Education

Ph.D., The Ohio State University, 1985, (Interdisciplinary) Educational Theory and Research
M.A., Boise State University, 1981, English
B.S., The Ohio State University, 1971, English/Spanish

2002-Present

Franklin University, Dean, College of Arts, Sciences, and Technology; Division Chair, Division of Arts and Sciences; Program Chair, Organizational Communication; Co-Academic Unit Leader, General Education Program Chair, Organizational Communication; Full-time Faculty, supervising instructors teaching all communication (writing) and speech courses; member, Franklin Assuring Quality Team, guiding initiative to lead continuous quality improvement at the University; Full-time Faculty, supervising instructors teaching all communication (writing) and speech courses. Developed coursework for Communication 130, Research Writing (2007); Organizational Communication 495 (capstone), Integrated Organizational Communication (2007); Organizational Communication 300 (2006); Communication 020, College Reading Skills (2006); Communication 025, College Study Skills/Orientation (2005); Communication 050, Basic Writing I (2005); Communication 060, Basic Writing II (2004); Communication 320, Business and Professional Communication (2004); Communication; Communication 120, College Writing (2003); Speech 100 (2003).

2002-2002

Capital University, Instructor of English Composition and Rhetoric

2001-2002

National Adoption Center, Philadelphia, Grant Writer

2000-2001

University of Oregon, Instructor of English, University of Oregon

2000-2001

Center for Community Counseling, Eugene, Oregon, Grant Writer

1998 - 2000

Associate Dean for Academic Affairs; Chair, Middle States Re-accreditation Self-Study Steering Committee; Co-chair, Capital Campaign. Member: Academic Council; Enrollment Management Team; Admissions Committee; Information Technology Planning Advisory Committee; Co-author Strategic Agenda for 2000-2004.

1997

Director of the Academic Skills Center; Chair, Annual Fund; Chair, Technology Study Group; Co-author, HUD/VA Welfare-to-Work Grant (enabled expansion of the college writing center into an academic skills center).

1997

Grants: Connelly Foundation Grant; consultant Star School Grant; consultant, Fund for the Improvement of Education Grant. Associate Professor of English; Divisional Representative, Strategic Planning Steering Committee; Chair, Marketing and Image Task Force.

1995-2000

Holy Family College, Philadelphia, Assistant Professor of English and Coordinator of the Writing Program: Institutional research in assessing academic progress of first-time full-time freshmen and impact of academic support; co-chair, Capital Campaign; development of distance learning coursework; staff training for academic support; Coordinated development and assessment of uniform goals and outcomes for writing program; implementation of information literacy and computer literacy as part of the program. B. A. in Professional Communication, Humanities Division. Chair, Task Force for Revision and Standardization of Freshman Writing Courses Faculty/Staff Solicitation Committee; Developed ESL sections of freshman English. Member, Information Literacy Task Force; Member, Task Force on Under-prepared Students; Implemented computerized adaptive placement testing, English and Mathematics, for the entire freshman class, resulting in post-testing and outcomes assessment (1996); co-editor of one section of the Middle States Accreditation Periodic Review Report; Consulted in editing the B.S.N curriculum revision and the M.S.N, proposal. Grants: co-author, Perkins Grants (expanding use of the Writing Center); Foundation for Independent Higher Education - National Science Foundation Internet Connection. Teaching: Composition and Rhetoric; History and Structure of English; Creative Writing; Linguistics. Developed coursework for Instructional Design, M.S. in Computer Systems and Network Management; M.S. in Human Resources Management, Business Division; Freshman Writing Program, Humanities Division.

1992-1994

State Department of Education, Boise, Idaho, Consultant, Compensatory Education Programs: technical assistance and program review of Federal compensatory education programs; assessed school districts statewide on compliance with Chapter I, Title VII, and Homeless Education program requirements; grant writing.

1991-1992

Janus Pannonius University, Pecs, Hungary. Designed curriculum, instruction, and teacher training in applied linguistics, rhetoric, and composition; collaborated with teacher education programs directed by the British Council.

1991 -1992

USIS Fellow, Eastern Europe English Teacher Training Program, Janus Pannonius University, Pecs, Hungary.

1990-1991

Mansoura University, Al Mansoura, Egypt. Created curriculum for teaching syntax and phonology to Egyptian Secondary English Teachers.

1990-1991

USIA Fellow, Fulbright Commission, Mansoura University, Al Mansoura, Egypt: directed program for training of teachers in applied linguistics, syntax, phonology; directed M. A. theses in American literature.

