Insidethisissue - aha Creative Ink

More documents

Recommendations

Info

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.
Romme. 2004. “Historical and recent fire regimes in pinon-juniper woodlands on Mesa Verde, Colorado, USA.” Forest Ecology and Management 198:269-289. • Grissino-Mayer, Henri D, William H. Romme, M. Lisa Floyd, and David D. Hanna. 2004. “Climatic and human influences on fire regimes of the southern San Juan Mountains, Colorado, USA.” Ecology 85:1708-1724. Papers presented by Floyd- Hanna include: • Co-authored a paper on Ecosystem Reset: Early Effects of Southwestern Drought. With Neil Cobb and others at the Ecological Society of America Meetings, Oregon, August 2004. • Keynote speaker for a workshop with USGS, National Park Service to Northern Arizona University staff and faculty on woodland health, Mesa Verde. September, 2004. Floyd-Hanna’s group is currently working on a vegetation mapping project at Mesa Verde National Park, which includes several Prescott College alums and USGS researchers. They are also in year one of a twoyear fire history project on the Kaiparowits Plateau in Glen Canyon National Park. Tim Jordan and Paul Smith Jordan and Smith are planning an 18-credit spring course that will bring students and horses together to explore the nature of being human, the relationships between nature, culture and soul, and how our shared learning relates to personal growth and social change. FacultyNews Titled People, Animals, and Nature, this intensive course will combine in-town studies, extensive field time based out of Walnut Station, and regional field trips. Student will earn six credits in each of the following established courses: • Ecopsychology II • Relational Horsemanship • Personality Theories The course has a fee of $600, which will offset the cost of leasing and caring for a herd of horses for the quarter. Students may choose to minimize their overall expenses by living at Walnut Station, where accommodations are rustic. There are bunkhouse and tent camping options with portable latrines, inside kitchen facilities, and community space. The class will meet 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., Monday, Wednesday, and Friday. Steven Pace Pace has recently been elected president of the board of directors of the Association for Experiential Education (AEE). The vision of the association is to contribute to a more just and compassionate world by transforming education. The association is committed to support professional development, theoretical advancement, and evaluation of experiential education world wide. Steve has been an active member of AEE for many years. He recently finished a term on their Accreditation Council, is a popular workshop presenter at the annual international conference, and represented Schools and Colleges on the AEE Board of Directors in the late 1990s. Wayne Regina Regina recently presented a series of two workshops titled “Domestic Mediation With Highly Conflicted Couples.” The Alternative Dispute Resolution Services of Arizona’s Superior Court in Yavapai County sponsored these workshops, which were attended by judges, attorneys, and mediators. The all-day workshops were offered on May 10 and Aug. 21 and discussed using a family systems approach with high conflicted divorcing couples. In July, Regina was also re-elected to the Skyview School Board of Directors for a second term as board vice president and financial/administrative consultant. In addition, Regina is currently part of a task force that is exploring development of a K to 16 consortium between Prescott College, Skyview School, Prescott Unified School District, and Expeditionary Learning Outward Bound (ELOB). This task force is investigating the possibility of opening an ELOB high school in the Prescott area. Regina is a licensed marriage and family therapist, licensed psychologist, and certified mediator. Miles Waggener Waggener, instructor in the undergraduate resident degree program, wrote a successful grant proposal and received $2,500 of funding for this year’s Alligator Juniper from the Arizona Commission on the Arts. Alligator Juniper, Prescott College’s student-edited literary journal, won the Association of Writers & Writing Programs’ (AWP) 2004 Director’s Prize for content for its 2003 issue. The journal also won the prize in 2001. (See related story on page 17.) Fall 2004Transitions 27 Lisa Floyd-Hanna Steven Pace Wayne Regina Miles Waggener Photos by Travis Patterson and Julie VanSant
Page 1 and 2: Insidethisissue 4 20 28 Crossroads
Page 3 and 4: Ican’t ever remember writing my l
Page 5 and 6: opens for business Prescott College
Page 7 and 8: ooks and articles and have access t
Page 9 and 10: explore, define, achieve their goal
Page 11 and 12: knowledge of water tales of his adv
Page 13 and 14: Combining art, psychology to facili
Page 15 and 16: dents by encouraging students to in
Page 17 and 18: Opera star has roots in Prescott Ch
Page 19 and 20: In accord with the overall objectiv
Page 21 and 22: was a double competence in photogra
Page 23 and 24: Bringing John Muir to life Doug Hul
Page 25: faculty authors lication review, fr
Page 29 and 30: Turquoise and Gold Circle Represent
Page 31 and 32: Nancy Hendrie (Katherine) Deborah a
Page 33 and 34: From the Chairman, Board of Trustee
Page 35 and 36: Jean Blythe Roseanne Cartledge** Fr
Page 37 and 38: Workshop is Prescott College mini r
Page 39 and 40: Ralph Phillips Phillips was named d
Page 41 and 42: Professional organization recognize
Page 43 and 44: alumni and faculty, and annually or
Page 45 and 46: profession, earning my Ph.D. from N
Page 47 and 48: Our second child, Lavender, was bor
Page 49 and 50: the lead guide for Aspen Expedition
Page 51 and 52: cated to the social and environment
Page 53 and 54: Former Prescott College President R
Page 55 and 56: oss, friend, mentor, colleague prog

Insidethisissue - aha Creative Ink

You also want an ePaper? Increase the reach of your titles

Delete template?

Save as template?