Dr. Jo Anna Grant - Newly Appointed Director of the CSUSB Teaching Resource Center

Dr. Jo Anna Grant has been appointed to the position of director of the Teaching Resource Center. She will assume her new role on Jan. 2. Established in 1996 for CSUSB faculty, the Teaching Resource Center (TRC) is dedicated to promoting and advancing effective, innovative instruction and the scholarship of teaching and learning through its programs and resources. 

Dr. Grant, professor of communication studies, joined Cal State San Bernardino in 2003. Since then, she has served in a variety of capacities, including the College of Arts and Letters dean’s fellow for assessment, department assessment coordinator, department B.A. Q2S transformation team lead, associate department chair, faculty fellow of the Center for Health Disparities Research and Training, and department graduate coordinator.

In 2007, she received CSUSB’s Outstanding Originator of Distributed Learning Award and in 2006, the Lead Article Award from the Journal of the Northwest Communication Association. She has authored approximately 20 publications. Her research interests center around interpersonal communication, aging and health.