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Students Teaching Students

In coordination with an undergraduate-run organization called Students Teaching Students, CAS department faculty members mentor exemplary students who develop and teach 1-credit courses on a variety of subjects that advance expertise in communication and its role in public life. This semester, Associate Teaching Professor Lori Bedell is supporting undergraduates Kara Miller (who was in Lori’s RCL course a few years back) and Jess Strait as they teach a course titled “Period Talk: The Impact of Stigma on the Menstrual Equity Movement.”
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Brent Ottaway

Assistant Teaching Professor of Communication Arts and Sciences
bmo104@psu.edu
347 Moore Building

Education

B.A., Grove City College, 1983
M.S., West Virginia University, 1990
Ph.D., Penn State University, 1998

Professional Bio

Many years ago, while editor of a gambling magazine, Brent realized that the best part of his job was helping college interns develop as communicators. He then left the publication, earned a master’s degree and landed a teaching position at Saint Francis University.

Brent went on to become an associate professor of Communication and occasional administrator at SFU while he and his late wife, Ellen, raised five sensational children.

He is delighted to return to the classrooms of University Park after teaching CAS100 remotely during the 2020-21 academic year.

Having taken part in countless public meetings and events as a low-level elected official (school director) and a failed Congressional candidate (it wasn’t even close), Brent has a keen appreciation for the CAS100 mission and tries to help every student develop into a confident, capable and willing participant in public discourse.