Kenneth Foote

Ken Foote invited to write editorial about Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting

Anonymous — Fri, 21 Dec 2012 16:36:00 +0000

Ken Foote invited to write editorial about Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting Anonymous (not verified) Fri, 12/21/2012 - 09:36

"You are not alone" was a central theme of this week's memorial services in Newtown. The meaning of the message is twofold: that all the victims of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting are grieved across the nation and world, and that too many communities in the U.S. and abroad have faced similar tragedies.

Read editorial at Hartford Courant

See New Haven Register for more information.

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Ken Foote Receives College Scholar Award

Anonymous — Fri, 07 Dec 2012 16:29:37 +0000

Ken Foote Receives College Scholar Award Anonymous (not verified) Fri, 12/07/2012 - 09:29

The College Scholars program is funded through the generosity of donors to the College of Arts & Sciences. The award enables enables tenured faculty to pursue full time research/creative scholarly activities for one semester. Ken is 1 of 10 recipients of the prestigious award. He will use the award to support his research on â€œNarrative cartography: Maps & stories in a world of digital media.â€

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How Tragic Events Are Memorialized

Anonymous — Thu, 09 Aug 2012 15:58:55 +0000

How Tragic Events Are Memorialized Anonymous (not verified) Thu, 08/09/2012 - 09:58

Ken Foote talks about his research with ��Ƶ Connections.

In Western civilization, memorials honoring soldiers and heroes have been traced to Roman and Greek times, and the tradition remains relevant today. But in the past 20 to 30 years, communities also have commemorated a wider range of heroes, victims and events, such as the recent shooting in Aurora. Ken Foote, a geography professor at the University of Colorado Boulder, has studied the trend and described his research in a book, Shadowed Ground: America's Landscapes of Violence and Tragedy. He spent more than 10 years visiting about 200 sites before he felt he had enough comparative information to write the book, which focuses on the United States and how communities have chosen to deal with turmoil and disastrous events.

Read complete article

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National Public Radio Interviews Ken Foote for Talk of the Nation

Anonymous — Tue, 31 Aug 2010 16:29:05 +0000

National Public Radio Interviews Ken Foote for Talk of the Nation Anonymous (not verified) Tue, 08/31/2010 - 10:29

Many consider ground zero a sacred place -- as well as the battlefield at Gettysburg, the Lincoln Memorial and the site of the Oklahoma City bombing, among many others. These places often have nothing to do with religion, so it can be difficult define which uses of the spaces are appropriate. Ken Foote talks with Talk of the Nation host Neil Conan about sacred ground.

See more at National Public Radio > (link no longer available)

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Ken Foote Interviewed for Article in Forward Newspaper

Anonymous — Wed, 18 Aug 2010 16:27:56 +0000

Ken Foote Interviewed for Article in Forward Newspaper Anonymous (not verified) Wed, 08/18/2010 - 10:27

For Professor Ken Foote, America's hallowed grounds fall into three general categories: those made sacred through the death of a martyr, like the sites of the assassinations of Kennedy and Martin Luther King Jr.; those made sacred through ethical heroic moments, like Gettysburg, and those made sacred through community disasters, like the site of the Johnstown Flood.

From Gettysburg to Ground Zero, "Sacred Space" Debated: A Centuries-Long Search To Define Hallowed Ground

See more at The Jewish Daily Forward >

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Ken Foote Elected President of AAG

Anonymous — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 02:59:29 +0000

Ken Foote Elected President of AAG Anonymous (not verified) Thu, 03/04/2010 - 19:59

Professor Ken Foote has been elected President of the Association of American Geographers for the 2010-11 academic year. Congratulations Ken!
See Association of American Geographers for more information.

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Early Career Workshop for new faculty and advanced doctoral students, 13-19 June 2010, Boulder CO

Anonymous — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 02:38:16 +0000

Early Career Workshop for new faculty and advanced doctoral students, 13-19 June 2010, Boulder CO Anonymous (not verified) Mon, 02/01/2010 - 19:38

Registration has begun for the 2010 Workshop of the Geography Faculty Development Alliance (GFDA). It will be held 13-19 at the University of Colorado at Boulder. Registration is available through the website of the Association of American Geographers. A minimum of 25 participants are needed to meet the costs of the workshop. If fewer are enrolled as of May 2, the workshop may be cancelled and all funds returned to participants.

This workshop is for advanced graduate students and faculty who are just beginning their careers in higher education. The one-week program focuses on topics which are frequently the source of the greatest stress in the first years of a college or university appointment, including:

Career planning
Time management
Getting the most out of meeting participation
Ethics in research and teaching
Nuts-and-bolts issues about writing and publishing
Preparing a CV, personal web site, job search and interviewing
Collegiality and service
Thinking ahead to prepare for the tenure process
Balancing personal and professional life

The workshop touches on issues of teaching and learning, particularly those revolving around designing effective courses, issues of diversity and inclusion, and active pedagogy. The goal of the workshop is to help participants balance the many responsibilities of academic life and to understand how their teaching, research, service, outreach, and personal lives intersect and interconnect.

The Geography Faculty Development Alliance is a long-term, broad-based project to improve the learning and teaching of geography in higher education. The aim is to provide early career faculty and advanced doctoral students with the theoretical and practical knowledge needed to excel in the lecture hall, seminar room, and laboratory. Key objectives of the project are to foster a culture of support and success for early career faculty, to help them understand the fundamental interconnections between their teaching and research, and to advance the scholarship of teaching and learning across the entire discipline.

This project involves several components: summer workshops, follow-up seminars, panel discussions, and paper sessions at the annual meetings of the Association of American Geographers and the National Council for Geographic Education. There is also a longitudinal evaluation and research component to consider the value of the training to early career faculty during the tenure review process. A final component involves publishing the workshop materials as a stand-alone course for use in graduate geography programs.

The Alliance is based in the Geography Department at the University of Colorado at Boulder. Its Directors are Kenneth E. Foote and J.W. Harrington, Jr.

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