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Sharon Jones, Shiley School of Engineering, was an invited panelist for the ABET and BOK Updates session at the Environmental Engineering Program Leaders Meeting, held at the 2019 AEESP Biennial Research and Education Conference at Arizona State University, May 2019. Her co-presenters were Allison McKay and David Vaccari.

Jonathan Stanfill, theology, wrote “The Body of Christ’s Barbarian Limb: John Chrysostom’s Processions and the Embodied Performance of Nicene Christianity” in Revisioning John Chrysostom: New Approaches, New Perspectives , Critical Approaches to Early Christianity 1, edited by Chris L. de Wet and Wendy Mayer, 670-97. Leiden: Brill, March 2019.

Anne Pitsch Santiago, political science, was invited to present a social justice lecture on “What Catholicism Teaches and How the World Challenges Us: Non-violence for the Individual and Society” at Holy Trinity Catholic Church, March 14, 2019. She published “Land grabbing or economic development? A modernisation debate played out on Bugala Island, Uganda” in the Journal of Contemporary African Studies, April 2019.

Simon Aihiokhai, theology; Veronica Bathon, Campus Ministry; Eduardo Contreras, assistant provost for international education, diversity, and inclusion; Mike Pelley, international student services; and Anne Pitsch Santiago, political science, received an institutional grant from the  Association of American Colleges & Universities (AAC&U) to attend the Interfaith Youth Core Summer Institute in Atlanta in July. The Institute encourages and supports campuses to develop projects that support and enhance interfaith dialogue and peaceful coexistence. The initiative will continue to grow to involve more campus members including students, faculty, and staff.

 Simon Aihiokhai, theology, had his book, Fostering Interreligious Encounters in Pluralist Societies: Hospitality and Friendship, published by Palgrave Macmillan, 2019. ISBN: 978-3-030-17804-8 (Hardcover). ISBN: 978-3-030-17805-5 (eBook). Number of Pages: XIII, 239. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-17805-5, May 2019.

Heather Dillon, Shiley School of Engineering, wrote “Balancing Technological Innovation with Waste Burden Minimization: An Examination of the Global Lighting Industry” (with Dzombak R, Antonopoulos CA) in International Journal of Integrated Waste Management, Science and Technology . Vol 92, no 1, Pages 68-74. doi:10.1016/j.wasman.2019.04.037, May 2019.

Tammy VanDeGrift, Shiley School of Engineering, published “Blending Team, Paired, and Individual Work in a Computing Course: Using Best Practices” in Proceedings of the 9th Annual 2019 STEM/STEAM Education Conference. June, 2019.

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Michael Prendergast, theology and music, had an article in the March 2019 issue of Pastoral Music, Journal of the National Association of Pastoral Musician (NPM): “Revisiting Communal Reconciliation.”

Michael Cameron, theology, wrote “Letter and Spirit: Latin Patristic and Early Medieval and Christianity” in The Encyclopedia of the Bible and Its Reception, eds. Christine Helmer, et al. (Berlin: Walter De Gruyter, 2018), vol. 16: 237-42; “Regnum [Kingdom]” in Augustinus-Lexikon, vol. 4, fasc. 7/8 (Basel: Schwabe, 2019): pp. 1112-19 as well as “Rex [King]” pp. 1208-13. He also presented “Augustine on Genesis in Confessions 11-12: The Case for Hermeneutical Rhetoric” at the Sixth Annual Northwest Early Christian Studies Seminar, University of Portland: March 2019.

Christin Hancock, history, presented “Mad Women in the Interwar Era: Gender and Syphilis-Induced Mental Illness in Middle America, 1918-1941,” at the Western Association of Women Historians (WAWH) Annual Conference, April 27, 2019, Portland, Oregon.

Nicole Ralston, education, presented “The growing pains of a new preventative model of alternative school: A mixed methods study” (with student Cara Wright) at the Hawaii International Conference on Education (HICE) annual conference, Honolulu, HI, January 2019. She also attended the National Science Teachers Association (NSTA) Conference, Reno, NV, October 2018. She served on the Search Committee for ESOL/Reading Faculty Member, October 2018-April 2019, and on the Search Committee for Science/Research Methods Faculty Member, September-November 2018.

