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303 Washington Ave, Manitou Springs, CO 80829. (719) 685-9123 Wbgrail@qwest.net
EDUCATION (1)
Adjunct Faculty, Pikes Peak Community College Military Program—Ft. Carson (2003-2005)
Taught Biological and Cultural Anthropology to soldiers pre- and post- deployment.
Adjunct Faculty, Pikes Peak Community College, Peterson Air Force Base ( 2003-2006)
Taught Biological Anthropology, Cultural Anthropology and English Composition to soldiers pre- and
post-deployment.
Teach Developmental English, Composition I and Hybrid Online Composition I at two campuses
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Instructor, Kansas School for Effective Learning (KANSEL) (2000-2001)
Taught Beginning, Intermediate and Advanced ESL; taught Spanish for
Travelers; language skill assessment for incoming students
School founder, owner; ESL instructor; supervisor, trainer, staff of nine. Performed English/Spanish
translations for businesses such as ad agencies and grocery stores
Taught advanced ESL, U.S. History for U.S. Department of Immigration Amnesty Program
Taught all levels of ESL, U.S. History, Citizenship, Cultural Coping Skills for
U.S. Department of Immigration Amnesty Program; provided language assessment and testing
Journalist, Costa Rica Today, San José, Costa Rica, Central América, February 1990--October 1994. Full-
time staff writer specializing in Costa Rican culture, environmental policy, and Amerindian issues.
Technical Writer, Ridgeway’s Computer Graphics, Houston, Texas, January 1986—November 1986.
Wrote proposals, responses to RFPs, user manuals for translation software; designed and wrote magazine
advertisements.
Founding Editor, University of Houston Literary Magazine, The Bayou Review, 1986. Featured in
Houston Chronicle newspaper and Houston Pride Magazine; acquired funding, printed and distributed the
university’s first literary magazine. $2500.00
AWARDS (5)
*Presidential Award for Commitment to Education, Leadership and Excellence, Pikes Peak Community
College, 2009-2010
* Charles William Merton Hart Student Traveling Award, Wichita State University, 2001.
Awarded to one anthropology department graduate student annually to fund traveling for thesis research.
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Based on academic excellence and economic need. $150.00
* Nancy J. Berner Graduate Student Research Fund Award, Dept. of Anthropology, Wichita State
University, 2000. Awarded to one anthropology department graduate student annually to fund thesis
research. Based on academic excellence and thesis research potential. $350.00
* Delano Maggard Jr. Graduate Research Scholarship, Wichita State University, 200.1
Awarded to seven graduate students per year on the basis of academic excellence and potential for
outstanding research success. $500.00.
TECHNOLOGY (6)
Desire 2 Learn, Banner, Blackboard, Windows XP, Microsoft, PowerPoint, Excel, office machinery
2009 Branwell, Wendy. “Special Edition: As Snapshot of Instructor Compensation in Colorado Higher
Education,” Pikes Peak AAUP Faculty Matters, 3.1, February 23, 2009, unpublished electronic newsletter,
http://intranet.ppcc.edu/larry.giddings.ppcc.edu.
1994 Schmidt, Wendy. “The Guatuso Culture.” Moon Handbooks: Costa Rica. Ed. Christopher P. Baker.
4th ed. Avalon Travel Publishing: Emeryville, 2001.
1993 Schmidt, Wendy. "Local guide narrowly escapes eruption of Volcan Arenal."
Learning English: A Course for Costa Rican Students. 2nd ed. McGraw-Hill InterAmericana: Columbia,
1993.
1992 Schmidt, Wendy. “The Ticos.” The Ticos: Culture and Social Change in Costa Rica, Mavis Hiltunen
Biesanz et al. Lynne Rienner Publishers: Boulder,1999.
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2001 Paleolinguistics: The Big Picture. Lambda Alpha Second Annual Conference, Wichita State
University, Wichita, Kansas.
2000 Acculturation: Anger, Anomie and Language. Colloquium on New Research, Wichita State
University, Kansas.
2001, “Lexical Borrowings in Siouan Languages: Implications for Chronology and Archaeology,” by Dr.
Robert Rankin, Professor of Linguistics, University of Kansas, April 5, 2001, for the Department of
Anthropology, Wichita State University, KS.
* Faculty Senate, Adjunct Representative, Pikes Peak Community College, June 2008 to present
* Faculty Senate Salary and Budget Subcommittee, Pikes Peak Community College, July
2008 to present
*Co-founder, Pikes Peak Adjunct Association, 2008 to present
*COAT Reading Assessment Committee, Pikes Peak Community College, CO, March 2008-
2009
Instructor, 2005
Parks and Recreation Leisure Learning Program, Woodland Park, CO
Taught Intermediate Spanish; offered courses in Anthropology, Introductory Spanish, ESL
Advisory Board Member, The Salvation Army Nicaraguan Tsunami Relief Board, San José, Costa Rica,
Central America, 1993; assisted in coordination of tents, food and medicines acquisition
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The following persons have either written letters of recommendation on my behalf, or are
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