We Rise Quarterly Digest, College of Humanities and Sciences September 2017

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Table of Contents Message from the Dean of Faculty...... 3 The Shattering of Worlds...... 38 Letter from the Editor...... 4 Micro-fiction Writing Challenge...... 38 Always an Inspiration...... 6 Masthead...... 38

Free at Last...... 39 100 Things about Greg Beatty...... 7 A Tribute To All Mothers...... 39 Dr. David Engstrom – A Unique Blend of Science and Spirit...... 8 From Elvish to Klingon: Exploring Poems and Stories and Novels, Oh My! Invented Languages by Michael Adams Which Type of Writing Suits You?...... 11 – A Book Review...... 41 Getting Motivated for Scholarship...... 12 Klingon - English Crossword Puzzle...... 42 A Feather on the Breath of God...... 13 “Can a Diversified Instructional Approach Featuring Active Learning Improve Biology Introducing the New Faculty Forums...... 14 Students’ Attitudes Toward General Education?” A Conference Proposal in Three Parts...... 15 – A Review...... 43

Academic Freedom...... 16 Self-Direct Language Development: A Study Preconceptions/Misconceptions: Critical Thinking in of First-Year College Writers...... 44 Action for Human Services Students...... 17 Picture Perfect: The Face of

Humanities and Sciences...... 45 The Environmental Humanities...... 18 Recommended Reading List for September 2017...... 46 The Trends in Security and Call for Submissions - How Did a Criminal Justice Discussion Panel...... 19 Degree Change Your Life?...... 47 The Mindful Facilitator: Part 1 Summary...... 19 Tolerance...... 47 Inquiry-based Learning and Math ...... 20 September Call for Submissions – Quick Picks ...... 48 The Solar Eclipse - Fiction and Fact...... 21 The Music of Lindsey Stirling...... 49 Academic Counselors…What Have They Anniversaries...... 51 Done for Students Lately?...... 24 Accolades...... 52 The Phoenix Success Series ...... 25 Quarter Recognition...... 52 Mabon: The Witches’ Fall Celebration...... 27

“The Heart and Stomach of a King”...... 28

Creating Stronger Work-Life Balance with Hatha Yoga...... 31

Confessions of a Teenage Rebel: Defending the Right to Read...... 34 Battalion Buddy Bears...... 35 Note: YouTube links throughout the newsletter “Because I Can”...... 36 should be copied and pasted into browser.

2 We Rise Quarterly Digest, College of Humanities and Sciences September 2017 Message from the Dean of Faculty Elena Mastors, Ph.D.

Greetings, Faculty. Although we are in school year-round, as summer ends, we naturally think of success. Recently, Dr. Philipp delivered a special Brown watch it on the . Bag about the new PSS series. Please make sure to summer events in preparation for our new “school a return to school. We start reflecting back on our Faculty Community Website year.” Fall is my favorite season. It is cooling off, I get to the new requirements for faculty scholarship activities. And last but not least, Dr. Curley announced look forward to seeing children in Halloween As you should all know now, faculty who costumes, and the leaves are changing colors teach graduate level classes must produce and falling. This fall season in particular reminds me of the spirit of the University. to the academy through your work. academic scholarship and contribute Despite all the changes we have gone This requirement not only enhances the quality of instructors with whom we all strive for one thing: student our students interact, it aligns with through recently, we persevere because success. requirements of the Higher Learning Over the summer we invested in Image courtesy of Dr. Elena Mastors Commission. Part of teaching must include University, our College, faculty, and students to disciplines and a desire to share one’s significant changes that will position the meaningful contributions to our respective knowledge. I encourage and support faculty at all levels this year, the Colleges of Social Sciences and Security be successful as we begin the new fiscal year. Earlier to engage in scholarship within your field to enrich Scholarship and Criminal Justice came under the broader umbrella your own knowledge as well as the experience of our Mission and Vision as well as , upon which of the College of Humanities and Sciences. In September, students. Please feel free to review our University. The College of Humanities and Sciences will our Executive Dean, Constance St. Germain, left the Boyer’s Model As always, thank you so much for your the University’s basis of scholarship is founded. hard work with your students and the meaningful be joining with the College of Health Professions under from a more diverse and interdisciplinary education o Executive Dean Doris Savron. Our students will benefit through this new structure as administration and contributions you make within academia. faculty across disciplines can work together to ensure positive student outcomes. ~ElenaFollow me on Twitter: @elena_mastors

Series. This specialized series of courses is designed We also launched the new Phoenix Success classes at the college level and help to prepare them to enhance new students’ success in their first few and her team have worked hard to make this series a for rigorous academic achievement. Dr. Jessica Philipp

3 We Rise Quarterly Digest, College of Humanities and Sciences September 2017 Letter from the Editor Kristen McQuinn

edition ofHello, We Riseeveryone!. I hope Welcome everyone to had the a September lovely to offer Whmy yhelp am toI telling you. If you you this? have Because read anything I want summer and managed to stay cool. Or at least avoided in past digests, you know that I have a passion for

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IHalloween absolutely sales. buy my Fall home is also décor the time at when many people naturally start you to join me this November for isNaNoWriMo. http://nanowrimo.org/participants/ My NaNoWriMo profile thinking about returning to school. I, kristenmcquinn. Join me, add me as a however, think about November, which Image courtesy of brings with it National Novel Writing Month, Kristen McQuinn let’sbuddy all get if outyou therewant, and ignore tell meour altogether, stories. It’s but only or NaNoWriMo. 50,000 words. You have a whole month to do I have participated in NaNoWriMo for it. What’s stopping you? Join me and see what you can many years now in one way or another, and it is just create! o as rewarding to me today as it was the first time I did it. That first year, I had no idea what I was doing and Kristen~ endedthat you up don’t not finishing have to edit because your Iwriting hadn’t asyet you learned go. Spotlights

Subsequentnot to edit my years work were while more drafting productive, was actually but learning a really Sometimes you good lesson. wake up. Sometimes the fall kills you. And In later NaNoWriMo years, I have written a full sometimes, when you draft of a novel (still sitting in my cloud, waiting to be polished),and a start bundles on a second of short novel. stories My goal and for flash this fiction, year’s fall, you fly.

NaNoWriMo will be to finish that second novel draft, ~Neil Gaiman, The Sandman. andstart then, marketing after November, them. polish up both novels and

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5 We Rise Quarterly Digest, College of Humanities and Sciences September 2017 Always an Inspiration by Cathy Smith

Do you remember the one of most of his writing from his college of a boy falling from a roller coaster. instructor that made the most positive career next to his desk. Although most Nathan shares that he writes from an change in your life? Nathan Coley is of Nathan’s box of writings are academic, epistolary point of view because it an instructor that is making positive the one writing that stands out above the “leaves the reader with the impulse to changes in students’ lives and in the rest is an unpublished, postmodern book create their own details” (Coley, personal lives of his peers. After of poetry titled The New communication, July 18, 2017). completing an MA in Almanac of Grievances. When asked about his favorite English with a focus One poem in the book hobbies, Nathan stated, “If you broke of literary criticism in is titled “Sleeping Beauty into my office, you’d think it were the 2007, Nathan explored at the ICU” that contains private room of an 8-year-old” (Coley, his next career move, an experimental twist on personal communication, July 11, 2017). which lead to teaching his fairytales. In conjunction to spending quality time first composition classes Nathan is a published with his family, Nathan is passionate Image courtesy of for the University in Nathan Coley writer who believes that it about old school video games, concerts, October of 2008. When asked is important to read, write, and and his collectable toys. Nathan is an how his degree prepares him to teach connect with scholars. Nathan defines avid music lover and listens to most composition, Nathan states, “Literary scholars “as those who are basically types of music. He is particularly fond analysis pays dividends. It forces critical drunk off knowledge and creativity” of the emo sounds of My Chemical thinking, and it demands focused, (Coley, personal communication, July Romance. Nathan’s favorite concert nuanced, and original essays” (Coley, 11, 2017). As a scholar, Nathan presented poster is from a band called Eve6, a personal communication, July 18, 2017). on the possible educational benefits of name they created from the X Files With Nathan’s guidance, social media at the Teaching Colleges series. Nathan shares that the lyricist, students discover their writing and Community Worldwide Online Max Collins, is the most talented from confidence. Nathan’s instruction is Conference (TCC) this past spring. In this generation and that he met Collins reflective of his holistic approach to this last year, he wrote 18 short stories, before a concert. After talking about teaching, with his primary concern that and published 10 of the stories. Nathan the strengths of Collins' music, Collins “student work coherently meets the prefers to write genre fiction, such as stepped forward and gave Nathan a assignment objective” (Coley, personal crime and horror. His story “Blanket in giant hug. Then, during the concert, communication, July 18, 2017). In the Sky” was published in the one-time the band dedicated a song to Nathan conjunction with ensuring that the anthology Deadlights Horror Fiction while pointing him out in the crowd. students meet assignment objectives, Magazine and was selected as the editor’s Nathan’s most treasured video game is he also provides students with the tools choice. Written from the viewpoint of Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past, the and resources that can be used in future a young girl journaling in her diary, 1991 and 1992 release. His most valuable classes. Nathan himself has gathered the story reflects the deep emotions the collectable toy is his Funko Vinyl Pop tools and resources from his years of young girl experiences after watching an from the film V for Vendetta, which is study. Nathan shares that he keeps a box internet video about the tragic accident also in his top 10 list of films. Nathan’s

