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Saint Michael’s Journalism Professor named 2006 Vermont Professor of the Year
Dr. David Mindich is the 4th Saint Michael’s Professor in 6 years to be chosen Vermont Professor of the Year
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Buff Lindau, Public Relations
802.654.2536
blindau@smcvt.edu
COLCHESTER, VT: David Mindich, professor of journalism and mass communication at Saint Michael's College, was named today the 2006 Vermont Professor of the Year by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching and the Council for the Advancement and Support of Education (CASE). Professor Mindich, a faculty member at Saint Michael’s since 1996, is the fourth Saint Michael’s professor to be named Vermont Professor of the Year in the last six years.
Previous winners were Patricia Siplon, political science, 2003; Adrie Kusserow, anthropology, 2002; and Frank Nicosia, history, 2000. In 1994 Daniel Bean, biology, was Vermont Professor of the Year.
Dr. Mindich has written two widely popular books that advance scholarship while being accessible, which are characteristics of his teaching. The books are Tuned Out: Why Americans Under 40 Don’t Follow the News (Oxford 2004) and Just the Facts: How “Objectivity” Came to Define American Journalism (New York University Press 1998). Walter Cronkite called Tuned Out, “very important . . . a handbook for the desperately needed attempt to inspire in the young generation a curiosity that generates the news habit.”
Professor Mindich, who worked as an assignment editor for CNN and earned a doctorate in American Studies from New York University, involves his students in his research and “is widely recognized as one of the most academically challenging, but nonetheless popular, professors on campus,” according to Dean of the College Jeff Trumbower.
David Mindich has been in great demand as a speaker for professional journalism associations, in major news rooms, and at colleges and universities around the country since the publication of Tuned Out, but he has never let that interfere with his commitment to teaching, according to Dean Trumbower.
Last spring, the Saint Michael’s on-line magazine The Echo, for which Professor Mindich is editorial adviser, was named Best All-Around Online Student Magazine for Region 1 by the Society of Professional Journalists. In 2002, Professor Mindich was awarded the Krieghbaum Under-40 Award for Outstanding Teaching, Scholarship and Service by the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication. Dean Trumbower said of Professor Mindich, “I have not met another colleague who has a more well-rounded combination of keen intellect, ability to connection with students, and collegial mien.”
Professors of the Year were selected by the Carnegie Foundation and the Council for Advancement and Support of Education (CASE) from among nearly 300 top professors in the United States. This year there are winners in 43 states, Guam, and the District of Columbia. The Carnegie Foundation was founded in 1905 by Andrew Carnegie “to do all things necessary to encourage, uphold and dignify the profession of teaching.” CASE, based in Washington, D.C., is the largest international association of education institutions, serving more than 3,200 universities, colleges, schools, and related organizations in 54 countries. CASE is the leading resource for professionals in the fields of educational fundraising, communications, marketing and alumni relations.
David Mindich and his wife Barbara Richmond and their two children reside in Burlington.
Saint Michael’s College, founded in 1904 by the Society of St. Edmund and headed by President Marc A. vanderHeyden, has been identified by U. S. News & World Report for 17 consecutive years as one of the top15 Master’s Universities in the North. A liberal arts, residential, Catholic college located in the Burlington area of Vermont, Saint Michael’s was recently invited to sponsor a chapter of the prestigious academic honor society, Phi Beta Kappa, on campus. Saint Michael’s has 1,950 full-time undergraduate students, and some 500 graduate students and 200 international students, studying part time. The College was named recently by Newsweek magazine a “Hidden Treasure,” one of 30 colleges recommended most frequently by guidance counselors for being “schools that deserve more national recognition.” Saint Michael’s is included in Princeton Review’s The Best 361 Colleges: 2007 Edition.
Buff Lindau, Public Relations
802.654.2536
blindau@smcvt.edu
COLCHESTER, VT: David Mindich, professor of journalism and mass communication at Saint Michael's College, was named today the 2006 Vermont Professor of the Year by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching and the Council for the Advancement and Support of Education (CASE). Professor Mindich, a faculty member at Saint Michael’s since 1996, is the fourth Saint Michael’s professor to be named Vermont Professor of the Year in the last six years. Previous winners were Patricia Siplon, political science, 2003; Adrie Kusserow, anthropology, 2002; and Frank Nicosia, history, 2000. In 1994 Daniel Bean, biology, was Vermont Professor of the Year.
Dr. Mindich has written two widely popular books that advance scholarship while being accessible, which are characteristics of his teaching. The books are Tuned Out: Why Americans Under 40 Don’t Follow the News (Oxford 2004) and Just the Facts: How “Objectivity” Came to Define American Journalism (New York University Press 1998). Walter Cronkite called Tuned Out, “very important . . . a handbook for the desperately needed attempt to inspire in the young generation a curiosity that generates the news habit.”
Professor Mindich, who worked as an assignment editor for CNN and earned a doctorate in American Studies from New York University, involves his students in his research and “is widely recognized as one of the most academically challenging, but nonetheless popular, professors on campus,” according to Dean of the College Jeff Trumbower.
David Mindich has been in great demand as a speaker for professional journalism associations, in major news rooms, and at colleges and universities around the country since the publication of Tuned Out, but he has never let that interfere with his commitment to teaching, according to Dean Trumbower.
Last spring, the Saint Michael’s on-line magazine The Echo, for which Professor Mindich is editorial adviser, was named Best All-Around Online Student Magazine for Region 1 by the Society of Professional Journalists. In 2002, Professor Mindich was awarded the Krieghbaum Under-40 Award for Outstanding Teaching, Scholarship and Service by the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication. Dean Trumbower said of Professor Mindich, “I have not met another colleague who has a more well-rounded combination of keen intellect, ability to connection with students, and collegial mien.”
Professors of the Year were selected by the Carnegie Foundation and the Council for Advancement and Support of Education (CASE) from among nearly 300 top professors in the United States. This year there are winners in 43 states, Guam, and the District of Columbia. The Carnegie Foundation was founded in 1905 by Andrew Carnegie “to do all things necessary to encourage, uphold and dignify the profession of teaching.” CASE, based in Washington, D.C., is the largest international association of education institutions, serving more than 3,200 universities, colleges, schools, and related organizations in 54 countries. CASE is the leading resource for professionals in the fields of educational fundraising, communications, marketing and alumni relations.
David Mindich and his wife Barbara Richmond and their two children reside in Burlington.
Saint Michael’s College, founded in 1904 by the Society of St. Edmund and headed by President Marc A. vanderHeyden, has been identified by U. S. News & World Report for 17 consecutive years as one of the top15 Master’s Universities in the North. A liberal arts, residential, Catholic college located in the Burlington area of Vermont, Saint Michael’s was recently invited to sponsor a chapter of the prestigious academic honor society, Phi Beta Kappa, on campus. Saint Michael’s has 1,950 full-time undergraduate students, and some 500 graduate students and 200 international students, studying part time. The College was named recently by Newsweek magazine a “Hidden Treasure,” one of 30 colleges recommended most frequently by guidance counselors for being “schools that deserve more national recognition.” Saint Michael’s is included in Princeton Review’s The Best 361 Colleges: 2007 Edition.
