Administrative Positions
Director, First-Year Writing Programs, San José State University, Fall 2023-present
- Responsibilities
Program Policies & Oversight
Program Assessment & Evaluation
Faculty Development
Graduate Teaching Associate Coordination
Hiring, On-boarding, & Staffing
Directed-Self Placement & Stretch English Support
Transfer & Equivalence Evaluation
Budgeting
Interim Director, First-Year Writing Program, San José State University, Fall 2022
- Responsibilities
Program Policies & Oversight
Hiring, On-boarding, & Staffing
Directed-Self Placement & Stretch English Support
Transfer & Equivalence Evaluation
Budgeting
Assistant Writing Program Administrator, San José State University, 2015-2023
- Responsibilities
Writing Program Assessment and Evaluation
Graduate Teaching Associate Coordination
Faculty Hiring, Development, & Assessment
Writing Program Course Requirements
University Writing Requirements
Assistant Director of Writing Programs, Arizona State University, 2009-2011
- Responsibilities
Program and Policy Review
Website Maintenance
Program Newsletter
Program Research and Documentation
FACULTY DEVELOPMENT
Strategic Initiatives
“Digital Literacy Initiative.” Dir. w/ Amanda Smith, Adobe Systems and the College of Humanities & the Arts, San José State University, Spring 2024-Spring 2025
- Faculty Mentor Training
- Digital Literacy Summer Faculty Symposium
- First-Year Writing Program’s Digital Literacy Student Showcase
“Supported Pathways, Round II (Equity Priority 5: Increasing Course Pass Rates and Eliminating Equity Gaps).” Dir. w/ Amanda Smith, Fall 2023-Summer 2024.
- Equitable Pedagogy Microlessons
- Equitable Pedagogy Trainers
- Council of Writing Program Administrators’ Consultant-Evaluator visit
“Supported Pathways, Round I.” Dir. w/ Amanda Smith, SJSU First-Year Writing Program & Office of Undergraduate Education, CSU Supported Pathways Program, San José State University.
- Writing Pedagogy & Community-Building Faculty Summer Seminar
- Supported Pathways: Successes, Challenges, & Future Plans” half-day follow-up workshop
- Dynamic Activities for FYW Workshop
Faculty Learning Communities
“Meeting Students Where They Go: Towards Equitable Pedagogy.” Dir. w/ Amanda Smith, College of Humanities & the Arts, San José State University, Spring 2024
“Critical Pedagogy Working Group.” Dir. w/ Maite Urcaregui, Department of English, San José State University, Spring 2024
Faculty Seminars
“Practicing the Civic Arts in Public: Academic Freedom & Public Scholarship.” Dir. w/ Jennifer Mercieca. Rhetoric Society of America Summer Institute, University of Cincinnati, June 2025.
*“Rhetoric in Dark Times.” Dir. w/ Patricia Roberts-Miller. Rhetoric Society of America Summer Institute, Syracuse University, May 24-28, 2021. *Conducted online due to COVID-19.
“What We Talk About When We Talk About Teaching Writing Across the Curriculum.” 5-week seminar about writing pedagogy & best practices for teaching writing in the disciplines for San José State University’s Writing Across the Curriculum Program. Fall 2017; Spring 2018
“Writing for Publication,” US Dept. of State Public Diplomacy Programs, National University of Modern Languages, Islamabad, Pakistan, Jun. 9-20, 2014
Workshop Facilitator
Co-facilitator w/ Colton Saylor and Amanda Smith, “Direct Teaching Observation Training,” Department of English & First-Year Writing Program, San José State University. (Apr. 18, 2025)
“College Writing Workshop,” for “Empowering Students to Succeed in Engineering and Computer Science,” NSF S-STEM summer seminar for rising seniors, San José State University (Jun. 13, 2024)
“What’s Signal? What’s Noise? Misinformation, Disinformation, and the Teaching of Writing,” Stokely Conference, Univ. of Tennessee-Knoxville, Knoxville, TN (all-day workshop, Jun. 5, 2024)
Co-facilitator w/ Amanda Smith, “Direct Teaching Observation Training,” Department of English & First-Year Writing Program, San José State University. (Mar. 15, 2024)
Table Leader, “Town Hall // ChatGPT: It’s the End of Teaching as We Know It.” College of Humanities & the Arts, Center for Faculty Development, eCampus, Writing Across the Curriculum, and the Office of the Provost, San José State University. (Feb. 21, 2023)
Module Facilitator, “Responding to CFPs, Submitting Your Work, and Working with Editors and Reviewers.” Write@SJSU. Center for Faculty Development & Writing Across the Curriculum, San José State University. (Jul. 2020)
*Facilitator, RSCA Reassign Time Information Session. College of Humanities & the Arts, San José State University. (Mar. 2020) *Conducted online due to COVID-19.
