Conferences, Workshops, & Training

Department of Composition & Literary Studies


Conference Registration & Archive (CLS)

Future Conferences
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Past Conferences
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Schedule
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Professional Development
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The Composition & Literary Studies Department offers a limited number of in-house, department-sponsored workshops each year. CLS faculty members may receive professional development hours for attendance and are encouraged to come collaborate with colleagues in a relaxed symposium-like environment. This landing page links to upcoming CLS conferences and archives the content, details, and resources of past events. 

Future Events

Upcoming CLS Conferences, Workshops, & Summits

Connecting CLS & High School ELA Faculty

Vertical Alignment Content Exchange


The CLS Vertical Alignment Content Exchange will allow ACC CLS faculty and high school ELA faculty to meet, network, and share best practices.  (light refreshments: pastries, coffee and water)


When: Friday, May 31, 2024, 9am to 12pm

Where: ACC Rio Grande Campus (RGC) Room 1103 Multipurpose (atrium)

Register here: Vertical Alignment Content Exchange

Event Flyer: Event Flyer (Details & Info)


Contact Beth Frye if you have any questions.


A Celebration of Student Research Excellence

Student Research Symposium (2025)

Date: TBA
Highland Campus (HLC), 6101 Highland Campus Dr., Austin, TX 78752  (Campus Info)


Call for Student Presenters:  May 1, 2024 – February 28, 2025  (Submission Form)

Selected Presenters Notified:  TBA
Eligibility: Open to all ACC students (Traditional, Dual Credit, Early College High School)

Sponsor: Liberal Arts Gateway & Curiositas Academic Journal

Format & Schedule

Join us at this exciting event that invites ACC students to showcase their academic prowess and innovative thinking. This symposium provides a platform for students from diverse disciplines to present their research projects, fostering collaboration and knowledge exchange.


Past Events

Archive of Previous CLS Conferences 

A Celebration of Student Research Excellence

Student Research Symposium (2024)

Friday, April 19, 2024 @ 1:00 – 3:30 pm
Highland Campus (HLC), 6101 Highland Campus Dr., Austin, TX 78752  (Campus Info)


Call for Student Presenters:  November 27 – February 29  (Submission Form)

Selected Presenters Notified:  March – early April
Eligibility: Open to all ACC students (Traditional, Dual Credit, Early College High School)

Sponsor: Liberal Arts Gateway & Curiositas Academic Journal

Format & Schedule

Join us at this exciting event that invites ACC students to showcase their academic prowess and innovative thinking. This symposium provides a platform for students from diverse disciplines to present their research projects, fostering collaboration and knowledge exchange.


CLS Curriculum Conference (2024)

Friday, March 1, 2024 @ 12:00 pm – 4:00 pm
Highland Campus (HLC), 6101 Highland Campus Dr., Austin, TX 78752  (Campus Info)


Registration:  < Register Here > Registration is open until January 23, 2024.

Summary: CLS faculty offer a variety of panels and presentations on timely topics relevant to pedagogy in higher education.
Topics include the following:


Professional Development Hours: Four (4) PD hours awarded (ACC)

Corequisite Summit (2023)

Friday, November 17, 2023 @ 9:00 am – 3:00 pm
Highland Business Center (HBC), 5930 Middle Fiskville Rd, Austin, Texas, 78752


Keynote:  Dr. Sonya Armstrong  (Texas State University)

Summary: The 2023 Coreq Summit is reconnecting, recalibrating, and reimagining our collaborations and pedagogies in a post-pandemic world. Three breakouts sessions in the am and will repeat in the afternoon to offer participants an opportunity to participate in at least two sessions supporting their interests.

Participants: - Faculty teaching corequisites & faculty interested in corequisites

Professional Development Hours: Six (6) ACC professional development hours awarded

CLS Book Fair (2023)

Friday, November 3, 2023 @ 12:30 pm – 3:00 pm
Online:  Zoom (https://austincc.zoom.us/j/99796993082?pwd=YUFWSE0vcytBTlFxVzhjdTliZmlKdz09)


All CLS faculty are welcome!

Summary: CLS Textbook and Technology Committee is hosting our annual Book Fair. This year we will be focusing on Comp I books. Each publishing company will have an opportunity for a 15-minute presentation (and an extra 5 min of Q&A).  


Participating Publishers: Macmillan, Cengage, McGraw Hill, Norton, & Pearson.


Professional Development Hours: Two and a half (2.5) PD hours awarded (ACC)

CCHA National Conference (2023)
Community College Humanities Association (CCHA)

Thursday, October 12 @ 5:00 pm - Saturday, October 14, 2023 @ 4:00 pm
Highland Campus (HLC), 6101 Highland Campus Drive, Austin, TX 78752


Theme: A Life Worth Living Together: Humanities as Collaboration

Summary: This year’s conference will explore all aspects of the Humanities in the context of Community College education, while emphasizing the fundamental collaborative nature of the Humanities and the roles that humanistic inquiries play in providing connections — connections that allow us to examine questions of value, power, community, identity, race, justice, healing, conflict, and transformation.

Participants: - Faculty teaching or interested in teaching Humanities

Grammar Summit (2022)

Friday, November 18, 2022 @ 1:00 – 4:00 pm
Zoom / Rio Grande Campus (RGC), 1212 Rio Grande St, Austin, TX 78701


Topics: Getting Meta: How to Talk about Audience and Academic English Together; Grammar in Context: Using Grammarly to Provide Just-in-time Grammar Feedback; Technical and Business Writing Roundtable; Standard American English: Teaching the Conflict; White Language Habitus, Grading, and Evaluation Possibilities in English Subjects

Participants: All CLS faculty 

Professional Development: Three (3) ACC professional development hours awarded

Documents & Resources: 1. Folder 2. Slides 

Schedule

Meetings, Conferences, Deadlines, & Events (CLS)