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NSCM eUpdate January 26, 2021
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DID YOU KNOW
the Nicholson School of Communication has a group of new staff members and faculty members? Check the list below to see the new NSCM members:
Please help our new members get acquainted at NSCM!
NOW YOU KNOW!
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I/L CPE Information
Someone asked about the composition of the department/school committee for I/L CPE reviews. You essentially have three options:
- If you had a department/school committee in place already for I/L promotions this past year, you can just use that committee.
- If you have a department/school committee in place for the upcoming year, or would like to elect that committee early to get ahead of schedule, you can just use that committee.
- If you want to elect a special CPE committee, you can do that.
Two things to note:
- The I/L CPE committee should have the same composition as the I/L promotion committee. 2 Instructors/Lecturers and 3 Tenured/Tenure-Earning faculty.
- The Instructors/Lecturers on the committee should be at or above the rank that the applicants would be applying to.
i.e. if you have someone submitting a CPE for promotion to Associate Instructor/Lecturer, then the committee members can be Associate or Senior I/Ls. If you have someone submitting a CPE for promotion to Senior Instructor/Lecturer, then the committee members must be Senior I/Ls
You can borrow Senior I/Ls from other departments if needed.
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COS Staff Announcement
The College of Science is pleased to announce that Amber Spiotti will be joining the UCF Foundation as an Assistant Director for Alumni Engagement. Amber’s role will be to lead the constituent engagement programs, alumni chapters, and annual giving activities for the College of Sciences and the Nicholson School of Communication and Media. Amber’s tenure will begin Friday, January 22, 2021.
Amber has spent the past five years managing various aspects of alumni and donor engagement for The Bolles School in Jacksonville, Florida. Prior to The Bolles School, she worked for VLT, Inc. and NBC Universal in Connecticut. Amber earned her B.A. in Broadcast Journalism and a minor in Political Science from Hofstra University.
Amber can be reached via email at Amber.Spiotti@ucf.edu. Please join us in making her feel welcome within the UCF Foundation family!
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NSCM Graduate Advising Incentive Program
The NSCM values student scholarship and research of all varieties. Faculty members play an instrumental role in the development of student research and creative activities. They are involved from the conceptualization of an initial idea to its gradual refinement and the development of a methodology. They may advise on the production of creative work or counsel students through the process of crafting specific research questions. Faculty may choose to embark on these prolonged research engagements through serving as a chair or a member of a graduate thesis or dissertation committee.
Attached is the final document of the Graduate Advising Incentive Program.
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Reminder: CAN! Film Festival — Feb 5, 2021
UCF Film and the Campus Activities Board are partnering to put on a student-run short film screening on Friday, February 5, 2021, at 7 p.m. The event will take place on YouTube Live, as well as in-person on the Memory Mall. The festival is made up of shorts submitted by UCF students of all majors and curated by students as part of a class, Film Marketing and Exhibition.
More promotional images and info will be published over the next few weeks, including how to RSVP for the in-person, socially distanced event on campus. For more info, please view below:
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AR/VR Cooperative Workgroup
Just as the pandemic was ramping up, we were beginning to stand up a group of individuals working in AR/VR. The goals of the group were broad: to help faculty and other investigators work together on projects of mutual interest; as a single source of information on AR/VR at UCF for students, potential collaborators, or industry partners; and as a way of growing and expanding our work in the area.
If any faculty members or graduate students are doing work in the augmented/virtual/extended reality space, we would like to invite them to join our Microsoft Teams site where we are hoping to build a directory of faculty and projects doing work in this area. UCF has recently renewed our membership in the AR/VR Association (https://www.thevrara.com/) which opens up excellent networking opportunities for our university. We would like to explore additional ways in which we might collaborate with this organization as well as see what potential opportunities for collaboration and partnership may exist among our existing faculty and students.
So, if you know of people working in this area, please do this one thing:
Ask them to join our MS Teams site here.
This will be used to centralize announcements and activities related to this effort.
Any technical issues or problems joining the site, please feel free to contact Rudy McDaniel directly (rudy@ucf.edu). After we have our membership updated, we will be in touch with additional steps and perhaps organize an initial meeting of the UCF-wide group.
Thank you and we look forward to our future collaborations!
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Reminder: Student Scholar Symposium Application Open — Deadline February 8
Student Learning and Academic Success and the College of Graduate Studies are pleased to announce the 2021 Student Scholar Symposium. It is a presentation event that combines the Showcase of Undergraduate Research Excellence and the Graduate Research Forum into a virtual event. Graduate and undergraduate students from all disciplines are encouraged to apply. Projects in progress are welcome. Faculty judges will award scholarships to outstanding projects.
The Symposium is an opportunity for your students to share their research with the UCF community and hone their communications skills. Presentations will take place virtually from March 30 - April 1 during Student Research Week.
Are your students ready to submit a proposal? Have them complete an application form by February 8, 2021.
To learn more, visit the Student Scholar Symposium webpage or email researchweek@ucf.edu.
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New Media Literacy Standards
Truth Decay—the diminishing role that facts, data, and analysis play in political and civic discourse—has in part been fueled by a complex and rapidly evolving media and technology ecosystem. For those interested in countering Truth Decay, media literacy (ML)—the ability to access, analyze, evaluate, create, and act using all forms of communication—has emerged as a potentially powerful tool. But the lack of specificity regarding ML competencies can challenge teachers, policymakers, curriculum developers, advocates, and researchers hoping to understand what kinds of ML education work best, and how ML education can be implemented effectively. There is also no shortage of ML-relevant standards. A large number of existing standards can be an additional challenge for stakeholders trying to understand how to define ML for themselves and to determine what competencies are most important to their work.
This report, part of the Countering Truth Decay initiative, describes how the authors synthesized myriad existing standards using the lens of Truth Decay — drawing from standards in ML, digital literacy, information literacy, news literacy, social and emotional learning, and other areas — to identify a single, concise set of ML standards.
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In an effort to ensure faculty and staff have a confidential way to share their thoughts/concerns and/or suggestions for improving the school’s operations/functions, a ‘virtual suggestion box’ has been created.
To access this, please click here or the button below.
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