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Costume College is a five-day event held every year by Costumer’s Guild West.  Days one and five are various tours and the other three days are comprised of workshops and lectures.  The focus of the event is on historical costume and making.  People from across the country and even from foreign lands attend Costume College.…Read More

It was my joy to participate in the 52nd Annual Meeting of the Society for Pentecostal Studies, held at Oral Roberts University in Tulsa, Oklahoma, March 16-18, 2023. The theme was “In Our Own Tongues: Amplifying Pentecostalism’s Minoritized Voices,” and I was grateful for the opportunity to present a paper on “How the Apostles Read…Read More

Christian college and university professors and others from around the world converged in Houston, Texas, from June 7-9, for the 42nd annual Christian Scholars Conference. In my presentation, entitled “Mission and Culture: The Heart and Soul of Christian Higher Education,” I shared with colleagues how the mission and culture of a Christian college has the…Read More

Disability in the workplace is a form of diversity – yet, it is widely misunderstood and often excluded from diversity consideration. While most organizations have diversity programs, only 4 % of organizations consider disability in their diversity efforts. Workers with disabilities face higher unemployment rates, underemployment, job insecurity, and workplace discrimination. Employers also widely underestimate…Read More

The annual conference for NAST (National Association of Schools of Theatre) resided in St. Louis, Missouri, at the Hyatt Regency on March 15 – 18, 2023. This is the accreditation organization with which Vanguard’s Theatre Department possesses full membership and has acquired accreditation since 2010. I was in the midst of directing my current comedy,…Read More

The Academy of Business Research Conferences hold throughout the year at select locations in the United States. They bring together faculty, scholars and practitioners in business from around the globe. The spring 2023 meeting held at the Renaissance Hotel in New Orleans.  The conference gathered together about 100 researchers, more than 80 percent of which…Read More

On February 25, members of the San Diego Chapter of CATESOL, a professional organization serving Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages, met virtually to discuss the latest developments in AI technology and the impact of these systems in ESL reading and writing pedagogy. The meeting was broken into four informative sessions with time…Read More

Expect the Unexpected It’s back. After one year of being canceled and another year of being online, Society for Neuroscience (SfN) is back in-person. This year, I took two of my Summer Undergraduate Research Program (SURP) students, Wyland Nicholson and Kaylee Alford, to the 51st SfN Conference in beautiful San Diego. My students got to…Read More

“Breaking Free of the Secular Frame” I had the privilege of representing Vanguard University at the annual meeting of the Evangelical Theological Society held this year in chilly Denver, Colorado, November 14-17. The first night I was there some snow flurries occurred, making possible the closest thing to a white Christmas I’ll likely ever experience!…Read More

In November, I had the opportunity to attend and present papers at two back-to-back conferences in Denver, Colorado: The Evangelical Theological Society (ETS), and the Society of Biblical Literature (SBL). Fellow Vanguard colleagues Gary Tyra, Marc Groenbech-Dam, and Rodolfo Estrada also presented papers. At ETS, I presented a paper called “Ezekiel’s Two Sticks and Eschatological…Read More

Constructivist teaching is rooted in Piaget’s theory of cognitive and social development which focuses on the structure of human knowledge and the process by which it is constructed. Founding members of the Association for Constructivist Teaching (ACT), Drs. Rheta DeVries and Constance Kamii were both students of Piaget and are often referred to as the…Read More

…and Why so Many People are Unhappy at Work A few weeks ago, I received an invitation to be on a Fast Company podcast, “The New Way We Work.” Sure, happy to do that! Well, it turned out that our episode – “Beyond burnout: Why so many employees are unhappy at work,” was a live…Read More

Costume College is a 3-day conference chock full of lectures and hands-on workshops.  This year I attended 4 lectures, 2 hands-on workshops, and taught 2 hands-on workshops.  It was a busy 3 days! The lectures I attended were on the basics of dyeing, the various types of feathers used in millinery, the history of the…Read More

Wow, what a spectacular finish to another “buffet of the mind,” within the realm of sports nutrition! This Florida trip to the beautifully mesmerizing Fort Lauderdale for the 19th Annual International Society of Sports Nutrition (ISSN), was truly a breathtaking experience. The days flew by in a rapid blur, which included the considerable amount of…Read More