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October 25-27, 2012 H Crowne Plaza Hotel, Syracuse, NY
TWO-YEAR COLLEGE ENGLISH ASSOCIATION OF THE NORTHEAST
F R O M T H E W O R L D D E S K :
Situating Our Practice within a Global Context
TYCA Northeast 47th Annual Conference
Table of Contents
Welcome to Syracuse! ………………………..............................………...2
Conference Theme ………………………..............................…..………....3
Conference Committees ……………………….….............................…...4
TYCA-NE Conference Locations…...........................…………….……..5
TYCA-NE Regional Executive Committee …….........................……6
Keynote Speakers……….....……………………………..............................8
Conference Highlights.....…………………….............................….……10
Conference Program
Thursday Sessions…………...............................………………….12
Friday Sessions………………….................................……………..15
Saturday Sessions…………………...............................…………..26
State Representatives………………………...........................………….30
Oxford University Press.………………..…...........................………….31
Bedford /St. Martin’s Press....…………….…..............................….…32
Conference Center Map …………………………..........................…….33
Smarthinking ……………………………………...............................…….33
American Prometheus ……………………………………………………….33
Downtown Syracuse Map………………............…………..Back Cover
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Welcome to Syracuse!
On behalf of the Local Arrangements Committee at Onondaga Community College,
we welcome you to Syracuse, a community in the heart of Upstate New York.
The conference location, the newly renovated Crowne Plaza Hotel, is situated
between several vibrant and changing neighborhoods. To the east is East Genesee Street, a
leg of the Connective Corridor, linking Syracuse University with downtown Syracuse and
featuring the renowned regional Equity theater, Syracuse Stage. Closer to downtown, a few
blocks south, is the I. M. Pei-designed Everson Museum, which is featuring two new
exhibitions, The Other New York: 2012, a collaboration of fourteen local arts organizations,
and Prophesy: Peter B. Jones, focusing on indigenous peoples’ prophecies and creation
stories. A few blocks to the west are downtown and Armory Square, the center of urban
nightlife, which feature the Red House Theatre, the Museum of Science and Technology,
galleries, pubs and restaurants. A short drive away from the Crowne Plaza is the recently
enlarged Carousel Center Mall, now called Destiny USA, with top restaurants like The
Melting Pot, P.F. Changs and more.
One block north is Water Street—the former path of the Erie Canal. Syracuse was
one of the cities that grew and prospered with the building of “Clinton’s Ditch,” and
Syracuse remains a gateway to key locations of manmade and natural beauty. A five-minute
drive northwest of downtown will lead you to Onondaga Lake Park, offering miles of paved
trails perfect for walking or running. The picturesque Finger Lakes village of Skaneateles is
just twenty-five minutes southwest of Syracuse and is a fabulous for boating, dining and
window shopping. Beyond that, the Finger Lakes offer dozens of wineries that are among
the best in the nation.
We hope you will enjoy your time at the conference and visit to Syracuse and
Central New York. For more ideas on things to do and places to see while you’re here, feel
free to check out VisitSyracuse.org.
~Laurel Saiz,
Local Arrangements Committee,
Onondaga Community College
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Globalization in Teaching Writing and Literature
The image of Syracuse on the cover of the conference program booklet depicts a colorful
and vibrant city projecting into the world its creative energy through the concentric circles.
This image is a fitting metaphor for the purpose of the 2012 TYCA-NE Conference. We are
in Syracuse to pull together our creative energy and project it into the scholarly endeavors
of teaching writing and literature in a global setting. Over eighty presenters will participate
in this effort.
As teachers of writing, our goal is to equip students with knowledge of global literacy
and how the critical awareness of it defines and positions language, symbols, identities, and
communities. As English teachers, we need to envision that what we teach is within the
context of global mass mediation and multi-modal communication facilitated by shifting
populations across domestic and international lines. Thus, teaching writing in a global
setting is an enormous, multilevel challenge.
Teaching literature also involves global challenges. The canon that featured great works
of Western literature such as Homer's The Iliad or The Odyssey, the works of Shakespeare,
or Melville's Moby Dick, and many others, is dropping some authors who no longer speak to
the needs of current readers, making way for works such as Salman Rushdie's Midnight
Children, and Michael Ondaatje's The English Patient. These works feature non-English
content such as the Hindu myths from the Sanskrit, or the Muslim Arabian Nights. In The
English Patient, Ondaatje shows a Hungarian archaeologist who corrects and expands
Herodotus' The Histories, showing how history, including literary history, can be re-written
by an outsider.
Thus, the Western canon is opening its doors to global newcomers, fulfilling the
prediction made by Marx and Engels in 1848 that literature will become global. The 2012
TYCA-NE Conference is a way to feature its global perspectives. It is an essential and timely
endeavor.
