Faculty Resources
2023-2024
2022-2023
Center for Research, Education, and Artistic Teamwork Exploration
Northwestern State University has developed a faculty collaboration incubator called CREATE – the Center for Research, Education, and Artistic Teamwork Exploration. CREATE is a place for faculty/staff/students to share ideas for collaboration and to establish and nurture professional working relationships that are necessary to produce outstanding, interdisciplinary activity.
Faculty strive to provide all Northwestern State students with an undergraduate experience rich in transformational, high-impact, experiential learning practices, research, and service with the goal of equipping students with the skills needed to reason and analyze as well as express their creativity and thoughts in preparation for post-baccalaureate life. The ability of our faculty to provide these meaningful experiences to our students is intimately related to their ability to sustain their drive to maintain their own creative and educational practices. This means that for Northwestern State to thrive, we must support the mentoring and professional development of our faculty and assist them in acquiring the resources needed to assist those conscious-minded faculty remain inspired and energized by their work for and with each other and our students. CREATE seeks to provide that support!
Each academic year, CREATE sponsors several collaborative projects spearheaded by university faculty. Some of those collaborative projects are highlighted here.
This podcast is a COAS-wide collaboration that seeks to highlight the varied interests and expertise of our faculty. Each episode explores a different topic related to an area of interest in the arts, the humanities, or the sciences. Listen in to learn more about what gets our faculty thinking, tinkering, and talking!
Thinkers, Tinkers, and Talkers – Episode 1
Grace Jensen is the student host and producer of Thinkers, Tinkers, and Talkers. Grace is a junior Communications major with a concentration in Journalism. She is the General Manager of KNWD 91.7FM and has hosted shows since her first semester at NSU. She would love to work as a multimedia journalist or a news producer in her dad’s hometown of Buffalo, New York.
Faculty from the Schools of STEM and CAPA have collaborated to create a new general physical science course tailored for music, theatre, and art majors. The new SCI1010 course will still cover the important physics and chemistry topics addressed in the traditional course, but it will utilize examples from the music, theatre, and art fields to spark more student interest and knowledge in the science that will affect their daily lives as professional artists.
This project involved facilitating some needed updates to our existing campus map offered through CampusTours. The updates included the establishment of several new maps “layers” that depict parking lots, campus roads, and accessibility parking and building access points. The project will continue as we update building information and include interior photographs and videos.
| Department | Faculty Member |
|---|---|
| Biology & Microbiology | Cynthia Doffitt |
| Business Administration | Marcia Hardy |
| CIS | Begona Perez Mira |
| ELCS | Rebecca Macijeski, Oona Zbitkovskis |
| ET | Shahriar Hossain |
| F+GA | Corbin Covher |
| LSC | Keith Dromm |
| Mathemathics | Judith Covington |
| Music | Masahito Kuroda |
| NMJCA | Dorian (Elaine) Eaton |
| Physical Science | Anna Dugas |
| School of Education | Dylan Solice |
| SSAP | Kim Boudreaux |
| T&D | Andrew Killion, Sean Bartley, Robert Richoux |
