Earl Harewood, Ph.D. student (WHRE) in the Department of Organizational Leadership, Policy, and Development (OLPD), was selected to sit on one of the boards for the Higher Education Teaching and Learning (HETL) Review – an internationally respected journal for scholarship teaching and learning in higher education.
Group established by OLPD grad student recieves Rochester Heritage Preservation Award for Education and Advocacy
Dawn Littleton, Ph.D. student-WCFE in the Department of Organizational Leadership, Policy, and Development (OLPD), along with two individuals of Dakota descent, established the Celebrate Dakota! Mayo Employee Resource Group in 2011. Celebrate Dakota! was honored for community education and advocacy during the Fourth Annual Rochester Heritage Preservation Awards in May. The group received the Rochester Heritage Preservation Award for Education and Advocacy from the city’s mayor.
This purpose of Celebrate Dakota! is to help members further educate themselves and others about the Dakota heritage and lifestyle, and that of other Native American groups. The group now has about 40 members, and meets monthly at Mayo and in the surrounding community.
Grad student Heather Hermann uses Shakespeare in GED classrooms
In a recent story by WBEZ Chicago, Curriculum and Instruction Ph.D. student Heather Hermann (Literacy Education) is featured for her use of Shakespeare’s “Macbeth” to teach English and critical thinking skills to students studying for their General Equivalency Diploma (GED) exam.
In discussing the Minnesota Shakespeare Project, Hermann says, “I believe that adults returning to school deserve a high quality education. Sadly, I know of very few programs in which GED students are given the opportunity to read a full novel, play, or other complete literary work. These same students are then given test questions with fragments of literature in the form of passages on them and expected to answer comprehension questions concerning these passages. It seems unfair to me that this is the only way that GED students are exposed to literature, especially when reading literature is often the catalyst for finding one’s own voice, and these students have such incredible stories to share.”
Hermann serves as the GED Teacher & Program Developer for the Minnesota Literacy Council. For more on the Minnesota Literacy Council’s Shakespeare Program, visit their website and watch WBEZ Chicago’s video here.
Jan McCulloch receives Jack Davis Professional Achievement Award from University of Alabama
Dr. Jan McCulloch, Family Social Science professor and department head, has been named a recipient of the Jack Davis Professional Achievement Award from the University of Alabama, where she received her M.S. degree. The award is given annually to recognize professional accomplishments in administration, education, extension, research, or business in several fields of Human Environmental Sciences.
Dr. McCulloch will be recognized during the homecoming recognition convocation on October 26 in Tuscaloosa, Alabama.
3 FSoS Grad Students to Serve on University Women of Color Council
Family Social Science graduate students Veronica Deenanath, Blendine Hawkins, and Melanie Jackson will be serving two-year terms on the University Women of Color Council. The council is committed to creating safe, empowering spaces for all women of color within the University to feel valued, supported, respected, and connected. They regularly host events, gatherings, and engage in activism and advocacy initiatives around campus.
Jennifer Sampson publishes single-author article in JMFT
Jennifer Sampson, Family Social Science graduate student and co-founder of The Hoarding Project, has a single-authored publication in the most recent issue of the Journal of Marital and Family Therapy.
The article, “The Lived Experience of Family Members of Persons Who Compulsively Hoard: A Qualitative Study” appears in the forthcoming August issue of the journal. Five overarching themes for the participants’ experiences of having a person who hoards in the family emerged: negative feelings toward the persons who hoard; lack of understanding of hoarding behavior; experiences of loss; internal barriers to seeking support; and internal conflicts. Clinical implications and recommendations for future research are discussed, including a proposed application of an ambiguous loss framework for understanding and working with the experiences of family members of persons who hoard.
CASCW Adoption Coordinator JaeRan Kim on MPR
On Friday, July 13, 2012, JaeRan Kim, Stability, Permanency & Adoption Coordinator for the Center for Advanced Studies in Child Welfare was a part of a Roundtable discussion on MPR’s Daily Circuit with Tom Webber. The subject of the discussion was adoption. JaeRan and the panel covered a wide variety of topics, including transracial/transnational/transcultural adoption, as well as a discussion of the the importance of the adoptee experience in discussions around adoption. You can listen to the segment on MPR’s website.
