Tag: Fischler College of Education & School of Criminal Justice

Gur Berman, Ed.D., graduate of NSU’s Abraham S. Fischler College of Education and School of Criminal Justice has been named Director of General Studies at Yeshiva Toras Chaim Toras Emes, in North Miami Beach, FL.

Over the past seven years Berman served as an assistant principal and principal of Ben Gamla Charter Schools in South Florida. The Ben Gamla schools Berman led were characterized by environments in which teachers felt trusted, appreciated, and supported. As a result, annually, the students in those schools experienced improved learning as demonstrated by the annual numerical score the state provides all public schools.  Prior to his tenure at Ben Gamla, he taught and administered in a number of local Yeshiva Day Schools.  He has Semicha (Rabbinic Ordination) from the Rabbi Yitzchak Elchonon Theological Seminary (Yeshiva University).

Berman earned undergraduate and graduate degrees from Cornell University and Columbia University respectively and then a Doctor of Education in Instructional and Organizational Leadership from Nova Southeastern University.

Hui Fang Huang “Angie” Su, Ed.D.

Hui Fang Huang “Angie” Su, Ed.D., Professor in the Department of Curriculum and Instruction at NSU’s Abraham S. Fischler College of Education and School of Criminal Justice presented, Using Collaborative Tools in Distance Learning, on Wednesday July 22 at the United States Distance Learning Association Virtual Conference. Dr. Susan Stephan, Associate Dean, Shepard Broad College of Law and Jamie Manburg Ed.D.,, Associate Dean, Abraham S. Fischler College of Education and School of Criminal Justice were co-presenters at the session.

Su is President of the Florida Distance Learning Association. For many years, one of her teaching strategies is mentoring students through cooperative learning and student collaboration.  The work that the students accomplished in the course likely results in a publication or further research projects.  The strategy encourages students to meet outside class time. Students become highly motivated to research the topics, and bounce ideas off each other and help each other with the areas of mathematics in which they might need a refresher.  The result is that the students felt highly accomplished, and all work done in the classroom becomes a work in progress and can lead to classroom usage or researchable projects.

Hui Fang Huang “Angie” Su, Ed.D.

Hui Fang Huang “Angie” Su, Ed.D.,  Professor in the Department of Curriculum and Instruction at the Abraham S. Fischler College of Education and School of Criminal Justice, co-published a study which was part of the funded project entitled, “Systemic interventions of Project MIND (Math Is Not Difficult) and Solution-Focused Brief Therapy for children with Autism Spectrum Disorder and their families.” It was generously funded by the Chiang Ching-Kuo Foundation for International Scholarly Exchange, Taipei, Taiwan, R.O.C.

This study aimed to provide a practical, systematic, and comprehensive intervention for children with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) and found that the systemic interventions of Project MIND significantly improved the mathematical and cognitive abilities in children with autism. The results of this study may lead to a major change in effective and adequate health care services for children with ASD and their families.  Dr. Su created Project MIND – Math Is Not Difficult in 1988.  The unique program utilizes innovative strategies and instructional models designed to get all students, including children with special needs, along with teachers of all abilities and grade levels excited about mathematics through games, stories, poems, songs, art, puzzles, mental math activities, and competitions for all children.

Dr. Su published the study with Dr. Leanne Lai, Professor of Biostatistics and Research Design at  NSU’s College of Pharmacy, Dr. Pei-Fen Li,  Assistant Professor at NSU’s Department of Family Therapy, Dr. Mei-Hwei Ho, Associate Professor in the Department of Special Education at National University of Tainan, and Mrs. Yu-Wen Chiu, who serves as a clinical psychologist and teaching assistant at the Department of Psychiatry, National Cheng Kung University Hospital, Taiwan specializing in children and adolescent mental illness consultation.

The paper can be found in the World Academy of Science, Engineering and Technology Journal [Educational and Pedagogical Sciences] Online ISSN: 1307-6892. You may access the article at https://publications.waset.org/educational-and-pedagogical-sciences.