1989-1990

Harvard University, Senior Teaching Fellow in Linguistics ESL Program

1988

Fulbright Research/Teaching Fellow, Pontificia Universidade Catolica de Rio de Janeiro: design of seminar for Ph.D. candidates in linguistics; development of University competency testing in writing (English).

1988-1990

Eastern Oregon State University, Chair, English/Writing Program: responsible for eight full-time faculty members and for directing the program in composition and rhetoric and technical writing; WAC; linguistics; LAD; learning communities interdisciplinary team teaching, funded by a Department of Education Chapter II grant.

1986-1987

Lewis-Clark State College. Created curriculum for teaching grammar and syntax to staff of local businesses.

1982-1988

Boise State University, Adjunct Professor of applied linguistics and English composition: Applied Linguistics for TESL; modern English structure; technical writing; composition for students of ESL; composition; special topics in psycholinguistics.

1986-1987

Lewis-Clark State College, Summer, 1986 - 1987 Visiting Professor, Applied Linguistics and ESL.

1982-1988

Idaho Tax Commission. Continuing education: grammar workshop for secondary teachers; non-credit effective writing skills course for Adult corporate education.

1982-1988

Hewlett-Packard, Boise , ESL for employees.

1981-1984

Ohio State University, Teaching Associate, English Department: graduate associate assigned to the English Department: basic writing; advanced composition for ESL: advanced writing (dissertation and thesis preparation) for foreign graduate students; intensive English, Summer Japanese English Teachers Program (four successive intensive graduate methods programs).

2000

Reviewer for Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools, Commission on Higher Education, Distance Learning Programs.

1997 -1998

Manuscript reviewer for Technical Communications Quarterly

1997

Successful Faculty Evaluation Program (Peter Seldin), Southeastern Pennsylvania Consortium For Higher Education, Cabrini College, 3 April 1997.

1997

College Composition and Communication Conference, Phoenix, March 1997.

1995-1996

Represented Holy Family University at The Council for Independent Colleges Technology Symposium, Pittsburgh (1996); AAHE conferences in Boston and Washington (1995); at workshops on A.C.T. computerized placement testing at Valley Forge (1996) and ETS at Princeton (1995).

1992

"Defining Multi-Cultural Education," LEA Administrators' Meeting, Boise, September 1993. Writing Skills Workshop, University of Eger, Hungary, March 1992.

1992

"Using Classification Principles in the Teaching of Composition", IATEFL, Budapest, April 1992.

1992

USIS/British Council Bi-Cultural Workshops, fall, 1991 and spring 1992, Janus Pannonius University, Pecs, Hungary.

1990

ESL Workshop for University Teachers of Rhetoric and Composition, Spring, 1990, Spokane Falls Community College.

1987

Literacy Conference, "Student Writing: From Literacy to Literature," San Francisco University, June 1987.

1986

National Association of Bilingual Education, Chicago, 1986.

1986

U.S. Dept. of Ed. Title VII Directors Workshop, Washington, D.C., 1986.

1985

Tri-State Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL) Fall Conference, Seattle, 1985.

2006

Can't Work Without It! Consensus Building in the 21st Century Consensus Building in the 21st Century. Article written for Franklin University Leadership Lessons Live, August, 2006.

2006

Leadership: The Character Issue. Article written for Franklin University Leadership Lessons Live, January, 2006.

2006

Presentation on Facilitating Consensus, 8/10/06 for Franklin University Leadership Lessons Live, Ross Auditorium.

2003

Peer Critiquing/Peer Evaluation in the Classroom presented to the Franklin University Faculty of Computer Science, Management Information Systems, Digital Communication, and Mathematics 21 June 2003, Blacklick Park, Columbus.

2003

EDUC 101: Cyber Faculty Development: Teaching and Learning On-line, a presentation to the Winter, 2003 Conference on Information Technology, Sponsored by The League for Innovation in the Community College.

1998

Co-author (with C. LuAnn Kline and M. L. Phillips) Real-World Scenarios Improve RadiologyEmployee Selection, Radiology Management, vol. 20, no. 6,1998.

1997-1998

A Networked-based Curriculum, Philadelphia, Holy Family College - Connelly Foundation, 1997/98 -The use of technology at faculty institutes; 1996/97 Internet Demonstration, Humanities Open House; poetry readings; guest lecture, Women's History Month; 1995 - Guest lecture, Lambda Iota Tau.

