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Ellen Gay Leathers
Office: 363 Bradley Hall
Phone: (309) 677-3382
E-mail: leathers@bradley.edu
Courses on Web: ENG 306 - Business Communication
Ellen Gay Leathers, B.S. Education (Central Missouri State University), M.A. (Bradley University), plus 25 hours in English (Illinois State University), has enjoyed a long teaching career as a secondary school English teacher, and as a community college and university instructor. She began teaching in 1969 and came to Bradley in 1988 to teach Freshman Composition, American Writers, Business Communication, and "University Experience.” As Lecturer, her preeminent role at the university is teaching, and her initiatives and research focus on innovative pedagogies and alternative assessments to provide her students with optimum opportunities for success.
As past director of the Bradley University Writing Center (facilitator for 2 years, director for 4 years) Gay worked with a staff of 7 graduate students and two undergraduate students, Department Secretary Carolyn Rosser, and computing services to develop the tutor outreach program, the Center's homepage, and on-line tutoring. Most recently, she introduced English as Second Language tutoring with ESL specialist, Abbie Uno-Keel, to the Writing Center services. During her 6 years with the Center, more than 8000 students visited the Writing Center and another 4200 have visited the website.
Gay attends and speaks at national and local conferences, serves on the Composition Committee and Professional Writing Committee, hosts "Walden Revisited" - the Sigma Tau Delta fall picnic at her home, and for seven years, has hosted the English Department's Annual Recognition Tea which honors outstanding achievements by students and faculty. In addition to her busy course schedule, academic advisement, and University Senate responsibilities, she developed and taught the Department's on-line section of ENG 306 Business Communication. She speaks at area high schools about career opportunities in English, volunteers for the American Heart Association and United Way and assists displaced professionals with employment correspondence. She is a member of MLA, NCTE, NWCA, MWCA, IATS, and IATE. She was again named to Who's Who Among America's Teachers for 2002 and will return to full-time teaching, Fall 2002.