GODFREY — Lewis and Clark Group Faculty will launch LC Speaks, a brand new sequence that includes L&C professionals sharing their tales and views, at 3 p.m. on Tuesday, Nov. 7, within the Reid Memorial Library on the Godfrey Campus.
LC Speaks will probably be held every fall and goals to determine and nurture connections throughout campus by way of storytelling and shared experiences.
This 12 months’s audio system are Grownup Schooling Secretary of State Literacy Coordinator Sheila Vaughn, Speech Professor Elizabeth Grant, Speech Professor Mumba Mumba and Well being Info and Medical Coding Adjunct School Teacher Melody Davis-Wilson.
Mumba hopes individuals will use the occasion to construct connections and those that want to communicate have a platform with a supportive viewers.
“I’m excited we’re introducing a public area that encourages college and employees to share their tales and study from one another,” Mumba stated. “Increasingly more individuals are craving for genuine connections. If you wish to know individuals extra deeply, attend LC Speaks.”
Grant hopes LC Speaks will encourage individuals to share their very own tales sooner or later. She believes it is going to be an thrilling approach to foster neighborhood and listen to new voices on campus.
“This will probably be an important alternative to see public talking in motion and the way it builds rapport and belief within the campus neighborhood,” Grant stated.
Individuals will probably be acknowledged ongoing as “LC Audio system” and supplied with a badge so as to add to their electronic mail signature.
Vaughn grew up on a farm in Minnesota and moved to New York Metropolis, the place she spent the following 25 years as a singer-songwriter. After returning to the Midwest along with her household in 1998, she graduated from Southern Illinois College Edwardsville on the age of fifty and taught GED lessons at L&C till semi-retiring in 2020.
She continues her work in L&C’s Grownup Schooling Division as a coordinator for Mission READ, a volunteer tutoring program that serves the 5 surrounding counties. Her ardour is coaching tutors and matching them with adults who wish to enhance their studying, math and English-speaking expertise. Vaughn’s subject, “Gaining From Shedding,” will take a candid have a look at how the lack of a liked one has put a constructive spin on her outlook.
Grant is a speech professor and coordinator who at present advises the Honors Faculty and Phi Theta Kappa. She is an Edwardsville alderman and an envoy of all issues representing L&C. Her speech will cowl how household has formed her.
A communications professor for 12 years, Mumba has taught at L&C for eight years. She has a Ph.D. in Well being Communication and a minor in Organizational Communication. She teaches Public Talking, Public and Non-public Communication, and Well being Communication, amongst others.
Mumba believes in being a lifelong learner and enjoys educating faculty college students as a result of she learns rather a lot from them. As well as, she believes in “thriving the place you might be planted” by discovering methods to make small however impactful adjustments. Her speech is entitled, “Wanting Again and Wanting Ahead: Life Classes from My Mother, Charity.”
Davis-Wilson is a mom, grandmother and great-grandmother who graduated from L&C in 2012 alongside her youngest daughter, Nakeya, with an Affiliate of Utilized Science. She is an adjunct college member, educating Intro to Well being Info Administration and Licensed Skilled Coding (CPC) Evaluation. Her speech subject is “What shapes us?”
For extra details about LC Speaks, contact Mumba at 618-468-4759 or mmumba@lc.edu, or Scholar Success Specialist Mary Busler within the Trimpe Communications Lab at 618-468-4781 or mbusler@lc.edu.
