ACADEMICS at MISSOURI Valley College 2011/2012

A CELEBRATION OF OUR PAST YEAR’S ACHIEVEMENTS

ACADEMICS at MISSOURI Valley College

2011/2012

2012 McCallum Award Winner Associate Professor Dessie Stafford

ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR DESSIE STAFFORD

Took Advanced Accounting Students to a MSCPA Career Advancement ForumAssessment Advisory BoardAttended the Missouri Society of CPA’s 2011 Spring Committee DayAttended the Missouri Society of CPA’s Members’ Convention

ACADEMICS at MISSOURI VALLEY COLLEGE


Co-Chair Criterion #1 Self StudyEarned CPE on State of the Profession, Federal Regulatory Update, Ethics, Roundtables, Financial Leadership & State of the EconomyAttended 19th Annual Estate & Charitable Gift Planning Institute



Attended the New CPA Recognition Luncheon sponsored by Missouri Society of CPA’s at the Mizzou Arena

Attended the 2011 Missouri Business/Farm Income Tax School

Attended the Missouri Association of Accounting EducatorsAttended an online Ethics Web Seminar



Other continuing education, including Managing Lean Operations, Cases in Not-for-Profit Accounting & Auditing: Financial Statement Requirements plus Net Asset Classifications, The Power of Professional Communication: Techniques for Giving Presentations

Satisfactory Academic Progress Appeals CommitteeCompleted MT101: Moodle Basics with Learning House


ASSISTANT PROFESSOR VALERIE WEDEL

Assistant Director of the Morris Gallery of Contemporary ArtOrganized an art department field trip to the

Crystal Bridges Museum in ArkansasMVC Film FestivalRecruiting prospective art students


ASSISTANT PROFESSOR VALERIE WEDEL

Exhibition & Lecture- Shrine to You, Invitational Solo Video Installation, William Woods University, Fulton, MOPresented Perseverance and Memory: the Late Work

of William A. Berry, MVC Faculty Lecture SeriesThe Art of William A. Berry, William Woods

University, Fulton, MOInstallation Art Lecture and Demonstration, CARE

Gallery, Columbia, MO


ASSISTANT PROFESSORHAROLD HYNICK

Faculty Senate PresidentActed in 3 productions at the Arrow Rock Lyceum

Theatre: Bobby in Run for you Wife, Treadwell in Black Coffee, and Mortimer in The Fantasticks

Theatre Summer Day Camp in Improvisation and Shakespeare

Served as the Missouri State Chair for Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival



Served on the Region VI Committee for KCACTFResponded to numerous productions for KCACTF

in Region VIMentor for one of the Regional 10 minute plays at

the Regional FestivalPresented an improvisation workshop at the

Missouri Thespian Festival



Presented 2 workshops at the Region VI Festival at the University of Oklahoma – Devised Theatre and Long-Form

Improvisation


ASSISTANT PROFESSORCHARITY WOODARD

Co-Chair Criterion #4 Self StudyCurator of the Vern Nester Student GalleryCommittee Chairperson and Lead Juror, Art

in MotionSponsor of MVC Art ClubCo-wrote (MAC) Missouri Arts Council Grant


ASSISTANT PROFESSORCHARITY WOODARD

Wrote a new course, Art on Location, Took students to New York CityPresenter: “Screen Printing on a Budget”,

MAEA ConferenceCo-Director of the Morris GalleryFaculty and Staff Art Show5 Field Trips with students


ASSISTANT PROFESSOR

WAYLON HILER

Co-author on a short article published in Herpetological Review

Invited to give a talk at the Stream Amphibian Symposium in Vancouver during the World Herpetology Congress.


