Good News!

I hope the fall semester is off to a great start for every one of you and you are now settled in your daily routine of things.

Meanwhile, I have some very good news to share with you and colleagues and friends to congratulate. ...

Please continue to send your Good News stories my way. 

Best, 

LuMing

Christie Toth

Our colleague Christie Toth, together with Jessica Nastal and Mya Poe, has a new edited collection out by the WAC Clearinghouse, titled Writing Placement in Two-Year Colleges: The Pursuit of Equity in Postsecondary Education. The book is part of the Practices & Possibilities book series .

Here is the brief description of the book: 

Writing Placement in Two-Year Colleges brings together two-year college teacher-scholar-activists from across the U.S. to share stories, strategies, and data about local efforts at reforming writing placement assessment to advance educational access and equity. The chapters in this edited collection help faculty and writing program administrators navigate the shifting landscape of placement in the 2020s. Contributors demonstrate how two-year colleges have addressed local and state-level pressures for reform, especially at a time when the nation has been rocked by the COVID-19 pandemic with its inequitable economic, social, and physical toll.  This book, like other books published by the Clearinghouse, will be available in a print edition from University Press of Colorado in the coming months. 

Max Werner

Our Colleague Max Werner has placed his essay, “Pound’s “New Found Orchid”: The Poetics of Hugh Selwyn Mauberley,” in the upcoming issue of the Ezra Pound Society journal Make It New. Meanwhile, his latest book, Wolves, Grizzlies, and Greenhorns: Death and Coexistence in the American West, recently received high praise in a book review published in Western American Literature. The reviewer characterizes Max’s book as “a fine work of nature and an exposé of the writer’s soul (and perhaps our own).”