Monthly newsletter
This monthly blog-newsletter will try to keep you informed about progress on the R initiative as we go forward.
My goal is to get it out the first week of the month. We’ll see if that happens.
“Did you say R?”
Mary Tuominen
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Month in Review
December, 2007
Probably the most important development of the last month was my invitation to sit on the Learning Commons committee at the library. I heard about this committee through Brenda Boyle, who attended our second planning meeting for the R proposal document, and so I went to talk with Scottie Cochrane about mutual interests between the Learning Commons initiative and the R initiative. To tell the truth, this was actually the first time that I’d ever heard about the “Learning Commons” idea, or at
Month in Review
November, 2007
This month was notable for the R for two reasons:
We launched two consultants efforts. The first is a peer-to-peer student tutoring service. this is a pilot project. I trained four Communication honors students to consult, focusing primarily on helping students with speech anxiety. This just got off the ground, so we’ll see how it works. I’ve also established a consultancy bureau for faculty, utilizing comm professors with expertise in the various R areas of group communication, public
Month In Review
October, 2007
I thought I’d use the October newsletter to update everyone on how plans for the R initiative are proceeding this year.
The long term goal for the work I’m helping as the interim R coordinator is to get a regular and healthy offering of divisional R courses across as many departments as possible, and to support faculty who step forward to teach these courses in any way they need. We want to foster a culture of appreciation for oral competence as a fundamental aspect of a liberal education.
Month in Review
September, 2007
This month I inaugurate a monthly newsletter to keep everyone informed of what’s going on with the “R” initiative. I’ll have the newsletter come out at the beginning of each month.
We completed the first month of the new initiative with two faculty orientation workshops. The participants were:
Mary Tuominen, Charlie O’Keefe, Isis Nusair, Jill Gillespie, Ruramisai Charumira, Bill Krikpatrick, Toni King, Erin McClellan, Buddy Howells, Christine Armstrong, Kimberly Specht, Brenda Boyle.
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