Employment

English:  Johnson County Community College

Assistant Professor (1999-2002)

Associate Professor (2002-present)

Courses taught:  Composition I (traditional classroom, Smart classroom, College-Near-Home, via distance learning, hybrid course); Composition II (traditional classroom, Smart classroom, via distance learning)

Service:  Institutional Review Board; Institutional Review Board Formulating Committee; Composition I Coordinator; Composition I Textbook Committee Chair; Adjunct Liaison; Committee for Revision of Comp I and Comp II Exemption Exams; Ad-Hoc Committee to Coordinate Composition I with Career Programs; Program Review Committee; Professional Development Committee Chair (2002-2004); WebCT Orientation Volunteer; WebCT 6.0 and BlackBoard CE Beta Tester; TETYC award application chair; Faculty Development Book Review Award Committee; Kansas Association of Teachers of English Board (full term)

Recognition:  "Extra-Effort" Award (twice); Sabbatical (Spring 2008)

Writing Consulting: University of Kansas

Director (July 1, 1998-June 12, 1999)
Responsible for writing-across-the-curriculum (WAC) office and writing-center service; supervise assistant director and WAC staff; manage budget and payroll (Peoplesoft); consult with faculty, programs, and schools to incorporate writing into teaching; design writing assignments and support materials; present workshops to faculty and students; supervise development of two web sites; research writing.

Grants (major writer or co-writer):  Council of Writing Program Administrators Grant: to study writing in large classes (1998-1999)

Service:  Established (with assistant director) a multi-site university-wide writing center

Associate Director (August, 1990-1998)
Responsible for writing-across-the-curriculum (WAC) office operation; assist in supervision and professional development of staff; consult with faculty, programs, and schools to incorporate writing into teaching; design writing assignments and support materials; present workshops to faculty and students; supervise development of two web sites; research writing

Grants:  Hall Center for the Humanities Improvement of Teaching Grant:  to conduct workshop with faculty of Honors students (1993); to develop a student writing web site (1997); also consulted with two groups as they wrote our office into Hall Center grants; Council of Writing Program Administrators Grant:  to develop a writing glossary (1995)

Service:  Search committee member for writing center director (1997), teaching excellence center director (1997), Writing Consulting assistant director (1998); Phi Kappa Phi secretary-treasurer (1997); Midwest Writing Centers Association site coordinator (1997); Greater KC WAC Network e-mail list coordinator

Graduate Student Assistant KU Writing Center (1986-1990)
Consulted with faculty, presented to class, tutored students, designed documents, managed office

Grants:  College of Liberal Arts Summer Teaching grants for HS Teachers (1988-1990)   College Teaching  

Teaching

Co-Teacher (1999)
Scientific Communication:  co-designed and taught first five classes; developed class web site

Distance Education Instructor (1993-1997)
English 101c: English Composition: taught approximately 200 students through correspondence; co-wrote, revised study guide

English 362c: Technical Writing: taught 50 students through correspondence; co-wrote study guide

Graduate Teaching Assistant KU English (1985-1990)
English 203: designed, taught War and Peace; War Literature; Protest Literature

English 102 and 101: designed, taught 8 sections (2 sections computer assisted—Writers Workbench)

  Recognitions: Master Graduate Teaching Assistant, KU English (1988-1989): mentored graduate assistants, taught demonstration classes; Outstanding Instructor, English Department (1988); James A. Gowen Award (1989): recognition of contributions to composition; University GTA recognition department finalist (1990) 

Service:  Freshman-Sophomore English Committee (1987-1989); textbook committee (1989)

Graduate Student Assistant KU Writing Center (1986-1990)
English 980: team taught seminar in WAC (1988)

English 590: designed, team taught “Studies in WAC” for Middle and HS Teachers (1989, 1990)

Community College Teaching (for Fort Scott Community College cc1978-1980)
American History: at Prairie View High School, LaCygne, Kansas (1978)

Kansas History: at Paola High School, Paola, Kansas (cc1979)

Creative Writing: at Paola High School, Paola, Kansas (cc1979)

English 102: at Paola High School, Paola, Kansas (cc1980)

Secondary Teaching  
U.S.D. 362 Prairie View District, LaCygne, KS (1976-1985):  English (Grades 10-12), Journalism (11-12), American History (11)

Recognition:  Outstanding Instructor 

District #124, Belton, MO (1968-1976):  Belton HS:  Government (11, 12), Economics (11), American History (11, 12); Belton JH (C.F. Yeokum): American History (8, 9)

Service:  Department Chair; Chair: Year-Round School Research Committee

Other 

Newsletter Editor (1986-1988):  Lakemary Center, Paola, Kansas

Personnel Assistant (1984-1986):  K.R. Johnson, Inc., Osawatomie, Kansas

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