Dunphy

Steven Dunphy
Associate Professor of Management

“Is the History of Management Thought in Jeopardy?”

Dunphy will travel to Las Vegas to present the above titled paper to the American Society of Business and Behavioral Sciences’ annual conference. In the paper, he describes the use of a popular game-show format to help his students become more interested in the often overlooked topic of the history of management thought. He is working on a project to use Hollywood’s greatest film scenes to develop a pedagogical exercise based on those scenes to teach concepts of organizational behavior and management.

 

Evans

Karen Evans
Associate Professor of Public and Environmental Affairs

Evans will travel to Florida to attend the 28th annual Teaching Public Administration Conference of the American Society for Public Administration, the major pedagogical conference for public administration faculty. The theme of this year’s conference is “Teaching Public Administration in the Real World: Content, Audience, Delivery.” Several SPEA faculty will attend the conference and present a panel discussion focusing on experiences they’ve had updating the master’s degree in public administration (MPA) core courses as part of a SPEA system-wide effort. Evans will be attending sessions focused on the teaching of public management and executive leadership in public affairs education and on service learning.

 

Hug

Rick Hug
Associate Professor of Public and Environmental Affairs

Hug also will travel to Florida to attend the annual conference on Teaching Public Administration. He will be a participant in the panel presentation, along with SPEA’s Evans and Susan Zinner. Hug is especially interested in attending sessions focused on the teaching of statistics in public affairs education and on distance learning approaches.

 

Zinner

Susan Zinner
Assistant Professor of Public and Environmental Affairs

Zinner will be on the panel with SPEA colleagues Evans and Hug at the Teaching Public Administration Conference. She is looking forward to continuing a discussion that was started at last year’s conference regarding the possible creation of an online public administration professional journal.

Karl Nelson
Assistant Professor of Psychology

Nelson and his students in an upper-level psychology course are conducting research regarding personality and learning motivations in relation to classroom participation and performance. The students have written up their initial findings and submitted a proposal to present at the Midwestern Psychological Association conference, to be held in Chicago in May. The CETL grant will provide funding for all six students involved in the research to attend the conference and present their research.

 

Nelson

William Nelson
Professor of Finance

Nelson will attend the Centers for International Business Education and Research Globalization Seminar to gather information and learn new teaching techniques for incorporating the international dimensions of business into his classes. He also will be able to network with colleagues to obtain knowledge on the most recent trends in international finance curriculums.

Manoj Pardasani
Assistant Professor of Social Work

Pardasani will conduct a research study to evaluate the current level of cultural competence of students and examine the extent to which students in social work are prepared for culturally sensitive practice with a diverse population. He will use the results of this study to identify necessary steps to accomplish that goal through curriculum design.

 

Travis

Denise Travis
Director, Division of Social Work and Assistant Professor of Social Work

Travis will travel to Detroit to present a paper at the International Symposium for the Advancement of Social Work with Groups. Her paper, “The Use of The Wiz as a Teaching Tool in an MSW (master’s degree in social work) Groups Practice Class,” describes her use of the film, The Wiz, in her teaching to aid student learning related to concepts of group therapy.