Archived Achievements: February 2007
| COLLEGE RECOGNITION |
Ramapo College of New Jersey was listed in the February 2007 issue of Kiplinger’s Personal Finance Magazine as among the "100 Best Values in Public Colleges." The ranking process places an emphasis on strong academics, as well as great value, with academic quality carrying more weight than cost. Kiplinger’s looked at more than 500 public four-year colleges and universities in the country, using measures including the percentage of freshmen scoring 600 or higher on the verbal and math components of the SAT, student/faculty ratio and graduation rates. This is the second year in a row that Ramapo College received the designation.
The Anisfield School of Business’s application for AACSB accreditation candidacy, the first step in the process, has been accepted. Carl Gooding, a professor at Jacksonville State University in Alabama, has been assigned Ramapo’s mentor for the pre-accreditation phase of the project. Gooding has served as dean of the business school at other institutions. In addition, he has served on the AACSB board and has held a number of committee responsibilities with the association.
Ramapo College received the 2007 Silver Accolade Award for News Website from the Council for Advancement and Support Education (CASE).
SYDNEY JENKINS (CA) notes that the College art galleries are mentioned as one of the leading college art institutions in the region in the opening catalogue for the Hessel Museum of Art at Bard College.
| FACULTY AND STAFF KUDOS |
ANGELA CRISTINI (TAS) participated in a Town Hall meeting on Eco-Tourism at the Meadowlands Environment Center as part of the Meadowlands Region’s Travel and Tourism Trade Show.
ROSETTA D’ANGELO (AIS) gave a reading of her poetry and presented "Recollections: Italian-American Women's Poetry" at Clemson University. She also participated in a panel, "Showcase Italian: Pedagogical Approaches to Italian Language, Italian Studies, and the Italian American Studies" at Rutgers University. The panel was sponsored by the Higher Education Committee of the State of New Jersey and the Italian American Heritage Commission. In May she will attend the American Association for Italian Studies conference at Colorado College and chair a session, "Contemporary Italian American Writers" and chair and present a roundtable discussion, "The Present and Future of Italian American Studies in Higher Education." The professor also will attend a conference sponsored by Regione Campania on globalization and regional initiative for Italians living in the U.S. and Canada.
NIZA FABRE (AIS) presented, "La superstición en la obra afro-ecuatoriana de Adalberto Ortiz" ("Superstition in the Afro-Ecuadorian Works of Adalberto Ortiz") at the 15th Annual Afro-Hispanic Literature and Culture Conference, Quito-Ecuador held at Southern Arkansas University. At the conference, she chaired "Defictionalizing Ecuadorian History and National Identity." In addition, Manuel Díaz, a literary critic, reviewed an article Fabre published in "Revista Literaria Baquiana" and wrote, "Women´s participation in the trajectory of the New World has the academic quality of a doctoral thesis" in the Spanish-language newspaper "El Nuevo Herald" published in Miami.
Five videos created during the mid-1980s by SHALOM GOREWITZ (CA), some with the support of the Ramapo College Foundation, were recently purchased for the permanent collection of the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Spain's national museum of 20th Century Art located in Madrid. The Museum purchased "Subatomic Babies" (1983), "Blue Swee" (1984), "Run" (1985), "Blind Beggar's Prayer" (1985) and "Black Fire" (1986). These videos are available in the George Potter Library.
DANNY JEAN (Student Development) presented "Measuring Student Satisfaction at the End of the First Semester" at the Annual Conference on The First-Year Experience in Texas. This workshop was directly related to his doctoral dissertation topic.
MURRAY SABRIN (ASB) has a weekly blog on the Web site, http://shaptalk.blogspot.com/ (see Disclaimer Below). His essay is posted every Saturday morning.
STEPHEN SCHUR (Online Communications) will present welcoming remarks and a client spotlight at the Ektron, Inc. Local User Group conference in New York City in March.
BEHZAD YAGHMAIAN (SSHS) was published in "USA Today." The article can be accessed by logging on to http://blogs.usatoday.com/oped/2007/02/post_14.html#more (see Disclaimer Below).
He also published an opinion piece in the "International Herald Tribune" that can be accessed by logging on to http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/01/29/opinion/edyag.php (see Disclaimer Below).
| STUDENT AND ALUMNI NEWS |
DANIELA BUNA (TAS) noted that a proposal for a chapter project submitted by Ramapo College’s chapter of Sigma Pi Sigma, The National Physics Honor Society, has been selected as a seminal recipient by an awards committee.
KAY FOWLER (SSHS) reports that two students, YOLANDA SCHMIDT and DORIS MILLS (Housekeeping) were awarded scholarships to attend the National Association of Death Educators and Counselors.
Three students, STEPHANIE SCHWARTZ, STEFANIE KRUKOWSKI and HOLLY BLANCK had papers accepted at the Eastern Communication Association. This achievement, notes RUMA SEN (CA), is particularly noteworthy because the papers of all three students were accepted; the acceptance rate for student submissions this year was 35%.
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