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- CEI: Annual dues: $15, full-time faculty; free, part-time faculty. To join, complete and mail the application form.
TYCA-Southeast: Annual dues: $20, full-time faculty; $10, adjunct faculty. To join, complete the and mail the application form.
- NC Faculty Association: If any group can succeed in pushing toward higher salaries for us, this is it! Please join and support the Faculty Association. To join, complete the online application form.
CEI Officers and Reps
President
Vice-President
Secretary/Treasurer
Membership Chair
Newsletter Editor
CEI Webmaster
Eastern Regional Reps
- Sharon Mills
- Cheryl Saba
- Kim Turnage
Central Regional Reps- Jo Ann Buck
- Anne Helms
- Michael G. Spinks
Western Regional Reps- Tom Hearron
- Jessica Saxon
- Brett Wallen
According to the CEI Constitution, the duties of a regional rep are as follows: "Regional Representatives will communicate with faculty within their respective regions; represent faculty within their regions; attend regularly scheduled Executive Board meetings, as well as annual business and regional meetings; work with the Board to nominate representatives when vacancies arise. " If you would like to fill one of the open positions, please contact Liz Meador.
Treasurer's Report
The latest CEI Treasurer's Report is available. CEI membership username and password are required.
Faculty Salaries and Employment
(reprinted from the NCCCFA newsletter)
According to an October 2002 Research Brief published by the Planning and Research Section of the North Carolina Community College System:
- Relative to other states, North Carolina community college faculty earn monthly salaries that rank at the bottom.
- Faculty who leave the NCCCS earn higher salaries.
- New faculty are hired at lower than average salaries.
- NC community college faculty are not state employees, but employees of the local community college.
In order to read the entire NCCCFA report, please go to ncccs_report_2002.pdf.
Need for Regional Repsnewsletter Editor If you have read the October Board meeting minutes, you know that we need 2 western regional representatives and 1 eastern regional rep. In addition, we need a newsletter editor. Please think about assuming these leadership positions vital for the strength and continuity of CEI!
Regional reps assume these responsibilities:
- attend CEI Board meetings held 3-4 times, usually fewer, during a year (CEI pays for lunch, and your college may provide a vehicle and gas, so your only expense is time. Most of us have library or other assignments for the students or have colleagues cover classes for us.
- help plan the regional meetings in the spring and the state-wide conference in the fall
- bring to the Board meetings issues, concerns for CEI's attention
Please contact Liz at if you are interested in knowing more and/or willing to be a regional rep or newsletter editor (of this publication!).
Navigating Competencies:
Charting the Future
in English Instruction
 Have you ever found yourself up the creek without a paddle? What strategies did you come up with to find your way? CEI's 2005 conference theme centers around the future of English instruction. Some topics to consider for workshops include: teaching methods, measuring/assessment, learning communities, the culture of evidence, competency-based education, collaborative learning, global education, and any new directions you see English instruction heading or needs to be heading.
Call for Papers
 There are still a few openings for presentations at the CEI Fall Conference 2005. Please send your proposals to:
Dr. Kim Turnage
Lenoir Community College
P.O. Box 188
Kinston, NC 28502-0188
fax (252) 233-6889
Proposals due by Thursday, June 30.
Send your name, title, school, presentation title, a one to two paragraph description of your presentation along with a twenty-word abstract, and equipment (or other) needs. We will need presenters and presiders for fifteen 75-minute sessions.
Sometimes you have to make some waves to find your direction!
If you want to make a presentation, please review the Call for Presentations.
CEI Board Meeting The next meeting of the CEI Board will be at noon on April 25 in Boone, NC. Board members will meet with representatives of the Broyhill Inn to make final preparations for the fall conference.
In Memoriam Sandra Ivey, our former Prentice Hall representative, was killed in an auto accident on Sunday, December 12, 2004. Sandra was driving with her husband, Doug, when another driver hit their car. She is survived by her husband and her beloved dog, Caper.
Sandra's funeral was held on Thursday, December 16. Sandra was a friend to so many of us and there is no doubt our world won't be as bright without Sandra in it.
