Service
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Administration

Dr. Knopf has been active in matters of college governance as a member of SUNY Cortland's Educational Policy Committee, and as a member of SUNY Potsdam's Faculty Senate, Arts & Sciences Council, and General Education Committee. Through this experience, she understands the channels and procedures, opportunities and limitations, for a college's maintenance, change, and growth in policies and programs. She has been part of accreditation reviews, program reviews, and system revisions, gaining experience in mission development, assessment practices, curriculum changes, policy clarifications, and more.

In addition to chairing or co-chairing multiple college committees (including the SUNY Potsdam English & Communication Curriculum, Student Liaison, and Personnel Committees; the SUNY Cortland Communication & Media Studies Personnel and Curriculum Committees, and a search committee; the SUNY Cortland Educational Programming Subcommittee of the Antiracism Task Force, and the Presentation Skills Committee), Dr. Knopf has served as Chair of the Political Communication and the Rhetoric & Public Address interest groups of the Eastern Communication Association, as Vice President and President of the New York State Communication Association, and as the faculty sponsor for the SUNY Potsdam Delta Omicron chapter of Lambda Pi Eta. This latter set of leadership roles required group communication, multi-party coordination, scheduling, decision-making, budgeting, and knowledge of Parliamentary Procedure. She has been the lead organizer on many events, including seven honor society inductions, a "#StopAAPIHate" forum, and a state-wide conference.

As a reviewer and editorial board member of multiple journals and as a regular reviewer, panel chair, and/or respondent for multiple scholastic organizations, Dr. Knopf understands how much unseen work is needed to maintain the activities of the academic community. Dr. Knopf has been an undergraduate student advisor to 20-40 majors and minors in communication and related programs annually since Fall 2006. She regularly participates in her college communities by representing the department at open houses and other events, processing in convocations and commencements, and attending college celebrations. She also supports campus functions and talks by colleagues and other departments. Additionally, Dr. Knopf has engaged with community service via public scholarship, doing research and transcription for museums and libraries, and working for campus get-out-the-vote initiatives.

Dr. Knopf has served on the departmental curriculum committees in both Communication & Media Studies at SUNY Cortland and in English & Communication at SUNY Potsdam, reviewing and developing curriculum proposals, student learning outcomes, and assessment protocols at the course and program levels. Serving as Chair of both committees, she helped usher in a variety of initiatives through research, communication, paperwork, and dialogue. She has participated actively in the external review process of her departments at SUNY Cortland and at SUNY Potsdam, and in the Middle States review and accreditation processes at SUNY Cortland, SUNY Potsdam, and the College of St. Rose. Additionally, she has helped to develop, shape, and/or implement assessment initiatives and instruments for the Speech Communication major at SUNY Potsdam, the public speaking course at SUNY Cortland, and the General Education presentation skills requirement at both SUNY Cortland and SUNY Potsdam.

Through service to SUNY Potsdam's English & Communication Graduate Committee and the Graduate Affairs Committee, Dr. Knopf gained experience in graduate program development, revision, recruitment, and funding. Both on and off the committees, she was actively involved in program assessment for curricular revisions and for improved recruitment and retention for SUNY Potsdam's MA program in discourse studies. Dr. Knopf has also taught at the graduate level, with a 600-level course at SUNY Potsdam, and has served as a reader on M.A. thesis committees at SUNY Potsdam and a PhD dissertation committee at Bowling Green State University.

Dr. Knopf is committed to supporting and expanding diversity, equity, and inclusion in the academy. She has served on SUNY Cortland's Antiracism Task Force and the Sexual-Orientation & Gender Identity Expression committee, and on SUNY Potsdam's Diversity & Inclusivity Action Coalition. She has taken a number of workshops on advocating for justice, fostering more inclusive classrooms, using universal design in teaching, and mitigating biased hiring practices. She strives to enact good DEI practices in her classroom and to support students in their fights for equity and justice on campuses. As Vice President of NYSCA, she implemented a Land Acknowledgement as part of the annual conference and the use of pronoun stickers with conference badges and assisted in the creation of a code of conduct and the establishment of a code of conduct review committee. Dr. Knopf recognizes that such efforts are only a starting place and that her DEI and J commitment is an ongoing work-in-progress that always has room for improvement.

From Fall 2006 through Spring 2017, Dr. Knopf served as the "oral skills coordinator" at SUNY Potsdam. As a resource person to the General Education Committee, she was actively involved in the review, approval, and assessment of courses fulfilling the SUNY presentation skills General Education requirement and the college's speaking intensive requirement. This decade+ of work gave her experience dealing with college-wide curriculum revisions, SUNY system guidelines, and college discussions around mission and vision. Since Fall 2017, Dr. Knopf serves as the public speaking director and Presentation Skills Committee Chair at SUNY Cortland. In these roles, she is not only active in the review, approval, and assessment of presentation skills courses for General Education, but also in the curricular development and faculty support of public speaking classes in the Communication & Media Studies Department. Through these roles, in addition to teaching speech annually since 2001, Dr. Knopf has kept up-to-date with changes and trends in the field, including initiatives for the basic course and communication-across-the-curriculum at other colleges, particularly those within the 64-campus SUNY system.

Actively involved in the National Communication Association and Eastern Communication Association since 2002, Dr. Knopf is a regular participant, chair, respondent, and reviewer for multiple professional associations. She holds lifetime membership in NCA, ECA, the Rhetoric Society of America, and the New York State Communication Association. She has served on committees or in interest groups for NCA and ECA, as well as for the American Sociological Association. She is a Distinguished Research Fellow of the ECA and Wilson Scholar of the NYSCA. Through the interdisciplinary nature of comics studies, she has established connections with scholars throughout the U.S., and around in the world, in communication, rhetoric, media, literature, composition, library science, history, anthropology, sociology, political science, business, and religion.

From 2011 to 2017, Dr. Knopf was the faculty sponsor for the SUNY Potsdam Delta Omicron chapter of the Lambda Pi Eta communication honor society. In this capacity, he annually sent the invitations to eligible students, coordinated their membership fees, and planned and hosted the induction ceremony - handling the room reservation and set-up, the food requests, the speakers and invited guests, the ceremony script, and photos. She also worked with the group to host communication game nights, create a peer tutoring for speech, and participate to Free Speech Week. From 2013 to 2017, she was also the faculty advisor to the SUNY Potsdam Comic Book Club. She worked with CBC students on doing comics criticism, fundraising, and charity work, as well as helping them coordinate group field trips. Lacking any student groups to work with at SUNY Cortland, she looks for ways to engage classes in some of these experiences that extend the boundaries of the classroom, such as affiliation with Project Censored and the US Media Literacy Week.

Some of the systems and platforms Dr. Knopf has used in administration, service, and teaching include DegreeWorks, Banner, Curriculog, Handshake, OneDrive, D2L, Blackboard, Moodle, WebCT, and PollEverywhere. She is also familiar with Canvas, GoogleClassrooms, and the former WebCT. She has active accounts on Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, LinkedIn, Academia, and ResearchGate, and less-used accounts on TikTok, BeReal, Reddit, and WordPress. She is skilled with PowerPoint and Word, comfortable with Excel, and a frequent user of Google's Drive, Docs, Forms, Slides, and Sheets, as well as Jamboard and Doodle. She has used SurveyMonkey, FormStack, and Qualtrics for polling. She is skilled with PowerPoint and Word and comfortable with Excel.