6 We Rise Quarterly Digest, College of Humanities and Sciences September 2017 top film is Inception. The sound track from Inception inspires book is The Road by Cormac McCarthy. Nathan shares that Nathan when grading assignments. “[the book] talks about beauty in the face of great sorrow. It In conjunction to video games, concerts, and talks about temporality” (Coley, personal communication, July collectable toys, Nathan also has a passion for books. Nathan's 18, 2017). As an inspiration and a force for positive change, most valuable collectable is his signed and illustrated Kurt Nathan does not give up hope, nor does he allow those around Vonnegut’s Hocus Pocus hardback book. Another favorite him to give up hope. o

100 Things about Greg Beatty by June Wagner

The 100. Although no one is counting, it could completing a number of study guides Although this is easily be assumed that Greg has taught for classical literature to be used for high the title of a CW hundreds of classes, on ground, online, school and college level classes. series about a through correspondence, hybrid, Who was Greg Beatty before post-apocalyptic experimental, entry level, graduate he became an all-around high- world, and level, individual, and as a team teacher. quality English instructor for the although Greg For Greg, the most rewarding aspect of University of Phoenix? Greg was a

Image courtesy of likes science being a faculty member is a tie between licensed massage therapist before Greg Beatty fiction, this is realizing students have grasped graduate school. During his not what The 100 signifies about Greg a difficult concept and seeing college years, he worked as a Beatty. The 100 in Greg Beatty’s life their skills improve. deck hand and bartender for describes the number of books he read In conjunction with a charter boat company out in the summer after first grade. The his teaching, Greg is also a of Seattle. From politicians 100 in Greg’s life describes the number published writer. With a to dancers and even bikers, of articles he researched on teaching passion for science fiction, Greg has met people from freshman as he prepared to move into most of Greg’s creative writing all walks of life and all the field of higher education. Greg is in the science fiction Image courtesy of corners of the world. “That Greg Beatty Beatty is, first and foremost, an English genre. He is self-publishing was an education in itself, teacher who has taught English and many of his short stories, and gave me practice talking literature for the University of Phoenix which are available as Kindle to people from everywhere for over 15 years. He has a BA in English singles through Amazon. His about everything” (Beatty, from the University of Washington, with long-term plan is to select personal communication, an emphasis in Creative Writing. His the best stories to publish in June 30th, 2017). Master’s and PhD, from the University anthologies. In addition to his Although Greg shares of Iowa, are also in English. Greg has short stories, Greg also writes that he is a work in progress been a Lead Faculty Chair, has worked children’s picture books. Greg Image courtesy of when it comes to maintaining Greg Beatty with course design and review, and has strongly believes that there a healthy balance between his served on the Faculty Council for the is a connection between teaching and work and his personal life, he does find College of Humanities and Sciences. research so he is currently working on time to embrace his passion for martial

7 We Rise Quarterly Digest, College of Humanities and Sciences September 2017 arts. Greg has 10 years’ experience Are by Maurice book or writing a story to the sounds of in Tai Chi, 8 years’ experience in Sendak because Greg Johnny Cash or even Patsy Cline. He Bōjutsu, 2 years’ experience in Tae believes Sendak is shares that you may see deer in his front Kwon Do and Wing Chun Kung a master storyteller. yard, coyotes running down the street, Fu, and 3 years’ experience in close He also appreciates and states that, “Within the last week, a quarter combat. Greg has led Image courtesy of Jane Austen and black bear was spotted within walking classes in Tai Chi and in Bōjutsu. Greg Beatty Edgar Allen Poe. In distance [of his home]” (Beatty, personal Somewhere between addition, when it communication, June 30th, 2017). When teaching, writing, and martial arts, there comes to music, Greg is beguiled by the the deer, coyotes, and bears are not are undoubtedly at least 100 more details classic country sounds of Johnny Cash around, you will find Greg and his wife about Greg Beatty that many would and Patsy Cline. taking the grandchildren to gymnastics, want to know. He believes that everyone If you happen to be up around karate, or a host of other extracurricular should read the Constitution. His Washington way, around 85 miles north activities. o favorite book is Where the Wild Things of Seattle, you may find Greg reading a Dr. David Engstrom – A Unique Blend of Science and Spirit by Kristen McQuinn Have you ever listened to a song and it seemed The George Washington University, where he earned as though the notes came together so perfectly that his undergraduate degree in psychology. From there, it was like breathing, that the composition must he went on to the University of Southern California, have been effortless for where he obtained his Ph.D. in clinical psychology. the composer? For some He now maintains a private practice as well as having lucky people, career, areas served as the Director of Mental Health at UC, Irvine, of personal interest, and where he trained and supervised counseling students. lifelong passions converge At the same time, he retains a position at a local as effortlessly into one hospital where he sees patients with chronic pain, sleep field. Dr. David Engstrom disorders, and weight problems. He states, “Since I’m is one such fortunate a believer in the idea of integrated healthcare, I get Image courtesy of individual. He proudly to work on a team with surgeons, dietitians, exercise Dr. David Engstrom states, “My professional therapists, and other medical professionals. I think this life as a psychologist and counseling educator has team approach is the future of healthcare!” (Engstrom, already been my fantasy job…” (Engstrom, personal personal communication, Aug 16, 2017). communication, Aug 16, 2017). He has managed Dr. Engstrom’s team approach to health care to take a lifelong interest in mindfulness and music has also uniquely prepared him for teaching in an and incorporate them into both his teaching and online environment. As in any class environment, psychology practices. In a unique blend of science his students come with a wide range of skills and and spirit, Dr. Engstrom has created a practice that is experiences, which combine to give a special flavor and perfectly his own. tone to every class. He is able to use his own training Dr. Engstrom began his career as a student at and experiences to help sort out the best ways to help

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his students achieve success. To do so, he says, “I try to about “Jazz as a Metaphor for Counseling” with Dr. focus on the positive side of what each student provides Carl Sheperis, the University’s Program Chair for me to evaluate” (Engstrom, personal communication, Social Sciences. When it comes to scholarship, Dr. Aug 16, 2017). Every student and every person we Engstrom has it handled. encounter has something special to offer the world, With all of his various practices, activities, and something that is uniquely their own; Dr. Engstrom’s teaching, Dr. Engstrom recognizes the importance approach helps them to refine that and temper it into a of maintaining a good work/life balance. One way he quality that can be a positive force of change. does this is to set aside two to three hours every day Dr. Engstrom is an advocate for all faculty that is totally device-free – no phone, computers, TV, to remain active and participative in scholarship or videos. His family helps with this unplugged time activities. He takes a bracing approach to faculty a great deal. Spending time outdoors, riding his bike scholarship, stating or scooter, kayaking, and fishing are favorite activities. My personal belief is that every faculty He and his wife, who is a novelist, enjoy exploring member at UOPx needs to demonstrate Arizona, taking hiking trips, discovering new professional growth. At a minimum, this is restaurants, and spending time with their daughter and only accomplished by staying current with the four of their grandchildren. Their son and other two literature and evidence-based research their grandchildren live in Costa Rica. chosen area, taking required CE courses, being He also practices a mindfulness meditation active in that area by attending professional ritual everyday, even if it is only for 10 – 15 minutes meetings and if possible, writing articles or a few times a day. Doing so, he says, is “like letting doing scholarly research. (Engstrom, personal my brain ‘take a shower,’” (Engstrom, personal communication, Aug 16, 2017) communication, Aug 16, 2017), which is surely one of He goes on to say that is it especially easy for members the best visuals ever. One of the most unique hobbies in the mental health field to fall behind in research and that he does is African hand drumming. He says he to fall victim to a my way or the highway mentality. He is a lifelong drummer and that nothing in the world practices what he preaches. At present, Dr. Engstrom is can relax him as well! He has even taken his love very interested in the concept of mindfulness and the for drumming into his community; for the past five power of motivational interviewing. years, Dr. Engstrom has been a member of the Cancer Currently, I am preparing a presentation Support Community in Arizona. “In this capacity, on “Dispositional mindfulness as a predictor I facilitate drum circles for cancer survivors, where of counseling student interview skills,” we combine vigorous hand drumming with stress with our own counseling students as management and meditative techniques” (Engstrom, subjects, to discuss at the meetings of the personal communication, Aug 16, 2017). Association for Assessment and Research Whether it is seeing patients in his private in Counseling (AARC) meetings in Tempe, practice, teaching students in class or clinical, or Arizona in September. (Engstrom, personal even relaxing with some of his favorite books, Dr. communication, Aug 16, 2017) Engstrom’s spirit and mindful practices influence He also published an article last year in Counseling nearly every aspect of his life. His academic and Today about integrated healthcare and the importance personal accomplishments are a testament to a of the mind-body connection. Additionally, he balanced practice and a life well lived. o incorporated his lifelong love of jazz into his scholarship activities and presented at the American Mental Health Counselors Association (AMHCA) meetings in July in Washington, DC, where he talked

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Pedagogy

Section Art "Mugs and Apples" Image courtesy of Kristen McQuinn

10 We Rise Quarterly Digest, College of Humanities and Sciences September 2017 Poems and Stories and Novels, Oh My! Which Type of Writing Suits You? by Nathan Daniel Coley

If you’re considering a leap into the tumultuous own work. Writers also make things more complicated; world of creative writing, you might be asking yourself, whether writing is “good,” and whether a writer is best “What should I do? Should I attempt writing poetry, plays, suited as a poet, novelist, or something else, is subjective. or short fiction? Should I finally start that novel that I’ve This doesn’t mean that subjectivity isn’t informed by been bottling up for years?” intelligent people who can explain where art succeeds and The late journalist Christopher Hitchens (1997) fails, but it does mean that when you’re getting your footing once comically noted, “Everyone has a book inside them, as a writer, you must be careful not to let the opinions of which is exactly where I think, in others deflate or inflate your esteem most cases, it should remain." The too much. Value opinions, but if truth is that you might very well have someone tells you that you’re not a a book in you, but maybe not. You poet, that doesn’t mean that you’re might have a collection of poetry or not a poet. short stories instead. And remember: It is better to be a Figuring out what will work failed poet than to have never penned for you is a matter of trial and error. a single verse. It is better to be a failed

