2022 TYCA-SE Conference
Shifting Currents:
21st Century Literacies and
the New College Majority
Atlantic Beach, Florida
February 23-26, 2022
Welcome
Florida State College at Jacksonville and Florida Gateway College look forward to hosting the 2022 TYCA-SE conference in lovely Atlantic Beach, Florida, a seaside community outside the city of Jacksonville. Our hotel, One Ocean, is situated on the beach and surrounded by great restaurants and boutique stores all within walking distance.
Theme and Call for Proposals
We invite you to explore our theme of Shifting Currents: 21st Century Literacies and the New College Majority, which focuses on two key developments taking place across the landscape of higher education–the emergence of the knowledge economy and the rise of the “non-traditional” college student. The advent of the knowledge economy and the incoming wave of workplace automation will require colleges to equip an increasingly diverse population of students with the multiple literacies necessary to thrive in the 21st century. Recent data suggests that nationally nearly 40% of America’s college students are 25 years of age or older. And this population of “non-traditional” students increases dramatically for students enrolled part-time. With the demand for “reskilling” the workforce, this trend is likely to continue. Meanwhile, college students continue to become more culturally, economically, and racially diverse. The conference invites participants to explore the ways that two-year colleges are uniquely positioned to respond to this sea change in student demographics and to the emerging demands of a 21st century knowledge economy.
We invite proposals for all session types on topics including the following:
Teaching non-traditional students
Dealing with diversity and inclusion in the classroom
The idea of the student as consumer
Teaching skills clearly transferable to various workforces
Project-based assignments
Technical writing in the composition classroom
Using technology in the classroom
Composing multimodally
Using place to focus writing
You can access the online proposal form using the button below. The deadline for submissions is December 15, 2021.
Registration
We’re pleased to offer two ways to register for the 2022 conference: electronically via EVENTBRITE or by printing and mailing the completed REGISTRATION FORM, along with your check.
Tentative Schedule
Wednesday, February 23, 2022
10:00am-4:00pm, REC Meeting
5:00-7:00pm, Registration
6:00-8:00pm, REC Dinner
8:30pm-Midnight, Chair’s Reception
Thursday, February 24, 2022
8:00am-5:00pm, Registration
9:00am-12:00pm, Pre-Conference Workshop: “Teaching Writing with Local History” with Dr. Tim Gilmore
10:00am-5:00pm, Publishers’ Exhibits
1:00-3:00pm, Opening Plenary Session with Nikesha Elise Williams
3:00-5:00pm, Voting for REC Candidates
3:15-4:00pm, Concurrent Session I
4:15-5:15pm, Cowan/Doster Awards Session & Reception
7:30-9:00pm, Sports Bingo Night
Friday, February 25, 2022
7:00-8:30am, Continental Breakfast
8:00am-5:00pm, Registration
8:00am-5:00pm, Publishers’ Exhibits
8:00-11:00am, Voting for REC Candidates
8:00-8:45am, Concurrent Session II
9:00-9:45am, Concurrent Session III
10:00-10:45am, Concurrent Session IV
11:00-11:45am, State Meetings
12:00-2:00pm, Luncheon with Tim Dorsey
2:15-3:00pm, Concurrent Session V
3:15-4:00pm, Concurrent Session VI
4:15-5:00pm, REC Meeting
7:00-9:00pm, Performance and Conversation hosted by Ebony Payne-English
Saturday, February 26, 2022
7:30-8:30am, Continental Breakfast
8:00-10:30am, Publishers’ Exhibits
8:30-9:15am, Concurrent Session VII
9:30-10:15am, Concurrent Session VIII
10:30am-12:00pm, Closing Session
Highlights
Nikesha Elise Williams, a two-time Emmy award winning news producer and award/winning author, will begin our exploration during our opening session at 1:00 on Thursday afternoon. Ms. Williams, the founder of the independent publishing company, NEW Reads Publications, believes literature can both enlighten and entertain; provide a point of escapism as well as a mirror for our lives and our world.