1997

Poetry: Weather Report, a poem appearing in Folio 22, Spring 1997.

1996

Manuals: English 101: Writing I & English 102: Writing II (The Research Paper), the manual for instructors in the freshman writing program at Holy Family College, 1998; Getting the Most Out of the Internet, training for research, using the Internet, 1997; Placement Policy and Procedures for Freshman Math and Writing, placement, pre-testing, and post-testing procedures at the college, 1996.

1992

The Relationship Among Thought, Language, and Perception, Colloquium, Janus Pannonius University, February 1992.

1991

Co-Author (with Michael Heenan), University Composition Text, 1991, University of Sohag, Sohag, Egypt.

1990

Faculty advisor, Event: The Journal of the Harvard Summer EFL Program (Vol. 1 #1, 1990).

1990

Co-author (with Silvia B. Becher), "Reformulating Text Patterns in Simultaneous Interpretation." Proceedings: Congress Mondial de Linguistique Applique. Thessalonika, Greece, April 1990.

1990

Reformulating Text Patterns in Simultaneous Interpretation, International Congress on Applied Linguistics, Thessaloniki, Greece, April 1990.

1988

Language, Culture, Perception, Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Florianopolis, Brazil, October 1988.

1988

Lingua, Cultura, Conocimiento, Pontificia Universidade Catolica de Campo Grande, Brazil, October 1988.

1988

A Unified Theory of Language, Thought and Perception, Conferencia de Letras Germanicas, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, Brazil, November 1988.

1988

Cultural Contrasts In Discourse Structure: The Point of Getting to the Point, Universidade Federal de Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, November 1988.

1988

The Ontogenesis of Linguistic Competence and the Perception of Time and Space, The Philological Association of the Carolinas, Winthrop College, March 1988.

1988

Teaching Technical Writing to ESL Students, National Association for Foreign Student Affairs, Region II Conference, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, October, 1987. Paper chosen as Best of Region II and selected for national presentation, Washington D.C., May 1988.

1988

My research has also been the subject of an article, Brain Maps: Unlocking Language With Cerebral Images, by Glenn Oakley, Spring, 1988 in Focus.

1987

Motive and the Acquisition of Language. The Idaho Staff Developer in Adult Basic Education. 2.3 (Spring, 1987).

1987

More About ESL Issues in Idaho. ISD. 2.2 (Winter, 1987).

1987

The Development of Structure in the Acquisition of LI and Its Relationship to the Structuring of Perception, The Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association Fall Conference, Spokane, October 1987.

1986

Teaching Writing in the ESL Classroom, National Migrant Education Conference, San Diego, March 1986.

1986

A Survey of ESL Materials Indexed to reflect Approaches as Well as Audience, Intermountain TESOL conference, Spokane, 1986.

1986

ESL Issues in Idaho" ISD. (Fall, 1986).

1986

Co-editor, ESL Source Book: A Selective Bibliography for Second Language Teachers. U.S. Department of Education, 1986. A two- year compilation and assessment of all current ESL materials resulted in this bibliography which is cross-indexed by approach, level and intended audience. It includes a description of methodology and pedagogy, and scope and served as a resource for all 50 State educational agencies.

1985

ESL and the Idaho Department of Education, Idaho Council of Teachers of English Fall Conference, Sun Valley, 1985.

1983

Crazy Dave: Desolation Row Revisited, Popular Culture Session of the Rocky Mountain MLA Fall Conference, Phoenix, 1983.

1982

Using Peer Evaluation in the Composition Classroom, Writing Program Staff Development Seminar, Ohio State University, 1982.

1982

The Bare Essentials: Preparation for the English-010,101, incompetency Exams (Boise: Boise State University, 1982).

1980

Managing Editor, The Idaho English Journal, 1980.

1980

Preparation of a computer program user manual for, Trusjoist, Boise, 1980.

1980

SBA project manual, U.S. Air Force. 1980;

1980

A Forest History of the Wisconsin Reservations, Bureau of Indian Affairs, 1980.

The American Association For The Advancement of Science
EDUCAUSE
Association For Supervision And Curriculum Development
Association Of Teachers Of Technical Writing
International Association Of Applied Linguistics
Modern Language Association
The Council Of Writing Program Administrators
TESOL
NCTE
CCC
Editorial Advisory Board Member, Collegiate Press, Alta Loma, CA.