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February 14, 2008
Revising Our Mission: A Dialogue
At the 2008 Conference on College Composition and Communication, the Progressive SIG and Caucus Coalition will be considering draft language of a new mission statement. Prior to that meeting, the suggested revisions are being posted to encourage comment and debate among PSCC members and progressive teachers. Among the proposed revisions is a new name, The Social Justice SIG, and an expanded set of activities.
No final decisions will be made prior to the 2008 Conference in April, so please let us know your thoughts and insights.
Proposed Mission Statement
Social and Political Justice SIG Mission Statement
We are a coalition of individuals, interest groups, and caucuses, based in the fields of rhetoric and composition, who are committed to promoting social and political fairness, equity, and justice. We seek to create collaborative partnerships between university-based activists and the larger network of activists and organizations taking on this important work.
Within the profession, we work
to develop curricula that are actively anti-racist, anti-sexist, and anti-homophobic and that teach voices not easily heard or too easily ignored in standard or mainstream definitions of literacy in the United States;
to create classrooms that develop critical literacy for informed citizenship, and to promote courses that represent the diverse communities from which we and our students come;
to provide mentoring and support to enable people from groups currently underrepresented in composition to enter, actively participate, gain tenure, and fully benefit from the resources of the profession;
to support the production and circulation of culturally and politically relevant progressive scholarship as well as work to provide publication venues for such work;
to ensure that CCCC establishes and enforces just labor practices and standards for all members of the profession, such as part-time writing instructors and non-tenure stream faculty;
In dialogue with community-based individuals and organizations, we work
to insure that free speech rights are protected within the academy and within the larger political community;
to work with community-organizations dedicated to insuring the social and political rights of all members of a community;
to promote community investment in education, and educational investment in communities;
to be active in the production of a new hegemony based upon political and social justice.
To this end the Political and Social Justice SIG sponsors a yearly forum at CCCC, supports the Rachel Corrie Award, develops and advertises relevant CCCC sessions, supports relevant publications and partnerships, encourages debates at local sites on these issues, and, through on-line resources, archives the progressive work of individuals and organizations involved at CCCC.
Posted by sparks at February 14, 2008 12:46 PM
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