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Dr. James F. O'Donnell
Dean of Arts & Humanities
Wayne State College
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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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