I started writing short fiction with "Find Your Voice" novelist than to have done nothing the intent of focusing on literary Image courtesy of Wikimedia but brood over your idea. Above all, horror and have since learned that try, and expect to fail. When I was I enjoy writing in other genres, such as dark fantasy and a freshman, I wrote a short play that fifteen years later I hard boiled crime. I have gravitated towards short fiction, wouldn’t read to my worst enemy. I learned that a single in part, because I share the sentiments of Edgar Allan Poe, disaster is a single disaster and that writers can change. I’ve who essentially argued that short stories should have a had many a conversation where someone says, “I’m not a single design, and novel length works were not necessary to creative writer.” I often ask, “How much have you written?” achieve this. only to be answered in silence. The best writers have I enjoy writing short stories, but that is a matter of stacks of rejection letters. I would encourage you to start a preference, at least for now. You may find that a short story collection of your own. o doesn’t give you enough to do, or you may prefer mediums that are more concise, such as poetry. Also, keep in mind that you might envision yourself in one capacity, only Reference to discover that you’re better suited to something else. If you’re good at establishing mood and imagery but not plot, Hitchens, C. (1997, December 15). Christopher Hitchens- everyone has a book inside them. Retrieved from: perhaps poetry would be a good start. If you are obsessed https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D6MPebmQSQ0 with epic plots and complicated story arcs, you may want to outline a novel. The discovery is the tricky part, though, because writers can, like anyone else, be blind to the quality of their

11 We Rise Quarterly Digest, College of Humanities and Sciences September 2017 Getting Motivated for Scholarship by Lori Brooks At the end of June, all faculty received an email about academic perspective? What about teaching style? scholarship engagement. For some faculty members, What works for you? What does not work? What have such as Full-Time faculty and faculty teaching graduate you learned about your students over the years? There level courses, scholarship is also a requirement. For could be a great topic in there from which an article those associate faculty who teach undergraduate can be born. courses, scholarship is highly encouraged. I would like to speak frankly to all those reading this article about I have something in mind. Now what? getting motivated to publish. Time to get to the University Library. Start researching your topic to see what has been written in the past Why should I bother publishing? five years. Pick your favorites and analyze them. I Putting aside the Higher Learning Commission (HLC) recommend no more than 50 articles. Question the requirement, the main reason for adding to the existing conclusions and methods. What didn’t the article body of knowledge is professional responsibility. Think address? How is this gap related to my topic? Perhaps back to graduate school. Many of us were encouraged this is a gap that I can address. After all, the article must along the way to get published. We may have written a be original and should address gaps in the literature. research paper, produced a master’s thesis, or defended a dissertation. Even if we did not have a professor who As you continue your research, begin to eliminate directly encouraged us, scholarship was emphasized in some of the articles. Make notes. Really narrow down our work. Knowledge of teaching has always come from your topic. By this time, you should have a good idea teachers, and in academics everyone is expected to share about strategy. For example, are you beginning to see a their knowledge and expertise with others. And, just to relationship between your topic and another topic? Is be basic, getting published or presenting at conferences there a correlation or causal relationship? Perhaps you looks good on your curriculum vita. can do a compare and contrast approach.

What topic should I address? Now, start writing. Use your notes as a guideline. This is actually a great starting place for your article. Again, think back to graduate school. What was your I finally have my article completed. major? What topics did your essays address? There was How do I get published? a reason you went to graduate school in the first place. This is actually the easy part. There are literally hundreds What was it? You have a lot of knowledge in the area in of journals and hundreds of conferences. In fact, there are which you focused your studies. Start with that. Going so many options that you can get overwhelmed. If you back to your graduate school studies can give you a already belong to a professional organization, there is a great starting place for an article. Think about what good chance they have a yearly conference. The absolute you were interested in academically. What did you find best place to look for journals is the new University interesting about that topic? Odds are there is still a Library. Once you have entered the Library, click on Find gap in the literature that needs addressing. and then Writing and Publishing Resources.

If you are still stuck, think about what you are Bottom line: you can do this, and you do not need currently doing in the classroom. You have been to have earned a doctorate degree. Your voice is approved for certain classes for a reason. Do you have important, so let it be heard! o any questions about the content of the class from an

12 We Rise Quarterly Digest, College of Humanities and Sciences September 2017 A Feather on the Breath of God by Kristen McQuinn

In the year 1112, a young girl who had been scathing letters to Pope Anastasius IV about the sad given to the church by her parents as a tithe was state of his Church: entombed in an anchorite’s cell with another woman, Jutta. The mass of the dead was performed over the You are neglecting justice, the King’s daughter enclosed cell, as was customary, and the girl became [the Church], the heavenly bride, the woman an anchoress until her eventual release in 1136 upon who was entrusted to you. And you are even Jutta’s death. The girl, now around 38 years old, was tolerant that this princess be hurled to the then unanimously declared as the next abbess of the ground. Her crown and jeweled raiment are Disenbodenberg convent. She went on to become torn to pieces through the moral crudeness a renowned theologian, composer, and mystic. The of men who bark like dogs and make stupid girl was Hildegard of Bingen (1098 – 17 Sept 1179), sounds like chickens which sometimes begin medieval firebrand, visionary, thorn in the side of her to cackle in the middle of the night. They are male contemporaries, and she remains as relevant hypocrites. (Fox, 1987, p. 274) today as she was in her own time. Hildegard was a product of her time and was At one point, Hildegard and her nuns were even placed not a feminist by any modern under interdict for refusing to comply with orders to definition of the word, but disinter a suspected apostate, whom Hildegard allowed she was a fierce advocate of to be buried in hallowed ground in her convent. the sacred value of women. Hildegard refused to relent and eventually the interdict Her theology was feminine, was lifted. She could, and did, go toe to toe with male focusing largely on the idea of authority and bravely fought for her beliefs within the God as a cosmic egg, a womb system that was available to her. that nurtures all things. She Hildegard was also a gifted composer of music, acknowledged the dogma another realm generally designated for men only. of her time, which decreed "Cosmic Egg" Because she was a Benedictine nun and adhered to Image courtesy of that God was male, but she Wikipedia that order’s strict daily schedule, she sang the Divine claimed that she was unable to Office eight times a day. She believed that singing bear looking upon the divine in her visions unless it was the highest form of prayer, and music connected presented as female. Although women were prohibited humankind directly to the divine. During her interdict, from preaching, nevertheless, she persisted, going on she was prohibited from singing, which was the harshest several tours to preach to her punishment for her. Hildegard said in a letter to the male superiors about the sins prelates of Mainz that “the soul arises from heavenly of the Church, which was rife harmony” (Fox, 1987, p. 359), and in music she referred with sexual misconduct and to herself as a feather on the breath of God. She wrote corruption. One of Hildegard’s over 70 songs and Ordo Virtutum, which is sometimes more interesting visions, considered to be the first opera. A sampling of her Ecclesia, depicts the Church songs may be found at the following sites: https://www. giving birth to the Antichrist youtube.com/watch?v=Q8gK0_PgIgY or http://www. because of the venality of its slacker.com/artist/hildegard-von-bingen. Her mystical clergy. She was not afraid of "Ecclesia" visions still bring inspiration. Often, they reflect her Image courtesy of confrontation, and even wrote Wikipedia concept of Viriditas, the greening power, which she

13 We Rise Quarterly Digest, College of Humanities and Sciences September 2017 believed was the divine made manifest in everything women the world over still find solace and strength on earth. She wrote, “I, the fiery life of divine essence, in her words and songs. We can use her for guidance am aflame beyond the beauty of the meadows, I gleam to find our own viriditas, strength, and sacredness in in the waters, and I burn in the sun, moon and stars nature, regardless of faith or lack thereof. o ... I awaken everything to life” (Fox, 1987, pp. 8-10). References Hildegard felt the creation of all things reflected the face of the divine and that nature was sacred, something that Classical Music goturhjem2. (2013, Feb 13). Hildegard von Bingen – Music and Visions [Video file]. Retrieved from https:// is “highly relevant for us in this age of climate change www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q8gK0_PgIgY. and the destruction of natural habitats” (Sharratt, 2012, Hildegard of Bingen. (1987). Book of Divine Works with Letters and Songs. Matthew Fox (Ed.). Santa Fe, NM: Bear & Company. para. 6). Hildegard von Bingen. (n.d.). Slacker Radio. Retrieved from http:// Hildegard’s death on September 17, 1179 marks www.slacker.com/artist/hildegard-von-bingen. a date of commemoration for this woman, a medieval mystic, visionary, healer, and saint. She was ordained a Doctor of the Church 900 years after her death. Today,

Introducing the New Faculty Forums by Wendy Schmidt Faculty members often emphasize the importance of students developing support systems while attending college. For online faculty members, a support system is just as important. Orr, Williams, The forums are located on the left side and are and Pennington (2009) claim, “Effective processes, broken down into the following categories. practices, and infrastructure are essential components • Announcements of successful online teaching and learning efforts” (p. • Community Guidelines 257). The College of Humanities and Sciences is proud • Community of Practice to offer new faculty forums to help improve support • Community of Scholars and encourage collaboration. The forums are a great • Humanities and Sciences Courses place to build and develop an online community, and Reference all faculty within the COHS are encouraged to utilize them. Orr, R., Williams, M.R., & Pennington, K. (2009). Institutional efforts to support faculty in online teaching. Innovative The forums provide a location for faculty Higher Education, 34(4), 257-268. doi:10.1007/s10755-009- members to share and discuss thoughts, ideas, and 9111-6 course materials. They also contain messages from leadership and other important faculty information. The forums can be located via the COHS Faculty Community web site. https://multimedia.phoenix.edu/site/humanities- and-sciences/forums/

