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22 Feb 2005 by St. Thomas Newsroom / No Comments
Professional notes Dr. Phil Anderson, Management Department, and co-author Bernice Kotey, University of New England, Armidale, Australia, are the authors of an article, "Comparing the Performance of Distance-Learning and Traditional Students in a Business Simulation Exercise," to be published in the Journal of Industry and Higher Education. Dr. Joe Fitzharris, History Department, was appointed coordinator [...]
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15 Feb 2005 by St. Thomas Newsroom / No Comments
Professional notes Dr. Catherine Craft-Fairchild, English Department, presented a paper, "The Director Who Didn’t Make the Cut: Alfred Hitchcock and the Vatican Film List," at the Hawaii International Conference on Arts and Humanities. The essay examined the influence of Hitchcock’s Catholicism on his filmmaking, tracing shifts in the director’s moral outlook as his career advanced [...]
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08 Feb 2005 by St. Thomas Newsroom / No Comments
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01 Feb 2005 by St. Thomas Newsroom / No Comments
Dr. Bill Banfield has a new book out … and more.
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14 Dec 2004 by St. Thomas Newsroom / No Comments
Professional notes Cindy Lavorato, School of Education, recently was selected by the West Education Law Reporter’s Editorial Advisory Subcommittee to serve on the 2005 Authors’ Committee. The selection followed a nomination from a member of the Editorial Advisory Committee. Lavorato, who has a juris doctor degree, will provide blind reviews of manuscripts submitted for publication [...]
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07 Dec 2004 by St. Thomas Newsroom / No Comments
Professional notes Dr. John Holst, School of Education, is the author of an article, "Globalization and Education Within Two Revolutionary Organizations in the United States of America: A Gramscian Analysis," in the current issue of Adult Education Quarterly. Dr. Terence Nichols, Theology Department, is the author of "Participatory Hierarchy," a chapter in a new book, [...]
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30 Nov 2004 by St. Thomas Newsroom / No Comments
Professional notes Dr. Bernard Brady, Theology Department, presented a paper, "Defining Racism," at a recent conference, Catholic Social Thought and Racism, held at Villanova University. The paper was co-written with Raymond Eby, School of Law. Dr. Stephen Brookfield, School of Education, is the author of The Power of Critical Theory: Liberating Adult Learning and Teaching, [...]
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23 Nov 2004 by St. Thomas Newsroom / No Comments
Professional notes Dr. Mel Gray, Economics Department, recently attended the annual meeting of the Association for Research on Nonprofit Organizations and Voluntary Action in Los Angeles, where he participated in two panels. In the first, a colloquy titled "Toward a Comprehensive Theory of Nonprofit Finance," he presented his work on "Gifts in Kind: Doing Good [...]
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16 Nov 2004 by St. Thomas Newsroom / No Comments
Professional notes Dr. Michael Hennessey, Engineering Department, and Dr. Richard Smith, Quantitative Methods and Computer Science Department, presented papers at the 2004 North Midwest Regional Conference of the American Society for Engineering Education Oct. 8 in Milwaukee, Wis. Hennessey’s paper was titled "Embedding a National Collegiate Design Contest Into a Course," and Smith’s was titled [...]
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09 Nov 2004 by St. Thomas Newsroom / No Comments
Professional notes Dr. Jan Andrews-Schenk, School of Social Work, contributed the first chapter, "The Legacy of Ruby Pernell and Social Group Work," to the book, Growth and Development Through Group Work, edited by Claudia Carson, Anna Fritz, Elizabeth Lewis, John Ramey and David Sugiuchi (Haworth Press, 2004). Dr. William Carter III, Alumni Association and School [...]
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26 Oct 2004 by St. Thomas Newsroom / No Comments
Professional notes Teresa Collett, School of Law, gave a presentation, "Divine Governance, Self Governance and the American Way" as part of the University of Minnesota MacLaurin Lecture Series last week. Her lecture explored questions surrounding Christian involvement in the political process. Dr. Ellen Kennedy, Service-Learning, received the Higher Education Leader of the Year award at [...]
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19 Oct 2004 by St. Thomas Newsroom / No Comments
Professional Notes Dr. Sarah Armstrong, Personal Counseling and Testing, presented a workshop titled "Providing Supervision Training for Staff: Toward Best Practices in Internship Centers" at the 29th annual conference of the Association of Counseling Center Training Agencies in Jacksonville, Fla. Armstrong, who completed her second year on the ACCTA board of directors, also planned its [...]
