April 12-14, 2004
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About the Allerton English Articulation Conference
The English Articulation Conference is held annually at the Allerton Park and Conference Center in Monticello, Illinois. The conference, sponsored by the Department of English at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, began as an occasion at which two- and four-year college English teachers could discuss the diverse curricular and pedagogical practices they bring to their common project: preparing college students to feel at home with words as critical readers and effective writers. This remains the conference’s mission.
Although the Illinois Articulation Initiative has formalized content standards for the various English courses that students may transfer from one Illinois college or university to another, there remains a strong need to maintain the face-to-face ties that make institutional articulation possible.
The business of articulation aside, we have much to learn from one another about what works and what doesn’t in the English classroom. In recent years some 10,500 students annually have transferred from Illinois community colleges to public universities, and nearly another 6,000 annually have made the move from two-year to independent four-year colleges. At the same time, roughly 5,000 students have moved every year from public and private four-year schools to two-year institutions, not to mention the countless thousands who have shifted among the state’s many community colleges. It is the desire to serve these students—and serve them well—that keeps hundreds of Illinois college and university teachers of English returning to the Allerton conference year after year.
Links to previous years' conference websites
(those still available):
2003 | 2001
Directions to Allerton
From Chicago:
- Go south on Interstate 57 to Champaign.
- Take Exit 235 - Decatur West off of I-57, exit onto Interstate 72.
- Drive approximately 25 miles on Interstate 72 and then follow the directions below.
From anywhere in central Illinois:
- Turn off Interstate 72 at Monticello exit 164 onto Bridge Street.
- Turn left (south) off of the ramp and drive towards Monticello.
- Turn right (west) at the first crossroads, which will
be old Route 47.
Travel approximately 2 miles west on old Route 47 and turn left (south) onto County Road 625E, located just past the brown "Allerton Park and Conference Center" sign. - Continue on County Road 625 E for approximately one mile. At the stop sign, turn right (west) onto County Farm Road.
- Turn left (south) onto the first road you come to, which will be Old Timber Road, and go through the brick columns. Follow signs to main parking lot to the left. Conference Center guests may park in the main lot and follow signs to the Conference Center.
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Conference Coordinator:
Kim E. Hensley
Assistant to the Director of Freshman Rhetoric
Department of English
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
608 S. Wright St.
Urbana, IL 61801
phone: (217) 333-1006 fax: (217) 333-4321
email: khensley@uiuc.edu
Conference Director:
Peter Mortensen
Director of Freshman Rhetoric
Associate Professor of English
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
phone: (217) 333-1006
email: pmortens@uiuc.edu