Tiantian Zheng
Tiantian Zheng, Sociology/Anthropology Department, organized three conference panels. “How Should We Understand and Address Gender Based Violence Around the World,” was for the May 11 SUNY Graduate Research Conference. “Asian Queer Studies: A Critique of Euro-America Centric Queer Studies,” was for the annual conference of the Association of Asian Studies, held March 17 in Boston. “Dynamic Culture Issues in Global China” was organized for the New York Association of Asian Studies held Oct. 8, 2022, at Syracuse University.
Herb Haines
Herb Haines, Sociology-Anthropology Department, gave an invited talk at a Stanford University conference on nonviolence and tactical diversity in social movements on May 6.
John Suarez
John Suarez, Institute for Civic Engagement, learned that his workshop, “Build Organizational Capacity: Invert the Triangle,” has been accepted for the SUNY Applied Learning Conference set for Nov. 1 and 2. To address the challenge of limited budgets, directors of applied learning offices can build office capacity by hiring, for academic credit, interns who demonstrate entrepreneurial qualities such as creativity and initiative. Directors can nurture those qualities by inverting the traditional management triangle, thereby giving interns some autonomy in creating, designing and conducting office projects. This approach does require directors to relinquish some ownership of intern-led projects, so this session’s role plays will give participants the opportunity to surrender ownership of projects and to experience the resulting ambiguity regarding those projects’ trajectories.
Sung Woo Yoo
Sung Woo Yoo, Communication Studies Department, received the top faculty paper award in the Political Communication Division at the annual conference of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (AEJMC) held in August in San Francisco. The paper, “The Dual Process of Influence: Examining the Hydraulic Pattern Hypothesis of Media Priming Effects,” looks into the influence of the media on perceived issue importance in presidential election cycles.
Kathleen A. Lawrence
Kathleen A. Lawrence, Communication Studies Department, had a poem, “Celluloid & Innocence Lost,” accepted for publication recently by The Wild Word Magazine in Berlin, Germany. Also, the Southeast Missouri State University Press will include her poem “Operating in a War Zone, Korea 1951,” about her dad, Capt. Robert Marshall Lawrence, MD, being a surgeon in a M.A.S.H. unit in the Korean War, in the anthology Proud to Be: Writing by American Warriors, due out in November 2017.
Katie Ducett
Katie Ducett, Foundations and Social Advocacy Department, is a co-author with two colleagues from a different institution of a published article on “Working to Work: Gaining Employment After Inclusive Postsecondary Education” in the British Journal of Learning Disabilities - Wiley Online Library. The article focuses on how individuals with intellectual disability in the United States have historically been underemployed due to societally constructed barriers.
Daniela Baban Hurrle
Daniela Baban Hurrle, International Programs, gave an invited presentation on Aug. 1 at the national IREX Host Institution Orientation on best practices and tips for hosting Global UGRAD-Pakistan students. Global UGRAD-Pakistan is a U.S. Department of State program administered by International Research & Exchanges Board (IREX) that offers undergraduate Pakistani students cultural and academic exchange through non-degree study at a university in the U.S. for a semester. SUNY Cortland is one of only two SUNYs that has been selected to host students in this program. SUNY Cortland has been hosting one to two students every year from this prestigious program since 2017.
Carrie Rood
Carrie Rood, Foundations and Social Advocacy Department, had her article ““Working the Cracks”: Leveraging Educators’ Insider Knowledge to Advocate for Inclusive Practices” accepted into Equity and Excellence in Education.
John Suarez
John Suarez, Institute for Civic Engagement and Office of Service-Learning, was a panelist in the Aug. 19 “Leaders Learning Live: Effectively Managing Student Assistants,” conducted by the SUNY Academic and Innovative Leadership (SAIL) Institute. Suarez praised the value of giving interns the freedom, responsibility and authority to conduct projects. He emphasized the importance of providing training, resources, encouragement and tailored reflection prompts. He drew on the successes of the Institute for Civic Engagement’s Action Team interns.
John Suarez
John Suarez, Institute for Civic Engagement and service-learning coordinator, learned that his socio-economic docu-drama was accepted for inclusion in the final “Engaged Faculty Institute Curriculum,” to be published by the California Campus Compact, Campus Compact of the Mountain West and Community-Campus Partnerships for Health. Through this curriculum, faculty members will participate in an intensive, hands-on experience to integrate service-learning into a new or existing course. The curriculum includes research-based content, tools and resources, worksheets, reflections and assessment tools for course design, or re-design, impact assessment and sustainability.