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Pay It Forward Grant to promote community philanthropy

My Cultures of Professional Writing class will spend part of their semester visiting, interviewing, and writing grant applications for community non-profit organizations. And thanks to an Ohio Campus Compact Pay It Forward grant, they will then award $2000 to up to four of those non-profits. The Pay It Forward program engages students in hands-on philanthropy, grant-making, and community service. For the Cultures class, the grant provides them the opportunity to do real-world writing that awards significant funds to some of the many organizations in our county doing excellent work.

Cultures is the penultimate class in the sequence toward a minor in Professional Writing, open to students in any major who want to add skills in real-world writing and design for both print and web to their existing major.

Museum Rhetoric now available!

My newest book, Museum Rhetoric, is now available from the Penn State University Press.  It is available from their website, with a 30% discount if you use the code EW17: https://www.psupress.org/books/titles/978-0-271-07903-5.html

And it is available from Amazon in both hardcover and a nicely-priced Kindle version: https://www.amazon.com/Museum-Rhetoric-Building-Identity-Transdisciplinary/dp/0271079037/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1515365781&sr=8-1&keywords=museum+rhetoric

Contributions to campus Respect campaign

With the rise in hate crimes after the 2o16 election, I had my Cultures of Professional Writing class interview students at Ohio State Newark to capture some of the voices and experiences on this, the most diverse of Ohio State’s campuses. Our article was published on the campus website here: Voices of Diversity

In spring I was honored to receive an award from the Office of Multicultural Affairs for contributions to their ongoing Respect campaign, both through the class and in securing them a Mobile Coffee Discussion grant for a series of workshops.  See article here: Respect Campaign Brings Awareness