Just A Little Self Promotion

My article on TYCA-West and small conferences appears today in Inside Higher Ed under the Views section.

In Praise of Small Conferences

I talk about my experience with TYCA-West and argue that smaller conferences have a lot of unrecognized benefits.

Comments

[Deb]

I read it this morning and liked it. I've had similar experiences at TYCA-Midwest.

Speaking of TYCA, I sometimes wish it had its own big national conference--maybe just once every few years or something. (I know CCCC is supposed to be TYCA's national meeting, but it doesn't quite cut it for me.)

[middlebrow]

I completely agree Deb. I would love a national TYCA conference. I wonder if that would be possible.

[joanna]

Congratulations, Middlebrow, and Deb, I was thinking the same thing. We could hold a national TYCA meeting every two or three years.

[bradley]

Maybe for starters, some of the regional conferences could combine? Pacific Northwest, Pacific Coast and West, would pretty much take in everything west of the Rockies, from Canada to Mexico.

[joanna]

That's an idea, Brad. I'd also like to add in using more technology for people who can't go to the conference in person.

[middlebrow]

That's a great idea bradley. I'm assuming a larger TYCA conference would be in the spring. Not necessarily the same week at 4Cs. That way people could still attend their regional TYCA (are most in the fall?).

I wonder how difficult a larger multi-regional TYCA conference would be to pull off? Has anyone attempted it before?