Cryer’s Panel Proposal Accepted

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

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

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

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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Recent English Department Awards

A few members of the English Department recently earned awards from JCCC:

Diane Davis, professor of English, received the BNSF Award for classroom teaching and scholarship.  Specifically, recipients are judged on the basis of their innovation, contributions to the profession, quality of interaction with students, currency in their professional field, and college service.

Andrea Broomfield, professor of English, has been selected as a College Scholar for the 2020-21 academic year.  This program “showcases faculty excellence in research fields that go beyond the classroom to make scholarly contributions to knowledge within the professor’s academic discipline.” As part of this award, Broomfield will give two presentations next year.

Michael Carriger, assistant professor of English, received the 2020 Outstanding Honors Course award for his Composition II honors class.  According to the Honors Program, this award “recognizes honors courses that student have found inspiring and who’s instructors’ teaching was particularly effective.” Instructors are nominated by the students, and Carriger’s course was praised for “inspiring good writing” and providing “insights to daily life.”

Janice Hodgkin, adjunct professor of English, was nominated for the Lieberman Teaching Excellence Award.  Since 1998, this award has recognized outstanding performance by adjunct or College Now faculty.  This year’s external judge was Dr. Cheryl Carpenter, Vice President of Academic Affairs, from Cleveland University-Kansas City.

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