DISTINGUISHED FACULTY AWARDS 2020 Non-Tenure Track Distinguished Faculty Teaching Award 2019-2020 Ms. Jennifer Green
The measure of a liberal education is broad knowledge combined with specific skills. That describes this year’s recipient of the Non-Tenure Track Distinguished Teaching Award , Ms. Jennifer Greene, who teaches in the Department of Communication. Ms. Green earned her undergraduate degree in comparative (English and French) literature, and her master’s degree in cultural anthropology. She is a candidate for a Ph.D. in artistic, literary and cultural studies from The Universidad Autonoma de Madrid in Spain, where she lived and worked for several years before coming to CWU in 2008. She is a Senior Lecturer in the Communication Department and also teaches in the Douglas Honors College. A journalist by profession, her experience spans magazines ( The Hollywood Reporter, Screen International ), newspapers ( The Washington Post ), television (ABC News, ESPN), online ( Common Sense Media ) and radio (BBC Radio). Her specialties are film criticism, magazine journalism, international correspondence and entertainment reporting. She has covered the film industries of Europe and Latin America for two decades, and her current freelance activities include a website, Films from Afar , and a regular newspaper column curating and reviewing international films available for home viewing for The Ellensburg Daily Record. It is as a teacher, however, that she particularly excels at Central. She has taught 11 different courses in the Communication Department, and one (“Contemporary European Cinema”) for the Douglas Honors College. She is the faculty adviser to the Digital Journalism Program and has co-led a study-abroad program (“Communication and Culture in Spain”) for a number of years. Of special note is her work as faculty adviser to PULSE, CWU’s student-run online lifestyle magazine, which has won more than three dozen local, regional and national college journalism awards under her mentorship. Among them are the Associated College Press Pacemaker Award for Best Website in 2019, and Finalist for the Pacemaker Award for Best Magazine in the country. Her student course-faculty evaluations are uniformly stellar. “Professor Green was the highlight of the class.” Wrote a student in her 2018 Mass Media and Society class. “The content was really well done, and I learned a lot, but it was the way that she goes about teaching that is able to keep her students engaged.” Numerous comments speak of her willingness to work with students both in and out of class, and her talent for teaching online. A common theme in the letters of support written by her students and colleagues both in and outside of the Communication Department is that Ms. Green is deeply committed to her craft, eager to share her knowledge with her students, and able to relate to them on a personal level. She is praised for her practical experience, her enthusiasm, and her ability to guide without directing as a teacher and mentor. As her letter of nomination put it: “It is hard to imagine a faculty member more deserving of a teaching award than Professor Green. She is doing truly transformative teaching and mentoring, offering life- changing experiences for students, and helping them to achieve regional and national recognition for their work.”
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