<div dir="ltr">Dear Colleagues,<div>I'm writing to share an <a href="https://www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty/2026/07/27/ncte-dissolves-77-year-old-composition-association">Inside Higher Ed news article about the dissolution of CCCC</a>, my main professional organization. In terms of language policy, CCCC's main claim to fame is the <a href="https://www.jstor.org/stable/i215150">Students' Right to their Own Language</a> statement.</div><div><br></div><div>Not sure what will happen next, and I'm happy to still have organizations like AAAL, etc., but still. It's too bad.</div><div><br></div><div>Katherine</div><div><br></div>Katherine S. Flowers<br>Associate Professor of English<br>University of Massachusetts Lowell<br><a href="https://www.uml.edu/fahss/english/faculty/flowers-katherine.aspx">https://www.uml.edu/fahss/english/faculty/flowers-katherine.aspx</a> </div>