University of Minnesota, College of Human Ecology
January 2006
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Dean Baugher accepts new assignment Dean Shirley Baugher has accepted a special assignment from Provost Tom Sullivan for spring semester 2006 to develop a University-wide plan to strengthen the University's program relationships in Mexico. "This was a difficult decision for me to make at this critical time in our transition," Dean Baugher said. "However, I feel quite confident in the planning that is in place at this time for the next six months. Department leadership is actively engaged in creating their new collegiate homes, the organizational planning for the archival of the college is in place, and celebration events for the college are in progress. We have accomplished much since the decision to transition the college was announced last June."
Hogan named as interim dean Provost Thomas Sullivan has appointed Janice Hogan as interim dean of the College of Human Ecology effective Jan. 1. Hogan has served previously as both a CHE associate dean and department head in Family Social Science. She has received the President's Distinguished Service Award, CHE's Friend of the College Award, and the Dean's Award for Outstanding Service. Her appointment runs through the closing of the college on June 30.
Task forces issue preliminary recommendations Eleven of the 34 task forces charged with strategic restructuring at the University of Minnesota, including structures for moving CHE's academic units into new colleges, released their preliminary recommendations on Dec. 16. The public is encouraged to review the documents and provide comment directly to the task forces via the online comment form. The public comment period will extend through Jan. 27, and the final recommendations from these 11 task forces will be submitted to their team leaders on Feb. 3. The documents are available at http://www1.umn.edu/systemwide/strategic_positioning/tf_recommendations.html .
Nominations open for 2006 CHE Honors and Awards The CHE Honors & Awards Committee announces the opening of nominations for the 2006 Collegiate Awards. The nomination deadline is 4 p.m. on Monday, March 6. A maximum of two letters of recommendation are requested for any award. The annual honors and awards luncheon will be held Friday, April 28 at 11:30 am in the Ballroom of the Saint Paul Student Center. See http://www.che.umn.edu/facstaff/admin/awards.html for complete information.
Goldstein exhibit commemorating CHE opens Jan. 28 "Celebrate! The College of Human Ecology," an exhibition celebrating the teaching/learning, research/discovery, and outreach/engagement scholarship of CHE will open on January 28 in the Goldstein Museum of Design. Current projects will be featured in relationship to the five college initiatives: cultural awareness and competence, design and technology, development across the lifespan, economic and social well-being, and healthy life choices. The exhibition will run through April 9.
Lynn Brady, FScN, discussed nutritional needs for woman athletes in a "University of Minnesota Moment" feature on Jan. 2.
William Doherty, FSoS, was quoted in an article in The Arizona Republic about excesses associated with high school proms that he described as typical of what he calls "consumer-driven parenting." He also was quoted at length in the Seattle Post Intelligencer on Dec. 12 in an article on parenting. In addition, Bill discussed the social messages sent by gift boxes from a particular merchant in a Miami Herald article. All three articles appeared on Dec. 12 .
Jeffrey Edelson, SSW, was mentioned in the Nov. 25 Pioneer Press as the creator of the Joint Domestic Abuse Prosecution Unit, which has made a system easier to navigate for victims of domestic abuse and, at the same time, has successfully prosecuted more offenders.
Hal Grotevant, FSoS, was interviewed in the APA Monitor on Dec. 11 regarding his longitudinal study, the Minnesota-Texas Adoption Research project.
The appointment of Jan Hogan, FSoS, as CHE interim dean was announced in the Dec. 20 St. Paul Pioneer Press.
Ted Labuza, FScN, was quoted in the Star Tribune, the Miami Herald, and other papers in November and December identifying safety, not marketing, as the biggest challenge for a small food company.
Selected faculty highlights
William Angell, DHA, has been elected President-Elect of the American Association of Radon Scientists and Technologist (AARST). He will serve in that capacity for the next year and then serve as President of the organization through 2008.
Jean Bauer, FSoS, was named as a 2005 National Council on Family Relations Fellow at the NCFR Annual Conference in Phoenix. The selection honors Bauer for outstanding contributions to the field of family studies including work that "has masterfully connected her research and outreach programs with the overarching theme of her work focused on the economic well being of families."
A chapter by Pauline Boss, FSoS professor emeritus, and Tina Watson Wiens on challenges facing the military spouse has been published in Military Life The Psychology of Serving in Peace and Combat by Prager Security International.
Jane Gilgun, SSW, recently had two articles accepted for publication and one published: "The four cornerstones of qualitative research" to be published in the journal Qualitative Health Research ; and "Grounded theory, deductive qualitative analysis and social work research" to be published in Qualitative Methods in Social Work (2nd ed.), William Reid and Robert Miller (Eds.). New York: Columbia University Press; and "Children and adolescents with problematic sexual behaviors: Lessons from research on resilience" in Robert Longo & Dave Prescott (Eds.), Current perspectives on working with sexually aggressive youth and youth with sexual behavior problems (pp. 383-394). Holyoke, MA: Neari Press. In addition, Professor Gilgun was program chair of the 67th annual conference of the National Council on Family Relations held in Phoenix AZ in November.
Lisa Kimball and Susan Wells of SSW participated in a state-wide retreat entitled "Strengthening Our Understanding of Out of School Time: Toward an Applied Research Agenda on Policy and Program Issues," which was sponsored by the University of Minnesota Extension's Center for 4-H Youth Development and the Children, Youth & Family Consortium.
Ann Kranz, MINCAVA Program Director, has been selected to participate in the University's Transformational Leadership Program. Ann's project is targeted at "Increasing MINCAVA's Grant Proposal Submissions". Additionally, on December 2, Ann provided a full-day training at Peters Hall for Praxis International about serving victims with disabilities.
Karen LaBat, DHA, attended the meeting of the National Textile Center (NTC) in Atlanta and served on a review panel as a Scientific Expert Analyst. The National Textile Center awards grants for research in textile and textile products research to members of the NTC consortium of colleges and universities.
Mark Umbreit, SSW, provided a three day restorative justice training and keynoted a national symposium on restorative justice in Trinidad on December 6-8 at the University of West Indies. In December, Dr. Umbreit provided a four-day victim offender mediation training for the Manhattan Mediation Center of Safer Horizon in NY, the largest victim services agency in the country. Additionally, he co-authored, with Dr. Robert Coates, a chapter on "Restorative Justice Mediated Dialogue" in the just published Handbook of Mediation: Bridging Theory, Research, and Practice.
Clothing Design students in DHA 1221 presented an exhibit titled "Child's Play" on October 24 on the 2nd floor of McNeal. The exhibit was their first project for the semester. Sherri Gahring is the instructor.
DHA students Katalin Medvedev and Young-Sook Lee received funding from the CHE E-Scholarship Committee for professional development.
SSW Ph.D. student Yogindra S. Samant, MBBS, MPH, was honored with the Jay S. Drotman Memorial Award for young professionals at the 133rd American Public Health Association Annual Meeting and Exposition. The award recognizes a health worker or student, age 30 or younger, who has demonstrated potential in the health field by challenging traditional public health policy or practice in a creative and positive manner.
