2024
Faculty
- Celebrate Women Committee- Recipients of the 2024 PACC Diversity Champion Award - Cathleen Battiste-Presutti, Cenell Boch, Sarah Bogdewiecz, Judy Carey Nevin, Jaime Cox, Sheila Daniels, Pam Kaylor (Co-Chair), Amber Landis, Rebecca Petty, Kreig Prior, Angela Richcreek, Brooklyn Stallworth and Candice Thomas-Maddox (Co-Chair)
- Kevin Cordi- Winner of the Anne Izard Storyteller’s Choice Award for a book he edited and contributed to
- Kevin Cordi- Winner of the 2024 Outstanding Tenure Track Faculty Award
- Kevin Cordi- Winner of the 2024 Rising Star Teacher Award
- Kevin Cordi- Featured on an OEA podcast with a Dayton educator Katie Fuller on “Public Education Matters” with the Ohio Education Association. Public Education Matters | Storytelling as an organizing tool. Plus, Sandy Smith Fischer for STRS. (transistor.fm)
- Suzanne Cromlish- Winner of Ohio University's Department of Social and Public Health Chair's Award for Excellence in Teaching and Advising (September)
- Deb Dunning- Published a chapter in the book “Re-exploring Play and Playfulness in Early Childhood Education” with colleagues
- Victor Jones- Winner of the 2024 RHE Outstanding Instructional Faculty Award
- Lisa Skeens- Presenter at the National Lilly Teaching Conference ( lillyconferences.com ) in Traverse City, Michigan. Her talk on "Instructional Strategies to Support First-Generation Students Who Experience Anxiety" emphasized inclusive teaching approaches that help ease classroom anxiety and empower first-gen students to achieve their academic goals (October)
- Matt Wanat- Winner of the 2024 PTK Professor of the Year award
- Matt Wanat- Received promotion to Professor of English
Staff
- Judy Carey Nevin- Selected to be an author volunteer for the 60 for 60 campaign recognizing the 60th anniversary of Freedom Summer
- Jaime Cox- Started MA coursework in COMS
- Kreig Prior- Joined Friends of the Fairfield County DD Board