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what’s happening > CampusScene pROFESSOR pRESENTS aT aNNual CONVENTION Matt Bereza, Assistant Professor of Psychology at Tiffin University, has been selected to present his data at the upcoming Ohio Psychological Association’s annual convention in Columbus. Dr. Bereza’s presentation, ‘Psychology, Nutrition, and Barriers to Growth,’ will cover his current line of research. “My areas of expertise are cross-cultural psychology, Spanish speaking populations, health psychology, biological basis for behavior and cognition, and gay and lesbian issues in psychology. I primarily conduct research in the areas of nutrition and how psychology intersects,” said Bereza. pROFESSOR puBlISHES aRTIClE Dr. Sherry Truffin, Associate Professor of English, has published an article in Reading Chuck Palahniuk: American Monsters and Literary Mayhem. Truffin’s article is titled, “This is What Passes For Free Will: Chuck Palahniuk’s Postmodern Gothic.” In her article, Dr. Truffin notes that the popular Fight Club author has a penchant for writing about freakish characters, such as a refugee from a suicide cult in love with a barren psychic who hires herself out as a surrogate mother (Survivor, 1999), a disfigured former model who hides beneath a veil and plots revenge against those who have wronged her (Invisible Monsters, 1999), and a reporter who faces down strange supernatural forces in a quest for redemption after inadvertently killing his wife and their child with a poem (Lullaby, 2002). Dr. Truffin argues that Palahniuk uses freakish characters to update the Gothic tradition for a postmodern age that seeks perfection in miracle “makeovers” of all kinds. In Survivor, Invisible Monsters, and Lullaby, a character confronts traumatic experiences from the past while feeling trapped in a conformist, image-oriented, mass-media-saturated culture. In the course of each novel, the character becomes paranoid and monstrous, ultimately transgressing the bounds of law, reason, and good taste in an effort to gain a sense of freedom and control in his or her life. Ultimately, such gestures turn out to be violent, destructive, partial, and compromised. For Dr. Truffin, Palahniuk’s fiction suggests a bleak view of contemporary America as an incarcerating place in which the only possible expressions of free choice are destructive to self and others. Dr. Truffin’s view is that Gothic works always express the underlying fears and anxieties of a culture. Chuck Palahniuk’s very popular books suggest that there is a dark side to our “selfhelp” culture. 18 CHALLENGE > Fall / Winter 09 DaNgEROuS lIVES Dr. James Rovira presented “The Dangerous Lives of Unbound Pages in Chris Fuhrman and William Blake” at the American Literature Association’s Fiction Symposium in Savannah, Georgia in October. Dr. Rovira argues that Chris Fuhrman’s The Dangerous Lives of Altar Boys and William Blake’s The Marriage of Heaven and Hell (1793) present post-Enlightenment conceptions of reason —embodied in the academic institutions that legitimate and perpetuate them and the books these institutions produce — as tyrannical forces that blind people from initially painful but ultimately liberating truths excluded from the Enlightenment tradition. In both authors, the post-Enlightenment era book—the physically bound book as opposed to the unbound pages of a manuscript or a comic book—comes to symbolize the oppressive practices of Britain’s church/state complex (in Blake) and the Catholic school institution (in Furhman). Blake’s Medieval-style illuminated books represent to Fuhrman’s characters visionary emancipation from these structures and inspire them to engage in similar resistance through the production of comic books. EMERgENCY MaNagEMENT TRaININg Dr. Allen Smith, School of Criminal Justice and Social Sciences, taught 28 Ohio Military Reserve Officers the ICS 300-400 series at the Annual Training at Camp Perry. The training was designed to satisfy significant training requirements for the new mission as the 6th Brigade of the Ohio National Guard. Dr. Smith is working in the Brigade Training Academy to develop courses in incident command and related issues. The primary responsibilities as an organization will be providing support services to the guard for ESF’s 6 & 7 of the National Response Framework that relates to the National Response Plans for disasters. The organization will deal with mass casualties and volunteer organizations responding to declared emergencies. Warrant Officer 2 “Boats” West and Dr. Smith have the required certification from FEMA to conduct this training.
EDuCaTIONal STaNDaRDS The Ohio Academy of Science has appointed three Tiffin University faculty members to a science and mathematics education standards review team. Dr. Sushmita Ghosh, Associate Professor of Science, Mike Herdlick, Instructor of Mathematics, and Dr. Vicki Ingalls, Assistant Professor of Mathematics, were selected from 38 colleges and universities across the state to join the elite task force. The Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics Teacher Advisory Committee (STEM-TAC) will review current educational standards, as well as advise the Academy of Science on evidence-based educational policy for the Ohio School Funding Advisory Council. STEM-TAC’s mission has several mandates, including: n to examine how well the draft science education standards address scientific inquiry and technological design, the central focus of the standards; n to assess the scientific accuracy of the PreK-8 content statements; n to consider how the draft standards will help prepare high school students for college introductory science, technology, engineering and mathematics classes; n and, to determine how effective the mathematics standards will be to help teachers teach science at the pre-college and college level. Dr. Sushmita Ghosh Mike Herdlick Dr. Vicki Ingalls New Academic Programs New academic programs offered by TU include the Bachelor of Arts in Professional Studies, an undergraduate major in General Science, a minor in Sports and Recreation Management, and concentrations in Healthcare Administration within the MBA, BBA, and ABA degree programs. Also, the University now offers graduate certificates in 11 academic disciplines and a new undergraduate major in Cyber-Defense and Information Security. The Bachelor of Arts in Professional Studies degree is designed for students who have already earned an associate’s degree in a technical or professional field who wish to continue their education with a bachelor’s degree that is designed around their curriculum. The new major is taught through the accelerated degree completion program in both a seated and online format. The program is completed during four semesters with the courses offered in a modular sequence. Tiffin University has partnered with the Advanced Technical Intelligence Center for Human Capital Development (ATIC) to offer the Cyber-Defense and Information Security degree program. The new major is housed within the School of Criminal Justice and Social Sciences and is focused on the specific threat of cyber-terrorism and cyber-based crimes. The major is designed to provide a strong foundation in the technical aspects of computer systems and cyber-defense. Graduates of the program are qualified to manage and support operations of federal environments, network environments, and enclave environments in accordance with Department of Defense mandates and guidelines for information, computer, and network security. www.tiffin.edu > 19
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