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12 Oct 2004 by St. Thomas Newsroom / No Comments
Professional notes Dr. Dan Carey, Health and Human Performance Department, is the author of a new book, Establishing Credentials for Pitcher Selection to the Hall of Fame. Read more here. Dr. Camille George, School of Engineering, and Ashley Shams, Modern and Classical Languages Department, were speakers at the second annual Engineers for a Sustainable World [...]
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05 Oct 2004 by St. Thomas Newsroom / No Comments
Professional notes Dr. Jean Birbilis, Graduate School of Professional Psychology, presented a paper, "Developing a Niche in Independent Practice," at the annual convention of the American Psychological Association in August. In addition, Dr. Debra Murray, a graduate of the St. Thomas Psy.D. program, and Birbilis participated in a poster session at the convention with a [...]
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28 Sep 2004 by St. Thomas Newsroom / No Comments
Professional notes Dr. Wendy Barger, Journalism and Mass Communication Department, was a guest on "The Don Shelby Show" Sept. 20 on WCCO Radio. Barger and John Hinderaker, a Minneapolis blogger, discussed CBS News’ use of documents in a report about President Bush’s military service. Hinderaker’s Web log was among the first to claim that the [...]
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21 Sep 2004 by St. Thomas Newsroom / No Comments
Professional notes Dr. Jan Andrews-Schenk, School of Social Work, is the author of a variety of recent publications: "Collaborative Education in a Progressive Social Work Class," co-written with former student Stacy Husebo, in the summer issue of the Journal of Progressive Human Services; a book review of Joe Blau’s The Dynamics of Social Welfare Policy [...]
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14 Sep 2004 by St. Thomas Newsroom / No Comments
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07 Sep 2004 by St. Thomas Newsroom / No Comments
Read about your colleagues’ professional activities over the spring and summer.
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18 May 2004 by St. Thomas Newsroom / No Comments
This is the last “notes” column of the academic year.
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04 May 2004 by St. Thomas Newsroom / No Comments
Kevin Knutson, an undergraduate student majoring in business and economics, presented a paper he co-authored with Dr. Lorman Lundsten and Dr. Dave Brennan, Marketing Department, at the annual Minnesota Academy of Science meeting April 24 in St. Joseph. Title of the paper was "A Strategy for Coping With Suppressed Values in Retail Census Data." Dr. [...]
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27 Apr 2004 by St. Thomas Newsroom / No Comments
Dr. Sharon Gibson, Organization Learning and Development Department, is the author of a peer-reviewed article, "Social Learning (Cognitive) Theory and Implications for Human Resource Development," in the May issue of Advances in Developing Human Resources (Vol. 6, No. 2, pages 193-210). Dr. Kenneth Goodpaster, Koch Endowed Chair in Business Ethics, is the author of an [...]
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20 Apr 2004 by St. Thomas Newsroom / No Comments
Dr. John Conbere, Organization Learning and Development Department, was a featured speaker for the ODNetwork, a monthly gathering of organization development consultants in Minnesota. His topic was OD and the development of modern conflict-management systems in organizations. Students Krystyna Harrod and Ashlee Kerkhoff, St. Thomas orientation co-coordinators, recently attended the National Orientation Directors Association Region [...]
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06 Apr 2004 by St. Thomas Newsroom / No Comments
Dr. Phil Anderson, Management Department, and Dr. Leigh Lawton, Marketing Department, recently presented two papers. The first, "Applying Problem-Based Learning Pedagogy to a Simulation Exercise," was published in the conference proceedings of the 2004 International Applied Business Research Conference held last month in San Juan Puerto Rico. The second paper, "Simulation Exercises and Problem-Based Learning: [...]
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30 Mar 2004 by St. Thomas Newsroom / No Comments
Dr. John Conbere, Organization Learning and Development Department, was a featured presenter at the 2004 Symposium on Workplace Conflict Resolution: Designs for Success, held March 14-15 at the South Texas College of Law in Houston. The symposium was sponsored by the Institute for the Study of Conflict Transformation at Hofstra University School of Law and [...]
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16 Mar 2004 by St. Thomas Newsroom / No Comments
Dr. James Burns, Graduate School of Professional Psychology, will present a poster, "The Relationship of Spirituality to Adolescent Male Anger and Aggression," at the Division 36 Midwinter Research Conference of the American Psychological Association at Loyola College in Maryland. Burns also is a psychology fellow of Harvard Medical School and McLean Hospital in Boston, and [...]