Evan Duff, Ed.D., graduate of NSU’s Abraham S. Fischler College of Education and School of Criminal Justice has been named the eighth President of North Carolina Wesleyan College.

Since 2011, Dr. Duff has served in many senior leadership roles at N.C. Wesleyan including, Interim President, Provost and Senior Vice President of Academic Affairs and Vice President of Adult and Professional Studies. In these roles, Dr. Duff was responsible for leading the effort to approve new majors, co-writing the College’s first graduate application to the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools- Commission on Colleges (SACS-COC) and creating seven new offsite instructional locations. He was also responsible for facilitating the development of partnerships with 20 two-year and four-year colleges, which led to articulation agreements or memorandums of understanding between those colleges and N.C. Wesleyan.

He earned his doctorate degree in education from the Abraham S. Fischler College of Education and School of Criminal Justice in 2007.

Joaquin Martinez. Ph.D., graduate of NSU’s Fischer College of Education and School of Criminal Justice, has been named Provost and Vice President of Instruction at the Community College of Baltimore County (CCBC). He will join CCCB on July 1, 2020.

Martinez has held a high-level leadership position at Miami Dade College (MDC). He currently serves as the district Vice Provost, with oversight for institutional effectiveness across all eight Miami Dade College (MDC) campuses. Prior to his current role, Martinez also held leadership positions at MDC for the past ten years, which include time as President of two MDC campuses, Wolfson and Hialeah, Associate Dean of Faculty and Academic Affairs, Associate Provost of Student Achievement; and Dean of Faculty and Student Services, Martinez was the founding Director of the School of Education at Albizu University, a comprehensive university offering doctoral, master’s and bachelor’s degrees that emphasized service to diverse communities, with campuses Puerto Rico and Miami.

Dr. Martinez earned his bachelor’s degree in Political Science and Modern Languages from Middlebury College, in Vermont. He earned his Master’s degree in TESOL (Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages) and Administration and Supervision at NSU’s Fischler College of Education and School of Criminal Justice and his Doctorate in Higher Education Leadership and Research Methodology at Florida Atlantic University. He is also a past fellow of the American Association of Community Colleges’ National Community College Hispanic Council program at California State University, Long Beach.

Anthony Price, Ed.D., graduate of NSU’s Abraham S. Fischler College of Education and School of Criminal Justice (FCE&SCJ), was named the Junior College Adjunct Educator of the Year for the Lake Country Region, by the President of Georgia Military College. He was recognized for outstanding achievement, exceptional performance, and innovative contributions to the teaching profession at Georgia Military College during the academic year 2019-2020.

Price is a retired educator who served more than 35 years in K-12 education.  He has had unique and varied experiences in his career, spanning time in New York, Virginia and Georgia.   While Principal at Hilsman Middle School in Clarke County, Georgia, the school received the Governor’s Silver Award. Only 1 of 22 schools at that time received the prestigious award, which recognized students who met or exceeded standards in all four content areas in a school that was considered high poverty with high minority enrollment. He also started a Career Center, which was the first JROTC program for middle school students in conjunction with the high school and led the school’s first authorization for the International Baccalaureate Middle Years Program. Under his tenure, Cedar Shoals High School, a high poverty school in Athens, Georgia, was named by the Washington Post High School Challenge Index as being among the top 8% in the nation out of 22,000 high schools. Additionally, the school was also selected for the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Program in conjunction with Piedmont College. The Georgia Department of Education named the school an “AP Honor School” because of the access and performance of an underserved population. He also created and initiated the first ninth grade academy at the high school and developed an extensive summer companion program for rising ninth grade students to ease the transitional difficulties of leaving middle school and entering the ninth grade.  Finally, Price’s leadership led to the school’s authorization to become an International Baccalaureate Middle Years Program for ninth and tenth graders.

He earned his Doctor of Education in 2006. Price also serves as an adjunct faculty member in the educational leadership program at FCE&SCJ. He is married to FCE&SCJ’s 2017 Distinguished Alumni Award Winner, Noris Price.