{"id":159,"date":"2023-04-20T21:53:46","date_gmt":"2023-04-20T21:53:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/ncte\/?page_id=159"},"modified":"2023-04-27T14:45:32","modified_gmt":"2023-04-27T14:45:32","slug":"cccc","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/ncte\/exhibits\/cccc\/","title":{"rendered":"CCCC: Conference on College Freshman Courses in Composition and Communication"},"content":{"rendered":"

“The broad object of the CCCC is to unite college teachers of composition and communication in an organization which can consider all matters relevant to their teaching, including, in general, teachers, subject matter, methods, and students.”
\nFrom an early draft of CCCC’s Constitution<\/cite><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

On April 1 and 2, 1949, NCTE sponsored a conference focused on college freshman English in Chicago. According to J.N. Hook’s\u00a0A Long Way Together: A Personal View of NCTE’s First Sixty-Seven Years<\/em>, the “topics discussed at this conference included course organization, needed research, articulation of high school and college English, teaching methods, and staffing” (1979, p. 148). With over 500 attendees, the conference was so popular and successful, the CCCC officially became a major organization within NCTE.<\/p>\n

When the conference organizer, John C. Gerber, requested that the CCCC be recognized as a conference group, the Executive Committee approved the conference’s continuance for three years. The Executive Committee also granted the conference the ability to levy dues, elect officers, hold an annual business meeting, and publish an official periodical (Hook, 1979, p. 148). In May 1950, NCTE approved the CCCC as a permanent organization. Hook writes:<\/p>\n

“[The] CCCC was simply accepted as a permanent and highly prized offspring of the parent body \u2014 the first such to be established \u2014 and destined to grow to six thousand or more members.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Today, according to its website, the CCCC is the “largest professional organization for researching and teaching composition.” To learn more about CCCC’s formation, take a look at the featured topics below:<\/p>\n