National Conference 2025

Thursday October 2^nd to Saturday, October 4^th

Lane Community College, Eugene, Oregon

Call for Papers in the Humanities

The CCHA invites proposals from all community college humanities faculty engaged in innovative pedagogy, curriculum development and application, research scholarship, and progressive programs in student success and retention. Our progress in community colleges is defined by this simple formula: Faculty Innovation + Sharing (conferences, seminars, webcasts) = Growth for All. What are you doing at your college that we can learn from? We will have a diversity of tracks at this year’s conference, while also focusing on the conference’s theme (below). In this celebration of knowledge and information transfer, we invite submissions from faculty and administrators who teach or are engaged in projects that represent the following disciplines:

+ History + Literature + Philosophy + Writing + Media Literacy + Communications + World Languages + Religious Studies + Behavioral Social Sciences + Fine Arts + Interdisciplinary efforts that include the humanities + The Intersection of workforce development and the Humanities.

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Conference General Theme: The Evolving Workforce: AI, Community Colleges, and the Humanities

Along with the broad reach of our traditional celebration of the humanities, this conference also will feature the critical role community college humanities faculty and administrators play in preparing students for employment in the evolving AI landscape.

We seek proposals that probe the connection between the sensibilities and values revealed in humanities classrooms, and the skills and values required for the future workforce, a workforce sure to be influenced by the anticipated impacts of AI. What will this integration of AI look like? Will it be ethical? Will we still hold on to what we value today? What we call human? What we call civilization? Can community colleges leverage existing programs to create pathways for students to adapt to changing demands in the labor market? Will history become even more devalued than it is today? Can humanities leaders convince businesses and industry leaders to collaborate so that lessons from the past and present will be included in creating a better future? Will the humanities remain essential as the driving force for developing critical thinking, communication, creativity, and ethical reasoning? Will these highly valued skills continue to be valued in the age of A.I.?

Presentation Formats for All Submissions:

We invite proposals for presentations, workshops, and panel discussions that address:

• Innovative pedagogy and curriculum development application in any humanities discipline;
• Research scholarship (all humanities disciplines welcome);
• Progressive programs in student success and retention;
• The role of humanities in workforce skills;
• Workforce development strategies for the 21st century; and

Presenting on the general theme? Areas of interest include:

• AI literacy and digital skills development. What’s out there that’s new and promising?;
• Ethical assessments of AI and automation. How much AI should we allow students to engage in for writing or presentation assignments?;
• The important role of the humanities in the AI age. Most importantly, how will AI affect our notions of what it means to be human?; and
• How might AI augment humanities education in community colleges, in and out of the classroom?

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Lane Community College

Yes! Oregon is beautiful, Lane Community College is one of our nation’s finest, and Eugene is happening with restaurants, museums, music, art, many cultural events, and more outdoor challenges than you can imagine.

Proposal Submission Guidelines and Deadlines:

Basic Presentation Forms:

1. Individual Presentation – 25 minutes (five minutes for discussion)
2. Panel Presentation – 50 minutes (ten minutes for discussion)

Proposal Submissions: All submission proposals will be evaluated in an ongoing process by the team at Lane Community College. Notifications of acceptance will also go out on an ongoing basis. Proposal deadline is May 30^th, 2025

Conference Submission Process: To submit a conference proposal, scroll up or down and click on the purple box labeled “submit a proposal”.

Conference Registration: All presenters, co-presenters, and panelists must register for the conference. Questions can be sent to GeneralCCHA@gmail.com.

Join us at the National Conference in Eugene, Oregon, on Friday, October 3rd, for a plenary session featuring Dr. Christine Rosen. Dr. Rosen is a Senior Fellow at the American Enterprise Institute and is author of the book The Extinction of Experience: Being Human in a Disembodied World.

“Our continued unwillingness to account for what has been lost won’t lead to a world of technology-enabled progress; rather, this inability to grapple with the extinction of fundamental human experience creates a world where our sense of shared reality and purpose is further frayed and where a growing distrust of human judgment will further polarize our culture and politics.”