CFP: Scribe

by Dr Davis on September 6, 2010

Scribe: A Journal of Writing Perspectives and Pedagogy in Two-Year Colleges is up and running! But we need your help.

We are looking for essays to be published in our first issue, coming out in December. If you are interested, please send your submissions to twoyeardigest@live.com.

Submission Guidelines

•Submissions should be 500 to 4,000 words in length.

•All pages should be double-spaced and in current MLA format.

•The review process is blind. Please submit a cover page with your submission that includes the title, date of submission, your name, school or organization, and contact information.

•Include a biography that is 100 words or fewer.

•Manuscripts submitted to the Journal must be original and unpublished work of the author(s) and must not be under consideration by other publications.

•It is the author’s responsibility to obtain any necessary written permission for use of copyrighted material contained within the article.

•Send submissions and questions to twoyeardigest@live.com. In the subject line, please put SUBMISSION. The deadline is Oct. 15, 2010.

Topics we are looking for include, but are not limited to, the following:
•Pedagogy
•Technology in the Classroom
•Students, including the needs of the new generation
•Revamping Programs and Courses, including creating an AFA program
•Tenure and Unions
•Challenges and Successes, including personal experiences
•Assignments and Activities
•Basic Writing vs. Academic Writing
•Applying Writing to Other Majors

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Cultural Influences

by Dr Davis on September 6, 2010

Right on the Left Coast has a discussion of two schools in the same district with the same (type of) students with very different results.

Culture matters. Whether it’s the culture at home or the culture of the community or a symbiosis of the two, the importance placed on education in that culture matters.

We need to create a culture in which education is important. Not the degree. Not the graduation. The education itself.

Then more people will get degrees.

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Degrees Awarded that Were Discarded

by Dr Davis on September 6, 2010

Community College Spotlight talks about Project Win through which

Last year, a pilot program in partnership with Education Trust awarded nearly 600 associate degrees at nine institutions in three states. Almost 1,600 students were identified as potential degree recipients.

And there is more!

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Many former students are surprised to learn that they’d met the degree requirements or come close. They weren’t keeping track — and neither were the colleges they attended.

New Mexico looks for near-graduates of four-year universities to help them complete their final credits and earn a degree, reports College Puzzle.

Good news and a reasonable idea.

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