TYCA Guidelines Document

With the publication of the Guidelines for the Academic Preparation of English Faculty at Two-Year Colleges, TYCA stepped forward to say that faculty work in two-year colleges requires more than just preparation for research in areas of English studies. Not only must two-year college English faculty have a thorough grounding in the field of lower-divsion English studies, primarily composition and introductory level literature courses, but they must understand the culture and student population of these open-door institutions. As the academy recognizes that we need to review our graduate programs to prepare future faculty for the complex work of the professoriate, we need to remember that institutional diversity is another part of that complexity.

At the two-year college level, more promotion of our guidelines comes from the National Council on Instructional Administrators. They have included an abstract and link to our guidelines in their Instructional Leadership Abstracts for September of 2006. Our thanks to them for promoting our guidelines.