The 2025 convention (#mla25) will take place in New Orleans from 9 to 12 January 2025. The presidential theme for the convention will be Visibility. See https://www.mla.org/Events/2025-MLA-Convention for more information.

MLA Committee on Community Colleges: Sessions at MLA 2025

The following sessions are sponsored or organized by the Committee on Community Colleges.

• 498 The Role of Standard English Grammar Instruction at Community Colleges
  • Date: Saturday, 11 January 2025
  • Time: 10:15 AM – 11:30 AM
  • Room: Hilton Riverside New Orleans – Churchill B2 (2nd Floor)
  • https://mla.confex.com/mla/2025/meetingapp.cgi/Session/19978
  • Presider: William Christopher Brown, Midland C
  • Presentations
    • A Balm in Grammar’s Gilead: A New Role for Grammar in the Composition Classroom / Geoffrey Layton, U of Oklahoma
    • Inclusive Grammar Instruction: Empowering Students to Find Their Voices and Enter the Conversation / Sean Ruday, Longwood U and Sharon Saylors, Prince George’s Community C, MD
    • An Antiracist Approach to Teaching American English Grammar and Usage / Heather Harris, Community C of Baltimore County, MD
    • Enhancing Pedagogy with AI Tools: Second-Language Learners in the Composition Classroom / Amee Schmidt, Marshalltown Community C, IA
• 581. Community Colleges, Artificial Intelligence, and the Multilingual Workplace
  • Date: Saturday, 11 January 2025
  • Time: 1:45 PM-3:00 PM
  • Room: Marlborough A (Hilton Riverside New Orleans)
  • https://mla.confex.com/mla/2025/meetingapp.cgi/Session/19792
  • Presider: Sharon Ahern Fechter (Montgomery C, Takoma Park Silver Spring Campus, MD) & Tomonori Nagano (LaGuardia Community C, City U of New York
  • Presentations
    • More than AI: How Today’s Community Colleges Prepare Language Students for the Workplace of Tomorrow, Sarah Campbell (Montgomery C, Germantown Campus, MD) and Erika Bucciantini (Montgomery C, MD) [#27403]
    • Empowering World Language Learners at Community Colleges: Leveraging AI for Career Readiness, Dali Tan (Northern Virginia Community C) [#27447]
    • Training Students to Use AI in the World Language Classroom, Erika Stevens (Walters State Community C, TN) [#27450]
    • ‘I’m Sorry, Dave. I’m Afraid I Can’t Do That’: AI, Panic, and Fear in the Community College, Jaime Weida (Borough of Manhattan Community C, City U of New York) [#27451]

Curated Program of MLA 2025 for Community College Professionals

Download the curated program of MLA 2025 for community college professionals here.