<div dir="ltr"><span id="gmail-docs-internal-guid-3fe03579-7fff-deda-5125-3f2529906c14"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Dear Colleagues,</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline"><br></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">In spring 2024, Mike Palmquist will retire from a 34-year career at Colorado State University (CSU). For more than 25 of those years, he has served as the founding publisher and editor of the WAC Clearinghouse, a position he plans to hold for the foreseeable future. Mike has received many well-deserved awards and distinctions during his career. He was named University Distinguished Teaching Scholar at CSU, and he is a Distinguished Fellow of the Association for Writing Across the Curriculum. He was also awarded the Charles Moran Award for Distinguished Contributions to the Field by </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-style:italic;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Computers and Composition</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">, among other accolades.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline"> </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Coeditors Ann Blakeslee, Heather M. Falconer, and Karen P. Peirce invite proposals for an edited collection to honor Mike’s many contributions to the field of writing studies. Throughout his career, Mike has published widely in a number of areas, most notably open-access publishing, writing across the curriculum (WAC), computers and composition, and the status and working conditions of faculty in contingent positions. His work in these areas has resulted in significant innovations in our field’s approaches to publishing and disseminating work on writing, along with new ways of thinking about and teaching writing. We invite submissions that address how Mike's scholarly contributions in these areas and his vision and leadership of the Clearinghouse have influenced and shaped the field of writing studies. We also invite future-focused contributions, addressing trends and/or likely future issues in any of these areas.</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Please see the full call for proposals for more details at </span><a href="https://tinyurl.com/2jtukyys" style="text-decoration-line:none"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline">https://tinyurl.com/2jtukyys</span></a><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">. Questions may be directed to Ann Blakeslee (</span><a href="mailto:ablakesle@emich.edu" style="text-decoration-line:none"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline">ablakesle@emich.edu</span></a><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">), Heather M. Falconer (</span><a href="mailto:heather.falconer@main.edu" style="text-decoration-line:none"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline">heather.falconer@main.edu</span></a><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">), or Karen P. Peirce (</span><a href="mailto:kppeirce@gmail.com" style="text-decoration-line:none"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline">kppeirce@gmail.com</span></a><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">); please include “Palmquist Collection” in the subject line.</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">On behalf of my coeditors Karen P. Pierce and Heather M. Falconer,</span></p><p style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Ann Blakeslee</span></p></span><br class="gmail-Apple-interchange-newline"><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><span style="color:rgb(56,118,29);font-family:"arial narrow",sans-serif">**Please note - </span><span style="color:rgb(56,118,29);font-family:"arial narrow",sans-serif">I wish to acknowledge that my </span><span style="color:rgb(56,118,29);font-family:"arial narrow",sans-serif">working</span><span style="color:rgb(56,118,29);font-family:"arial narrow",sans-serif"> </span><span style="color:rgb(56,118,29);font-family:"arial narrow",sans-serif">hours</span><span style="color:rgb(56,118,29);font-family:"arial narrow",sans-serif"> may not be the same as your </span><span style="color:rgb(56,118,29);font-family:"arial narrow",sans-serif">working</span><span style="color:rgb(56,118,29);font-family:"arial narrow",sans-serif"> </span><span style="color:rgb(56,118,29);font-family:"arial narrow",sans-serif">hours</span><span style="color:rgb(56,118,29);font-family:"arial narrow",sans-serif">. Please do not feel obligated to respond to any correspondence from me outside of </span><i style="color:rgb(56,118,29);font-family:"arial narrow",sans-serif"><u>your</u> </i><span style="color:rgb(56,118,29);font-family:"arial narrow",sans-serif">work</span><span style="color:rgb(56,118,29);font-family:"arial narrow",sans-serif"> schedule.** </span><br></div><div dir="ltr"><font style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)" color="#000000" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">_______________________________________</font></div><div dir="ltr"><font style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)" color="#000000" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Ann M. Blakeslee, Ph.D. (she/hers)</font></div><div dir="ltr"><font style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)" color="#000000" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Professor of English, <a href="http://www.emich.edu" target="_blank">Eastern Michigan University</a><br>Director, <a href="http://www.emich.edu/ccw" target="_blank">Office of Campus & Community Writing</a> </font></div><div dir="ltr"><font style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)" color="#000000" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Co-Founder, <a href="http://www.ypsiwrites.com" target="_blank">YpsiWrites</a> </font></div><div dir="ltr"><font style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)" color="#000000" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Associate Publisher for Books, <a href="https://wac.colostate.edu/" target="_blank">The WAC Clearinghouse</a><br><a href="mailto:ablakesle@emich.edu" target="_blank">ablakesle@emich.edu</a><br>(734)502-1270</font></div></div><div dir="ltr"><i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