Donna Kienzler is currently an assistant director of the Center for Excellence in Learning and Teaching where she is program director of the Preparing Future Faculty program.

Office/Office Hours

• office: 202B Lab of Mechanics and 417 Ross
• office hours: T & Th, 11:00 am, and by appointment
• office phone: (515) 294-4065 and (515) 294-3017
• email: dkienzle@iastate.edu
• home page: http://dkienzle.public.iastate.edu

Interests

• Pedagogy
• Ethics
• Professional Communication
• Graduate Student Training

Selected Publications

• Kienzler, Donna. “Teaching Ethics Isn’t Enough: The Challenge of Being Ethical Teachers.” Journal of Business Communication 67.2 (July 2004): 292-301.
• Kienzler, Donna, and Carol David. “After Enron: Integrating Ethics into the Professional Communication Curriculum.” Journal of Business and Technical Communication 17.4 (October 2003): 474-89.
• Smith, Frances M. and Donna Kienzler. “The Use of the Critical Thinking Process by Family and Consumer Science Students.” KON Forum 14.2 (2003): 1-22.
• Kienzler, Donna. “Ethics, Critical Thinking, and Professional Communication Pedagogy.” Technical Communication Quarterly 10.3 (Summer 2001): 319-339.
• David, Carol, and Donna Kienzler. “Towards an Emancipatory Pedagogy in Service Courses and User Departments.” Technical Communication Quarterly 8.3 (Summer 1999): 269-283. Issue won 2000 NCTE Award for Excellence in Technical and Scientific Communication: Best Collection of Essays in Technical or Scientific Communication.

Affiliations

• Association for Business Communication (member)
• Conference on College Composition and Communication (member)

Degrees

• Ph.D. in English, University of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois, 1975.
• A.M. in English, University of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois, 1970.
• A.B. in English, Gettysburg College, Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, 1968.