Trudie Booth, French studies, published her book, Les mots français: Vocabulaire, lectures et sujets de conversation, throughRoutledge on May 3.

 

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Carolyn James, mathematics, presented “Institutional Change: the Role of Peer Observation in the Adoption of Evidence-Based Instructional Practices” (with Tara Prestholdt, Valerie Peterson, Eric Anctil, Stephanie Salomone, and Heather Dillon) at Pacific North West Section of the Mathematical Association of America Annual Meeting, April 2019.

Sarina Saturn and Deirdre Katz, psychological sciences, had two students from their research lab present findings at the Western Psychological Association 99th Annual Convention. Rachel Mehlman presented “How the Stigma of Mental Illness Influences College Student’s Likelihood of ​Seeking Psychological Help​,” and Brittney Kawakami presented “Cultural Values’ Effects on Coping Strategies Among Various Racial and Ethnic Identities.”

William Curtis, political science, presented “The Second Dewey-Lippmann Debate: Democracy vs. Rule of Law?” at the Western Political Science Association conference in San Diego, CA, April 18-20, 2019.

Carolyn James, mathematics, attended the Research in Undergraduate Mathematics Education Conference, Oklahoma City, OK, February 2019.

Laura Dyer, biology, “The role of neural crest in cardiac development” (with Margaret Kirby) in The ESC Book on Cardiovascular Development, Perez-Pomares JM and Kelly RG (Eds.) Oxford: Oxford, UK., December 2018.

Christin Hancock, history, presented “Unspeakable: Sex, madness, and the malarial treatment of syphilis in Middle America, 1925-1940,” as an invited lecturer for OHSU History of Medicine Lecture Series, April 24, 2019.

 

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Carolyn James, mathematics, presented webinars, “Metacognition Development for Undergraduate Math Tutors” and “Supporting Productive Failure for Undergraduate Math Tutors” (with co-presenter Megan Ryals) at the National Math Tutoring Center Directors Association, April 2019. She presented “Who is Talking and Who is Thinking? The Distribution of the Cognitive and Conversational Load during Undergraduate Mathematics Tutoring” (with Linda Burks) at the Pacific North West Section of the Mathematical Association of America Annual Meeting, April 2019.

Rachel Wheeler, theology, has her article, “Of Trash and Treasure: Implications of Zero Waste for the Spiritual Life,” published in Spiritus: A Journal of Christian Spirituality 19, no. 1 (Spring 2019): 81-101.

Kevin Jones, social work, with social work student Faith Marcelo ’20, presented, “Poetry Power: An innovative brief therapeutic poetry writing intervention for older adult survivors of abuse” at the National Association for Poetry Therapy 39th Annual Conference in Baltimore, MD on April 13, 2019.

Matthew Kuhn, Shiley School of Engineering, will serve as Visiting Professor of Engineering – University of Lyon, INSA-Lyon, Institut National des Sciences Appliquées de Lyon, France, in May 2019.

Aziz Inan, Shiley School of Engineering, had his article, “My View” Happy Birthday Queen Elizabeth,” published in the April 21 edition of the Portland Tribune. See the article here.

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Sister Angela Hoffman, chemistry, and four of her students presented their research at the spring 2019 National American Chemical Society meeting in Orlando Florida March 31-April 4:

  • Antimicrobial natural products from ancient actinomycete bacteria (S. Angela Hoffman)
  • Antibiotic and anticancer activity from bacteria collected at a Roman archeological site (Astrid Schick)
  • Isolation of Natural Insecticides from Yew Trees (Connell Morantte)
  • Purification and isolation of natural compounds found in ancient soil (Casey Raul)
  • Purification and isolation of antibiotic compounds from archeological site soil (Anthony Gutierrez)

The ACS student club also won a third place award and plaque for their activities from the past year.

Anissa Rogers, sociology and social work, published the 5th edition of her textbook, Human Behavior in the Social Environment, with Routledge Publishers.

On Tuesday, 16 April, Bohn Lattin, communication department, conducted two public speaking workshops for “Young Leaders from Africa with World Oregon.” Each year, World Oregon, in conjunction with the United States Department of State, hosts several youth leadership exchange programs which brings young leaders from around the world to the U.S. for a three-week leadership development course. The public speaking workshops were a part of the “Young Leaders from Africa” leadership development courses. Students from The Gambia, Mozambique, Sudan, and Kenya attended.

