Happy Thursday. What? But it’s the Friday not the Thursday email! I am traveling the next few days, so thought I would get a short note out before I leave. Carl is covering the bases for me as chair until I return next Wednesday. If anything comes up that you need someone’s presence for connect […]
Claudia Perez is invested. She’s invested in her schoolwork, goals, and on-campus organizations. The overarching theme of her investments? Building community. Perez is a second year communication studies student, minoring in legal and ethnic studies. She values the broadness of her studies because they give her the freedom to work in different areas including law, […]
Happy Friday! And happy homecoming weekend. What a perfect day today, at least, for homecoming. Clearly fall and chilly when I left the house this morning just after 7 a.m. to ride to campus. But the sun is out, the leaves are beautiful, and the campus and the town look great. Every week—I mean every week—I have […]
You never know what could happen when you walk into a room. For instance, take Michelle Buser’s story. One day during her freshman year the desk of Buser’s roommate was scattered with study abroad pamphlets. She had never planned on studying abroad, but she looked through them on a whim. A year and a half […]
Happy Friday, folks, as we head into October. This is the month of pumpkin spice everything, the month of falling leaves, and the month of shortening days. And this is the month where we pass the half-way mark on fall semester. It has been a whirlwind so far, right? We continue to have much to celebrate. […]
Welcome to Friday! What a whirlwind of a week it has been and still will be! Monday we started with our first Brown Bag research presentation. Scott lead us through some rich conversation about his book on human rights cinema. A wonderful conversation. (Another Brown Bag research presentation comes this next Monday. Eric will be presenting on ethnography and his decades-long project on rural community in […]
We are pulling to a close yet another amazing week here in the department. I continue to be so proud of everything we are doing. For example, Hye Seung’s article “Hollywood Diplomacy and The Purple Heart (1944): Preserving Wartime Alliances through Film Regulation,” The Historical Journal of Film, Radio, and Television is available in e-print. Many of you saw what is really a […]
And now it is Friday. Again. Seems like Friday happens almost every week! Amazing how that works out. Hey some important and cool stuff to talk about this week. First, thanks to the hard work of Lindsey with support from Carol, Scott, me, and partners from across the college and the university we are finalizing a really important program responding to […]
Miguel Banuelos-Garcia was a bit nervous to tell his family he was going to college. A first generation student, Banuelos-Garcia didn’t tell his parents until the night of his high school graduation. He had applied, been accepted, and familiarized himself with the university system on his own with the help of friends and mentors. “I […]
And so it is Friday. Friday seems to come along with a certain inevitability and with it another week is nearly done. Congratulations! I trust that you are settling well into your fall semester routines whatever those are. I have spent yesterday and will spend this morning in Estes at the Fall Leadership Forum. Chairs, directors, heads, VPs […]
