Two-Year College English Association
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Two-Year College English Association
National Conference
Wednesday, April 3, 2024
Spokane, WA
The Weird and the Wonderful: Unexpected Growth in Unfamiliar Spaces
(Held at the start of the 2024 CCCC Annual Convention)
The 2024 TYCA Conference will be held at the Spokane Convention Center, WA, on April 3 at the start of the 2024 CCCC Annual Convention.
#TYCA24 Keynote with Rochelle (Shelley) Rodrigo, NCTE President
Wednesday, April 3, 2024 | 12:30–1:45 p.m.
Grand Ballroom A, Ground Floor, Davenport Grand
Rochelle (Shelley) Rodrigo is the senior director of the Writing Program and professor in the Rhetoric, Composition, and the Teaching of English (RCTE) program at the University of Arizona. Prior to her current role, she was an assistant professor at Old Dominion University and full-time faculty and faculty development coordinator at Mesa Community College. While at Mesa CC, she served as treasurer and then chair for TYCA-West and was their national TYCA representative. During her nine years at Mesa CC, Shelley also completed her dissertation and PhD as well as published two books.
Shelley currently researches how “newer” technologies better facilitate communicative interactions, specifically teaching and learning. As well as coauthoring three editions of The Wadsworth/Cengage Guide to Research, Shelley coauthored Teaching Learning Online: Engaging, Analyzing, and Producing in Multiple Media and coedited Rhetorically Rethinking Usability: Theories, Practices, and Methodologies. Her scholarly work has appeared in journals such as Composition Forum, Composition Studies, Computers and Composition, C&C Online, Technical Communication Quarterly, and Teaching English in the Two-Year College¸ as well as in various edited collections. In 2022 she became a Research Associate with The Readability Consortium and a Distinguished Fellow in the Center for University Education Scholarship (CUES) at the University of Arizona. In 2021 she was elected Vice President (four-year term including President) of NCTE and won the Arizona Technology in Education Association’s Ruth Catalano Friend of Technology Innovation Award.
Registration Information
Registration Rates
- TYCA-only registration: $160
- TYCA and CCCC registration: $260
All registrants must agree to the NCTE Event Policies. All #TYCA24 presenters must register for the TYCA Conference.
See complete registration and housing information on the CCCC website.
REGISTER HERE
For students wishing to register for the 2024 TYCA Conference and the 2024 CCCC Annual Convention, please complete the following steps:
- Begin your registration online, selecting the “CCCC Full Convention + TYCA Conference $ 260.00” option, and proceed through the registration process to the payment page.
- At the payment page, copy down your registration reference number. (We suggest waiting 10 minutes to proceed to step 3 as it takes 5-10 minutes for registrations to be visible in the system.)
- Call NCTE customer service at 877-369-6283 with your reference number to make payment. The total registration for TYCA and CCCC is $230 for students.
Conference Details
NEW! See the list of sessions scheduled for the 2024 TYCA National Conference.
General Schedule
8:00–8:50 a.m. Opening Session
9:00–10:05 a.m. Breakout Sessions 1
10:15–11:20 a.m. Breakout Sessions 2
11:30 a.m.–12:20 p.m. Roundtable Sessions
12:30–1:45 p.m. Keynote Speaker
2:00–3:05 p.m. Breakout Sessions 3
3:15–4:20 p.m. Breakout Sessions 4
4:30–5:35 p.m. Breakout Sessions 5
5:45–6:00 p.m. Closing Session
Past TYCA Conference Programs
2023 Program, Chicago, IL
2022 Program, Virtual
2021 Program, Virtual
2019 Program, Pittsburgh, PA