Missouri State University

SpringfielD, Missouri

Dr. Nora Walcott cox

Dr. Cox is a Senior Instructor and faculty member in Communication at Missouri State University. She teaches courses in Gender and Communication, Nonverbal Communication, Interpersonal Communication, Communicating Kindness, Communicating Culture and Identity, Public Speaking and Honors College courses on communication and culture. She’s also developed special topics courses in Communication such as Political Speechwriting and Communicating Kindness. In her Honors Colloquia classes, she’s taught classes on consequential conversations, and communicating kindness as well and gender and communication. This academic year, Dr. Cox is serving as the Mel Carnahan Faculty Fellow for Public Affairs. In this role, she’s working closely with community partners and students engaged in scholarship. This effort has already yielded a research partnership and a paid internship with the Southwest Missouri Museum Associates benefitting both students and community leaders.

Faculty Fellow Role

As a faculty fellow, Dr. Cox will work in collaboration with Administrative Leaders in the Center for Community Engagement, the Bonner Program, the office of Citizenship and Service-Learning, and the CASL Oversight Committee, to recruit, train, and support faculty in community-engaged learning, across multiple academic colleges and departments within MSU. This role will include meeting with deans and department heads, presenting at departmental meetings, hosting informational sessions (Coffee and Conversation) and Brown-bag lunches, and conducting workshops about community-engaged learning, including integrating community-engaged learning into their courses, and alignment with the University’s long-range plan for more community-engaged learning. The Faculty Fellow will also work with the office of Citizenship and Service-Learning to meet with faculty, assist faculty with course development/redesign, and identification of community-partner learning sites and projects that align with their courses through the integration of Community-based Research, Program/Policy Research Assignments, and/or Social Action opportunities.