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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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