The Division of Undergraduate Education welcomes the faculty and staff involved in Presentation U! – UK’s Quality Enhancement Plan (part of the requirements for our SACS-COC accreditation). This initiative will reach across the University to serve:
- Faculty: PresentationU! mentors (10 faculty and graduate students from African American Studies, Communication, English, Instructional Communication, Library and Information Science, and Writing/Rhetoric/Digital Media) will work with Faculty Fellows — see the list of Fellows below — to develop instructional modules, assignments, grading rubrics, and assessment methods. In addition, workshops will be held each semester that are open to all teaching faculty and staff.
- Graduate students: an opportunity to work with consultants and faculty in their programs to implement and assess the Composition & Communication Graduation Requirement for undergraduates successfully
- Upper division undergraduate students: an opportunity to apply for internships to work in PresentationU labs/studios to help other students as mentors complete and refine their communication projects and to get help themselves in the labs as their work on their own projects
- First-year students: mentoring and tutoring assistance in studios/labs across campus to hone their oral, written, and visual communication skills, as well as make a connection with upperclass students who can help them acculturate successfully to college life.
Dr. Deanna Sellnow
Dr. Deanna Sellnow, the Gifford Blyton Endowed Professor and Director of the Instructional Communication and Research Division in the College of Communication and Information, has been appointed by Ben Withers, the Associate Provost for Undergraduate Education, to serve as the interim Director of the PresentationU! initiative. Dr. Brandi N. Frisby is the PresentationU! Faculty Fellows coordinator. Dr. Frisby is an award-winning educator and serves as the Basic Communication Course Director in the Division of Instructional Communication and Research. Her research explores how students are engaged and learn in both face-to-face and mediated college classrooms. Her multimodal communication strengths include public speaking, interpersonal communication, group communication, and digital and social media.
Dr. Brandi N. Frisby
Spring 2014 Presentation U! Faculty Workshops
Please join the Presentation U! Mentor Team and the Faculty Fellows Spring 2014 cohort to learn more about assignment and rubric design, teaching multimodal communication skills, and assessing multimodal assignments across the disciplines and in your own classes!
Visual Communication Skills
Presented in William T. Young Library Gallery
February 13th 2-3:30 pm
Repeated on February 14th 1-2:30 pm
Group Communication Skills
Presented in William T. Young Library Gallery
February 27th 2-3:30 pm
Repeated on February 28th 1-2:30 pm
Digital Communication Skills
Presented in Lucille C. Little Library Room 303
March 13thth 2-3:30 pm
Repeated on March 14th 1-2:30 pm
Assessing Multimodal Skills: Creating a Rubric and Grading
Presented in College of Nursing Room 213
April 10th 2-3:30 pm
Repeated on April 11th 1-2:30 pm
We congratulate the first cohort of Faculty Fellows (appointed for Spring 2014 through Spring 2015) from many different backgrounds, disciplines and representing eleven colleges:
- Roger Brown, Agricultural Economics, College of Agriculture, Food and Environment (CAFE)
- Tammy Stephenson, Dietetics and Human Nutrition, School of Human Environmental Sciences, CAFE
- Eric VanZant, Animal and Food Sciences, CAFE
- Ruth Brown, Hispanic Studies, College of Arts & Sciences
- Heather Campbell-Speltz, Hispanic Studies, College of Arts & Sciences
- Robin Cooper, Biology, College of Arts & Sciences
- Janet Eldred, English, College of Arts & Sciences (Director of eStudio in the College of Engineering)
- Chris Huggins, Sociology, College of Arts & Sciences
- Davida Issacs, Political Science, College of Arts & Sciences
- Joyce MacDonald, English, College of Arts & Sciences
- Beth Connors Manke, Writing Rhetoric and Digital Media (WRD), College of Arts & Sciences
- Nels “Jeff” Rogers, German Studies, College of Arts & Sciences
- Jasmine McNealy, School of Library and Information Science, College of Communication and Information
- Buck Ryan, School of Journalism and Telecommunications, College of Communication and Information
- Patrick Lee Lucas, School of Interiors, College of Design
- Sara Flanagan, Early Childhood, College of Education
- Regina Hannemann, Electrical and Computer Engineering, College of Engineering
- Herman D. Farrell III, Theatre, College of Fine Arts
- Michelle Butina, Medical Laboratory Science, College of Health Sciences
- Randa Remer, Student Affairs, College of Health Sciences
- Karen Skaff, Clinical Sciences, College of Health Sciences
- Fran Hardin Fanning, College of Nursing
- Jan Odom-Forren, College of Nursing
- Lee Anne Walmsley, College of Nursing
- Darlene Welsh, College of Nursing
- Nancy E. Johnson, Preventive Medicine & Environmental Health, College of Public Health
- Diane Loeffler, College of Social Work
- John “Jack” Kirn, UK HealthCare (and adjunct in Gatton College of B&E)
For more information on the Presentation U! implementation, visit the UGE website at http://www.uky.edu/UGE/pres-u.html or contact Faculty Fellows Coordinator, Brandi Frisby, at brandi.frisby@uky.edu
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