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TYCA-Southwest Oral History Project
TYCA-Southwest Oral History Project
Beginning in 2021, the TYCA-Southwest Executive Committee began a more concentrated effort to digitize our organization’s history, past conferences, and other information about the organization.
Building from records held by past Executive Committee members (Jill Gos, Michael Berberich, and Brian Anderson), David Puller (current Archivist) has digitized much of our material to be shared later.
Currently, David Puller and Donnie Penner are working on The Oral History Project, which includes recorded interviews with past TYCA-SW members who helped shape the organization as we know it.
Photo by Mr Cup / Fabien Barral on Unsplash
Requests for Additional Archive Materials
Requests for Additional Archive Materials
The TYCA-Southwest will prioritize its archive collections in summer 2026.
As part of a larger project, we are looking for archive materials for all materials back to 1966, when it was known as the Southwest Regional Conference on English.
If you have old conference materials, old conference presentations, newsletters or articles you wrote yourselves, any photos from previous events, or any correspondence related to SRCE and TYCA-Southwest, please contact David Puller at Lone Star College-North Harris, or Bruce Martin.
Southwest Regional Conference on English in the Two Year College
Southwest Regional Conference on English in the Two Year College
Miscellaneous Notes
Miscellaneous Notes
1971 Sixth Regional Conference [ref only]
1972, 2-3 March, Tulsa OK -- Kansas English; v58 n1 p1-3d Dec 1972 /files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/ED073466.pdf [event note, only]
1974, 3-5 October, Houston TX -- College Composition and Communication, Vol. 25, No. 4 (Oct., 1974), pp. 269-273 [event note, only]
1975 "Westark to Host 3-Day Conference on College English Junior ..." Times Record Archive: Sunday, September 28, 1975 • Fort Smith, Arkansas Page 4
Larry Mers,Dr. Susan Wittig,Nancy Jones,Dr. Loyd Guidry,Dr. Jerry Gibbens,Martha Efurd,Charlotte Brooks,Mrs. Brooks,Pauline Owens,Alice Ann Munson,Dr. Joanne Cockelreas,Lil Brannon,Nikki Weissenfluh,Ken Rose,Francis Neidhardt,Stephen Witte,Andrew Harnock,Mary Ryba,William Davis,Edwin Hicks,Dr. James Bryant,Ladonna Dreyer,Dr. Jim Harris,Ann Longkniff,Jane Black,Elouise Scott,Mary P. Walker,Dr. Maybelle Hollingshead,Francis,Don Simmons,Hazel Presson,Edwy Lee,Richard Rouillard,Helen Hogan,Mary Lou Conlin,Donald Tannehill,Betty Shiflett,DR. JOHN R. WILLIAMS,C. F. Schneider,Sandra Coats,Joseph Millichap,Herman Dotson,Dr. James Watson,L. R. Chudomelka,Barbara Bartlett,Mrs. Bartlett Larry Mers,Dr. Susan Wittig,Nancy Jones,Dr. Loyd Guidry,Dr. Jerry Gibbens,Martha Efurd,Charlotte Brooks,Mrs. Brooks,Mrs.,Brooks,Miller Williams,Williams,Pauline Owens,Alice Ann Munson,Dr. Joanne Cockelreas,Lil Brannon,Nikki Weissenfluh,Ken Rose,Francis Neidhardt,Stephen Witte,Andrew Harnock,Mary Ryba,William Davis,Edwin Hicks,Dr. James Bryant,Ladonna Dreyer,Dr. Jim Harris,Ann Longkniff
1978, 5-7 October, Denver CO [event note, only]
1979, 4-6 October, Oklahoma City OK -- College English, Vol. 40, No. 8 (Apr., 1979), pp. 930-937. [event note, only]
1983 6-8 October, Bossier City, LA -- https://catalogue.nla.gov.au/catalog/5440250 [event note, but archive text of conference presentation]
1984 14 March, Alamogordo NM [ref only]
1993 NTCC Report, Archivist Report, Submitted by Chuck Annal, Pittsburgh, November 1993. tycaarchive.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/ntcc-november-1993-reports.pdf
1993 Southwest Regional Conference Report to NTCC
November, 1993, Pittsburg, PA
Submitted by Dale T. Adams
SRCE National Representative to NTCC
The Southwest Regional Conference on English in the Two-Year College (SRCE) continues to show growth and vigor in serving the some 2000 full-time teachers as well as part-time teachers of English in the two-year colleges of its six-state region--Arkansas, Colorado, Louisiana, New Mexico, Oklahoma, and Texas.