ASSISTANT PROFESSOR

WAYLON HILER

Presentation: “Balancing Conservation and Resource Development on Public Lands” for the Conservation Biology Seminar series

Faculty SenatePrimary author on a manuscript accepted for

publication in Herpetological Conservation and Biology


Coral Group Ecology Class in Belize

ASSISTANT PROFESSOR WAYLON HILER

Field Biology class in Monument Valley, Utah


Stream Amphibian Symposium


ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR WILLIAM WRIGHT

Faculty representative to MVC Board of TrusteesAccepted as an instructor for the Missouri police Chiefs Association Command schoolTaught at the Missouri Sheriffs Academy


ASSISTANT PROFESSORDAVID L. ROBERTS

Delta students received 20 MCMA awardsAttended the MCMA convention with 2 StudentsServed on Faculty SenateServed on Internship Task Force


ASSISTANT PROFESSORDAVID L. ROBERTS

Co-Chair Criterion #5 Self Study2011 Convocation speaker Delta Online website


Missouri College Media Association convention in St. Joseph, Mo.

Assistant Professor David Roberts

ASSISTANT PROFESSOR RACHEL MAYFIELD/ CAMPUS COUNSELOR

Practicum Director for MACCMaster of Arts in Community Counseling

CommitteeCo-Chair of Criterion #5 Self Study


ASSISTANT PROFESSOR MICHELE REINKE

Biology Club AdvisorBoard Member of the Missouri River Bird ObservatoryAttended the Missouri Academy of Science Meeting with 2 students


ASSISTANT PROFESSOR MICHELE REINKE

Attended the Women in Agriculture ConferenceGave scientific presentations at local schoolsCoordinating the lab renovation project going

on in the science building


ASSISTANT PROFESSOR JENNIFER LIVENGOOD

Sponsor of Psychology Club Sponsor Of Universal Equality Alliance


ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR JOSHUA TETTEH

Co-Chair of Criterion #2 Self StudyContributed as reviewer of the 9th edition of J.

John Palen’s leading textbook in Urban Sociology, The Urban World.


ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR TAMARA KING

The MoVal Cares for Soldiers Project

Grievance Committee


PROFESSOR DR. LOREN GRUBER

Satisfactory Academic Progress Committee“The Muskie Professor” on KMMO’s “In the Outdoors with Brad and Brian”Creative Writers ConferenceMedieval Academy of AmericaSociety for the Advancement of Scandinavian

Studies


PROFESSOR DR. LOREN GRUBER

Reviewed the following:1. An early British Literature manuscript for Flat

World Knowledge e-textbook2. Samuel Cohen’s 50 Essays: A Portable

Anthology, 3rd edition, for Bedford/St. Martin’s in preparation for a fourth edition, and

3. Jane E. Aaron’s The Little, Brown Handbook, Brief Fourth Edition, for Longman


ASSOCIATE PROFESSORJAY ROZEMA

Attended the Speech Theatre Association of Missouri

Presented 2 workshops at the Missouri Thespians Festival

Presented 2 workshops at Smith-Cotton High School on lighting

Responded to schools entered in KC/ACTF


ASSISTANT PROFESSORDR. JENNIFER EIMERS

Advisor of the student literary arts publication The Purple PatchFaculty advisor for Sigma Tau Delta, the

English Honor SocietyWrote a book review for Overtones of Opera in

American Literature from Whitman to Wharton, forthcoming in The Henry James Review


ASSISTANT PROFESSORDR. JENNIFER EIMERS

Honors Program CommitteeGraduate CommitteePresented a paper on Henry James at the

national American Literature Association Symposium

Curriculum Committee


ASSISTANT PROFESSOR DR. JENNIFER EIMERS

Co-Chair of Criterion #4 Self StudyDevelopmental Education CommitteePublished book review of Overtones of Opera

in American Literature from Whitman to Wharton, by Carmen T. Skaggs. The Henry James Review 33.2 (Spring 2012): 188-90.


