Category: Academics

Two College of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences (CAHSS) faculty served as guest co-editors of a special section of the September 2019 issue of the Journal of Faculty Development. The special section, “Faculty Development for First-Year Experience, Part II,” included a co-authored article by Kevin Dvorak, Ph.D., CAHSS Professor and Executive Director of the NSU Writing and Communication Center, along with Molly Scanlon Ph.D., CAHSS Associate Professor, and Judith Slapak-Barski, Ed.D., Instructional Technology and Design Specialist at the Halmos College of Natural Sciences and Oceanography

Scanlon and Dvorak cowrote, “The Importance of Faculty Development Programs for Teaching First-Year Seminar Courses” in the first part of the special section issue of the Journal of Faculty Development May 2019.

 Their article, “Common Practices for First-Year Experience Faculty Development,” focuses on First-Year Experience (FYE) faculty development and recognizes “the best practices for FYE faculty development that can help FYW practitioners strengthen programs or build new sustainable models for success” (53).  Each of the eight practices are explained and reflect the experiences of FYE administrators and faculty. These practices included build a cultivate faculty buy-in, leverage technology, understand the student population, among others, that assist to further develop and improve existing FYE programs.

To access “The Importance of Faculty Development Programs for Teaching First-Year Seminar Courses”

To access “Common Practices for First-Year Experience Faculty Development”

 

 

 

Hui Fang Huang “Angie” Su, Ed.D., and master’s students, Bhagi Phuyel, Chloe Johnson, Dylan Mandolini, and Shanyn Fleming  from NSU’s Abraham S. Fischler College of Education and School of Criminal Justice (FCE&SCJ), had their article, Strategy to Estimate Size, published in the journal Dimensions in Mathematics.  The students are all mathematics teachers and instructors in k-12 schools and colleges in the US.  Their contributions to this article include their personal teaching experiences and mathematical knowledge.

The article is about using innovative strategies to obtain the measurement of a fictitious park and calculate its total area. The purpose is to introduce geometric concepts through investigative activities to engage students in learning. This article ties real-world “objects”, such as the national park, to geometric shapes and calculations used with a scale to help determine the total area of the park.

Dr. Su is a Professor of Mathematics Education at FCE&SCJ.  Her passion for teaching includes mentoring and encouraging students at all levels to extend their knowledge beyond their current abilities.

Working on a thesis, dissertation, or major writing project this semester? Take advantage of the WCC Weekly Write-Ins , a (drop in) weekly writing group where faculty, graduate, and professional students from all disciplines come together for dedicated time to focus on writing dissertation, research, grants, or other projects.

When: Monday evenings from 5:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m. EST
Where: In person in Alvin Sherman Library 430

For more information, email wcc@nova.edu 

Visit https://nova.mywconline.com/ to schedule your writing and communication center appointment today!

On January 14, seven girls from PACE came to NSU to participate in NSU-AAUW’s ESTEAM Project for Girls. During their visit, they worked with MBA in Marketing alumna Bridgett Guerrero on how they can create a simple video game using computer coding. They also had the opportunity to try out virtual reality goggles. Ms. Guerrero is a partner and regional manager of Logiscool in Davie, Florida.

During lunch, the girls heard from a panel of current Halmos College students about the college experience. These students included Jessica Hallett, Brianna Thompson, Annette Mathew and Samruddhi Ayachit. After this lunch panel, the students went to the Alvin Sherman Library. There librarians Sarena Hicks and Sarah Devine facilitated a scavenger hunt to show the students about resources available throughout the library.

After their tour, the students visited the Craig and Barbara Weiner Holocaust Reflection and Resource Center. This center offers Nova Southeastern University students and the general public a place to learn about, and to contemplate, the horrendous acts that result from intolerance and hate. The PACE girls were very moved by what they learned.

Their next visit is scheduled for Feb. 18. Please contact Julie Torruellas Garcia, Director of the E-STEAM Project for Girls, at jg1511@nova.edu, if you would like to get involved.

 

Neil Katz, Ph.D. professor in the Department of Conflict Resolution Studies in NSU’s College of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences (CAHSS) has published the 3^rd edition of his book, Communication & Conflict Resolution Skills (2020). In addition to co-authors John Lawyer and Marcia Sweedler, Ph.D., this latest edition includes new co-authors Katherine Sosa, Ph.D., and Peter Tokar, M.Div.

Sosa is a graduate of the doctoral program in conflict resolution and is an organizational development specialist in a large healthcare system. Tokar is a doctoral student in the program and the lead pastor of the 1,400 member Bridge Church. Three other doctoral students assisted with this latest edition, Eileen Petzold-Bradley, Julio Chang, and Kristal Garia.

For more information about the book, please go to https://he.kendallhunt.com/product/communication-and-conflict-resolution-skills

On Thursday, January 30, at 12:35 p.m. Halmos mathematics faculty member Lei Cao, Ph.D. will present a talk titled “Soccer Tournament Matrices”.

In this talk, he will present a combinatorial object, soccer tournament matrices, which is understandable to undergraduate students and gives a taste of combinatorial matrix theory.

Consider a round-robin tournament of n teams in which each team plays every other team exactly once and where ties are allowed. A team scores 3 points for a win, 1 point for a tie, and 0 point for a loss, then each particular result leads to a soccer tournament matrix. Let T(R, 3) denote the class of all soccer tournament matrices with the row sum vector R. In this talk, I will explore some necessary conditions of a vector R, such that T(R, 3) is nonempty with the audience, and then for some R, I will show an algorithm to construct a soccer tournament matrix whose row sum is R.

Halmos College of Natural Sciences and Oceanography department of mathematics hosts the mathematics colloquium series in Parker Building, Room 338. For more information about the math colloquium series, please contact mathematics faculty member Jing Chen, Ph.D. (jchen1@nova.edu) or Evan Haskell (haskell@nova.edu).