Faculty-Staff Achievements, March 21, 2011

Activities

A group of Skidmore Advancement staff members, along with friends and family, raised more than $1,700 for the "Bowl for Kids' Sake" program March 6 at the Saratoga Strike Zone. Skidmore participants included Karen Garnsey, Pat Poirier, Kelly Mead, Priscilla Eggelston, Noreen Dapp, Joe Porter, Margo Theobald, and Megan Mercier. This is the third year that members of the Skidmore team have participated. To date the group has raised close to $3,000 for the charity. 

Joe Murphy, community coordinator, Office of Residential Life, recently presented at the Northeast Association of College and University Housing Officers (NEACUHO) New Professionals Conference at the University of Southern Maine in Portland, Maine.  His presentation, titled, "Suit Up!  An Interview Refresher," discussed the job-search process, placement conferences, and interview etiquette for new professionals and graduate students in the Northeast.  He also mentored two new professionals in the housing and residential life field.

Sarah Webster Goodwin, faculty assessment coordinator and professor of English, gave a talk at the recent American Association of Colleges and Universities national meeting in San Francisco. She organized a session titled "Can We Talk? - Connecting People, Programs, and Ideas across Cultural Differences."

Tracy Lea Hensley, residence hall director, Office of Residential Life, recently co-presented at the Northeast Association of College and University Housing Officers (NEACUHO) New Professionals Conference at the University of Southern Maine in Portland, Maine.  Her presentation, titled, "Got NEACUHO- How to Whip Up Your Professional Success," discussed the importance of professional development in the field of housing and residential life while providing examples of how to become involved with NEACUHO.  She was also a co-program coordinator for the New Professionals Conference, accepting, selecting, and working with the many program presenters.

Jay Rogoff, lecturer in English, gave a talk titled "The Poetry of Art and the Art of Poetry" March 17 at Stetson University in DeLand, Fla. The event was hosted by the Sullivan Creative Writing Program and the Stetson Art Department.

Publications

Sarah Webster Goodwin, faculty assessment coordinator and professor of English, is the author of an essay titled "Fearful Symmetries: Rubrics and Assessment," included in the book Literary Study, Measurement and the Sublime: Disciplinary Assessment, edited by Donna Heiland and Laura J. Rosenthal with the assistance of Cheryl Ching and just published by the Teagle Foundation, New York City. Goodwin demonstrates the potential of rubrics as a liberating force in assessing - and even making space for - ambitious and original student work, in an essay that considers texts ranging from the poetry of William Blake to the multimedia projects of her students.

Tracy Lea Hensley, residence hall director, Office of Residential Life, had an article in the February issue of the NEACUHO publication, The Navigator. Titled "Professional Networking Strategies at a Regional Conference," the article provides new professionals in housing and residential life in the Northeast with the many opportunities to explore and experience different networking options through presenting a program session to proper professional attire.

Mary Zeiss Stange, professor of women's studies and religion, is one of two general editors of the multi-media  Encyclopedia of Women in Today's World, just released by SAGE Publications. The encyclopedia includes 1,000 entries, which amount to a million words of text, written by more than 400 contributors on five continents. (These contributors include Skidmore's own professors Bob Boyers, Una Bray, Kate Graney, and Viviana Rangil; Professor Emerita Visantha Narasimhan, and former Visiting Professor Olga Solvieva.)  As a multi-media work, it is the first of its kind, and comes in two formats: a four-volume print edition, and an online edition that includes the entire content of the print edition along with extensive archival audio and video material to accompany the written word. This project is innovative in another way, as well: online supplements incorporating entirely new and updated material amounting to 500 more entries will be published in the spring of 2012 and 2013, making this both the most current and the most comprehensive reference work available today about the status and accomplishments of women globally since 2000. Further information is available from SAGE.

In the News

Amy Fappier, Charles Lubin Family Professor for Women in Science, and Sarah Stelmack, teaching associate, department of geosciences, were interviewed by The Post-Star and WNYT-TV, NewsChannel 13, on the earthquake in Japan, for stories that appeared March 11 and 12.

Sumita Pahwa, lecturer in government, was featured in a "Who? What? When? Where? Why?" profile published March 9 in The Saratogian. The interview was contributed by intern Suzanna K. Lourie, a member of the Class of 2011.