Archived Achievements: May 2004
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Vice Provost KWESI AGGREY is one of 29 university administrators selected to participate in the sixth annual Millennium Leadership Initiative (MLI). MLI is designed to strengthen both the preparation and eligibility of persons who are traditionally underrepresented in college and university presidencies. Supported by the American Association of State Colleges and Universities (AASCU), a four-day MLI Institute leadership conference will be held this June in Washington, D.C.
A revised edition of "Eccoci," a textbook co-authored
by ROSETTA D'ANGELO (AIS) and Paola Blelloch, was just released
by the publisher, Wiley and Sons. It is available in the Campus Store.
Recent adjunct LAURA BALBUENA GONZALEZ (SSHS) will receive two prestigious honors the next academic year: The Dorothy Marcus Senesh Fellowship in Peace and Development Studies for Third World Women from the International Peace Research Association Foundation and The Margaret McNamara Fund Grant for Women from Developing Countries awarded by World Bank.
MICHAEL EDELSTEIN (SSHS) authored the second edition
of "Contaminated
Communities: Coping with Residential Toxic Exposure" (©2004
by Westview Press).
In it, he draws on his thirty years as a community activist to provide an expanded theoretical foundation for understanding the psychosocial impacts of toxic contamination.
ALBERT FRECH (Center for Health and Counseling
Services) and PAMELA BISCHOFF (Student Affairs) participated
in a statewide
conference, Underage Drinking Goes To College: Leadership Issues & Effective
Strategies. Frech gave the opening welcome and Bischoff was a
panelist for the discussion, "Underage Drinking: Many Voices,
One Concern."
The New Jersey Higher Education Consortium on Alcohol and Other Drug Prevention and Education and The Network Addressing Collegiate Alcohol and Other Drug Issues sponsored the conference. Frech is chair of the Higher Education Consortium and regional coordinator for The Network.
KARL
E. JOHNSON (SSHS) was invited by Richard Stockton College
of NJ to participate in a one-day conference, "Why Study
Black Studies?: The Status of the Discipline in the State of
NJ."
The conference, held March 26, had representation from all colleges and universities in New Jersey. Johnson gave a presentation titled, "Core Areas of Knowledge in the Discipline: What are your Teaching Imperatives?"
RICHARD
LOWELL (TAS) presented a slide show about Costa 
Rica's
ecology to a group of study abroad alumni at a reunion for all students
who participated during the past 14 years in trips to the country.
The College's Alumni Association hosted the reunion.
MARK SINGER (FA) was recently elected a Council Member at Large for the New Jersey Association of Student Financial Aid Administrators (NJASFAA). NJASFAA is dedicated to educating students, families, educators, legislators and other constituencies about financial aid. Membership numbers about 400 from over 100 colleges, universities, proprietary schools,lenders and government throughout New Jersey.
SYDNEY JENKINS (BC) (right) was asked to serve as an advisory panelist for the New Jersey State Council on the Arts.
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LEJLA AMZI contributed a letter written from Istanbul
to the "JERRAHI
NEWSLETTER." She wrote that she is volunteering for a non-governmental
organization that helps migrants in Istanbul. The migrants come from
mostly Afghanistan, Iran, Iraq, and as far away as Sudan and Somalia
and are fleeing poverty, war and political and social violence. For
them, Amzi wrote, "Turkey is a transit country on their journey
to the West."
ANDREW F. HERRMANN, a 1991 graduate of Ramapo College, received a Master of Arts in Communication from Saint Louis University. In August, he will begin the University of South Florida Communication program in pursuit of his Ph.D.
Two Ramapo social work students, senior MEGAN HOFFMAN and junior RAQUEL WILSON, have been named Wachovia/DCA Housing Scholars. MITCHELL KAHN (BSW program director) explains this is a competitive award administered by the N.J. Department of Community Affairs and funded by Wachovia Bank and participating agencies. Following training and orientation at NJIT in June, each housing scholar will complete a paid summer internship. Megan will work for the Citizen Policy and Education Fund, the non-profit research arm of New Jersey Citizen Action. Raquel will complete her internship with the Tri-Cities Peoples Organization, which sponsors affordable housing and other community development initiatives in Newark, Irvington, and East Orange.
ROBYN PHILBURN was accepted into the MPH program in Epidemiology at the Mailman School of Public Health, part of Columbia University in New York City. Since graduating from Ramapo, she has spent the past year as a pre-doctoral fellow at the National Institutes of Health.
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