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Taught Oral and Written Communication.

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• Lead team of 13 permanent and 5 temporary faculty, 1 administrative assistant, and 20 student workers in a department with nearly 400 majors.• Planned schedule for approximately 72 courses, internships, and co-curricular activities per semester• Supervised curricular, marketing, evaluation, and assessment efforts• Managed facility of 15 offices, 3 classrooms, 3 computer labs, 1 graphics lab, 1 meeting room, 1 television studio, and the student newspaper office.• Managed baseline budget of $99,000 plus one-time allocations• Taught two sections of Public Speaking, a university-wide basic skills requirementAccomplishments:o Updates of department vision, mission, and goalso Updates of curriculum to include an Ethics courseo Updates of university television station facilitieso Instituted a shared meeting hour for departmental business and operationso In Press: Behold: Visual Literacy, Visual Communication, and Visual Culture. A textbook for Visual Literacy. Cognella.

Taught 4 courses per semesterProvided academic advising for 28-35 communication majors per yearEngagd in curriculum development and program developmentEngaged in university serviceEngaged in professional service Engaged in community serviceCourses taught: Public Speaking Visual Literacy Propaganda* Advanced Public Speaking The Communication Age Media Criticism * Mass Media and Society Argumentation and Debate Small Group Communication Message Design Foundations of Rhetoric**Indicates courses I createdCourses I created currently in curricular process:Media and Communication EthicsHealth CommunicationUnion Service - Association for Pennsylvania State College and University FacultyStatewide:APSCUF Vice PresidentDelegate to APSCUF Legislative AssemblyMember APSCUF Retirement CommitteeMember APSCUF Public Relations CommitteeChair of APSCUF Institute for Excellence (I-Excel)Local:SRU APSCUF Vice President SRU APSCUF Member At-Large Executive CommitteeUniversity Service:Chair Teaching and Learning Technologies RoundtableMember Teaching and Learning Technologies RoundtableMember Teacher Education Advisory CouncilPast Professional Service:Member Conference Planning Committee National Association for Media Literacy Education Member Fitz Dixon Scholarship Committee, Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education Member Conference Planning Committee PASSHE Distance Education Summit Chairperson Communication Education Division Pennsylvania Communication Association

Served three non-consecutive terms as board President. Active in the life of GHUUC from start-up until leaving the area in June 2017. Served as Vice President and later President during the start-up. Involved in establishing the organization, purchasing the building, gaining 501c3 status, writing and re-writing the bylaws, and joining the organization to the UUA.Last Administration (2016-17)• Lead Board of Directors in managing all aspects of congregational life; o serviceso membershipo communicationo financeo facilitieso social and environmental action• Prepared and lead Sunday Services on varying rotation Developed strategic goals and initiatives for the organization Aligned goals and strategies with those of UUA Ensured the programmatic success of the organization Worked cooperatively with Board of Trustees Contracted for needed services with independent business owners Accomplishments: o Ginger Hill certified Carbon Neutral (2016)o Ginger Hill certified UU United Nations Organization Blue Ribbon Congregation (2016)--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Previous terms: -Established non-profit status for GHUUC (2003)-Personally purchased property for GHUUC(2002-2010)-Co-wrote bylaws (2003)-GHUUC Affiliated with Unitarian Universalist Association (2004)-Revised bylaws (2012)-Established formal Board of Trustees (2012)-Initiated large and successful communication and outreach campaign (2012)-Managed ordinary operational procedures for the organization

As a result of working as second-in-command of an organization with more than 5000 members, I gained the following skills while working within a distributed network of 14 local affiliates across the state:Nonprofit leadership and managementProject development, implementationOrganizational planningBudget planning Communication planningConference planning:-Responsible for idea,design,development, implementation, and assessment of APSCUF-PSEA Conference on Labor in HIgher Education 2009 and 2010-Coordinated efforts with Pennsylvania State Education Association

The Children's Institute formerlyThe Rehabilitation Institute of PittsburghGrant Writing - raised over $250,000 ($560,000 in today's dollars)Project Planning and Implementation - Wrote original grant coordinating efforts between the Rehabilitation Institute and Children and Youth Services for what became Project STAR, a program to match children with disabilities who were up for adoption to adoptive parents who were trained by the Rehabilitation Institute to manage those disabilities.