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NEWS NOTES Volume XXXI, Issue IV
News Notes
College of Graduate Studies
Immaculata University
Immaculata Goes to Peru! by Melissa Reed, Ed.D.
On May 17th, Sister Ann Heath, Vice President for Academic Affairs, and Dr. Melissa Reed, Division Chair of Education, left for Lima, Peru on the first leg of a South American journey. Our goals included securing student teaching placements, assessing the
need for teacher professional development, and study exchange with universities in Peru. We toured five IHM elementary and secondary schools and a professional school. At each school we were greeted by teachers and students who treated us to various cultural events including dancing, blessings, and singing. The IHM Sisters stationed in Peru were gracious, charming, and warm, guiding us all the way. Along with 12 IU undergraduates there on a mission trip we toured historic Lima, attended mass at the Lima Cathedral, met the cardinal, ate great local cuisine, and attended a fantastic professional dance show.
Our first school was Villa María, Miraflores where we experienced how deeply the Peruvian culture is revered
and how well the children speak English. We were thrilled by the students display of dances and songs with commentary to welcome us and show the grandeur of their culture.
Next we visited Escuela Imaculado Corazón, the boys school K-5, and were amazed with many aspects of the children’s education. The expansive grounds of Villa María, LaPlanicie host the 6-11 grade students as well as the Escuelita K-6. Students from lower middle class families are educated in a separate government-sponsored school alongside the private upper school academy. One of the most significant moments was visiting Fe y Alegria, Montenegro. Here families struggle for basic necessities, but the K-1 and special education school serves as a beacon of expectation for the children.
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Department News
Department of Psychology Masters Program Advisor Update
Please note that there have been some advisor changes for students studying in Clinical Mental Health Counseling/ Counseling Psychology:
Dr. Martinson - A-D
Dr. Brumfield - E-K
Dr. Stinchfield - L-R
Dr. Deneen Miller - S-Z
Students are also welcome to stop by for advisement with any of our advisors during the open times listed below.
Dr. Martinson: Tuesdays 3:00 to 4:00 p.m. and by appointment. [email protected]; 484-323-3518; Location: Nazareth, 11A.
Kristy Brumfield: Thursdays 3:00 to 4:00 p.m. and by appointment. [email protected]; 484-323- 3141; Nazareth, 11H.
Dr. Tracy Stinchfield: Wednesdays 3:00 to 4:00 p.m. and by appointment. [email protected]; 484-323- 3517; Nazareth, 11G
Dr. Deneen Miller: Mondays 3:00 to 4:00 p.m. and by appointment. [email protected]; 484-323-3701; Nazareth, 11B.
Practicum Tips Night Practicum Tips for master’s level students will be held on Monday, January 23rd from 5:00 p.m. to 7:10 p.m. in the Green Room in Villa Maria Hall, first floor. Students cannot register for internship if they have not attended a Practicum Tips Meeting. Clinical Mental Health Counseling New Student Orientation Orientation for new students will be on Thursday, January 26th from 2:00 to 4:00 p.m. in the Green Room in Villa Maria Hall, first floor. Any student who has not been to an orientation is expected to attend. Meet your advisor and other students, and receive important information regarding your program.
Division of Nursing
MSN Capstone Project Presentation, Wednesday, December 7, 2016 All MSN Students are invited to join the MSN Capstone Project Presentation, December 7, 2016, 5-6:30 p.m. in the Great Hall. Please RSVP by November 18 to Maureen Hoerman at [email protected] if you plan on attending.
Financial Aid Advisors
Advisors are assigned by a student’s last name. If you have questions about Financial Aid please contact your advisor at 610-647-4400 and the extensions below: A-D Alicia Lauro ext. 3145 E-K Ashley Osborn ext. 3149 L-R Sallie Tuscai ext. 3048 S Dina Stern ext. 3025 T-Z Jennifer Callahan ext. 3087 Director Robert Forest ext. 3026 [email protected] Office ext. 3028 [email protected]
Degree Works
Degree Works is a web-based degree audit tool designed to assist both students and advisors by providing information on completed and outstanding requirements necessary to complete your chosen degree and/or certification program. Spring 2017 registration for main campus courses begins on October 31 so now is a good time to review your degree audit. To access Degree Works, log into MyIU and click on the Degree Works icon located in the top right hand corner. This will take you to your personal audit. Once in Degree Works, the FAQ/Help tab can be found in the top left hand corner. The FAQ will assist you with general questions. We hope that you will find this new degree audit tool helpful as you work to complete your educational goals! If you have any questions regarding your Degree Works audit, please contact your advisor or any of the following College of Graduate Studies staff: -Roseanne Mucchetti 484-323-3880 -Rosemary Malloy 484-323-3214 -Sandra Rollison 484-323-3215
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hours: Mondays-Thursdays, 9:00 am -7:00 pm, Fridays 9:00 am -2:00 pm.
