Reynolds’ Poem Published

Posted on 10/06/2020 by dfdavis

Tom Reynolds’ poem “Cage Fighter” is included in the “Teaching Issue” (Volume 36, Issue 2) of Aethlon: The Journal of Sport Literature. It appears in the section “Women, Poems, Sport,” featuring works from several poets, including former U.S. Poet Laureate Rita Dove. The teaching issue is “designed to provide an instructor with a text that can be used to . . .  encourage students to explore the intersection of sport culture with race, class, gender and other twenty-first century issues.”

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Cryer’s Panel Proposal Accepted

Posted on 10/06/2020 by dfdavis

Dan Cryer’s panel proposal was accepted to the 2021Conference on College Composition and Communication conference. The title of his panel is “Writing Programs and the Climate Crisis: Cases Studies of Institutional Ecologies, Sustainability, and Ecocomposition.” Dr. Cryer will discuss the history of student involvement in our JCCC sustainability program, after having interviewed our faculty, students, and staff for the piece. The plan is to publish this work in a forthcoming anthology.

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Danny Alexander Presents

Posted on 09/29/2020 by dfdavis
Date:
12:00 PM – 1:00 PM, October 7, 2020
Location:
Online

Danny Alexander with a copy of "Salem's Lot."

 

JCCC’s Great Books Mini-Lecture Series will host a virtual speaker Oct. 7 about Salem’s Lot by Stephen King.

Get a glimpse into “the great books” that impact readers’ lives.

Join Danny Alexander, Professor of English, as he reflects on the conflicts behind a small town’s new supernatural resident in Salem’s Lot by Stephen King. Participants must register to receive the Zoom link for the lecture.

https://www.jccc.edu/events/2020/1007-great-books-salems-lot.html?fbclid=IwAR0IgpA4y1ZKQvFmZLWrIdrUl4pBbF0kSFM_Y7KQRi_3IDVxuDgu-ux-jck

 

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Dan Cryer Publishes Article

Posted on 09/22/2020 by dfdavis

Dan’s article on concealed carry, “The Good Man Shooting Well: Authoritarian Submission and Aggression in the ‘Gun-Citizen,’” is in the current issue of Rhetoric Society Quarterly. Here’s the link:

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/02773945.2020.1748219

It’s paywalled, but if anyone is interested in reading it Dan is happy to pass along a copy.

 

 

 

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Thum Participates in Media Literacy Program

Posted on 06/30/2020 by jmcward

During the fall 2020 semester, JCCC student journalists and Gretchen Thum, associate professor and chair of the Journalism Department, will participate in a media literacy program funded by the U.S. State Department.  Steven Youngblood, director of the Center for Global Peace Journalism at Park University, received the grant to fund a project titled, “Media Literacy for Students: Lessons from Covid-19.”  According to Park University, the project, which will take place throughout the Kansas City area, will use “virtual seminars and projects to educate and inform students about the information challenges posed by Covid-19.” Projects include a student-produced magazine and podcast.  In addition to participants from JCCC, students will also come from Center Middle School, Center High School, and Park University.  Other instructors in the program include Lewis Diuguid, multicultural educator and journalist with the Kansas City Star, and Allan Leonard, founder of FactCheck NI in Belfast and editor of Shared Future News. 

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