies. I am so disappointed in the NCTE leadership. May they come to view their actions with horror.

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Coalition of Feminist Scholars in the History of Rhet & Comp @cfshrc.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Statement from the CFSHRC's Executive Board #SaveCCCC 💔

The Executive Board of the Coalition of Feminist Scholars in the History of Rhetoric and Composition has been watching the social media posts regarding NCTE’s intention to dissolve the Conference on College Composition and Communication into their College Section. We too have found this news incredibly disheartening. We urge NCTE to take the time to hear from Cs leadership and our larger scholarly community before they make any decisions regarding the future of Cs.

While we await official statements and clarity from leadership of both NCTE and Cs, we wanted to express our appreciation for the immense impact Cs has had on the formation, growth, and sustainability of our field for over three quarters of a century.

During this painful time, we see the deep care we have for our work and the endless generosity of time, talent, and expertise that so many in our community have donated to Cs and to us all over the years. We deeply appreciate the executive board and Cs leadership for their work during this difficult time. Any organization is made up of people, and we will persist and thrive.
It is our hope that the Coalition of Feminist Scholars in the History of Rhetoric and Composition can be a place to gather, process, and support our colleagues.

In solidarity,
Coalition of Feminist Scholars in the History of Rhetoric and Composition
Cristy Beemer, President
Rebecca Richards, Immediate Past President
Jess Enoch, Former President
Jen Almjeld, Vice President
Risa Applegarth, Secretary
David Gold, Treasurer
Kate Pantelides, Member-at-Large
Leslie Beegle, Graduate Student Representative

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Cara Marta Messina @caramartamessina.com · 24/07/2026

I should’ve cancelled my membership as soon as they announced their Google partnership.

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Olivia Wood @oliviawood.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Remember when this happened lol

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Cara Marta Messina @caramartamessina.com · 24/07/2026

This is because NCTE complied with fascists and has a partnership with Google, while CCCC continued to advocate for anti-racism and caution against AI. I just emailed customerservice@ncte.org to request a refund and you should, too. Absolutely devastating.

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Dustin Edwards @dustinedwards.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

the audacity for the NCTE EC to say they're excited about the future. i just --

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Leigh Gruwell @leighthinks.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

@ncte.org I’ll be calling first thing Monday morning to cancel my membership. I’ll spend the weekend encouraging all my CCCC colleagues to do the same.

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Megan McIntyre @rcmeg.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

NCTE has just summarily killed a 77-year-old organization that has shaped how writing is understood, taught, and learned, in higher education in particular. No member involvement. No transparency. No process to speak of. With friends and fellow educators like these, I guess who needs enemies.

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Claire Jackson @claire.northsky.social · 01/07/2026

I find it very embarrassing for our field that we've been having to repeat this about "AI" and writing instruction since I was one-year old (from an article by Fred Kemp in a 1987 issue of Writing Center Journal)

You may marvel, and many do, that computers can discover and describe in minute detail these characteristics of a student's paper, but I have a different reaction. Taking my cue from Artificial Intelligence research, Iook for truths about human discourse from what the computer can't do. The fact that a computer can perform the above analyses in ready fashion while being completely locked out of the content of a paper suggests that computer editing, while no doubt useful commercially and in discourse analysis, is not very useful pedagogically. Style-checkers promote a band-aid approach to writing instruction and direct time and attention away from the larger issue: the quality of the student's ideas and the relationship between those ideas and the form of expression she employs."

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Pops @pops131.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

Unregulated AI deployment risks significant job losses, increasing poverty while boosting corporate profits. It may also enable criminal activity through security breaches and scams, as its unchecked advancement overlooks serious societal consequences.

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 23/06/2026

“In each section, the document includes background information on the activist, their contact information if available, their social media handles and follower count, then quotes each have previously said about MSG’s facial recognition program.”

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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 22/06/2026

there is no such thing as "responsible use of generative ai" in research

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Megan McIntyre @rcmeg.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

We (@caramartamessina.com, @nobugsnous.bsky.social, and I) invite you to participate in a research project on writing studies, rhetoric, and composition instructors’ and administrators’ experiences with, perspectives on, and feelings about generative AI: bit.ly/WS_AI.

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Perspectives on Generative AI in Writing Studies

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Cara Marta Messina @caramartamessina.com · 22/06/2026

We ( @nobugsnous.bsky.social, @rcmeg.bsky.social, and I) invite you to participate in a research project on writing studies, rhetoric, and composition instructors’ and administrators’ experiences with, perspectives on, and feelings about generative AI: bit.ly/WS_AI.

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Perspectives on Generative AI in Writing Studies

The most powerful, simple and trusted way to gather experience data. Start your journey to experience management and try a free account today.

