The College Forum represents the interests of NCTE members who work at the college level. Forum members participate in ongoing deliberations of the NCTE Executive Committee and recommend new issues for the NCTE Executive Committee to address. In keeping with the procedures that have evolved over the four years of its existence as an NCTE standing committee, the College Forum met in Chicago in August 2003 for its annual two-day working meeting, as well as for brief meetings in San Francisco in November 2003 and in San Antonio in March 2004.

In Chicago, the set of procedures established at its 2002 meeting to identify issues of key concern to the NCTE college community was first put into practice. Each of the representatives to the College Forum (from the College Section Steering committee, the Conference on College Composition and Communication, the Conference on English Education, and the Two Year College Association) presented a brief position paper and one project idea to the rest of the group. The meeting was occupied with extensive and productive discussion of these positions and projects and culminated in several recommendations which were then taken to Staff and the Presidential Team. Forum members were particularly concerned with finding ways to co-operate with the NCTE Executive Committee’s renewed commitment to study teacher "quality," adolescent and young adult literacy, assessment and testing, and writing.

The College Forum continues to oversee the Networked Teaching and Learning Technologies (NTLT) Standards and Best Practices of Teaching English Online project to establish guidelines for online teaching and learning.

With members of the American Historical Association and the American Association of University Professors, we have proposed a panel for the annual meeting of the Association of American Colleges and Universities on contingent academic labor.

Patricia Harkin, Chair