- Dr. Anjail Rashida Ahmad was selected to the NC Arts Council Touring Artist Directory – 2008-2010, Headlands Center for the Arts Summer Residency, NC Arts Council Artist Grant recipient, and was nominated to NC ACLU Board of Directors. Dr. Ahmad is a member of the Quality Enhancement Planning Sub-committee of the SACS Steering Committee, the College of Arts and Sciences Retention Committee, Greensboro Bicentennial Planning Committee, the Greensboro Transit Authority Board, the Local Disability Task Force and the Transportation Advocacy Center (TAC) Board. She attended a Workshop on Women’s Writing Intensive with North Carolina fiction author Zelda Lockhart (five-week Sunday series) in Hillsborough, NC. She is adviser to the Freedom Scribes Creative Writing Club, and judged the poetry for the Agnes Scott College Writers Festival Magazine. She was commissioned by Dr. Eleanor Gwynn to write spoken word accompaniment for the E. Gwynn Dancers performance of "Bullet Holes in the Wall," during the Greensboro Bicentennial Celebration and was a performer in that event with the Poetic Insurgents spoken word poetry troupe. Members of Ahmad’s writers group, Black Ink Writers Workshop, performed poetry of the Harlem Renaissance at the Zora's Cafe on February 18, 2008. She was profiled in an article “Professor Lost Sight But Not Vision” in The Register student newspaper, North Carolina A&T State University. She was the key speaker/artist at the "Seventh Annual Storytelling Festival: Keeping the Oral Tradition Alive," The Danville Museum of Fine Arts and History, Danville, VA., February 9, 2008. Dr. Ahmad served as moderator of The June K. Campbell Women in Leadership Conference, Saint Augustine College. Raleigh, NC, March 28, 2008. She interviewed Nikki Giovanni on WNAA radio as part of her Poetry GSO appearance. Dr. Ahmad has applied for the Lyceum Series 2008-2009 for “What If and Why Not?: Toward a Re-Visioning of a Black Nation” by the Righteous A.I.M. Poetry Performance Troupe. Dr. Ahmad and Valerie Nieman are members of the 2008 Poetry GSO planning committee.
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Valerie Nieman presented a poster session on a classroom activity, “A Roman Lottery” used in a Humanities I course, at the Lilly South Conference on Teaching and Learning held in Greensboro. She later participated in the NC A&T Academy of Teaching and Learning poster presentations, March 31, along with student Martin Bynum. Her poem “Spandrel” was published in Appalachian Heritage. Nieman Served on the Chancellor’s Installation Committee – Printing and Publications Subcommittee, Served on the Placement Test Review Committee headed by Associate Vice Chancellor Kenneth Murray, and was named to the panel studying Accuplacer test data in March. Poems from her collection Wake Wake Wake will be included in a Best of Press53 anthology. She was interviewed by Robert Brewer for “Poetic Asides,” part of the Writers Digest blog group. She edited the globalization document for the UNC Tomorrow report. Nieman taught an all-day fiction workshop for the North Carolina Writers Network Spring Conference, April 26 at UNCG, and taught a weekend fiction class on character development at the John C. Campbell Folk School in Brasstown, NC. She served as judge for the poetry contest sponsored by the University Writing Center. She attended the 40th annual Associated Writers and Writing Programs Annual Conference in New York City. This was the largest-ever gathering of creative writing teachers and practitioners, with more than 7,500 registered
- Veloisa Marsh and Linda Davidson sponsored two workshops. The first, held on October 16, 2007 was a “Writing for Success” seminar. The speakers were Reginald Greene and Darryl Jackson, business consultants, who spoke on the relationship of writing excellence to one’s success in corporate America. The seminar was attended by over 120 students, faculty, and visitors.. The second seminar, held on March 13, 2008, was on “Climbing the Corporate Ladder.” The speaker was Lee Underwood, a successful business and management executive for about 20 years. He is now the president of the Executive Development Institute in Charlotte, NC. Underwood told over 100 students, teachers, and guests, how to negotiate the political climate, form business relationships, and avoid career killers on jobs in order to get promoted and reach their career goals. Marsh and Davidson will be instructors for the Aggie Enrichment Camp. The two will teach grammar and writing to elementary aged children as part of the Summer Outreach Program
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The Poetic Insurgents spoken word poetry troupe was selected to perform a tribute to Nikki Giovanni on stage with her at the Carolina Theater (April 27, 2008) as part of the headliner event of the Poetry GSO month-long festival. The troupe also performed Valentine’s Day inspired poetry with the A&T band Beautiful Experience, at Lae's Dinner Club. Greensboro, NC, February 13, 2008.
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