Mark Dodds
Mark Dodds, Sport Management Department, recently had his article, “The Influence of Gender on Baseball Sponsorship Activation Tactics,” published by the Journal of Brand Strategy.
Frank Evangelista, Scott Chierchio and Daron Foster
Frank Evangelista, Scott Chierchio and Daron Foster, Heating Plant, completed Applied Skilled Trades Program (ASTP) traineeship programs through the NYS & CSEA Partnership for Education and Training. Evangelista and Chierchio were awarded journey-level electrician positions at the College and Foster was promoted to a journey-level refrigeration mechanic position after completing the required two-and-a-half years of instruction in trade theory and 4,000 hours of on-the-job training in their respective trades.
Bonni C. Hodges
Bonni C. Hodges, Health Department, recently served as the chair of the Council on Education for Public Health (CEPH) accreditation site visit team for the University of Nebraska-Omaha's bachelor's degree in public health.
Fran Elia
Fran Elia, sports information director, was presented the 2015 College Sports Information Directors of America (CoSIDA) Warren Berg Award at the CoSIDA Convention on June 17 in Orlando, Fla. The award is presented annually by the 3,000-member organization to a CoSIDA College Division member who has made outstanding contributions to the field of sports information, and who, by his or her activities, has brought dignity and prestige to the profession.
In February, the Metropolitan New York Football Writers and USA College Football presented Elia with the Bob Kenworthy Div. III Football Communications Award at the Eastern College Football Awards Banquet held at MetLife Stadium in East Rutherford, N.J.
Sports information director since 1992, Elia received the Fraser Stokes Award for dedication to Cortland athletics in 1996, the Eastern College Athletic Conference – Sports Information Directors Association’s Irving T. Marsh Service Bureau Award for excellence in the profession in 2009 and induction into the Cortland C-Club Hall of Fame as an honorary member in 2012.
Julie Ficarra
Julie Ficarra, International Programs, presented research on the coloniality of images used in study abroad marketing materials, and the unequal relations of power that can be perpetuated in international programs, with a focus on program design strategies that promote equity, ethics, and social justice. She also presented on her recently published article, titled: ‘Curating Cartographies of Knowledge: Reading Institutional Study Abroad Portfolio as Text’. The Forum on Education Abroad conference was held from March 21 to 23 in Boston, Mass.
Tyler Bradway
Tyler Bradway, English Department, presented on a virtual roundtable, “Queer Kinship,” on Sept. 24 at University of North Carolina Greensboro in honor of his book, co-edited with Elizabeth Freeman, Queer Kinship: Race, Sex, Belonging, Form. The book is forthcoming with Duke University Press.
Mary Schlarb
Mary Schlarb, International Programs Office, served on a panel for an Association of International Education Administrators virtual town hall meeting on Sept. 10 titled “Reestablishing Study Abroad: What SIOs [Senior International Officers] Need to Do.” She was joined by colleagues Helen Gaudette, from the Fashion Institute of Technology, SUNY, Nick Gozik from Boston College and Eny di Iorio and Ambra Balzani from Italy’s Lorenzo de' Medici Institute.
Jeremy Jiménez
Jeremy Jiménez, Foundations and Social Advocacy Department, coauthored an article titled “‘Don't Say It’s going to be ok’: How International Educators Embrace Transformative Education to Support Their Students Navigating Our Global Climate Emergency,” recently published by the international peer-reviewed journal Education Sciences.
Nikolay Karkov
Nikolay Karkov, Philosophy Department, co-authored an article titled “Rethinking East-European Socialism: Notes Toward an Anti-Capitalist Decolonial Methodology,” recently published in Interventions: International Journal of Postcolonial Studies. The text makes a contribution to both anti-capitalist and decolonial critique from the perspective of the historical legacy of East-European socialism, by offering a genealogy of critical theory in the region after the Cold War, critically discussing socialist humanism's colonial origins, and also exploring South-to-East collaborations between the former Third and Second Worlds. The authors conclude that East-European socialism’s efforts to organize alternative and resistant modernities at times converged and at others starkly departed from capitalist colonial modernity.
Timothy Conner
Timothy Conner, School of Arts and Sciences, along with adolescence education: earth science majors and SUNY Cortland Noyce Scholars Brendan Creegan and Eric Reisweber, presented “De-Criminalizing High Stakes Exams through Effective Teaching: Using Project-Based Learning Modules to Meet and Exceed Standards” at the Noyce NE Conference held in March in Philadelphia, Pa. Fearing the results of high stakes exams, teachers often resort to “teaching to the test” or trying to force feed standardized curriculum to resistant students. As a teacher in New York, a state with a long history of high stakes, end of the year assessments, Conner has found that project-based modules focused on issues relevant to students were much more effective than teaching to the test. Project-based learning helps to engage students in relevant science experiences and provides a context to support the learning of content required for success on state exams. Presenters demonstrated how project-based modules can be used in the classroom to meet and exceed understandings required for high stakes assessments.