Thursday night, get ready to try your luck with rounds of Sports Bingo. Compete for prizes while representing your favorite sports team and wearing your sports gear!
After enjoying some of our local restaurants Friday night, attendees will be treated to a performance by Ebony Payne-English, a literary artist, performer, and educator from Jacksonville, FL. She is the first woman to establish her own chapter of the international poetry organization, Black on Black Rhyme, the 2017 Cultural Council of Greater Jacksonville’s Emerging Artist, and recipient of the Spoken Word Gala’s 2017 William Bell Humanitarian Award.
Hotel
Our conference hotel is One Ocean Resort & Spa, 1 Ocean Boulevard, Atlantic Beach, FL 32233. Make your reservations for the TYCA-SE 2022 Conference by February 4, 2022 to ensure the conference rate of $189.00 per night plus taxes and resort fees. Check-in time is 4:00 PM. While the hotel will make every reasonable effort to accommodate guests who arrive before check-in time, guest rooms may not be available. Baggage storage will be available. Check-out time is 12:00 PM. Overnight parking fee is $15 a day. To book a room now, contact the Hotel reservations department at 904-249-7402 and reference the group name, TYCA-SE February Meeting. Visit the hotel website for more information One Ocean & Spa Resort. To make your reservation, click this link: TYCA-SE Conference Hotel Reservations.
Speakers
Nikesha Elise Williams is a two-time Emmy award winning news producer and award/winning author. She was born and raised in Chicago, Illinois, and attended Florida State University where she graduated with a B.S. in Communication: Mass Media Studies and Honors English Creative Writing. Nikesha’s debut novel, Four Women, was awarded the 2018 Florida Authors and Publishers Association President’s Award in the category of Adult Contemporary/Literary Fiction. Four Women, was also recognized by the National Association of Black Journalists as an Outstanding Literary Work. Nikesha is the founder of the independent publishing company, NEW Reads Publications. Established in 2017, NEW Reads Publications was founded with the goal of publishing great writers who weave compelling narratives that intrigue, foster great conversation and debate, and urge people to action.
Ebony Payne-English is a literary artist, performer, and educator from Jacksonville, FL. She is the first woman to establish her own chapter of the international poetry organization, Black on Black Rhyme, the 2017 Cultural Council of Greater Jacksonville’s Emerging Artist, and recipient of the Spoken Word Gala’s 2017 William Bell Humanitarian Award. She is the managing director of The Performers Academy, a 501c3 arts education organization that offers programs to benefit foster teens and other underserved populations by creating special tailored programs for those who may never experience the passion of the performing arts. Ebony also serves on the Board of Directors of Southern Fried Poetry, Inc, the largest adult regional poetry slam in the nation and is director of programming for Jax Youth Poetry Slam. As author of the award-winning poetry collection, Secrets of Ma’at, currently available on Amazon, Ebony has been featured in esteemed publications as well as digital outlets such as The Florida Times Union, PBS's Hometown, Derniere Vie Magazine, WJCT's First Coast Connect, and My Black Matters.
Tim Dorsey (Virtual Appearance) is the New York Times bestselling author of the Serge Storms series. He was born in Indiana, moved to Florida at the age of 1, and grew up in a small town about an hour north of Miami called Riviera Beach. He graduated from Auburn University in 1983 with a B.S. in Transportation. While at Auburn, he was editor of the student newspaper, The Plainsman. Before becoming a full-time writer in 1999, he was a police and courts reporter for the Alabama Journal from 1983 to 1987 and a night metro editor for the Tampa Tribune from 1994 to 1999. The Providence Journal has called him “the undisputed king of the comic crime novel.” At the center of Dorsey’s crime fiction series is Serge Storms, a wanted serial killer whose love of life and all things Florida is rivaled only by his propensity for creatively punishing every egomaniac, sadistic animal abuser or black-hearted career criminal he encounters. As Serge and his spaced-out, druggie sidekick Coleman pursue their adventures, readers are treated to a travelogue of Florida, exploring Florida’s forgotten past and uncovering little known sites and treasures. The 25th novel in the Serge series, Mermaid Confidential, will be published in January 2022.
