| Sunday, October 10 |
| 9:00-10:30 AM | CEI Registration |
| 10:30-11:30 AM |
- CEI Session IA (Cedar A): "Influential Events of the 20th Century: Finding Your History on the Time-line"
- Presenter: Cheryl Saba, Cape Fear Community College
- Presider: Dr. Kim Turnage, Lenoir Community College
- Abstract: Cheryl Saba shares an assignment in which students research an historical event and argue a position regarding how the event relates to the past, present, and future. The objective is threefold: to research the event they have chosen from the Time-line to the point that allows them to argue a position using formats discussed in class, to construct an annotated bibliography based on their research, and to make an informative classroom presentation of their findings.
CEI Session IB (Cedar B): "Showing the Pony: Using Online Tools to Improve English Instruction" - Presenter: Constance S. Cerniglia, Guilford Technical Community Community College
- Presider: Barbara Taylor, Cleveland Community College
- Abstract: Instructors often think of Internet resources as helpful to only online classes, but they also can provide great benefits to traditional classes. In Web-supplemented classes, instructors can increase student interaction, diversify learning activities, and add relevancy to assignments. In this presentation, Constance Cerniglia will show some specific web-based resources that instructors can use to supplement writing and literature classes.
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| 11:30-11:45 AM | Break |
| 11:45-1:10 PM | Luncheon (Colony A): CEI Business Meeting |
| 1:15-2:15 PM |
- CEI Session IIA (Cedar A): "Oral History and Community"
- Presenter: Monika Fleming, Edgecombe Community College
- Presider: Barbara Rusher, Central Carolina Community College
- Abstract: Monika Fleming's presentation is on two related assignments for ENG 111 that are designed to interest students in writing descriptive, narrative, and brief investigation essays. One assignment involves interviewing senior citizens about their experiences or about the community. The other assignment is from a scrapbook source on using old pictures to stimulate writing. These can be used together or independently.
CEI Session IIB (Cedar B): "Connecting with the Community: Our State Magazine in the Composition Classroom"
- Presenter: Bryan Oesterreich, Beaufort County Community College
- Presider: Lynn Carpenter-Keeter, Gardner-Webb College
- Abstract: Bryan Oesterreich discusses using Our State ("Down Home in North Carolina") magazine articles in composition classes. Students choose a North Carolina town and write essays researching history, restorations, cultural activities, employers, and the future.
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| 2:15-2:30 PM | Break |
| 2:30-3:30 PM |
- CEI Session IIIA (Cedar A): "NPR Radio Essay: Revision, Criticism, and Classroom Community"
- Presenter: Dr. M. Susan Schmidt, Carteret Community College
- Presider: Sharon Mills, Carteret Community College
- Abstract: Dr. Schmidt shares a writing assignment and classroom exercise that build students' trust in self, teacher, and classroom community. After listening to National Public Radio, students write and read in class a personal narrative "radio" essay. They learn to judge and address "audience," to follow instructions by including set criteria, to revise to meet a time limit, to give and receive "criticism" (praise and recommendations for improvement), and to speak in class. Laughter and learning build confidence.
CEI Session IIIB (Cedar B): "Who's Passing the Torch? Mentor Relationships Can Help"
- Presenters: Dr. Jo Ann Buck and Brandy Grabow, Guilford Technical Community College
- Presider: Liz Meador, Wayne Community College
- Abstract: The graying of the American faculty is a well-known trend. But teachers who have devoted their lives to community college English instruction want to ensure that excellent teachers will step into their vacated classrooms. Jo Ann Buck and Brandy Grabow show how mentor relationships can provide a valuable method of passing the torch.
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| Monday, October 11 |
- 11:45-1:30 PM
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 Luncheon (Colony A): During lunch former NC Poet Laureate Fred Chappell will be the speaker. Born in Canton, North Carolina and educated at Duke University, Mr. Chappell has written 14 books of verse, two volumes of stories, one of criticism and eight novels. In December 1997, Governor Jim Hunt appointed Fred Chappell North Carolina's Poet Laureate. Mr. Chappell began teaching in the Department of English at UNC-Greensboro in 1964. In 1987 he received the O. Max Gardner Award, the highest teaching award bestowed by the University of North Carolina system, and in 1988 he was named the Burlington Industries Professor of English. Among the awards and honors Mr. Chappell has received over his long career are the Sir Walter Raleigh Prize (1973), the North Carolina Award for Literature (1980), Yale University Library's Bollingen Prize in poetry (1985), a literature award from the National Academy of Arts and Letters (1968), the best foreign book prize from the Academie Française (1972), and the Aiken Taylor Award in poetry (1996). His works of fiction include I Am One of You Forever, Brighten The Corner Where You Are, and a new volume of poetry, Spring Garden.
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| 3:15-4:30 PM |
- CEI Session IV (Victoria C): "Issues Forum: The Role of the North Carolina Conference of English Instructors (NCCEI)"
- Presenters: NCCEI Board Members
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