SUNY NEW PALTZ PROF TO TEACH AT C-SPAN SEMINAR
01/06/1999
NEW PALTZ -- Mary L. Kahl, a faculty member in the communication and media department at the State University of New York at New Paltz, will serve on the teaching staff for C-SPAN's Winter 1999 Seminar for Professors, to be held in Washington, D.C. later this month. The two-day seminar, now in its twenty-fifth year, attracts professors from across the nation in disciplines ranging from political science and public policy to journalism and communication.
Kahl, who uses C-SPAN extensively in her teaching and research, will conduct workshops and lead panel discussions on creative ways to use C-SPAN's public affairs programming in the college classroom.
The seminar is organized by C-SPAN's education relations department, through which "C-Span in the Classroom" provides free support materials to educators who utilize the network's programming for teaching and research. Since the first seminar took place in 1987, more than 700 professors have participated in the program.
Kahl, an assistant professor of communication and media, teaches political communication and small group discussion at SUNY New Paltz. During the last pre-presidential election process, she was asked by DebateWatch '96, a research unit of the Commission on Presidential Debates, to moderate a small focus group following the Clinton-Dole debate in Hartford, CT.
Her recent research and writing has included such topics as "Ellis Island and the Rhetorics of Public Memory," "Looking Toward Debates 2000: Emerging and Enduring Issues," and "Bridging the Generational Divide in the Name of Remembrance: The Rhetoric of Bill Clinton's D-Day Discourse."
Located in the heart of a dynamic college town, 90 minutes from metropolitan New York City, the State University of New York at New Paltz is a highly selective college of about 8,000 undergraduate and graduate students.
One of the most well-regarded public colleges in the nation, New Paltz delivers an extraordinary number of majors in Business, Liberal Arts, Sciences, Engineering, Fine and Performing Arts and Education.
New Paltz embraces its culture as a community where talented and independent minded people from around the world create close personal links with real scholars and artists who love to teach.
