Congrats, Scholarships, and Updates
CONGRATULATIONS TO:
Russ Keeling is to be commended for his superior performance in teaching two sections of COM 115 last semester. Russ' overall mean scores on the Faculty Evaluation administered through the Honors College were 1.05 and 1.08, which are in the top quartile for the fifty-eight Honors College professors who taught for us last Fall semester. Such a score is especially remarkable since Honors College professors are as a rule a highly capable group – e.g., the composite mean for the entire group was 1.33 (with 1 as the best and 5 as the lowest score). We are honored to have Russ continue his excellent teaching career in our honors courses. Thanks Russ.
Ryan Childress has been chosen as the Student Governor of Missouri State’s Board of Governors. This is indeed an honor for Ryan and for the department of communication. Ryan is a Public Relations Major and has a double minor in Public Law and Technical Writing. If you see him or have him in class, please pass along your congratulations.
Meredith Cantrell, for those of you who remember her, she received her undergrad in 2003 and completed her MA in Health Communication at Purdue University in 2005. She recently accepted at position with the Kansas regional office of the National Cancer Institutes, Cancer Information Service. This is a huge accomplishment for her, and it speaks to her training in health com both here and at Purdue.
CALENDAR ITEMS
I just posted to the InCommon blog reminding our graduate and undergraduate students that scholarship applications are due in the office March 15. I advised them to speak with you if they have questions about a scholarship, so I wanted to give you the head’s up about that.
Relatedly, the Annual Honors Ceremony will be held this year Monday, April 14 at 2:30 in the PSU. We will announce scholarship recipients at this time as well as LPH having their induction ceremony. Please put this on your calendars!
COMING SOON
Faculty meeting, Wednesday, March 19 at 2:00.