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Kailyn Shartel Rogers @kshartel.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Statement from NCTE re: the current trash fire of their decisions: ncte.org/press-update... Word on 4C27 coming by end of August. I grew up in Missouri. I'll believe the platitudes when I see actual action and change. They have burned RhetComp folks and I'm not keen to put my hand back in the fire.

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Moving Forward: Updates on CCCC from the NCTE Executive Committee

The NCTE Executive Committee authorizes the following transitional steps upon the difficult decision reached on July 24, 2026.

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Dan Libertz @dlib24.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Why did NCTE and CCCC officers have to sign NDAs? Do we have trade secrets about semicolons? I don’t understand. What a rotten organization NCTE is…we are educators and not defense contractors or Coca-Cola. Ridiculous. No NDAs for our new org #teamrhetoric

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

If I were still a member of NCTE, I’d ask them: 1. Why do you use NDAs for officers? What are you hiding? 2. What are the supposed threats to your nonprofit status? 3. What were the parameters of your Google grant/partnership? 4. What do you do with constituent orgs’ $$$ when you dissolve them?

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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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Jody Shipka @jshipka.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

RIP April 1, 1949-July 24, 2026 #CCCC #4C

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Kailyn Shartel Rogers @kshartel.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

"While increasing Convention attendance is a primary focus, it is imperative that CCCC diversify opportunities for member engagement that focus on long-term member retention." Kirkpatrick in her budget report, 2025. "long-term member retention." cccc.ncte.org/wp-content/u...

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Jan Brady's Sarcastic 'Sure, Jan' Moment

Alt: Marcia Brady, sarcastically saying "Sure Jan" because her sister is making up a fake story.

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Dan Martin @danmartin7.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

This is basically the same story of comp/rhet in English departments for decades. It's why we needed the CCCC. "The department looks forward to involving writing studies in the future of the department if possible." Did seven English department chairs from the 1980s write this memo?

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Leigh Gruwell @leighthinks.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

Just throwing this out there: projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/o...

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onaldenpond.bsky.social @onaldenpond.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

I firmly believe that the #CCCC community will independently recreate itself somewhere, someday. That new organization will get my energy and my membership. NCTE will get nothing more from me.

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Charles Grimm @grimmprospects.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

If you're also annoyed at #NCTE for dissolving #4C27 or #CCCC, & you're a little petty, remember that they have a lot of social media presence to promote books and conferences. Comment on those posts - request accountability and transparency. Tell other NCTE members what happened.

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Dr. Jennifer (she/her) @drjags.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

That "special topics conference" language is really getting under my grill. It reeks of the long history of seeing composition as an extension of and lesser than literature.

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Michael Hessel-Mial @mrpoemguy.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

College writing instruction is one of the places where academic labor exploitation is very high, and at the same time these same academic workers are at the front lines of the literacy crisis and are also the most committed to a truly inclusive university.

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Le Ca-ghoul @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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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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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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PlaySta-Sean 🎮 @seemtoggle.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

There it is. #CCCC #NCTE

Email from NCTE Executive Committee acknowledging messages received and the following:

For many years, the Conference on College Composition & Communication (CCCC) played a critical role in serving the National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE) & its mission. In recent years, however, CCCC has struggled with its fiscal sustainability, declining participation, & governance challenges. As a result, earlier today the Executive Committee of NCTE made the difficult decision to de-charter its special topics conference CCCC. To clarify, today’s decision to de-charter does not mean that NCTE has altered its commitment to supporting teachers at the college and university level. This is exemplified by the fact that the NCTE College Section is thriving. The process in making this decision spanned several years, with attempts to work collaboratively with CCCC’s executive committees across multiple iterations. While the organization appreciates the years of collaboration with CCCC, after deep evaluation and thoughtful consideration, the Executive Committee concluded this step was necessary to more effectively serve the college English and writing and composition community and NCTE membership as a whole.

