National Park College (NPC) named assistant professor of Digital and Media Arts Jennifer
Seward as the Outstanding Faculty for 2021.
Seward is a graduate of Arkansas Tech University where she obtained her Bachelor of
Arts with an emphasis in graphic design. She is currently working on her Master of
Fine Arts with an emphasis in communication design at Texas State University. “I work
with some amazing, hard-working people and am honored to be recognized among them,”
stated Seward.
Previously, Seward worked as a production designer in Fayetteville before moving to
the bay area where she worked as a layout and web designer for a renewable energy
research and development company. She later returned to Arkansas and worked in newspaper
design. She went on to earn her nontraditional teaching license and taught public
school art and business technology in Mulberry, Arkansas.
After moving to Hot Springs in 2011, she taught Advertising and Design for NPC’s high
school technology program. In 2019, Seward transitioned to the post-secondary side
of education to teach digital and media arts for NPC.
“NPC is a community, a family, and somewhere I knew that I wanted to belong. I love
what I do. I love seeing my students grow and achieve. I especially love that NPC
provides an environment that fosters such growth and success in their faculty as well,”
stated Seward.
Seward credits her colleagues and her students for this award. “I have some amazing
students who have worked just as hard along with me this year. These 2021 graduates
are the first group of Digital and Media Arts students to graduate with their AAS.
These students have helped build and develop this program along with me, and I really
could not have achieved all that I have without them.”
