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Christy Friend
Title: | Associate Dean for Undergraduate Studies |
College of Arts and Sciences | |
Email: | chfriend@mailbox.sc.edu |
Phone: | 803-576-6024 |
Office: | GAMB 257; HUO 416; Petigru |

Education
PhD, University of Texas, 1997
Specialization
• Higher Education pedagogy
• Composition pedagogy
• Writing program administration
• Integrative and Experiential Learning
Research Projects
I currently serve as the Director of Innovative Teaching and Experiential Learning Initiatives for the College of Arts and Sciences. As part of this appointment, I facilitate the Incubator for Teaching Innovation, which offers programming to support innovative teaching practices and a vibrant, interdisciplinary culture surrounding teaching across the college. Please visit the Incubator blog to learn more about our current activities. My current areas of interest include higher education pedagogy, faculty development, integrative and experiential learning, innovation theory, and the science of learning.
Publications
TEXTBOOKS
• SF Compact Handbook, 2nd ed. Co-authored with John Ruszkiewicz and Maxine Hairston.
Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall, 2008.
• The Scott, Foresman Handbook for Writers, 8th ed. Co-authored with John Ruszkiewicz
and Maxine Hairston. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall, 2007.
• SF Express Handbook, 2nd ed. Co-authored with John Ruszkiewicz and Maxine Hairston.
Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall, 2006.
• Beyond Words: Reading and Writing in a Visual Age. Co-authored with John J. Ruszkiewicz
and Daniel Anderson. New York: Longman, 2006.
BOOK CHAPTERS
• "Merging Academics and Operations in a Statewide University Consortium." Co-authored
with Patricia Jerman, Corinna McLeod, Summer Smith Taylor and Bruce C. Coull. Inside
and Out: Universities and Education for Sustainable Development. Eds. R. Forrant and
L.Silka. Amityville, NY: Baywood P, 2006. 135-148.
• "It's a Two-Way Street: White Faculty Members Mentoring African American Graduate
Students in Composition and Rhetoric." Co-authored with Terry Carter, Rose Metts,
and Nancy Thompson. Culture Shock and the Practice of Profession: Training Future
Faculty in Composition and Rhetoric. Eds. Virginia S. Anderson and Susan Romano. Cresskill,
NH: Hampton P, 2005. 239-263.
• "Seeing Ourselves as Others See Us: The Feminization of Teaching in Everyday Talk."
Teaching Vision: Language and Image in the Reading-Writing Classroom. Eds. Linda Calendrillo
et al. Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum, 2002. 175-87.