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Inside This Issue THEMES, LITERACY, OR TECHNOLOGY by Irma Luna Keynotes for the Conference NEWSLETTER OF THE TWO-YEAR COLLEGE ENGLISH ASSOCIATION - SOUTHWEST CHAPTER HALLMARKS OF OBLIGATIONS: Inside this Issue THEMES, LITERACY, OR TECHNOLOGY By Irma Luna Keynotes for the Conference . 3 A few of my colleagues have Conference Registration . 5 recently retired. One of these “bud- dies” told me, “You’d better start 2008 Conference Agenda . 7 cleaning out your files soon! That’s more time consuming than grading Poetry . 8, 9, 15 term papers all semester.” So, this History of Oklahoma . 11 summer, I started going through the folders in the first drawer of the file Colleges and Ike Update . 12 cabinet. I found two folders full of “Leave Requests” that I have had Teaching with Shakespearian to fill out in order to be able to at- IRMA LUNA Sonnets . .13 tend conferences. The first academic, professional Leadership Roster . 16 conference I attended was SRCE I have found TYCA-SW presenta- Th (conference for the Southwest Re- tions are very innovative and helpful. gional Conference on English in the As I reread Dave Charlson’s Join us in Oklahoma City for the Two-Year College Association, article in the May newsletter, I 43rd TYCA-SW Conference former name of TYCA-SW) in clearly understood his rationale for October 30-November 1, 2008 1985, and I first presented at a con- the Elephants in the Room: Ten- at the Sheraton Hotel—Downtown ference in Laredo, Texas, in 1986. I sions in Higher Education theme. know I have changed quite a bit in Over the past few weeks, I have 22 years; yet, without a doubt, been mulling over the topics and TYCA is now and has always been issues behind most conference the professional organization that themes for the last 22 years. (That has helped me the most as a teacher is what happens when you start and professional.From my point of clearing out old files; each report is view, new English instructors need a different memory.) Conference to compare TYCA to other organi- themes usually relate to what we, as faculty, deal with daily in the class- zations and evaluate which one is w Oklahoma City— more useful in terms of what one room along with the varied committee Home of Woody Guthrie does in the classroom. Undoubtedly, work—the hallmarks of obligations. Cont. pg. 2 Member NCTE, Affiliate Information Exchange Agreement, Vol. 28. No. 4, Oct. 2008 1 HALLMARK - CONT. FROM PAGE 1 skills programs in order to work with a group of students Any attempts to characterize or define themes or in developmental education. We thought that retention topics, particularly for those of us who are or have and educational success were problems then. Now, we been conference chairs, does not always prove logical are faced with teaching basic literacy and continuing to to many, but I, for one, was always open to suggestions strive to improve student retention and success in higher and appreciated any help. In effect, the activities and education. Administrators continuously tell us that stu- the tasks of individual conference chairs or those sup- dents need to be innovative, need to make critical judg- portive colleagues to choose a theme do not necessarily ments, and/or need to seek information and discern it. In involve any great designs or studies or data but, rather, my opinion, all of us have been doing that in the class- evolve from informal and emotional intuition of what room for many years. might work. Yet, as I look at the current crop of students, I have For this year’s conference, I want to congratulate to ask: “Who is the illiterate one here?” Me, of course! and acknowledge the great foresight that Dave I have always loved to read, to teach, and to do re- Charlson and Bertha Wise had in choosing an appropri- search. Nevertheless, I still cannot change the voice ate theme. So, I’ll use the El- message on my cell phone or use it to ephants in the Room concept as take a picture of my grandchildren the instrument for analyzing my without someone’s help. I admit I 25 years of teaching. This time need a literacy book entitled Cell frame is not very long, consider- Phones for Dummies. While my ing that many of my valued col- students often do not read or edit their leagues have taught for 35 or 40 own work, they can easily whip out years. (In my previous profession their cell phones, text each other, and [life], I was a buyer for one of check the Internet on their cell phones as the oldest department stores in they walk between classes. Amazing! south Texas, Joske’s. But, in my Consequently, instructors are next profession, I am going to be being advised to cultivate the a plumber or a mechanic—for student’s core skills for literacy devel- obvious financial reasons. How- opment. Instead of creating data to