~ Stasia Callan
Conference Program Committee Chair,
TYCA-NE REC Member,
Monroe Community College
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Conference Committees
Local Arrangements Committee, Onondaga CC
(Seated L-R): Laurel Saiz
Steve Pierson, Chair
(Standing L-R)
Janell Haynes
Richard Blankenship
Annet O’Mara
Program Committee, Monroe CC
Stasia Callan, Chair
Jessica Wilkie, Acting Co-Chair
Catherine Ganze-Smith (not shown)
Holly Wheeler (not shown)
Registration Committee, Syracuse U. Writing Program
Ben Erwin, Chair
Janell Haynes
Dav Cranmer (not shown)
Technology Team, Broome CC
Jason Zbock, Chair
Kurt Nelson
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TYCA-NE Conference Locations
1966 Cazenovia, NY 1989 Albany, NY
1967 Providence, RI 1990 Philadelphia, PA
1968 Glens Falls, NY 1991 Baltimore, MD
1969 Philadelphia, PA 1992 Boston, MA
1970 Boston, MA 1993 Princeton, NJ
1971 Annapolis, MD 1994 Hartford, CT
1972 New York, NY 1995 Portsmouth, NH
1973 Pittsburgh, PA 1996 Rochester, NY
1974 Cranston, RI 1997 New York, NY
1975 New York, NY 1998 Newport, RI
1976 Philadelphia, PA 1999 Amherst, MA
1977 Buffalo, NY 2000 Pittsburgh, PA
1978 Washington, DC 2001 Washington, DC
1979 Pittsburgh, PA 2002 Portland, ME
1980 New York, NY 2003 Boston, MA
1981 Baltimore, MD 2004 Annapolis, MD
1982 Boston, MA 2005 Princeton, NJ
1983 Atlantic City, NJ 2006 Providence, RI
1984 Teaneck, NJ 2007 Philadelphia, PA
1985 Portland, ME 2008 Atlantic City, NJ
1986 Washington, DC 2009 Boston, MA
1987 Hyannis, MA 2010 Washington, DC
1988 Pittsburgh, PA 2011 Portland, ME
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TYCA NE Regional Executive Committee
2011-2012
Chair
Laurie Lieberman, Bergen Community College
Vice Chair (acting)
Stacy Korbelak, Howard Community College
Secretary
James Freeman, Bucks Community College
Treasurer
Dav Cranmer, New England Institute of Technology
Membership Chair
Leigh Jonaitis, Bergen Community College
Future Sites
Jen Garner, Howard Community College
Representative to National TYCA Committee
Judith Angona, Ocean County College
2012 Conference Program Chair
Stasia Callan, Monroe Community College
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TYCA NE Regional Executive Committee
2011-2012
Nominating Committee Chair/2012 Local
Arrangements Chair
Stephen Pierson, Onondaga Community College
2012 Registration Chair
Ben Erwin, Syracuse University Writing Program
Nominating Committee
Stacy Korbelak, Howard Community College
Nominating Committee
Terry Cassidy, Tunxis Community College
Newsletter Editor
Caroline Kelley, Bergen Community College
Archivist
Tim McLaughlin, Bunker Hill Community College
Webtender (acting)
Leigh Jonaitis, Bergen Community College
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Keynote Speaker
Friday, October 26
...is an accomplished novelist and screenplay writer. His works include
The Abstinence Teacher, Little Children, Joe College, Election, The Wishbones,
The Leftovers, and Bad Haircut, as well as numerous short stories and essays.
He recently edited the 2012 edition of Best American Short Stories which was
published earlier this month. Election and Little Children were made into
Academy-Award nominated films, and Perrotta received an Academy-Award
nomination for Best Adapted Screenplay for Little Children.
His novel The Leftovers has been named one of the "Best Books of 2011"
by O the Oprah Magazine, Kirkus Reviews, Amazon.com, GQ, NPR (Fresh Air),
The Washington Post, The Seattle Times, and The Book Page. He acquired a B.A.
in English from Yale University and an M.A. in English/Creative Writing from
Syracuse University before teaching at Yale and continuing his career as a
novelist and screenplay writer. Currently, Perrotta resides outside Boston,
Massachusetts, and regularly participates in speaking engagements
throughout the country.
TOM PERROTTA
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Keynote Speaker Saturday, October 27
"If we want our students to account for audience in
their writing, it seems reasonable that we would
account for audience—the new audience we find in
our classrooms—in our assignments."
Rebecca Moore
Howard
... is a graduate of West Virginia University who has taught at Colgate,
Texas Christian, Cornell, and Binghamton Universities and is now Professor of
Writing and Rhetoric at Syracuse University. She has written and edited a
number of scholarly and pedagogical books and essays, including Standing in
the Shadow of Giants: Plagiarists, Authors, Collaborators (1999) and Writing
Matters: A Handbook for Writing and Research (2010).
With Sandra Jamieson, she is a principal researcher in the Citation
Project <citationproject.net>, a collaborative, multi-site, data-based study of
college students' use of research sources.