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A Conference Proposal in Three Parts by Carrie Kendall

Getting accepted to such things as “The purpose of this a conference feels fantastic. study is” or “I propose to.” In my It reaffirms that our ideas conference proposal, I wrote: are valued and appreciated In this presentation, I will and is a huge confidence- provide examples of the booster. However, it isn’t similarities in themes, always easy. Getting accepted characters, and elements often depends upon a well- of plot between The Lord written conference proposal, of the Rings trilogy and also known as an abstract. I the Harry Potter series. have written five conference An in-depth analysis will proposals, four of which were reveal that while Rowling accepted, including a recent created a wonderful world acceptance by the Midwest of witchcraft and wizardry, "Hogwarts" Popular Culture Association Image courtesy of Pixabay the similarities between this (MPCA) of a proposal led to its success, and its relationship to series and The Lord of the focusing on the similarities between the other successful book series (Kendall, Rings call in to question the Harry Potter series and The Lord of the 2017). This is information that my originality of many aspects Rings trilogy. A successful conference audience already knows, and it sets the of Harry Potter. (Kendall, proposal starts with an original idea that stage for the next section. 2017, para. 3) will enlighten an academic audience. A successful proposal next Essentially, this section of the However, it doesn’t stop there. I have presents the problem, which will proposal presents the thesis. learned a tried and true method for typically contrast in some way with the When drafting the proposal, writing conference proposals that more background information previously be sure to keep the word count in often than not leads to acceptance. presented. The problem presented may mind. Every conference has different There are three parts to the not be a problem in the traditional requirements, but the average length of a conference proposal format that I want sense, but something that your audience conference proposal is around 250 to 300 to share with you: the background doesn’t know or hasn’t considered about words. A conference might request only a information that establishes common the topic. Identifying the problem, 100 – 150 word abstract with the option ground with the audience; the problem which is actually the issue or topic that to write an extended abstract. When statement, which identifies the problem will be addressed in the presentation, is possible, it is helpful to write the extended or gap in research that the presentation the writer’s chance to break new ground. abstract to present a full picture of where will attempt to resolve; and the purpose My MPCA proposal identified the you will go with the presentation. of the presentation and how it will startling similarities between The Lord Implementing the three attempt to resolve the problem. I like of the Rings Trilogy and the Harry Potter elements discussed will lead to a to think of the conference proposal as a series as the problem to be addressed successful proposal as long as the idea/ glorified introduction. and analyzed and included a couple of topic is suitable. Remember that a It starts with the establishment examples (Kendall, 2017). conference proposal is your chance to of common ground through background The final component of the sell your idea. Therefore, it must be information. The background conference proposal is the discussion of concise, precise, and well-written. o information typically will present the purpose of the presentation, where information with which your audience the goal(s) of the presentation will be References is already familiar. To start my proposal identified. It will address and/or resolve Kendall, C. (2017). Harry potter: Cre- on the Harry Potter series, I established the problem identified in the previous ative genius or imitation? Con- common ground by addressing the section. In this section, it is okay to say ference abstract to be presented at MPCA conference in St. Louis, MO. popularity of the series, the qualities that 15 We Rise Quarterly Digest, College of Humanities and Sciences September 2017

Academic Freedom by Kerry Moquett, Ed.D.

The term “academic freedom” in the classroom. The following list is • Alter assignment is used by colleges and universities to not intended to be all-inclusive, but parameters (e.g., word count, content support the conduct and activities of is intended to provide some common requirements, topic). its faculty in developing and delivering examples that can be implemented easily • Edit assignment curriculum. A variety of interpretations in the classroom. instructions (except on locked, exist. Consensus on what academic Facilitating in the Classroom benchmark, or Signature Assignments). freedom means and what it does not • Faculty may introduce •Add discussion questions to mean is diverse at best. In short, no controversial topics within the course foster thinking about learning objectives. holistic sense of academic freedom is •Add additional resources to evident. Academic freedom is a right, required or recommended learning however; therefore it is essential for activities in the syllabus. faculty to understand what rights, Conclusion freedoms, and limitations they have in It is evident that the concept of performing their duties as educators. academic freedom can be manifested Academic Freedom Definitions in various and multiple ways. Faculty A sampling of definitions are: should not be apprehensive about • Academic freedom allows exercising academic freedom in the faculty to provide opportunities for classroom. A comprehensive FAQ students to investigate and explore document was prepared by a formal competing and diverse ideas, engage "Peace" Academic Freedom Committee and in differences of opinion in relating Image courtesy of Pexels provides in-depth information regarding to others, challenge another’s views, the topic. The document also addresses evaluate evidence, and form their own learning objectives where the actions are what is not covered under academic perspectives and judgements regarding compliant with the Faculty Code of Conduct. freedom. The document can be obtained social and world issues. It gives both • Faculty may allow students to by sending an email to moquett@email. the students and the faculty the right to discuss controversial issues in a manner phoenix.edu. o express their views—in speech, writing, compliant with the Student Code of Conduct. and through electronic means—without • Faculty should remain Reference fear of sanction, unless the manner of objective and open to new ideas expression violates the rights of others, themselves, treating each student fairly Andreescu, L. (2009). Individual aca- demic freedom and professional or, in the case of faculty, demonstrates and ensuring the same by other students. acts. Educational Theory 59(5), that such expressions represent Learning Materials 559-578. incompetency or dishonesty in regard to • Faculty may post and present Association of American Colleges and Universities [AAC&U] (2006). the field of discipline (Andreescu, 2009; learning materials in the classroom that Academic freedom and educa- AAC&U, 2006). meet or address the learning objectives tional responsibility. Retrieved • Under academic freedom and do not violate copyright policies. from https://www.aacu.org/ policies, faculty can conduct individual Alternate Assignments Suggestions sites/default/files/files/about/ academicFreedom.pdf research, teach their own courses, (NOTE: Changes must meet course Doughty, H. A. (2010). Academic investigate and analyze contradictory objectives and maintain academic rigor.) freedom revisited. College ideas and elements of truth with their • Delete or change/replace Quarterly, 13(1), 1-14. students, and provide opportunities for assignments (including, in most cases, students to become independent, critical Week 1 assignments). For example, the thinkers (Doughty, 2010). following are permitted as exercises of Academic Freedom in the Classroom academic freedom: More important than defining academic • Change point values freedom, however, is its application for assignments (or for the entire course).

16 We Rise Quarterly Digest, College of Humanities and Sciences September 2017 Preconceptions/Misconceptions: Critical Thinking in Action for Human Services Students by Mary Jo Trombley

From the beginning to learn about mental illness, to moments of their first class in educate others, to be aware of their Human Services, students are own biases, to see the positives in asked to reflect on what led others, and to treat others with them to choose the program. dignity and respect (Pathstone Common altruistic responses Mental Health, 2017)—all have included statements such characteristics of a Human Services as “I want to give back,” “I want worker in the field. to help people,” and “I was Side note: September 10th- helped when I was younger 16th 2017 marks National Suicide and I want to do the same for Prevention Week. Preparing our someone else.” It is this sense students to think critically about "Coffee and Me" of selflessness that motivates Image courtesy of Pexels mental illness and prevention many of our students to enter also supports the efforts of the into the field of mental health, the population will experience a American Foundation for Suicide yet there is also a need to have them mental health challenge in their Prevention program’s efforts in lifetime (Center for Disease Control think critically about a career pathway reducing suicide. o alongside these altruistic statements. and Prevention, 2011), and one in As timing would have it, I five will have a diagnosable mental Reference was teaching the entry class into the illness (Up2Riverside, 2017), which Human Services program in May, will be left untreated due to the Center for Disease Control and stigma attached to it. Stigmas are Prevention (2011). CDC: U.S. which is Mental Health Awareness adult mental illness surveillance Month. It became the perfect judgements or misconceptions that are report Retrieved from https:// opportunity to challenge the students held against a group of people which www.cdc.gov/mentalhealthsurveillance/ often results in negative actions taken Davey, G. (2013). Mental health & to reflect on their chosen career stigma mental health symptoms pathway and to have them begin to against that identified group. People are still viewed as threatening think critically about preconceptions/ with mental health challenges have a and uncomfortable. Psychology misconceptions regarding mental sense of stigmatization often resulting Today. Retrieved from https:// in feelings of shame and low self- www.psychologytoday.com/ illness. The discussions during the blog/why-we-worry/201308/ ensuing five weeks were revealing. worth further inhibiting help seeking mental-health-stigma One student reported that her mother behaviors (Davey, 2013), which Pathstone Mental Health (2017). additionally, can lead to dropping out Shatter the stigma mend the struggled with mental illness for most minds. Retrieved from https:// of the student’s childhood until legal of school, losing housing, becoming www.mendthemind.ca/stigma/ actions led to the mother’s new life unemployed, and damaging personal seven-important-things-we- relationships. Anecdotally, this is what can-do-reduce-stigma-and- of recovery and treatment. Another discrimination/ student reported to being in recovery was described by my students. Up2Riverside.org. (2017) It’s up to from drugs and alcohol, while yet The challenge to my class was us. Retrieved from http:// another student reported that her not just connecting their altruistic view up2riverside.org/resources/ resource-guide/ significant other was in the throes to help with those who need help but to of mental illness and was refusing have the students reflect on their own treatment. misconceptions of mental illness and The students’ reported how to integrate stigma reduction in experiences align with current their personal and professional lives. research which shows that 50% of Strategies to do this were discussed with the students such as a commitment 17 We Rise Quarterly Digest, College of Humanities and Sciences September 2017

