Congratulations to Dr. Melody Bowdon who has been selected as the Florida Campus Compact 2007 Faculty Service-Learning Award winner in the state university sector!

After an extensive evaluation by the selection committee, it is evident that Dr. Bowdon’s accomplishments deserve statewide recognition.  As a winner, she will be presented with the award and $500 at the Awards Gala & Dinner on October 4th in Tampa, Florida.

A brief bio:

Dr. Melody Bowdon, Associate Professor of English and Director of the PhD program in Texts and Technology at UCF, is recognized as a national expert in service-learning in the fields of technical communication and composition.  She has completed three funded assessment research projects related to service-learning and has published widely on the subject, including several articles in national journals and essay collections.  Her co-authored text, Service-Learning in Technical and Professional Communication, is used at over 30 universities.  Dr. Bowdon is currently serving as faculty program chair for the International Research Conference on Research in Service-Learning and Community Engagement.  She is a member of the editorial board of Reflections on Community-Based Writing, a journal that focuses on service-learning in composition studies, and co-edited a special issue of that journal on professional writing and service-learning in 2003.  She also serves as a founding member of the editorial board for the journal Community Literacy.  Since 1992, she has taught 46 service-learning courses at three universities and is the winner of several teaching and community service awards, including the 2005 Gulf South Summit Award for Outstanding Contributions to Service-Learning in Higher Education.  She was a 2005 and 2006 finalist for the Thomas Ehrlich national award for service-learning faculty.  Dr. Bowdon has directed UCF’s Graduate Certificate in Professional Writing, a program that includes a significant service-learning component, since 1999, and her current research focuses on service-learning and technology and professional writing in the nonprofit sector.  She has also served as Interim Director of Service-Learning at UCF. 

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