What pleases Star Muir most about his recent appointment as head of STAR, the Student Technology Assistance and Resources Center, is the positive influence he will be able to have in the lives of students. It also provides equipment and facilities for students to use. Last year, the center served more than 7,000 students. As director of STAR, Muir plans to strengthen and create programs that emphasize the 11 technology skills identified as necessary through the Technology across the Curriculum program. He also plans to increase STAR's use of student mentoring.
Students are less intimidated by student mentors.
This arrangement is good not only for the students who come to learn but also for the student mentors who are there to teach. Since 1988, Muir has been a faculty member in Communication. Now that he is director of STAR, he will split his efforts between STAR and the Department of Communication. In addition to teaching a class each semester and fulfilling his research and scholarly responsibilities, he will continue as the department's undergraduate coordinator. His wife, Janette Muir, also a member of the Communication faculty, is the new associate dean of New Century College.