Based in Chicago, Parkker chose our online program to bring together her on-the-job and educational experience to further develop a role in project management / communications.
Rayna Taylor says the scholarship honoring George Floyd gives her hope as she begins the next chapter of her life. “It means a lot to me that people are willing to invest in the future of this up-and-coming generation—especially in the Black community, where sometimes we feel unheard or left out.”
The Collaborative Writing Playbook is for instructors who would assign more writing in their courses if they could create meaningful assignments that complement course goals.
It examines COVID 19 as a cultural challenge, discussing ways that dance can help communities create and share knowledge for understanding and responding to such traumas.
As a recipient of The DePodesta Leadership Fellowship Ryan will receive a $15,000 feasibility grant to develop his research into a sustainable venture.
Congrats to Brigitte Mussack, whose article "Social Justice and Corporate Mission Statements: Analyzing Values in Business Writing" is included in the new issue of Prompt: A Journal of Academic Writing Assignments, dedicated to social justice in writing classrooms.
Should medicine be unquestionably trusted? Kari Campeau (PhD ‘20, rhetoric & scientific & technical communication) discusses reasons behind vaccination hesitancy from a study of the 2017 measles outbreak in Minnesota and how public healthcare institutes can change the public discourse surrounding this issue.
Can writing change a workplace for the better? Collaborative writing offers that power. Senior Lecturer Joe Moses developed a series of workshops in fall 2019 that teach students, faculty, and staff how collaborative writing can unify numerous voices into one cohesive piece.
An article written by PhD candidate Jeremy Rosselot-Merritt and co-author Janel Bloch recently received the award for Outstanding Article in Business and Professional Communication Quarterly.
Her article, "Social Justice and the Portrayal of Migrants in International Organization for Migration’s World Migration Reports," published this month in the Journal of Technical Writing and Communication.
