Marguerite Cantu Senior Instructor Course Director COMM 1020 and COMM 3280 Contact Info Office Phone: 719-255-4124 Email Address: mcantu2@uccs.edu     ~ Courses Taught ~ Interpersonal Communication Public Speaking Family Communication Intercultural Communication Communication in Groups and Teams Native American Community ~ Education ~ B.A., University of Colorado - Colorado Springs M.A., University of Colorado - Colorado Springs

                                                                                                        ~ Background Information ~

Marguerite has received many honors, including: the 2007 UCCS Women's Committee Mini-Grant for Research and Curriculum; the CIEE (Council for International Educational Exchange) Faculty Development Seminar to South Africa -- "Building a Multiracial, Multicultural Society After Apartheid"; the CRT Award for the "Culturally Responsive Teacher" awarded by the College of Education at the 3rd Annual Culturally Responsive Teaching and Counseling Symposium; and the first Annual Faculty Award for Diversity and Inclusion (2009); and one of two national scholarships from CIEE for International Faculty Development Seminar to Tibet (Religion, Identity and Ecology) in 2010.