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Conference Highlights
Thursday, October 25th 1:00—7:00 Registration Desk, Pre-Function Area Stop by to pick up your registration packet and conference program. 2:00—3:30 Roundtable Discussion: College Credit Courses and the Impact of Legislative Changes to Developmental Education, Horizons Banquet and Meeting Space 4:00—4:50 Panel Discussion: Integrating Global Learning Outcomes into the Curriculum, Horizons Banquet and Meeting Space 5:00—5:30 Workshop on Integrating Global Learning Outcomes into the Curriculum, Horizons Banquet and Meeting Space 6:30—8:00 Wine and Cheese and International Dance Social Sponsored by Bedford/St. Martin’s Press, Horizons Banquet and Meeting Space Friday, October 26th 8:00—5:00 Registration Desk, Pre-Function Area 8:00—9:00 Welcome & Continental Breakfast Panel, Lafayette Room Come hear from local community college and university representatives about their global initiatives 11:15—1:00 Lunch and Keynote Speaker, Lafayette Room Tom Perrotta 5:30—7:00 Cocktail Party Sponsored by Bedford/St. Martin’s Press Phoebe’s Restaurant & Coffee Lounge, 900 East Genesee St.
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7:30 Hosted Dinners: Sign up at the Registration Table for the restaurant of your choice and meet in the hotel lobby to walk or shuttle to restaurant with NY TYCA rep or member of the Local Arrangements team
7:30 Syracuse Stage’s production of Moby Dick ($25). Sign and pick up your discount coupon at the Registration Table. Meet in hotel lobby by 7:00 to walk or shuttle to the play. Saturday, October 27th 8:00—9:00 Continental Breakfast, Lafayette Room 8:00—12:00 Registration Desk, Pre-Function Area 12:00—1:30 Lunch and Keynote Speaker, Lafayette Room Rebecca Moore Howard 2:00 Local Tours: Sign up at the Registration Table and meet in lobby for one of the tours below (free except where indicated)
Guided architecture tour of Syracuse University Everson Museum: The Other New York
(http://www.everson.org/curators/) The Warehouse Gallery (Syracuse University’s
International Contemporary Art Center: http://thewarehousegallery.syr.edu/index.html)
Visit Skaneateles Village and Lake, return to hotel at 5:00 ($10 for roundtrip transportation; advance registration required; http://www.skaneateles.com/)
Sunday, October 28th 8:00—12:00 REC Post-Conference Meeting, Cazenovia Room
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Thursday Conference Session
2:00pm-3:30pm Horizons Banquet and Meeting Space
Roundtable Discussion:
College Credit Courses and the Impact of Legislative Changes to
Developmental Education
This Roundtable discussion will focus on state legislative efforts modifying or eliminating
developmental courses at the community college level. The Connecticut state legislature
recently passed legislation preventing the state’s twelve community colleges from offering
developmental courses by 2014. The potential impact for credit level courses is dramatic.
Session Chair: Laurie Lieberman, Bergen Community College
Participants:
Peter Adams has taught for thirty-five years at The Community College of
Baltimore County, where he currently directs ALP, an innovative program that
has doubled the success rate for students placed in developmental writing. Peter
is worried that, if we don’t improve the success rates of our developmental
writing programs in the next few years, the political support for funding these programs
will evaporate.
Dr. Terry Cassidy, Ed.D., is an Associate Professor of English at Tunxis
Community College, Farmington, Connecticut. For the past six years, he
has put the majority of his instructional effort into working with
developmental students. Along with his colleagues, he has helped develop
new course work and other innovations to help students to succeed academically. Terry is
also a member of the TYCA Nominating Committee. Dr. Malkiel Choseed, Ph.D. is the Writing Program Coordinator at
Onondaga Community College in Syracuse, NY. He coordinates the Writing
Center, oversees programmatic assessment, and facilitates professional
development.
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Susan Gentry is an Associate Professor of English at Tunxis Community
College. She has been teaching all levels of English for the last twenty years.
This spring, she played a vital role in organizing resistance to Connecticut
legislation that essentially does away with developmental education at post-
secondary institutions. The fight was not won. She takes comfort in the words of her
pedagogical hotties: David Bartholomae, Ira Shor, and Hunter Boylan.
Dr. Leigh Jonaitis, Ed.D. is Professor of English Basic Skills at Bergen
Community College, where she teaches basic writing and composition courses.
She is currently serving as Adjunct Coordinator for English Basic Skills, and helps
coordinate the College's Title V grant project to better serve developmental
students. She is the current Membership Chair of TYCA-NE.
Dr. Stephen Pierson, Ph.D., teaches ESL and English composition at
Onondaga Community College. He is also a member of the ESL Advisory
Committee and coordinates Course Level Assessment of basic ESL
composition. Steve is currently Nominations Chair and Local Arrangements
Chair of TYCA-NE. Additionally, Steve volunteers helping refugees prepare for the Level of
English Proficiency Exam and GED. He will discuss the ramifications of a loss of funding for
developmental ESL courses.
