Contributing
Contributing
The Wyoming Conference Resolution
WHEREAS, the salaries and working conditions of post-secondary teachers with primary responsibility for the teaching of writing are fundamentally unfair as judged by any reasonable professional standards (e.g., unfair in excessive teaching loads, unreasonably large class sizes, salary inequities, lack of benefits and professional status, and barriers to professional advancement)...
AND WHEREAS, as a consequence of these unreasonable working conditions, highly dedicated teachers are often frustrated in their desire to provide students the time and attention which students both deserve and need...
THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED that the Executive Committee of College Composition and Communication be charged with the following:
- To formulate, after appropriate consultations with post-secondary
teachers of writing, professional standards and expectations for salary
levels and working conditions of post-secondary teachers of writing.
- To establish a procedure for hearing grievances brought by
post-secondary teachers of writing--either singly or collectively--
against apparent institutional non-compliance with these standards and
expectations.
- To establish a procedure for acting upon a finding of non-compliance;
specifically, to issue a letter of censure to an individual institution's
administration, Board of Regents or Trustees, State legislators (where
pertinent), and to publicize the finding to the public-at-large, the
educational community in general, and to our membership.
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