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Ben Railton @americanstudier.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

It’s Flag Day, & let’s counter the dumpster fire at one of our most historic public sites with all the great public scholarly writing, podcasts, new & forthcoming books in my 280th #ScholarSunday thread! Add more below, share widely, & enjoy, all! 🗃️ + blackwhiteandread.com/scholarsunda...

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#ScholarSunday Thread 280 (6/14/26) – Black and White and Read All Over

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Cara Marta Messina @caramartamessina.com · 08/06/2026

It's publication week! My book, Critical Fandom: Representations of Race, Gender, and Sexuality in Fan Fiction, is officially out through University of Iowa Press. Use code MESSINA40 for 40% off: uipress.uiowa.edu/books/critic...

Book flyer for Critical Fandom: Representations of Race, Gender, and Sexuality by Cara Messina published through University of Iowa Press. There is a QR code and a discount code, MESSINA40, for 40% off.

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AAUP @aaup.org · 21/05/2026

The US Department of Education is currently overhauling federal accreditation rules for colleges & universities. The April 6, 2026, Proposed Changes to Initial Draft Regulations unacceptably seek to narrow & control what can be taught, learned, & researched on college & university campuses. 🧵 1

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AIM Committee Negotiated Rulemaking Statement

If the regulations developed by the ED’s Accreditation, Innovation, and Modernization (AIM) negotiated rulemaking committee include a definition of academic freedom, it must be the foundational nation...

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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

The claim that AI will be used to boost productivity and improve everyone's lives would have just a little bit more credibility if the big tech companies weren't already using AI exactly as every knows they will, which is to fire people and extract more work from those remaining.

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Karrin Vasby Anderson @kvanderson.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

AI cannot destroy higher education without help from professors. Sadly, many are choosing to help. Peer review, GTAs and GRAs, tenure assessments, feedback to students . . . these are all systems we need to protect, not delegate to the robot prediction machines.

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

They bought all of our choices, political, lifestyle and economic. But they did not wager the cost of our *refusal*. It is fascinating. Grim but fascinating.

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

Do you know I actually think that these people are so inoculated from any public sentiment that they are legitimately shook by a handful of boos at commencements this week?

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

More to come but I will say this: the liberal institutional infrastructure of mobility is gone. People are mad. Women are people. No one is speaking to that anger. Midterms soon come. But that’s just the start. Here lies the girlboss. First to die but not the last. Good riddance.

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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

the thing about tenure line professors forming Pennsylvania’s largest public sector union in 50 years is unions are for everybody!! profs are public servants! and we're doing all the big publics! we're doing Urbana we're doing Michigan we're doing California! www.statecollege.com/articles/psu...

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Penn State Faculty Vote in Favor of Unionizing

Penn State faculty have voted to unionize in what was Pennsylvania's largest public sector organizing election in nearly 50 years. Organizers said on

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Cara Marta Messina @caramartamessina.com · 14/05/2026

FSSNA has an originality clause that asks submitters not to use LLMs to generate their proposal. I love this so much. Some may argue "well, people will just lie and say they didn't use it." Maybe. But what are we normalizing when we allow scholars to submit AI-generated work?

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Phil Nichols @philnichols.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

Gotta say, having been in the initial convening on which this framework was to be based, these recs feel way out of step with the serious concerns folks were voicing about AI's commercial capture of education, teacher deskilling, short-circuiting of reading/writing processes, environmental costs.

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Cabel Sasser @cabel.panic.com · 11/05/2026

this graduation speech moment is notable, and her amazed shock at having failed to read the room feels instructive. when you're inside the bubble, you think everybody else is. but everybody isn't.

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Matt Seybold @mattseybold.bsky.social · 09/05/2026

Every new GenAI study can be summarized by the headline, “It’s even worse than you feared.”

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Sonja Drimmer @sonjadrimmer.bsky.social · 20/10/2025

I have yeeted the LMS my uni has paid for and which you were probably thinking helps you teach Forgive me it was surveillant so mid and so broke

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Matt Seybold @mattseybold.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

What I wish for everybody to remember when Canvas comes back online: The reason OUR data can be held for ransom is because Instructure, their owners (KKR private equity & Dragoneer venture capital), & our own employers (see ASU Atomic) monetize it. It's Canvas that hacked education & stole our IP.

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Cara Marta Messina @caramartamessina.com · 06/05/2026

Critical Fandom is now available for pre-order through University of Iowa Press! uipress.uiowa.edu/books/critic...

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Critical Fandom

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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

Have seen this cycle a lot of times: Paper promotes the benefits of AI in education, paper is hyped in media/LinkedIn/in AI circles. Paper is retracted as bullshit months later www.404media.co/nature-retra...

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'Nature' Retracts Paper on the Benefits of ChatGPT in Education

“What educators, parents and policy officials really needed was high quality data and evidence to help guide them. What they have had to deal with instead is some substandard research.”

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