Although this has been a very difficult decision, we are excited about the future. This change will allow us to provide better support to the college English and writing and composition community. In the coming days and weeks, we will be working hard to make this transition as smooth as possible. We thank CCCC, its leaders, and its members for its many years of contributions and look forward to continuing to involve the composition, rhetoric, and writing communities as we move forward. NCTE remains devoted to improving the teaching and learning of English and the language arts at all levels of education. As future planning takes place, NCTE will communicate updates.

A transition team focused on supporting composition, rhetoric, & writing studies will be named imminently.

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Seth Kahn (he/him) @badpacifist.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Thanks, RSA leaders, for saying it. I hope the powers that be at @ncte.org are listening to their peers more carefully than they seem to be listening to their members.

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A Letter of Solidarity from the RSA Executive Board

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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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Seth Kahn (he/him) @badpacifist.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

For Rhetoric/Comp/Writing folks wondering about the NCTE/CCCC mess, two things. 1. I recommend telling NCTE that you're canceling your membership until this is sorted out, and until you're satisfied with changes to the governance structure so we don't get blindsided like this again. 1/x

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Donnie Johnson Sackey @donniejsackey.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Update: I have a meeting for next Friday. The subject line of the email is "Meeting about CCCC 2027 next Week." There were no details in the email. I'll share once I have the meeting with the NCTE presidential team.

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UPColorado @upcolorado.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

The University Press of Colorado / Utah State University Press wholeheartedly supports #CCCC and our #writingstudies and #teamrhetoric scholars in their endeavor to maintain this important association for the field.

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Kailyn Shartel Rogers @kshartel.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

See full posts below, but conversations about identity and belonging in a DISCIPLINE feel especially important today. #CCCC

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Donnie Johnson Sackey @donniejsackey.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

A couple hours ago, I woke up to messages about CCCC being dissolved and absorbed into NCTE's College Section. I don't know what this means for the 2027 conference, but I do know it'll be different, if it's held at all.

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Ingrid Burrington @lifewinning.com · 19/10/2025

the Muppets have been real quiet since the Louvre heist

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Seth Kahn (he/him) @badpacifist.bsky.social · 18/10/2025

Working on the book series this morning, and realizing I should post it here. We're interested in projects focused on contingent/precarious academic labor. Books are virtual open-access with print available. First two books are available for download. #AcademicSky

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Precarity & Contingency - The WAC Clearinghouse

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Kailyn Shartel Rogers @kshartel.bsky.social · 14/10/2025

Reposting as a reminder. Please share widely! Priority deadline is November 3rd. #teamrhetoric #techcomm

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Kailyn Shartel Rogers @kshartel.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

Excited to announce that University of Tennessee at Martin is hiring a TT faculty member! Specialty is Prof/Tech Writing, and teaching first-year comp is also expected. bit.ly/UTM-PTW-AY26TT. Priority deadline is Nov 3rd. I'm Search Chair, so let me know if you have questions. #techcomm #rhetcomp

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Assistant Professor of English

The Department of English and Modern Foreign Languages at University of Tennessee at Martin invites applications for a tenure-track assistant professor with a specialization in composition and profess...

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Kailyn Shartel Rogers @kshartel.bsky.social · 22/09/2025

To quote the glorious @lecagle.bsky.social: "The mountains are underwater and fascism is on the rise, so I recommend going ahead and getting that divorce you've been thinking about."

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Ryan Estrada @ryanestrada.com · 06/09/2025

Just a reminder to check for your name in this list of books that OpenAI trained from. If your name is there, they probably owe you several thousand dollars. OpenAI cried that if everyone eligible author files, the company will go bankrupt, so I'm alerting every author I have ever spoken to.

theatlantic.com

Search LibGen, the Pirated-Books Database That Meta Used to Train AI

Millions of books and scientific papers are captured in the collection’s current iteration.

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Kailyn Shartel Rogers @kshartel.bsky.social · 02/08/2025

Some nerds and I wrote about our experiences with mentorship for Rhetoric Review, and it's available now! "Recursive, horizontal, distributed, networked: Iterating transdisciplinary models of mentorship in the humanities" on pgs 18-27. doi.org/10.1080/0735...

