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Search for New Editor: CCCC is seeking a new editor of College Composition and Communication. The term of the present editor will end in December 1999. Interested persons should send a letter of application to be received no later than June 1, 1998. Letters should be accompanied by (1) a vita, (2) one published writing sample, and (3) a statement of vision, to include any suggestions for changing the journal as well as features of the journal to be continued. Do not send books, monographs, or other materials which cannot be easily copied for the Search Committee. Applicants are urged to consult with administrators on the question of time, resources, and other services that may be required. NCTE staff members are available to provide advice and assistance to all potential applicants in approaching administrators about institutional support and in explaining NCTE's support for editors. The applicant appointed by the CCCC Executive Committee in November 1998 will effect a transition in 1999, preparing for his or her first issue in February 2000. The proposed appointment term is five years. Applications or requests for information should be addressed to Marlo Welshons, CCC Search Committee, NCTE, 1111 W. Kenyon Road, Urbana, IL 61801-1096; (217) 328-3870, extension 229; mwelshon@ncte.org.

Call for Nominations: The 1998 CCCC Nominating Committee invites nominations for the posts of Assistant Chair, Executive Committee (nine members) and 1999 Nominating Committee (five members). The Nominating Committee seeks to identify CCCC members who are committed to the organization and willing to do its work. The post of Assistant Chair involves a four-year commitment. During the first year (1999), the Assistant Chair also serves as Program Chair for CCCC 2000. He or she then becomes Associate Chair (2000), Chair (2001), and Immediate Past Chair (2002). Members of the Executive Committee are expected to make a three-year commitment to serving CCCC. The Executive Committee meets for a full day immediately prior to the CCCC Annual Meeting in the spring as well as for two days at the NCTE Convention in the fall. Executive Committee and Nominating Committee members are chosen to represent a mix of institutions and regions. The officers and Executive Committee are committed to increased recruitment, representation, and participation of members of historically underrepresented groups in every aspect of its committee work as well as throughout its activities. Please send your nominations, with biographical information, by March 13, 1998, to Chair, CCCC Nominating Committee, 1111 W. Kenyon Road, Urbana, IL 61801-1096. Members are encouraged to nominate themselves.

Call for Resolutions: Katherine E. Staples, Chair of the 1998 CCCC Committee on Resolutions, invites members to submit resolutions to be considered for presentation at the Annual Business Meeting on Saturday, April 4, in Chicago, Illinois. The signatures of at least five CCCC members are required for each proposed resolution. Proposed resolutions, with these signatures, should be mailed to Katherine E. Staples, Chair, CCCC Resolutions Committee, NCTE, 1111 W. Kenyon Road, Urbana, IL 61801-1096. Resolutions must be postmarked on or before March 13, 1998.

Call for Submissions: The CCCC James Berlin Memorial Outstanding Dissertation Award Committee calls for submissions for a 1997-98 doctoral dissertation award in composition studies. This award is given annually to a graduate whose dissertation improves the educational process in composition studies, or adds to the field's body of knowledge, through research or scholarly inquiry. Applicants must submit to CCCC the following items: (1) title page; (2) abstract; (3) dissertation summary (ten pages or less in manuscript form); (4) one copy of the dissertation; (5) three letters of nomination, one by the director/chair of the dissertation committee and one from each of two committee members, emphasizing the significance of the dissertation in terms of its contribution to the body of knowledge in the field. The committee requests that certain guidelines be met in order to ensure a blind review. Only the title of the dissertation should be used as an identifying marker on all materials submitted (with the exception of a cover letter from the author of the dissertation). This includes the letters of nomination. Also, no letterhead should be used that may identify the institutional affiliation of individuals submitting nomination letters. To be eligible for the award, the dissertation must have been accepted by the degree-granting institution, and the writer of the dissertation must have received the degree between September 1, 1997, and August 31, 1998. Submissions must be received by September 1,1998. Send materials to the following address: CCCC James Berlin Memorial Outstanding Dissertation Award Committee ) Edith Smith, NCTE, 1111 W. Kenyon Road, Urbana, IL 61801-1096.

