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Harriet Napierkowski, Ph. D.Portrait of Harriet Napierkowski

Senior Instructor
Leadership, Research, and Foundations
College of Education

1420 Austin Bluffs Parkway
Colorado Springs, CO 80918
(719) 255-3433

hnapierk@uccs.edu


Dr. Napierkowski serves as an instructor of educational leadership at the University of Colorado in Colorado Springs, providing rhetoric and writing support to students in the Leadership, Research, and Policy Ph.D. Program. Prior to her work in the Department of Leadership, Research, and Foundations, Dr. Napierkowski was the Director of the UCCS Professional Writing Program, Department of English, College of Letters, Arts, and Science.

Grants/Awards

  • Student Technology Fee Grant
    2003
  • Best Practices in Teaching and Learning Award
    2002
  • SEEDS Grant
    2002
  • Student Technology Fee Grant
    2002
  • Course Transformation Grant
    2001
  • Teaching Online Grant
    June 2001
  • Best Practices in Teaching and Learning Award
    2000
  • Teaching with Technology Partnership Grant
    2000
  • Teaching Enhancement Grant
    1999
  • Teaching with Technology Partnerships Grant
    1999
  • Teaching with Technology Pathways Grant
    1998

Education

Ph.D., Educational Leadership and Innovation
University of Colorado-Denver - 2001

M.A., English
University of Colorado-Boulder - 1968

B.S., English
University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh - 1965

Teaching

  • Provides seminar instruction to first-year Ph.D. cohort students within the context of their required Ph.D. course meetings. Covers academic writing, conventions of Standard Written English, APA style, the dissertation process, and related elements central to successful research writing at the doctoral level.
  • Provides feedback and commentary on work-in-progress and on final drafts of students’ written work. Does so through seminar presentations, one-on-one writing conferences, and electronic review of student work.
  • Meets individually with students in person and online to respond to writing queries and related problems.

Scholarship

Publications

  • Napierkowski, H. (2004, spring). Book Review, My grandfather’s book: Generations of an American family, Gary Gildner, Michigan State University Press, 2002, 253 pp. Polish American Studies.
  • Napierkowski, H. (2003). Orchestrating peer response sessions. In 50 Ways to leave your lectern. Constance Staley. Belmont, CA: Wadsworth/Thomson Learning. 162-163.
  • Napierkowski, H. (2002, June). Who we are: How technical communicators construct themselves. Tech Talk. 6-7.
  • Napierkowski, H., Muth, R., Banks, D., Bonelli, J., Gaddis, B., White, C., & Wood, V. (2001). Towards an instructional paradigm: Recasting how faculty work and students learn. In 21st Century Challenges for School Administrators. Ed. T. J. Kowalski. Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press.
  • Napierkowski, H. (2001). Collaborative learning and sense of audience in two computer-mediated discourse communities. ERIC ED456482.
  • Napierkowski, H. (2000). A comparison of collaborative learning and audience awareness in two computer-mediated writing environments. ERIC ED455771.
  • Napierkowski, H. (1997, April). A bilingual journey. GP Light, 1-9.
  • Napierkowski, H. (1996). Book review: Polish American Studies, 53(2), 108-109. Review of Zaborowska, M. (1995). How we found America: Reading gender through East European immigrant narratives. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press. 500 pp.
  • Napierkowski, H. (1995b). Perceptions of Poland and America in the poetry of four Polish American women poets. Polish American Studies, 52(1) 15-29.
  • Napierkowski, H. (1995a). Book review: Polish American Studies, 52(2), 87-89. Review of Marynia don’t cry: Memoirs of two Polish-Canadian families. Toronto Press, 1995. 195 pp.
  • Napierkowski, H. (1992). The Memoirs of Maria Lewandowska," Polish-AngloSaxon Studies, 3-4 (191-198).
  • Napierkowski, H. (1990). Book Review: The world of our mothers, by Sydney Stahl Weinberg, University of North Carolina Press, l988. Reviewed in Polish American Studies, 57(1) 90.
  • Napierkowski, H. (1981, December). The role of language in the intellectual development of the deaf child. Teaching Exceptional Children, pp. 106-109.

International Presentations

  • Napierkowski, H. (2000). “Interview with Leslie Pietrzyk and Suzanne Strempek Shea.” Paper presented at the Polish Institute of Arts & Sciences of America Conference, Cracow, Poland.
  • Napierkowski, H. (1995). “Hope and disillusionment in the poetry of immigrant Polish American women.” Paper presented at the Jagiellonian University, Polonia Institute, Cracow, Poland.

