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Celebrating Our Success
December 2009
Dr. Angela E. Burse, an adjunct professor in the South Region, celebrates
the launch of a new radio show entitled "Let's Talk School". This show can be
heard live in the south Georgia area on 1150 am every Thursday from 7:30 a.m. to
7:45 a.m. The program will also be launched on the Web in January. The show
provides tips and strategies for parents, students, and teachers on a variety of
school/college topics. Information about the show and links to references can be
found at www.letstalkschool.org.
October 2009
Larry Smiley is a former Associate Dean of the College of Extended
Learning (now ProfEd), retired as professor emeritus – Director of MSA, and has
continued to teach occasionally for ProfEd. Since his retirement he has been
invited to chair or co-chair visiting teams for accreditation of English
Language Schools through the Commission for International and Transnational
Accreditation. Those visits have taken him twice to Cairo, Egypt and once to
Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. He will be visiting a school in Macao, China in January,
2010.
Dr. Joseph Osei, Ph.D., CMU Distance Ed Adjunct Professor for ProfEd, has
been appointed Editor-in-Chief of the online journal Philosophical Papers and
Review effective March, 2009 along with an appointment on the Advisory Board,
Center for Professional and Applied Ethics, UNC@Charlotte, NC. In addition, Dr.
Osei was promoted from Assistant Professor of Philosophy to Associate Professor
of Philosophy at Fayetteville State University in August of 2009. Below is a
list of recent publications:
- The Challenge of Sustaining Emergent Democracies: Insights for Religious
Intellectuals and Leaders of Civil Society. Xlibris, Bloomington, Indiana,
July, 2009.
- 'Reflections on Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and the Fight Against Terrorism
and Poverty: What Would King Do?' Quest: An African Journal of
Philosophy/Revue Africaine de Philosophie, Vol. XXII, No. 1-2, 2008.
- Karl Popper's Solution to the Freewill and Determinism Paradox: Freewill or
Compatibilist? Thinking About Religion, Vol. 8, 2008.
- What Happens When Inmates are Introduced to Critical Thinking? Ethics on Call,
Newsletter, Center for Professional and Applied Ethics, (CPAE), UNC@Charlotte,
NC. Spring, 2009.
September 2009
Wayne Osborn is retired from CMU as Professor Emeritus and continues to
teach as an adjunct faculty member in the field of astronomy. He has the
following successes to share.
- A book edited by CMU ProfEd faculty member Wayne Osborn and University of
Toronto Astronomy Librarian Lee Robbins was recently published by the
Astronomical Society of the Pacific. Entitled "Preserving Astronomy's
Photographic Legacy: Current State and the Future of North American Astronomical
Plates," the volume addresses the issue of how to preserve astronomy's rich
heritage of photographic observations for future generations of astronomers.
- Recently published a paper entitled "A variability sample catalogue selected
from the Sydney Observatory Galactic Survey" in the European journal
Astronomy & Astrophysics (volume 503, pages 1023-1036, Sept. 2009).
August 2009
Dr. Bob Barrett is an adjunct instructor with CMU Online and also teaches
at American Public University. Over the last few months, Dr. Barrett has given
five presentations internationally in South America and Europe. Below is the
list of presentations and background information.
- On July 6, 2009, Dr. Barrett presented a paper entitled, "Creating and
Implementing E-Learning Applications as Strategic Tools for Students with
Disabilities," at the EduLearn09 – International Conference on Education and New
Learning Technologies in Barcelona, Spain.
- On July 2, 2009, "The Electronic Portfolio in Online Career Development:
Creation and Implementation of E-Portfolios," at the 16th International
Conference on Learning held at the University of Barcelona in Barcelona, Spain.
- On June 22, 2009, "Virtually Learning Communities: How Management Education is
Globally Evolving," at the "Managing in a Global Economy XIII – Management
Challenges for a New World International Conferences," sponsored by EAM –
Eastern Academy of Management and IAG School of Business, Pontifical Catholic
University of Rio in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
- On May 29, 2009, "Best Fits and Best Practices in Recruiting and Hiring of
Virtual Employees in the Online Learning Environment" at The Institute for
Business and Finance Research (IBFR), Global Conference on Business and Finance
in San Jose, Costa Rica, in the Business Education session.
