This year's 5C's conference explore the issues we face teaching composition to developmental and first-year composition students. New initiatives and new challenges are always a part of the academic world, and the present is no exception. Ever-evolving state mandates, increasing numbers of ESL or ill-prepared students, concerns over ACT scores, concerns related to developmental writing/reading, and challenges associated with the "Millennial Generation" are all composition teaching issues in two-year colleges. The conference sessions will address questions such as the following:

• What teaching approaches are suitable for students of the "Millennial Generation"?

• How is the current move from "teaching-centered" college to "learning-centered" college influencing teaching of basic writing?

• What issues present themselves for instructors trying to balance their pedagogy, composition teaching theory, assessment cut-scores, and students' needs?

• Should we re-assess what we ask under prepared students to learn, particularly ESL students?

• Given that entering students' writing skills are influenced by a number of factors, what is or should be our role in meeting the needs of increasingly ill-prepared students?