Dear all,
            There is good news.  We are piloting a new part-time position, academic communications specialist, that is designed to help bring the intellectual life of the college to prominence on the new website.   Diane Alters, who some of you know as a block visitor, has been hired to fill the position.
            Diane will work with me and with Director of Communications Jane Turnis to help convey the depth and importance of teaching, research, and intellectual activity at Colorado College. She will research and gather information about academic programs, the curriculum, and scholarly and artistic work of faculty members and students, writing articles and helping to coordinate the use of photographs and other graphics about academics for the new website.
            This summer, Diane will write about Colorado College academics for the website’s institutional pages, which are scheduled to launch at the end of June.  As departmental pages take shape throughout the summer and into the fall, she will collaborate on content with faculty, department chairs and staff involved in the redesign.
            Diane is a graduate of Grinnell College, Harvard (MPA) and the University of Colorado at Boulder (Ph.D.) and has taught Introduction to Journalism and “Social Issues in Mass Communication Media,” a two-block FYE in 2010. She has also taught at the University of Denver and the School of Public Affairs at the University of Colorado at Denver and Colorado Springs.  She is co-author, with Stewart Hoover and Lynn Schofield Clark, of Media, Home and Family and author of several articles. A former journalist, she was a reporter or editor at several newspapers, including The Boston Globe, The Sacramento Bee and The Denver Post.
Diane can be reached at 389-6001 or [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>.  Her office is 310H in the Spencer Center.
I hope you're all enjoying summer.   Susan