The Environmental Humanities by Brad Carroll

I should probably be concluded that sustainability is Journal. For further exploration, check embarrassed that Netflix is the a fond illusion without sufficient out the May 2017 edition. source of my nascent concern for the attention paid to the human agents In June, We Rise featured environment. But better late than who live, produce, and consume on an article on orthopedic surgeon never. My former thinking left such this planet (Sörlin, 2012). Exploring (and faculty member), Dr. Richard matters to naturalists, biologists, and environmental problems through the Rothman, for the purposes of for better or worse, politicians. And lens of the humanities can provide spotlighting the role that the certainly I wasn’t alone. But perhaps new perspectives on research and also humanities play in a seemingly these views are changing on more than help to shape how the public views unrelated field. These recent a personal level. potential solutions. developments further illustrate the Modern use of the term Using artists as an example, practical application of the humanities environment was conceived by the Consortium of Humanities outside of its traditional disciplines, a bioscientists in the 1940s to describe Centers and Institutes (2016) notes point of growing appreciation. Now we a composite of issues that include that humanists have a history of just wait for the Netflix documentary population growth, soil erosion, using their work to remark upon to spread the word even further. o desertification, pollution, food, or interpret environmental issues, poverty, and starvation (Sörlin, 2012). including sustainability, climate References At that time, humanist thinkers played change, and the human/environment Consortium of Humanities Centers a significant role in establishing a relationship in general. And now and Institutes (CHCI). (2016). Humanities for the framework for what we now call an opportunity exists to connect environment. Retrieved from environmentalism. However, for several humanists to those working to solve http://chcinetwork.org/node/68 subsequent decades, the humanist environmental problems through a Sörlin, S. (2012). Environmental influence languished as few took on relatively new, multidisciplinary realm humanities: Why should biologists interested in roles as researchers or environmental called the environmental humanities. the environment take the policy advisers. Nowadays, a recent “The environmental humanities humanities seriously? BioScience, 62(9), 788-789. interest in the role that the humanities contextualizes and complements doi:10.1525/bio.2012.62.9.2 play within the broader environmental environmental science and policy University of Oregon. (2014). context appears to indicate that change with a focus on narrative, critical Newsletter for the Environmental is in the works. thinking, history, cultural analysis, Humanities Collective of the Environmental Studies Program. After years of attempting aesthetics and ethics” (University of Retrieved from https://envs. to incentivize human behavior with Oregon, 2014, para. 1). Environmental uoregon.edu/env-humanities/ respect to the environment through Humanities initiatives, including initiatives such as ecoefficiency, green degree and certificate programs, have and clean growth, decoupling, and begun to emerge at the university level, landscape and species management, including programs at University of the tide of attention seems to be Utah, University of Oregon, University shifting back towards the humanities. of Kansas, Ohio State University, and The 2012 Responses to Environmental Stanford University. In addition, Duke and Societal Challenges for Our University Press publishes the open Unstable Earth (RESCUE) initiative access Environmental Humanities

18 We Rise Quarterly Digest, College of Humanities and Sciences September 2017 The Trends in Security and Criminal Justice Discussion Panel by Dan Berry

from a facilitator, and then it was opened up to the audience. The main takeaways were: • The future leaders in security and law enforcement must be educated and very technologically advanced. • Future leaders must be excellent communicators and committed to empowering others. • Ethical leaders are servant leaders. The virtues of Trust, Respect, Understanding, and Transparency need to serve as the compass Image courtesy of Dan Berry for future leaders. To honor National Police Week, our Las Vegas Campus My favorite part of this two hour event was watching the partnered with the American Society of Industrial Security faces of our audience react as they listened and interacted with Association (ASIS) and conducted a panel discussion at the our expert panel. After the event, I was approached by several Veterans Tribute Academy (VTA). The VTA is a Las Vegas high attendees who thanked us for this event and the experience. o school that attracts students wanting to become first responders. Our panel consisted of executive level professionals in law enforcement and security who provided all attendees with great insight. The format allowed for several warmup questions The Mindful Facilitator: Part 1 Summary by Fran Pistoresi

In his article entitled “The practice of setting aside short amounts of (p.7). By adopting attitudes that support Mindful Facilitator: Part I,” University time to train the mind to concentrate as mindfulness, such as acceptance without of Phoenix psychology instructor Larry well as informal practice when stressful judgement as well as patience, instructors Cammarata (2012) describes the benefits moments arise. The article details the can be fully present in each teaching of the practice of mindfulness, targeting A-B-C’s of mindfulness that can be used moment to accept the reality of their how it is an asset to any teaching practice. at any moment: Acceptance of the reality students’ and provide supportive and Cammarata (2012) explains that of a situation without judgement, Body encouraging communication. many people are swept up in their busy lives awareness to align our muscular awareness In order to read the entire and thus lose the ability to be fully present with a safe sense of self, and Concentration article, please click the following link to and intentional in thought and action. The to fully focus on the present moment. the Faculty Community Website: https:// practice of mindfulness helps us learn to Questions for exploration related the multimedia.phoenix.edu/site/humanities- concentrate on being fully present in the connections between mindfulness and the and-sciences/the-mindful-facilitator- moment and use the interplay of awareness teaching experience are provided in the part-i/. You will need to log into eCampus and concentration to bring our minds article as well. using your faculty credentials. o back to the moment when it strays. In fully The article cites studies that understanding our state of mind, we can show that encouragement and praise Reference separate our judgements from the reality of a helps students meet goals; therefore, Cammarata, L. (2012). The mindful fa- situation and “choose to act upon our values it is essential that instructors are cilitator: Part I. Retrieved from and intentions, rather than react to people intentional in their communication with https://multimedia.phoenix. and situations” (Cammarata, 2012, p. 3). students. Cammarata (2012) maintains, edu/site/humanities-and-sci- ences/the-mindful-facilitator-part-i/ Cammarata offers suggestions “Mindfulness is a skill that can support the for putting the practice of mindfulness creation of a positive learning environment into effect, including both a formal for both the facilitator and the student”

19 We Rise Quarterly Digest, College of Humanities and Sciences September 2017

Inquiry-based Learning and Math by Brad Carroll

Teaching math to people learning to teach math to Liberal sample problems followed by banks of who think they hate math may be Arts majors, and the curriculum routine exercises” (DAoM, 2017, para. an unenviable task, but it is one that he uses was developed at Westfield 6). To math instructors endeavoring our intrepid math instructors take on State University by Dr. Julian Fleron. to teach the subject to those who every day of the week. In a time when “Fleron’s new vision for liberal arts claim to hate it, the materials may be symptoms of dyscalculia are openly math aims to intellectually stimulate worth a review. The idea for Fleron is brandished with pride, some of us students, to provide cognitive gains, to create a balance between technique seem to be collectively coping with and get students engaged with math and conceptual approaches to math. the aftereffects of how we were taught rather than passively listening to a As with music, “you need to have to learn math. As Lahey (2014) notes, teacher talk about it” (Lahey, 2014, technique before you can create a “twelve years of compulsory education para 7). The project, called Discovering composition of your own. But if all we in mathematics leaves us with a the Art of Mathematics (DAoM), was do is teach technique, no one will want populace that is proud to announce founded upon a collaborative effort to play music at all” (Lahey, 2014, para. they cannot balance their checkbook, among colleagues to produce practical 11). o when they would never share that they course materials rooted in inquiry- were illiterate” (para. 6). based learning. A few grants along the Reference Professor of Applied way, including two from the National Discovering the Art of Mathematics. Mathematics at Cornell University, Science Foundation, have been keeping (2017). A new vision. Retrieved from http://www. Steven Strogatz, believes that the project alive. artofmathematics.org/about these common perceptions can be The DAoM folks look Lahey, J. (2014). Teaching math to reshaped with a new approach to to provide students with math people who think they hate it. how math is taught, particularly experiences that are both challenging The Atlantic. Retrieved from https://www.theatlantic.com/ to Humanities students or those and intellectually stimulating, education/archive/2014/10/ taking obligatory math courses. By provide meaningful cognitive and teaching-math-to-people-who- think-they-hate-it/381125/ incorporating inquiry-based learning metacognitive gains, and nurture activities, students are required to healthy and informed perceptions Pedaste, M., Mäeots, M., Siiman, L. A., de Jong, A.J.M, van construct knowledge by actively of mathematics, mathematical ways Riesen, S.A.N, Kamp, E. T., solving problems rather than jotting of thinking, and the ongoing impact Manoli, C. C., Zacharia, Z. C., & Tsourlidaki, E. (2015). information down verbatim for the of mathematics not only on STEM Phases of inquiry-based sake of memory. A literature review fields but also on the liberal arts and learning: Definitions and the inquiry cycle. Educational conducted by Pedaste, Mäeots, Siiman, humanities (DAoM, 2017). What is Research Review, 14, 47-61. de Jong, van Riesen, Kamp, Manolo, particularly serviceable about their doi:10.1016/j.edurev.2015.02.003 Zacharia, & Tsourlidaki (2015), efforts is that these materials are made concludes that inquiry-based learning available at no cost on their website: involves the active discovery of new www.artofmathematics.org. causal relations, with the learner “DAoM materials focus on formulating hypotheses and testing investigations, tasks, experiments, them by conducting experiments and constructions, data collection and making observations. discussion prompts rather than Strogratz uses inquiry-based transcribed lectures and worked-out