Sigma Tau Delta International Convention

Assistant Professor Dr. Jennifer Eimers

ASSISTANT PROFESSOR TIFFANY BERGMAN

Career PlanningSpring Career FairOur Majors Fair (Choosing Your Path)Technology CommitteeCertified Non-Profit ProfessionMissouri Valley College Book Club Member



Secretary of Valley WomanCurriculum CommitteeAdvising CommitteeDancing with the Faculty/StaffFaculty Advisor of Theta Phi AlphaFaculty Advisor of Pi Gamma Mu, Academic

Organization for Social Sciences



Alpha Phi Omega, Service Organization American Humanics Spring Banquet

PresenterAlma 4-H ClubToday’s WomanSanta Fe Agri-Leaders


Art in Motion Committee: Charity-Mika Woodard Chad Jaecques Susan Dittmer


ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR ALLAN WILSON

Weekly odonate sampling at Van Meter State ParkTake tree leaf samples from a selected 10mx 10m plot at Van Meter for estimating

herbivory levels at the ParkGraduate Committee Co-Chair Criterion #1 Self Study


PROFESSOR DR. GERADO M. ACAY

November 2011, presented a paper in Association (Midwest) Conference held St. Louis, Missouri.


PROFESSOR STEPHEN PATTON

Continued epilepsy research at Ohio University Department of Chemistry and BiochemistrySubmitted a paper on the effects of statins on

nitric oxide synthase


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PROFESOR EARL WELLBORNDean of EducationAttended the Fall Missouri Association of Colleges for Teacher Education ConferenceAttended the Missouri Department of Elementary and Secondary Education Redesign of Leadership

Preparation Programs meeting


PROFESOR EARL WELLBORNAttended a Missouri Department of Elementary and Secondary Education Regional meeting Attended the Spring Missouri Association of

Colleges for Teacher Education ConferenceAttended a Missouri Department of

Elementary and Secondary Education meeting for Deans/Unit Leaders


ASSISTANT PROFESSORBEVERLY KATZ

Face book Page- “Katz Korner” Created and serviced by a MVC student in

Social Media


ASSISTANT PROFESSOR PAM SEBASTIAN

Ezekiel's Wheels Project Renovated ChapelStudents for ChristHabitat for HumanityOrganizing Sunday rides to churchesAccepted to the doctoral program at

the University of Dubuque Theological Seminary


ASSISTANT PROFESSOR DR. SARAH MACDONALD

Chair of General Education Curriculum Committee

Presented for science and religion seriesUse of the classroom response system

(clickers)


ASSISTANT PROFESSOR JEFFERY KIMMONS

Member of Finding My Path CommitteeMVC Faculty Lecture Series “Life History Variation of Island Nesting Seabirds

in the Gulf of Maine”


ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR LARRY STOCKMAN Maastricht InstituteCriterion 3 committeeInternship Task ForceAttended a conference last fall sponsored by

Academy of Business Research


BUSINESS DIVISION & DEVELOPMENT OFFICE hosted and sponsored the 6th Maastricht Institute


ASSISTANT PROFESSOR PEGGY SHERMANMVC Early Childhood Education Students read to local preschool for the Jumpstart to Read program in October. (Broke our record)Organized a free Children’s Concert on Campus “Mr. Stinky Feet” for the community.


Assistant Professor Peggy ShermanAttended the Young Years Conference at Tan-

Tar-A sponsored by DESE with studentsMVC Education students Assisted the local Parent’s As Teacher’s organization with the DIAL screening.Early Childhood Education students volunteered at Head Start and at Parent’s As Teacher’s events.


ASSISTANT PROFESSOR PEGGY SHERMAN

Organized the Care Conference held on campus (A conference for parents/ teachers and child care providers of children birth-five)

The Early Childhood Education Students organized and participated in Mother Goose

on the Loose at the Education Library in April.


ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR GENE MARKSBURY

Obtained approval by the Curriculum Committee of the GIS minor


ASSISTANT PROFESSOR LINDA GORDON

Co-Chair Criterion #5 Self StudyCurriculum CommitteeS-MSTA advisorTook the S-MSTA officers to the state meeting

in St. Louis in NovemberPrimary sponsor for the Scholastic Book Fair,

SMART Board TrainingAttended the MACTE (Mo. Association for

Colleges of Teacher Education)


ASSISTANT PROFESSOR LINDA GORDON

WAC CommitteeOrganized a Legal Issues ForumPromote World Reading DayMiddle School Program Report writing


ASSISTANT PROFESSORMARILYN MILOVICH

Evidence Document Coordinator for the HLC Self StudyAdministrator for Valley’s Turn It In.comEnglish major’s Senior Thesis CommitteeOnline Program Student AdvisorPresented a PowerPoint lecture on Antarctic

Wildlife and Climate Change in collaboration with Dr. John Gault


ASSISTANT PROFESSORMARILYN MILOVICH

Obtained a successful grant award from the Missouri Arts Council for a Visual

Arts Gallery at Valley, in collaboration with Charity Woodard

Completed professional continuing education on the following topics:

a) GradeMark online training by TurnItIn.comb) Psychology Symposium Webinars


ASSOCIATE PROFESSORED LESLIE

Organized and coordinated the 55th anniversary Homecoming Torch RunHall of Fame BoardMVC Scholar Committee


ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR ED LESLIE

Model A “spirit car” at football gamesSponsor of the Lamp of Knowledge AwardPresented the Outstanding Senior Woman at the Women’s Hall of Fame Tea


PROFESSOR JOHN GAULT

Dean of Graduate StudiesChair of the Graduate Committee Completed Learning House Best Practices

online classesOur Redeemer Lutheran Church

congregation, congregational Executive Director


PROFESSOR JOHN GAULT

Non-Fiction Book Club

Host of the weekly Bible Discussion GroupCongregational Executive Director and Lay

Liturgist one Sunday per month


ASSISTANT PROFESSOR SHAWN TERRYBERRY

Volunteered with Men’s wrestling team

Student Senate Faculty of the Year


ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR SUSAN DITTMER

Technology for Classroom CommitteeArt in Motion CommitteeSpeech Association in MissouriAssisting in a new orientation process for

new faculty


INSTRUCTOR KELLEY MCKAY FUEMMELER

Developmental Education CommitteeStudent Success CommitteeText reviewer for the Bedford/St. Martin’s

company


ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR/ DEAN, SCHOOL OF NURSING AND HEALTH SCIENCES/ATHLETIC PROGRAM DIRECTOR DR. KARLA BRUNTZEL

Successful Athletic Training Program accreditation comprehensive site visitInternship Task Force Graduate Committee Curriculum Committee


ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR DR. KARLA BRUNTZEL

Chair of the College and University Athletic Training Student Advisory Committee for the State of Missouri

Liaison for the Student Leadership Committee for the State of Missouri


PROFESSOR/ CAMPUS SCRIBEDR. JOHN L. MCLEAN

Campus ScribePresented, “The Bible as Literature” on October

17, 2011, at Missouri Valley College’s annual Science & Religion Seminar

Attended The Higher Learning Commission’s annual conference

Scholarship Committee of the Marshall Rotary Club


ASSISTANT PROFESSOR PAM REEDER

Co-Chair of Criterion # 4 Self Study


ASSISTANT PROFESSOR MILENA SIMIC

Criterion 4 committeeOrganized the foreign student banner presentation for convocationInternational AdvisorFaculty SenateFaculty advisor for International Club



Professional development opportunities with the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City: Federal Reserve Chairman Bernanke Lecture Series

Participated in several web-training sessions for international education provided by IETS



Two-day training for Microsoft ExcelLed a visit to the Kansas City Federal Reserve

BankServed on MIE 6 Planning CommitteeFaculty representative to the Board of

Trustees


ASSISTANT PROFESSORHARRY CARRELL

Presenter at the Learning House Conference on On-Line education

Chaired the Curriculum CommitteeGeneral Education CommitteeOn Line Class Advisory Committee


