Welcome to the Community College Forum/Two Year College Discussion Group!

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The Two Year College Discussion Group is one of the 49 MLA Discussion Groups “designed to accommodate the scholarly and professional interests of small constituencies concerned with discrete literatures or with literary and linguistic subjects that are not encompassed by one of the divisions” (https://www.mla.org/dgroupexeccomm).

Once the MLA moves from Discussion Groups to Forums, we will be known as the Community College Forum.

The 2015-16 Executive Committee Members are:

Michael Burke (Chair)
Falk Cammin
Stacey Donohue (Secretary)
Linda Weinhouse
(One position is unfilled)

If you are interested in working with the discussion group as a member or being considered as a future member of the Executive Committee, please contact one of us, or watch this blog, for information about our annual business meeting at the MLA Convention.

For the 2016 Convention in Austin, we will are arranging a panel on teaching the Humanities online.

About Stacey Lee Donohue

I am Professor of English at Central Oregon Community College in Bend, Oregon. I've been a Department Chair (for two different departments), and for the 2015-16 academic year I will be an Interim Instructional Dean overseeing 4 departments (Humanities; Fine Arts and Communications; Social Sciences; and World Languages and Cultures). I also serve on the Executive Committees of the Association of Departments of English and the Two Year College Discussion Group (soon to be called the Community College Forum). My interest in the K-16 Alliance stems from my work as a faculty mentor and department chair working with high school instructors teaching dual enrollment courses (that count for both high school and college credit) in the high schools that serve a very large geographic region known as Central Oregon. Last year, our region was awarded a significant state grant for our "Cascades Commitment" project, which includes developing alternative certification and professional development pathways for high school teachers teaching college level composition courses in the high schools.