Sheryl Goodman

Sheryl Goodman, Associate Professor, received her B.S. in Spanish and Linguistics from Georgetown University and her M.A. and Ph.D. in Rhetoric & Communication from Temple University.  She joined the faculty at Ursinus College in 1997. Her teaching areas include: Communication Theory and Research Methods, Intercultural Communication, Gender, Ethnicity & Communication, Conflict, Friendship, and The Common Intellectual Experience (CIE), the first-year liberal studies sequence of courses taken by all first-year students.

Her research examines talk about race and gender in the undergraduate classroom, interracial and intra-racial communication, and discussion dilemmas in institutional contexts.

Her work appears in Communication Monographs, The International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education, The Humanistic Psychologist, and The Journal on Excellence in College Teaching. She regularly involves undergraduate students in her research projects as co-presenters at professional meetings.

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More than 40 liberal arts faculty and administrators gathered on the Ursinus College campus for a Teagle Foundation-funded colloquium to discuss the challenges facing liberal arts colleges today.

Summer Fellows: A 30-Year Showcase of Exploration and Dedication

The Summer Fellows program as we know it today has roots dating back 30 years, when a Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) grant supported the work of 10 student-faculty research pairs in the sciences in the summer of 1992. Four years later, the college expanded the program to include students from every discipline, and then it was cemented as a permanent offering in 1999.

CIE Overseas

An international component was added to select sections of the Common Intellectual Experience (CIE) last year thanks to the college’s partnership with the Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK).