Dr. Jossalyn M. Gale
Director, Writing & Communication Center (WCC)
Assistant Professor, Department of English & Technical Communication (ETC)
Writing & Communication Center
Quality research and communication might be more essential now than ever in our history. The Writing & Communication Center (WCC) supports the development of students’ skills in written, oral, visual, and digital communication to promote their success in college and in their careers.
Jossalyn M. Gale, WCC Director
Professional Development / Credentials
Emergent Researcher Award Recipient, Conference on College Composition and Communication (4Cs) (National Competition; Awarded 2022)
CAFE Early Career Faculty presenter: “Writing a Teaching Philosophy” (April 2022)
The Association of College and University Educators (ACUE) Credentialed Educator (2021)
Invited presenter for ACUE “Lunch & Learn” session, “The secret power of effective course design” (2022)
S&T CAFE Excellence in Online Teaching Credentialed Educator (2020)
Awards and Honors
Center for Science, Technology, and Society Seed Grant (Missouri S&T, Awarded 2022)
Faculty Achievement Award (Missouri S&T, Awarded 2021)
Faculty Achievement Award (Missouri S&T, Awarded 2018)
Outstanding New Faculty Adviser, The Missouri Miner (Missouri S&T, Awarded 2016)
Center for Educational Research and Teaching Innovation Mini-Grant Recipient (Missouri S&T; Awarded 2015)
Educational Technology “eFellows” Grant Recipient (Missouri S&T; Awarded 2015)
Professional Service
OURE Undergraduate Research Poster judge (2022)
Three Minute Thesis judge (2022)
Committee Member: 4Cs Task force on Non Tenure Track Policies (2022)
Committee Member: 4Cs Masters Degree Consortium of Writing Studies Specialists (2022)
Curriculum Designer: 11th and 12th Grade English, Mizzou Online (2019)
Organizational Assistant for 34th Annual Southeastern Medieval Association Conference (2008)
Assistant to Co-Editor of Renaissance Studies, Blackwell’s Literature Compass (2006-07)
Assistant to the Editor, Allegorica Literary Journal (2005-07)
Organizational Assistant for South Central Renaissance Conference (2006)
University & Departmental Service
Director of Composition and Foundational Speech (2022 – present)
Committee Member: S&T Task Force on Non Tenure Track Policies (2021-22)
Intensive Advisor: English (2021)
Co-supervisor of English Graduate Teaching Assistants (2020 – present)
Committee Member: Academic Freedom and Standards (2020 – present)
Evaluator: Chancellor’s Scholarship Essays (2020 – present)
Program Participant: Effective Online Teaching Practices (ACUE) (2020 – present)
Committee Member: UMSystem Interfaculty Council Committee on Non-Tenure Track Policies (2017 – present)
Committee Member: CERTI Educational Technology Committee (2017 – 2018)
Committee Member: Chancellor’s Campus Performing Arts Committee (2017 – 2018)
Committee Member, S&T’s Core Marketing Network (2016 – present)
Musical Director/Choreographer, Forbidden Broadway (Fall 2018)
Script Editor/Collaborator, The STEM Monologues, S&T Theatre Department (Fall, 2017)
Musical Director, A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum (Spring, 2016)
Committee Member: Chancellor’s Strategic Planning Summit – Strategic Communications (2016)
Faculty Adviser, The Missouri Miner News (2016 – present)
Acting Writing Center Director (Fall 2016)
Faculty Adviser, First-Year Voyager program (2014-15)