Valentini honored with 2012 MIAC Steve Wilkinson Coach of the Year Award
Tommy Valentini, a Kinesiology Ph.D. student in Sport and Exercise Psychology, has been honored with the 2012 Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (MIAC) Steve Wilkinson Coach of the Year Award, named for the eponymous college tennis coaching legend. In his third season as the Gustavus Adolphus College head men’s tennis coach, Valentini improved the team record to 22-8 this year (9-0 in conference), with a 6th playoff title and 24th consecutive MIAC title, with the team advancing to the NCAA regional finals. In addition, Valentini coached the doubles team of Amrik Donkena and Mya Smith-Dennis (both from Minnesota) who finished 2nd in the nation at the NCAA DIII National Doubles Championships. Valentini, whose research topic is sport and moral development, is advised by Dr. Nicole M. LaVoi and co-advised by Dr. Diane Wiese-Bjornstal.
McMaster appointed to state Special Education Advisory Panel
Associate Professor Kristen McMaster, Department of Educational Psychology, was appointed by Gov. Dayton to serve a four-year term on the Minnesota Department of Education Special Education Advisory Panel (SEAP). The SEAP provides input to MDE staff on policies, practices, and issues related to the education of children and youth with disabilities from birth to age 21.
Perry and his snake are featured in book
“Snake Man,” a chapter about Nathan Perry of the Institute on Community Integration and his six-foot boa constrictor, was recently published in Flourish: People with Disabilities Living Life with Passion by Karin Melberg Schwier. The book was released by Copestone, a Canadian publisher based in Saskatoon.
Moore serves on panel at Association for Behavior Analysis International convention
Tim Moore of the College’s Institute on Community Integration was an invited panelist at the annual convention of the Association for Behavior Analysis International in Seattle on May 27; the panel was titled “The Application of Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Variables From a Practitioners’ Perspective.” On June 1, Moore presented a poster titled “Functional Analysis of Self-Injurious Behavior in an 18-Month-Old Child with Traumatic Brain Injury” at the Gillette Pediatric Neurosciences Conference in Minneapolis.
Wade invited to serve on National Science Foundation Committee of Visitors
Dr. Michael Wade, Kinesiology professor of motor learning and development, was recently appointed to the National Science Foundation (NSF) Committee of Visitors (CoV). His duties will include the review of programs within the Division of Behavioral and Cognitive Services (BCS) at the National Science Foundation on October 10-12, 2012.
The CoV is convened every five years to conduct a complete review of the practices and policies of NSF programs, and to provide guidance for future program policy. The NSF invites the most highly accomplished and respected scientists to serve on the committee.
President’s Council to publish invited Kane article on Title IX
Professor Mary Jo Kane, School of Kinesiology faculty and director of the Tucker Center, has had an invited paper accepted for publication in the PCFSN Research Digest, a journal of the President’s Council on Fitness, Sport & Nutrition. The article, entitled “Title IX at 40: Examining Mysteries, Myths & Misinformation Surrounding the Historic Federal Law,” makes a strong case for the positive results of Title IX, and counters many myths associated with the groundbreaking legislation including the oft-repeated assertion by its critics that Title IX is responsible for the dropping of men’s non-revenue sports.
Anna Bohlinger awarded AAMFT Masters Thesis Award
Family Social Science Ph.D student Anna Bohlinger will be presented with the AAMFT Master’s Thesis Award at the AAMFT National Conference Friday September 14th in Charlotte, North Carolina.
Her masters thesis was entitled “Metaphorical Language and the Nature of Hope Among Mothers of Children who deal with Mental Illness.” She conducted qualitative interviews with 12 mothers to find out how they conceptualized mental illness when they had children who dealt with it. The mothers often referred to the mental illness in fixed or fluid metaphors – either it was something that was fixed and unchanging (like a “fact of life”) or it was something that was fluid or changed (like an “enemy”). Clinical implications and directions for future research were discussed.
FSOS Alum Jaerim Lee Receives Distinguished Teaching Award
Dr. Jaerim Lee has been named as a recipient of the 2012 Yeungnam University Distinguished Teaching Award. Dr. Lee graduated with a Ph.D. in Family Social Science in 2009, and her adviser was Dr. Jean Bauer. She also took International Teaching Assistant Program courses and Preparing Future Faculty courses through the Center for Teaching and Learning.
Bolter and Weiss publish on coaching for character development
Nicole Bolter (PhD, University of Minnesota, 2010) and Maureen Weiss, Kinesiology professor, have two papers–one published and one “in press” in Sport, Exercise, and Performance Psychology–on development and validation of a measure of coaching behaviors that promote sportspersonship in athletes. The published paper is titled, “Coaching for character: Development of the Sportsmanship Coaching Behaviors Scale (SCBS),” (2012, Volume 1, pp. 73-90), and the in-press paper is titled, “Coaching behaviors and adolescent athletes’ sportspersonship outcomes: Further validation of the Sportsmanship Behaviors Scale (SCBS).”
