{"id":459,"date":"2012-03-29T13:25:43","date_gmt":"2012-03-29T13:25:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hets.org\/ejournal\/?p=459"},"modified":"2014-10-29T16:38:42","modified_gmt":"2014-10-29T16:38:42","slug":"authors-volume-ii-spring-issue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hets.org\/ejournal\/authors-volume-ii-spring-issue\/","title":{"rendered":"Authors: Volume II, Spring Issue"},"content":{"rendered":"

Article 1<\/strong><\/h1>\n

Best Practices in Professional Distance Education: A Hybrid Social Work Distance Education Program in South\u00a0Texas<\/h1>\n

Author:<\/p>\n

\"deniselongoria\"Denise A. Longoria Ph. D., LCSW
\nAssistant Professor of Social Work
\nThe University of Texas- Pan American<\/strong><\/p>\n

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 \u2013 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\u2019 therapy. She also serves as a board member of two non-profit agencies in Laredo, Texas.<\/p>\n

Contact info:
\n<\/strong>Address: 1201 W. University Dr., Edinburg, TX 78539
\nPhone: (956) 665-3575
\nFax: (956)665-3516
\nEmail: longoriada@utpa.edu<\/a><\/p>\n

Author:<\/h3>\n

\"hectordiaz\"H\u00e9ctor Luis D\u00edaz, Ph. D.
\nProfessor and Chair the Department of Social Work
\nThe University of Texas- Pan American<\/h3>\n

Dr. D\u00edaz currently is a full tenured professor with 32 years of professional and academic experience.\u00a0 Prior to joining The University of Texas \u2013 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.\u00a0 He has been a member of the graduate faculty at four different universities.\u00a0 He is very active in the areas of grant writing, research, publications and presentations at professional and academic conferences.\u00a0 His areas of teaching and research expertise include:\u00a0 social welfare policy, research, diversity and community socio-economic development.\u00a0 He moved to the United States mainland in 1979 following the completion of his Bachelor of Arts degree in Puerto Rico.\u00a0 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.<\/p>\n

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Contact info:
\n<\/strong>Address: 1201 West University Drive, HSHE 2.128,Edinburg, Texas 78539
\nPhone: (956) 665-2413
\nFax: (956) 665-3516
\nEmail: hdiaz@utpa.edu<\/a><\/p>\n

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Article 2<\/strong><\/h1>\n

Community Colleges Growing Importance in STEM Education Benefits Hispanics<\/h1>\n


\nAuthor: <\/strong>Marilyn Gilroy<\/h3>\n

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Article 3<\/strong><\/h1>\n

Inequities in Public Education Sustainability Threatened<\/h1>\n


\nAuthor:<\/strong><\/h3>\n

\"janetmichello\"Janet Michello, Ph. D.
\nAssociate Professor
\nLaGuardia Community College\u00a0of the City University of New York<\/h3>\n

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Janet Michello has been teaching at LaGuardia Community College\u2014CUNY for the past fifteen years.\u00a0 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.\u00a0 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<\/em>.\u00a0 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.<\/p>\n

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Contact info:
\n<\/strong>Phone:\u00a0 347-512-8573
\nEmail:\u00a0 jmichell@lagcc.cuny.edu<\/a><\/p>\n

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Article 4<\/strong><\/h1>\n

La retenci\u00f3n y la deserci\u00f3n en l\u00ednea: fen\u00f3meno de un modelo educativo virtual<\/h1>\n


\nAuthor:<\/strong><\/h3>\n

\"dianarivera\"Dra. Diana Rivera Montalvo
\nExecutive Assistant to the Chancellor & Online Professor
\nInter American University of Puerto Rico, Ponce Campus<\/h3>\n

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.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

The author\u2019s 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.<\/p>\n

Contact info:
\n<\/strong>Email: drivera@ponce.inter.edu<\/a><\/p>\n

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Article 5<\/strong><\/h1>\n

Reflection and Metacognition in First Year Experience at Queensborough Community College<\/h1>\n


\nAuthor:<\/strong><\/h3>\n

\"jdarcy\"Dr. Jean Darcy
\nAssociate Professor in the English Department
\nQueensborough Community College, New York<\/h3>\n

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 \u201cLearning 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.\u00a0 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.\u00a0 Jean won an Innovation of the Year award for \u201cThe Student Wiki Interdisciplinary Group\u201d 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.<\/p>\n

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Contact Info:
\n<\/strong>Email: jdarcy@qcc.cuny.edu<\/a><\/p>\n

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Article 6<\/strong><\/h1>\n

Summer Faculty Immersion: A Program with the Potential to Transform Engineering Education<\/h1>\n


\nAuthor:<\/strong><\/h3>\n

\"jcmoralesbrignac\"<\/a>Juan C. Morales, Ph.D., P.E.
\nMechanical Engineering Department Head
\nUniversidad del Turabo, Gurabo, Puerto Rico<\/h3>\n

Dr. Morales has been an engineering professor at Universidad del Turabo<\/em> since 1995.\u00a0 He has also held several administrative posts, including ABET Coordinator for the School of Engineering.\u00a0 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.\u00a0 Dr. Morales has been the Head of the Mechanical Engineering Department since 2003.\u00a0 Most recently he co-authored the proposal to establish a Master\u2019s program in Mechanical Engineering with specializations in Renewable Energy, and in Aerospace Engineering.\u00a0 The master\u2019s program is set to open in August 2012.\u00a0 The main objective of this first engineering master\u2019s program at Universidad del Turabo<\/em> is to transition from a teaching program to a teaching-and-research program.\u00a0 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.\u00a0 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 Mayag\u00fcez.\u00a0 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.<\/p>\n

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Contact info:
\n<\/strong>Email: jcmorales@suagm.edu<\/a><\/p>\n

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To learn more about the authors of previous issues click here<\/a><\/h3>\n

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