Contact: John Furey, Joe Kuffner
UP professor to present “Which teacher communication abilities matter most?” Wednesday Sept. 26
Kerssen-Griep’s research examines skilled cross-cultural contact and how key interpersonal aptitudes sustain effective teaching-learning relationships. Kerssen-Griep is department chair of the communication studies program and teaches courses in communication theory as well as interpersonal, small group, intercultural, and barrier-crossing communication.
The lecture is sponsored by the Communication Studies Department. For more information, please contact C. Vail Fletcher at fletcher@up.edu
The University of Portland is Oregon's Catholic university and has been closely affiliated for more than a century with the Congregation of Holy Cross in South Bend, Indiana. U.S. News & World Report ranks the institution as one of the top ten regional universities in the American West. It is the only school in Oregon to offer a College of Arts & Sciences, a graduate school, and nationally accredited programs in the schools of business, education, engineering, and nursing.
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