Using multiple methodologies (focus groups, expert panel, confirmatory factor analysis, structural equation modeling), Bolter and Weiss provided evidence of construct validity for a measure that assesses six coaching behaviors–sets expectations for good sportsmanship, reinforces good sportsmanship, punishes poor sportsmanship, teaches good sportsmanship, models good sportsmanship, and prioritizes winning over good sportsmanship–that positively or negatively influence athletes’ prosocial and antisocial behaviors toward opponents and teammates. This measure can be used in future studies on coaches’ behaviors in relation to athletes’ character development through sport participation.
Dr. Bolter just completed a two-year lecturer position at San Francisco State University and is headed to Boise State University in a tenure-track assistant professor position.
ICD alumna appears on KSTP-TV news discussing the effects of stress on the children of incarcerated parents
Rebecca Shlafer (Ph.D. 2010), post doctoral fellow, Healthy Youth Development Prevention Research Center and instructor, Institute of Child Development, appeared recently on KSTP-TV to discuss the effect that incarcerating parents can have on their children. Asked to comment on the sentencing of Amy Sensor on July 10, Shlafer talked about the anxiety and possible stress reactions that can have an impact on children and the efforts of family to protect children from these stressful events. View the interview here:
New University e-book shows potential of digital media in teaching, learning
Cultivating Change in the Academy: 50+ Stories from the Digital Frontlines at the University of Minnesota in 2012 is a new, first-of-its-kind e-book offering unique stories about teaching with technology at the U. Eleven of the stories feature CEHD faculty, staff, and students, while perspectives from more than 100 University faculty and staff and more than 20 graduate and undergraduate students are included throughout.
Here is a sampling of CEHD chapters:
- Podcasting: Learning on the Go, David Arendale, associate professor, Department of Postsecondary Teaching and Learning (PsTL)
- The River in the Classroom: Digital Storytelling that Fosters Community, Deepens Engagement, and Cultivates Global Awareness, Linda Buturian, PsTL senior teaching specialist
- Avenue: Innovation and transformation in world language, reading, and writing e-assessment, Charles Miller, Lucas Lecheler, and Susan Rose, from Learning Technologies, Educational Psychology, and the LT Media Lab.
“While online activity is at the core of higher education’s future, institutions have to challenge the assumption that big programs are required to make things happen,” said Ann Hill Duin, co-editor of the e-book and professor of writing studies at the University. “We need greater focus on the digital frontlines where innovative faculty, staff, and students are creating new solutions in real time at minimal cost with great impact. This e-book provides that initial focus so other educators can learn from their colleagues’ successes and incorporate technology into their own classrooms.”
See more on this story in the University news release.
The free e-book is available here and will be available at iTunes U, Google, and Amazon. While designed for an iPad, Kindle, Nook, or other tablets, it also may be viewed on a laptop or Web browser.
CEHD academic adviser leads global seminar in New Zealand
During May session, CEHD academic adviser Mark Bellcourt led six University students on a global seminar to New Zealand. Students learned about New Zealand’s indigenous Maori community, the economics of the region, and diverse philosophies within and between the Maori and descendents of the European colonialists. Each student created digital stories of the trip; click here to view elementary education student Jennifer Lockhart’s digital story.
Bellcourt has also led global seminars in Mexico’s Yucutan Peninsula, which explored how tourism has impacted the region’s environment.
Magnuson authors chapter in ground-breaking ebook focused on academic technology
Dr. Connie Magnuson, faculty in Kinesiology and coordinator of the B.S. in Recreation, Park, and Leisure Studies, is a contributor to the recently published ebook, Cultivating Change in the Academy: 50 Stories from the Digital Frontlines at the University of Minnesota in 2012. Magnuson’s chapter, “Costa Rica Digital Exploration,” focuses on the integration of digital storytelling into her Costa Rican study abroad course.
Cultivating Change is an eBook designed to stimulate discussion about what’s possible as well as generate new vision and academic technology direction. It serves as a means for faculty, instructors, students, and staff to learn about the innovative, imaginative, creative, collaborative, and dynamic academic technology work underway across the University of Minnesota in 2012. You can download the book at http://purl.umn.edu/125273, and join in on the conversation at
https://cultivatingchange.wp.d.umn.edu/.
More recently the ebook has been the focus of the following articles:
http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2012/07/27/university-minnesota-releases-e-book-about-academic-technology
http://www.startribune.com/local/162959346.html
https://cultivatingchange.wp.d.umn.edu/