Authors: Volume II, Spring Issue
Article 1
Best Practices in Professional Distance Education: A Hybrid Social Work Distance Education Program in South Texas
Author:
Denise A. Longoria Ph. D., LCSW
Assistant Professor of Social Work
The University of Texas- Pan American
Denise A. Longoria is an assistant professor of social work at The University of Texas-Pan American. She holds an MSSW from The University of Texas at Austin and a Ph.D. in Education from Capella University. Before joining The University of Texas – Pan American, she was a faculty member at Texas A & M International University. She has been a social worker for twenty years, and an academician for twelve. Her areas of interest and expertise include social work practice, family violence issues, and social work education. In addition to teaching social work courses, Dr. Longoria is responsible for recruitment and advising of Laredo students enrolled in the distance education program. Dr. Longoria maintains a small private practice where she provides individual and couples’ therapy. She also serves as a board member of two non-profit agencies in Laredo, Texas.
Contact info:
Address: 1201 W. University Dr., Edinburg, TX 78539
Phone: (956) 665-3575
Fax: (956)665-3516
Email: longoriada@utpa.edu
Author:
Héctor Luis Díaz, Ph. D.
Professor and Chair the Department of Social Work
The University of Texas- Pan American
Dr. Díaz currently is a full tenured professor with 32 years of professional and academic experience. Prior to joining The University of Texas – Pan American as department chair, he served as Director of a Ph.D. program at the University of Texas at Arlington and as Vice-President of Student Affairs at a university in Puerto Rico. He has been a member of the graduate faculty at four different universities. He is very active in the areas of grant writing, research, publications and presentations at professional and academic conferences. His areas of teaching and research expertise include: social welfare policy, research, diversity and community socio-economic development. He moved to the United States mainland in 1979 following the completion of his Bachelor of Arts degree in Puerto Rico. He received a Master of Science in Social Administration from Case Western Reserve University in 1981 and a Doctor of Philosophy in Social Work from the University of Illinois at Chicago in 1995. He entered academia in 1992 after having served as a social work practitioner for more than a decade.
Contact info:
Address: 1201 West University Drive, HSHE 2.128,Edinburg, Texas 78539
Phone: (956) 665-2413
Fax: (956) 665-3516
Email: hdiaz@utpa.edu
Article 2
Community Colleges Growing Importance in STEM Education Benefits Hispanics
Author: Marilyn Gilroy
Article 3
Inequities in Public Education Sustainability Threatened
Author:
Janet Michello, Ph. D.
Associate Professor
LaGuardia Community College of the City University of New York
Janet Michello has been teaching at LaGuardia Community College—CUNY for the past fifteen years. Prior to that she taught at Wayne College, affiliated with the University of Akron, where she completed her doctorate in sociology with a specialty in medical sociology, in a joint program with Kent State University. She obtained a Masters degree in Rehabilitation Counseling from Kent State University, and a Bachelors degree in Psychology from Rutgers University. She is author of a number of articles about a wide range of social issues, an urban sociology workbook, and co-author of the book, A Sociology of Mental Illness. She is currently working on the third edition of this text in addition to writing a book on institutional inequalities. Her research interests include inequities in public education, topics dealing with race and ethnicity, community health, and substance abuse issues.
Contact info:
Phone: 347-512-8573
Email: jmichell@lagcc.cuny.edu
Article 4
La retención y la deserción en línea: fenómeno de un modelo educativo virtual
Author:
Dra. Diana Rivera Montalvo
Executive Assistant to the Chancellor & Online Professor
Inter American University of Puerto Rico, Ponce Campus
Dr. Diana Rivera is the Executive Assistant of the Chancellor at the Inter American University of Puerto Rico, Ponce Campus. She is also a part time professor of online courses of the Business Administration Academic Department. She has worked for that university for the past twenty-seven years.
She completed her doctoral degree at Nova Southeastern University of Florida (2011) in Instructional Technology and Distance Education. She also has a master degree in Finance and Human Resources from the Inter American University of Puerto Rico, San German Campus, and her bachelor from the same university in the area of Accounting. Dr. Rivera started with online learning in 2001 when she designed her first course of Managerial Finance, course that she has been teaching ever since. In 2010 she also designed another online course International Financial Management for the graduate program of the school.
The author’s concern for the issues related to dropout and retention arose during their teaching of online courses. Dr. Rivera decided to be a distance student, choosing this mode of study for her doctoral degree. She believes that through his experience as a distance student, you can visualize better the position of that population.
Contact info:
Email: drivera@ponce.inter.edu
Article 5
Reflection and Metacognition in First Year Experience at Queensborough Community College
Author:
Dr. Jean Darcy
Associate Professor in the English Department
Queensborough Community College, New York
Dr. Jean Darcy is Associate Professor in the English Department at Queensborough Community College which funded her participation in three grants that are fundamental in forming this project: In “Learning to Look” at the City University of New York’s Graduate Center where faculty learned how to access and incorporate into lesson plans all the digital artifacts now circulated on the web by museums, government agencies, and universities. At the Georgetown University “Crossroads” project faculty learned how to form interdisciplinary groups to provide students with active learning projects using technology. At the “Making Connections” institute at La Guardia Community College faculty learned how to use the ePortfolio platform as a student learning center. Founding Director of the Student Interdisciplinary Group at Queensborough, which comprises over forty faculty members, the group has done metacognitive research on over 3,000 students. Jean won an Innovation of the Year award for “The Student Wiki Interdisciplinary Group” by League of Innovations, 2011; AACU LEAP National Toolkit Model SWIG January, 2011; and was an AACU Roadmap Participant, San Francisco, January, 2011. She won a Challenge Grant award at Queensborough in 2009.
Contact Info:
Email: jdarcy@qcc.cuny.edu
Article 6
Summer Faculty Immersion: A Program with the Potential to Transform Engineering Education
Author:
Juan C. Morales, Ph.D., P.E.
Mechanical Engineering Department Head
Universidad del Turabo, Gurabo, Puerto Rico
Dr. Morales has been an engineering professor at Universidad del Turabo since 1995. He has also held several administrative posts, including ABET Coordinator for the School of Engineering. In this post he coordinated the efforts that resulted in the first ABET accreditations of all the existing bachelor programs in engineering, including the creation and implementation of an outcomes assessment program that engages 100% of the faculty. Dr. Morales has been the Head of the Mechanical Engineering Department since 2003. Most recently he co-authored the proposal to establish a Master’s program in Mechanical Engineering with specializations in Renewable Energy, and in Aerospace Engineering. The master’s program is set to open in August 2012. The main objective of this first engineering master’s program at Universidad del Turabo is to transition from a teaching program to a teaching-and-research program. Dr. Morales recently won a $4.34 million grant from the US Department of Education which will fund a faculty development program that has the potential to transform the manner in which engineering education is taught. Dr. Morales has a BS in Mechanical Engineering from Boston University; an MS in Mechanical Engineering from Northeastern University in Boston, MA; and a Ph.D. in Structural Engineering from the University of Puerto Rico at Mayagüez. Prior to joining Universidad del Turabo, Dr. Morales worked seven years in industry, including five years with the General Electric Company in Niskayuna, NY (KAPL) where he worked in the mechanical design of a new-concept steam generator.
Contact info:
Email: jcmorales@suagm.edu
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