ASSISTANT PROFESSORDR. PETER WARNOCK

Director of Study Abroad programArchaeological research in Arrow RockSponsor of Pigs & Yams SocietyTook students on a number of field trips to

museums, MU research reactor, archaeological sites, and KC zoo

Worked with People to People, International and the Marshall-Saline Development Corporation


ASSISTANT PROFESSORDR. PETER WARNOCK

Working with materials from Tel Halif, Israel, part of the Lahav Research Project, and Emory University

Working with Missouri State University on the Northern Jordan Project


ASSISTANT PROFESSORCYNTHIA ADAMS

Honors CommitteeStudent Appeals BoardSponsor of Criminal Justice Organization,

LAE


ASSOCIATE PROFESSORDIANA MALAN

2011 Alumni of the YearChair of the Division of Fine ArtsConcert Choir participated with the Habitat for

Humanity fundraiser Performance tours to Chillicothe, Concordia,

Jefferson CityShow Choir traveled to Marceline, MO for a

fundraiserDisneyworld Performance tour


ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR DIANA MALAN

ASSISTANT PROFESSORHEATHER TROTH

Cohan Grant Recipient to develop rubrics to measure learning outcomes for nonprofit students at colleges throughout the country

Presented at the Nonprofit Leadership Alliance Management Institute



Presented for Kennesaw State University Nonprofit Management Symposium- “Risk Management in Nonprofit Settings”

Vice-president on the Board of Directors for D.I.G.S. a teen homeless Shelter in Marshall



Presented at Association of Nonprofit Educators Conference on Assessing Learning Outcomes in the Areas of Governance and Legal and Ethical Decision Making

National Planning Team for the American Humanics Management Institute

Host Committee for the American Humanics Management Institute


ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR WENDY LESLIE

Faculty SenateCampus Safety & Security CommitteeAcademic Scholar Awards Banquet

Committee


ASSISTANT PROFESSORGARRY ANDERS

Vice-President of Missouri Music Educators


ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR WADE HUGHES

Attended S.T.A.M. and presented 2 workshopsAttended Missouri Thespian ConferenceFight Director For State Fair CC production

of “Noises Off”Presented workshops to 10 different High

Schools on Stage Combat and Improvisation


ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR WADE HUGHES

Served on the “Technologies Committee” also “Core Committee”

Region IV respondent

Has written a play “Zombies from Uranus” that he will be producing this Spring in the MET. It is a social satire on bigotry.


ASSISTANT PROFESSORJANIE ROSS

Attended the Vaganova Ballet Teacher Training Program


Dance Students at American College Dance Festival

ASSISTANT PROFESSOR JANIE ROSS

Dance students at Cottey College


Trip to Disney Land


ASSISTANT PROFESSOR VLADIMIR SIMIC

Established a great connection with ConAgra Foods, Marshall

Mid-America EnergyMalta Bend and Cargill Meat Solutions,

Marshall and their management teams


ASSISTANT PROFESSOR VLADIMIR SIMIC

Successful class trips to all 3 plants as a part of the experiential learning exercise

Men’s varsity soccer team2 academic All-American recipients 3 All-American Athletes


ASSISTANT PROFESSORMARILYN AHRENS

Served on Criterion 1 committeeChair of the sub committee for the MVC

Service to PublicPresenter at the Missouri Council of Teachers

of Mathematics conference in December of 2011 in Columbia, MO. The title of my presentation was “The Beauty of Math.”


ASSISTANT PROFESSORTONYA EDDY

Working on PhDEstablished an external advisory board for the nursing program


ADMINISTRATIVE ASSISTANT TO THE CHIEF ACADMIC OFFICER SHARON HOEFLICKER

Keeping it all together!!


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ACADEMICS at MISSOURI Valley College 2011/2012