Champlain College Welcomes New Full-time Faculty

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Coberlin Brownell, assistant professor in Graphic Design and Digital Media

BURLINGTON, VT (08/02/2012)(readMedia)-- Champlain College announces the hiring of four new professors to campus in various disciplines. The Division of Communications and Creative Media (CCM) welcome Coberlin Brownell, assistant professor in the Graphic Design and Digital Media Program and Huixia Lu, associate professor in the Digital Filmmaking Program; Kristin Novotny, an associate professor in the Core Division; and Ciaran Buckley, an adjunct at Champlain's Dublin, Ireland campus, who will stay on full-time in Burlington for the 2012-13 academic year after teaching part-time at the Burlington campus last spring.

Coberlin Brownell has been an adjunct at Champlain for about four years while also working at JDK Design in Burlington. He completed his MFA in Emergent Media at Champlain in May, and will be an assistant professor in Graphic Design and Digital Media. During his time as an adjunct, he worked with Champlain students interns on various projects include or various projects through local companies such as Burton Snowboards. He will teach Senior Capstone, Web II, Digital Print Production, and Design for Objects and Spaces (3D Design including Packaging, Signage and Branded Environments).

Huixia Lu was an assistant professor of digital filmmaking at the University of Central Arkansas before coming to Champlain to teach both documentary and fiction film. This fall, she will teach Film History, Documentary Filmmaking, Business of Film, and Digital Film Screenings.

Kristin Novotny loves facilitating difficult discussions, and says she can't wait to put this into action in first- and third-year core courses at Champlain. A Champlain College graduate herself, her undergraduate studies in mediation and conflict resolution have made her a better teacher, she said. After teaching political science at Saint Michael's College in Colchester for 16 years, she is ready to widen her scope of subjects. She will teach two sections of each COR 110 – Concepts of the Self and COR 310 – Global Studies I: Globalization and Technology in the fall.

About Champlain College: Since 1878, Champlain College has provided career-focused education to students from its hilltop campus in Burlington, Vt. Champlain's distinctive educational approach embodies the notion that true learning only occurs when information and experience come together to create knowledge. Champlain offers traditional undergraduate and online undergraduate courses, along with online certificate and degree programs and eight master's degree programs. Champlain offers study abroad programs at its campuses in Montreal, Quebec and Dublin, Ireland. Champlain College is included in the Princeton Review's "The Best 376 Colleges: 2012 Edition." Champlain was named a "Top-Up-and-Coming School" by U.S. News & World Report's America's Best Colleges and is ranked in the top tier of 2012 Regional Colleges in the North. For more information, visit www.champlain.edu.

By Kayla Hedman '14 / Champlain College News