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Jeanine Canty
Joan Clingan
Tim Crews
Tom Fleischner
Photos by Travis Patterson
and Julie VanSant
FacultyNews
Jeanine Canty
Canty has a new article published
by the John E. Mack
Institute ejournal (formerly the
Center for Psychology and
Social Change). Titled
“Environmental healing: Shifting
from a poverty consciousness,”
the article can be accessed at
www.johnemackinstitute.org/ejo
urnal/article.asp?id=232.
Canty is working with both
education and liberal arts students
in the community based
programs and teaching ecopsychology
in the residential undergraduate
program. She has a
master’s of art degree in cultural
ecopsychology and is working on
her Ph.D. in transformative
learning and change at the
California Institute for Integral
Studies. Canty also has become
a fellow at the Ecosystems
Institute (http://www.ecos-systems.org/).
Joan Clingan
Clingan organized two sessions
for the Southern University of
New Orleans’s Race, Gender,
and Class Project’s 6th Annual
Conference in September. The
paper session was called
Intersections of Race and Class
in Literature, and included
Clingan presenting her paper
titled “Contextualizing Class
and Race in U.S. Literature”
along with papers from Lisa
Kirby and Will Watson.
The second session was a
roundtable presentation called
Voices Heard on Race and
Class with discussants
Christina Lawson, also from
Prescott College, and Barb
Jensen and Gail Wallace.
This past academic year
Clingan served on the consultative
committee for Courtney
Osterfelt’s senior project.
Courtney graduated in
26 TransitionsFall 2004
December with a bachelor’s
degree in education for social
change (see story, page 8).
Clingan served in an advisory
and support role to create and
manage the call for presentations.
In addition, she presented
two sessions at the conference,
one on the portrayal of women
in the media and a creative writing
session that examined young
women and/in literature.
Clingan was invited by the
Diversity Development
Committee of the Pacific
Association of Collegiate
Registrars and Admission
Officers (PACRAO) to organize
two sessions on diversity for participants
at the annual conference
in Tucson in November.
She worked with fellow faculty
member Christina Lawson to
create a workshop examining
trends for defining diversity in
higher education, including
examination of how economic
and social class is represented in
higher education, and a second
session on the higher education
ideologies of groups that have
been historically underrepresented
in higher education.
Tim Crews
Crews was invited to make
three presentations this fall. In
early October he gave an
Ecology and Evolutionary
Biology Departmental Seminar
at Cornell University. Later in
October he presented at the
University of Arizona
Cooperative Extension Master
Gardener’s conference in Camp
Verde, and in early November
he moderated a panel that
included Wendell Berry and
Wes Jackson at the Agronomy,
Soils, and Crop Science Society
Meetings in Seattle.
While in the Northeast in
October, Crews visited two Eco
League schools—Green
Mountain and College of the
Atlantic—to pursue coordination
of environmental studies offerings
in general and agricultural
courses in particular. He previously
visited Alaska Pacific as
part of an Eco League faculty
exchange in the spring.
Lastly, Crews was selected by
Prescott Mayor Rowle Simmons
to serve on the City of Prescott’s
Water Conservation Committee
over the upcoming year. The
committee is charged with making
recommendations for
rewriting the city’s water conservation
code.
Tom Fleischner
Fleischner was one of seven coauthors
of “Principles of conservation
biology: Recommended
guidelines for conservation literacy
from the Education
Committee of the Society for
Conservation Biology,” which
appeared in Conservation
Biology 18: 1180-1190. This
article is being translated into
all the major languages of the
world and being made available
around the world.
He continues to serve as president
of the Colorado Plateau
Chapter of the Society for
Conservation Biology, which will
be hosting a regional conference
on conservation—“A Bright
Future for Biodiversity:
Conservation on the Colorado
Plateau”—at the Crossroads
Center in March (see www.envsci.nau.edu/cp_scb/
for more
details).
Lisa Floyd-Hanna
Floyd-Hanna has been busy
writing since the last issue of
Transitions. Her published
papers include:
• Floyd, M. Lisa, David D.
Hanna, and William H.