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Our Future by Design Centenary University’S New Strategic Design Process Is Shaping the Future of Our Students and Our University The Magazine of Centenary University Fall/Winter 2017 CENTENARIAN Our future by Innovate • Restructure • Partner • Invest • Recruit & Retain • Enhance INSIDE WHAT’S BEHIND CENTENARY’S 95% SUCCESS RATE? WELCOME uch of this issue of The Centenarian focuses probably reveal some more fundamental needs, such as good on the Strategic Design Process that is setting faculty mentorship, real-world experience, just-in-time and the course for Centenary’s future. Those individually paced learning, and a supportive community. words were chosen deliberately. For us, As we investigate how to meet our students’ real needs, “strategy” has a very specific meaning: an the design process teaches us how to be creative within Minitiative is strategic if it requires a change in behavior in order the constraints of our “design space,” such as the limited to achieve a result that cannot be attained by business as usual. financial capacity of both the institution and our students, the As private, tuition-driven colleges and universities face ever demographics of northwest New Jersey and the geography and steeper challenges, Centenary will remain vibrant only if we are culture of our location. How can we work with those constraints willing to be strategic in exactly that results-oriented, behavior- to create programs that are feasible, viable and desirable for changing sense. This doesn’t mean that we simply change from Centenary? For example, as the population of traditional-aged a set of old behaviors to a set of new behaviors. Rather, it means college students declines, how can we reach out to new learners that we must constantly be looking at how the results we want in corporations, the working world and retirement villages? to achieve will require different ways of doing things: different How can we seek funding from donors who are excited about pedagogies, different uses of technology, different business Centenary’s approach to education? How can we combine practices and appeals to different audiences. delivery modes to meet students’ varying needs more efficiently One of the exciting things about this “human-centered for us and for them? What can we stop doing to make room for design” process is that it allows creative innovation to be based what we need to do? in reality, as an exercise in what our 2017 Commencement And then we try stuff. Instead of planning and executing a speaker, Rita J. King, calls “applied imagination.” It’s worth grand plan that will “transform the institution” (usually those remembering that without this grounding, the visionary can grand plans look remarkably similar and uninspired), we easily become the hallucinatory. The first thing you do in the prototype promising ideas, testing and refining them as we go. design process is assess what the constituents really need, which Some will succeed, and some will fail, but we will continue to may not be what they say they need. As Henry Ford probably did learn as an institution—alongside our students—as we vigilantly not say, but might have, as he was planning to mass-produce innovate while remaining grounded in the reality of our this new invention called the automobile, “If I had asked people changing world. Please join us in this exciting journey. what they wanted they would have asked for faster horses.” What do the constituents of higher education—especially David P. Haney the students—really need right now? Lower tuition? Free President community college? Nicer residence halls? Observation of the @PresidentHaney actual behavior that makes a Centenary student successful will THE MOMENT IN THIS ISSUE DEPARTMENTS University News...2 Advancement...14 Athletics...16 Class News and Notes...18 Meet the Centenarians...33 FEATURED IN THIS ISSUE 2. Innovation in Action Centenary was selected to test a new educational smart toy for an artificial intelligence firm. 6. What’s Behind Centenary’s 95% Success Rate? See why Centenary is a national leader in job placement and graduate school enrollment. 