October 2004

Mission Statement

We are a coalition of individuals, interest groups, and caucuses who feel that language, writing, and literacy are inseparable from issues of social justice and public policy. We seek to highlight this connection through our work, and to use our work to further the following principal goals:

(1) 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;

(2) 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;

(3) to enable people from groups currently underrepresented in composition to enter, participate actively in, and fully benefit from the resources of the profession;

(4) 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;

(5) to promote community investment in education, and educational investment in communities.