New UI&U Library Resources

Susan Whitehead and Matt Pappathan continue to provide innovative and helpful resources for our faculty through the UI&U Library. In an effort to support and promote both an engaging learning experience for our students, as well as the professional development and equipping of our instructors, I wanted to highlight some of the library’s latest tools and resources.

• Our library recently subscribed to the Films on Demand Master Academic Collection database which includes 11,200 full length videos and 166,000 video clips. Major subject categories include the Humanities, Social Sciences, Business, Economics, Health/Medicine, Science, and Mathematics. Archival films and newsreels are also included. Access is delivered via online streaming technology and is ideally suited for online classroom or individual usage. Follow the link to the Library’s resource page, scroll down to Films on Demand, and enter the site by typing in your Union ID and password.
• The UI&U Library now provides access to the Chronicle of Higher Education without the additional step of logging in through our proxy server. This is the premier news source of post-secondary education. Log in to find out academic, technological and administrative trends nationally and globally. Go to chronicle.com, and in the upper right hand corner, click log in. (Don’t subscribe! We’ve done that for you!) Then create a free account with your Union email. You maintain the same account whether you’re at one of our centers, at home, working on your laptop, desktop, or iPad. You can download the app from the iTunes store here or by searching for it by name. It appears in the newsstand and you simply log in or create an account with your Union email.
• Our library will soon be adding online subscriptions to two new research journals in response to requests from our Ph. D. program. Both journals will become available to our community in early in 2014 with the start of their newest volumes.

-The International Journal of Servant Leadership is an annual publication that contains cross-disciplinary essays relating to politics, business, social justice, science, and a holistic and ethical approach to community engagement and personal growth.

-Political Communication is a quarterly journal that focuses on the interplay of various forms of communication and their political implications. The journal presents cross-disciplinary, avant-garde research and encourages a variety of theoretical approaches and analytical methods examining communication policy and practice.

• Our library continues to build its electronic book collections. We recently exceeded 200,000 titles and are rapidly expanding our holdings. Check the UI&U Library Blog site to see this list of latest additions!

Faculty Highlights: Dr. Frederick Read

Social responsibility is one of Union’s foremost values, and I see it displayed every day in the passion of the leaders who work and teach at Union Institute & University. This month I am happy to recognize Dr. Frederick Read as one of the outstanding faculty members who embodies that value in unique ways.

Dr. Frederick K. Read has taught at Union since 1998, and now serves as a faculty member and as an academic advisor to Union students within the Business Administration and Business Management programs.  

Dr. Read’s courses are complemented by his years of experience in the U.S. Army, Working in the Office of the Assistant Chief of Staff, and by his experience at Easter Seals, Southwestern Ohio as the vice president of Operations. 

Union celebrates and values their scholar/practitioner instructors, and Dr. Read is one of our professors who successfully combined his academic training with his military and business careers. He knows the corporate environment as well as the academic world, and it is vital to him that his students apply the values and knowledge they receive in the classroom to their own businesses and careers. “Social responsibility is an important issue for each of us,” Dr. Read said. “Each person should try to find a place (niche) where he/she can make a difference in people’s lives; whether it is small or large. We should think of this as service to the greater community. Social responsibility, especially corporate social responsibility, is an integral piece in several of my courses. This is an important concept for students to know and learn.”

According to Dr. Read, environmental awareness is one of the ways that the value of social responsibility can be applied in the business world. “Many corporate giants are embarking on environmentally-friendly processes that use fewer fossil fuels, less water, and reduce waste. Students should be encouraged to emulate this concept in their daily lives. We only have one planet. Every resource we have, except for maybe oxygen, is finite. We have to save it!”

Dr. Read continues to invest in the mission of Union through his student engagement, but he is also an involved member of the Covington community, in Northern Kentucky. He serves on the Diocese of Covington School Board, on the Alliance for Catholic Urban Education, and is a member of the Kentucky High School Athletic Association and the Northern Kentucky Officials Association.

