Tag: Fischler College of Education & School of Criminal Justice

Shelley J. Cooper, Ed.D.

Shelley J. Cooper, Ed.D., graduate of NSU’s Fischler College of Education and School of Criminal Justice, founded Diversity Telehealth in 2015, a telemedicine consulting firm located in Kansas City’s historic 18^th & Vine Jazz District that specializes in bringing healthcare to underserved populations in diverse communities.  Diversity Telehealth has formed relationships with area healthcare and civic organizations that are attempting to revitalize a culturally rich, but underserved groups within its urban core.

Cooper is a 25-year veteran educator who became interested in continuing her dedication to service by studying telemedicine and earning her Doctorate degree in Education with NSU’s Fischler College of Education and School of Criminal Justice in 2014. Her dissertation, “Opinion Leaders’ Perspective of the Benefits and Barriers in Telemedicine: A Grounded Theory Study of Telehealth in the Midwest” laid the foundation for the establishment of Diversity Telehealth.

She also provides no-cost telehealth services for families in need through her 501c3 organization, Diversity Telehealth Community Network, Inc. She is currently introducing her SureShow app, a patent-pending, revenue generating app that reduces clinical no-shows by infusing telehealth options. Most recently she was featured in the Kansas Medicine, The Journal of the New Kansas City Medical Society; she has also contributed to KC Our Health Matters, Diversity in Action Educational Journal and multiple telehealth webinars.

To learn more about Diversity Telehealth, please visit https://www.diversitytelehealth.com/.

Michael Simonson, Ph.D.

Michael Simonson, Ph.D., Professor in the Department of Higher Education Leadership and Instructional Technology at NSU’s Fischler College of Education and School of Criminal Justice was featured on the podcast, Let’s Talk eLearning. The podcast is hosted by Dr. LeRoy Hill, Dean of the School of Distance Learning at the University of Southern Caribbean and tips on eLearning and online teaching excellence.

On the episode, Simonson shares his insights about Equivalency Theory and its relation to distance education. He first proposed Equivalency Theory in 1999 and for twenty years it has been a significant organizational factor for the design of distance education courses and programs.

Simonson has authored four major textbooks dealing with distance education, instructional technology, instructional computing and instructional media. He has over 200 scholarly publications and is an editor of two academic journals. His current area of research interest is the diffusion of distance education in organizations.

The podcast – let’s Talk eLearning with Dr. Michael Simonson – E2 – is available at SoundCloud – https://soundcloud.com/leroy_hill/lets-talk-elearning-e2-michael

Brent Goldman, Ed.D., graduate of NSU’s Fischler College of Education and School of Criminal Justice, is the co-founder and CEO of Xceed Preparatory Academy, which currently has four locations in South Florida (Kendall, Weston, Coral Springs, and Daytona Beach). In July 2020, Xceed opened its 5th school, a virtual school called Xceed Anywhere.

Goldman has been a leader in private school education in South Florida since 1996. He was the co-founder and Head of School at The Sagemont School in Weston for 21 years. Under his leadership, Sagemont grew to over 820. Additionally, he co-founded The University of Miami Online High School and Smart Horizons Career Online Education (www.shcoe.org).  The University of Miami Online High School was the first Southern Association of Colleges and Schools (SACS) accredited private online high school. It was sold to Kaplan in 2007.  Smart Horizons Career Online Education is geared towards the 30mm+ adult high school dropouts in the United States and is the official high school of McDonalds.

Goldman earned his M.S. in 1994 and his Ed.D. in 1997 from the Fischler College of Education and School of Criminal Justice.

To learn more about Xceed Preparatory please visit, ttps://www.xceedprep.org/

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.