Category: Professional Notes

Janet Cropp, assistant dean of advising services for the College of Business, completed an assignment with the SCHEV Analysis of Virginia’s Adult Degree Completion Services and Strategies for Improvement Advisory Committee.  The final report is now available on the SCHEV website along with a fact sheet and summary booklet, which contains quotes from UMW BPS and BLS students:  Assessment of Opportunities and Models for Adults to Complete the Baccalaureate Degree at Virginia Four-Year Institutions.

In his capacity as a board member of the United States section of  MSF/Doctors Without Borders, Nabil Al-Tikriti, associate professor of history and American studies, participated in the annual MSF Japan General Assembly in Tokyo on March 24 and 25. Following that, he participated in the annual Field Associative Debate (FAD) for MSF staff serving in Jordan and Iraq, in Amman on March 28 through 29.

University Librarian Rosemary Arneson has been elected to the Steering Committee of VIVA, the Virtual Library of Virginia.  VIVA is the consortium of the nonprofit academic libraries within the Commonwealth of Virginia. Members include all of Virginia’s state-assisted colleges and universities, as well as 33 private, nonprofit institutions and the Library of Virginia.  Arneson will serve a two year term, beginning in July 2012.

Margaret Mi, professor of business, presented “Small Business Strategy: The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act,” paper at the annual conference of the Global Business Development Institute in Las Vegas, Nevada last week. Papers were refereed through a double-blind review process. The paper suggests that it may be less costly for small businesses to pay the $2,000 per employee penalty per year for not offering a health care plan than providing their own. The paper is being reviewed for one of the organization’s two journals.

Newest DTLT team member Alan Levine joined Jim Groom as invited speakers at the March 6-8, 2012 SXSWedu conference in Austin, Texas.  Sharing their experiences in teaching the ds106 Digital Storytelling Conference, Levine and Groom joined Philipp Schmidt (P2PU) and Karen Fasinpaur (K12 Open Ed) in a lively panel discussion on Developing a Culture of Openness.

Levine also led a hands on session, Create Something from the StoryBox where participants explored a storytelling digital time capsule project he conducted during a year of travel in 2011.

Nina Mikhalevsky, professor of philosophy, was the keynote speaker for the Naval Surface Warfare Center Dahlgren Division’s Women’s History Month observance on Wednesday, March 28. Her presentation focused on the history of women’s education and the current status of women’s education today, particularly in math, science and engineering.

Janet Cropp, assistant dean of advising services for the College of Business, is serving as a proposal reader for the Annual Conference for the Adult Learners Commission of the National Academic Advising Association (NACADA) to be held in Nashville, Tenn., in October 2012.

She attended the semi-annual meeting of the Association of Virginia Individualized Studies Administrators (AVISA) at the University of Virginia on Friday, March 9.

Cassandra Good, assistant editor for the Papers of James Monroe, wrote an article that appears in the April 2012 issue of the international journal Gender & History. The article, “Friendly Relations: Situating Friendships Between Men and Women in the Early American Republic, 1780–1830,” features research from her doctoral dissertation in history.

Mark Snyder, assistant professor of music, will have his composition Messy for processed clarinet, electronics & video performed by Andrea Cheeseman on Saturday, March 31 at Christopher Newport University for the Society of Composers, (SCI) Region III Conference  .

More information can be found here.

Five UMW students, led by Associate Professor of Economics Shawn Humphrey, attended the 2012 Clinton Global Initiative University (CGIU) meeting in Washington, D.C. The fifth annual meeting was held at George Washington University from Friday, March 30 through Sunday, April 1.

Students Sarah Alvarez, Ashley Cameron, Nicole Cochran, Santiago Sueiro and Daniel Tees were among 1,000 students from around the world at the meeting. The weekend includes working sessions, skills sessions and a large-scale service project. Humphrey is one of 30 commitment mentors at the meeting.

For more information about CGIU, visit http://www.cgiu.org/default.asp.