A crucial aspect of caring for a community and working for change, according to Dr. Read, is understanding the history of a place. “When I was I kid, back in the days before television, we used to sit at the dining room table and dad would tell us history stories. I think it’s important to know the history of why we did things. There’s an old story about if you don’t understand history you’re doomed to repeat it. I don’t know that I agree with that, but I do think we need to understand how we got where we are, and we shouldn’t forget that. I think part of that is missing today. Too many people don’t know the civil rights movement, they don’t understand that struggle and I think that needs to be retaught on a continual basis. It is only when we understand this history and how society changed in the 1960s that we can fully understand and appreciate social responsibility. It is also important to remember that social responsibility, especially in the area of civil rights, is everyone’s business. That is a message I try to deliver.”

Faculty Highlights: Professor Lawrence E. Hibbert

Social responsibility is one of Union’s foremost values, and I see it displayed every day in the passion of the leaders who work and teach at Union. This month I am happy to recognize Professor Lawrence E. Hibbert as one of the outstanding faculty members who embodies that value in unique ways.

Professor Lawrence E. Hibbert is the Director of the Criminal Justice Program in Miami, Florida. He has been part of Union’s full-time faculty since 2006, and it is through his servant leadership, innovative outreach and program development that the Criminal Justice Program has experienced such success.  

Professor Hibbert served for many years as a Sergeant of Police in Jamaica, where he was born. When he came to the United States in 1980, he worked full time while completing his bachelor’s degree in Union Institute & University’s business management program. Professor Hibbert went on to the master’s program in dispute resolution at the Nova Southeastern University in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida. He completed both degrees while continuing to work and support his family.

According to Professor Hibbert, many officers come to Union with reservations—they do not know if they can complete their degree and continue to work full time. He is able to empathize and share his own experience with them and encourage them through their courses and, ultimately, across the graduation stage. He knows that completing a degree takes time, scheduling, focus, and dedication. Because of that care and empathy, Professor Hibbert is a trusted mentor and counselor for officers pursuing their degrees.

One of the new developments for the Criminal Justice program in Miami is the addition of a new off-site classroom at the Miami Dade Police Academy—the largest police department in South Florida. This makes a total of eight off-site classrooms that the Miami Center has established throughout southeast Florida. These off-site locations are key strategy components for program enrollment. This allows thousands of officers to find out about Union and the opportunities to complete their bachelor’s degrees and qualify for promotions. “I know it’s a feather in my cap to get into the academy where they train all their officers,” Professor Hibbert said. “Being there when the new officers come in, they‘re going to see that there are other officers who are completing their degrees, and they’re going to want to be a part of it. That will help us a lot with recruiting.”

In addition to expanding class offerings through off-campus sites, the Miami Center offers Saturday tutoring sessions where students can receive one-on-one instruction in writing, math, and questions relating to their respective programs. Participating in these Saturday tutoring sessions is one of the ways that Professor Hibbert has made the Criminal Justice program so attractive to the students. These tutoring sessions are tangible retention practices that have kept the academic program strong.

When asked about the role of social responsibility in his life, Professor Hibbert said, “Being socially responsible means that I must behave ethically and with sensitivity towards everyone. Striving for social responsibility helps me to have a positive impact on students and prospective students of Union Institute & University and the South Florida community as a whole.

I believe that my commitment to social responsibility is reflected by the activities I choose to participate in and the lifestyle I lead as a husband, father, grandfather, colleague, and faculty member. Only through embracing and embedding a sense of social responsibility into your personal value and belief system can you truly become socially responsible in all that you do.

This is my motto and I live by it: ‘I am of the opinion that my life belongs to the whole community and as long as I live it is my privilege to do for it whatever I can. I want to be thoroughly used up when I die. For the harder I work the more I live.’” (George Bernard Shaw)

New Hire: Dr. Terri Henderson

One of the guiding questions I am asking as the Vice President of Academic Affairs at Union Institute & University is how we can better cultivate the practice of writing grants. 

I am happy to announce the recent appointment of Dr. Terri Henderson to Union Institute & University. She is a researcher, administrator, and grant writer who has a long history as an educator and as an executive director for the Boys and Girls Clubs (BGC). Throughout her tenure she garnered more than $7 million in local, state, and federal grants. I am happy that Dr. Henderson will guide our faculty and staff in seeking external funding.  

Prior to her work with the Boys and Girls Club, Dr. Henderson held a number of leadership positions in both K-12 and higher education. She has served as the CEO for the BGC’s Career Connections Charter High School, as a Federal Programs Director, and as a high school and middle school principal. She also worked for five years as a national training institute manager for Bridges.com, Inc., one of the premier organizations in North America specializing in online education resources and career counseling for middle schools and high schools.