Judi Salsburg Taylor teaches developmental reading and writing, study skills,
and college reading. She has spent her career advocating for the underserved
and undermined population of our society, especially in higher education. At
Monroe Community College she has advocated for a cross-disciplinary reading
program and ethical institutional policies. Judi Salsburg Taylor is also President Elect of the
College Reading and Learning Association's Northeast Chapter.
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Thursday Conference Session
4:00pm-5:30pm Horizons Banquet and Meeting Space
“Integrating Global Learning Outcomes into the Curriculum”
Moderator: Dr. Eileen Schell, Syracuse University Writing Program
Participants:
Cynthia S. Wiseman, Asst. Prof., BMCC, CUNY, has been interested in
globalization and the community college since attending the Salzburg
Seminar in Austria in 2005, which focused on the challenges community
college students face in developing global competencies that prepare them
for the 21st Century. She has worked since then on various committees, projects, and
initiatives to integrate globalization into the curriculum and foster the development of
global competencies at the community college level.
Julie Bolt is an Associate Professor of English at CUNY, Bronx. She holds a
doctorate in Cultural Studies from The University of Arizona. Areas of
scholarship include border pedagogy, post-colonial literatures, global learning
and histories of social change. She authored Border Pedagogy for Democratic
Practice and has published in journals and anthologies, including several articles for
Radical Teacher. Her creative work has been featured in journals like Slow Trains. She has
long been interested in global education and wrote the "global learning outcomes" at Bronx
Community College in collaboration with the National Education Alliance. She participated
in a conference on global learning in Salzburg, Austria and serves on the campus global
learning committee.
Stacy Korbelak is a relative newcomer to the English profession. After a career
in human resources, she began writing for local Maryland publications before
becoming a full-time English professor at Howard Community College in 2008.
Stacy also serves as the Coordinator of the college’s Global Distinction program
and the Assistant Director of their honors program. Earlier this year, she
received TYCA’s Diana Hacker Award for Reaching Across Borders and in July, Maryland’s
governor appointed Stacy to a five-year term on the Anne Arundel County School Board,
one of the largest school districts in the nation.
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Friday 8:00-9:00am
Welcome Breakfast and Administrators’ Panel
Lafayette Room Panelists:
Dr. Anne Kress, President, Monroe Community College
Dr. Cathleen McColgin, Provost and Senior Vice President, Onondaga Community College
Dr. Kevin Drumm, President, Broome Community College
Dr. Kevin Browne, Assistant Professor of Writing, Syracuse University
Participants will share developments in global initiatives at their respective institutions
Friday, Session #1 9:30am-10:30am
Camillus Room Session Chair: Louise Silverman, Ocean County College
Down With the Lecture! / Long Live the Lecture!
Judy Angona, Dr. Sandra Brown, Lynn Kraemer-Siracusa, and Heidi Sheridan,
Ocean County College
A panel of four professors debates the benefits and drawbacks of the lecture and experiential
learning in today's global classroom, positing protocols that include poetry and playwriting
performances to further student engagement; team learning to overcome cultural obstacles
to teacher-student dialogue; multidisciplinary group presentations to foster individual
development of ideas; and short PowerPoint lectures to enhance student comprehension.
Audience participation is planned.
Giving Effective Teacher Feedback for ESL Writers
Eleni Saltourides, Naugatuck Valley Community College
Ever wonder how best to help your non-native speaking writers in your composition courses?
The presenter will review differences between native and non-native speaker writing and then
show what feedback comments are most effective for ESL writers. A chance to apply what they
learned will be given at the end of the presentation.
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Friday Session #1 9:30-10:30 cont.
Dewitt Room Session Chair: Francis Winter, Mass Bay Community College
“These Walls are Funny”: The Shawshank Redemption and
Spaces of Authority and Resistance in the Institution
Robert A. Berens, Stark State College
My developmental writing students study and respond to the narrative and themes of Frank
Darabont’s The Shawshank Redemption in order to understand and draw parallels to their
own experiences with authority and oppression in public and educational contexts. Through
completion of the assignment, developmental writers learn critical analysis, understand
intertextuality, and define institutionalization in the context of their own experiences.
Creating Social Equity in the Global Classroom: Knowledge-Making Through the
Exploration of Self-identity and its Enactment
Lou Ethel Roliston, Bergen Community College
This presentation discusses a model which mitigates the distancing some students experience
in a culturally-diverse mainstream classroom by allowing students to self-identify as an
integrated part of the course curriculum.
