•Program and curriculum design
•Program assessment and evaluation
•Special education law, Teaching theory to practice
•Students with emotional and behavior challenges
•Mentoring higher education faculty; Workers’ rights
•Conflict resolution and peace-keeping
•Community mediation; Reality Therapy and Choice Theory
•Service learning and community engagement
•Leadership development and mentoring
•Self-Empowerment: Life foundation of self-reflection, insight, and life-long learning.
Service Interests:
Professional Education Assessment Committee, Chair
Academic Senate, CSE Senator
CMU Faculty Association Board of Directors
CMU Faculty Association Bargaining Team Co-Chair
Women’ Studies Governance Council
CEHS Faculty Mentoring Taskforce, Co-Chair
CSE Department Assessment Committee
CEHS student dissertation committee member
CEHS Learn Today, Teach Tomorrow Conference
CMU Smoke-Free Campus Work Group
CMU Inter Group Dialogue (IGD)
Guest Lecturer – i.e., BR 310: Overview of Mediation
CSE Search Committee Chair and participation
Best part of CSE:
Faculty and Staff Commitment to Students
Favorite quote:
“Knowledge begins with the awareness of knowing little. And knowing that they know little, people are prepared to know more” (p. 119).
and
“Education is communication and dialogue. It is not the transference of knowledge but the encounter of subjects in dialogue in search of the significance of the object of thinking and knowing” (pp. 139-140).
Freire, P.(1973). Education for critical consciousness. New York, NY: The Continuum
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