FACULTY AND STAFF ACCOMPLISHMENTS AND BEST PRACTICES // APRIL 2021 |
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Terry Lindvall continues with 39 years of writing Choice (Library Acquisition) Reviews with Pauline Greenill's "Reality, magic, and other lies," Steve Wiggins' "Nightmares with the Bible," and William V. Constanzo's "When the World Laughs."
Kellie Holzer's review of Jessica R. Valdez's book Plotting the News in the Victorian Novel came out in The Review of English Studies in February 2021.
In the series, prominent higher education leaders share how they are meeting the challenges of an unprecedented era through an ongoing focus on innovation.
Each chapter contains the invaluable expertise of a college or university president and offers tangible solutions to the issues many campuses now face. The seventh chapter of the 2020-2021 President to President thought leadership series is available online. In "Leading in Tumultuous Times: The Importance of Mission in Times of Real Change," Mount Saint Mary's University President Ann McElaney-Johnson, Ph.D., explores how higher education institutions can use their overarching missions and longstanding values to guide them as they find innovative solutions to current and future challenges. She describes how her University drew inspiration from its founders' original vision and its core principles in navigating the complexities of a difficult year. His daily blog, Dialogue, can be found at prezscottmiller.blogspot.com.
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Takeyra Coats presented as the invited guest speaker on the Doubted Success Podcast, Episode 5: "Be The Change."
Kelly Jackson served as a facilitator for the Virginia Center for Inclusive Communities’ Diversity Dialogue Day. The day-long event brought high school students together to increase understanding of what prejudice is, its harmful effects on individuals, groups, and communities, and to give students tools to create school and community environments free from the distractions of prejudice, stereotypes, and bigotry.
Taryn Myers presented a paper entitled "Feminist beliefs: Helpful or harmful in viewing media?" as part of a symposium titled "Feminist Identity: Changing Times, Changing Directions" at the virtual conference of the Association for Women in Psychology.
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Denise Wilkinson presented the session "Creating an 'Escape' Classroom to Enhance Student Engagement and Learning," virtually, at the Teaching Academic Survival and Success (TASS) national conference.
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Lisa Lyon Payne presented "Popular Pieces and Peer-reviewed Publications: An Overview of College Media Review" as part of the Spring National College Media Convention, which took place virtually. Payne is in her fourth year as editor of College Media Review, the flagship journal of the College Media Association devoted to research on teaching, advising and producing college media.
Audrey Malagon, together with colleagues from NYU, Stanford, and Portland State University, organized a National Science Foundation funded workshop, Lessons Learned: Navigating a Presidential Election Through a Pandemic. The workshop brought academics in mathematics, computer science, and political science together with election officials and other experts to discuss the relevant research questions most affecting our democratic process.
Mindy Gumpert presented “How to Navigate Inclusive Practices in Today's Classroom" to K-12 educators. The majority of students with disabilities are taught in today’s general education classroom, making an understanding of inclusive practices and co-teaching crucial for general and special educators alike. The professional development equipped participants with the knowledge and strategies to successfully teach in an inclusion classroom.
Kellie Holzer presented a paper, "Matrimonial 'Murder' in Translation: Dickens-Corelli-Hossain" at the Nineteenth-Century Studies Association 2021 virtual conference.
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GRANTS
The Robert Nusbaum Center, in collaboration with local and national organizations, was awarded a grant from the Virginia Humanities and Hampton Roads Community Foundation as part of a larger, multi-year effort (Beneath the Surface) to advance personal understanding and community dialogue focused on the ways that race has shaped and continues to shape the Hampton Roads region and its communities. The grant supports partnership with the In[HEIR]itance Project, a national arts organization that collaborates with communities using an open playmaking process that explores lived experiences in relationship with sacred texts to stimulate engagement around challenging civic conversations. The project will culminate with the presentation of an original performance at the 2022 Virginia Arts Festival.
Mandy Reinig received a NAFSA: Association of International Educator's Region VIII Advocacy Day Grant to participate in the April 20-21, 2021 virtual Advocacy Day where she will have the opportunity to receive training and talk with elected officials about policies related to international education.
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OTHER ACCOMPLISHMENTS
Kathy Merlock Jackson chaired the Jones Award committee to select the best graduate student paper in American culture to be presented at the Popular Culture Association conference. The award is named after former VWU professor Bill Jones. The first recipient of PCA's Kathy Merlock Jackson Dissertation Award has been announced: Julianna Kirschner of Claremont Graduate University, who wrote on Twitter.
Audrey Malagon has been invited to be an affiliate of the Institute for Mathematics and Democracy. She has been working on using mathematics to strengthen the security and integrity of our elections, specifically through statistical, risk-limiting audits of elections.
With the leadership of Brian Kurisky, Virginia Wesleyan University was selected as a 2021-2022 “Voter Friendly Campus,” a designation the University has received for three consecutive years.
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Benjamin Dobrin attended "2021 Ebola Virus Disease Outbreak Briefing for Virginia Hospitals," a webinar presented by the Virginia Department of Health.
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John Rudel, along with the students in Art 306, completed murals in the Alison J. and Ella W. Parsons Fine Arts Entrance and Lobby of the Susan T. Beverly Hall. The murals are based on Amanda Gorman’s poem “The Hill We Climb.”
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COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT
The "Animals and Society" class taught by Kathy Stolley virtually welcomed guest experts including: Heather Campbell and Hans who shared their experience working with wounded warriors and paralympians, Kathy Ames and Turner who presented on certified therapy dogs, and Kathy Bartkus (retired) who presented on VWU campus wildlife. Because the class is remote this semester, photos are from previous visits.
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