In the fall of 2012 she assumed the position of professor for the Master of Education (M.Ed.) online program for Union Institute & University, in which she upgraded the technical components of the online course modules and served as a faculty advisor to the master of education students.

Her commitment to the values of social and ethical responsibility has fueled her service and leadership roles in various organizations and agencies such as the United Way, the American Red Cross, the Allegheny County Medical Society Task Force, and the Pittsburgh Job Corps Community Relations Council, just to name a few.

We are excited to have her on the Union team and part of the Office for Academic Affairs.

Follow the link to hear more of Dr. Henderson’s story of community outreach and grant-writing success.

 

 

 

 

2013 National Faculty Meeting Schedule

2013 National Faculty Meeting: University

without Walls

October 7-10 (via Adobe Connect)

Schedule

Monday, October 7, 2:00-5:00PM (EST)

2:00       Opening and Welcome, Introducing CampusWeb NFM Page  

 

                                                                                               -Dr. Jennifer Ossege

2:10       Address from the Vice President of Academic Affairs             

                                                                                              - Dr. Nelson Soto

 

2:30       Adult Education in the Virtual Classroom                

                                                                                             

                                                             -Keynote Dr. Bernard Bull
                                                                       (Read his bio!)
3:30  Break

 

3:45  "Retention through Services": Office of Student Success--Career Development, Writing Center and ADA resources

                                                                                              -Dr. Jay Keehn

 

4:30  Closing and Preview for Tuesday                                                

  

                                                                                              -Dr. Jennifer Ossege

Tuesday, October 8, 7:00-9:00PM (EST)

 

7:00           Opening and Welcome, Re-visit CampusWeb NFM Page

                                                                          -Mary Amos and Wes Jackson

 

7:00           New from IT: CampusWeb, Jenzabar and Other
                  Technology Updates

                                                                          -Greg Thompson

7:30           CT&L Resources—Where Technology Meets Pedagogy

                                                                          -Jonathan Eskridge

8:00           Library Basics: Services, e-Books and Journals, Syllabi Additions

                                                                          -Susan Whitehead

8:30           The University and Sustainability Strategies

                                                                          -Dr. Constance Beutel

 
9:00           Closing and Preview for Wednesday
                                                                                             
                                                                          -Mary Amos and Wes Jackson

Wednesday, October 9, 7:00-9:00PM (EST)

 7:00           Opening and Welcome, Re-visit CampusWeb NFM Page

                                                                           -Mary Amos and Wes Jackson         

         

7:00           Fostering Students’ Active Engagement in Virtual Classrooms—                   Creating Meeting Spaces, Creating Continuous Learning,
                   and Documenting Your Engagement

                                                                           -Dr. Charles Piazza

 

7:30           Formative Assessment: Creating Engaging Assessment

                  Exercises    

                                                                           -Dr. Reggie Gardner

 

8:00           How Union's Founding Principles Have Been Applied in the

                  Classroom

                                                                            -Dr. Arlene Sacks

 

8:30           Experiential Learning, Online Classrooms, and Adult Education in

                   the MA Program

                                                                            -Dr. Loree Miltich et al.

 

9:00           Closing and Preview for Thursday

                                                                            -Mary Amos and Wes Jackson

 

 

Thursday, October 10, 2:00-5:00PM (EST)

2:00           Opening and Welcome, Re-visit CampusWeb NFM Page

                                                                             -Dr. Elden Golden

 

2:00            University Assessment—Outcome 3, Planning for Outcome 4

                                                                             -Dr. Lib Pruden

3:00           Break

 

3:15           Faculty Evaluation Process

                                                                             -Dr. Stella Marrie

3:25           Faculty Bios and CVs

                                                                             -Dr. Jim Henderson

3:35           Course Evaluations

                                                                              -Tanya Del Valle

3:45:          Faculty Council Role and Purpose

                                                                              -Dr. Elden Golden

3:55:          Finance Report

                                                                              -Tom Cunningham

4:05           Enrollment Report

                                                                              -Jon Mays

4:15           Financial Aid Report

                                                                              - Ed Walton

4:25           Address from the President and Final Remarks

                                                                             -Dr. Roger Sublett