(YOUNG RHETORICIANS’ CONFERENCE)
AT THE MONTEREY BEACH HOTEL
in the mind, to dance. See synonym: "Old.")
This June, academics, writers, publishers, and lovers of language will converge as colleagues
to explore the expectations that push-pull on us as we contemplate bringing to others
the skills and joys of language. The YRC looks to issues and ideas that enable us to enable
our students. Bring your concerns—ideological and/or intuitive—to the beach as we gather to
rejuvenate ourselves and ponder what we are about—where the Monterey Bay warmly greets
general sessions, workshops, panels, and luncheons.
Trying to enlighten, inform, and inspire your students while external expectations demand
tidy packages of "outcomes" or test scores? Feeling the forces that would have you "package"
your teaching into some consumable product? Getting the sense that business-education
liaisons would have you package your students? So are we. Please join us!
~~ Link here to the Program, YRC 2001. (Updated June 4, 2001)
Link to Program ~~ 2001
Panels, Roundtables, & General Sessions
Assessment Expectations ~~ Teaching to "Outcomes" and Test Scores:
When Skills Preclude the Intellectual Quest
Cracking Open Computers, Retrieving Information, and Losing Memory
External Expecations ~~ Why Are Ed.Ds and CEOs Directing My Curriculum & Pedagogy?
That Package Called Assessment ~~ Yes, Portfolios Reflect Student Learning &
Energy, But Doing Them Sure is Work
Unpackaging Computer Programs and Exploring the Motives Lurking Within
A Cocktail Forum ~~ Adjunct Instructors, Non-Tenure Tract Faculty ~~ What's Next?
Publishers' Passions ~~ Corporate Bedfellows, and Text-Writers' Shadows
Teaching and Writing Autistically ~~ Notes on Interplanetary Multiculturalism
Desire and Pleasure ~~ Language Poetry in the College Classroom
From On-Line Tutorials to Writing Center Modules ~~ Who's Serving Whom?
Teaching on the Edge: Traditional Expectations; Current Student Realities
No basement, this fair. Publishers vie with the view of the Monterey Bay to intrigue you
with their best and latest wares. Meet casually with editors to voice your ideas for new texts as you inform
them of your classroom and curricular needs.
We're booked for June 21-23 at the Monterey Beach Resort. Thursday once again finds us on the hotel beach, settling back for the luncheon barbecue spread.
Later, as evening falls on minds astir from afternoon seminars, jazz-based sounds resonate from the balcony above the waves.
Stick around as the famed Monterey Blues Festival begins on Saturday. To learn more of this year's festival, click here:
WALK-IN REGISTRATION
begins around 8:00 AM on Thursday, June 21, 2001,
on the fourth floor of the Monterey Beach Resort.
The conference fee now includes both Thursday's barbecue on the beach and Friday's luncheon with speaker. Preregister with the attached form and a check payable to:
“The Young Rhetoricians’ Conference."
Full-time Faculty: $90. Adjunct Faculty/Students: $70.
Please send form and check to
Sterling Warner, Co-Chair YRC,
Evergreen Valley College,
3095 Yerba Buena Road, San Jose, CA 95135
Full-time Faculty: $100. Adjunct Faculty/Students: $80.
THE MONTEREY BEACH RESORT
(formerly The Monterey Beach Hotel)
To reserve a room at the Monterey Beach Resort (a Best Western) and help you envision Thursday's luncheon beach barbecue, click-connect directly to the resort:
DIRECTIONS
Fly directly to Monterey. Or drive down from San Francisco—south on Highway 101
to west on 156 to south on Highway 1 to Del Rey Oaks/Sand City exit. Or fly into
San Jose and proceed as from SF or take the scenic route—Highway 17 through the
Santa Cruz hills to south on Highway 1 to the Del Rey Oaks/Sand City exit. You'll see
resort right on the beach at the end of the exit.
Sterling Warner
English Department, Evergreen Valley College
3095 Yerba Buena Road, San Jose, CA 95135
Phone: (408) 274-7900, ext. 6605   Fax: (408) 223-9291
e-mail: jsterlingw@aol.com
Martha L. Henning
Division of English and Modern Languages
Portland Community College—Sylvania
PO Box 19000, Portland, OR 97280-0990
Phone: (503) 977-8015   Fax: (503) 977-4874
e-mail: mhenning@pcc.edu
Name
Campus/Department
Address
City, State, Zip
Phone
E-mail
Please supply the information above and send with your check payable to
"The Young Rhetoricians’ Conference"
Return to: Sterling Warner, Co-Chair YRC, Evergreen Valley College,
3095 Yerba Buena Road,
San Jose, CA 95135
Academic (full time) faculty $90.00 •
Peripatetic (adjunct) faculty $70.00 •
I plan to register at the conference •
Martha L. Henning & Sterling Warner
Questions? Suggestions? Feel free to contact us:
We look forward to seeing you in Monterey!