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COMM Career Prep Day: A Gift to the Students
Communication Department Career Preparation Day Luncheon
Plans are underway for the 3rd Annual Department of Communication's Career Preparation Day. This daylong conference will be held on Tuesday, September 20, 2011 in the University Union on the campus of Western Illinois University. The conference includes 10 separate sessions plus a keynote speaker during the lunch, and it is all free to all the lucky comm majors, minors and grad students. What a wonderful gift from the department to its students!
This year's keynote speaker is Matthew Sager speaking on "Keys to Creating Your Career Process."
All communication majors, minors, and graduate students are encouraged to attend this event and learn from department alumni about interviewing, networking, job seeking, e-recruiting, transitioning from college student to full-time employee, resume writing, promoting your communication degree, and more.
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Cangro Featured in Teaching Music Magazine
Richard Cangro appearance in the Teaching Music magazin
Rich Cangro, assistant professor School of Music, was very surprised to find a large photo of himself in an article in the August issue of
Teaching Music, the premiere publication of the National Association of Music Education.
Teaching Music Magazin
In the article "Transitions: How Music Can Build a Bridge from Middle School to High School," by Susan oliniak, teaching faculty propose strategies for
keeping kids in music programs during a very difficult time of the students' lives.
Cangro should know. Not only does he teach music education at Western but he is also the director of the Community Music School. Wynton Marsalis says his heroes are music teachers who work with kids. Rich Cangro is one of those people.
Cangro was interviewed for the article, and he says he sent a photo with the Community Youth Orchestra to be included in the article. He just didn't know the photo would appear quite so large and quite so prominently.
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COFAC Welcomes and Celebrates
COFAC Faculty Award Winners Kat Myers, Art; Sharon, Evans Interim Dean; Sam Edsall, Broadcasting; and Rick Kurasz, School of Music.
The 2011-12 school year has begun, and as usual, is in warp speed already. To celebrate the beginning of a new year, COFAC welcomes it's faculty and staff back with a reception every fall. And we did that on Tuesday, September 13. It's a perfect opportunity for COFAC to recognize the College Award winners which were selected in the spring and who are now in competition with other faculty from other colleges for the Provost's awards.
This fall COFAC recognized four talented faculty members: Sam Edsall, Professor, Broadcasting, with the COFAC Teaching with Technology Award; William 'Buzz' Hoon, Associate Professor, Broadcasting and Interim Chair, with the COFAC Outstanding Teacher Award; Rick Kurasz, Associate Professor School of Music, with the COFAC Outstanding Creative Activity Award; and Kathleen 'Kat' Myers, Professor, Art, with the COFAC Outstanding Service Award
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This year, for the first time, the Performing Arts Society Academic Support Program grant recipients were also recognized. Matt Blankenship, PAS President, and Associate Professor, Psychology, introduced the grant recipients.
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Rich Eggers take Second Place in National Competition
McDonough County Courthouse, Macomb, IL
Public Radio News Directors, Inc. (PRNDI) announced winners in its 2011 awards competition at their annual meeting this summer, and Tri States Public Radio News Director Rich Egger's submission Macomb's Square: The Heart of the Community took second place in this national competition for "Best Multi Media Presentation" (first place was taken by a station in Dallas, TX). PRNDI is a non-profit organization dedicated to the professional development of public radio journalists.
We're proud that they recognized the work of ours! In case you missed it, you can find it
here.
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COFAC Announces Comm Major in the QC
WIU-Quad Cities campus
University College of Fine Arts and Communication (COFAC) has announced the addition of a communication major at the WIU-Quad Cities campus.
The additional major will give WIU-QC students the opportunity to focus their undergraduate studies on an in-demand field, according to Sharon Evans, COFAC interim dean.
"The College and the Department of Communication are both very pleased to provide the dynamic and varied communication major in the Quad Cities," Evans explained. "Employers continue to tell us that our graduates have the right skill set to add value to their companies."
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