In October, SRCE met in San Antonio, Texas, for a most successful and exciting conference with approximately 250 members in attendance, although the exact figure has not been yet reported to the Executive Committee members. Highlights of the conference were (1) the keynote address by Eileen Lundy, a widely respected Associate Professor of English at the University of Texas at San Antonio and the 1993-94 president of the Texas Council of Teachers of English--an affiliate of NCTE; ) the awarding of the Bob Wylie Service Award to Tahita Fulkerson of Tarrant County Junior College (Ft. Worth, Texas); and (3) the awarding of the Teacher of the Year Award to Betty Bastankhah of San Jancinto College (Pasadena, Texas). The Conference was honored to have NCTE President-Elect Janie Hydrick attend.
SRCE continues also to have the luxury of invitations to host the annual conference with 1994, 1995, 1996, and 1997 conferences scheduled for Laredo, Texas, Colorado Springs, Colorado, Corpus Christi, Texas, and Austin, Texas respectively.
Financially, SRCE is solvent with a balance of $2361.87 in its treasury.
SRCE also continues to have outstanding newsletters published at Westark (Arkansas) Community College under the stellar editorship of Mike Cooper. The SRCE 1993-94 Directory will be published in December at Lee College (Baytown, Texas) under the editorship of Dale T. Adams. Finally, SRCE continues to have outstanding support from its CCCC liaison, Dr. William E. Tanner of Texas Woman's University (Denton, Texas).
Abstract: A Self-Paced Program in Freshman Composition, William Shaw
Record Type: Non-Journal
Publication Date: 1983-Oct-7
Pages: 9
Developed in response to the heterogeneous student population of a two-year, open door college, a self-paced freshman English course at Brazosport College (Texas) still operates within the traditional contact hour and three semester hours credit requirements, but serves students in unique, individual ways. Students may enroll only if placed by diagnostic writing and grammar tests. They spend one to three hours a week in an instructional resource center with individual study carrels where they may listen to taped lectures that accompany the texts, all of which are prepared by the English faculty. Students must also spend two hours weekly in a writing laboratory, which is a conventional classroom where a teacher works with 15 students or less. They are also required to complete weekly self-instruction units in grammar and to take departmental rhetoric exams and a final. The final provides a link to the following semester by combining objective questions on rhetoric with essay questions on an assigned literary work. Final grades are assigned on the basis of predetermined criteria. Additionally, later grades are weighed more heavily if a student raises his level of performance. Consistency in evaluation, as well as consistency in instructional materials and writing assignments, is therefore maintained while still allowing instructors to grade on improvement. (CRH)
[Abstract from the 1983 SRCE conference, Bossier City LA] A microform version is in Australia Archives (https://catalogue.nla.gov.au/catalog/5440250)
Ping-Pong and the Disadvantaged [microform] / Travis Looper
Everyone experiences disadvantages in life. Some disadvantages are the result of forces largely beyond the control of any one individual, including genetic, political, social, and historical disadvantages which no amount of trying is apt to overcome. Some disadvantages are self-inflicted, including being deliberately narrow in viewpoint; avoiding anything that is "second-rate" (every writer compared to Homer and Shakespeare is second-rate); and not allowing oneself to be alive to the difficult, the unfamiliar, and the contradictory. A third kind of disadvantage is imposed on an individual by others who exercise control. Those exercising control are themselves individuals who can be influenced to change their minds, however. Recognizing this, it is possible to work to change policies which put one at a disadvantage, replacing them with more advantageous behaviors and attitudes. (TJ)
Notes:
ERIC Note: Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Southwest Regional Conference on English in the Two-Year College (Denver, Colorado, October 5-7, 1978).
1994 NTCC Report, Archivist Report (PDF link)
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