Katie Silvestri
Katie Silvestri, Literacy Department, was recently elected for a two-year appointment as secretary for the Special Interest Group (SIG) Semiotics in Education: Signs, Meaning, and Multimodality, a SIG within the American Education Research Association (AERA). This SIG provides a forum for teacher educators and literacy researchers to discuss signs, meanings and meaning making processes that people use in the context of teaching and learning from a multimodal standpoint. As secretary, Silvestri will maintain the SIG website and listserv as well as spearhead initiatives to foster conversations about and collaborations in scholarly work across the SIG's membership, as detailed on Featured Member Scholarship. She served in this position as interim secretary during a restructuring of the SIG for the past nine months and will now serve as secretary for the 2020-22 term. To learn more about Silvestri’s work as secretary or about social semiotics and multimodality, visit the Semiotics in Education SIG website.
John Suarez
John Suarez, Institute for Civic Engagement, conducted a two-part workshop at Barnard College’s STEM Colloquium, part of Barnard’s Noyce Scholars Program. Eight students and three faculty members participated in the “Reflective Listening in Multi-Dimensional STEM Classrooms” workshop. In the workshop’s first part, participants enacted a scripted play through which they identified and discussed hidden ways in which government policies and low-income life can interfere with children’s learning. During the event’s second part, participants practiced reflective listening skills in the context of STEM classrooms in which teachers faced political, religious, and cultural opposition to their lessons.
Seth N. Asumah
Seth N. Asumah, Africana Studies and Political Science departments, gave an opening plenary keynote address on “African and Africana Knowledge: Past Representations, Current Discourses, Future Communities” at the Third Biennial Conference of the African Studies Association of Africa (ASAA) at United States International University (USIU) in Nairobi, Kenya, East Africa. At the event, held Oct. 23 to 26, Asumah received recognition and an award of honor for organizing and facilitating a preconference workshop on “Educational and Academic Leadership: Rethinking Responsibilities and Challenges for Department Chairs in African/Africana Studies.” Africologists, Africanists and African enthusiasts from 34 African countries, Europe, North and South America and the Caribbean attended the ASAA conference.
Rhiannon Maton
Rhiannon Maton, Foundations and Social Advocacy Department, is the incoming co-editor for Workplace: A Journal for Academic Labor. Workplace is a leading international peer-reviewed and open-access journal published by the Institute for Critical Education Studies, and aims to generate dialogue and publish scholarship and scholar-activism connected to issues of academic labor within and beyond higher education. Maton will be spearheading various projects for the journal, including pursuing journal indexing, refreshing the editorial board, supporting the journal's ongoing development in reach, reputation, and strength, and editing a range of special and regular journal issues.
Carolyn Bershad
Carolyn Bershad, Counseling and Student Development, has been informed that the Counseling Center has met the criteria for full re-accreditation by the International Association of Counseling Services (IACS), the only association that accredits counseling services on university and college campuses. Accreditation by IACS is dependent upon evidence of continuing professional development as well as demonstration of excellence in counseling performance. The office offers individual and group counseling for students, as well as consultation and outreach to the campus community.
Rhiannon Maton
Rhiannon Maton, Foundations and Social Advocacy Department, recently had a coauthored article published in Teachers College Record. The article is titled "White Parent and Caregiver Perceptions of, and Resistance to, Equity and Anti-Racism Work in an Independent School."
Randi Storch and Kevin Sheets
Randi Storch and Kevin Sheets, History Department, attended the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) project director’s meeting to receive final training before launching their $180,000 Landmarks in American History and Culture workshop for K-12 teachers. The meeting was held Oct. 26-27 in Washington, D.C. Their workshop, coordinated with the assistance of Kerri Freese, SUNY Cortland Noyce Project, invites teachers from around the country to learn about the Gilded Age and Progressive Era from the perspective of the wilderness, using Camp Huntington in Raquette Lake, N.Y., as a living classroom. The application and details about the workshop can be found at http://www2.cortland.edu/foreverwild/.
Robert Spitzer
Robert Spitzer, Political Science Department, presented a paper titled, "Hot Button Issues in the 2012 Presidential Campaign: 47% Yes, Guns No?" for a conference on the 2012 presidential elections held at Hiram College in Ohio on November 16-17.
Kaitlin Flannery
Kaitlin Flannery, Psychology Department recently published the article “A Multi-Method Assessment of the Friendship Adjustment Trade-Offs of Social Perspective-Taking Among Adolescents" in the journal Adolescents
Karen Downey
Karen Downey, Chemistry Department, presented a poster with undergraduate student Tyler Potter at the American Chemical Society’s 244th national meeting, held August 19-23 in Philadelphia, Pa.