This final essay in the series evaluates TYCA’s achievements since its inception, in particular its research and scholarship agenda.

This essay chronicles the events that led to the ratification of TYCA.

In the early 1990s, a small group of dedicated two-year college English faculty, led by Helon Raines, began the fight for the Two-Year College English Association (TYCA), a professional organization that would give two-year college English faculty across the nation a respected identity and voice within the National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE).

This essay chronicles the early efforts of two-year college English faculty to forge a professional identity.