The Community College Forum Executive Committee will be meeting on Thursday, Jan. 5th during #MLA17 in Philadelphia to discuss our ideas for our guaranteed session at #MLA18 in New York City.

If you have ideas for a session topic (a traditional panel or a roundtable or a poster session) relevant to Community College Forum members and allies,…[Read more]

When the Community College Forum Executive Committee meets in January during the Philadelphia convention, we will consider possible nominees for the fall 2017 executive committee election.

Please consider nominating someone; self-nominations are entirely welcome. The easiest way is to suggest nominees when you vote in this fall’s election at mla.…[Read more]

The National Labor Relations Board issued a decision on 23 August “that student assistants working at private colleges and universities are statutory employees covered by the National Labor Relations Act.” https://www.nlrb.gov/news-outreach/news-story/board-student-assistants-covered-nlra-0

Please use this discussion space to add resources for…[Read more]

Community College faculty,

The Community College Forum’s Executive Committee will be meeting at MLA16 in Austin on January 8th to plan ahead for the next MLA Convention in Philadelphia. We invite you all to help us brainstorm ideas for sessions for 2017: post ideas below or email Stacey Donohue or Michael Burke.

Democratic Vistas: Reading and Writing in the Community College Classroom

Thursday, 7 January, 3:30–4:45 p.m., 9A, ACC

Threshold Concepts in First-Year Composition (FYC) at the Community College

Friday, 8 January, 5:15–6:30 p.m., 10B, ACC

Career Opportunities in Community Colleges

Saturday, 9 January, 10:15–11:30 a.m., 202, JW Ma…[Read more]