The 9th Annual Symposium: May 1, 2009
On Friday, May 1, the Bernard L. Schwartz Communication Institute at Baruch College will once again bring together 100 leading educators and business professionals for a productive dialogue on cultivating effective oral and written communication in academic and business settings. Our discussion on will revolve around the theme of “The Medium is the Audience.” We will approach the broad topic of "audience" in a number of different ways ranging from exploring how electronic media have changed our conception of what and who an audience is, to considering how the needs of an audience shape what constitutes effective, purposeful communication. By the end of the day, we hope to have generated many concrete, useful ideas, activities, tools, and approaches to fostering effective speaking and writing in the classroom and the workplace.
Participation in this unique day-long event is free and by invitation only.
Featured Speakers
Alexandra Logue
Interim Executive Vice Chancellor and University Provost, City University of New York.
Jeff Jarvis
Blogger at Buzzmachine, Associate Professor and Director of the Interactive Journalism Program at the City University of New York’s Graduate School of Journalism, and author of What Would Google Do?
Jim Oswald
Senior Business Strategist and Facilitator, Gensler.
Peter Elbow
Professor Emeritus of English at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst and author, Writing With Power, Writing Without Teachers, and Being a Writer.
William F. Baker
Lecturer, President Emeritus of the Educational Broadcasting Corporation (EBC), former CEO of New York’s WNET-TV (Channel Thirteen), and co-author, with Michael O'Malley, of Leading with Kindness.
Click for lists of Symposium facilitators and afternoon workshops.
About the Bernard L. Schwartz Communication Institute
The Bernard L. Schwartz Communication Institute's mission is to infuse oral, written and computer-mediated communication into the curriculum at Baruch College. Through our support of Communication Intensive Courses (CICs), instructional technology initiatives, and our efforts in the City University of New York's Writing Across the Curriculum (WAC) program, we work to ensure that Baruch students encounter a wide range of opportunities to grow as speakers and writers over their course of study. We sponsor a wide range of award winning professional development activities for Baruch faculty and administration and engage in sustained dialogue on communication and communication intensive instruction with leading business professionals and educators from around the country.
Read about the Institute's role in supporting communication-intensive instruction at Baruch College in the Carnegie Foundation's Change Magazine (Nov./Dec., 2008). (Download the PDF)
To follow our conversations about communication, technology, teaching, and other related topics, please visit our weblog, cac.ophony.org.
