Six professors were recently granted sabbaticals to pursue research and creative endeavors in their fields of expertise.
Wendy Commons will use the sabbatical to complete her dissertation and Ph.D. in Rhetoric at Texas Woman’s University.
Clay Randall will use the sabbatical to involve students in actively building their own workbooks in macroeconomics and microeconomics, obtain a creative commons license and provide free access to the book on a website and on Canvas.
Laura Foster will use the sabbatical to generate a comprehensive set of adaptable instructional material for use in free-standing courses, paired courses, tutoring centers and self-paced pathways.
Kerry Loinette will use the sabbatical to align the program-level learning outcomes of the certificate in the communication studies field of study to the learning outcomes formulated and disseminated by the National Communication Association.
Gerald Sullivan will use the sabbatical to work on a book tentatively titled From the origins of Schism to the Doublebind: The Development of a Theme in the Work of Gregory Bateson.
William Ardis will use the sabbatical to implement an inquiry based learning teaching methodology, specifically Modified Moore Method, into calculus classes.