GREG P. JACOB
2157 N.E. Grant; Hillsboro, OR 97124
503-681-8397

PORTLAND STATE UNIVERSITY, Associate Professor of English, 1994-present.
Coordinator, Writing Intensive Course Program, 2001-present.
Advisor, Graduate Teaching Education Program, Language Arts, 2001-present.
Interim Director of Writing, 1999-2000/2006-07: supervise graduate teaching
assistants, teach composition theory classes, organize writing workshops,
schedule & staff writing courses, implement writing policy.
Writing Center Coordinator, 1999-2000: train and supervise tutors, attend to budget
details, give writing workshops.
Courses taught: WR 115, WR 121, WR 123, WR 222,WR 323, WR 333,
Composition Theory, Teaching and Tutoring Writing, Practical Grammar,
Nature Writing, Ecocriticism, World Literature, Introduction to Fiction,
Literature of India, Freshman Inquiry.
Service: Chair, Writing Committee (English Dept); Chair, University Advisory
Writing Committee; Chair, Student Affairs Committee; Chair, Teacher
Education Committee; Carnegie Campus Teaching Group and University Studies  PSU liaison to Oregon Writing and English Advisory Committee; PSU team member to the Quality Assurance Collaborative, the RUSS project (Restructuring for Urban Student Success),  PASS (Proficiency-based Admissions Standards System, and the Teacher Education Committee. Professional membership: NCTE, OCTE, AAUP, and ASLE (Association for the Study of Literature and the Environment).
                     
PACIFIC UNIVERSITY, Assistant Professor of English, 1984-1993.
Courses taught: Expository Writing (basic and advanced), Major Writers,
World Literature, Literature of India, British Literature, Introduction to
Literature, Introduction to Linguistics, Modern Grammar.
 Writing Center Director (7/84-4/90): promoted writing across the curriculum,
trained and supervised tutors, presented writing workshops, managed budget.
Service: Chair, Standards & Advising, 1986-89; Program Chair, Portland Literary
Arts Conference; Coordinator, Freshman Honors Program; men and women’s
cross country coach.

UMPQUA COMMUNITY COLLEGE, English Instructor, 1969-1984.
Courses taught: English Composition (WR 121, 122, 123), World Literature,
Introduction to Literature, English literature, Mythology.      
Service: liaison between the community college and area high schools; Chair,
Faculty Senate; designed scope and sequence for college writing courses; 
organized Oregon Language Arts Conference, 1980; assistant track and cross
cross country coach. Outstanding Teacher Award (1984).

PUBLICATIONS AND PRESENTATIONS

Jacob, Greg, Julie Smth and Toeutu Faaleava. "Assessment of Student Learning about Native Americans in a Team Coordinated Interdisciplinary Freshman Course." Journal of Scholarship of Teaching and Learning. 2007. 7:2.

Fins, Finns, and Astorians: A Glimpse Into Astoria’s Fabled Fishing Community and Finnish Heritage, A Bygone Era. Portland, OR: Book Printing Network, 2006.
“The First (and Last?) Salmon Ceremony.” Oregon English Journal. 25.2 (Spring 2003).
Writing and Ecoconsciousness: Matters of Composition and the Environment. CAT Publishing: Redding, CA. April, 1999.
"Phenomenology and Dialogic Discourse." Paper presented at the Association for the
Study of Literature and the Environment, Flagstaff, AZ, June 8, 2001.
Jacob and Burnell, “Improving the Support of Writing in Learning Communities,"
ERIC document 442 922, 2001.
“Sequencing Writing Assignments.” Presentation given at NCTE Conference in Seattle
 June 1999. Conference theme: “Reflection, Theory, and Practice.”
"India: Language and Politics." Pacific Today, Spring 1992.
Jacob and Alden, Fundamentals of Grammar and Writing.  CAT Publishing:
Redding, CA, 1989.
"Writing Is Like Running." Teaching English In The Two Year College, 1984.
"The One-To-One Tutorial: Three Conference Models," Teaching English In The Two Year College, 1983.
"Changing the Image of the Writing Center," The Writing Lab Newsletter,  (March 1986).
"Sattva, Rajas, and Tamas in the Indian Epics."  Paper read at Asian Studies Conference,
Honolulu, June 29, 1989.              
"The Writing Conference Gone Awry."  Paper read at Oregon Community
Oregon Language Arts Conference, 1982.

AWARDS AND GRANTS

Diversity grant, December 15, 2000. Awarded by the Center for Academic Excellence.
Purpose to integrate diversity into a course curriculum.
Learn and Serve grant for including community service in my Freshman Inquiry
course, 1998, Center for Academic Excellence.
Center for Academic Excellence grant to participate in issues of race, gender, ethnicity,   language, and class, 1997.
Fulbright Lectureship for the 1990-91 Academic Year to teach and lecture at Madurai-Kamaraj University, Tamil Nadu, India.
Fulbright-Hays Grant to India.  Seminar title: "The Great Books of India," summer, 1984.
Oregon Council for the Humanities: "Democracy in India--Fact or Fable,"
January 24, 1987.
Oregon Council for the Humanities: "India and Gandhi: "The Pursuit of Truth," Pacific University, September 27-28, 1985.

EDUCATION

Ph.D.   INDIANA UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA, Indiana, Pennsylvania.
Degree:  Rhetoric and Composition, May 1982.
Dissertation:  "An Ethnographic Study of the Writing Conference: The Degree of
Student Involvement in the Writing Process."
M.A.  UNIVERSITY OF OREGON, Eugene, Oregon, December 1968.
Degree:  English.
B.A.  OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY, Corvallis, Oregon, June 1967.
Degree:   Humanities