National Presentations

  • Napierkowski, H. (2004, January). The Polka and the Feminist Voice in Hoopi Shoopi Donna and The Clarinet Polka. Paper presented at the Polish American Historical Association, Washington, DC.
  • Napierkowski, H. (2003). To know what is true at age twenty-two: Technical writing assessment from a student perspective. Paper presented at the Conference on College Composition and Communication. New York, NY.
  • Napierkowski, H. (2002). Fostering Verbal and Visual Literacy in E-Learning. Paper presented at the Western Cooperative for Educational Technology conference, Denver.
  • Napierkowski, H. (2002). “The Role of Virtual and Physical Spaces in Authentic Peer Interaction.” Paper presented at the annual Computers and Writing Conference, Illinois State University, Normal, IL.
  • Napierkowski, H. (2002). “San Francisco, Chicago, and Pieszyc: The post-Solidarity emigrant poetry of Adam Lizakowski.” Paper presented at the Polish Institute of Arts and Sciences in America, Georgetown University, Washington, DC.
  • Napierkowski, H. (2002). “Assessment of Technical Writing.” Paper presented at the Conference of College Composition and Communication (CCCC), Chicago.
  • Napierkowski, H.(2002). “Self-perceptions of technical communicators.” Paper presented at the annual conference of the Association of Teachers of Technical Writing (ATTW), Chicago.
  • Napierkowski, H. (2001). “Collaborative Learning and Sense of Audience in Two Computer-Mediated Discourse Communities.” Paper presented at the Conference in College Composition and Communication, Denver.
  • Napierkowski, H., Gaddis, B., Guzman, N., & Muth, R. (2000). “Developing effective and efficient systems of online education: A comparison of collaborative learning and audience awareness in two freshmen writing environments.” Paper presented at the University Council for Educational Administration Conference, Albuquerque, NM.
  • Napierkowski, H., & Gaddis, B. (2000).  Collaborative learning and audience awareness. Roundtable discussion at the International Association for Educational Communications and Technology Conference, Denver.
  • Napierkowski, H. (2000). “Attitude and performance in two computer-mediated technical writing courses.”  Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association, Boise, ID.
  • Napierkowski, H, & Gaddis, B. (2000). “Computer-mediated communication in two freshman writing environments.” Paper presented at the Texas/Southwest Association of Popular Culture/ACA Conference, Albuquerque, NM.
  • Napierkowski, H. (1999). “Developing a professional writing program.” Panel discussion presented at the Association of Teachers of Technical Writing Conference, held in conjunction with the Conference on College Composition and Communication, Atlanta, GA.
  • Napierkowski, H., (1998). “Teaching technical writing online: Lessons from the trenches.” Paper presented at the Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association Conference, Salt Lake City.
  • Napierkowski, H. (1997). “Navigating the linguistic divide: A bilingual and bicultural journey.” Polish American Historical Association Conference, New York, NY.
  • Napierkowski, H. (1994). “The poetry of four Polish American women poets.” Paper presented at the Polish American Historical Association Conference, San Francisco.

State Presentations

  • Napierkowski, H. (2003, August 13). Verbal and visual literacy duke it out: A rhetorician’s perspective. Paper presented at the Teaching with Technology Conference, CU-Boulder.
  • Napierkowski, H. (2003). Technical communicators in the 21st century. Paper presented at the Southern Colorado Chapter of the Society for Technical Communication, Colorado Springs.
  • Napierkowski, H. (2002). Hybrid and Online Peer Interaction in the Writing Classroom: Which is Better? Poster Presentation at the Teaching with Technology Conference, CU- Boulder.
  • Napierkowski, H., & Laroche, R. (2000). Teaching literature with technology. Paper presented at the Graduate Teaching Conference, Boulder.
  • Napierkowski, H, & Gaddis, B. (2000, July 12-14). “Collaborative learning and audience awareness in two computer-mediated freshmen writing environments.” Paper presented at the Teaching with Technology Conference, CU-Colorado Springs.
  • Napierkowski, H., & Laroche, R. (1999). Voyages and discoveries: Integrating web-based learning in a Renaissance literature course. Paper presented at the Teaching with Technology Annual Conference, Colorado School of Mines, Golden.
  • Napierkowski, H., & Odell, D. (1998). Teaching composition in a technology-rich classroom. Teaching with Technology Conference, Colorado Springs.
  • Napierkowski, H. (1992). Creating community in the networked classroom. Paper presented at the Colorado Language Arts Society Conference, Colorado Springs.
  • Napierkowski, H. (1991). Teaching writing with computers. Paper presented at the Colorado Language Arts Society Conference, Colorado Springs.
  • Napierkowski, H. (1988). “Teaching a televised writing course.” Paper presented at the Colorado Language Arts Society Conference, Colorado Springs.
  • Napierkowski, H. (1984). Teaching American literature. Paper presented at the Colorado Language Arts Society Conference, Colorado Springs.
  • Napierkowski, H. (1983). Peer critiquing in the composition classroom. Paper presented at the Colorado Language Arts Society Conference, Colorado Springs.