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The California Association of Colleges of Nursing Spring Conference occurred the week of March 7-8, 2019, at the Embassy Suites in Sacramento. The Spring Conference is designed to assist both emerging academic leaders and seasoned deans to find the power of their collective voices in planning and creating a new future for nursing education and…Read More

American Association of Colleges of Nursing Doctoral Education Conference Jan. 17-19, 2019 in San Diego, California In addition to a plethora of poster and podium presentations on the latest doctoral nursing research, the conference offered current data on the trajectory of Doctoral Education in Nursing regarding the goals, challenges, and opportunities in preparing doctoral graduates…Read More

A group of us faculty and staff presented at the annual conference for the Alliance for Hispanic-Serving Institution Educators (AHSIE). From the AHSIE Conference website: “The Alliance of Hispanic Serving Institution Educators (AHSIE) exists to support the work of the nation’s Hispanic Serving Institutions (HSIs) as they seek to provide quality, relevant educational opportunities to…Read More

  I would like to congratulate the following individuals (both resident and adjunct faculty) for being selected to participate in the Summer Institute on Teaching sponsored by Yale’s Center of Teaching Excellence. A team from Vanguard also attended last year’s institute and found it so beneficial in improving our teaching. Each individual who was accepted…Read More

Dr. Annette Callis, PhD, MSN, RN, CNS attended The American Association of Colleges of Nursing Master’s of Science in Nursing Education Conference: The Future is Now! in Tampa, Florida Spring, 2019 There is a nursing shortage, according to the American Nurses Association (ANA), which was articulated at this annual meeting. They estimate that by 2022: More…Read More

A few weeks ago, I read an academic paper on the theological foundations of social concern as the Keynote address at the ChildHope Leadership Conference in Dallas. ChildHope (formerly Latin America ChildCare) provides food, medical care, education, and the good news of the Gospel to 100,000 children in 300 different projects throughout Latin America. The…Read More

I attended at the 2019 Annual CAAEYC (California Association for the Education of Young Children) Conference & Expo t as a presenter and a Board member. The conference was held at the Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA from April 12 to April 14, 2019. My workshop, titled Renewing Accreditation, was geared for directors and…Read More

In February I had the privilege of attending the annual meeting of the Society for Pentecostal Studies (SPS) held in Washington D.C.  This year’s theme was “Reception History: Receiving Scripture in the Pentecostal and Charismatic Traditions.”  Unlike traditional Biblical hermeneutics which seeks to understand what the text meant in its original form and setting so…Read More

This past Spring, I was fortunate to once again present at the annual conference of the American Association of Behavioral and Social Sciences, sponsored by the University of Nevada Las Vegas, College of Liberal Arts; as well as at the concurrent conference sponsored by UNLV’s College of Education, Conference in Academic Research in Education (CARE).…Read More

This year’s annual Cognitive Neuroscience Society conference was in beautiful San Francisco. This year marked the 26th annual meeting. In his keynote address, Dr. Matthew Walker, from the University of California, Berkeley, talked about the cognitive and health effects of not getting enough sleep. He spoke about his research findings which link a lack of sleep…Read More

I just returned from the 48th Annual Society for Pentecostal Studies (SPS) conference in Hyattsville, MD, just outside of DC. Even though I didn’t have the opportunity to spend much time in our nation’s capital, just driving by the monuments in my Lyft rides to and from the airport felt surreal, considering all the momentous…Read More

I recently had the privilege of representing Vanguard University at the 48th annual meeting of the Society for Pentecostal Studies (February 28–March 2), held this year in College Park, Maryland, a suburb of our nation’s capital. At this academic conference, I put forward a fresh reading of a famous but rarely actualized biblical passage: Paul’s…Read More

The Oxford Symposiums on the Finance, Law & Economics of Education are recurring events bringing together scholars and practitioners from around the globe. This year’s meeting took place in the Charles Wellbeloved Room in Harris Manchester College, Mansfield Rd, Oxford. The symposium gathered together a relatively small number of participants compared to other conferences I…Read More

This year I am working toward certification in Design Thinking through IDEO, a Palo Alto-based “global design company committed to creating positive impact.” IDEO was founded by David Kelly, a Stanford University engineering professor who is also one of the founders of Stanford’s Hasso Plattner Institute of Design, known as the Stanford d-school. The d-school,…Read More

As part of my on-going faculty development, I attended a three-day, costume techniques and information conference, aptly known as Costume College. I have been attending for many years both as a participant and a presenter. The Benefits of Attending A long, long time ago I participated in a session where we made the understructure known…Read More