Tyler Bradway
Tyler Bradway, English Department, has been selected to serve as guest editor of College Literature: A Journal of Critical Literary Studies, published by Johns Hopkins University Press. The special issue, titled “Lively Words: The Politics and Poetics of Experimental Writing,” will examine the social and historical significance of experimental writing in the 20th and 21st centuries. Also, Bradway received the Excellence in Teaching Award for Tenure Track Faculty.
Nance S. Wilson
Nance S. Wilson, Literacy Department, had her article titled “Teaching & Learning with E-Readers: Promoting Deep Learning or Deep Trouble?” published in the 2014 Technology in Literacy Education SIG Newsletter. It was co-authored by Vicky Zygouris-Coe and Victoria Cardullo and can be found on the Technology in Literacy Education website.
Also, Wilson presented “CCLS and Developmentally Responsive Teaching of Young Adolescents” at the New York State Middle School Association Conference held Oct. 10 in Verona, N.Y.
Bekeh Ukelina
Bekeh Ukelina, History Department, has been selected to participate in the SUNY Russia Programs Network. He will travel to St. Petersburg, Russia this summer to participate in the 12th New York-St. Petersburg Institute of Linguistics, Cognition and Culture where he will offer a three-week seminar, one general lecture and a mini-conference presentation on the topic of “Development and Global Migration.”
Robert Spitzer
Robert Spitzer, Political Science Department, spoke at King’s College in London, England, and at the Southbank Centre in London on “American Gun Policy,” “Gun Violence: A Comparative Perspective,” and “America and the World, 1960-1990,” from Nov. 9 to 11. Two of the talks were in conjunction with the Southbank Centre’s Superpower Weekend, examining America's influence on Britain and the world.
Regina B. Grantham
Regina B. Grantham, Communication Disorders and Sciences Department, attended the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA) Convention, the premier annual educational event for the profession, in November in Philadelphia, Pa. She attended several councils as a member of the association’s board of ethics. Also, she co-presented with the board in an oral seminar, “Workplace Ethics: Challenges and Solutions” and poster session, “Suspect Ethical Misconduct? The Code of Ethics (2016) Is a Path to Resolution.”
Tom Lickona
Tom Lickona, Center for the 4th and 5th Rs, keynoted a national conference on character education in Jakarta, Indonesia, on Nov. 17. The following week, Lickona conducted “Smart & Good Schools” seminars for teachers and school leaders in Singapore. The week of Dec. 5, he speaks to parents at the Guadalajara campus of Tec de Monterrey, Mexico, on “Raising Children of Character.” Lickona’s Character Matters book was published last year in Spanish by Producciones Educacion Aplicada.
Gigi A. Peterson
Gigi A. Peterson, History Department, will lead a program that includes several SUNY Cortland students and alumni in a Universität Potsdam Summer School, “Teaching the SDGs” (United Nations Sustainable Development Goals.) The program takes place in Germany from Saturday, Aug. 27 through Saturday, Sept. 3. The group will participate in “Engaging with Global Citizenship,” one of several courses at the summer school. This class centers on issues of migration, language and culture and identities. Instructors from the fields of English language education, literature and history will guide participants in developing their understanding of historical and contemporary migrations, and of transformative, culturally responsive pedagogy that empowers diverse learners. Students began background preparation through modules in history and language and culture education, and they are meeting their German partners virtually before the week in Potsdam.
The SUNY Cortland instructors include two area social studies teachers who continue to collaborate with Peterson and the Adolescence Education Social Studies Program as SUNY Cortland alumni-teacher associates. They are Caitlin Goodwin ’11, M.S.Ed. ’16, McGraw Middle School, and Taylor Weigand '10, Binghamton High School. Both have extensive international and classroom experience and will be important contributors to this international learning community.
Mary McGuire and Bruce Mattingly
Mary McGuire, Political Science Department, and Bruce Mattingly, dean, School of Arts and Sciences, along with eight other co-authors from SUNY Plattsburgh, SUNY Oneonta and SUNY Oswego, authored “The Common Problems Project: An Interdisciplinary, Community-Engaged, Problem-Based Pedagogy,” published in June in the Journal of the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, volume 22, no. 2.
Nancy Kane
Nancy Kane, Kinesiology Department, returned to southern Seneca county, N.Y., to introduce Irish Step Dance to 7 to 10-year-olds at the public library in Ovid, N.Y. The class was sponsored by a grant from New York State Office of Children and Family Services whose purpose is to provide a variety of physical education opportunities including dance, yoga and sports to youth in under-resourced communities. Seneca Towns Engaging People for Solutions (STEPS) was the recipient of the grant. STEPS is a health-promotion project of Pivital Public Health Partnership, funded by the Greater Rochester Health Foundation.
Richard Hunter
Richard Hunter, Geography Department, has been appointed an associate editor of the Journal of Latin American Geography. His two-year term will begin on July 1.