Jarzabek, Mary G. “Jorji” (1990) Instructor/Director of Forensics Department: Department of Communications Office: BH 318 Phone: (318) 797-5318 E-mail: mjarzabe@lsus.edu Vita: Click here to view Vita
Jorji Jarzabek is an alumni of LSUS, receiving her Bachelor of Degree in Communications in 1975. She received her Master of Arts from the Univ. Of Louisiana - Monroe (then known as Northeast Louisiana University) in Technical Theatre Arts in 1978. She is currently ABD in the doctoral program at the University of Southern Mississippi where she is pursuing a mass communications degree with advertising as her major field of study. Ms. Jarzabek pursued a career in technical television production for 13 years before becoming an instructor at LSUS. She served as Producer/Director at KNOE-TV in Monroe and KSLA-TV in Shreveport. She joined the faculty at LSUS in 1990. She teaches classes in theatre, public speaking, television production, and media law. During her tenure at LSUS she has served as the debate coach and is currently a member of the Executive Committee of the International Public Debate Association. She has also written an instructor’s manual to accompany the classroom text, The Challenge of Effective Speaking. She earned the LSUS Service Award in 1995 and again in 2005. Most recently, Ms. Jarzabek has been named Associate Director for the LSUS Theatre Program. She has also been awarded the Dalton Cloud Professorship in the Communications Department