PEOPLE: SUSAN KNIGHT

Susan M. Knight
Office - Marshall 330
Telephone - (520) 621-3191
E-mail - smknight@email.arizona.edu

Susan M. Knight is an assistant professor of practice. A reporter and editor for nearly 20 years, Knight focused on public affairs reporting, specializing in education issues, and earned more than two dozen writing awards from state and national press groups and education organizations.

Knight was a Kellogg Fellow in the University of Michigan Journalism Fellows Program, where she focused on the intersection of public policy-making and public affairs reporting. She also has served as a board member for the Education Writers Association.

Knight's articles have appeared in the Arizona Daily Star, the Arizona Republic, Education Week and the Chronicle of Higher Education. She also worked on two alternative weeklies, the Willamette Valley Observer and the Tucson Weekly. Her editing work has included Shelter, a book for the University of Arizona Press on a man's journey out of homelessness.

Knight won the Hugh and Jan Harelson Excellence in Teaching Award in 2000 and 2002 and mentors new faculty as the department's "master teacher." She serves on the university's faculty advisory panel for the Disability Resources Center, and the Student Affairs Policy Committee. She also helps the department work out accommodations for differently abled students.

Knight earned her bachelor's and master's degrees from the University of Arizona in journalism.