Hampton Sides, author of the best-selling “In the Kingdom of Ice,” is taking the helm at CC’s new Journalist-in-Residence Program. The program aims to raise the profile of non-fiction writing on campus while also bringing some of the nation’s top non-fiction writers, which include historians, journalists, and commentators, to campus to teach and participate in a lecture series.

Sides, who is editor-at-large for Outside magazine and a regular contributor to The New Yorker, National Geographic, and Esquire, will teach two blocks in non-fiction writing. The courses are The Art of Fact: Studies in the New Journalism and Narrative Non-fiction and Going Long: The Art and Craft of Long-form Journalism. He also will advise CC student journalists and help coordinate the lecture series. The Journalist-in-Residence Program also includes a radio journalism course, taught by Peter Breslow, senior producer of NPR’s “Weekend Edition,” called Radio Journalism: Reporting, Producing, Audio Storytelling.

The new program, housed in Film and New Media Studies, is made possible by a generous gift from Ian Griffis ’85, Susan Deeds Griffis ’88, David Birnbaum ’83, Kathryn Kantes Birnbaum, Mary Jo Sokolowski, Mike Millisor ’83, Mark Polite ’83, Dorian Griffis Polite, Phil Swan ’84, and Anne Bush Hanson ’85.