Faculty at St. Lawrence University are known as scholars in their fields and masters in the art of teaching. The faculty at this institution, however, are especially noteworthy for their generosity in freely sharing their work and for their unbridled enthusiasm in supporting colleagues' effective innovations. The Best Practices Web project is a wonderful example of those characteristics as they play out in instructional and pedagogical practices.

Amy Hauber, MFA

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Department: 
Fine Arts
Project Title: 
Digital Media and Culture
Project Description: 
The Spring of 2007 brought the Newell Center for Arts Technology (NCAT). Digital communications and technology have affected our culture in every way.  In my opinion, every art department, liberal arts or otherwise, should not be without substantial digital course offerings, even for the most basic purpose of introducing to students the way that these technologies have affected “traditional” art practices and human perception.
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Dr. John Collins

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Department: 
Global Studies
Project Title: 
The Weave
Project Description: 
John Collins' Global News Analysis course is responsible for The Weave, a blog featuring under reported news stories from around the globe. John's students combat mainstream media by taking part in their own investigative journalism in an effort to bring less prominent news items to the masses. The Weave was inspired by similar projects such as Cal State Sonoma's Project Censored, and War News Radio at Swarthmore College.
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