At the CCCC 2003 meeting, each member of the College Forum was assigned duties for the August 2003 meeting: The College Forum Chair writes an annual report to the NCTE Executive Committee and a common report for representatives to submit to their groups (Representatives can add an addendum with information relevant to their individual group.) The chairs of constituent organizations (College Section, CCCC, CEE, and TYCA) ensure that the College Forum report is on the agenda of their group's annual meeting and write a one-page report to the College Forum before the annual meeting. The report is a bulleted list of projects and concerns relevant to the College Forum and a one-paragraph perspective about NCTE efforts on higher education matters.

The four representatives to the College Forum report back to their perspective groups and bring a one-page position paper and one project idea to each annual meeting of the College Forum. The NCTE Presidential Team Member prepares a half-page bulleted list of initiatives undertaken by the NCTE Executive Committee on behalf of higher education. The ACLS Representative (Past President of NCTE) reports on ACLS initiatives and establishes a conversation focused on the scholarship of teaching at the American Council of Learned Societies.

The College Forum continues to oversee the Networked Teaching and Learning Technologies (NTLT) Standards and Best Practices of Teaching English Online project. James Inman, the principal investigator and writer of the grant proposal, works with members from all of the constituent college organizations of NCTE. The main purpose of the project is to establish guidelines for online teaching and learning.

Committee members met at the 2003 Conference on Composition and Communication Convention in New York City and will give their reports at the annual August 2003 meeting in Chicago. At CCCC, Paul Bodmer submitted a report on the status of the grant application for NTLT. The Mellon Foundation has responded that it has no program appropriate for the project, but responses are still pending from other sources. Now that the College Forum has developed a set of procedures for identifying issues of key concern, the Forum will address these issues annually.

Mike Matthews, Chair