Where Do You Want To Go...in 2004? The CCCC Executive Committee is currently working on securing a location for the 2004 Convention and invites all interested members to visit a new Web site which provides a forum for discussing potential Convention sites. See what cities are currently being considered. Exercise the opportunity to voice your concerns and to hear what others have to say. We want to hear from you! You may visit the CCCC Site Selection Feedback Web page at the following URL: http://www.ncte.org/cccc/site

1997 CCCC Election Results: Keith Gilyard, Syracuse University, was elected to the post of Assistant Chair. He will succeed, in accordance with the CCCC Constitution and By-Laws, to the posts of Associate Chair, Chair, and Immediate Past Chair. Five colleagues were elected to three-year terms on the Executive Committee: Shirley Wilson Logan, University of Maryland, College Park; Jaime Mejía, Southwest Texas State University; Paul Heilker, Virginia Tech; Mara Holt, Ohio University; Stephen M. North, University of Albany, SUNY. Kathleen Blake Yancey, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, was elected Chair of the 1998 Nominating Committee. Other colleagues elected to the Nominating Committee were Akua Duku Anokye, University of Toledo; Scott Lloyd DeWitt, Ohio State University of Marion; Kay Halasek, Ohio State University; and Eric Crump, formerly University of Missouri. Eric is now an employee of NCTE and will be unable to serve on the nominating committee. Deborah Brandt will be serving in this capacity.

Call for Proposals: The 1999 Program Proposal Form will be available at the 1998 CCCC Convention Registration Desk in Chicago. A copy of the Program Proposal Form will also be mailed to every CCCC member in February 1998, along with Keith Gilyard's call for program proposals. The deadline for submitting proposals will be in April 1998; the exact due date will be identified on the form. Completed forms should be sent to Keith Gilyard, ) CCCC, National Council of Teachers of English, 1111 W. Kenyon Road, Urbana, IL 61801-1096.

Call for Participants: The Special Interest Group in Qualitative Research of the Conference on College Composition and Communication (CCCC) will use its preconvention Work Session this year as a space for new and advanced qualitative researchers to present their current and proposed research projects and to receive responses from their colleagues. The session will be held on April 1, 1998, in Chicago. Researchers writing dissertations and dissertation proposals are welcomed and encouraged to attend. One may attend and participate in the discussion without presenting a work in progress. No workshop fee will be charged. The three-and-a-half-hour Wednesday afternoon Work Session will consist of four forty-five-minute segments. During each segment, presenters will introduce their work to a cluster of discussants via a ten-to-twelve-minute presentation and three to five typed questions. Each cluster will be facilitated by a discussion leader. Sessions may run concurrently depending upon the number of Work Session participants. Organizers will make every effort to assure that each presenter has at least four to six discussants and so may need to limit the number of presenters in the Work Session. Presenters should prepare ten-to-twelve-minute spoken introductions to their works in progress and three to five questions or issues on which they would like other researchers' responses. They should also bring ten copies of their typed questions. If you are interested in attending and/or participating in this Work Session, please provide the information requested below and send it to the following address: Jennie Dautermann, Department of English, Miami University of Ohio, Oxford, OH 45056; or email DAUTER@MIAMIU.MUOHIO.EDU. Please provide the following information: name, institution and office address, phone, and fax; home address and phone number; and electronic mail address. Also please indicate whether you wish to participate as a presenter, discussion cluster leader, or discussant. Finally, please respond to these items: 1) If you apply as a presenter and are not accepted, would you be willing and able to participate as a discussant? 2) If you wish to lead a discussion cluster, please describe briefly your area(s) of expertise. 3) If you wish to present your work in progress, please describe it briefly, note its working title, and attach an abstract of 100-250 words. Please specify any audiovisual equipment you will require. Proposals will be accepted through March 1, 1998. Participants will receive formal confirmation of acceptance should that confirmation be helpful in securing travel funds.

Announcements and Calls

Call for Papers: Reflective Teaching. The Searle Center for Teaching Excellence at Northwestern University is seeking contributions for a collection of reflective essays on teaching by established scholars and researchers. We envision this collection as a set of carefully crafted, scholarly reflections on teaching which can complement more quantitative forms of pedagogical research. All essays must address the following two questions: What do you expect your students to be able to do-intellectually, emotionally, or physically-as a result of having taken your courses? And how do you construct and conduct your courses to help and encourage your students to obtain that knowledge or develop those abilities? We especially invite contributions from teachers who have established scholarly credentials in their fields, and who have taken the time to reflect upon evolving relationship between their research and their teaching, and upon how their research practices inform their answers to the above two questions. Potential contributors might consider, for example, teaching techniques and methods which they have developed as a result of their research into their own fields, positive and negative experiences teaching their research in the classroom, or instances when a problem or opportunity encountered in the classroom spurred a new direction for their research. In all essays contributors should ensure that they have both reflected sufficiently on their own experiences and offered some broader insight or wisdom to other teachers and scholars. The editors invite submissions of 20-30 double-spaced pages in length. Inquired by phone, fax, email, or post; submissions accepted by post only. Deadline: July 15, 1998. Send submissions to the editors at: James M. Lang, Assistant Director, or Kenneth R. Bain, Director, Searle Center for Teaching Excellence, Northwestern University, 627 Dartmouth Place, Evanston, IL 60208-4181. Direct phone inquires to (847) 467-2338, by fax to (847) 467-2273, or via email to langjm@nwu.edu or bainkr@nwu.edu. For further details, check out the Center's web pages at http://president.scfte.nwu.edu.

