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18 Hood Magazine www.hood.edu/magazine Glen Weaver By Dave Diehl, Director, Marketing and Communications Many would say that Glen Weaver’s predilection to humor in the classroom is a necessary antidote to the subjects he teaches, such as accounting for managers, financial management and economics. But that’s his technique for providing not only a little levity, but also to make his point. For the past five years he has taught accounting and finance courses at Hood with a meticulous rigor and structure one would expect from a person of his professional ilk. However, he is well known among students for interjecting personal and often humorous real-life stories, relevant current events and, he likes to boast, Glen Weaver his own brand of humor to add relevance, context and interest into the lessons about credits, debits, supply and demand, regression analysis and economies of scale. “I’m not serious for very long,” said the adjunct instructor in management for Hood’s Master of Business Administration program. “I like to have fun. It works for me because I truly have a passion for finance and accounting.” “He seems to be truly excited about accounting—as hard as that may seem— he wants the students to learn it,” said David Hubner, a current M.B.A. student and senior marketing accounts manager with Flight Explorer, a flight tracking software company based in Alexandria, Va. “He can give you an example and apply it to something he did that day, and he’s not afraid to poke fun at how theory often differs from the process in the real world.” But it’s his experience, combined with his teaching ability, that makes him an asset in the classroom, according to Anita Jose, associate professor of management and the director of Hood’s M.B.A. program. “It is very important for M.B.A. students to see not only scholar-researchers in the classroom, but also practicing professionals like Glen who apply the things they teach in their everyday lives and, thus, bring specific real-world perspectives to the classroom,” said Jose. “Glen is the cream of the crop when it comes to our adjunct professors. He has everything that we would ever want.” Weaver, who earned his bachelor’s degree in business administration from Towson University and master’s of finance and an M.B.A. from Loyola College in Baltimore, is by day the senior vice president and director of financial operations and technology development at Citicorp Credit Services in Hagerstown, Md. He says that he is at a point in his career where teaching complements his work, and vice versa. “Personally, as I’ve moved up in the organization, from pencil pusher to mentor, I’m in a role in which I need to be teaching. It helps me to understand [students’] motivation, talk to them on their terms. It makes them better leaders. It keeps me sharp. It keeps me focused.” “They are the future leaders of the business world,” Weaver says of the M.B.A. degree students in the finance and accounting classes he teaches at Hood. “I want them to have a high level of understanding of the discipline.” ■ Editor’s note: Dave Diehl earned his M.B.A. at Hood and was a student in Glen Weaver’s financial management class. Awards &Grants Summer Research Institute Grants awarded to faculty members for collaborative research with students for summer 2005: Kevin Bennett, assistant professor of chemistry, with senior Paula Cantos and sophomore Rachel Loss, will be developing new ways of analyzing environmentally significant herbicides found in water and soil samples. This research will utilize a capillary electrophoresis instrument acquired through a National Science Foundation Grant. Doug Boucher, associate professor of biology, with sophomore Crystal Gonzales, will be researching ecological succession in Maryland forests damaged by Hurricane Isabel in September 2003 and Hurricane Ivan in September 2004. Genevieve Gessert, Sophia M. Libman National Endowment for the Humanities assistant professor of art, with senior Mary
Summer 2005 Hood Magazine 19 Joan Planell By Peggy Souza ’05 Joan Planell Joan Planell brings real-life experience to the students in the social policy course she has taught every spring for the past five years. “I have a certain amount of credibility. I’ve been on the front lines,” said Planell, an adjunct lecturer in social work in Hood’s Department of Sociology and Social Work. With more that 25 years of experience as a practicing social worker, an administrator and now as a senior legislative analyst for Montgomery County, Maryland, Planell is one of many qualified adjunct professors, instructors and lecturers who complement Hood’s 76 full-time faculty in every one of the 15 academic departments and in all 28 undergraduate and 12 graduate programs. “She is a role model as a social worker and instills in her students the value of human dignity, which is the social worker’s professional core value,” said Joy Swanson Ernst, assistant professor and director of the social work program at Hood. Ernst first encountered Planell professionally at a teen mother’s program in Montgomery County. During an encounter session when young mothers expressed anger over their treatment by social workers, Planell didn’t become defensive, she apologized to the mothers. Ernst was so impressed, that several years later when she needed an adjunct professor to teach social policy, she immediately thought of Planell. After graduation in 1975 from Georgetown University with a bachelor’s degree in psychology, Planell worked as a counselor and social worker, providing services to disabled adults, seriously ill children, homeless and mentally ill individuals and abused children and adults. She later earned master’s degrees in public policy and in social work from the University of Maryland. In her day-today role in the administration of one of the region’s most heavily populated areas, she is responsible for analyzing Montgomery County’s public school and the health and human services budgets, together totaling nearly $2 billion. It was during fieldwork with social work students five years ago that Planell developed an interest in teaching, and the realizations that sharing her knowledge, experience and insight with protégés would all be a necessary part of the continuum that is her social work career. And while she realizes that her class is a requirement for students studying social work, she believes that her experience helps breathe life into the textbooks, making the material relevant, interesting and, perhaps, exciting. “Policy has no right or wrong answers,” said Planell who takes her students out of the classroom to see the applications of policy decisions that balance needs against resources. Field trips have included visits to local jails to observe how mental health services are provided and to free clinics where the working uninsured go for medical treatment. Diane Smith ’05, a social work major and student of Planell’s, thinks the instructor has a knack for keeping the class interested. “She engages her students to participate and become involved in the class,” said Smith, who had an opportunity to observe the inner workings of a Montgomery County Council meeting with Planell in action as a policy analyst. ■ Scire and juniors Victoria Anderson, Jason Comegna, Michael Hess-Webber, Audrey Warren and Natalie Wieland, will excavate three rooms of the Domus del Tempio Rotondo, a prominent multi-functional structure in the ancient Roman city of Ostia Antica. Sang Kim, assistant professor of economics and management, with senior Valentina Katchanovskaia, seeking to empirically estimate the “exchange rate pass through effects” for light-manufacturing industries in the U.S. Jennifer Ross, associate professor of art, with senior Tim Fortin and junior Mary Jean Hughes, will be learning excavation methods, mapping, drawing and artifact processing at Çadir Höyük in Turkey, dating from 5500 B.C. Lynda Sowbel, assistant professor of social work, with senior Kelly Schultz and sophomore Katie Getsinger, worked with a local psychiatric rehabilitation program studying hospitalization and employment rates as well as quality of life measures.
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