Category: News
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Women's History Month: Anne Frank
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Read More: Women's History Month: Anne Frank~from Communications Coordinator Jill Salahub I spent yesterday brainstorming a list of women to feature on the blog this month. It’s Women’s History Month, and we’re celebrating specifically women who’ve made contributions to literature and education. Because there are so many, I toyed yesterday with limiting my list to U.S. citizens —…
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Alumni Profile: Gabe Martinez
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Read More: Alumni Profile: Gabe Martinez~from intern Joyce Bohling Last year, Gabe Martinez graduated from the CSU with his master’s degree in Rhetoric and Composition. Today, he works as Communications Specialist for the USDA AgLearn program. In this post, he shares some thoughts about his work and how the things he learned at CSU have…
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Women's History Month
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Read More: Women's History MonthWomen’s History Month highlights the contributions of women to events in history and contemporary society. Here on the blog, for the month of March, we invite you to join us as we remember, honor, and celebrate the contributions of women to literature and education. #WomensHistoryMonth http://english.colostate.edu/tag/womens-history-month/
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Women's History Month
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Read More: Women's History MonthCelebrated in March to coincide with International Women’s Day on the 6th, Women’s History Month highlights the contributions of women to events in history and contemporary society. This year’s national theme is “Honoring Trailblazing Women in Labor and Business,” and here on the blog, similarly to how we celebrated Black…
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Food Student Essay Contest 2016/2017
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Read More: Food Student Essay Contest 2016/2017CSU Students (only) completing CO150 in good standing during the 2016/2017 Academic Year, in sections addressing the course topic of “food,” are eligible to participate in this essay contest, (only one entry per student). Please submit the following to participate: A researched (source-based) argumentative essay or a photo essay with…
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Black History Month: Nikki Giovanni
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Read More: Black History Month: Nikki GiovanniI always loved English because whatever human beings are, we are storytellers. It is our stories that give a light to the future. When I went to college I became a history major because history is such a wonderful story of who we think we are. English is much more…
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Black History Month: Rita Dove
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Read More: Black History Month: Rita DoveBlack History Month is almost over, but we’ve barely brushed the surface of the influence black authors have had on the literary community. Rita Frances Dove was born in Akron, Ohio in 1952. Her father, Ray Dove, was the first African-American to work in the tire industry as a chemist. Following…
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Humans of Eddy: Caitlin Montgomery
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Read More: Humans of Eddy: Caitlin Montgomery~from intern Joyce Bohling Caitlin Montgomery Major: Psychology and Pre-Med What are you doing in Eddy Hall today? I am working. I do a work study, and I am a lab monitor. When do you expect to graduate? Never. *laughs* I’m expected to graduate in 2019. I’ll be taking an…
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News of Note Week of February 20
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Read More: News of Note Week of February 20Sue Doe’s chapter, “What Works and What Counts: Valuing the Affective in Non Tenure-Track Advocacy,” co-authored with Maria Maisto and Janelle Adsit, was just published in Contingency, Exploitation, and Solidarity: Labor and Action in English Composition. Edited by Seth Kahn, William B. Lalicker, and Amy Lynch-Biniek. Darcy Gabriel has happily accepted…
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Black History Month: W.E.B. Du Bois
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Read More: Black History Month: W.E.B. Du BoisW.E.B. (William Edward Burghardt) Du Bois is remembered for his many roles as a journalist, educator, African-American sociologist, and Civil Rights activist. He was born in 1868 in Great Barrington, Massachusetts. Du Bois excelled at school, receiving two bachelor’s degrees from Fisk University (a historically black college in Nashville) and Harvard College,…