Call for Papers: Blundering for a Change: Errors and Expectations in Critical Pedagogy is seeking 12-25-page articles that critically address "mistakes" that occur when teachers implement democratic pedagogies in secondary and postsecondary English classrooms. Articles should narrate situations in which some aspect of curricula "failed" to accomplish its intended goal (what we're calling "blunders") and should focus on the institutional, cultural, and/or social forces behind the blunder, indicating what it might teach us about critical pedagogies. We are trying to distinguish between blunder narratives, which recognize the difficulties inherent in establishing critical, epistemic, democratic pedagogies, and the more prevalent hero narratives, where the teacher recognizes a mistake, deploys a plan, and rescues students from apathy or incompetence. We are most interested in stories where teachers scrutinize the conditions in which students and teachers teach and learn and which show the reflexivity of those roles. We welcome submissions from high school and college teachers, and will give special consideration to articles co-written with students or authored by students alone. Send two copies of your proposal to: John Tassoni, Department of English, Miami University-Middletown, Middletown, OH 45042; or to William Thelin, Language Arts Department, M.L. 0205, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH 45221. If you have any questions, please call William Thelin at (513)556-17773, or email him at thelin@college. uc.edu. Deadline: April 15, 1998.

Call for Proposals: The English Department of the University of Louisville is pleased to announce that the second biennial Thomas R. Watson Conference on Rhetoric and Composition, "Multiple Literacies for the 21^st Century," will be held October 8-10, 1998 on the campus of the University of Louisville. The conference reflects on all aspects of literacy, looking toward future challenges and opportunities as we move into the twenty-first century. Featured speakers include Arthur Applebee, Charles Bazerman, Deborah Brandt, Davida Charney, Anne Haas Dyson, Sarah Freedman, Christina Haas, Gail Hawisher, Shirley Brice Heath, Glynda Hull, Min-Zhan Lu, Peter Mortensen, John Ogbu, Victoria Purcell-Gates, Cindy Selfe, Patricia Sullivan, and Dorothy Winsor. We invite proposals on literacy for 20-minute individual presentations, or 90-minute panels of related presentations. We especially welcome proposals which are diverse and which facilitate participation, interaction, and conversation among presenters and audience members. Proposals will be selected through a blind review process. For individual presentations, submit three copies of a 250-word proposal and title; your name, address, phone, fax, e-mail, and affiliation should be listed on a cover page, together with the title of your presentation and a brief (25-word) description or abstract. For panels, please submit three copies of a 250-750-word description of the presentation, indicating the role(s) of each presenter without identifying names. Panel presentations should also include a cover page listing name, address, etc. for each presenter, as well as a brief (50-word) description or abstract of the proposal. Panel submissions should clearly indicate one member to serve as a contact. Send submissions to Brian Huot, Conference Director, Department of English, University of Louisville, Louisville, KY 40292. For more information, please contact Annie Tarbox, Assistant Director, at (502) 852-1252, or send an e-mail message to WATSON@HOMER.LOUISVILLE.EDU. Faxed or e-mailed proposals will not be considered. Proposals must be received by April 10, 1998.

Summer Institute: The Eighteenth Annual Institute in Technical Communication (ITC) will be held June 14-20, 1998 at Hinds Community College in Raymond, Mississippi. Session topics will include: capturing student interest, résumés and letters of application, computers in the technical classroom, teaching audience analysis, teaching the formal report, collaboration and teamwork, developing case studies, and document design and visuals. Nationally known faculty will include: Ron Blicq of the Roning Group, Rebecca Burnett of Iowa State University, Don Cunningham of Auburn University, Ann Laster of Hinds Community College, Rich Raymond of the University of Arkansas at Little Rock, and Elizabeth O. Smith of Auburn University. For more information or application, please write to Penny Sansbury, POB 100548, Florence-Darlington Technical College, Florence, SC 29501-0548, or phone 803-661-8137, or e-mail sansburyp@flo.tec.sc.us. Interested persons may also write to Faye Barham Box 10422, Hinds Community College, Raymond, MS 39154, phone 601-857-3259, or e-mail fayebarhm@aol.com. ITC is sponsored by The Two-Year College English Association-Southeast, an Association of NCTE.

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