2025 College English Editor Application Form

**2025 College English Editor Application Form**

Please complete the form below in-full to submit your application for the College English journal editorship. If applying as a team, only one application should be submitted. The requested documents should be uploaded in PDF format. Please email kritchie@ncte.org with questions. Applications are due by January 7, 2026.

Applicant's Name(Required)

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Applicant's Email(Required)

Applicant's Institution(Required)

Applicant's Location

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If more than one individual is applying as part of a team, please include the additional applicant's name(s), email(s), institution(s), and location information below.

What is your future vision for College English journal?(Required)

How does your vision align with the current needs of literacy teachers and scholars? How will you engage classroom teachers in future issues? How will you make the content accessible to influence classroom practice and teacher agency? How would subscribers benefit from your enacted vision?(Required)

What NCTE priorities and commitments will be most involved in your vision (NCTE mission, programs, position statements, etc.)?(Required)

What are your observations and/or what data do you have regarding the current state of the journal as well as the wants and needs of subscribers?(Required)

What specific editorial changes and augmentations will you implement if selected as the next editor?(Required)

How will you increase the reach and influence of the journal? What do you need to enact your plan?(Required)

Do you envision new possibilities from digital publishing and/or additional modern affordances to expand the journal’s reach and influence? If so, what are they?(Required)

If working with an editor team, what will each person’s responsibilities be?

What experiences have you had with reviewers?(Required)

How would your institution benefit from having you in the role of editor? What support is your institution likely to offer (e.g., teaching release time, financial support, teaching assistant contribution, integration into the institution’s priorities)?(Required)

If selected, is there more information you’d like to know about the subscriber base or content usage to hone your plans? If so, what specifics would be helpful?

Please upload the applicant's CV or resume in PDF format. If there is more than one applicant, please upload a CV or resume for each applicant (multiple files can be uploaded).(Required)

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Please upload one sample of published writing (article or chapter) in PDF format. If there is more than one applicant, please upload a writing sample for each applicant.(Required)

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Please upload a letter in PDF format specifying financial support from appropriate administrators at the applicant's institution if support is available. If there is more than one applicant and support is available from multiple institutions, please upload a PDF letter from each institution.

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