{"id":1190,"date":"2017-08-21T10:26:51","date_gmt":"2017-08-21T14:26:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/mark-west\/?p=1190"},"modified":"2017-08-21T10:32:00","modified_gmt":"2017-08-21T14:32:00","slug":"monday-missive-august-21-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/mark-west\/blog\/2017\/08\/21\/monday-missive-august-21-2017\/","title":{"rendered":"Monday Missive – August 21, 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"
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“Wall of Fame”<\/p><\/div>\n

Excellence in Teaching<\/b>\u00a0— Whenever I talk about the English Department to candidates or other people who are interested in our department, I mention that our faculty members take teaching very seriously.\u00a0 We do not all teach in the same way, but we are all committed to sharing our specialized knowledge and insights with our students.\u00a0 We all do our best to cultivate our students’ skills as readers, writers, and critical thinkers.\u00a0 I believe that we always strive for teaching excellence, so I take great satisfaction when the larger university recognizes our excellent teaching.\u00a0 Over the years, such recognition has come our way on many occasions.\u00a0 For evidence, one simply needs to look at the many plaques and certificates related to teaching on display on the English Department’s Wall of Fame.\u00a0 This year, the larger university is again recognizing the excellent teaching that takes place in our department.<\/p>\n

The English Department is the recipient of the 2016-2017 Provost’s Award for Excellence in Teaching.\u00a0 According to the official description of this award, “The Provost’s Award for Excellence in Teaching is granted to an academic department, program, or unit in recognition of the collective responsibility of faculty members for maintaining high-quality teaching.\u00a0 The award is intended to recognize documented efforts that improve student learning and outcomes.”\u00a0 The English Department also received this award in 1995-1996, making our department one of only three departments to receive this award twice.<\/p>\n

Also this semester, Kirk Melnikoff is being honored as a finalist for the Bank of America Award for Teaching Excellence.\u00a0 The award ceremony will take place on\u00a0September 8, 2017<\/span><\/span>, at which point we will learn if Kirk won this award.\u00a0 However, being named a finalist for this award is itself an honor.\u00a0 Kirk joins a long list of English faculty members who are recipients or finalists for this award. Listed below are the names of the various English professors who have received this\u00a0award<\/span>\u00a0or who have been named finalists:<\/p>\n

1968: \u00a0Seth H. Ellis (Recipient)<\/div>\n
1969: \u00a0Roy C. Moose\u00a0(Recipient)<\/div>\n
1976: \u00a0Anne R. Newman\u00a0(Recipient)<\/div>\n
1977: \u00a0Boyd H. Davis\u00a0(Recipient)<\/div>\n
1988: \u00a0Anita W. Moss\u00a0(Recipient)<\/div>\n
1993: \u00a0Samuel D. Watson\u00a0(Recipient)<\/div>\n
1995: \u00a0James H. McGavran (Finalist)<\/div>\n
1997: \u00a0Margaret P. Morgan (Finalist)<\/div>\n
1998: \u00a0Daniel L. Shealy (Finalist)<\/div>\n
2001: \u00a0Sandra Y. Govan (Finalist)<\/div>\n
2004: \u00a0David Amante (Finalist)<\/div>\n
2006: \u00a0James H. McGavran (Recipient)<\/div>\n
2008: \u00a0Margaret P. Morgan\u00a0(Recipient)<\/div>\n
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2013:\u00a0 Mark I. West (Finalist)<\/p>\n

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Kudos<\/b>\u00a0— As you know, I like to use my\u00a0Monday<\/span>\u00a0Missives<\/span>\u00a0to share news about recent accomplishments by members of our department.\u00a0 Here is the latest news:<\/span><\/p>\n

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Henry Doss<\/b>, who just joined our English Department as a part-time faculty member, is also a recording artist.\u00a0 His recently released single titled “Just the Way” recently hit the #30 spot of the AMC National Top Hot 40 ratings.\u00a0 For more information about this single, please click on the following link:\u00a0\u00a0https:\/\/lamonrecords.com\/henry-doss-releases-new-single-just-the-way-on-lamon-records\/<\/a>
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Paula Eckard<\/b>‘s book<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>Thomas Wolfe and Lost Children in Southern Literature\u00a0<\/i>has been nominated for the C. Hugh Holman Award.\u00a0 This “annual award is for the best book of literary scholarship or literary criticism in the field of southern literature published during a given calendar year.”\u00a0 For more information about this award, please click on the following link:
\nC. Hugh Holman Award<\/a><\/p>\n
Upcoming Events and Deadlines<\/b>\u2014Here is a list of upcoming meetings and events that will take place this month:<\/p>\n
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–CLAS All Faculty Mtg\u00a0\u00a0<\/b>\u00a0\u00a0Friday,\u00a0August<\/span>\u00a025\u00a0<\/b>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a08:00-10:30am<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
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\u00a0Fretwell 100<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

–English Department Mtg<\/b>\u00a0\u00a0 Friday,\u00a0August<\/span>\u00a025\u00a0\u00a0<\/b>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a011-12:15pm<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n

Fretwell 290B (English Department Seminar Room)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

Quirky Quiz Question<\/b>\u00a0\u2014\u00a0 The first time that the English Department was the recipient of the Provost’s Award for Excellence in Teaching was in 1995-1996.\u00a0 Who was the chair of the English Department at that time?<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Last week’s answer: The Prince and the Pauper<\/strong><\/span><\/div>\n
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court\u00a0is not the only novel that Mark Twain set in\u00a0pre-industrial England.\u00a0 He also used this setting in a novel dealing with switched identities.\u00a0 Does anybody know the title of this novel?\u00a0<\/span><\/em><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Excellence in Teaching\u00a0— Whenever I talk about the English Department to candidates or other people who are interested in our department, I mention that our faculty members take teaching very seriously.\u00a0 We do not all teach in the same way, but we are all committed to sharing our specialized knowledge and insights with our students.\u00a0 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":202,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1190","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-monday-missive"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/mark-west\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1190","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/mark-west\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/mark-west\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/mark-west\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/202"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/mark-west\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1190"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/mark-west\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1190\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1192,"href":"https:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/mark-west\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1190\/revisions\/1192"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/mark-west\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/mark-west\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/mark-west\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}