In addition, the Writing Center offers Grammar Guru Sessions, which are held Mondays 12:30-1:00 pm, Tuesdays 5:30-6:00 pm, and Fridays 9:00-9:30 am. These sessions are ideal for students who need to brush up on the finer points of grammar and avoid losing points for small mistakes. Each week focuses on a grammar topic and its most common mistakes. Upcoming topics include subject-verb agreement (week of 10/31), possessives/apostrophes (week of 11/07) and verb tenses (week of 11/14).
Please take advantage of all that the Writing Center has to offer!
The Immaculata Writing Center 1st Floor Gabriele Library (610) 647-4400 ext. 3494 http://www.immaculata.edu/writingcenter
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Faculty in the News
Dr. William Carr, Stein-way artist, Professor and Chair of the Undergradu-ate Music Department performed a solo recital for the Steinway Society of New Jersey on Sunday, February 9, 2016. His pro-gram included works by
Schubert, Haydn, Liszt, Scriabin, Chopin and Toch. He will perform this program at Immaculata University on Sunday, October 30th at 3 PM in the Great Hall. On November, 5th, he will give two lecture recitals …one entitled, Piano Lessons and Creativity and a sec-ond entitled, Preparing for a Piano Re-cital to the Delaware State Music Teachers at the University of Dela-ware. He will also give a piano master class for piano students from the state of Delaware at the close of the confer-ence.
Adjunct Professor Ryan Bowers, and Associate Professor of Psycholo-gy David E. Martinson, presented: Elevating student voices in su-pervision: Using formative feedback in counselor educa-
tion programs at the North Atlantic Region Association for Counselor Educa-tion and Supervision (NARACES) Region-al Conference in Syracuse, NY on Sep-tember 24, 2016.
Dr. Martinson also presented another workshop at NARACES entitled: Devel-oping a proactive crisis response in counselors: Lessons learned from Utøya, Norway.
On June 17, 2016, Dr. Martinson pre-sented Transcultural collaborative clini-cal supervision: A Norwegian perspec-tive at the 12th International Interdis-ciplinary Conference on Clinical Super-vision, held at Adelphi University in Garden City, NY.
Brenda Kabler, School Psychology Site Coordina-tor, spoke at the National School-Based Health Care Convention in Arlington, Virginia on June 29, 2016.
The title of her presenta-tion was, Addressing Be-
havioral Health Needs of Immigrant and Refugee Students: A Psychological Perspective. The presentation was at-tended and well received by school based counselors, nurses, public health officers, and mental health workers from across the nation.
Dr. Margaret van Naerssen, Coordinator of Cultural and Linguis-tic Diversity served as a guest presenter/facilitator, on Septem-ber 21, in a graduate psychology research seminar at John Jay College of Criminal Justice in Manhat-tan. This was a joint effort between Dr. Saul Kassin at John Jay and Dr. van Naerssen to examine specific forensic psychology and linguistics issues in re-search on false and coercive confes-sions in law enforcement contexts. Dr. Kassin is the national expert on such research and is interested in adding the non-native English speaking populations to this area of research. Dr. van Naers-sen brought her expertise in working on legal cases involving non-native English speakers. Some of his students are de-veloping a research study with this area of focus.
Dr. van Naerssen will attend and pre-sent at the Applied Linguistics and Pro-fessional Practice Conference in Copen-hagen, November 1-5. Her presentation title is Delivery of police caution: An interactive event.
On November 14, Dr. van Naerssen will give an introduction to forensic linguis-tics to Dr. Luna Zhang's forensic chem-istry class.
