Colleagues, I encourage those of you on this listserv to submit a proposal to present at the Colorado Community College Conference on Composition (5C's) on Friday, April 13, 2007. Please pass the word to your English-teaching colleagues as well. You may access information about the conference theme, keynote speaker, and registration information at the following web site:

Thank you!

Call For Presentations

Colorado Community College Conference on Composition: 2007

Dear Colleague:

Aims Community College in Greeley, Colorado, will host the Colorado Community College Conference on Composition (5C’s) on Friday, April 13, 2007. Participants in the 5C’s over the years have enthusiastically endorsed the event as Colorado’s top conference for writing teachers, and we hope to continue that tradition this year.

Conference Theme

The Millennial Challenge: Working with Underprepared Writing Students

The Issue

New initiatives and new challenges are always a part of the academic world, and the present is no exception. Ever-evolving state mandates, increasing numbers of ESL or ill-prepared students, concerns over ACT scores, concerns related to developmental writing/reading, and challenges associated with the "Millennial Generation" are all composition teaching issues in two-year colleges.

We invite proposals for presentations addressing the following issues as they pertain specifically to teaching composition in the developmental or first-year composition course:

What teaching approaches are suitable for students of the "Millennial Generation"?

How is the current move from "teaching-centered" college to "learning-centered" college influencing teaching of basic writing?

What issues present themselves for instructors trying to balance their pedagogy, composition teaching theory, assessment cut-scores, and students' needs?

Should we re-assess what we ask underprepared students to learn, particularly ESL students?

Given that entering students' writing skills are influenced by a number of factors, what is or should be our role in meeting the needs of increasingly ill-prepared students?

The deadline for submitting proposals is January 31, 2007. Please observe the following guidelines:

· Submit by snail-mail or email to the address below.

· Include a title as you want it to appear in the program.

· Include an abstract (50-100 words) as you want it to appear in the program.

· Include a brief autobiography as you want it to appear in the program.

· Plan a presentation of 45 minutes.

· Include a statement of technology needs (Note: presenters must provide their own laptop computers).

· If selected to present, prepare handouts for 30 people.

Please submit proposals via email to [log in to unmask] or mail to :

Chuck Fisher

Aims Community College

5401 W. 20^th Street

Greeley, CO 80634