Fayetteville Room Session Chair: Kathryn Barbour, Chesapeake College
The Middle Voice: Negotiating Insights from Poetry to Foster Cross-Cultural Fluency
Tom Gage, Humboldt State University
Reporting on a frequent offering, “gignomai,” (Greek verb “to know”), this session introduces a
methodology that demonstrates how a poem becomes the student and the student the poem in
order to elicit “knowing by heart.” With the Internet, students discourse meanings cross-
culturally, harmonizing insights from Bali, Prague, and Istanbul and Arcata, California.
Prime-time Anamorphosis
Laurence Berkley, Borough of Manhattan Community College
“Prime-time Anamorphosis” combines a theoretical and pedagogical approach to the
teaching of literature by offering a consideration of the availability of literary content as a
competition of adversarial models or paradigms.
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Friday Session #1 9:30-10:30 cont.
Manlius Room Session Chair: Elizabeth Johnston, Monroe Community College
Exploring Collaboration, Creating Connections, Building Partnerships:
a Multi-Pronged Approach at One Community College
Amy Burtner, Angelique Johnston, Elizabeth Johnston, and Jordu Kelly-Sutliff,
Monroe Community College
This panel provides an overview of ways in which the MCC English department is building
partnerships within and outside the college. Discussed will be: writing across the curriculum
initiatives and partnerships with developmental education; collaborations between high
school and MCC faculty ; and revisions to the composition curriculum to increase commonality
and collaboration between full-time and adjunct faculty.
Pompey Room Session Chair: Jan Stahl, Borough of Manhattan Community College
The Power and Peril of Comics: Situating our Practice
Within Traditional disciplinary contexts
William Burns, Audrey DeLong, Emily Lauer and Leanne Warshauer,
Suffolk County Community College
The participants in this roundtable will address how assigning comics in our various English
classes can celebrate our students' cultural literacy even as comics can be used as multimodal
tools for our students to deepen understanding of class content.
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Friday, Session #2 10:45am-11:45am
Camillus Room Session Chair: Karen Wright, Onondaga Community College
What Happens to Our ESL Students After They Leave Our
Program? - A Research Project
Harold Kahn, Bergen Community College
What happens to our ESL students after they complete our program? Learn about a project
that tracked the graduates of the American Language Program—how it was designed, what
data was collected, and the implications of the findings. The results of these research
questions will enable your college to better design its courses to meet the needs of its students
as well as to market those courses more effectively.
Dewitt Room Session Chair: Margaret Barrow,
Borough of Manhattan Community College
Whose Concentrations Are These? Evaluating the Challenges of Creating Stand-Alone
Two-Year Literature and Creative Writing Concentrations
with Transferability Options
Joshua Dickinson, Brandon Maxam, and Stacy Pratt,
SUNY Jefferson Community College
In this panel presentation, we will address some questions of discipline that arose as we
developed Jefferson Community College’s new English and Creative Writing concentrations.
Brandon Maxam, director of the English concentrations at JCC, will present “Assessing and
Addressing the Needs of North Country Writers: Developing the JCC Creative Writing Degree.”
Josh Dickinson will present “What Is Non-Western Literature?: The Global Community in the
College Literature Classroom.” Stacy Pratt will present “Saving Beowulf: Challenging the
British and American Canon Model in a Two-Year Literature Degree.” This panel will utilize
an interactive approach to reveal connections between the design of the concentrations and
larger issues in the discipline of English.
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Friday Session #2 10:45-11:45 cont.
Fayetteville Room Session Chair: Chris Altman, Onondaga Community College
Playing in the Sandbox: The Benefits of Co-Creating an Online Course
Malkiel Choseed, Michael Heise and Jamie Sindell,
Onondaga Community College
Presenters will discuss co-creating an online course, including tips for navigating an online
environment, sharing the workload, and selecting a partner. Onondaga’s Director of
Curriculum and Instructional Technology will add to the conversation. Participants will co-
create an assignment.
Manlius Room Session Chair: Janet Crosier, Springfield Technical Community College
The Rage over Remediation: A Cross-Cultural Investigation
Naftali Rottenstreich, SUNY Adirondack
While the debates surrounding remedial education are familiar to most of us who teach at a
two-year college in the United State, few of us are familiar with the ways in which these
debates are being played out in other countries. This presentation will engage in just such a
comparison by exploring the way the debate over remedial education has been played out in
the United States and Britain.
Upwards and Onwards: An Accelerated Approach to Composition I and II
Alexandra Della Fera and Mark Tambone,
Passaic County Community College
To meet the demands of national Pell Grant funding changes, Professors Alexandra Della Fera
and Mark Tambone have created an accelerated Composition I and II course in response to
the newfound urgency of course and program completion. The course incorporates cutting-
edge technology like e-tutoring and e-portfolio work, and explores various genres of reading
and writing material. Additionally, the course includes a successful scaffolding approach to
the research paper. Mindful of the new financial demands on students yet insisting on a
robust composition curriculum, Professors Della Fera and Tambone have created a course
which is ultimately a model for and a glimpse at the future of higher education.
