By Jena Lynde-Smith
Three members of Carleton’s journalism faculty – Trish Audette-Longo, Randy Boswell and Sarah Everts – have been nominated as favourite faculty members for 2020-2021.
The favourite faculty list is compiled through a survey sent out to students by Carleton’s Housing and Residence Life Services. This year’s kudo list includes 54 faculty members from across the university.
Trish Audette-Longo preps for class in her home office
Audette-Longo is a term instructor first appointed to the journalism faculty in July 2019, but she began teaching as a contract instructor at Carleton in 2018 after finishing her PhD in communication studies at Concordia. She teaches up to six undergraduate and graduate journalism courses a year, including the core second-year Digital Journalism Toolkit course.
Audette-Longo is very involved in the school’s various activities and projects, including playing a leading role in the shift to online learning. She has been described as welcoming and approachable by students.
“She is very friendly, takes into account student’s opinions and concerns and regularly checks in and makes herself available to us,” reads her anonymous student nomination.
Randy Boswell dresses up for his last virtual class
Boswell became a full-time professor in 2012. But he’d been teaching journalism at Carleton as a contract instructor since the mid-1990s. He’s taught a countless number of undergraduate and graduate courses over the years and currently serves as the Undergraduate Supervisor for the Bachelor of Journalism program.
Boswell brings a lighthearted air to the school of journalism. When he’s not teaching or advising students, he can be found dressing up and sipping eggnog for his last class of “Zoom University.” His students have described him as encouraging and intelligent.
“He is supportive, kind and extremely knowledgeable,” his nomination reads.
Everts joined Carleton in 2019 as the school’s CTV Chair in Digital Science Journalism. She teaches undergraduate and graduate-level science journalism courses, as well as the first-year introduction to journalism class and a second-year course on the evolution of journalism. Everts makes routine appearances on podcasts and radio shows. She is also in the midst of publishing her first book, The Joy of Sweat, which dives into the “strange science of perspiration.”
Sarah Everts recording a lecture
“In the disaster of the 2020 online school year, it was, and continues to be, very hard to keep up motivation to load up lectures and join zoom calls,” her nomination reads. “Despite this, I have always looked forward to Professor Evert’s Q&As and lectures. The reading and listening materials always keep me engaged and make me excited to test my knowledge on the quizzes.”
“Even while pulling all-nighters on assignments I should’ve finished weeks ago, I still was interested in what I was learning from her. Professor Everts is awesome to talk to and inspires me to persevere with this online school year. I hope that I can keep learning from her in the future.”
Allan Thompson, the Journalism program head, said the nominations speak to the high calibre of Carleton’s journalism faculty.
“This year more than any other, our faculty members have stepped up, re-designing all of our courses – every one of them – from the ground up so that they can be taught online,’’ Thompson said. “And a huge part of that challenge has been finding ways to go the extra mile to engage with our students online and to enrich their experience at Carleton. Trish, Randy and Sarah typify those qualities and I’m glad to see them getting this recognition.”
Check out the full Favorite Faculty list here.
Friday, December 18, 2020 in General, Journalism News
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