20 We Rise Quarterly Digest, College of Humanities and Sciences September 2017

The Solar Eclipse - Fiction and Fact by Kristen McQuinn and Cathy Smith

On August 21, 2017, the after sun-rise, and it became Since there is a plethora of continental United States experienced a so dark that the labourers, more modern literature and non- total solar eclipse for the first time since who had commenced their fiction information that involves 1979 (NASA, 2017). While eclipses morning's work, were obliged eclipses, we won’t bother to list any themselves are not entirely uncommon, to leave it, and returned again here. However, if there are eclipse total solar eclipses are, and they are to their beds to sleep, but or space related articles or pictures harder to observe as they often fall over in about an hour's time, to you would like to share, please do areas which are difficult for scientists to the astonishment of many, so by emailing COHS.BrownBags- access. As a result, eclipses have been the sun regained its usual [email protected]. viewed with a great deal of fear and brightness. (p. 535). awe throughout time, which is reflected Paradise Lost by Milton Reference in literature and, in some cases, even (1667/1999) has lines depicting eclipses: Eponym Canon. (n.d.) Archive. archaeology. Below are just a few “As when the Sun, new risen/ Looks org. Retrieved on August 21, 2017 from https:// examples of eclipses in literature: through the horizontal misty air/ Shorn archive.org/stream/ The Epic of Gilgamesh, the of his beams, or from behind the Moon/ assyrianeponymca00smitiala/ oldest story recorded in writing, has In dim eclipse, disastrous twilight assyrianeponymca00smitiala_djvu.txt The Epic of Gilgamesh. (2001.). The what may well be a reference to an sheds/ On half the nations and with fear story of the flood, tablet XI. eclipse in the line, “There was stunned of change/ Perplexes monarchs” (Book In W. Carnahan (Ed.) & M. G. Kovacs (Trans.), Academy shock at [the god’s] deeds which turned 1, lines 594 – 599). of Ancient Texts. Retrieved on everything to blackness” (Gilgamesh, c. The Loughcrew Cairn, August 21, 2017 from http:// 2100 BCE/1998, tablet XI). Ireland. So this isn’t literature, but www.ancienttexts.org/library/ mesopotamian/gilgamesh/ The Bible. There is at least this Irish megalith features a set of tab11.htm (Original work one specific reference to an eclipse “spiral-shaped petroglyphs that might published c. 2100 BCE) in Amos 8:9 (Douay-Reims edition): Milton, J. (1999). Paradise Lost. In correspond to a solar eclipse which New Arts Library, Paradise “And it shall come to pass in that day, occurred on November 30, 3340 BCE” Lost Study Guide. Retrieved saith the Lord God, that the sun shall (NASA, 2017, para. 1). on August 21, 2017 from http://www.paradiselost.org/ go down at midday, and I will make The Public Broadcasting (Original work published 1667) the earth dark in the day of light.". series NOVA provides audiences NASA. (2017). Eclipse History. This eclipse was likely dated June 15, with additional non-fiction eclipse Eclipse2017.nasa.gov. Retrieved on August 21, 2017 from 763 BCE, which was recorded in the information through the following https://eclipse2017.nasa.gov/ Eponym Canon by a scribe in Nineveh four programs. eclipse-history NASA. (2017). When was the last solar (archive.org, n.d.). Many scholars also • Stellar Solar Eclipse eclipse seen from contiguous believe that the darkness at the death Facts – A short list of fun facts United States, and when will the of Jesus referred to an eclipse. • Eclipse Over America – next one happen? Eclipse2017. Flowers of History, a medieval OOne hour special video that provides nasa.gov. Retrieved from https://eclipse2017.nasa.gov/ text by Roger of Wendover (1230), an account of the August 21, 2017 when-was-last-solar-eclipse- recorded an eclipse on May 14, 1230: eclipse across America. seen-contiguous-united-states- and-when-will-next-one-happen In the same year on the • An Eclipse Proved Roger of Wendover. (1230). The 14th of May, which was the Einstein Right - Connects Einstein’s Flowers of History. Archive. Tuesday in Rotation week, theory to this solar event. org. Retrieved on August 21, 2017 from https:// an unusual eclipse of the • Why Eclipses Don’t archive.org/stream/ sun took place very early in Occur Monthly – A short clip about why ndovers02rogeiala#page/534// the morning, immediately eclipses are not a fixed, monthly event. mode/2up Background image courtesy of NASA 21 We Rise Quarterly Digest, College of Humanities and Sciences September 2017

National Aeronautics and Space Administration TOTAL SOLAR ECLIPSE ON AUGUST 21, 2017

This unique map shows the path of the moon’s umbral shadow – in which the sun will be completely obscured by the moon – during the total solar eclipse of Aug. 21, 2017, as well as the fraction of the sun’s area covered by the moon outside the path of totality. The lunar shadow enters the United States near Lunar topography data from NASA’s Lincoln City, Oregon, at 9:05 a.m. PDT. Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter and the Totality begins in the United States in Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency’s Lincoln City, Oregon, at 10:16 a.m. PDT. SELENE lunar orbiter were used to The total eclipse will end in Charleston, precisely calculate the location of the South Carolina, at 2:48 p.m. EDT. The moon’s shadow. Land shading is based lunar shadow leaves the United States on a global mosaic of images from at 4:09 p.m. EDT. A partial eclipse will NASA’s Moderate Resolution Imaging be visible throughout the United States. Spectroradiometer, and elevations are based on data from NASA’s Shuttle EVERYONE IN NORTH AMERICA Radar Topography Mission. Planetary WILL BE ABLE TO EXPERIENCE positions are from NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory Development Ephemeris 421. THIS ECLIPSE. Credit: NASA’s Scientific Visualization Studio

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Brown Bags

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23 We Rise Quarterly Digest, College of Humanities and Sciences September 2017 Academic Counselors…What Have They Done for Students Lately? by Carrie Kendall

In their Brown Bag presentation titled, “Academic counselors can open Service Center Tickets for changes that Counselors…What Have They Done for Students Lately?” need to be made on the students’ accounts. presented on April 25th, 2017, Lisa Corprew, Angie Quinones, The presentation discussed how academic counselors Kalise Crawford, and DeNell Stewart answered the burning address student concerns about faculty. Counselors first question “What do academic counselors do for students?” urge the student to reach out to the faculty member if he or Corprew, Quinones, Crawford, and Stewart she hasn’t done so already. If there are further questions or explained how academic counselors engage students, concerns after communicating with the faculty member, the starting with new student engagement calls, which are the student can call back and a ticket will be submitted to The first calls that academic counselors make to students. This Global Government System (GGS) to enable counselors to call may focus on engaging the student, explaining the see what is going on in the classroom between the student role of the academic counselor, developing a career plan and faculty member. GGS tickets are submitted for a number and an academic plan, implementing time management, of reasons including discrimination, facilitation, feedback, introducing the support team, and recapping key topics participation, responsiveness, and retaliation, to name a from the call. few. Once a ticket is submitted and feedback is received by Outside of new student engagement calls, the the academic counselor, he or she contacts the student and contributors explained that academic probation, academic notifies him or her if the ticket is closed or if additional disqualification (which occurs when students don’t meet information is needed. their GPA requirements for the four course sequence As they assist students, there are certain classroom of the probation status), violations of the Student Code activities that academic counselors can see. Counselors can of Conduct, and continuing student engagement are all see when students posted participation and to what class; reasons why academic counselors engage with students. weekly grades and how they have changed each week; and Counselors will also engage students in the event assignments including the dates that they are due, the date of unofficial withdraws, which occur when students are the students submitted them, and what their scores were. out longer than 14 days, and auto drops, which arise when Being able to view this material helps academic counselors students have missed two weeks of attendance and are assist their students and keep them on track academically. automatically dropped from their courses. Engagement Corprew, Quinones, Crawford, and Stewart’s presentation also occurs when students receive non-passing grades and provided a wealth of information regarding academic when academic counselors receive faculty alerts or grade counselors, the roles they play, and what they do for adjustments and requests. students. Armed with this knowledge, faculty members The job of an academic counselor doesn’t stop there. now have a better understanding of the support students To help students with their Academic Plans, they work with receive behind the scenes and a greater appreciation for the Appeal Center to do appeals for Administrative Waivers the hard work that academic counselors put in to help and for those returning from academic disqualification. University of Phoenix students be successful. Counselors also look into Pre Evaluations Reports, which As a reminder, “Academic Counselors…What Have are unofficial assessments of potential transfer credits. In They Done for Students Lately” and all other Brown Bags addition, they collect documents for a student’s change in are archived on the College of Humanities and Sciences college or program and submit the changes to the Office of WordPress site: https://multimedia.phoenix.edu/site/ Admissions and Records. humanities-and-sciences/archived-brown-bags/. In addition Academic counselors further help students with to this Brown Bag, I recommend “Phoenix Success Series” their Academic Plans by doing Degree Completion Progress and “The Root Cause of Academic Dishonesty among Reports. They also do Prior Learning Assessments, which Higher Education Students.” o enable students to use experience to complete essays for credits. In addition, they work with students who receive accommodations with disability services. Finally,