- On March 9, 2009, "New Approaches to Recruiting and Hiring Online Instructors:
Challenges and Changes in Best Teaching Practices and Strategies" at the INTED
2009 (International Technology, Education and Development Conference) in
Valencia, Spain, in the University-Industry Collaboration session. If you are
interested in viewing the presentations or have questions you can contact Dr.
Barrett directly at docjob00@msn.com .
July 2009
Dr. Lisa Fall (JRN 670) is making (2) research presentations at the
Association for Education in Journalism & Mass Communication annual conference
in Boston: Measuring Information Source Usefulness to Differentiate America's
Traveling Public by Lisa T. Fall (University of Tennessee) and Chuck Lubbers
(University of South Dakota); and The United States Extends a Warm Welcome: A
Case Study Analysis of Post 9/11 Promotional Efforts by Lisa T. Fall
(University of Tennessee) and Heather Epkins (University of Maryland).
May 2009
Rick Sites (PSC 522, HSC 571) and his son Brian Sites recently issued the
4th edition of their Ohio Hospital Law Handbook, a compendium of select Ohio
statutes and regulations used by Ohio hospital attorneys and managers. In
addition to Rick's faculty involvement with CMU, Brian is a 2005 CMU MSA
graduate who went on to graduate from Florida State University Law School, pass
the Florida state bar exam, and has been clerking for Justices on the Florida
Supreme Court (currently Justice Perry). Information about their handbook is
posted at
www.ohanet.org/legal/default.htm.
April 2009
Dr. Ralph Davis (PHL 318, 325, 518, and HUM 597) published an article,
“Thoughts on Art & Geometry,” in the September-October 2008 issue of
Hyperseeing – a publication of
ISAMA (The International Society of the Arts, Mathematics, and Architecture) and
presented a paper, “Art & the Political:the Illusion of Failure,” at the New
York School of Visual Arts’ 22nd Annual Natl. Conf. on Liberal Arts and the
Education of Artists, in October. He offered a NSF-style Chautauqua Short
Course, “Science & Art,” last June at the SUNY Stony Brook Manhattan campus and
will offer it there again this coming June as well as California State
University, Dominquez Hills. He wrote the following reviews for The American
Journal of Physics: Gavin Parkinson,
Surrealism: Art & Modern Science;
J. R. Liebowitz, Hidden Harmony: the
Connected Worlds of Physics and Art. And for Choice he reviewed:
David Edwards, Artscience: Creativity
in the Post-Google Generation; Eduardo Kac (ed.),
Signs of Life: Bio Art and Beyond;
Sasho Kalajdzievski, Math & Art: an
Introduction to Visual Mathematics; Rolf Kuehni & Andreas Schwarz,
Color Ordered: a Survey of Color Order
Systems from Antiquity to the Present; Michel Pastoreau,
Black: the History of a Color;
Darryl Wheye & Donald Kennedy, Humans,
Nature, and Birds: Science Art from Cave Walls to Computer Screens.
Dr. Hosep Torossian (EDL 645, 662, 670, 672, 692, 731) has received a
$308,000 Charter School Dissemination Grant through the Department of Education
for his work with targeted interventions to help students who are at risk of
failing the MEAP tests. For the full press release on this grant, please
click here.
Dr. Cande Tschetter (JRN 350, 360 and MKT 300) received her Ph.D. in
Business, Management and Organization from Capella University in December. Her
dissertation was titled: Emergence of A Purposeful Career Among Mid-life Women:
Phenomenological Case Study. Her mentor was fellow CMU instructor Dr. Marilyn
Harris.
Dr. Michael Stacey (EDU 614 and CED 655) has recently published a book
titled “Observations Skills” through Pearson. Dr. Stacey and his two co-authors
are also working on three more books, due out this year.