Richardson: Play it safe or take a chance? (The Free Lance-Star)
Several months ago I was asked by the president of my organization to assume a new role on an interim basis.
Rosalyn Cooperman Named Expert Contributor to Gender Watch 2018
Political science professor Rosalyn Cooperman has been named a regular expert contributor to Gender Watch 2018, a non-partisan project that will track, analyze and highlight gender dynamics in this year’s election.
The Barbara Lee Family Foundation (BLFF) and the Center for American Women in Politics (CAWP) at Rutgers University announced the launch of the project as record numbers of women run for office.
“Gender Watch 2018 will follow their journeys, offering real-time analysis and insight into the impact of gender on this historic election year,” Barbara Lee, president and founder of BLFF, said in a statement.
Cooperman will be among the contributing scholars to “inform the public dialogue and enhance public understanding of the myriad ways in which gender shapes political campaigns and campaigning,” according to a news release.
Cooperman was also part of the Presidential Gender Watch program in 2016. For more information, and to read more about expert contributors, visit www.genderwatch2018.org.
Lee Skallerup Bessette Featured in EdSurge
Lee Skallerup Bessette was recently featured in a story on EdSurge.com:
Can a New Approach to Information Literacy Reduce Digital Polarization? (EdSurge.com)
Lee Skallerup Bessette, an instructional technology specialist at the University of Mary Washington, has been teaching with Caulfield’s guide to her Introduction to Digital Studies course, which typically has about 25 students.
UMW Music Department Professors Judge Local Music Scholarship Competition
On Saturday, March 24, University of Mary Washington Adjunct Professors Andrew Kraus and Theresa Steward judged over 30 talented entrants competing for the 2018 Rappahannock Music Society Scholarship and a chance to perform in the Scholarship Honors Recital to be held on April 8th at Ferry Farm Baptist Church.
Open to students of local teachers Grade 8 and up, contestants were evaluated in four categories: Faithfulness to score; Technique; Interpretation; and Stage Presence.
Andrew Kraus
Theresa Steward
Richards Leads Discussion of James Baldwin at Tennessee Williams/New Orleans Literary Festival
Gary Richards, Professor of English and Chair of the Department of English, Linguistics, and Communication, recently led the breakfast book discussion of James Baldwin’s first novel, Go Tell It on the Mountain, at the Tennessee Williams/New Orleans Literary Festival held in New Orleans, La. March 21-25, 2018.
Lynne Richardson’s Weekly Column Featured in FLS
Richardson: Agree to Disagree (The Free Lance-Star)
My mom used to tell me that there were two topics off limits in conversation: politics and religion.
Farnsworth Publishes Book on Presidential Communication
Stephen Farnsworth, professor of political science and director of the University’s Center for Leadership and Media Studies, is author of a new book, Presidential Communication and Character: White House News Management from Clinton and Cable to Twitter and Trump, published earlier this week by Routledge Press.
The publisher’s description is below:
Presidential Communication and Character, written by Stephen Farnsworth
This book traces the evolution of White House news management during America’s changing media environment over the past two decades. Comparing and contrasting the communication strategies of Bill Clinton, George W. Bush, Barack Obama, and Donald Trump, it demonstrates the difficulty that all presidents have in controlling their messages despite a seemingly endless array of new media outlets and the great advantages of the office. That difficulty is compounded by new media’s amplification of presidential character traits for good or ill. Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube notwithstanding, presidential power still resides in the “power to persuade,” and that task remains a steep challenge. More than ever, presidential character matters, and the media presidents now employ report on the messenger as much as the message.
The book also looks at the media strategies of candidates during the 2016 presidential campaign, puts presidential media use in global context, and covers the early phase of the Trump administration, the first true Twitter presidency.
Jesse Stommel Gets Mention in Chronicle of Higher Education
I’m Not Ready to Quit Grading (The Chronicle of Higher Education)
And just last October, a blog post called “Why I Don’t Grade” was retweeted onto my Twitter timeline maybe 25 times. Written by Jesse Stommel, executive director of teaching and learning technology at the University of Mary Washington, it breaks down the many reasons why he doesn’t grade his students’ individual assignments. Grades, he writes, “are the biggest and most insidious obstacle to education” — failing as incentive, as feedback, as sign of learning, or as assurance of fairness.
https://www.chronicle.com/article/I-m-Not-Ready-to-Quit/242832
Jon Pineda’s New Novel Highlighted in Richmond Times-Dispatch
Former Richmonder Jon Pineda’s new novel ‘Let’s No One Get Hurt’ generating buzz (Richmond Times-Dispatch)
Former Richmonder Jon Pineda’s coming-of-age novel set in the American South nabbed a starred review in Booklist, was featured on the popular Page One column in Poets & Writers magazine and was named one of the most anticipated books of the year by the website PopSugar.
Cooperman Co-authors Book Chapter on Campaign Finance Networks
“A Run For Their Money: Republican Women’s Hard Road to Campaign Finance” co-authored by Rosalyn Cooperman, Associate Professor of Political Science, was published in The Right Women – Republican Party Activists, Candidates, and Legislators.