24 WeWe RiseRise QuarterlyQuarterly Digest,Digest, CollegeCollege ofof HumanitiesHumanities andand SciencesSciences SeptemberSeptember 20172017 The Phoenix Success Series by Carrie Kendall are no GameScapes in this course, and the focus is on critical thinking, points of view, development of arguments, problem solving and fallacies, and reflection of the concepts that students learned throughout the first four weeks. FP/100 deals with personal budgeting and financial planning with the goal being on educating students on important economic decisions. The class also introduces mathematical concepts and includes TED Talks and Khan Academy resources. In addition, students will work in Excel for inputting data. The sixth and final course is ENG/200, in which students construct a research paper. Using scaffolded assignments, students will critically analyze arguments,

"Phoenix Success Series" respond critically to those arguments, write arguments, Image courtesy of Dr. Jessica Philipp write a persuasive essay, and present an argument. A sample course calendar is offered to help students with time On June 20th, 2017, Dr. Jessica Philipp presented management as they progress through the assignments. a Brown Bag on the Phoenix Success Series, a six-course Students will revisit the ACES self-assessment, which will entry sequence aimed to increase student preparedness, give them the opportunity to compare their results before overall retention, and student success. The courses in their and after completion of the Phoenix Success Series. sequential order include GEN/201, PSY/110, ENG/100, Dr. Philipp’s presentation gave a thorough and HUM/115, FP/100, and ENG/200. much-appreciated overview of each course in the new GEN/201 helps students hone their academic Phoenix Success Series. With the knowledge faculty communication skills, learn how to do research, and start to members now have, they can teach these courses understand how they can bridge their learning, their career, confidently, resting assured that their students will be better and community aspects. Included in this course is the ACES equipped to succeed in all of their college courses upon self-assessment, which will test students’ level of comfort completion of the Phoenix Success Series. o and familiarity with study habits, reading skills, grit, and growth mindset. Also included is a glossary of terms to help students understand the terminology they will encounter in their college courses. PSY/110 is a new course that covers topics such as motivation, academic strategy, and networking. Learning styles are also emphasized. This course features custom- made videos from the author of the P.O.W.E.R. Learning textbook. It also offers students some assignment options. ENG/100 is a new course that focuses on how to be a critical reader, what to look for when you're reading, how to pick out main topics, and how to use those topics in assignments. Scaffolding is a major component, and assignments are locked down to ensure that students learn the concepts in chunks rather than all at once. Grammar tutorials and quizzes are recommended in this course. A fully revised HUM/115 is the next course. There 25 We Rise Quarterly Digest, College of Humanities and Sciences September 2017

Diversity and Outreach

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Mabon: The Witches’ Fall Celebration by Shyla Lang

myself. as it was generally just referred to as Greetings, Fellow Faculty! My We are now approaching the Autumnal Equinox, before Aidan name is Shyla Lang, and I am a Faculty September 22nd, which is the date of Kelly, a Pagan writer and scholar, Quality Manager in the College of the Autumnal Equinox this year. This labeled it thus (Rajchel, 2015, p.19). Humanities and Sciences, and I have holiday is referred to as Mabon, and is The name is inspired by a God from worked for the University since celebrated by Witches and other Welsh mythology, Mabon, who was 2008. It is possible you have Pagans throughout the stolen away from his mother as an received emails from me, Northern Hemisphere. infant, hidden in the dark Underworld, or I have answered Because Pagans and upon his release from captivity, your questions over celebrate holidays transformed into the “God of Light” the phone; I have a based on the (Dugan, 2005, p. 3). For those familiar Master of Arts seasons, the with Greek mythology, there are in Classics, and a holidays are certainly parallels between this myth Master of Arts in different in and the story of Persephone and Religion, so the Southern Demeter, on which the Eleusinian I teach HUM/100 Hemisphere; it Mysteries celebrated throughout the (Introduction to wouldn’t make Greek world in September were based the Humanities) sense to celebrate (Rajchel, 2015, p.20). and HUM/105 (World Fall right now in At its heart, Mabon is a Mythology) for the New Zealand, since celebration of the balance found in College as well. The teacher they are entering into the world, and a time to be thankful "Cat in Moonlight" in me can’t help wanting Image courtesy of Pixabay Spring there! This calendar for the nourishment we receive, and to share my knowledge of Pagan holidays is the people with whom we surround with others and dispel referred to as the “Wheel ourselves. negative stereotypes. That has brought of the Year” because it is envisioned as Feel free to contact me with me to this place, writing this article for a perpetually turning wheel, moving us any questions about Witchcraft, you about Mabon, the celebration of through the cycle of the seasons. There Paganism, Mythology, etc. and/or Diversity and Outreach the Autumnal Equinox, observed by are eight major holidays on this Wheel, pictures of your pets! I love to see people like me: Witches. evenly spaced throughout the year like adorable A Witch? What does that spokes. animals in mean? I have green skin, ride around Mabon is a holiday connected my email. o on a broom, and speak to cats? No, to the balance of Light and Dark (since most old stereotypes of Witches aren’t Day and Night are equal on this day), accurate, but I do talk to my cat, who and to the activity of crop harvesting, mostly ignores me; if you have a cat, which was something vitally important you understand (the dog seems much to ancient cultures; if the harvest was more interested in what I have to say). bad, it was likely some would not So, what is a Witch? While this term survive the coming winter. It was also "Roland" has many definitions depending on a time when community members Image courtesy of Shyla Lang whom you ask, to me a Witch is simply would come together and help one References a person (male or female) who follows another with the labor intensive a religion based on the cycles of activities needed to bring in and Dugan, E. (2005). Autumn equinox: Nature, sees the Divine as something store the harvested crops. Mabon is The enchantment of Mabon. both within us and all around us, sometimes referred to as the “Witch’s Woodbury, MN: Llewellyn and draws inspiration from ancient Thanksgiving” because of its similarities Publications. Rajchel, D. (2015). Mabon: Rituals, cultures. Another, more general, to the secular holiday celebrated in the recipes, & lore for the autumn term for people who see the Divine Fall (Dugan, 2005, p.4). equinox. Woodbury, MN: in Nature is Pagan; I use “Witch” and The name “Mabon” itself is Llewellyn Publications. “Pagan” interchangeably to describe a relatively new term for the holiday,

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“The Heart and Stomach of a King” by Kristen McQuinn

there are signs throne, and she that Elizabeth was was pressured on secretly devoted to many fronts to her lost mother in marry to secure ways she couldn’t various alliances express openly. and produce an A locket ring was heir, yet Elizabeth removed from remained her hand after steadfastly "Letter A Pendant" "Coronation Robes" "Elizabeth 1 Armada Portrait" her death which Image courtesy of unwed while still Image courtesy of Image courtesy of Wikipedia held a miniature Wikipedia maintaining good Wikipedia The Virgin Queen. Good of Anne. In a family portrait, she also relations with the majority of Europe Queen Bess. Gloriana. By whatever wore a necklace with her mother’s “A” throughout her reign. In a 1559 speech name one called her, Elizabeth I, at her throat, an act which would have to Parliament, she said, daughter of Henry VIII and Anne landed her in quite a lot of trouble …I am already bound unto Boleyn, granddaughter of the had her father noticed it. At various an husband, which is the indomitable Elizabeth of York, was times of her youth, she was a princess, kingdom of England, and that no woman to be trifled with. On declared a bastard and removed from may suffice you. And this… September 7, we mark the 484th the line of succession, reinstated, held makes me wonder that you anniversary of her birth and the a political prisoner in the Tower, and forget, yourselves, the pledge beginning of a long, tumultuous, survived sexual scandal that led, in of this alliance which I have vibrant life. Her reign is known as the part, to the execution of Sir Thomas made with my kingdom. … Golden Age of England, during which Seymour. All without a mother to And reproach me so no more time writers such as Shakespeare, comfort her. … that I have no children: for Marlowe, and Spenser crafted their Her difficult childhood every one of you, and as many literary masterpieces; artists like tempered her, though, and her as are English, are my children Hilliard, Gower, and Segar painted humanist education honed her and kinsfolks.... (Elizabeth I, portraits still recognized the world already keen intelligence. Elizabeth 2000, p. 59) over; and the music of Tallis, Dowland, was a polyglot, fluent in six languages Remaining unwed and fully in control and Campion echoed in cathedrals by the time she was 11 years old - of her government during a time in and town squares alike. Elizabeth was French, Greek, Latin, Spanish, Welsh, which women were most often used as quite possibly the apex of the British and of course, English. She also bargaining chips, as means to getting monarchy, but there are several things studied others and had a functional heirs, for securing alliances, and for not commonly known about this understanding of Flemish, Italian, and bettering one’s social standing was a Renaissance powerhouse. Gaelic. She learned Gaelic as part of testament to Elizabeth’s strength of will Elizabeth may have been more her diplomatic attempts to subdue an and shrewd political acumen. traumatized by her mother’s execution Irish rebellion in the 1590s. Diplomacy Another pressing issue of than she could risk admitting to. She and oration were great strengths for her reign was poverty. Elizabeth grew up hearing her mother called Elizabeth. She often used flirtation and created the Act for the Relief of the “The Great Whore,” who was beheaded flattery in her diplomacy to goad her Poor in 1597, which was the first fully before Elizabeth was three by her male contemporaries into granting comprehensive bill for poverty relief. It father, Henry VIII, on false accusations her political wishes. England was was later amended by the Elizabethan of treason and adultery. However, in dire straits when she came to the Poor Act of 1601, which remained

28 WeWe RiseRise QuarterlyQuarterly Digest,Digest, CollegeCollege ofof HumanitiesHumanities andand SciencesSciences SeptemberSeptember 20172017 unchanged until the mid-1800s. The Elizabethan Poor Act under the Vagrancy Act of 1547 (Rathbone, 2017). Elizabeth essentially taxed the wealthier citizens of the country to instituted what were, for the time, sweeping reforms for the provide food, shelter, and clothing to the poor, generally care of the poor. within their own communities. People who were unable to Elizabeth may be best known for reigning during work, such as the very young, the elderly, or the mentally the time of Shakespeare, Spenser, Marlowe, and the like, but or physically disabled, were cared for in an almshouse or her own contributions to her country and culture cannot be poorhouse. People who could work were sent to “houses overlooked. She was the woman who was never meant to be of industry.” These were the precursors to the infamous Queen but who became one of the most beloved monarchs Victorian workhouses; but in Elizabeth’s time, they were a of the British monarchy. She was the woman who roused vast improvement over being labeled a vagrant, a hanging her troops with speeches worthy of the gods. Gloriana. o offence. Children who were old enough to work were made apprentices in various trades. People who were too lazy to References work, though, were on their own and would either have to Elizabeth I. (2000). The Collected Works. Leah S. Marcus (Ed.). decide to work or would eventually wind up in prison or Chicago: University of Chicago Press. be hanged as a persistent beggar, as the term was known Rathbone, M. (2005, March). Vagabond! History Review. Issue 51, p. 8-13.