Pre-Conference Workshop Description and Facilitator
Teaching Writing with Local History
To learn to write, you need something to say and to care about the music of expression. Perhaps no one learns the history of the place they call home without feeling its deep relevance in their own life and the way that relevance transcends locality. Bringing together these forces of motivation, then, can give new writers both a surprising pool of content and impetus to shape and tell it. Indeed, “Teaching Writing with Local History” can surprise students into finding they care about either, and indeed both. Those who know how to scratch the surface of history know the history of any place yields surprises. Discovering that fact is exciting and can lead students to the natural desire to tell the stories they find. The desire to tell a story, furthermore, necessitates the desire to tell it well.
For more than a century, Jacksonville has stood out nationally for its murder rates. Headlines call the city "Florida's Murder Capital." The eight stories in Tim Gilmore's 20th book tell of Cuban Revolutionaries, of little-known serial killers and a phony serial killer, of a man who courted and murdered mother-daughter pairs, of lynchings and the grossest Southern good-ole-boy corruption, of “Satanic Panic,” of a white supremacist killer with a black male lover. These stories each stand on their own, even as they interrogate the long violent history of Florida, the Deep South, and the city where those two entities most thoroughly intersect.
Dr. Tim Gilmore is the author of 18 books including Repossessions: Mass Shooting in Baymeadows (2019), Goat Island Hermit: The State of Florida versus Rollians Christopher (2018), Devil in the Baptist Church: Bob Gray's Unholy Trinity (2016), The Mad Atlas of Virginia King (2015), In Search of Eartha White, Storehouse for the People (2014), and Stalking Ottis Toole: A Southern Gothic. Gilmore is the founder of the annual JaxbyJax Literary Arts Festival (www.jaxbyjax.com) in Jacksonville, Florida and creator of Jax Psycho Geo (www.jaxpsychogeo.com), a collection of close to 500 stories about locations around Northeast Florida. Gilmore teaches Literature and Writing at Florida State College at Jacksonville, where he was awarded a 2018 Distinguished Faculty Award. The Cultural Council of Greater Jacksonville named Gilmore the 2018 Literary Artist of the Year. Also, in 2018, Gilmore served on the Jacksonville City Council's Civil Rights History Task Force. He holds a Ph.D. in English from the University of Florida.
Don’t Miss The Thursday Night Sports Bingo Party!
Thursday, February 24, 2022; 7:30-9:30 pm
Welcome to a celebration of sports across our Southeast region with Sports Bingo. Enjoy an evening of bingo but with a twist: instead of numbers, all of the squares will be the names of college, professional, and minor league teams throughout our 10-state region. Prizes will be awarded to our lucky winners! Come wearing a jersey, t-shirt, hat, or other apparel of your favorite sports team, and you may even win a bonus prize. As part of your sports theme evening, enjoy a variety of stadium-type food snacks and drinks. Join with your friends and colleagues, old and new, for an evening of fun and be the first to yell – TYCA-SE!
Past Conferences
2015 - Jackson, MS
2014 - Tampa, FL
2013 - Greenville, SC
2012 - Virginia Beach, VA
2011 - Decatur, GA
2010 - Chattanooga, TN
2009 - Greensboro, NC
2008 - Louisville, KY
2007 - Jacksonville, FL
2006 - Myrtle Beach, SC
2005 - Jackson, MS
2004 - Huntsville, AL
2003 - Nashville, TN
2002 - Richmond, VA
2001 - Ft. Lauderdale, FL
2000 - Savannah, GA
1999 - Memphis, TN
1998 - Charlotte, NC
1997 - Norfolk, VA
1996 - Atlanta, GA
1995 - Jacksonville, FL
1994 - Charleston, SC