by BECKY GOFF
Little Apple Post
MANHATTAN - On November 6th, Chris Culbertson, dean of the College of Arts and Sciences, appointed Heather Woods, associate professor in the A.Q. Miller School of Media and Communications as the Interim Director for the school.
In 2017, Woods joined the A.Q. Miller School of Media and Communications and teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in communications and technology.
Woods has served as the associate director of the graduate programs and research for the school.
Woods received her doctorate at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, her master's degree at Baylor University and her bachelor's degree at Kansas State University. Before joining the faculty at K-State, she served as an outreach and assessment coordinator at Project Vox, an open-access Mellon Foundation-funded digital humanities archive housed at Duke University. She also served as a teaching and learning fellow at UNC's Center for Faculty Excellence and a scholar in Duke University's Ph.D. Lab in Digital Knowledge.
"We thank Dr. Woods for being willing to lead the department while we search for a permanent director," Culbertson said. "I am confident, given her background and experience, that she will provide the leadership needed for the school during the interim."
A search for a permanent director is underway.