Teaching English in the Two-Year College - Volume 33, Issue 2, 2005

This essay examines the contradictory role of the community college historically, reflecting its function in preserving the American class system.

We in the community college must advocate for practices, programs, and legislation that will help the least advantaged among us, and create narratives about the material conditions of our students’ lives that recognize the real complexity of their situations.

Given the war that has been waged for several decades now against working students and their families, as well as against teachers, community college faculty are called upon to invent creative, local, and evolving knowledges of social class with their students.

Case histories of basic writing programs at regional campuses need to incorporate concerns of social class. Attention to class helps scholars identify institutional patterns that distance basic writing from the university’s mainstream business.

This article discusses employment of part-time faculty at the community college level, including historical reasons for their current status, alternatives to this status, and specific steps to change it.

This note offers suggestions for using microthemes in diverse classes across the curriculum.

Developmental reading and writing students study linguistics and by doing so become aware of how their use of language intersects with their own evolving identities.

Reviews of 6 books: An Omnibus Review of Six Introductory Fiction Ahthologies 40 Short Stories: A Portable Anthology, 2nd ed., ed. Beverly Lawn; Fiction: A Pocket Anthology, 4th ed., ed. R. S. Gwynn; Fiction 100: An Anthology of Short Fiction, 10th ed., ed. James H. Pickering; Exploring Fiction: Writing and Thinking about Fiction, ed. Frank Madden; Understanding Fiction, ed. Judith Roof; The Longman Anthology of Short Fiction: Stories and Authors in Context, ed. Dana Gioia and R. S. Gwynn.