Daniel Hipp
Honors Program Co-Director and Associate Professor of English
630-844-4883
dhipp@aurora.edu
Daniel Hipp, Co-Director of the Honors Program, has been a member of Aurora University's English program since joining the AU faculty in 2000. He holds a B.A. in English from the University of Illinois and an M.A. in English from Villanova University, and in 1998, he received his Ph.D. in English from Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tenn. While teaching at Aurora University, Hipp has served as the faculty advisor to Sigma Tau Delta, AU's English Honor Society; has been a First-Year Advisor for the last four years; participated in the Foundations of Excellence project for first-year programs; and currently serves as vice-chair of the Faculty Senate.
Hipp has taught classes in composition, poetry, British literature, comparative literature, the history of the English language and interdisciplinary studies. He has given several presentations on British and American poets, including Wilfred Owen and Elizabeth Bishop, and he has authored a book titled "The Poetry of Shell Shock" (McFarland, 2005) studying British soldier-poets of the First World War. Hipp has taught an Honors Seminar titled "American Journeys," which investigates American travel narratives as explorations of American values and identity, and an Honors section of the freshman-level course, "Culture, Diversity, and Expression."
Toby Arquette
Honors Program Co-Director and Associate Professor of Communication
630-844-5614
tarquett@aurora.edu
Toby Arquette, Co-Director of the Honors Program, has been a member of Aurora University's Communication Program since joining the AU faculty in 2007. He holds a B.A. in Economics from Wayne State University and an M.A. in Communication Studies from Baylor University. In 2002, Dr. Arquette received his Ph.D. in Communication/Media Studies from Northwestern University in Evanston, IL. While teaching at Aurora University, Arquette has served as the faculty advisor to Lambda Pi Eta, AU's Communication Honor Society; works with a university-wide taskforce devoted to improving freshmen retention; and serves as a member on the university-wide Teaching Technology Committee. He has also given numerous guest speeches on leadership, academics at AU and the communication program.
Arquette has taught classes in the foundations of human communication, small group and interpersonal communication, media and society, social media, communication research methods, and global communication. He has given numerous professional presentations on the spread of digital technologies both in the U.S. and internationally. Arquette has authored numerous professional conference papers, four texts used to teach the content and skills needed for effective high school argumentation and advocacy, and received numerous extramural awards, including a National Science Foundation grant for his doctoral dissertation research. Arquette received the prestigious Gerald R. Miller Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation Award (2002) - award for the production of the top doctoral dissertation in his field as judged by the National Communication Association.
As a Co-Director of the AU Honors Program, Dr. Arquette teaches HON 1600 (Culture, Diversity, and Expression), and various honors seminars including most recently HON 2100 (Social Media and Cyberculture).
