Happy New Year, CAS colleagues! As we head into a new semester, we wish you the best of luck. But because fortune favors the prepared, we wanted to remind you of some resources available through CAS Outreach that may help you in your work with students. If therGo Pokes!If If there's anything else we can help you with, don't hesitate to reach out. In the meantime, here's the latest news from the College of Arts and Sciences. Jacob Longan Coordinator of Communications, CAS Outreach |
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Sneak peek of new Greenwood School of Music building
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Go behind the scenes of the nearly completed Greenwood School of Music building with Dean Krutz, who recently toured the construction site. The four-story facility of rehearsal and practice rooms, instrument-specific learning suites, faculty offices, studios, a music library, instrument lockers and more is set to open this spring. |
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Pokes PodCAS with Orange Gown Graduate Hannah Ratigan
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Hannah Ratigan was the type of student who walked around campus when she had free time — which was rare. So the way her undergraduate experience finished, with COVID-19 restrictions, was especially disappointing for her. As the CAS Orange Gown Recipient, she did enjoy leading her SMSC peers in to their smaller ceremony. We talk about strategic communication, her philanthropic work and how a fateful trip to Chipotle changed her life. |
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Self found passion for medicine at OSU
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Audrey Self from Edmond, Oklahoma, is applying to medical school. That process under normal circumstances, while balancing a full class load and holding multiple leadership positions, would be stressful enough, but add in a global pandemic and you have a recipe for chaos. Yet Self is handling the stress with grace and pushing forward. “The plan is to go to medical school, but I am pretty open-minded on whether that is this coming school year or in 2021.” |
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ICYMI: CAS News Highlights
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If you were wrapped up in end-of-semester tasks and then took full advantage of the holiday break, you may have missed these stories featuring CAS faculty, staff, students and alumni. | • | The Ethics Club (pictured), sponsored by the Department of Philosophy and coached by Daniel Trippett, is headed to nationals after winning the regional competition. |
| • | Jason Collington, the newly named Tulsa World editor, talks about being a quitter on a recent Pokes PodCAS. |
| • | Computer Science professor J. Cecil received a Presidential Award for Excellence in Science, Mathematics and Engineering Mentoring. |
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Faculty Scholar Spotlight: Winter Phong, Department of Theatre
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Dr. Phong heads up the newly inaugurated Arts Administration program and seeks to bring her practical and applied research and teaching practices to OSU. One aspect of her research looks at historical practices against emerging policies and methods in national and international arts organizations to support better equity, inclusion, and diversity. Her work directly supports underserved populations through community-based arts initiatives. She currently works with Mind the Gap of the UK, Trinity Repertory, Spectrum Theatre Ensemble, and the Burkhart Center for Autism Education and Research developing practices and programs that serve artists with cognitive disabilities. |
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In addition to her community-based arts research, she also conducts research on public funding at the local, state and national levels as it directly relates to economic trends, prosperity, and impact the arts have at the local level. In addition to this research, Dr. Phong is dedicated to creating a learning environment that supports students gaining broad knowledge while developing the skills necessary to lead organizations supporting the arts. She champions student research projects, internships with local, state, and national arts organizations, and hands-on applications of skills learned in arts administration. Dr. Phong, in collaboration with the OSU Library, is also in the process of continuing to develop Open Education Resources to support evolving education needs and foundational knowledge for core courses in the Arts Administration program. Given the current pandemic and its affect on the arts industry, an agile, timely, and evolving course material is paramount. She is dedicated to training the next generation of arts administrators and researching effective methods to improve arts access for all. |
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