| Dr. Turner is Communication faculty at EMCC where she has taught an array of Communication courses for six years. After earning her Ph.D. in Education from Capella University in December 2002, she assumed a faculty mentoring position to enhance the Service Learning program at EMCC. Dr. Turner, herself, uses problem-based and project-based Service Learning in her Small Group Communication courses. She studied and documented the merits of this method of pragmatic education that benefits the students, the campus, and the community Dr. Turner presented these findings at The League For Innovation Spring Conferences in 2002 and 2003, Campus Compact Spring 2003 Conference, and the NISOD Spring Conference in May 2003. In 2004 she was awarded a one-year research fellowship by the Maricopa Institute for Learning to study the articulation between Service Learning, Brain Theory, and Emotional Intelligence. Findings from this classroom research project showed that Service Learning is brain compatible and positively impacts both cognition and emotional intelligence. These findings will be shared at the 2004 NISOD Conference and at local faculty workshops. She is active, herself, in the local community through Rotary International and involvement in various civic endeavors. |
