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Theatre Costume Design faculty, Associate Professor, Lia Hansen, and I attended the NAST Conference in Portland, Oregon, at the Downtown Hilton Hotel March 29 – 31, 2018.  This was an important conference for two reasons.  Theatre Arts is up for continued accreditation, and I also submitted a Plan Approval for a new concentration, Stage &…Read More

 I attended the National Association of Schools of Theatre (NAST) Conference in Portland, Oregon, at the Downtown Hilton Hotel March 29 – 31, 2018.  The Keynote speaker—Chris Coleman, Artistic Director for Portland Center Stage at The Armory—spoke about leadership.  He said leadership was about telling stories, about creating a vision for others to see.  An…Read More

Attending the Council of Graduate Departments of Psychology, Austin, TX, for the first time was a unique experience. Unlike conferences with thousands of attendees, the COGDOP gathering was small enough to have many one-on-one and small group interactions. As Chairs (Directors, at VU) of graduate programs, we share similar experiences that people in other roles…Read More

In the fall of 2017 I had the opportunity to attend the 31st Annual Conference of the Hispanic Association of Colleges and Universities (HACU).  The conference theme was “Championing Hispanic Higher Education Success: Driving America’s Prosperity”.  I greatly appreciated the focus of the event and the extent to which educators from across the nation gathered…Read More

Vanguard Faculty Development Funding generously supported my attendance at two professional conferences this academic year.  One meeting was the American Association of Colleges of Nursing (AACN) Fall Annual Meeting (October 26 – 31, 2017) that was held in Washington, DC.  This conference brings chief nursing academic officers together with noted thought leaders to discuss key…Read More

BASES/FEPSAC, November 2017 I had the privilege to attend this conference which was the British Association of Sport and Exercise Sciences and European Federation of Sport Psychologists first collaborative conference. The location was Nottingham, UK which was the city of Prince Harry and Megan Markle’s first appearance as an engaged couple, which occurred the day…Read More

WRITING A SELF-STUDY? REMEMBER TO HAVE FUN WITH IT! The Commission on Collegiate Nursing Education (CCNE) is a nationally recognized accrediting agency for baccalaureate and graduate nursing programs.  The VU Masters’ of Science (MSN) in Nursing program gained CCNE accreditation in 2013.  VU is due for reaccreditation in Fall, 2018.  In preparation for this, Dr.…Read More

At the end of October, 2017, a group of professors and administrators went to San Diego to participate in the 31st Annual Conference of the Hispanic Association of Colleges and Universities (HACU). This year’s meeting was held at the Hilton San Diego Bayfront. The theme of the conference was “Championing Hispanic Higher Education Success: Driving…Read More

The SACNAS 2017 National Diversity in STEM Conference was three full days of cutting-edge science, professional development, training, and mentoring for students and scientists at all levels. Dulce Campos, Biology student in her senior year, and I traveled in October to Salt Lake City, Utah to participate in this conference that was like none other. Equal…Read More

I presented two papers at the Society of Biblical Literature (SBL) and the American Academy of Religion (AAR), which met together late November (as they always do). This year they met in Boston. SBL and AAR are the major societies for scholars of scripture and religion (respectively). This year I offered one paper in each…Read More

As part of an entourage of nine, I was blessed to have attended the 31st HACU Annual Conference at the Hilton San Diego Bayfront in San Diego, CA, held October 28-30, 2017. I arrived one day early for the PreK-12 Higher Education Collaboration Symposium, where I collaborated with individuals from other Hispanic Serving Institute’s (HSIs)…Read More

There’s a sense in which Christmas came early for me in 2017. That’s how blessed I was to represent Vanguard University this past November at an important academic conference in Virginia, Beach, VA. SOME CONFERENCE PARTICULARS The academic gathering I was privileged to participate in was the Reformation 500 Conference sponsored by Regent University. As…Read More

I attended and gave a presentation with Dr. Jinhee Kim (Kennesaw State University) at the largest early childhood education conference in the world, the 2017 NAEYC (National Association for the Education of Young Children) Annual Conference in Atlanta, GA. The title of the presentation was “Meaningful Intergenerational (IG) Activities in Early Childhood Classrooms.”  Acknowledgement of…Read More

PRESIDENT BRAIN (Society for Neuroscience Annual Conference Meeting) I, along with four other students, Rhys Carpenter, Megan Jeske, Carla Keith, and Liana Rizkalla, traveled to Washington D.C. to attend the 47th annual Society for Neuroscience (SfN) conference. SfN is the world’s largest organization of scientists devoted to understanding the brain and the nervous system. This…Read More

I attended The Pacific Sociological Association’s 88th Meeting in Portland, Oregon from April 6 to April 9. This was a particularly exciting year for me for two reasons: This was my 10th year of attendance (yay for made-up anniversaries!) AND my graduate school mentor Karen Pyke served as president. Karen’s concern for disadvantaged populations is…Read More