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Randa Garden
Speech Communication
Randa
Garden teaches Speech and Health Communication classes at
Wayne State College. She received a Master of Science
Degree in Education with an emphasis in Communication Studies
and a Bachelor of Science Degree in Marketing and Business
from Wayne State College. She is currently a PhD candidate
in Communication Studies at the University of Nebraska - Lincoln.
Garden placed third in the International Collegiate Business
Plan and Marketing Competition while she was an undergraduate
at Wayne State, and she conducted research for a Women's Study
for the Department of Economic Development in Lincoln, NE.
She more recently presented two papers at the annual
Nebraska Speech Communication and Theatre Association.
In addition, she has done qualitative research on emotions
in nursing, the impact the internet is having on patient-doctor
relations, and technology in the classroom from the student's
perspective. Garden has published three children's
books-- The Kangaroo from Kalamazoo , Gilletta
Saves the Circus , and Penny the Penguin . To learn more about these books please see www.pennythepenguin.com
Before teaching, Garden had a rather diverse professional
background. She was Norfolk Site Coordinator for Wayne
State College at the Lifelong Learning Center, and served
as Fundraising Director at the Elkhorn Valley Museum and Research
Center. In addition, she managed two Nutri/System centers,
was the office manager for a Norfolk Oral Maxillofacial Surgeon,
worked in Medical Records at Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital
and was a bank teller and loan secretary at one of the oldest
banking establishments in Norfolk, The DeLay First National
Bank, aka US Bank.
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