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North Dakota State University August 25, 2014. Fall 2014 English department meeting. Promotion and Tenure: Associate Professor and Tenure: Kelly Sassi Verena Theile Full Professor: Betsy Birmingham Amy Rupiper Taggart. NDSU English Department. New Initiatives in the Department
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North Dakota State University August 25, 2014 Fall 2014 English department meeting
. Promotion and Tenure: Associate Professor and Tenure: Kelly Sassi Verena Theile Full Professor: Betsy Birmingham Amy Rupiper Taggart NDSU English Department
New Initiatives in the Department NWP: Red River Valley Writing Project Kelly Sassi, Director http://rrvwp.blogspot.com/ MELUS: Multi-Ethnic Literature of the US Gary Totten, Editor-in-Chief Kaylee Jangula Mootz, Managing Editor Sarah Beck, Copy Editor Meghan Perry, Proofreader http://melus.oxfordjournals.org/ . NDSU English Department
2013-14 Highlights: Research/Scholarly/Creative Activities: Peer Reviewed Publications (published or accepted): 36 National or International Invited Presentations: 7 Juried Presentations: 28 New Grants: 14 @ $144,997 Teaching: Strong assessment practices, revealing good levels of student learning and leading to discussion about needed curriculum revision. Interdisciplinary and international teaching initiatives (Transatlantic and Pacific Project, AHSS Learning Communities, Women & Gender Studies) . NDSU English Department
2013-14 Highlights: Service and Leadership: Betsy Birmingham, Associate Dean Amy Rupiper Taggart, Director of General Education National and International boards and committees Awards: Amy Rupiper Taggart: AHSS Outstanding Research Award (Honorable Mention: Andrew Mara, Bruce Maylath, Verena Theile) Amy Rupiper Taggart: AHSS Outstanding Educator Award Kelly Sassi: AHSS Outstanding Service Award (Honorable Mention: Emily Wicktor) and Honorable Mention AHSS Teaching Award Miriam Mara, Clifford Canku, Louise Hanson Dittmer: Tapestry of Diverse Talents Linda Helstern, Adam Goldwyn, Verena Theile, Amy Rupiper Taggart: Green & Golden Globe Diversity Award Dale Sullivan: Department Vogel Teaching Award MK Laughlin: NDSU Dissertation Fellowship Massimo Verzella: AHSS Outstanding Graduate Research Award Tatjana Schell and Gina Kruschek: Department Graduate Teaching Awards MK Laughlin and Matt Warner: Department Graduate Student Paper Awards . NDSU English Department
. New Visiting Assistant Professors: Kelly Cameron, Rhetoric/Composition & WPA Daniel Hutchins, Early American Literature New Lecturers: AnastassiyaAndrianova Elizabeth Ecker NDSU English Department
New Adjunct Instructors: Sarah Beck Mitzi Brunsdale Ryan Christiansen Justin Giroux Alyson Guthrie K.C. Hanson Gretchen Junglas Cody Kaser Jamee Larson Scott Norenberg . NDSU English Department
New Graduate Student Instructors: Anthony Albright (PhD) Phillip Bode (PhD) Amber Fetch (PhD) Erika Dyk(MA) Nesreen El Doliefy (MA) Heather Flute (MA) Emilee Ruhland (MA) Sarah Silvernail (MA) Jesse Wagner (MA) . NDSU English Department
. Office Procedures: http://www.ndsu.edu/english/office_procedures/ Part-time Admin. Assistant: Megan Babel: megan.n.babel@ndsu.edu NDSU English Department
. • 1. Encouragement • Encouragement helps us do our best work. Let’s take time to recognize and express appreciation to our colleagues for their good work. • 2. Support • Let’s make an effort to be the type of colleague who listens to and helps a peer when it would be easier to focus on our own responsibilities and projects. Maintaining a Collegial Environment
. • 3. Collaboration • As we collaborate on committees and in other settings, let’s cultivate a sense of understanding and goodwill, be willing to respectfully challenge one another when necessary, and support the results of our collective decision-making. • 4. Rapport • Let’s find ways to build rapport with one another based on our interests both inside and outside of academe. Maintaining a Collegial Environment
5. Risk and Opportunity • Let’s be willing to venture outside our own projects and areas of interest to explore common goals and forge new connections with our department, college, and university colleagues. • 6. Guidance • Let’s be the kind of colleague who challenges others to grow as professionals and who helps others find the positive in situations when they have lost hope or are filled with self-doubt. Let’s also be wise and humble enough to reach out and ask others for help when we need it. . Maintaining a Collegial Environment
. • 7. Live Your Definition • No matter our position within the department structure, let’s consider our definition of a good colleague and then strive for it. Maintaining a Collegial Environment