Kjirsten Whitsell – Editor

Teaching students composition, literature, poetry, and drama; grading and providing feedback on writing.

This position provides support within the Dean's Office by serving the College of Education and Human Services, frequently interacting with faculty, staff, and other Murray State units. Communication originated from this position also reaches students, alumni, prospective students and their families, K-12 schools within Murray State’s 18-county region, and the community at large. Collaboration with the University’s Office of Branding, Marketing, and Communication as well as promotional vendors and local media representatives should be expected. Knowledge of University forms and procedures is preferred but not required.
Typical responsibilities include writing press releases, preparing regular electronic newsletters, managing social media accounts, updating college web pages, designing advertisements and other marketing graphics, ordering promotional items, overseeing the annual inventory process, monitoring the Dean’s Office email account, moderating college-wide faculty and staff email listserv, posting announcements to the college-wide student Canvas course, and assisting with event planning and execution. Daily clerical matters can also be expected, such as processing paperwork, submitting work orders, answering phones, recording meeting minutes, maintaining the COEHS Intranet with current meeting minutes as submitted by faculty and staff, and delegating tasks to student workers when appropriate.

As an intern, I assisted in editing and indexing various books and anthologies for the UPM.

Editing included line edits, proofreading, developmental edits, formatting, and indexing for the manuscripts.