Dr. Bill Meadows (Sociology and Anthropology) served as the keynote speaker for the Congressional Gold Medal Ceremony at Laguna Pueblo, NM on July 29. The event was held to recognize Mr. Joseph R. Day Sr., a Laguna Code Talker who served with fourteen other natives from several tribes in a radio net in the Pacific Theater of WW II. On September 4 Dr. Meadows reported on his … [Read more...] about Native American Code Talkers
September 2 at American Political Science Association meeting Ms. Lina Benabdallah, one of our former graduate students in the Master's of Global Studies program, received a "Best Graduate Student Paper Award". After earning her MGS degree, she taught for us in our Dalian, China program for a year. She is currently a doctoral candidate at the University of Florida (where … [Read more...] about Political Science Student Success Story
The College of Education was notified on August 1 that the Social Studies Program housed in the Department of History in the College of Humanities and Public Affairs has passed the Specialized Professional Association (SPA) standards. The program will be listed as nationally recognized through the semester of the next NCATE accreditation decision on websites and/or publications … [Read more...] about Social Studies Program passes SPA
Congratulations to Dr. Patrick A. Beach, Philosophy Instructor, for finishing second in Teaching Ethics’ recent 1,000-word essay competition! The essay was in response to an ethical case study called “The Bus Puzzle”. “The Foolhardy Do-Gooder” appears in Teaching Ethics1 (2016), pp. 135-136. Here's the link to the first page: … [Read more...] about Philosophy Instructor takes second place in essay contest
Per Course faculty member Mark Boyer just won second place in the Liturgical Press Catholic Press Awards for The Liturgical Environment, Third Edition . Liturgical Press is honored to be the publisher of nineteen award winners in the Catholic Press Association 2016 Book Awards. “We have the great privilege of working with so many extraordinary authors,” said Peter Dwyer, … [Read more...] about Religious Studies Per Course Instructor Wins Award