Nancy Redmond English/Journalism Office: P132 Phone: 562-938-4675 E-mail: nredmond@lbcc.edu Spring 2007 Courses Journalism 1A/1B - Tu 1-3 Journalism 1A/1B - Tu 3-6 Journalism 10 - MW 11-12:30 Journalism 25 - MW 9:30-11 Spring 2007 Office Hours M 12:30-1:30 Tu 10:30-1 W 9-9:30 & 12:30-1:30

Nancy Redmond came to Long Beach City College in 1978 as newspaper adviser to the Viking and the only instructor in the journalism program. In 1980, with photo department faculty, she founded the college magazine, City. In 1984, she and her students, including current lab technician Jim Truitt, established in-house typesetting and design of the then-weekly Viking, making LBCC the first college in the state to use Macintosh-powered typesetting and layout for its newspaper.

Under her advisement, Viking and magazine students have won national, state and/or regional awards every year. Many of her students have gone on to professional careers in magazine editing, desktop publishing, newspaper reporting and editing, TV production, and advertising/public relations. She was honored as a master teacher at a national “Great Teachers” conference at the University of Texas in Austin. Active in the statewide Journalism Association of Community Colleges, she served as faculty president of the Southern California section from 1983-1984.

Nancy has two master’s degrees, one in journalism from UCLA, where she graduated first in her class, and one in English from CSUDH. She received her B.A. in radio/television and English from the University of Michigan where she was elected to Phi Beta Kappa and graduated with honors. In addition to teaching experience in English and journalism, she has professional experience in reporting, magazine writing and production, TV news broadcasting, public relations, and desktop publishing. She’s produced everything from 50-page magazines to PTA newsletters.

Today she enjoys teaching mass communication, free-lance writing, City magazine, literature, and desktop publishing, a class she created in 1985. She keeps the journalism program’s computer and web technology as current as possible and she serves on the English Department's technology committee.

Nancy recently returned from sabbatical leave where she researched college and university online/web-enhanced courses, visited professional news organizations, web-enhanced her courses, and updated the newspaper/desktop publishing software and the journalism website. She is excited about the possibilities of the web and looks forward to discussing the latest trends with her students in English and journalism.

With two sons in college, Nancy understands the challenges students face. When she’s not teaching, she enjoys reading and traveling throughout the world.