Community College Humanities Association
The Community College Humanities Association is the only national organization that exclusively serves to strengthen the humanities in the nation's community colleges.

 

 

 

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The Humanist Newsletter Memberships Association Information  
Conferences: National | Central | Eastern | Pacific Western | Southern | South Western


 

Kay Ryan – Poetry Initiative
Poetry for the Mind’s Joy
Listen to the Poet Laureate
Explain Her Poetry Initative
at Community Colleges
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Click here for Contest and Guidelines!

Division Honors

Faculty Scholarships for Summer 2010 . . .
Postings coming in. Check often.

Division Honors

Division Conferences for FALL of 2010

Central Division — Call for Proposals Coming

Eastern Division — Call for Proposals Coming

Pacific-Western Division — Call for Proposals Coming

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South Western Division — Call for Proposals Coming

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2009 Literatry Magazine Competition

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View The Humanist Archives

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Invest in the Humanities,
Not Wallstreet!

Read "The Humanities' Value

Read "Humanities and the Examined Life"

"HIgher Learning, Greater Good"

Division Honors

CONFERENCE DIVISION AWARDS

News and Opportunities for Contingent Faculty

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Job Opportunities for Distance Learning: Faculty and Dean

Coalition on the Academic Workforce

 

 

 

CCHA, a member of the CAW, announces the New AFT Report on Academic Staffing: Reversing Course: The Troubled State of Academic Staffing and a Path Forward.
This report takes a close look at classes taught by contingent faculty and also breaks that data down broadly by disciplines as well. The AFT report also provide a model for costing out how to "reverse course." You can access the report, the model, press release and links to media coverage which has been pretty positive so far (including getting a piece in USA Today) at our FACE web site: www.aftface.org

Education in the Balance

MLA Urges Chairs to Focus on Adjunct Issues
http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2009/05/07/qt#198364

The Modern Language Association is sending a letter to all English and foreign language department chairs urging them to organize discussions and activism to draw attention to the treatment of adjuncts. The letter follows on both reports and policy positions issued by the MLA, and urges discussions with department members and administrators, publicizing "best practices" on the use of non-tenure-track faculty members (including minimum per course payments), urging the conversion of part-time positions to full-time and so forth. The letter also urges chairs to raise these issues when they sit on external review panels on other campuses. "Especially in these difficult economic times, we must vigorously make the case for the relevance of an excellent humanities education," the letter says. "Students need to be multiply literate, flexible, keen in their interpretive capacities, and prepared to change career direction several times over the course of their working lives. They deserve well-trained and adequately paid faculty members who, working under good conditions, are committed to teaching and learning, have time to prepare classes and provide adequate feedback to students, and have opportunities and support for professional development and advancement. Those students are our future. And those who stand before them in the classroom are our future as well."


REMEMBERING THE ALAMO – WORKSHOPS
a We the People Initiative Landmarks of American History and Culture Workshops for Teachers K-12
Funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities
Dear Colleague Letter - READ NOW
Application - APPLY NOW
Logistical Questions~Answers
Visiting Scholars
Daily Schedule

Remembering the Alamo website: http://www.richlandcollege.edu/alamo/

Hampton Inn - Housing Information
San Antonio and The Alamo

 

2008 CCHA Divisions

Central Division
Eastern Division
Pacific-Western Division
Southern Division

SouthWestern Division

 

The Humanities Essay Competition, sponsored by The New York Times College Program and the Community College Humanities Association, gives community college students the opportunity to gain recognition for excellence in the humanities. Students whose entries are judged to be winners of this essay Competition will be eligible for cash prizes: 1st prize, $500, 2nd prize, $300, 3rd prize, $200. Entry Form

American Councils for International Education: ACTR/ACCELS, in conjunction with the Department of State, is offering a fully-funded Intensive Summer Language Institute for teachers
of Russian, Chinese and Arabic
. For program details go to http://apps.americancouncils.org/

SVHE Institute on Religion in Curriculum and Culture of Higher Education ApplyNow!

 

CCHA Supports Humanities Advocacy Day

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Summer Institutes for 2010

A National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Institute for Community College and
Four-Year College and University Faculty sponsored by the Community College Humanities Association.

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Complete Listing for 2010 NEH Summer
Seminars and Institutes

Prospective applicants can start the application procedure by filling out a set of coversheets here.

NEH Landmarks of American History and Culture Workshopsfor Community College Teachers
Summer 2010

NEH is an independent grant-making agency of the United States government dedicated to supporting research, education, preservation, and public programs in the humanities.

See the complete listing of the Landmark Series for Summer 2010

Concord Homepage and Dear Colleague Letter for ConcordNovember 2009
Dear Colleague,
It is a pleasure to invite you to Concord, Massachusetts, the home—as local Concordians like to say—of America’s “second Revolution” (as well as, of course, its first).  Some sixty years after the “shot heard round the world” was fired at the North Bridge, an extraordinary confluence of literary and social forces brought together the likes of Henry David Thoreau, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Amos Bronson Alcott and his soon-to-become more famous daughter, Louisa May, in the village of Concord.  The result was a second “revolution” that forever changed the American literary and cultural landscape.
 

Plymouth Homepage and Dear Colleague Letter
October 2009
Dear Colleagues,
It is a pleasure to invite you to Plymouth, Massachusetts where the Pilgrims came ashore in 1620 from the Mayflower, built a settlement, and survived the winter of 1620-21, with the assistance of the Wampanoag Indians. As we approach the 400th anniversary of the Pilgrim landing, it is time to reflect and consider new scholarship and archaeological evidence about this seminal event in United States history.Read more

 

 

 

 



CCHA is affiliated with
Modern Language Association
Organization of American Historians
American Association of Community Colleges
National Humanities Alliance
American Historical Association
American Council of Learned Societies
The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History
The Hill Center for World Studies

Visit the National Endowment for the Humanities

For further information, please contact
David Berry,dberry@ccha-assoc.org
Executive Director of CCHA

c/o Essex County College, 303 University Avenue, Newark, NJ 07102


Daphne Frazier, Office Manager
FAX 973-877-3578
Phone:  973.877.3577

Jacob Agatucci, Editor, The Community College Humanist

Emily Sohmer Tai, Contributing Editor, The Community College Humanist

Ned Wilson, Editor, Community College Humanities Review
973-877-3215, nwilson@ccha-assoc.org

Jeffrey Clausen, Coordinator, National Humanities Liaison Officer Program

The CCHA web site is hosted by Nassau Community College