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Assessment and Measurement PhD Program
- Students and faculty from the Assessment & Measurement PhD program recently presented at the annual meeting of the National Council on Measurement in Education/ American Educational Research Association (March 24-28). Student participants included: Carol Barry, Megan France, Andrew Jones, Pamela Kaliski, Shelley Ragland, Carl Setzer, and Pete Swerdzewski. Pete Swerdzewski and Megan France also presented at the American College Personnel Association conference. Additionally, two students will present in April at the conference for the Society for Industrial/Organizational Psychology: Andrew Jones and Ross Markle.
Complete citations for these papers are available at:
http://www.jmu.edu/assessment/research/Presentations.htm
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Graduate Psychology:
- A graduate of the Combined-Integrated doctoral program in 2007, Dr. Leticia Solorzano has wasted no time working her way up in the world of academia.On February 23, 2008, Dr. Solorzano will be presenting research from her dissertation study at the Alumni of Color Conference, hosted by the Harvard Graduate School of Education.Her session, entitled, Access and barriers to parent involvement: Latino parent perceptions, will stem from research that parental involvement in a child's education reflects positive outcomes.Despite this significance, these levels of involvement in Latino parents were found to be low.Examining this finding, Dr. Solorzano's research will focus on the attitudes of Latino and Caucasian parents, involvement practices and the factors that promote as well as inhibit their involvement.This CISAT graduate is currently a post-doctoral Fellow in Psychology at Children's Hospital Los Angeles.
-contributed by Amanda Rivera
- One of JMU's own will be representing the university proudly at the Healing through Faith: A training conference for Liberian faith leaders in the Diaspora on March 7-8 in St. Paul, Minnesota.A Combined-Integrated doctoral psychology student in her second year, Katherine Luci was asked to facilitate a workshop focusing on Pastoral Care and Counseling. This conference will help Liberian Diaspora faith leaders to prepare their congregation for the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) public hearings scheduled in Monrovia and the United States.These hearings are used to report human rights violations and determine reconciliations.In preparation for their arduous journey ahead, faith leaders from Liberia will be able to attend skill-building sessions and hear from various presenters, such as the counseling staff from the Center for Victims of Torture.Katherine's skill-building session will include training in several basic counseling skills, including the attachment theory.For more information on the Liberian Diaspora and the TRC process, visit http://liberiatrc.mnadvocates.org
-contributed by Amanda Rivera
- Dr. Steve Evans is founding editor of a new Multidisciplinary Journal, School Mental Health: A Multidisciplinary Research and Practice Journal.
- Dr. Christine DeMars named CISAT Madison Scholar
- The Alvin V. Baird Attention and Learning Disabilities Center and Region 5 T/TAC will again present RAISING THE BAR: 6th annual conference on improving services for children and adolescents with ADHD, Thursday March 20, 2008. More info
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History
- Conference Presentations
Zachary Zuro, "The Arms of Satan: Salman Rushdie, Ayatollah Khomeini, and the Stratified Response Within Islam to Blasphemy"at the Fourth Annual North Carolina Graduate Student History Conference at the NC State Campus in Raleigh, NC on February 16, 2008
John Erdos, "Call and Response: the History of the American Environmental Ethos in the Context of Global Warming Advocacy" at The Mercyhurst Colloquium on the Americas: Environmentalities, Mercyhurst College, Erie, PA on March 7 and 8, 2008
J. Michael Jeffries, "History Proliferated by Theoretical Interpretation: A Brief Study of Karl Marx and Max Weber in the Interest of Historical Truth," 2008 Florida State University Graduate Student Religious Symposium, Tallahassee, FL on March 2, 2008
J. Michael Jeffries, "Food, Fun, and Drink--Ordinaries on Colonial Virginia's Frontier: A Brief Study of Ordinary 'Gentlemen,' Thomas Jefferson, John Madison, and William Russell," 2008 North Carolina State University Graduate Student History Conference, Raleigh, NC, on February 16, 2008
Emily P. Beeson, "'To Take the Calculated Risk': Overcoming Disability as Definition in the Independent Living Movement, 1962-1972," at Virginia Tech's 2008 Bertoti Graduate History Conference on April 11-12
Emily P. Beeson, "Successes of the 504 Demonstrations: Overcoming Disability as Definition in the Public Birth of the Disability Rights Movement, April 1977," at the VMI VSSA 2008 Annual Meeting on April 5.
Emily Beeson, "'To Take the Calculate Risk': Overcoming Disability as Definition in the Independent Living Movement, 1962-1972," Graduate Division, US History, Phi Alpha Theta Regional Conference, Christopher Newport University, March 8, 2008
Michael H. Taylor, "The Two Faces of the Fight Over the Bill of Rights: James Wilson and James Madison," Graduate Division, US History, Phi Alpha Theta Regional Conference, Christopher Newport University, March 8, 2008 (awarded second place tie, Graduate Division)
Michael H. Taylor, "James Wilson's Constitution," at Virginia Tech's 2008 Bertoti Graduate History Conference on April 11-12
Zachary Zuro, "Children of the Electric Church: Televangelism, Christian Nurture, and the Evolution of Christian Education," Graduate Division, US History, Phi Alpha Theta Regional Conference, Christopher Newport University, March 8, 2008 (awarded second place tie, Graduate Division)
- Publications
Michael H. Taylor, "Conceptualizing James Madison's Constitutional Vision: The Center for the Constitution at James Madison's Montpelier," White House Studies (accepted for publication)
- Other News
Dan Buxhoeveden (MA, 2006), was accepted to the PhD program at Pennsylvania University to study European Intellectual History
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Occupational Therapy Program
- JMU OT Students Lobby in Richmond
Thirty-six students currently enrolled in the JMU Occupational Therapy program recently had the experience of visiting Richmond to meet with their senator and delegate to lobby on behalf of occupational therapy. This opportunity was sponsored as part of the Virginia Occupational Therapy Association's (VOTA) 13th annual Legislative Day event.
Students met with their elected officials to discuss two current bills before the General Assembly (HB 383 & SB 134) that both seek licensure for certified occupational therapy assistants (COTAs) in Virginia. COTA's work with licensed occupational therapists in providing treatment to clients who require occupational therapy services. Achieving licensure for therapy assistants has been a long-term goal of the Virginia Occupational Therapy Association.
Educating students on the legislative process and how to approach their elected officials has become as important as developing competency in clinical skill areas. In Virginia, the scope of practice and range of activities that licensed health professionals are allowed to perform are defined by laws and regulations passed by the General Assembly.
Sarah Coffey, a second year graduate student in the Master's of Occupational Therapy Program summed of her experience by saying "This activity is really beneficial. It helps us to understand that we need to be active in advocating for our profession. We also learn that we do not need to be nervous in approaching our elected officials since they are very down to earth and want to hear what we have to say."
At this time, both COTA licensure bills have been approved were signed by Governor Tim Kaine on March 3, 2008.
- Jeff Loveland, OTD, MS, OTR/L, Director of the JMU Occupational Therapy Program, was recently reelected as Chairperson of the Occupational Therapy Advisory Board of the Virginia Board of Medicine. Loveland was reappointed for a four year term in July 2007 by Governor Tim Kaine after previously serving from 2003-2007.
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