Community College Humanities Association
The Community College Humanities Association is the only national organization that exclusively serves to strengthen the humanities in the nation's community colleges.

 

 

 


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Literary Magazine Competition 2009
Entry Form Download Now!
Deadline: June 18, 2009

The Humanist, Spring 2009 (pdf).

View The Humanist Archives


NEPCA, a regional affiliate of the Popular Culture Association, is a multi-disciplinary scholarly society. Our organization includes people from the fields of art, communications, history, literature, music, theater, and many others. Papers on pedagogy related to popular culture are encouraged as well. Participants come not only from the Northeast, but across the United States. Many participants even come from overseas.

On October 23-24, 2009, Queensborough Community College will host the annual meeting of the Northeast Popular Culture Association (NEPCA).
Call for papers - Deadline June 1, 2009

For more, visit the NEPCA website at http://users.wpi.edu/~jphanlan/NEPCA.html.


Faculty Summer Institute w/Scholarship Opportunities
for 2 and 4 year college
faculty
New listings in April!
New Institute Listing for CC teachers of Arabic, Chinese and Russian-Applications due March 2, 2009-Read This!

Call for Conference Proposal:
UNDERSTANDING SUSTAINABILITY: PERSPECTIVES FROM THE HUMANITIES


Invest in the Humanities,
Not Wallstreet!

Read "The Humanities' Value

Read "Humanities and the Examined Life"

"HIgher Learning, Greater Good"


CONFERENCE DIVISION AWARDS

News and Opportunities for Contingent Faculty

Coalition on the Academic Workforce

 

 

 

CCHA, a member of the CAW, announces the New AFT Report on Academic Staffing: Reversing Course: The Troubled State of Academic Staffing and a Path Forward.
This report takes a close look at classes taught by contingent faculty and also breaks that data down broadly by disciplines as well. The AFT report also provide a model for costing out how to "reverse course." You can access the report, the model, press release and links to media coverage which has been pretty positive so far (including getting a piece in USA Today) at our FACE web site: www.aftface.org

Education in the Balance

MLA Urges Chairs to Focus on Adjunct Issues
http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2009/05/07/qt#198364

The Modern Language Association is sending a letter to all English and foreign language department chairs urging them to organize discussions and activism to draw attention to the treatment of adjuncts. The letter follows on both reports and policy positions issued by the MLA, and urges discussions with department members and administrators, publicizing "best practices" on the use of non-tenure-track faculty members (including minimum per course payments), urging the conversion of part-time positions to full-time and so forth. The letter also urges chairs to raise these issues when they sit on external review panels on other campuses. "Especially in these difficult economic times, we must vigorously make the case for the relevance of an excellent humanities education," the letter says. "Students need to be multiply literate, flexible, keen in their interpretive capacities, and prepared to change career direction several times over the course of their working lives. They deserve well-trained and adequately paid faculty members who, working under good conditions, are committed to teaching and learning, have time to prepare classes and provide adequate feedback to students, and have opportunities and support for professional development and advancement. Those students are our future. And those who stand before them in the classroom are our future as well."

 

2009 MLA Convention in Philly
Calls for Papers

Session type: MLA Organization
Organization: Committee on Academic Freedom and Professional Rights and Responsibilities
Title of session:Protecting Academic Freedom for Contingent Faculty
Submission requirements:
Abstract --send to Stacey Donohue (sdonohue@cocc.edu)
Deadline for submissions: 15 February, 2009
Description: How can you protect the academic freedom of contingent faculty without tenure? Some campuses do so successfully. What makes for success?


REMEMBERING THE ALAMO – WORKSHOPS
a We the People Initiative Landmarks of American History and Culture Workshops for Teachers K-12
Funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities
Dear Colleague Letter - READ NOW
Application - APPLY NOW
Logistical Questions~Answers
Visiting Scholars
Daily Schedule

Remembering the Alamo website: http://www.richlandcollege.edu/alamo/

Hampton Inn - Housing Information
San Antonio and The Alamo

Landmarks of American History and Culture
for SCHOOL TEACHERS ONLY
June 21~26 or June 28~July 3, 2009 (Two one-week sessions)
Location: The Alamo, San Antonio, Texas (Institute of Texan Cultures, the LBJ Presidential Library) Project Description, Remember the Alamo at a Glance
Carole Lester, Director, Richland College (Dallas, Texas)
Karen Marcotte, Teacher Mentor, Palo Alto College (San Antonio, Texas)
Information: David A. Berry, Executive Director
Community College Humanities Association
c/o Essex County College
303 University Avenue
Newark, NJ 07102
973-877-3577
berry@essex.edu

2008 CCHA Divisions

Central Division
Eastern Division
Pacific-Western Division
Southern Division

SouthWestern Division

2009 NATIONAL CONFERENCE
October29 - 31, 2009
Renaissance Chicago Hotel

Call for Proposals - Available soon.

 

Winners!
2008 Literary Magazine Competition

The Humanities Essay Competition, sponsored by The New York Times College Program and the Community College Humanities Association, gives community college students the opportunity to gain recognition for excellence in the humanities. Students whose entries are judged to be winners of this essay Competition will be eligible for cash prizes: 1st prize, $500, 2nd prize, $300, 3rd prize, $200. Entry Form

American Councils for International Education: ACTR/ACCELS, in conjunction with the Department of State, is offering a fully-funded Intensive Summer Language Institute for teachers
of Russian, Chinese and Arabic
. For program details go to http://apps.americancouncils.org/

SVHE Institute on Religion in Curriculum and Culture of Higher Education ApplyNow!

