Karyn Hecht
Title: Interim Chair and Professor of Communications
Department: Communications
School/Area: Undergraduate
Position: Teaching
Start Date: January 1987
Educational Background:
B.A., Houghton College
M.A., Wheaton College Graduate School
Professional/Personal Interests:
Professor Hecht is a member of the Associated Collegiate Press (ACP) and The Association of Writers and Writing Programs (AWP).
She is advisor for the Moody student newspaper, a publication that gives students opportunity to write, design and produce a newspaper read by the whole Moody community.
Ms. Hecht also oversees the Jerry Jenkins’ Writer Awards contest, which provides undergraduate students the opportunity to write an essay on the given topic of the year. Mr. Jenkins chooses the three winners who receive monetary prizes and are announced during Founder’s Week.