2017 College Report

PRESIDENTIAL EXCELLENCE AWARDS Te faculty of the College of Fine Arts and Communication excel as teachers, scholars, artists, and leaders. Te university’s Presidential Excellence Awards recognize and reward superior accomplishments in Teaching, Scholarly/Creative Activity, and Service. PRESIDENTIAL PRESIDENTIAL EXCELLENCE AWARD EXCELLENCE AWARD For Teaching For Teaching JENNIFER BUSCHHORN DALE BLASINGAME Assistant Professor of Practice Senior Lecturer Journalism and Mass Journalism and Mass Communication Communication Jenny Buschhorn is an Assistant Dale Blasingame received a Professor of Practice and master’s degree from Texas State coordinator of the Advertising in 2011 with a focus in New Sequence. She specializes in Media Studies. He is part of the account planning and advertising SJMC Digital Media faculty, and campaign development at Texas teaches courses that introduce State University. Buschhorn has a students to diferent aspects of BS and MA in Advertising with how technology is changing a concentration in Marketing journalism and media. Before from Te University of Texas at coming to Texas State, he was Austin. Before joining the Texas a television news producer. He State faculty, Buschhorn spent spent nine years at WOAI-TV in more than 20 years specializing San Antonio, where he won two in advertising and business Lone Star Emmy awards and was planning via primary and nominated for a third. Before secondary research to develop that, he was a news anchor and strong business positioning for sports reporter for KTSA-AM in several of the nation’s largest, San Antonio. In addition to his advertising agencies including duties at Texas State, he is also the GSD&M, McCann Erickson, social media director for Leadhub, and TM. She co-founded an Internet marketing company a highly successful strategic in San Antonio. He is a member business planning company with of the Online News Association, McGarrah Jessee. She excels in Society of Professional Journalists overall business strategy and and the National Association of communications implementation. Hispanic Journalists. AWARDED IN 2017 AWARDED IN 2017 EXCELLENCE IN DIVERSITY AWARD ANA BAER CARRILLO Associate Professor Theatre and Dance Ana Baer Carrillo is an Associate Professor whose video-chore- ographer work encompasses a variety of dance for camera work, as well as performances and choreography. Ana’s video installations, multimedia work and/or choreography has been presented in Chile, Costa Rica, Uruguay, Guatemala, Greece, Spain, France, Egypt, and mul- tiple venues in Germany, UK, Mexico and USA. Ana’s projects include: Co-Director of L.E.A.P (Leadership, Empowerment, Arts Program); Artistic Co-Direc- tor, Adjudicator, Producer and International Liaison for the Sans Souci Festival of Dance Cinema; Choreographer and videographer depicting themes, situations and realities in Mexico. Additionally, she commissions international and culturally diverse artists for Merge Dance Company, a stu- dent dance company, which she co-founded here in 2009. AWARDED IN 2017 6 | COLLEGE OF FINE ARTS AND COMMUNICATION