Lora Looney, Spanish, presented “Uncovering Spain’s Genocidal Puericulture State through Allegories of Disobedience in Ana Maria Matute’s 1956 ‘Los niños tontos’ (‘The Foolish Children’)” at the conference on Denial: The Final Stage of Genocide at the Center for Holocaust, Genocide, and Human Rights Studies at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte.

Nicole Ralston, education, presented “A program evaluation of an innovative alternative school: Preventing dropout and promoting post-secondary success” (with James Carroll, Jacqueline Waggoner, Rebecca Smith, and student co-presenters Zuly Naegele and Cara Wright) at a roundtable session at the American Educational Research Association (AERA) annual meeting, Toronto, Canada, April 2019. Ralston also presented “Longitudinal impacts of a pre-kindergarten summer transition program on attendance and early literacy skills” (with Jacqueline Waggoner, Beth Tarasawa, and student co-presenters Matthew Thul, Danielle Trollinger, Karen Apgar) at a paper session at the same conference.

Rachel Wheeler, theology, was invited to attend the Madeleva Lecture and New Voices Seminar at St. Mary’s College, IN, Center for Spirituality, St. Mary’s College, April 2019.

September Nelson, nursing, presented “Relationships among workload, teamwork, and missed nursing care in nursing homes” at the Western Institute of Nursing Research Conference, San Diego, CA, April 2019.

Matthew Kuhn, Shiley School of Engineering, served as moderator and discussant for the workshop “Granular Matter Across Scales,” Lorentz Center, Leiden, The Netherlands, March 18-22, 2019.

 

 

 

 

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Aziz Inan, Shiley School of Engineering, wrote an article, “My View: Cleary’s literary life summed up on 103rd birthday,” published in the April 12, 2019 edition of the Portland Tribune. See the article here.

Bro. Thomas Giumenta, C.S.C., will celebrate 50 years as a Holy Cross brother with a Renewal of Vows ceremony during the 10:30 a.m. Mass on Sunday, April 28, in the Chapel of Christ the Teacher. All are invited to wish Bro. Thomas well and congratulate him on his milestone year.

Mehmet Inan, Shiley School of Engineering, had his paper “Structural Performance of Residential Settlements in Western South America” accepted for the 43rd IAHS World Congress on Housing to be held in Cochabamba, Bolivia on October 7-9, 2019.

Andrew Guest, psychological sciences, has in the last month presented “Three dimensional Sport Psychology: Conceptualizing public issues as integrated with performance and mental health” at the annual Social Justice Through Sport & Exercise Psychology conference at Pacific University; “Using Research to Make, Measure, and Meet Youth Development Goals” at the US Soccer Foundation Urban Soccer Symposium in Washington DC; and a guest lecture at Pacific University (with UP alum and professor of political science at Pacific Dr. Jules Boycoff) on Sports, Politics, and International Development.

Jakob Kotas, mathematics, presented “Optimal airline de-ice scheduling,” University of Hawaii at Manoa Applied Mathematics Seminar, Honolulu, HI (Sep 26, 2018), “Optimal airline de-ice scheduling,” Oregon Liberal Arts Mathematics Colloquium, Linfield College, McMinnville, OR (Feb 23, 2019), “Standards-based grading for ordinary differential equations: a parallel study,” MAA Pacific Northwest Section Annual Meeting, University of Portland, Portland, OR (Apr 13, 2019), “Optimal airline de-ice scheduling” at AMS/MAA Joint Mathematics Meetings (JMM), Baltimore, MD (Jan 16, 2019), and  “A model for prion fibril growth based on oligomeric building blocks,” AMS Spring Central and Wester Joint Sectional Meeting, Honolulu, HI (Mar 24, 2019). He also wrote “Optimal stopping for response-guided dosing” in Networks and Homogeneous Media 14 (2019), no. 1, 43-52, March 2019.

