The Composition Program at College of DuPage teaches nearly every student who enters our open-admission community college. We know that students learn best in culturally responsive classrooms where they feel safe to bring their entire, intersectional identities and lived experiences. Therefore, we are committed to removing barriers for all students and supporting their development of flexible, reflective, and transferable communication skills. We model the rhetorical flexibility we expect of our students through pedagogical practices that ensure our classes are equitable, accessible, and inclusive of everyone.
As a community of writers, readers, teachers, and students, we affirm the following core principles:
Writing should be accessible to everyone, so we commit to creating inclusive spaces for all writers and readers.
Writing is more than White Mainstream English, therefore we support our students' right to use “their own patterns and varieties of language—the dialects of their nurture or whatever dialects in which they find their own identity and style.”