Dr. Victoria N. Salmon
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Dr. Salmon is Associate Dean, Graduate Studies, College of Visual and Performing Arts, George Mason University. Dr. Salmon coordinates the academic design of graduate and doctoral programs with a priority to integrate the scholarship of teaching and learning with graduate professional development and training; supervises the administrative aspects of graduate and doctorate programs; manages graduate admissions, student advisory responsibilities, and administrative process; structures opportunities to contribute to doctoral programs for teaching in disciplines; participates in CVPA foundation activities to promote understanding, interest and growth of key programs; contributes to CVPA international outreach initiatives; and leads faculty professional development initiatives, including working with CVPA faculty to enhance the curricular and intellectual structures of CVPA through the advancement of the ideas and practices of the scholarship of teaching and learning.
Dr. Salmon is adjunct faculty for the Arts Management Program. She is also affiliate faculty for Mason’s Higher Education Program, and has served as Chair for several dissertation committees. She is a member of the MAIS Executive Committee and served on theses committees.
She serves as a juror for International Society for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, Conference Proposals (2009, 2010, 2011). Presentations include work with her colleagues in the School of Dance: “Scholarship of Teaching and Learning in the Arts: Collaboration among Faculty and Students.” She continually presents to The Command and General Staff College in Ft. Belvoir VA on the topic, “Academic Writing for Professionals.”
She presented “Reviewing the Past and Anticipating the Future: The Arts and International Relations” at the International Studies Association, New York, February 2009. Dr. Salmon has made numerous lectures and presentations on composition theory and thesis and dissertation writing; she has taught over 200 students how to write their theses or dissertations. She presented, “Graduate Student Writing, the New Wave/Genre,” at the College Composition and Communication Conference, March 2009. “Preparing Future Faculty” is a chapter in the Academic Cultures (MLA, December 2008).
In addition, her essay “Educating with Rita” connects film and composition theory and appears in Cinema-(To)-Graphy, (Boynton/Cook Publishers). She has published other essays, including “Chaos Theory and the Community College Composition Classroom” and “The National Center for Community College Education: A Doctoral Program with Difference.” Additional works are pending publication.
In 2007, Dr. Salmon was the Academic Director of the Higher Education Program, George Mason University. During the 2004-05 academic year, Dr. Salmon was the Co-Interim Director of the Master of Arts Interdisciplinary Studies program in the College of Arts and Sciences.
Dr. Salmon was awarded her Doctor of Arts from George Mason University in 1997. Her doctoral thesis, “Seeking Authority in Composition theory: Leadership from the Community College Classroom,” received recognition in the 1998 CCCC James Berlin Memorial Outstanding Dissertation Award competition. She received her Bachelor of Arts and her Masters of Arts degrees in English from Georgetown University.
Dr. Salmon served on Georgetown University’s Board of Regents for six year, three as Vice Chair of the Board, coordinating the Regents’ three Task Forces: Undergraduate Learning Experience, Research and Science, and Inter-religious Dialog. She also served on Georgetown University’s College Board of Advisors for four years.
Teaching:
AMGT 470 Academic Writing in the Arts
AMGT 505 Academic Writing in Arts Mngmt