stablein@cod.edu

 Cathy Stablein, Professor of Journalism and Mass Communication

•  College of DuPage, 425 Fawell Blvd., Glen Ellyn, Illinois 60137
•  Office phone: 630-942-2650
•  Office: Student Resource Center (SRC 1560) Courier newspaper

    Courses

• Professor of Journalism and Mass Communication, and English at COD
• Member of COD's Liberal Arts Division
• Faculty adviser to the Courier weekly newspaper, Chaparral feature magazine, COD Today annual orientation edition and Courier web edition at COD
• Full time faculty at COD since September 1987
• Full time faculty at Roosevelt University Communication Program (Chicago) 1983-1987
• Part time faculty at Roosevelt University (Arlington Heights, Skokie and Chicago) 1981-1983
• Part time faculty adviser at Morton College Collegian student newspaper, and yearbook 1984 & 1985
• Part time faculty adviser at Daley College Daley College Planet student newspaper 1986

• Managing editor at various Pioneer Press Newspapers (Glenview Announcements, Maywood Herald, West Proviso Herald, Wilmette Life)1978-1983
• Copy editor at Lindsay-Schaub Newspapers' daily Courier in Urbana 1977-1978
• City editor and reporter at Star Publications (South Holland/Dolton/Thornton edition) 1972-1977

• College Media Advisers since 1990
• Illinois Community College Journalism Association since 1984
• Community College Journalism Association since 1990
• Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication since 1984
• Illinois Articulation Initiative since 1997

• Master's degree in public affairs reporting Northern Illinois University 1977
• Bachelor's degree in communication science Governors State University 1972

• Participated in the All-College Picnic Dunk Tank  with other selected staff members to raise $432 for the People's Resource Center social care agency in Glen Ellyn in July 2005
• Volunteered at the College of DuPage information booth at the DuPage County Fair in July 2005
• Represented the Liberal Arts Division at the College Fair on numerous occasions during the Fall terms to talk with prospective students and families about COD programs and events
• Helped judge the DuPage County ACT-SO competition for writing in March 2006 and 2007
• Helped judge numerous COD forensics speech tournaments, most recently in March 2006
• Continue to serve as site coordinator and speaker for the annual conference sponsored by the Northern Illinois School Press Association each spring for nearly 10 years
• Volunteered during COD In-service Day at DuPage Children's Museum to cut and fold materials, and update the web site

• Born Jan. 25, 1951, at South Chicago Community Hospital
• Grew up on Chicago's South Side and Dolton in south suburbs
• Graduated from St. Jude the Apostle Grade School in South Holland, Ill., and Thornridge High School in Dolton, Ill.
• Married with two children
• Live in Wheaton, Ill.

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• My students are a rich legacy. I am particularly close to those who have worked for the Courier student newspaper and Chaparral feature magazine. I have attended several weddings, and kept in touch with many since I started teaching at College of DuPage in 1987. Quite a few have entered the field of journalism. Kathy Cichon is a reporter with Sun Publications. Christopher LaFortune, a graduate of the University of Illinois with both bachelor's and master's degrees, is a reporter with Pioneer Press Newspapers. Chris and wife Diane became first-time parents in August 2007. Maren McKellin is the coordinator of the Field Studies Program at COD. Melanie Murphy used her QuarkXpress layout skills in a marketing job. Melanie current is the assistant director of marketing at North Central College in Naperville. Laura Taylor is the coordinator of communications and government relations at Advocate Good Samaritan Hospital. Fred Moss, who developed the first cover artwork for Chaparral magazine 13 years ago, creates fine art and advertising. Amy Wooten, a graduate of North Central College and Columbia College, was a reporter in Chicago last time I checked. Some of my recent editors are pursuing, or have finished, journalism majors at Roosevelt University, Illinois State University, Eastern Illinois University, Columbia College, North Central College and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Courier staff members under the leadership of Kristina Zaremba were honored as finalists for the Associated Collegiate Press best newspaper award in 2006. Photo editor Robert Bykowski took a second place nationally for best feature photo. Most recently, 2006-2007 photo editor Russ Augustine won a third place in regional Society of Professional Journalists competition for his news photography on a snow day the college closed. News editor Rick Kambic took third place nationally for best two-year college reporter. Most recently, Co-op intern student Lena Kachinski was selected as the 2007 national Cooperative Education and Internship Association for the Two Year College Student Achievement Award. Caralyn Prueser is a page designer with the Aurora Beacon News in Aurora, Ill. I'm very proud of all of them.

• I want my students to succeed and be the best they can be at their endeavors. I treat students as responsible professionals who must use words and word processors as precisely as surgeons use their instruments. I expect students to consider learning their priority while they are in class. Not all days can be "A" days as students challenge old habits.
• My classes integrate a course management system called Blackboard with the Internet and the College of DuPage student e-mail system available through MyCOD (log on through the COD home page at www.cod.edu) I offer classroom, web-enhanced, online and independent learning styles throughout the curriculum.
• Textbook Material - Textbooks are required in designated courses. Course materials are printed in handbooks for independent study sections through the Centers for Independent Learning. Web enhanced and online course materials are listed in the Blackboard course management system via bb.cod.edu
• Discussion - Students do a great deal of writing in my classes for discussions. Both the online and web enhanced classes write discussions for most units, based on all resources available, including video, Internet and sometimes live discussion in class or over the telephone. Students become very proficient at discussing issues in writing, as well as talking them through in person or over the phone.
• Projects - At home writing and reporting assignments challenge your ability to meet deadlines and write efficiently. Most reporting assignments are due each week for online and web enhanced and classroom sections. Independent study assignments have a more flexible schedule.
• Test/Exam - Web enhanced and online sections use online practice tests, unit tests and midterm and final exams for course evaluation. Independent study sections have unit practice tests in their handbooks, and are required to take both the midterm and final exams in the Testing Lab on the Glen Ellyn campus.