A Newsletter for UMW Faculty and Staff
Michael Spencer
A lecture from Assistant Professor of Historic Preservation Michael Spencer’s American Building class will air this weekend on C-SPAN 3. The lecture and class session, focused on Spencer’s work at the Mary Washington House, will air on Saturday, March 16 at 8 p.m. and midnight and on Sunday, March 17 at 1 p.m. A crew from C-SPAN filmed the class session at UMW in January.
Robert Rycroft
Professor and Chair of Economics Robert Rycroft’s book, The Economics of Inequality, Poverty and Discrimination in the 21st Century, has been published.
The interdisciplinary book consists of 32 chapters in two volumes. Four chapters are written by UMW faculty members, including Rycroft, Associate Professor of Sociology and Anthropology Kristin Marsh, Associate Professor of Economics Shawn Humphrey and Associate Dean for Operations and Outreach in the College of Business Kimberly Kinsley. UMW alumni Christine Exley ’09 and Matthew Parrett ’98 also wrote chapters.
Tim Owens holds a product of a 3D printer in UMW’s Makerspace.
Director of the Center of Teaching Excellence and Innovation Mary Kayler, Instructional Technology Specialist in the Division of Teaching and Learning Technologies Tim Owens and Professor in the College of Education George Meadows will present their research study “Inspiring Maker Culture through Collaboration, Persistence, and Failure” at the peer-reviewed Society for Information Technology and Teacher Education (SITE) on Thursday, March 28 in New Orleans. The study examines the first freshmen seminar in UMW’s ThinkLab. The paper will be housed in EdITLib, the Digital Library for Education and Information Technology designed to facilitate learning, discovery and innovation by connecting scholarly research on Educational Technology/E-Learning with learning opportunities.
Stephen Farnsworth
Stephen Farnsworth, professor of political science and director of the university’s Center for Leadership and Media Studies, recently delivered a lecture entitled “Journalism and U.S. Foreign Policy” in Washington, D.C., as part of the U.S. State Department’s Institute for International Education Visitor Leadership Program for North Africa and the Middle East.
In addition, Farnsworth has been interviewed recently by several news outlets for stories relating to the Virginia legislative session, including the Washington Post, the Washington Times, the Washington Examiner and WAMU-FM, Washington’s national public radio station.
Lou Martinette
Mukesh Srivastava
Associate Professors in the College of Business Mukesh Srivastava and Louis Martinette’s article “Building a Sustainable Competitive Advantage” has been accepted in the Journal of Technology Management and Innovation, Volume 8 Issue 2. Srivastava and Martinette co-authored the article with Andy Franklin.
The paper analyzes cross-industrial best practices and future trends in the context of the contemporary resource based competitive advantage model of the firm. It identifies key managerial levers, tools and systems that can be used to build and sustain a Hi-Technology company’s core competences in order to facilitate a more innovative, collaborative 21st century corporate culture. A qualitative and quantitative assessment is made of how a firm’s leadership, human capital management, organizational culture, design and systems can all collectively merge to create a more dynamic and responsive organization which is far more adept at building unique resources and capabilities, which can then be leveraged to create new market opportunities with high competitive entry barriers.
Kevin Bartram
The UMW Concert Band Winter Concert, directed by Kevin Bartram, will be featured on “Performance Central Virginia” on Friday, March 15 at 9 a.m., Saturday, March 16 at noon and 6p.m. and Sunday, March 17 at noon on Classics Radio 89.5 FM and at www.ClassicsRadio.org. The concert was held at UMW on Friday, Feb. 22 and included Vincent Persichetti’s “Pageant,” Clifton Williams’ “Caccia and Chorale” and David Holsinger’s “Abram’s Pursuit.” The program also included Goldmans’ “Chimes of Liberty March,” “Flights of Passage” and “March of the Irish Dragoons.”
Janet Cropp, assistant dean of advising services in the College of Business, is serving as a proposal reader for the Advising Adult Learners Commission of the National Academic Advising Association (NACADA) Annual Conference to be held in October 2013 in Salt Lake City, Utah.
Mark Scharf’s play “Keeping Faith” opens at the Laurel Mill Playhouse in Laurel, Md., on March 18. The show runs through March 24 with 8 p.m. performances on Fridays and Saturdays. Sunday matinees will be at 2 p.m. on March 17 and 24. Tickets are $15 for general admission, $12 for students 18 and under, active duty military and seniors. To make reservations, call 301-617-9906 and press 2, or contact Maureen Rogers at maureencrogers@gmail.com/301-452-2557.
Scharf is an adjunct instructor in the Department of Theatre & Dance.
John P. Broome, assistant professor and director of undergraduate secondary education and preK-12 education in the department of curriculum & instruction at the College of Education, has been invited to present his work on adolescent civic engagement in the Montessori secondary learning environment at the 2013 International Montessori Congress in Portland, Oregon in August 2013.
The presentation entitled, “Comparing U.S. and Montessori Adolescent Civic Engagement Opportunities” provides insights into how social and experiential-learning in the alternative environment can be used to inform civic engagement practices in U.S. public schools.
The International Montessori Congress was created in 1929 by Dr. Maria Montessori to raise the awareness and understanding of Montessori education. Since 1929, there have been 25 congress meetings around the world, approximately every four years. It has been almost 40 years since the United States has hosted the international event. The congress is hosted by the Association Montessori Internationale (AMI).
Jim Groom presented a talk titled “Open by Design: Open Educational Experiences” at SUNY’s 14th annual Learning Network Summit for Online Learning conference on February 28th, 2013. Below are the slides for the talk and you can see a video archive of the session here.