January 3, 2019

Laura L. Allen, Wins 2019 CCCC Scholars for the Dream Travel Award

Urbana, IL – Dec. 10, 2018 – Laura L. Allen, The Ohio State University, Columbus, has won a 2019 CCCC Scholars for the Dream Travel Award. The Conference on College Composition and Communication (CCCC) is a constituent organization within the National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE). Allen is one of 20 recipients of this award.

CCCC sponsors the Scholars for the Dream Awards to encourage scholarship by historically underrepresented groups. This includes Black, Latinx, Asian, American Indian/Alaska Native, Native Hawaiian, or other Pacific Islander scholars—persons whose presence and whose contributions are central to the full realization of our professional goals.

CCCC offers to scholars up to twenty travel awards of $1,000 each, sponsors a reception for all award winners, and offers a one-year membership in NCTE and CCCC. The Awards Selection Committee considers originality of research, significance of pedagogical or theoretical contributions to the field, and potential for larger, subsequent projects.

Allen will be announced as a recipient of the CCCC Scholars for the Dream Travel Award on Thursday, March 14, during the 2019 CCCC Annual Convention in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

For more information about the CCCC Scholars for the Dream Travel Award, including past winners, see https://cccc.ncte.org/cccc/awards/scholarsforthedream.

The Conference on College Composition and Communication, with more than 5,000 members and subscribers, supports and promotes the teaching and study of composition, rhetoric, and communication skills at the college level, both in undergraduate and graduate programs. College Composition and Communication is the group’s journal. For more information, visit https://cccc.ncte.org/.

The National Council of Teachers of English, with 25,000 individual and institutional members worldwide, is dedicated to improving the teaching and learning of English and the language arts at all levels of education. For more information, visit http://www.ncte.org.

Press Release by Kristen Suchor, the Manager of Member Engagement for NCTE