Tag: Community Literacy Center
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News of Note Week of May 2
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Read More: News of Note Week of May 2Dan Beachy-Quick will be on Colorado Matters on the Denver NPR station on May 11. Ellen Brinks has been invited to give a plenary talk at the conference “Forgotten Geographies in the Fin de Siècle, 1880-1920,” at Birkbeck College, University of London, in early July. Doug Cloud’s article, “Talking Climate Change…
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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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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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News of Note Week of October 5th
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Read More: News of Note Week of October 5thThe Rhetoric Society of America has accepted a panel organized by Doug Cloud titled “Tracing Effect in Social Movement Studies” for presentation at their biennial conference in Atlanta in 2016. The inter-disciplinary panel includes scholars from Kansas State University and Indiana University-Purdue University, Fort Wayne. At that same conference, he will…
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News of Note Week of April 27th
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Read More: News of Note Week of April 27thAntero Garcia recently received grant funding as a co-PI on a project funded by the George Lucas Educational Foundation. “Composing Our World: Supporting Literacy and Social and Emotional Learning through 9th Grade ELA Project-Based Learning” is a three year study taking place throughout Northern Colorado. On May 2, Nancy Henke…
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Humans of Eddy: Alex Morrison
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Read More: Humans of Eddy: Alex MorrisonAlex Morrison is a graduate student in the MFA program in fiction. He’s also the the Assistant Director of the Community Literacy Center, as well as a consultant in the Writing Center. His staff bio on the Writing Center website says, “He studied Creative Writing and the Biological Sciences as…
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News of Note Week of December 8th
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Read More: News of Note Week of December 8thSeveral faculty members began the academic year with changes in rank or appointment. EJ Levy received tenure and promotion to associate professor and Ellen Brinks and Roze Hentschell were promoted to full professor. Sharon Grindle, Jenny Levin, and Dana Masden received Senior Teaching Appointments in recognition of their years of…
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News of Note for the Week of May 12th
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Read More: News of Note for the Week of May 12thThe Eddy Building will be going through a remodel beginning the week of May 19th! The English Department offices will move over to the Behavioral Sciences Building, Rooms A104-112. The phone number will remain the same. The Writing Center will be relocating to Johnson Hall Room 119 for the summer…