Dr. Louisa 罗杰斯

Dr. Louisa 罗杰斯 teaches business communications skills to graduate-level accounting 学生 and business communication skills to undergraduate business majors at the College of Business. "I teach them to write and speak as professionals – clearly, concisely and accurately," Dr. 罗杰斯 said. "They learn clarity through word choice, format, and document design. They also learn concision; less is more. In addition, they learn to avoid legalese and jargon as both interfere with audiences understanding them."

Among the courses Dr. 罗杰斯 revised and developed, all based on real-life scenarios, are: Communication Strategies for Professional Accountants (学生 secure a new client, Sam’s Super Deli, and must provide accounting documents and services); Communications Strategies for Business Valuators (学生 help a client who has inherited money and wants advice about investing in Home Depot stock); and Communication Strategies for Forensic Accountants (theft has occurred at Weaver Textile and 学生 identify the guilty parties). "I'm currently working on a paired course with Dr. Donna Cooke. It is the first of its kind offered at FAU. The paired course gives management majors the opportunity to take a management course and the GEB [General Business] requirement together. In this course, GEB is designed to support management in its writing and presenting assignments. We plan on writing up our experiences as qualitative research."

While at FAU, Dr. 罗杰斯 has helped instructors who were teaching GEB 3213 [Introduction to Business Communication] for the first time and instructors who were teaching Communications Strategies for Forensic Accountants and Communications Strategies for Professional Accountants for the first time. She has assisted the College of Business with making the transition to Fast Track Courses and has worked with the FAU 戴维 Career Center, helping them have more evening hours and hold career fairs later in the day to enable evening 学生 to attend. Among one of her favorite experiences at FAU was helping one of her 学生 prepare for and subsequently be hired by the multinational firm, 德勤.

Dr. 罗杰斯 began teaching at the College of Business in 2013. Prior to that she had been teaching at the College of Education 自2004年以来. A born and raised New Yorker, Dr. 罗杰斯 earned her doctorate at Rutgers University in English Education (composing /learning strategies of college writers) and did post-doctoral work at Florida International University in Florida ESOL [English for speakers of other Languages] Endorsement. "I moved from New York City to South Florida in 1981. The University of Miami brought me down to teach writing," said Dr. 罗杰斯, a Sunrise resident who, during her free time, enjoys hiking, 游泳, 热瑜伽, and weight training.