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Friday Session #2 10:45-11:45 cont.
Pompey Room Session Chair: Jennifer Garner, Howard Community College
The Study of Pilgrimage as a Vehicle for Learning the Research Process
Dan Toomey, Landmark College
Focusing on pilgrimage as a research topic area for first year second semester students, this
presentation will explore strategies for helping students to begin the research process with a
question, manage time and materials, and avoid plagiarism.
A Project to Support Gen Ed Requirements in a Freshman Composition Course
M. Suzanne Harper, Penn State Worthington Scranton
The presentation will present a multi-part assignment for freshman composition courses that
promotes the value of gen ed/liberal arts courses while teaching higher level thinking and
research skills.
Friday Luncheon
Featuring Keynote Speaker Tom Perotta
12:00pm-2:00pm, Lafayette Room
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Friday, Session #3 2:15pm-3:15pm
Camillus Room Session Chair: Lynne Nelson Manion,
Northern Maine Community College
A Narrative Approach: Towards a Global Center
Lucia Gbaya-Kanga, Community College of Philadelphia
This presentation explores how various narrative forms (memoir, photo essays, graphic
novels, and docufilm) can be used, in a developmental English and research class, to
investigate global issues. The goal is to not only heighten global awareness, but to deepen self-
reflection and analysis of the world we live in.
Understanding Global Attitudes about Practice to Enhance
Lesson and Course Design
Joseph Gansrow, Suffolk County Community College
We know the cliché that practice makes perfect, but how do we make practice more alluring
for ourselves and our students? How can we incorporate opportunities for students to practice
with prior knowledge and improve competence with new concepts?
Dewitt Room Session Chair: Leigh A. Martin, Community College of Rhode Island
The Accelerated Learning Program: Deepening the
Teaching of Composition to Basic Writers
Linda De La Ysla and Monica W. Walker,
The Community College of Baltimore County
The Accelerated Learning Program (ALP) at The Community College of Baltimore County has,
for the past five years, taken the national spotlight as a model in acceleration for basic
writers. Data have shown that both retention and completion rates for ALP students far
outstrip those of students who take Basic Writing II in a classroom with twenty students.
Presenters will offer an ALP overview, discuss pedagogical practices that deepen basic
writers’ understanding of composition, and outline ALP professional development efforts.
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Friday Session #3 2:15-3:15 cont.
Fayetteville Room Session Chair: Maria Treglia, Borough of Manhattan Community College
English 101 and the Pursuit of Happiness
Irwin Leopando, LaGuardia Community College
This presentation will explore the use of “happiness” as a course theme in first-year
composition. It discusses the ways in which interdisciplinary exploration, multimodal writing,
and personal reflection can facilitate critical thinking, intellectual engagement, and
transformative learning within a globalized student population.
Food For Thought, Food for Writing
Dr. Scott Palmieri, Johnson & Wales University
Food allows us to live and has an important place in our lives. Food can also serve as a source
of inspiration in our writing classes. Whether it is describing a fruit using all the senses,
reviewing a restaurant, posting to a food blog, or addressing a controversial subject raised in
the film Food Inc., students can find themselves exploring new and interesting perspectives
through the world of food. This presentation, given by an English professor who teaches at the
culinary campus at Johnson & Wales University, considers the various ways to use food in
writing assignments, as well as the growing field of food writing.
Manlius Room Session Chair: Janell Haynes, Onondaga Community College
Digital Globalization: Creating New Avenues Between Thought and Language
Richard Blankenship, Onondaga Community College
This paper discusses the reciprocal influences between thought and language, applies
Contrastive Rhetoric principles to digital communication, and focuses on how living in an
electronic environment influences the composition process.
Learning for Life: Using the Framework for Success in
Postsecondary Writing to Reflect on Student Learning After Class is Over
TJ Geiger, Syracuse University
What might we discover about students’ learning by talking to them long after the term ends?
How have they continued to develop habits of mind such as openness and flexibility? How are
these results connected to their writing classes? Guided by the Framework, I examine such
conversations with former students. In closing, I consider how this practice might function as
professional development.
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Friday Session #3 2:15-3:15 cont.
Pompey Room Session Chair: Terry Cassidy, Tunxis Community College
Looking Out at the Interstate: Using Infrastructure to Explore and Write
about Global Changes Affecting Our Communities
Laurel Saiz, Onondaga Community College
A learning community pairing composition and architecture revealed the human stories and
the social and economic trends behind components of a community’s infrastructure that are
generally overlooked.
Teaching The Iliad: The Contemporary Parallels of Homer's
Epic of Conflict
Scott Rudd, Monroe Community College
In my Mythology/World Literature classes, I have consistently been choosing Homer’s Iliad
over his Odyssey. While The Odyssey has its undeniable charms and while it consistently
captivates classrooms, I would like to make a case for privileging The Iliad in first and second
year World Literature courses.
