Denton Details, 5-2-18

05/01/18
  • A memorial service for Linda Caldwell, retired TWU professor of dance, will take place at 6 p.m. Wednesday, May 16 in the Little Chapel in-the-Woods. Caldwell passed away April 22, 2018.
  • Staff Council will host a Cinco de Mayo celebration from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Wednesday, May 2 in Student Union room 207. Staff and faculty are invited to stop by for a silent auction, sombrero competition and door prizes.
  • The TWU community is invited to a reception honoring B.J. Crain, who is leaving the university after serving as interim vice president for finance and administration since 2015. The event will take place from 2-3:30 p.m. Tuesday, May 8 in the Ann Stuart Science Complex lobby. Remarks begin at 2:30 p.m.
  • The Department of Visual Arts will host a come-and-go retirement reception for Diane Gregory, associate professor of art education, from 5-7 p.m. Tuesday, May 8 in the Fine Arts Building lobby.
  • A May 10 retirement reception will honor Linda Marshall (social work) and David Marshall (math and computer science). The reception will be from 3-5 p.m. in the second-floor lobby of ACT.
  •  Claudia Haag (reading), Anne Simpson (reading) Bogum Yoon and Ozge Yol had their manuscript, “Critical Global Literacies: A New Instructional Framework in the Global Era,” accepted in the April issue of the Journal of Adolescent Literacy.
  • TWU’s College of Professional Education was well represented at the American Educational Research Association’s annual meeting April 13-17 in New York City. Teresa Starrett (teacher education) was elected Special Interest Group program chair for AERA Supervision and Instructional Leadership. She also presented on “Rethinking teacher evaluation: Its concepts and places in supervision” with colleagues from Texas, Tennessee and West Virginia. Claudia Haag and Anne Simpson (reading) presented “Teaching Politics through Critical Practice: Teacher Educators’ Voices” with Bogum Yoon and Ozge Yol, and Mandy Stewart (reading) presented “Co-Learning in the High School English Class Through Translanguaging: Emergent Bilingual Newcomers and Monolingual Teachers.”
  • Jessica Smartt Gullion’s (sociology) new book, Diffractive Ethnography: Social Sciences and the Ontological Turn, recently was published with Routledge.
  • TWU hosted the Texas Society for Human Resource Management Student Conference on April 21. More than 100 human resource management students and faculty from throughout the state gathered for educational sessions, HR Games and networking. Five students from the TWU student SHRM chapter attended, and chapter president Alondra Flores co-presented a session with her counterpart at the University of North Texas.