VITA
Paul W. Ranieri
Department of
English
Ball State University
Muncie, IN 47306-0460
Phone--765.285.8406
E-mail--pranieri@bsu.edu
Education:
| Degree |
Date |
University |
Program |
| B.A. |
May, 1975 |
Xavier Univ. (OH) |
English/Education |
| M.A.T. |
August, 1976 |
Trinity Univ. (TX) |
English Education |
| Ph.D. |
August, 1983 |
Univ. Texas-Austin |
English Education |
Experience:
1983- Department
of English, Ball State University
(Associate rank since 1990)
1984-1985 Director of Undergraduate Studies, Department of English
1988-1989 Associate Director, The Writing Program
Associate
Director, Graduate Studies, Composition
1989-1992 Director, Writing Program
1995-1998 Assistant Chairperson, Department of English
1998-2001 Chairperson, Department of English, Ball State University
2002-2003 Interim Associate Dean, College of Sciences and Humanities
2003- Director,
Freshman Connections
Honors and Teaching Abroad:
University Teaching Professor for 1990-1991
Exchange Professor to Westminster College, Oxford, England for Fall
1992
Lawhead Teaching Award in General Studies for 1993-1994
Director, London Centre, London, England for Fall 1997
Publications:
2002-"Battling Metaphors: Leading
from Our Strength." The Department Chair: A
Resource for Academic Administrators,
13.2 (2002): 24-25.
2005 - "Fitness for the Occasion: How Context Matters for JWPA's,"
with Jackie
Grutsch McKinney. JWPA's:Voices Above,
Below, and Within. Eds.
Debra Dew and Alice Horning. Forthcoming
from Parlor Press, 2005
Conference Presentations:
2001-"Building the Four-Year Commitment."
Co-presented. Eighth Annual
Conference on Students in Transition,
Chicago, October 2001.
2003-"Academic Advising and Freshman Connections: The Challenge
of Working
with Learning Communities." Co-presented.
National Academic Advising
Association, Dallas, TX, October 2003.
2004-"'Going the Distance': Learning Communities at a Mid-Size
University." Co-
presented. 17th International Conference
on the First-Year Experience,
Maui, HI, June 2004.
"Sustaining Learning in Core and Early Major Courses." Co-presented
at both
the 44th Annual Meeting of the Association
of General and Liberal Studies,
Kansas City, MO, October 2004; and the
24th Annual Lilly Conference on
College Teaching, Oxford, OH, November
2004.
Grants and Fellowships:
2002-"Modeling Long-Term Faculty
Development: Sustaining Learning and
Retention Efforts." Lumina Foundation
for Education, $100,000, July
2002.
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