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Friday, Session #4 3:30-4:30pm
Camillus Room Session Chair: Jennifer Long, Three Rivers Community College
The Community is Our Campus
Meg Natter, Brookdale Community College
Explore how guest speakers and class “adventures” on an off campus can enhance your
writing courses. Participants will leave the workshop with creative, affordable ideas and a
better understanding of the steps needed to plan and integrate these opportunities into their
courses.
Dewitt Room Session Chair, Eleanor Welsh, Chesapeake College
"It's Different in China": Understanding Where our Chinese Students are
Really Coming From
Amy Neeman, Johnson & Wales University
Chinese students in the U.S. come from very different educational backgrounds than domestic
students, including their academic expectations and approaches to writing. This presentation
discusses these differences and how they influence the success of Chinese students in our
English classrooms.
Prelude to an International Collaboration for Composition Students
Christine Braunberger, Onondaga Community College
Might you have any advice for someone embarking on a sabbatical project to establish
international collaboration for composition students? Might you be contemplating a similar
endeavor? If so, please join us for discussion on the best ways to create this kind of
international partnership.
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Friday Session #4 3:30-4:30 cont.
Fayetteville Room Session Chair: Angelique Johnston, Monroe Community College
Hobbits, Harry, and Hybrids: Popular Culture and the Hybrid Model
Dr. Trista Merrill, Finger Lakes Community College
Two hybrid courses—one on Harry Potter and one on Tolkien—will be used as the platform
to begin a discussion about harnessing the passion and energy of student engagement with
popular culture to create hybrid learning environments that are true communities built on
vibrancy and creativity while promoting student-centered learning, writing, and critical
thinking.
Beats, Rhymes, and Writing: Using Hip Hop and a Wiki to
Teach Freshman Composition
Timothy Strode, Nassau Community College
Are you curious about how to use hip hop in the classroom? Do you wonder what a wiki is? If
so, this talk is for you. I will teach you the basics on how to integrate a hip hop curriculum
into a freshman composition class, while using a wiki as a key collaborative element. Let's go!
Manlius Room Session Chair: Elizabeth Johnston, Monroe Community College
Fresh Perspectives on Assessing Student Research
Rebecca Moore Howard, Syracuse University
Pompey Room Session Chair: Maria Kranidis, Suffolk County Community College
How is Literature Like a Cuisinart?: Writing Across the Curriculum in the
Community College Literature Classroom
Karyn L. Smith, Housatonic Community College
This presentation will ask participants to explore and brainstorm new and unconventional
writing assignments that bridge the perceived gap between literature and “the real world.”
See “Conference Highlights” (page 12) for
Friday evening’s activities
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Saturday 8:00-9:00am
Continental Breakfast, Lafayette Room
Saturday, Session #5 9:30-10:30am
Camillus Room Session Chair: Heidi Sheridan, Ocean County College
Latino Literature in the Composition Classroom: Using Historical Perspectives to
Explore Diversity in Latino Writing
Melissa Coss Aquino, Bronx Community College
A practical approach to expanding the use of Latino Literature in the composition classroom
through incorporating historical perspectives. Various examples of pairing specific Latino
texts with brief, but relevant, historical background will be explored.
Reconfiguring a Narrative of Multiculturalism in America: Teaching
Natasha Trethewey’s Thrall as Hypertext
Olga Dugan, Community College of Philadelphia
Session participants will explore ways to present and encourage resonance and reciprocity in
student writing about ekphrastic poems from Natasha Trethewey’s Thrall. We will locate
where Trethewey engrafts narratives of socio-racial castes in the Spanish colonial period with
personal stories of mixed-race relations, expanding the narrative of multiculturalism in
America.
Dewitt Room Session Chair: Malkiel Choseed, Onondaga Community College
Reimagining the Narrative: Tips from the First and Fourth Genres
Annet O'Mara, Onondaga Community College
This speaker will explore creative fiction’s and creative nonfiction’s heuristics for teaching the
narrative in a composition class. If writing instructors adopt a creative writing’s pedagogical
approach to teaching plot structure, character development, theme, setting, and point-of-
view, they are likely to transform writers from being merely narrators to becoming
storytellers. Also, students will experience a smoother transition into their creative fiction or
nonfiction courses. Writing prompts and students’ responses will be handed out at the
session.
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Saturday Session #5 9:30-10:30 cont.
Fayetteville Room Session Chair: Irwin Leopando, LaGuardia Community College
Life after Composition: Improving Student Learning with Writing
Elizabeth Nesius and Kenneth Ronkowitz, Passaic County Community College
The Writing Initiative at Passaic County Community College has developed over the past five
years a program of student and faculty support and collaboration used across disciplines at
the general education course level. The Writing Initiative, which received a Diane Hacker
2012 Award, solidifies a targeted approach to student success by focusing on reforming
curriculum, providing ample academic support, and creating opportunities for faculty
professional development.
