Category higher education
UF Undergraduate Research Symposium encourages research and research sharing
Research practice – More than 100 undergraduates took part in the Undergraduate Research Symposium today on campus. I was there with my mentee, Heather Read. She conducted 16 in-depth interviews with women in the media. Her research investigated the role of gender discrimination in journalism today. The goal of the Undergraduate Research Program is to […]
BlackListed Magazine Online launches at UF
BlackListed Magazine Online is targeted to UF’s African-American community and launched on Martin Luther King Jr. Day 2008.
Gunman on campus just 10 miles away; we’re in an auditorium that can’t be locked
Yesterday the gunman on campus wasn’t hundreds of miles away at Northern Illinois University or Virginia Tech. The gunman was 10 miles away at Santa Fe Community College. No one was shot. The gunman was captured. He did have a loaded gun on campus, which he allegedly threatened another student with. He was on the […]
Money important part of answer to Florida’s educational concerns
All educational problems may not be solved by money, but money is part of the answer to some educational concerns. The story in Florida is that more than 60,000 students may not be able to enroll in Florida’s 11 public universities by 2012 due to budget cuts for higher education. At the University of Florida, […]
Azaleas in bloom: Timing of campus interviews can add to job’s appeal
The azaleas are in bloom in Gainesville and are beautiful. This is a great time of year…and just the time of year when I interviewed at UF. When the phone call came to schedule my campus visit, the snow was falling in Tennessee. Every February when the azaleas bloom, I think of that February when […]
Making the most of guest speakers in class
Washington Post reporter Anne Hull will be a special guest speaker in both of my lectures tomorrow. She is the Journalism Department’s Hearst Visiting Professional, which means we have her on campus for just a couple of days and want to have as many of our students as possible get a chance to hear her. […]
"those damn commas"
I was in my office during office hours when my phone rang. I answered. “This is Bob Smith (not his actual name). I’m the father of Susan Smith, who is a student in your class this semester. And she’s going to fail your class because of those damn commas.” That was a real conversation starter. […]
UF is a Pepsi campus — signs deal with Pepsi and the Coke machines are taken away
UF is a Pepsi campus – After about five years of being a Coca Cola campus, UF signed an exclusive agreement with Pepsi. The trucks came and took away all the Coke machines and replaced them with Pepsi machines. A few of the machines, like this one, even promote UF’s National Championship basketball program. Only […]
Classroom design affects teaching and learning
The classroom certainly affects the teaching and learning experience. This is the view from the back of one of the auditoriums I teach in. I stopped to take this photo as I was leaving class. Over the years, I’ve taught in lots of different classrooms – for university classes, high school classes, summer journalism institutes, […]
Finding the right textbook
A key part of developing a course and of the learning process for the students is the course textbook. This is the main textbook I use for Writing for Mass Communication. The book doesn’t include any chapters on writing for advertising. Evan True, a former teaching assistant for the course, wrote our advertising chapters based […]
Julie Dodd 