About the lecture
During this colloquium we’ll talk about a variety of teaching issues from creating a nurturing and inclusive classroom environment to encouraging participation and everything in-between. But most of all, this will be an opportunity to exchange ideas and best practices to address the challenges you’ve experienced in the classroom.
About the speaker
Karen M. Turner is an associate professor and director of the broadcast journalism concentration in the Department of Journalism at Temple University. Turner served as department chair from 2000-2003, is a past president of the Faculty Senate and a founding member and currently director of Temple’s Academic Center on Research in Diversity (ACCORD).
While on the AEJMC Standing Committee on Teaching, she wrote the first chapter of master class that explored teaching being a calling not a job. Turner believes teaching is a calling and has been doing “God’s work” at Temple for over 25 years, teaching broadcast journalism, sports journalism and media race studies courses. She has also worked with students covering the 2016 Democratic National Convention, 2020 New Hampshire primary and has led the KleinGO international reporting program to South Africa three times.
A recipient of the Lindback Foundation Distinguished Teaching award, Turner’s publication topics include facilitating difficult conversations, her online race media course offered since 1997 and a mobile media election crowdsourcing project she co-initiated in 2004.
Before joining Temple, Turner worked as a mayoral press secretary, a broadcast journalist and talk radio interviewer.
Turner has degrees from Dartmouth College, Northwestern University School of Law and Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.