Manlius Room Session Chair: Steve Pierson, Onondaga Community College
What is “College-Level” Writing? One Institution, Four Perspectives
Gail Fernandez, Leigh Jonaitis, Maria Kasparova, and Kelly Keane,
Bergen Community College
Colleagues working in basic writing, ESL, and composition programs discuss the shared goal
of preparing students for “college-level” English composition courses at a community college.
This presentation will trouble the concept of what qualifies as “college-level” writing by
comparing different standards for entry.
Pompey Room Session Chair: Joseph Gansrow, Suffolk County Community College
Negotiating the Double Bind of Faculty “Management” in Community College Teaching
David Bates and Patricia Engle,
Bucks County Community College
The administrative trend toward restricting faculty’s role to that of “managed professionals,”
coupled with the popular student strategy of “managing professors” to reduce work load, sells
short a particularly needy generation’s academic success. Trends, dynamics, and solutions
will be examined.
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Saturday, Session #6 10:45-11:45 am
Camillus Room Session Chair: Maria Treglia, Borough of Manhattan Community College
Transitions: High School/Two-Year College Connections and Conversations
Kathy Barbour, Marc Steinberg, and Eleanor Welsh,
Chesapeake College
The three of us (two English professors and one college administrator) will discuss and
analyze our various connections with local high schools, high school students, and high school
faculty.
Dewitt Room Session Chair: Laurel Saiz, Onondaga Community College
Telling Refugee Stories: Using Cultural Narratives to Create Meaningful Theatre
for Refugee Communities
Dorothy Abram and Tara Acharya, Johnson & Wales University
This presentation discusses the necessity to offer diverse cultural narratives of understanding
in teaching and learning with our recently-arrived refugees. We create classrooms of co-
learning in mutual relationships of engaged activity through theatre. The presenters will
discuss work with, and within, the Nepali-Bhutanese refugee community.
Fayetteville Room Session Chair: Jessica Wilkie, Monroe Community College
Pedagogy and the Student-Citizen in the Literature Classroom: What Happens When
Buffy the Vampire Slayer Meets Literary Theory?
Jenn Diamond-Amorello and Elizabeth Luciano, Bucks County Community College
The “Pedagogy and the Student-Citizen” panel will explore concrete ways in which faculty at
the two-year college can encourage and foster students as global citizens in the literature and
creative writing classrooms, through cultivating student capacities for reason, creative
thought and rigorous written expression. Further, the panel will discuss how faculty may
support students in recognizing and participating in both theoretical and cultural
conversations.
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Saturday Session #6 10:45-11:45 Dewitt Room cont.
Manlius Room Session Chair: Helaine Lubar, Onondaga Community College
What Happens When A Bill Becomes Law: Global Awareness
Dale Griffith, Terry McNulty, and Christine Ruggiero,
Middlesex Community College
Can you imagine eliminating most, if not all, developmental courses at your college? Follow
the panelists through their account of the passing of a new law in Connecticut, Public Act 12-
40, An Act Concerning College Readiness and Completion, which requires colleges, by
2014, to offer certain students remedial support embedded with the corresponding entry level
course in a college-level program, and certain other students an intensive college readiness
program, generally prohibiting other forms of remedial education after that time.
Pompey Room Session Chair: Laurie Lieberman, Bergen Community College
National TYCA Policy Advocacy Session
TYCA National representative in attendance: Sarah Z. Johnson
This roundtable discussion will be a space for national TYCA leaders to share information
about policies and legislation affecting two-year colleges at both the state and national-level,
to gather state and local policy information from each region, and to offer strategies for
responding to such policies. Northeast representative to TYCA National in attendance: Judith
Angona
Saturday Luncheon
Featuring Keynote Speaker Rebecca Moore Howard
12:00pm-2:00pm, Lafayette Room
See “Conference Highlights” (page 12) for
Saturday evening’s activities
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TYCA Northeast State Representatives
Connecticut
James M. Gentile, Manchester Community College
[email protected] 860-512-2667
Maine
Amy Havel, Southern Maine Community College
[email protected] 207-741-5891
Maryland
Tammy Peery, Montgomery College, Germantown
[email protected] 240-567-7768
New Jersey
Lynn Kraemer-Siracusa, Ocean County College
[email protected] 732-255-0400 x 2194
New York
Malkiel Choseed, Onondaga Community College
[email protected] 315-498-2813
Maria Kranidis, Suffolk County Community College,
Ammerman Campus
[email protected] 631- 451-4976
Stephen Pierson, Onondaga Community College
[email protected] 315-498-2781
Maria O. Treglia, Bronx Community College, CUNY
[email protected] 718 289-5750
Pennyslvania
M. Suzanne Harper, Penn State Worthington Scranton
[email protected] 570- 963-2641
Rhode Island
Dav Cranmer’ New England Institute of Technology
[email protected] 401-739-5000 x3342
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