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Statement on BOT’s Decision Regarding Nikole Hannah-Jones’s Appointment
As members of the faculty of the Department of English and Comparative Literature, we write to express our alarm about the recent denial of tenure of Nikole Hannah-Jones for an endowed Knight professorship at the UNC Hussman School of Journalism and Media. Should the UNC Board of Trustees’ decision stand, it has implications that extend far beyond the facts of this case. We address three of those issues below.
Our first concern is about shared governance and the belief in the integrity and professionalism of the process that allows us to recruit, hire, and retain world-class scholars, researchers, and writers. The denial of tenure of Nikole Hannah-Jones has already drawn world-wide scrutiny about the fairness of that process. So far that scrutiny has played itself out in the press and on social media platforms. Of course, damage to and loss of reputation devastates people but such damage also does incalcu
The department of statistics and operations research, better known as STOR, will introduce a data science minor in fall 2021 that is designed to appeal to students majoring in a broad array of disciplines. The minor is an important component of the soon-to-launch data science initiative, a pan-University effort.
When people hear “data science,” they might think of tech jobs: programming the algorithms that generate the ads that pop up on social media or the statistical analysis used to predict online behavior. Research scientists of course use data science in such diverse fields as genomics, astronomy, mathematics and neuroscience. But data science is applicable to a wide variety of social science and humanistic fields where numbers-crunching, analysis and data interpretation are required. Think of the journalist or political scientist scrutinizing election trends, the geographer mapping climate change, the demographer tracking census results over time, the linguist working with
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One of Cambrian College’s employees has reached a national podium for excellence in leadership.
Courtney Rivard won bronze at the Colleges and Institutes Canada 2021 annual Awards of Excellence, in the category of ‘Leadership Excellence Award for Non-Managerial Staff.’
Rivard is Cambrian’s Special Events and Administrative Assistant in the Student Success and Recruitment Office.
Rivard says she is thankful for all the opportunities she has had at the college to develop professionally and in organizing a number of events from open houses to orientation, Skills Ontario and job fairs, and more.
Poetry and Play in the Pandemic: English Gaming Courses in the Digital Classroom
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Underdepth, one group’s game from the ENGL 118 and 307 collaboration.
This past semester, Professors Gabrielle Calvocoressi and Courtney Rivard successfully navigated the limitations of the pandemic to create an innovative and collaborative online classroom. The parallel-taught courses, Rivard’s ENGL 118: Storytelling and Game Development and Calvocoressi’s ENGL 307: Poetry Stylistics, worked together to bridge poetics and gaming, resulting in student-created games that experimented with modes of storytelling and made the most of open-source game-making software.
The idea to bring together a poetry and a game design course originally came as a result of Digital Literacy and Communications Lab’s Gaming Initiative. In September 2019, the Digital Literacy and Communications Lab was awarded the Center for Faculty Excellence/Lenovo Instructional Innovation Grant for the devel