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Ten Faculty Awarded CxC Fellowships

By Adam Roth, Communication, CxC Co-facilitator

For more information about the CxC Faculty Seminar or to participate, please contact either of the two co-facilitators of the seminar: Beth Matway , English E-mail: ebm12@pitt.edu   Adam Roth , Communication E-mail: adamroth@pitt.edu Space in the seminar is limited to 15 participants.     Photos by Jim Burke, CIDDE

The fall 2006 Faculty Seminar of the Communication Across the Curriculum Program (CxC) is well under way. The program is sponsored by the Dean for Undergraduate Studies Regina Schulte-Ladbeck, and faculty who attend are awarded a stipend of $1,000.

Offered every semester, the seminar is a collaborative effort among the Department of Communication, the Department of English, the Center for Instructional Development & Distance Education (CIDDE), and the School of Arts and Sciences. Its goal is to make oral and written communication part of all classroom instruction. Attending faculty meet biweekly to discuss strategies for integrating oral and written communication into their courses. On the weeks the seminar is not held, participants meet with an instructional designer from CIDDE to design a syllabus or devise a substantial assignment that incorporates a considerable component of oral and written work.

During the past four years, the CxC Faculty Seminar has been attended by 59 faculty members from across the School of Arts and Sciences. Some of the departments represented include Africana Studies, Biological Sciences, Chemistry, Communication, French and Italian Languages and Literatures, Geology and Planetary Sciences, Hispanic Languages and Literatures, History, History of Art and Architecture, History and Philosophy of Science, Linguistics, Music, Physics and Astronomy, Psychology, Sociology, and Studio Arts.

This semester’s seminar participants are:

Elayne Arrington, Mathematics
David Barker, Political Science
Yu Cheng, Statistics
Hannah Johnson, English
Margaret Judd, Anthropology
Alexander Matros, Economics
Emily McEwan-Fujita, Anthropology
Scott Morgenstern, Political Science
Taeyoung Park, Statistics
Burcu Savun, Political Science

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