20 Questions with Patrick Merle

20 Questions with Patrick Merle What was your first job? I freelanced for an economic magazine in Paris and for Runner’s World website. My first full-time job was to be a reporter in the international unit of a French network. If you were to write a personal memoir, what would you name it? Maybe “Le …

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Mardis named Chair of AASL Editorial Board

Marcia Mardis, associate professor in the School of Communication, has been named the Chair of the American Association of School Librarians (AASL) editorial board. While on the board, she will help build on a strong history of publications that seek to transform teaching and learning through school library programs. Highly respected in the field of …

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Merle pens article on Le Pen Family Feud

Patrick Merle, assistant professor in the School of Communication, wrote an article for the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) on the Le Pen family, currently in the news for a familial dispute. With family politics merging with public politics, Merle wrote a succinct review of the family’s feud. The article was published on …

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Jennifer Proffitt elected as United Faculty of Florida Statewide President

On March 31st, Dr. Jennifer Proffitt, Associate Professor in Communication, was declared the victor in a statewide election to determine the next President of the United Faculty of Florida (UFF) for a two-year term beginning on August 15th, 2015. Dr. Proffitt became a member of the UFF-FSU chapter shortly after she began working at Florida …

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20 Questions with Erin Ingvalson

20 Questions with Erin Ingvalson What was your first job? That I got paid for? I worked as a photographer’s assistant in the 8th grade. I got fired. If you were to write a personal memoir, what would you name it? “Don’t Give Up” Where did you grow up? Prosser, Washington. It’s in the middle …

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20 Questions with Melissa Gross

20 Questions with Melissa Gross   What was your first job?  When I was sixteen I worked for Carte Blanche (a credit card company that no longer exists). If you were to write a personal memoir, what would you name it?  My Life with Books. Where did you grow up?  Los Angeles, CA What is …

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Brian Graves directs spot for American Graduate WFSU

The Alliance for Excellent Education estimates that only 63% of Florida high school students graduate. The Corporation for Public Broadcasting launched a campaign, American Graduate, to find solutions to this high dropout rate. School of Communication professor, Brian Graves, is a part of that solution. Graves directed and edited a spot for American Graduate – WFSU …

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