Jeff Kerssen-Griep

TLC Tip of the Week: Creating Inclusive, Engaging Class Spaces

October 18, 2019

In this brief IGNITE-funded video, Jeff Kerssen-Griep, communication studies, offers portable suggestions for creating a classroom where all feel welcome and valued. As a special bonus, embedded within this video is a link to another one in which he explores the notion of “facework” in interpersonal communication with students and colleagues.

TLC Tool of the Week: Facework

February 16, 2015

As midterms and projects and other major student products are well underway, professors may feel a tension between maintaining positive, upbeat interactions with students and the need to provide them with honest feedback on their performance. In this brief video featuring Jeff Kerssen-Griep, communication studies, faculty can learn three specific strategies for communicating accurate, constructive feedback to students, even when the news isn’t what they were hoping for. It takes the duration of a cup of coffee to view the video, and faculty can enjoy that coffee compliments of the Teaching and Learning Collaborative and the associate provost.

An American Dream—an opera by librettist/Portland Magazine editor, Jessica Murphy Moo, and composer Jack Perla—was produced by OperaLab Japan in Tokyo (November 2024) and Manhattan School of Music (December 2024).

Larry Larsen, Performing and Fine Arts, designed the scenery for this year’s production of Nordic Fire for the Portland Revels that is playing at the Alberta Abbey from December 13 through December 22. He also is designing the lighting for Lakewood Theatre Company’s production of The Maltese Falcon based on the novel by Dashiell Hammett, which plays at the Lakewood Center in Lake Oswego from January 3 through February 9.

Lizhong Hao, Business, presented “The Impact of Auditor and Client Bargaining Power on Audit Pricing: A Two-Tier Stochastic Frontier Approach.” The 2024 Corporate Behavior and New Development of Financial Markets International Conference. Chongqing, China. November, 2024.

Simon Aihiokhai, Theology, was a discussant and participant at the International Congress on the Future of Theology ‘Legacy and Envisioning.’ Organized by the Dicastery for Culture and Education. Vatican City. December 9–10, 2024. Aihiokhai was also a discussant and participant at the General Assembly of the International Network of Societies for Catholic Theology (INSeCT). Rome, Italy. December 8 – 13, 2024.

Dave Houglum, Director of Leadership Studies and Leadership Professor of Practice, Franz Center for Leadership, Entrepreneurship, and Innovation, completed the training requirements to be certified in the DiSC assessment on December 19, 2024. The DiSC assessment is a powerful tool that helps individuals and teams improve communication, collaboration, and workplace dynamics by providing insights into behavioral and communication styles. If you’d like to explore using the DiSC assessment for your individual or team’s leadership development, please contact Dave Houglum.

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