Thayne Conrad
Prentice Hall
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President's Corner Greetings NCCEI members and English/Humanities Faculty,
As we near the latter part of the semester, I want to encourage you to think about this saying, “Life is not measured by the breaths we take, but the moments that take our breath.” Instead of focusing on the excessive paper grading, large class sizes, teaching loads, and departmental duties/responsibilities, focus on the moments, both professional and personal, which bring you joy and happiness. We are living in turbulent times; however, we are blessed with jobs. Through NCCEI, we have a wonderful opportunity to be a sounding board for one another and to teach and learn from one another. For those of you who are not members, I encourage you to join. We're currently planning and accepting papers for our CEI Fall Conference 2005 in Atlantic Beach; I hope to see you all there, October 23-25, 2005.
NCCEI President,
Barbara Rusher, Central Carolina Community College
Coups and Kudos! (a collection of tidbits about the doings of English faculty gleaned from department heads in the east and central who responded to my e-mail. We'll do the west in the next newsletter because my e-mail would not work for that region!. Western folk, please send some news! -Liz.) Jill Lahnstein, Cape Fear CC, has a new development textbook, The Big Picture, from Prentice-Hall. The text is designed for ENG 095 classes. Congratulations to Jill!Jenna Call, Cape Fear CC, has been doing English voiceovers for Japanese animation, performing as several characters in You're Under Arrest, a popular police series in Japan.Katrina Williams, Wilson Technical CC, participated in a 2-woman exhibition of her artwork at the Four Sisters Gallery for Self-Taught Artists at the Mims Gallery at NC Wesleyan College in Rocky Mount, NC, where she sold her works to private collectors. Katrina taught herself to work with brush and color in watercolor and acrylic. She has sold pictures to Text Art Publishing and the Pen and Press Company.Rosalyn Lomax and Margaret Baddour, Wayne CC, completed a successful 3-day run of Driving Miss Daisy in October with Rosalyn in the lead role and Margaret as director. Retired English instructor Gerald Simmons played Hoke, and local attorney Geoff Hulse had the role of Boolie, Miss Daisy's son. Kathryn Spicer produced the play. In the upcoming production of A Midsummer Night's Dream in February 20-23, Rosalyn has the role of Bottom and Margaret plays Puck.Margaret Baddour along with her husband, former Rep. Philip Baddour, were honored with the Sam Ragan Angels of the Arts award from the NC Writers Network Conference. Kathryn Spicer, Wayne CC, was recently cited in Who's Who Among America's Teachers as was Thomas Hearron, Caldwell CC, also CEI western regional representative.Congratulations to Stephanie Hunt, English instructor, Johnston CC, selected as Instructor-of-the-Year statewide!Cheryl Saba, Cape Fear CC, was awarded the college's first Excellence in Teaching Award/Endowment in May.
The Book Nook
By Liz Meador Some CEI Board members thought the newsletter should carry a column about what we are reading that we find stimulating, provocative, etc. Aside from student papers, that is!
If you have not seen the film The Hours based on Michael Cunningham's novel of the same title, it is splendidly performed! I came home to read the book then checked out bios about Virginia Woolf because it had been ages since my reading of Mrs. Dalloway in senior seminar at Westhampton College.
Cunningham examines three lives in his novel: a contemporary woman (2001), a housewife in the 1950s, and Woolf just before her suicide. The film parallels the novel fairly accurately, changing only a few details. Ed Harris portrays a man dying of AIDS who is friend to the modern Clarissa in a sensitive performance. His suicide echoes that of Virginia Woolf, both tormented by illness and despair.
The novel and the film link the three storylines in a stunning way at the end, emphasizing the roles of choice and chance in our lives.
Another beautiful novel is The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold. You have probably read synopses of this first novel. Sebold has a one earlier work, Lucky, about her experience with rape while she was a college freshman. I admit to having a hard time getting past the first chapter when the rape occurs, though I am determined to continue!
The Lovely Bones offers a special comfort to those of us who need a realized concept of what happens in the afterlife. I loved Susie's sense of humor (the title refers to Susie's elbow that a neighborhood dog has dragged home after her rape and mutilation by a man in her neighborhood!) Despite this grisly start of the novel, it has lyrical moments in the middle and end.
Other recommended reading: Mrs. Dalloway, Virginia Woolf; Bias, Bernard Goldberg; Stonewall Jackson's Book of Maxims, ed. James I. Robertson. Jr. |
