Professional Notes

Dr. Stephen Brookfield, School of Education, gave keynote speeches at three national conferences, including "Race and Transformative Learning" at the Annual Transformative Learning Conference; "What Does it Mean to be Critical?" at the national conference of the American Association for the Continuing Education; and "Creating Critical Classrooms" at the Annual Conference on Students in Transition.

Dr. Michael Cogan, Institutional Research and Analysis, presented "Predicting Success of Academically Dismissed Undergraduate Students Using Quality Point Status," published in the proceedings of the 2007 Consortium for Student Retention Data Exchange Annual Symposium in September in Milwaukee.

Tom Oscanyan, Information Resources and Technologies, presented a poster session on software asset management at EDUCAUSE in Seattle. Using artwork created by Jon White of Web and Media Services to illustrate the process of software procurement and inventory, Oscanyan met with a number of representatives from colleges and universities to share information and solutions.

Dr. Debra Petersen, College of Arts and Sciences (Communication and Journalism Department), presented "What Might Communication and Journalism Offer to Political Scientists Who Study Female Candidates and Office Holders?" to the Minnesota Political Science Association Conference Nov. 10 at St. Olaf College in Northfield, Minn.

Dr. Thomas Redshaw, College of Arts and Sciences (English Department), is the author of an illustrated article on William Butler Yeats' scholarship in Ireland in the late 1960s and 1970s by Liam Miller at his Dolmen Press in Dublin. Redshaw's article was published in the South Carolina Review, Vol. 40.1, and was part of his on going artistic history of the Dolmen Press based on archival resources at Wake Forest University.

Dr. Daniel Tight, College of Arts and Sciences (Modern and Classical Languages Department), is the author of an article, "Lexical Subregularities and the Stress Preferences of L2 Spanish Learners," published in Hispania, Vol. 90. He also presented a paper, "Perceptual Learning Style Preference and Instructional Method in L2 Spanish Vocabulary Acquisition" at the Hispanic Linguistics Symposium at the University of Texas-San Antonio.

Dr. Lisa Waldner, College of Arts and Sciences (Sociology and Criminal Justice Department), had three teaching exercises – Outcomes of Poverty, Family and Child Well-Being, and Education and Child Well-Being – included in the Demography Teaching Resources Guide by the American Sociological Association.

Dr. Kris Wammer and Dr. J. Thomas Ippoliti, College of Arts and Sciences (Chemistry Department), gave talks Oct. 25 at Concordia College in Moorhead. Wammer's talk was titled "Environmental Photochemistry of Three Fluoroquinolone Antibacterials: Norfloxacin, Enrofloxacin, and Ofloxacin." Ippoliti's talk was titled "Synthesis of Novel Oxazolidinone Antimicrobials." The faculty at Concordia were particularly interested in these topics because it is developing inquiry-based labs on antibiotics in the environment.