Category: News
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News of Note Week of November 9th
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Read More: News of Note Week of November 9thThere’s a review of Dan Beachy-Quick’s book of poems, gentlessness, up at Rain Taxi: http://www.raintaxi.com/gentlessness/ Antero Garcia reflected on Teacher Professional Development and Loss, Trauma, and Empathy for DMLcentral. You can read his post here: http://dmlcentral.net/loss-trauma-and-the-digital-language-of-empathy-in-schools/ Antero Garcia wrote a blog post for the Compose Our World research project funded by Lucas…
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The Community Literacy Center
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Read More: The Community Literacy CenterThe CSU Community Literacy Center (CLC) helps create alternative literacy opportunities that work to educate and empower underserved populations, and foment university-community literacy collaboration. Through the SpeakOut! writing workshops, the CLC confronts stereotypes of at-risk youth and incarcerated women and men, circulating the stories and creative work of community writers through…
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Humans of Eddy: Community Literacy Center Associate Director Mary Ellen Sanger
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Read More: Humans of Eddy: Community Literacy Center Associate Director Mary Ellen SangerMary Ellen Sanger Associate Director Community Literacy Center What brought you to CSU? Since moving to Fort Collins two years ago (for love), I have volunteered at CSU: with the Community Literacy Center leading writing workshops at Larimer County Detention Center, and with Mary Ontiveros and the Diversity team on…
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Summer Education Abroad in Zambia, 2016: Information Session
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Read More: Summer Education Abroad in Zambia, 2016: Information SessionEnglish Students, There’s talk about an exciting opportunity to go to south-central Africa in summer 2016 and work in local communities … and earn three English upper-division credits. An hour-long information session will be held on Monday, November 16th, at noon, in LSC308. After a very successful inaugural year in 2015, Dr. Ellen Brinks will…
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News of Note Week of November 2nd
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Read More: News of Note Week of November 2ndThe SpeakOut! writing program won the “Program of the Year” award last night at the Larimer County Jail volunteer awards banquet. Congrats to the facilitators and writers! Two of Dan Beachy-Quick’s essays, “Heraclitean Thirst” and “Circles” are featured at the online journal Fogged Clarity: http://foggedclarity.com Doug Cloud presented a paper titled…
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CSU Dead Poets Society
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Read More: CSU Dead Poets Society~from English Department Communications Intern Ashley Alfirevic “We were going to call it the Bread & Cheese Club, but that seemed too obscure,” says Kelsey Easton of the Dead Poets Society. The beloved Robin Williams/John Keating wasn’t the only one who had a rag-tag gang of poetry lovers who…
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Accepting Applications for English Department Communications Internship
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Read More: Accepting Applications for English Department Communications InternshipEnglish Department Communications Internship Number of positions: 1 Internship term: Spring 2016 Semester, 15 weeks, January 19th – May 6th, 2016 Total credits: 2 Hours: 80 hours (40 per credit hour), approximately 5 per week Stipend: $500 Application Deadline: TBA The English Department is looking for two engaged, self-motivated, responsible,…
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News of Note Week of October 26th
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Read More: News of Note Week of October 26thTobi Jacobi presented at the Community Writing Conference in Boulder on Friday, October 16. She gave a retrospective talk on 10 years of directing the SpeakOut writing program and co-facilitated a “deep think tank” workshop on homelessness, prison, and poverty with Phyllis Ryder, Paula Mathieu, Mike Homner, and Isabel McDevitt.…
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The best places at CSU to read, write, and study
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Read More: The best places at CSU to read, write, and study~by English Department Communications Intern Ashley Alfirevic In the CSU English Department’s first of many upcoming listicles, we’re spotlighting some of the best places at CSU to read, write, and study. This week, I took to our Twitter and Instagram pages to share some of my favorite #secretstudyspots around campus. …