Dr. Jed Yalof, Chair and Professor of Psy-chology had three pa-pers accepted for presentation at the Soci-ety for Personality As-sessment Annual Con-vention in San Francisco in March, 2017:
Symposium Chair and Discussant: Neu-rocognitive Testing, Personality Assess-ment, and Psychoanalytic Psychothera-py: Integrative Clinical Illustration
Symposium Discussant: The Competing or Complementary Aspects of the PDM and DSM: A Pedagogical Inquiry
Symposium Presenter: Evaluating Cogni-tive Impairment in the Context of Neg-ative Psychotic Symptoms
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Students in the News
Graduate Student Advisory Board
Do you have ideas about how to im-prove your graduate student experi-ence? If so, please contact your GSAB rep listed below. If your program is not listed contact Dr. Mark Hammons at [email protected] to let him know you are interested in serving on the Board.
Representatives can be reached at their [email protected].
Cultural & Linguistic Diversity Sr. Sandra Amado samado Natalie Cohen ncohen Clinical Mental Health Counseling Shawn Hilburn shilburn Master of Science in Nursing Bruce Kimball bkimball Shierley Miller smiller15 Cindy Moritz cmoritz Cheryl Pringle cpringle Elizabeth Procaaccio eonorato Teresa Sabatini tsabatini Anne Satterthwaite asatterthwaite Sue Trembath strembath Music Therapy Chelsea McHugh cmchugh1 Cara Wojciechowski cwojciechowski Pauline Broberg-Lewin pbroberglewin Nutrition & Dietetics Michele DiCristofaro mdicristofaro Christine Steerman csweeney4 Ed.D in Educational Leadership Kathleen Borginis kborginis Jason Hamer jhamer Kevin Orlando korlando Meg Rendina mrendina Ed.D in Higher Education Christine Brown cbrown10 PsyD in Clinical Psychology Steven Leymeister sleymeister Katie Parks kparks1 Bao-Hanh Tran btran1 Kathy Kollar-Valovage, doctoral student in Im-maculata’s Ed.D. Higher Education program serves as Bloomsburg Universi-ty’s Testing Center Coor-dinator. She recently returned from the National College Testing Association
Annual Conference in Seattle where she presented the inaugural POD education-al session “POD-1: Designing Your Per-fect Test Center” as part of the new “POD Series” of the annual conference. Kollar-Valovage served a two-year term on the National Conference Program Committee and continues to serve as Pennsylvania’s State Representative to the National College Testing Association (NCTA). Additionally, Kollar-Valovage is leading efforts for BU’s Testing Center to attain national test center certifica-tion through the NCTA, a seven-stage process, similar to a departmental five-year review. National Test Center Certi-fication through the NCTA shows out-side testing entities that a test center operates under the highest accepted standards and procedures for all types of testing.
Peru (Continued from page 1)
After eight wonderful days in Peru, we headed to our next stop Santiago, Chile, where we visited Villa María Academy Santiago. At Villa María we observed the students, and were treated to the local dances and songs. We both agreed to maintain the IHM connection to Villa María Academy Santiago. The students of VMA Chile enjoy a rich ex-perience of learning English, culture, academic subjects, debate, and athlet-ics within the beautiful setting of the school. The school is undergoing a complete renovation to upgrade its fa-cilities, its theatre, music facilities, labs while the little early childhood center provides a sweet environment for children to grow and learn with a total immersion in English. A scheduled visit to the premier Catholic University in Santiago to discuss study abroad op-portunities included an unplanned riot of secondary and college level students protesting education in Chile.
Apparently riots in Chile are common-place and people just proceeded as normal coughing off the after effects of tear gas. We were safe and what I remember vividly is a
peaceful prayer service being held in a center courtyard amidst all the chaos.
We are confident that our journeys to Peru and Chile will lead to opportuni-ties not only for the Education Division but for our other disciplines as well. The majority of students and teachers were English speakers. The schools in Chile and Peru recognize the need for English fluency. The Education Division will be inviting students to conduct 50% of their student teaching and/or obser-vations in South America as of May 2017. There are many other exciting prospects for South America in the plan-ning phases right now so look for more to come.
We are pleased that this initiative has been blessed as we learned recently that Immaculata University received two grants for nearly $250,000 from the US Department of Education. The un-dergraduate international studies and foreign language (UISFL) program grant and the Fulbright-Hays Group Project Abroad grant will fund course develop-ment, travel, and training for faculty and students (Peru student teaching, Peru Spanish course, service-learning locally, instruction for Peruvian student teacher supervisors) and resources to support these courses (i.e. Rosetta Stone).
If you have any questions about our trip or are interested in learning more about service to Peru or Chile, do not hesitate to contact one of us.