 

Rethinking America in a Global Perspective
The National History Center, American Historical Association, the
Community College Humanities Association, and the Library of Congress invite you to apply for "Rethinking America
in a Global Perspective," a summer institute funded by the National
Endowment for the Humanities in Washington, DC. The four-week institute will take place at the Library of Congress from June 16 through July 11, 2008. The George Washington University Department of History will co-sponsor the institute.
For more information see:

http://www.historians.org/projects/rethinkingamerica/2008/index.cfm

 

CCHA Board of Directors
2007-2008

CCHA Supports Humanities Advocacy Day

Renew Memberships Now!
Institutional and/or Individual

Membership
Join Individual
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Institutional Members Directory
Board of Directors
Association Information

Resource Links
Teaching
Curriculum


 

2009 NATIONAL CONFERENCE
October29 - 31, 2009
Renaissance Chicago Hotel

Get information Brochure

Join or Renew Memberships Now!
Institutional and/or Individual




Press Release 2009

NEH LANDMARKS of American History and Culture Workshops for Community College Faculty ~ Visit Us for More Information

Concord, Massachusetts: A Center of Transcendentalism and Social Action in the 19th Century
July 12-18 or July 19-25, 2009
Locations: Walden Pond, Brook Farm, Fruitlands, various Concord sites: Emerson House, Orchard House, Old Manse, Wayside, Concord Museum
Sterling F. Delano, Villanova University
Martha Holder, Wytheville Community College
Information: David A. Berry
Community College Humanities Association
c/o Essex County College
303 University Ave.
Newark, NJ 07102
973/877-3577
berry@essex.edu

Dear Colleague Letter - READ NOW

Application - APPLY NOW
Workshop Information


Encountering John Adams: Boston and Braintree
July 12-18 or July 19-25, 2009
Locations: Massachusetts Historical Society, Boston Public Library, John Adams National Historic Park, Massachusetts Archives, Boston Freedom Trail, Boston College
Marc Landy, Department of Political Science, Boston College
Information: Dennis Hale
Department of Political Science
Boston College
Chestnut Hill MA 02467
617-552-4165, FAX 617-552-2435
adamslandmarks@yahoo.com


Landmarks of American Democracy: From Freedom Summer to the Memphis Sanitation Workers' Strike
July 6-11 or July 13-18, 2009
Locations: Jackson, Miss.; Memphis, Tenn.; the Delta
Information:
Leslie Burl McLemore
Jackson State University
Department of Political Science
P.O. Box 17081
Jackson, MS 39217
601/979-1561
Hamer.institute@jsums.edu
www.jsums.edu/~hamer.institute/programs/programs.html


The American Lyceum and Public Culture:
The Rhetoric of Idealism, Abolition, and Opportunity

May 17–23 or May 24–30, 2009
Locations: Sites in Massachusetts, including Asa Waters Mansion, Millbury, First Parish Church, Concord, Masonic Temple Lodge, Concord, Mechanics Hall, Worcester, Lyceum Hall, Salem, Concord Public Library, Ralph Waldo Emerson house, Sleepy Hollow Cemetery, American Antiquarian Society
Information: Richard A. Katula
Department of Communication Studies
101 Lake Hall
Northeastern University
360 Huntington Avenue
Boston, MA 02115
617/373-5040
R.Katula@neu.edu
www.americanlyceum.neu.edu


Progress and Poverty: The Gilded Age in American Politics and Literature, 1877-1901
May 17-22 or May 31-June 5, 2009
Location: Rutherford B. Hayes Presidential Center
Information: Steven L. Culbertson
Rutherford B. Hayes Presidential Center
Spiegel Grove
Fremont, OH 43420
419/332-2081
steven_culbertson@owens.edu


Passages to Cleveland: Community Memory
and the Landmarks of Migration

July 12-17 or July 19-24, 2009
Locations: The Western Reserve Historical Society, with site visits to the Greater Cleveland Cultural Gardens, Bohemian National Hall and Museum, Cleveland Islamic Center, Antioch Baptist Church, the Slavic Village and Tremont neighborhoods, West Side Market, the Shiva Vishnu Temple, Ukrainian Museum and Archives, East Cleveland Public Library, International Services Center, and the Spanish American Committee Headquarters
Information: John J. Grabowski
The Western Reserve Historical Society
Information: Stefanie Huffman
The Western Reserve Historical Society
10825 East Boulevard
Cleveland, OH 44106
john.grabowski@case.edu

 

 

 

 



CCHA is affiliated with
Modern Language Association
Organization of American Historians
American Association of Community Colleges
National Humanities Alliance
American Historical Association
American Council of Learned Societies
The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History
The Hill Center for World Studies

Visit the National Endowment for the Humanities

For further information, please contact
David Berry,dberry@ccha-assoc.org
Executive Director of CCHA

c/o Essex County College, 303 University Avenue, Newark, NJ 07102


Daphne Frazier, Office Manager
FAX 973-877-3578
Phone:  973.877.3577

Jacob Agatucci, Editor, The Community College Humanist

Emily Sohmer Tai, Contributing Editor, The Community College Humanist

Ned Wilson, Editor, Community College Humanities Review
973-877-3215, nwilson@ccha-assoc.org

Jeffrey Clausen, Coordinator, National Humanities Liaison Officer Program

The CCHA web site is hosted by Iowa Valley Community College District.