ever, teaching has been psycho- justify a current study, why not reor- logically rewarding.) ganize the current surveys and re- As I expected, the topics or search data to reflect what the stu- issues presented in the 1980s dent really needs? In any event, the were quite similar to what we see teachers, in the trenches, are still today, with some differences in being asked to do everything for every technology. While some of us different group, which only takes may have had access to a mainframe computer, not more time away from student-teacher classroom prac- many of us in academia had even heard of the Internet. tices. Are there any “possible resolutions”? In the mid-1980s, the themes dealt with the major Hence, times have truly changed. For me, the cell characteristics of composition and research, interdisci- phone is a part of a different era and, similarly, the el- plinary cooperation in the different curriculum, stan- ephant in my life. In like manner, many of these new dards of inquiry in social and behavioral roles, aca- learning-based studies have definitely created tension in demic freedom, and professional development. On the the classroom. After all, I’ve been there and done that. other hand, the principal concept of this year’s theme Fortunately, I can live with most of these restrictions, deals with what Dave refers to as tensions “due to a and, thankfully, I still learn from my students and interact variety of competing forces,” or those proverbial with them, in the old-fashioned way, not on a spread- ‘elephants in the room’.” sheet. So, I consider historical issues, just like recent I will consciously strive to get my files better orga- topics, as an extension of the past into the present. nized, become more ecologically aware of my paper The major steps, processes, or aspects of historical trails, become more skilled as a 21st century teacher, and research of the past, remain a collection and evaluation become at least competent when using the cell phone. of data, with students as sources, and institutional More importantly, I look forward to our two distinguished research documents being presented as statistical facts speakers on Halloween and All Saints’ Day in Oklahoma —all subject to interpretation, of course. City, and I hope to be able to visit with many of you at In the 1980s, English faculty at community colleges the conference. (I was too busy last year.) Leave your across the country drudged through state academic elephants in the classroom, and let’s release some tension. 2 ELEPHANTS IN THE ROOM: TENSIONS IN HIGHER EDUCATION (AND POSSIBLE RESOLUTIONS) 43rd Annual TYCA-SW Conference in Oklahoma City, Oct. 30 – Nov. 1, 2008 CONFERENCE KEYNOTES This year’s conference features bold and useful presentations from educators across the United States. THURSDAY NIGHT LIVE: Information about guest speakers, including Ira Shor, GUY AND PHYLLIS LOGSDON Rachel Jackson, and Guy and Phyllis Logsdon, is pre- sented below. Also planned is a breakout schedule of On the Life and Songs of Woody Guthrie presentations dealing with all sorts of “elephants in the classroom” – from racial issues to how to connect with Millennials, from problems with concurrent enrollment to the pleasures of service learning (and even one presentation on the Elephant Man himself). For addi- tional information about the conference, including ac- commodation details, excursions, and breakout sessions, please visit the TYCA-SW website at tycasw.org. The biographies presented below can also be found on the organization’s website, where they first appeared. FRIDAY KEYNOTE SPEAKER: IRA SHOR Dr. Guy Logsdon is a native Oklahoman who has earned international recognition as a Confronting Inequities in Higher Education scholar and entertainer. It is his liner notes that A friend who taught as a graduate student at a grace the Smithsonian Folkways CD’s of grand university experienced culture shock upon landing Woody Guthrie, and he sings and plays guitar her first full-time job—teaching in a community college himself too. His books include The University that she described as a glorified garage. Many of us know her story, and of Tulsa, a History 1882-1972 and the no one analyzes her award-winning “The Whorehouse Bells Were situation and the nu- Ringing” and Other Songs Cowboys Sing, merous inequities it with co-authorship credits for Saddle suggests better than Serenaders and Ada, Oklahoma, Queen City Ira Shor. His various of the Chickasaw Nation. In person, he tells books take an un- compelling stories about Woody Guthrie, flinching look at higher education in including why Oklahoma didn’t always IRA SHOR WITH PAULO FRIEIRE America, yet his titles welcome their prodigal son, and he performs also suggest the hope Woody’s songs too.
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