Re marketing: I recall Dr. Friedl talking about such a publication. I wonder, considering his resignation, if that project will be pursued.(?)
Re interdisciplinary collaboration: Incidentally, I recently published an article with Charles Hart (from the Walker Teaching Resource Center). The connection here, i.e., between an English-type and an instructional designer, was built on and promoted by the various workshops provided by the WTRC and by the Faculty Fellows program. The Walker Teaching Resource Center is a *great* place to meet and work with faculty from across our campus. (Thanks, Karen, Charles, and Marcus!) It is a place that makes visible unique and wonderful connections among our disciplines.
For what it's worth...
Joe
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From: Obi N I Ebbe <[log in to unmask]>
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Date: Thu, 19 Jan 2006 08:48:01 -0500
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Dear Colleagues:
After completing five years at UTC, I figured out that UTC does not have a medium for, professionally, marketing its faculty and staff. Also, UTC does not build and encourage inter-disciplinary faculty collaboration in research and publications. Thatis, UTC faculty members hardly know the areas of specialty and academic interests of their colleagues in other departments. That is sad.
The situation is as described above, because UTC has no institutional NEWSLETTER with which to inform its faculty and staff, the City, County, and the State professional organizations of the research, publications, and other activities of its faculty and staff. Very often, the city, county, or a state department or a professional organization may be looking for a professor, with specialty in a certain field, to consult for a problem or for a guidance on an issue. If an academic institution announces the publications and activities of its faculty and staff in a Newsletter, it becomes very handy for the city, county, and state agencies and organizations to know who to contact or consult at the institution. That is a part of how a college serves the community.
UTC should be publishing a bi-weekly or a monthly Newsletter and distribute it to Hamilton County Association of Social Workers, Hamilton Historic Society, Hamilton County Bar Association, Tennessee Bar Association, Office of the District Attorney, State Attorney General's Office, Tennessee Bureau of Investigation, Local FBI Office, City Department of Business Science and Technology, City Local History anublications, and other activities of its faculty and staff. Very often, the city, county, or a state department or a professional organization may be looking for a professor, with specialty in a certain field, to consult for a problem or for a guidance on an issue. If an academic institution announces the publications and activities of its faculty and staff
Obi N. I. Ebbe, Ph.D.
Professor
Sociology, Dept. 2102
UT @ Chattanooga
615 McCallie Avenue
Chattanooga, TN 37403
423.425.4437 (Office)
423.425.2251 (Fax)
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Joe Wilferth
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Department of English (#2703)
University of Tennessee at Chattanooga
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"[I]n the woods we return to reason and faith..." -- Emerson
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