Buck Taylor, chemistry, had his paper, “Computational and Experimental Investigation of Alkene Hydrogenation by a Pincer-Type [P2Si]Rh Complex: Alkane Release via Competitive σ-Bond Metathesis and Reductive Elimination” (with Matthew Whited and student coauthors Michael Trenerry, Kaitlyn DeMeulenaere) published in Organometallics, 2019 , 38 , 1493–1501.

Elizabeth Aguilera, Office of Student Activities, presented “Coyolxauhqui’s Serpents,” (co-written with Emily Umberger) at the Animal Symbolism in Postclassic Mesoamerica symposium at the Society for American Archaeology (SAA) 84th Annual Meeting, Albuquerque, New Mexico, April 13, 2019.

Cara Poor, Shiley School of Engineering, presented “Integrating Ethics Across the Civil Engineering Program” (with Mehmet Inan and student coauthor Abigail Chase) and published in Proceedings of the 2019 American Society of Engineering Education Pacific Northwest Section Conference. Corvallis, Oregon, March 2019.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Andrew Guest, psychological sciences, has been awarded a Fulbright U.S. Scholar grant to spend the 2019-2020 academic year teaching and undertaking research at Mwenge Catholic University in Moshi Tanzania. His proposed teaching involves working with graduate students on applied research and teaching psychology courses for future teachers and social workers in training. His proposed research will focus on cultural dimensions of school and community based youth development programs.

Jennifer Symons, Shiley School of Engineering, was presented the Best Paper Award, American Society for Engineering Education, Pacific North West Section, March 2019. Symons also had her paper, “The effect of deductive and inductive teaching methods in an introductory programming course” (with coauthors Joseph Hoffbeck and Heath Dillon) published in Proceedings of the 2019 American Society for Engineering Education, Pacific North West Section Conference.

John Orr, English, attended the Western Regional Honors Conference, Montana State University, Bozeman, MT, March 2019. He was accompanied by UP students Kaitlin Yap, nursing; Madison Thibado, environmental science; and Nora Hendricks, biology, all of whom presented posters at the conference.

Stephanie Salomone, mathematics, presented “The REFLECT Project: Spreading Evidence-based Teaching in STEM” (with Tara Prestholdt, Valerie Peterson, Eric Anctil, Heather Dillon, and Carolyn James) at a Thematic Symposium at the ASCN Transforming Institutions National Conference, Pittsburgh PA, April 2019.

Aziz Inan, Shiley School of Engineering, had his article, “Jane Goodall’s 85th Birthday Finds Harmony in Numbers,” published in the Portland Tribune. See the article here.

Eli Goldwyn, mathematics, presented “Compartmental Models of the Opioid Epidemic,” based on work done with UP students Bryce Amato, Meghan Childs, Ruth Olson, Sam Rivas, and Alex Tessner, at the Western Sectional meeting of the American Mathematical Society (AMS), Honolulu, Hawaii, March 2019.

Fr. Dan Parrish, C.S.C., business, presented two papers at the Western Academy of Management 2019 Conference in Sonoma, CA, March 6-9, 2019. The title of the first paper was “Sensegiving for moral authenticity at New Clairvaux Vineyard,” and the second paper was “Principled entrepreneurship: Habits of sustainability.”

Bryan Rookey, sociology & social work, presented “Drugged Driving, the Opioid Crisis, and Public Safety Claims” at the Annual Meeting of the Pacific Sociological Association , Oakland, CA, April 2019.

Anne Santiago, political science, was an invited panelist for “Roundtable in Honor of Ted Robert Gurr’s Legacy of Scholarship in the Field of Conflict Studies,” International Studies Association 60th Annual Meeting, March 27-31, 2019, Toronto.

Stephanie Salomone, mathematics, presented “Spreading Evidence-Based Instructional Practices: Modeling Change Using Peer Observation” (with Tara Prestholdt, Valerie Peterson, Eric Anctil, Heather Dillon, and Carolyn James), a webinar for the SEMINAL group, March 2019.

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Simon Aihiokhai, theology, presented “Sacraments: Pathways of Being in a World in need of Justice, Equity, and Community” at a retreat given to participants at the Rite of Christian Initiation of Adults (RCIA) Retreat at the University of Portland. Organized by Campus Ministry, March 24, 2019.