16. A Mighty Roar With wrestling season upon us, The Centenarian looks back at the program’s founder, the late Robert T. Quade ’96 HA. 28. Honor Roll of Donors We recognize those who supported Centenary during 2016-2017. ON THE COVER Our Future by Design Centenary’s new Strategic Design Process is shaping the future of our students and our University. HOW TO REACH US Editorial Offices E-mail: [email protected] (908) 852-1400, ext. 2238 Editorial & Design Services Erbach Communications Group At Centenary University, Operation Centaur provides an opportunity for veterans to heal /centenaryuniversity HEALING physically and emotionally from war-related trauma. Therapeutic riding stimulates reflexes @Centenary_NJ and balance in ways that can not be mimicked by /edu/centenary- university-18854 HEROES human therapists, while learning horsemanship @centenaryuniversity skills promotes a strong bond between veterans and their horses based on mutual trust and respect. U.S. Army veteran Amber C. Newsome on Gingerbread. Photo credit George Paffendorf George credit Photo Centenary University 1 UNIVERSITY NEWS Innovation in Action Artificial intelligence firm taps Centenary faculty to test new educational smart toy Centenary University and an educational technology company The study, designed recently teamed up to pilot a new smart toy designed to by Gunawan, sought strengthen communication skills in young children. Artificial to generate results intelligence firm Elemental Path tapped a trio of professors that would benefit the from the University to design and carry out a six-week study local community. “We measuring the cute dinosaur’s potential to help kids interact in needed to make sure the classroom. we were measuring Equipped with something that would its own personality, have an impact on the cloud-based toy the community. A was one of Time’s 25 toy as simple as this best inventions of the can foster interaction year in 2015. Powered between a child with by IBM Watson, the communication Cognitoy Dino engages problems and other children in two-way individuals.” conversations, stories, One child with jokes and songs. selective mutism spoke Officials at Elemental to the dino, illustrating Path partnered the toy’s potential with Centenary’s effectiveness in departments of the classroom. innovation, education Left, Kris Gunawan, Ph.D., Kathy Naasz and Timothy Frederiks, Ed.D. The Centenary and psychology to explore team enlisted the help of the toy’s potential as a teaching tool. evening doctoral students at the University to recruit teachers Centenary professors Kathy Naasz; vice president for and youngsters to participate. The doctoral students work at the innovation; Timothy Frederiks, Ed.D., assistant professor of schools as teachers or administrators, but did not interact with education and chair of the Department of Education and the students to keep study results free from bias. Mathematics; and Kris Gunawan, Ph.D., assistant professor Frederiks pointed to the teamwork among Centenary faculty, of psychology, worked one-on-one with youngsters ages 4 administrators and doctoral students as key to the University’s through 8 at three local school districts. Teachers at the sites— ability to start the pilot just two weeks after Elemental Path Adamsville Elementary School in Bridgewater, Belvidere High issued its invitation. “It all happened extremely quickly. That School and Mountain Villa School in Allamuchy—also received points to the strengths of this University.” While additional questionnaires tracking children’s oral communication and studies need to be done, the results look promising, he English proficiency skills. added. “It seemed as if the students’ frequency and fluency of Naasz noted that Centenary’s suburban location and communication increased.” collaborative faculty gave Centenary an edge. “Hackettstown In addition to providing valuable information to Elemental looks more like small-town America than larger cities, and we Path and local educators, the study positions Centenary as a have the connections to get into local schools quickly,” Naasz forward-thinking institution that advances scholarship and explained. “This pilot study aligned with core goals of the innovation, Naasz said. “This raises Centenary’s profile and University’s Strategic Design Process to foster innovation and shines a spotlight on the University’s capabilities.” strengthen community partnerships.” 2 Fall/Winter 2017 The Centenary Advantage Centenary University continues to generate national attention for its outstanding academic programs and the opportunities it provides students for success. Here are a few of our recent accolades: BEST EQUESTRIAN COLLEGES IN THE U.S. THOUGHT.CO Editors of the website described Centenary as “one of the most well-known equestrian colleges in the nation” in their annual listing of the 20 best institutions for Left, Anna Stroud ’19, Matthew Cristales ’18 and Shelly Goldstein ’20 equine studies. It’s All Greek BEST COLLEGES FOR YOUR Greek life is enjoying a resurgence at Centenary University, enriching the MONEY 2017-2018 student experience through activities that build leadership, camaraderie MONEY and community service. “Young people today are very interested in Greek The magazine recently ranked life,” said Devon Vialva, ’97, director of the Educational Opportunity Centenary as a best value for Program and mentor of the Alpha Theta Psi sorority, one of three Greek educational quality, affordability organizations at Centenary. “Our Greek organizations are
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