Awards

James R. Squire Award

2019 Award Winner: Kathleen Blake Yancey

Kathleen Blake Yancey, Kellogg W. Hunt Professor of English and Distinguished Research Professor at Florida State University, has served as an elected leader for several professional/scholarly organizations, including NCTE. Her scholarship focuses on composition studies; on students’ transfer of writing knowledge and practice; on cultural studies of everyday writing; on writing assessment, especially print and electronic portfolios; and on the intersections of culture, literacies, and technologies. A past editor of two journals, Yancey has authored or edited, often with colleagues, 16 books and 100+ articles and book chapters. She is the recipient of several awards, including the FSU Graduate Teaching Award, the Purdue University Distinguished Woman Scholar Award, and the CCCC Exemplar Award.

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Award Details

Overview:
The James R. Squire Award, formally called the NCTE Executive Committee Award was established in 1967. In 1999, the Executive Committee renamed the award to honor former Executive Secretary, James R. Squire, for his contributions to NCTE and the profession at large.

This award is given by the Executive Committee in recognition of outstanding service, not only to the stature and development of NCTE and the discipline which it represents, but also to the profession of education as a whole, internationally as well as nationally.

Criteria:
The James R. Squire Award is a special award given to an NCTE member who has had a transforming influence and has made a lasting intellectual contribution to the profession.

The NCTE James R. Squire Award does not need to be awarded each year. This award should be bestowed only when the subcommittee decides that nominations warrant presentation of the award.

Selection Committee:
The selection committee will consist of the outgoing Past President and a committee of three Past Presidents of the Council appointed by the outgoing Past President.

The James R. Squire award selection committee will select an award recipient and the Executive Committee will approve the committee’s selection at an Executive Committee meeting.