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College Level at NCTE
The College Section of NCTE supports the exploration of English studies in a variety of collegiate settings that include higher education institutions and early colleges. We are educators who teach English, composition, and literacy studies across the disciplines in colleges and universities, especially to undergraduate students.
Featured College Stories
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Gwen Gray Schwartz, College Section, Alliance, OH
The Mantle of Story — Passing On Tradition
Kevin Cordi, College Section, Columbus, OH
Featured College Publications
Deep Reading: Teaching Reading in the Writing Classroom
Editors Patrick Sullivan, Howard Tinberg, and Sheridan Blau argue that college-level reading must be theorized as foundationally linked to any understanding of college-level writing.
Mobile Technologies and the Writing Classroom: Resources for Teachers
Editor Claire Lutkewitte and her contributors explore both writing for and about mobile technologies and writing with mobile technologies.

2023 NCTE
Annual Convention
The NCTE Annual Convention offers access to more than 690 sessions led by literacy educators, for literacy educators.
Learn More RegistrationCollege English
This is the professional journal for the college scholar-teacher and publishes articles about literature, rhetoric-composition, critical theory, creative writing theory and pedagogy, linguistics, literacy, reading theory, pedagogy, and professional issues related to the teaching of English.
College Awards
The Richard C. Ohmann Award recognizes an outstanding refereed article in the journal College English that makes the most significant contribution to the field of English studies.
Leadership
The College Section Steering Committee (CSSC) members are elected by the NCTE membership each year to a four-year term. The Chair is elected from within the CSSC to a two-year term and serves on the NCTE Executive Committee representing the interests of the college level membership.
College Groups
Join a group based on your specific interests and research areas:
- Conference on College Composition and Communication (CCCC)
- Two-Year College English Association (TYCA)
- English Language Arts Teacher Educators (ELATE) [formerly the Conference on English Education (CEE)]
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