Matthew Kuhn, engineering, wrote “Stiffness pathologies in discrete granular systems,” (with Florent Prunier and Ali Daouadji) in International Journal for Numerical and Analytical Methods in Geomechanics, 2019, Vol. 43, No. 5, pp. 888-918, DOI10.1002/nag.2922

Steve Kolmes, environmental science, and Gregory Hill, environmental science, wrote “Using decision support tools in multi-stakeholder environmental planning: Restorative justice and subbasin planning in the Columbia River Basin” (with Michael Humphreys, Rebecca McLain, Eric T. Jones) in Journal of Environmental Studies and Sciences. https://doi.org/10.1007/s13412-019-00548-x

Briana Rotter, nursing, published “Course evaluations do not equal one’s worth” in Journal of Christian Nursing, 36(2).

Hannah Highlander, mathematics, presented Modeling and Cost Benefit Analysis to Guide Deployment of POC Diagnostics for Non-typhoidal Salmonella Infections with Antimicrobial Resistance (with Carrie Manore) at the Western Sectional meeting of the American Mathematical Society (AMS) , Honolulu, Hawaii, March 2019

Ian Parkman, business, published ““Design Briefs in Design-Driven New Product Development” (with Keven Malkewitz) in Journal of Design, Business & Society, (5:1), pp. 35–58, doi: 10.1386/dbs.5.1.35_1.

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Deirdre Katz, psychological sciences,  presented a poster titled “Transgenerational Prosociality: The Relationship between Resilience and Respiratory Sinus Arrhythmia during Moral Elevation Induction in Mother-Infant-Grandmother Triads” at the International Convention of Psychological Sciences (ICPS) in Paris, France,  on March 9, 2019, with preliminary analyses from an early career grant belonging to Sarina Saturn, from the National Science Foundation grant exploring the development of prosociality.

Shawn Records, performing and fine arts, has a photography exhibit entitled, “Now is the Time” on display as part of the UK’s FORMAT International Photography Festival. The show runs through April 14 and features Shawn’s photographic observations of sleepy, coastal towns over a five-year period, and offers “an insight into the eternity of the everyday, punctuated with intermittent bursts of activity, both glorious and tragic.” See more here.

Bob Butler, environmental studies emeritus, and Jenda Johnson, Earth Science Animated, published “Earthquake: Foreshock—Mainshock—Aftershock,” an animated exploration of aftershocks, which are the hundreds of smaller earthquakes that follow large earthquakes, and foreshocks that sometimes precede major and great earthquakes. Animation can be found on the IRIS website here or on YouTube.

Lorretta Krautscheid, nursing; Sam Williams and Ben Kahn, information services; and education major Katie Adams had their paper, “Untethered lecture capture: A qualitative investigation of college student experiences,” published in Journal of Educational Technology, 0 (0); 115. See more here.

Carolyn James, mathematics, presented a webinar, “Peer Observation for Tutoring” to the National Math Tutoring Center Directors Association, March 2019. She presented “Defining the Varied Structures of Tutoring Centers: Laying a Foundation for Future Research” (with Cameron Byerley, Deborah Moore-Russo, Melissa Mills, Brian Rickard, and Carolyn Johns), “Mathematical Knowledge for Tutoring Undergraduate Mathematics” (with Linda Burks), and “Spreading Evidence-Based Instructional Practices: Modeling Change Using Peer Observation” (with Tara Prestholdt, Valerie Peterson, Eric Anctil, Stephanie Salomone,and Heather Dillon) at the 22nd Annual Conference on Research on Undergraduate Mathematics Education, Oklahoma City, OK, February 2019.

Hannah Highlander, mathematics, had her article, “A ‘Rule of Five’ Framework for Models and Modeling to Unify Mathematicians and Biologists and Improve Student Learning” (with Kam Dahlquist, Glenn Ledder, Carrie Eaton, M. Drew Lamar, Richard Schugart) in Primus 1-24, March 2019. See the article here.

Matt Daily, Shepard Academic Resource Center, presented “Portland’s Pilots: How First Generation Student Mentors Help Their Peers Navigate and Maneuver College” at the annual Northwest College Reading and Learning Association (CRLA) Conference, held Saturday, March 2, in McMinnville, Oregon.

