When: Thursday, April 1 (10 am – 2 pm) Where: Michigan Rooms A-D (UCEN) Keynote speaker: Dr. James Schirmer “Seriously Good at This” Registration is free and lunch will be provided. Everyone is welcome! Questions? Contact Megan ([email protected]) or Katie ([email protected]).
Monthly Archives:: March 2010
English Major Wins 2010 Census Video Contest
Congratulations to English TCP major, Ja’Nel Jamerson, who won $1000 for his YouTube video for the 2010 Census Video Contest. Watch his video and read about the contest here in the Flint Journal.
New “On Language” columnist
The New York Times announced last week that linguist Ben Zimmer will be the new “On Language” columnist. You can also read Zimmer’s work at Language Log, Visual Thesaurus and vocabulary.com. Here’s a link to an interview with him on NPR.
Conference on College Composition and Communication
Janelle Wiess presented her paper, “Am I Overcompensating for Something?: Revisiting Reactions to Feminist Pedagogy”, at the “4 Cs” conference in Louisville, Kentucky this past weekend. Also of interest, an article in Inside Higher Ed reporting on a 4Cs panel about online writing instruction. http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2010/03/19/writing For more about the 4Cs, visit their website at: http://www.ncte.org/cccc/
Advising appointments
The English department faculty are scheduling advising appointments in preparation for Spring/Summer/Fall registration. Please email faculty members directly to make an appointment.
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2010 ADDY Awards
Congratulations to Jan Worth-Nelson and Janet Lorch (Communications) for receiving an ADDY Award for the Higher Learning Commission Self-Study report. You can take a look at the report at: http://www.umflint.edu/hlc/Report/UMF%20Self-study%202009.pdf For a list of other UM-Flint students and faculty who received ADDY awards, visit: http://www.umflint.edu/news/articles/212/1/UM-Flint-Shines-at-ADDY-Awards/Page1.html