Valeta Wensloff

Valeta Wensloff

Undergraduate Director, Senior Academic Specialist & Internship Coordinator

Department
  • Media & Information
wensloff@msu.edu
(517) 432-5669

Bio

As Media & Information Undergraduate Director

Valeta collaborates with faculty to build out the undergraduate curriculum and courses. She also evangelizes for the department by designing public-facing graphical assets such as brochures, posters and websites for department programs, grants, publications, events and community outreach. These include the Meaningful Play conference, Information Technology Minor, and other events/projects. In addition, she is the Internship Coordinator and facilitates for-credit internships.

She received her M.A. from the Department of Media and Information (formerly Telecommunication, Information Studies & Media) at MSU, with an emphasis on Digital Media Art & Technology, and received her B.S. from Ferris State University in Television Production. She also has an M.A. Certificate in Cyber Criminology and Cybersecurity from MSU's School of Criminal Justice.

Current Teaching

Extra

Valeta is the Faulty Advisor for Students Interested in Costuming and Cosplay and co-advisor to the MSU Accafellas.

Roles

  • Undergraduate Director, Media and Information
  • Former Chairperson, University Committee on Curriculum (UCC)
  • Information Technology Minor committee
  • Media and Information Scholarship committee

Research and Teaching

Awards, Honors and Recognitions
  • 2024: 2023-2024 Distinguished Academic Staff Award
  • 2019: Bronze ADDY for Meaningful Play Conference Grimoire cover: Valeta Wensloff (Designer/Illustrator), Ricardo Guimaraes (Illustrator)
  • 2019: Bronze ADDY for Meaningful Play Conference Materials in the Integrated Branded Content, Local or Regional/National category: Valeta Wensloff (Designer/Illustrator), Ricardo Guimaraes (Illustrator)
  • 2017: Silver ADDY for Invisible Wounds in the Integrated Advertising Campaigns, Consumer Campaign, Local category: Amol Pavangadkar (Producer/Director), Archit Batra (Associate Producer), Ian Courtney (Associate Producer), Valeta Wensloff (Designer)
  • 2017: Bronze ADDY for Meaningful Play Conference Materials in the Integrated Branded Content, Local or Regional/National category: Valeta Wensloff (Designer), Andrew Dennis (Illustrator), Ricardo Guimaraes (Illustrator)
  • 2017: Bronze ADDY for Beyond Bollywood Poster in the Illustration, Single category: Ricardo Guimaraes (Illustrator), Amol Pavangadkar (Producer), Valeta Wensloff (Producer)


 

Contact Information

404 Wilson Rd. Room 411
Communication Arts and Sciences Building
Michigan State University