Rebecca Smith, education, presented “Going beyond the classroom: Using virtual reality to enhance classroom learning” (with Nicole Ralston, Benjamin Gallegos, and students Sophia Aguirre, Isabel Tubao, and Mayetta Martel) at the Oregon Association of Teacher Educators (ORATE) annual conference, Portland, OR, March 2019.

Alice Gates, social work, published “Rights education without rights? Rights workshops and undocumented immigrants in the U.S.” (with co-author Kathleen Tipler) the Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies. the article is based on Gates’ ethnographic research examining an immigrant worker center in the U.S. midwest.

Cara Poor, engineering, had her article, “Evaluation of water treatment residuals in bioretention planters to reduce phosphorus levels in stormwater” (with Anne MacDonald, Kari Duncan, and student coauthor Katie Conkle) in Environmental Engineering Science 36: 265-272, March 2019.

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Karen Eifler, Garaventa Center, offered the opening keynote address at the national gathering of LaSallian Schools’ Chief Administrators at their annual meeting in Houston, Texas on February 25. Her talk was titled “Oui, Whee, We: Cultivating a Heart For Ministry.”

Matthew Kuhn, Shiley School of Engineering, published “Stress fluctuations during monotonic loading of dense three-dimensional granular materials,” (with Ali Daouadji), in Granular Matter, February 2019.

Aziz Inan, Shiley School of Engineering, had his article, “Luke Perry’s Death Summed Up in Numbers,” published in the March 6, 2019 edition of the Portland Tribune. See the article here.

Courtney Campbell, Shepard Academic Resource Center, presented “Improving Your Communication with Yes, And” at the annual Oregon Women in Higher Education Conference in Gleneden Beach, OR, January 2019. She also co-facilitated a discussion on the topic “Orientation Program Techniques for Smaller Institutions” at the annual Conference on the First-Year Experience in Las Vegas, NV, February 2019.

Matthew Warshawsky, international languages and cultures, presented “Confluence and Conflict: A Space for Jews among Muslims and Christians in Medieval Spain” to middle school students at Congregation Beth Israel in Portland on February 24.

Amber Vermeesch, nursing, presented “Prevalence of and Coping Strategies for Inappropriate Patient Sexual Behavior in Nursing Baccalaureate Education,” a poster presentation with Halina Wyss, at Oregon Nursing Research & Quality Consortium 10th Annual Oregon Nursing Research & Quality Consortium conference, Portland, OR, April 15, 2019.  Vermeesch, A. (2019). Vermeesch and Wyss also presented “Stressors & Coping Strategies Unique to Undergraduate Nursing Students Based on Adult Attachment Style” at the same conference.

Simon Aihiokhai, theology, reviewed Born from Lament. The Theology and Politics of Hope in Africa by Emmanuel Katongole, Grand Rapids, Michigan: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 2017, in  Horizons volume 45, Issue 2 (December 2018): 471 – 472.

Patrick Murphy, performing and fine arts, has been named the inaugural Guest Conductor of the Bridge City Youth Band. The band, under the umbrella of the Rose City Gay Freedom Bands, is open to all students regardless of their sexual orientation or gender identity and is devoted to helping bridge communication both musically and personally between diverse communities. The ensemble will present a summer concert in Director Park in downtown Portland on June 28.

Nicole Ralston, Jacqueline Waggoner, and Jim Carroll of the School of Education presented a paper titled “A Focus on Performance Assessment: An Examination of Concurrent Validity of the edTPA and CPAST” on February 28 at the annual conference at the American Association of Colleges of Teacher Education (AACTE) in Louisville, Kentucky. Waggoner and Carroll also led a leadership workshop on CAEP national accreditation on February 21 at The Association of Independent Liberal Arts Colleges for Teacher Education (AILACTE) at its annual conference in Louisville, Kentucky.

Hillary Merk, Randy Hetherington, Bruce Weitzel, James Carroll, and Jacqueline Waggoner, in the School of Education, presented two papers at the annual conference of the Association of Independent Liberal Arts Colleges for Teacher Education (AILACTE) in Louisville, KY., February 22, 2019. The title of the first paper was “Persisting in the Profession: Early Career Focus Groups for New Teacher Induction,” and the second paper was titled “Using Employer Data to Assess Program Effectiveness.”