Using Artifacts to Assess Professionalism by Galen Leonhardy, Black Hawk College The concept of academic professionalism in local contexts remains common in my writing. The basic question I ask is, what is professionalism in English education? Answering that question results in a kind of journalistic ethnography allowing me to look at micro-contexts and assess them […]
Scholarship–Call for Book Chapters: Approaches To Teaching LGBT Lit
June 23, 2016 by Leave a Comment
Call for Book Chapters: Approaches to Teaching LGBT Literature at the Post-Secondary Level Contact: John Pruitt, University of Wisconsin-Rock County, [email protected] In 1995, George Haggerty and Bonnie Zimmerman’s landmark volume Professions of Desire: Lesbian and Gay Studies in Literature (MLA), followed by William Spurlin’s Lesbian and Gay Studies and the Teaching of English (NCTE, 2000), […]
Adjunctified–Game Planning the High Education Interview Game
June 8, 2016 by Leave a Comment
Adjunctified–Game Planning the High Education Interview Game by Brian Harrell, University of Akron I love to interview–to be placed on the hot seat, actively engaging in a battle between unseen opponents, not knowing the rules or how to score, but hoping my audience awareness and ability to rhetorically analyze a committee will provide me with just […]
TYCA to You–The Tenure Process
April 28, 2016 by Leave a Comment
The next edition of TYCA to You for the September issue of TETYC will focus on two-year college practices surrounding tenure. In order to provide a full picture, our region’s national representative, Suzanne Labadie, seeks feedback from Midwest members on the following questions: What does the process to earn tenure on your campus look like? […]
TYCA to You–Dual Credit
January 26, 2016 by Leave a Comment
Interested in adding your two cents? The new topic for the TYCA to You column in the next issue of TETYC will look at how Dual-Credit initiatives are affecting you and your colleagues: Does your campus/department offer dual-credit courses? If so, what is the process used? Is it working well? What kinds of credentials […]
Conference Reflection — A Review of “Thank You Pragmatism: How Pragmatic Theory Validates Personal Narrative as Art”
October 8, 2015 by Leave a Comment
A Review of “Thank You Pragmatism: How Pragmatic Theory Validates Personal Narrative as Art” by Brian Harrell, University of Akron During the 2014 TYCA Conference in Grand Rapids, a number of presentations provided attendees with the opportunity to ponder their own classroom theories. One of those presentations was Heidi Thoenen and Sara Ehret’s session entitled, “Thank […]
Students Speak — You CAN Take It With You!
October 8, 2015 by Leave a Comment
Students Speak – You CAN Take It With You! by Jen Richrath, Illinois Central College At the end of a writing course, I often strive to remind students that all the work they did is not only applicable within a composition classroom. I ask them this question: “What is at least one thing you learned […]
Conference Reflection–Through the Eyes of an Interloper
October 8, 2015 by Leave a Comment
Through the Eyes of an Interloper by Sukanya Kemp, University of Akron It all started innocently enough. I had invited my colleague Michelle Byrne to an economics conference and here she was bearing an invitation to TYCA, the Two Year College Teachers of English Association. As the days to the conference grew closer, the butterflies […]
What Works for Me–Selfie Assignment
March 26, 2015 by Leave a Comment
Selfie Assignment, submitted by Wade King Given the current trend to constantly be in front of the camera, a bonus point assignment that gets students to go somewhere important on campus is this: Take a selfie with a library book! Not only must students enter the library to complete this assignment, but it’s interesting to […]
Message from the Chair, January 2015
January 23, 2015 by 1 Comment
Hello, and welcome to the new TYCA-Midwest website and Midwest Messenger blog. Here, you’ll find reflections on past conferences, updates on future conferences, an introduction to our board members, teaching tips, information about TYCA-Midwest awards, and other resources to help you learn more about our organization. Many thanks to Amy Edwards Patterson, Jen Richrath, and […]