The Rowan Writing Center has a number of activities coming up this week and next. You are invited to join us on October 15th at 3:30 pm for the Grand Opening of the Rowan Writing Center (4th floor of Campbell Library). Meet the writing consultants and see who wins the canary-yellow beach cruiser generously donated by Dr. Erin Herberg. While you are there, you can sign up for the 24-hour writing marathon to be held Oct. 19th and 20th. Finally, learn how you can...
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An all-college meeting was held today at 11:00 in Bozorth 118. Our chairs and department representatives introduced new faculty members including: Tracie Babb (Ph.D. Howard University), who joins our PR/Advertising program from Bowie State this year; Christa Teston (PhD. Kent State University) and Drew Kopp (Ph.D. University of Arizona), both active young scholars who are now part of our program in Writing Arts; David Bianculli (M.A. University of Florida), famous for his writings and work on NPR and infamous for his sartorial style; and...
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Dear College of Communication colleagues, Recently you received a packet in your campus mailbox for the yearly Employee Charitable Campaign. As most of you know, this campaign is organized by the state of NJ to assist state employees in making contributions to the charities of their choice, by providing for payroll deduction. The ECC has allowed the Rowan community to contribute over $600,000 in this decade to a wide variety of charitable organizations. Clearly, $600,000 is a lot of money. And I know that...
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I blogged about this early in the summer, but since this is Banned Books Week, I thought I would repeat some of that post today. As communication scholars, we take the right to free speech pretty seriously, and that includes the issue of censorship.  While we often confuse acts involving private companies (e.g. an online forum has a policy against profanity) with censorship, true censorship involves efforts by the government or governmental agencies to restrict the rights of free speech.  One example of censorship...
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In an article recently published in the Chronicle of Higher Education (Sept 21, 2009), author Steve Cohen reports on a study of 1,100 college bound high school seniors, conducted for zinch.com.   Cohen’s study examined the decision making process regarding collegiate education and the factors that impact that process.  Some of the results weren’t particularly shocking, but others I found much more so. Cohen’s respondents indicated that parents have the most impact on student decision making regarding college selection.  Because many students are minors...
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You know, back when I was in college (go ahead, roll your eyes, it’s ok, my kids do it all the time), I had to go to every class, find articles by going to the library and waking through the stacks and then photocopying what I needed; print all of my assignments on paper, and contact my professors (if I got up the nerve to actually speak to them) by phone.  Isn’t that charming?  And, now it all just seems so antiquated.  It’s a...
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