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Symposium on Intergenerational Graduate Mentorship

Published in Rhetoric Review (Ahead of Print, 2025)

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Patrick Garvin @patrickmgarvin.bsky.social · 07/07/2025

New week, same old tip on how you can remember to add alt text to the images you share! Bluesky has a setting that will remind you to add alt text before posting any images. Go to "Settings," then "Accessibility." Select the checkbox for "Require alt text before posting." #A11y #Accessibility

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Maureen Johnson @maureenjohnsonbooks.com · 02/07/2025

A teacher with serious classroom needs and students suffering complex trauma asked for my help funding things for her classroom. I am sending things. As much as I hate Amaz&n, I will post a teacher's need list. On a dark day, a little way to help: www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/...

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Check out my list on Amazon

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Kailyn Shartel Rogers @kshartel.bsky.social · 29/06/2025

I agree with the critique of AI in the classroom here but want to note one thing. The argument about LMSs isn't the way to go here. It presumes LMSs are supposed to make teaching easier--I don't think they are. They increase accessibility to our courses when used effectively. So yeah, that's hard.

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Kailyn Shartel Rogers @kshartel.bsky.social · 28/06/2025

Me: Put all your game recs in this Google Doc. @academicfan.bsky.social: ...can you make it a spreadsheet? Me: 1000%, standby. B: I added tabs to the spreadsheet. Me: This is why we're friends. I added conditional formatting.

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Kailyn Shartel Rogers @kshartel.bsky.social · 26/06/2025

A few things since I teach in the UTenn system: The creation of a new Accreditation Agency has to go through official channels at the Dept of Ed. That same DoE is currently behind on reporting annual data. This is a multi-year process under normal circumstances. We'll see what becomes of this.

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Aidan McGlynn @aidanmcglynn.bsky.social · 25/05/2025

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Donnie Johnson Sackey @donniejsackey.bsky.social · 24/05/2025

Job Ad: Assistant Professor of Rhetoric and Writing The Department of Rhetoric & Writing (DRW) at The University of Texas at Austin invites applications for a tenure-track Assistant Professor to begin in Fall of academic year 2026-27. We're moving fast. Please share widely.

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victoria l. braegger @toskakoshka.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

Hey #ttrpg players, writers, & devs! I'm building an undergrad course on narrative games and sims - students will be playing&writing&designing print&digital games. I'm building a library of solo/duets for students to play and analyze. I've got money to spend. Got recommendations? (hype yourself!)

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Kailyn Shartel Rogers @kshartel.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

New platform, but rules of the Internet still apply.

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Kailyn Shartel Rogers @kshartel.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

This is one instance where I have expertise to comment and I will be concise. THE RED LIGHTSABERS WERE THE BAD GUYS.

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Oregon 🕎🎲 @oregonthedm.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

Biggest commitment to a 3 second joke I've ever seen

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Le Ca-ghoul @lecagle.bsky.social · 13/10/2024

The mountains are underwater and fascism is on the rise, so I recommend going ahead and getting that divorce you've been thinking about.

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Kailyn Shartel Rogers @kshartel.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

Alright basic writing nerds, who can help Chelsea out? #WPAlife #teamrhetoric

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Kailyn Shartel Rogers @kshartel.bsky.social · 24/12/2024

Apparently the new Christopher Nolan film is going to be an adaptation of Homer's Odyssey, so I'll take this time to recommend both Emily Wilson's translation of it and Margaret Atwood's Penelopiad which retells the story from Penelope's point of view.

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Jacob Babb @jacobbabb.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

A new CFP for folks out there who do work in writing program administration. Please share with others who may be interested. If you have any questions, contact me and my fabulous co-editor Kristi Murray Costello. Looking forward to reading some great proposals!

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CFP - Re-Defining Boundaries: Explore Writing Program Administration Identities

Re-Defining Boundaries: Exploring Writing Program Administration Identities Editors: Kristi Murray Costello, Old Dominion University, and Jacob Babb, Appalachian State University This call emerges f...

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