Facilitator, RSCA Reassign Time Information Session. College of Humanities & the Arts, San José State University. (Mar. 2019)
Facilitator, “Radical Archival Work: Expanding, Creating, and Linking Archives.” CCCC pre-convention workshop. Kansas City, MO. (Mar. 2018)
Facilitator/Speaker, “Teaching with Portfolios.” First-Year Writing Program, San José State University. (May 17, 2017)
Related Activities
Senator for the College of Humanities and the Arts, Academic Senate, San José State University
Member, Student University Library Board Academic Senate Committee
Elected Member, Rhetoric Society of America Board of Directors
External Program Reviewer, English, Cal-Poly Pomona
External Teaching Reviewer, Dept. of Communication Studies; Dept. of Math; SJSU HonorsX Program
Member, Mentoring Advisory Group, College of Humanities & the Arts, SJSU
Chair, GE Review Panel, Area A2, General Education Advisory Committee, San José State University
Member, Special Committee on English Composition, California Intersegmental General Education Transfer Curriculum (Cal-GETC), Intersegmental Committee of the Academic Senates, UC-CSU-CCC
Member, University Writing Committee, SJSU
Ad Hoc GE Review Panel, General Education Advisory Committee, SJSU
Search Committee, Provost & Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs, SJSU
Educate for Engagement & Innovation Strategic Planning Taskforce, SJSU
Co-Chair, 2nd Annual Education for Liberation Conference, SJSU
Co-Chair, CCCC@SJSU, CCCC Regional Summer Conference, SJSU
Deans’ Leadership Academy, SJSU
Academic Affairs Leadership Discovery Group, SJSU
Elected Member, CCCC Executive Committee
“Leadership in the Academy and Profession,” RSA Pre-Conference Workshop
“Assessment 101@SJSU,” Full-Day campus workshop
“Applying the Quality Matters Rubric,” Quality Matters Workshop
“Assessment 101,” Full-Day WASC workshop
Guest Lecture/Workshop Organizer
Special Guest Workshop, “Basic Design Principles,” co-organized with Amanda Smith and Ume Ali, San José State University. Feb. 28, 2025 (Speaker: John Delacruz)
Special Guest Workshop, “Dynamic Activities for First-Year Composition,” co-organized with Amanda Smith, Supported Pathways, San José State University. Feb. 6, 2024 (Speakers: Michal Reznizki and David Coad)
Special Guest Lecture, “Advanced Literacies in the Writing Classroom: Leveraging the Communication Assets of Language Minoritized Students.” Supported Pathways, San José State University. Aug. 14, 2023 (Speaker: Kerry Enright)
Special Guest Lecture, “Articulating and Amending a Statement of Teaching Values to Help Our Students (and Ourselves) Thrive.” San José State University. Apr. 19, 2023 (Speaker: Marcos Pizarro)
*Annual SJSU-Community College Writing Workshop. San José State University. May 1, 2020 (Workshop leader: Nelson Graff) *Conducted online due to COVID-19
Annual SJSU-Community College Writing Workshop. San José State University. May 3, 2019 (Workshop leader: Christie Toth)
Annual SJSU-Community College Writing Workshop. San José State University. May 11, 2018 (Workshop leader: Todd Ruecker)
Annual SJSU-Community College Writing Workshop. San José State University. May 5, 2017 (Workshop leader: Adam J. Banks) Writing Program Professional Development Series. San José State University, 2016. (Workshop leaders: Jackie Rhodes [CSUSB], Stefan Frazier, Sarah Prasad, Mark Dowdy, Faith Kirk, Allison St. Dennis, Dawn Opel [Michigan State Univ.])
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