2022 CCCC Chair's Letter

Hassel officially started his service as an elected CCCC officer on Dec 23, 2019, but for four years prior to that, he was an ex officio member of the CCCC Executive Committee (EC) by virtue of his role as editor of Teaching English in the Two-Year College. The editors of four of the college-level NCTE publications (TETYC, College Composition and Communication, Forum: Issues about Part-Time and Contingent Faculty, and the Studies in Writing and Rhetoric book series) are invited to attend meetings and participate in deliberations about issues affecting governance of the organization but do not have voting rights. During the nearly five years of service prior to his official elected role, he had many opportunities to observe how CCCC governance works (or doesn't): how committees and task forces are formed, appointed, and charged;how committees are constituted;how decisions are made;how nomination and election processes are conducted for the EC and other elected groups, such as the Nominating Committee. He even served on a subcommittee of the EC: the Subcommittee on Committees that produced the User's Guide to CCCC.

2022 CCCC Chair's Address: Writing (Studies) and Reality: Taking Stock of Labor, Equity, and Access in the Field

In a speech delivered at the virtual 2022 CCCC Annual Convention, Hassel talks about the professional rituals that CCCC members have come to rely on throughout their professional history. He focuses on three areas of the field to help them as a group of engaged educators think about the components of their work and make sense of them in this highly unstable point in time. He also looks at the past, present, and future of the field of composition, rhetoric, and writing studies.