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Health and Wellness

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Creating Stronger Work-Life Balance with Hatha Yoga by Ann Wehrman

As a dedicated online faculty There is a plethora of research personal online work) for long periods member in University of Phoenix’s being done on how to counter the ill of time by integrating active movement College of Humanities, my job entails effects of sedentary, online work. A in regular breaks. Overall, strategies both luxury (such as freedom to wear that seem to be more helpful in what I choose and no work commute) maintaining health for me as an online and serious responsibility. With that instructor include a blend of focused, responsibility, challenges to health often time-managed work, including many result. In my experience, incorporating regular short active breaks from the Hatha yoga—the systematic practice computer; increased fresh air, sunlight, of specific physical movements plus and regular physical activity (currently deep breathing, as well as exploring the aiming for 150 minutes a week of deep teachings of the yoga tradition— vigorous activity like walking or the provides steady, constructive support gym); and greater responsibility with and positive benefits, creating a stronger dietary choices (such as avoiding work-life balance. binging in order to “power through” a Teaching multiple classes stressful task at work). online requires 40 hours or more One major factor in winning of computer work every week. That the fight for a healthy work-life balance work is done sitting down, inside, in has been my yoga practice. I have artificial light, and controlled air. Stress practiced Hatha Yoga for over 40 years, can become a problem since deadlines Figure 1. Author demonstrating reverse though not regularly until the last are a constant factor of the job and warrior pose (2011). decade. In 2012, I completed a 200- meeting/exceeding high standards of Photo by Vanessa Vichit-Vadakan, used with permission hour yoga teacher-training program service involve long hours, attention clear overview on the subject, “Why under Lori McCormick at Fusion to detail, and often pushing oneself far We Should Sit Less,” (2016) can be Yoga, Sacramento and became certified beyond the realm of comfort. found online at NHS.UK, England’s as a Registered Yoga Teacher, RYT-200. In my case, I also spend official national health website. I teach a weekly hour-long Gentle Yoga significant personal time on the The research supported article class at a local community center in computer outside of teaching work, recommends breaking up long periods Sacramento, CA where I live. including personal research, email, social of sitting by increasing activity and Yoga is an over 5,000-year- media, and creative writing. I easily maintaining regular exercise. old system for physical and spiritual and happily lose myself in projects, both At one point, I considered health (“History of Yoga,” 2006, para. teaching and personal, and can literally building or buying a standing desk, 1). In Hatha yoga, which is one of spend hours locked into position at but decided against it since standing several arms on the overall body of my desk, typing and scrolling with the in one place for hours at a time is also yoga, the focus is on uniting one’s mouse. As readers will understand, the detrimental, putting great strain on mind and body based on breath and intensive focus, long hours sitting at the the legs and heart, which I learned asanas, physical movements. Other computer, lack of fresh air and outdoor in a prior employment situation as types of yoga primarily address yoga exercise, and lack of sunlight combine a cashier. A more beneficial change philosophy, service to others, and in a potential recipe for disaster when it has been avoiding “locking in” to various additional aspects of this comes to one’s health. my online teaching work (as well as holistic system; one’s yoga practice

31 We Rise Quarterly Digest, College of Humanities and Sciences September 2017 often includes elements from multiple can be done at home, inexpensively, when I do indulge. The healthier I am types of yoga. and short breaks from the computer as a teacher, the more caring, inspired, It is my experience that provide perfect opportunities for deep and engaged I can be in the classroom, Hatha yoga is less a system of physical breathing, short meditation, or a few and the more effectively I can balance exercise than it is a vehicle that lessens helpful physical poses. teaching work with the other parts of stress; helps develop concentration, I hope to teach yoga for the rest my life that mean so much, resulting in a confidence, and balance, and makes a of my life and absolutely love the fact flexible, balanced, and content life, open foundation for a peaceful, meditative, that yoga is becoming more accepted in to constant learning and service. o aware state of mind. According to, America as a healthy practice for diverse “‘More Than I Expected’: Perceived people of all ages. Yoga, like anything Reference Benefits of Yoga Practice Among Older in life, requires that one use the truths Alexander, G. K., Innes, K. E., Selfe, T. Adults at Risk for Cardiovascular one learns. Maintaining a regular home K., & Brown, C. J. (2013). "More than I expected": Perceived Disease,” a study published in practice, even 10 minutes of asanas benefits of yoga practice among Complementary Therapies in Medicine, (physical poses) daily, makes a big older adults at risk for cardio- “Participants reported a wide range of difference in my quality of life. Increased vascular disease. Complementa- ry Therapies in Medicine, 21(1), benefits, including enhanced self/body confidence, less anxious stress, more 14-28. doi:http://dx.doi. awareness, physical fitness, energy, balanced emotions, and better digestion org/10.1016/j.ctim.2012.11.001 symptom relief, anxiety reduction, all support my focus at work, helping me History of yoga. (2006). American Yoga Association. Retrieved from tranquility, pleasure, and improved concentrate when I am online and giving americanyogaassociation.org/ sleep quality and dietary patterns” me the confidence to step away from the Vichit-Vadakan, V. (2011). Author demonstrating reverse warrior pose. (Alexander, Innes, Selfe, & Brown, computer regularly without fear that I Why we should sit less. (2016). NHS 2013, p. 26). While the Western won’t make my deadlines. Strengthening Choices. Retrieved from medical community is still studying my mind and self-regard are helping me http://www.nhs.uk/Livewell/ fitness/Pages/siting-and-sed- yoga, research continues to show make more conscious choices with food, entary-behaviour-are-bad-for- that it is beneficial. It is very easy to making it easier to say no to overeating, your-health.aspx incorporate yoga into one’s lifestyle as drinking too much coffee, etc. and an online instructor since daily practice making it easier to live with myself

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Confessions of a Teenage Rebel: Defending the Right to Read by Cathy Smith

There it was, hiding under misguided way, I had taken a stand against censorship. the big recliner in the living room. Reading is a freedom that people should embrace, and I looked around the room before because of this, the ALA created the Library Bill of Rights and pulling it out from under its hiding the Office for Intellectual Freedom. The Library Bill of Rights list place. Ka-Ching! When something the basic policies that serve as a guide for libraries. The Office is banned, deals can be made! for Intellectual Freedom enforces the ALA polices outlined in the Banned Books Week takes Library Bill of Rights (ALA, 2017). place September 24 – 30, 2017. The classroom was quiet as we concentrated on our weekly Image courtesy of ALA This annual event brings awareness exam. The instructor walked the aisles, watching every stroke of to the power of words and the freedom people have to share their our pencils. The energy was tense, and the instructor did not do words in print. According to the American Library Association anything to relieve the anxiety levels. And then, it happened - a tap, (ALA) (2017), banned books are books that are removed, whereas tap, tap on my shoulder. I looked up. challenged books are restricted or are at risk for removal. The instructor said, “Please open your notebook.” With banned book in hand, I was ready to make deals that I knew the banned book was inside the notebook. I knew I “could not be refused.” I based my plan on the bootlegging models should have left it in my locker. I resolutely responded, “I can’t.” created during Prohibition, a topic we had just studied in history. Somewhat surprised at my tone, the instructor replied, “Why?” I learned that banned products were a great way to earn money or Thinking quick, I said, “Because I’m taking a test and my procure favors. notes are in the notebook?” Although the ALA does not provide a list of challenged The class stared, frozen with fear. The instructor opened books prior to 1990, book bans have been in place for centuries. my notebook and took the book. He flipped through the pages as he Miller (2014) states that scholars debate whether the first banned continued to walk the aisles. Finally, toward the end of the period, book in the United States was Thomas Morton’s New English he said, “So, what do you plan to do with this book?” Canaan, John Eliot’s The Christian Commonwealth, or William Since all I had was truth, I spilled my guts. Once I finished, Pynchon’s The Meritorious Price of Our Redemption. Eliot’s and the instructor said, “So, what’ll it take for me to get to the top of your Pynchon’s books were “banned for theological or historical list so I can read the book over the weekend?” reasons” and Morton’s book was banned “with regards to the We struck a deal and the book went home with the instructor. political and cultural history of the United States” (para. 2). A couple weeks later, people realized that they could buy the book in the My plan was simple. I invited friends who in turn invited next town. A couple months later, the town lifted the book ban, and friends. I kept track of people in my notebook, without reference to the this, as it turned out, was the real purpose for my adventure. book. I made small bartering deals with anyone who wanted to read the Without realizing what I was doing, I became a champion book since most people felt the need to pay for something worthwhile. for People’s Rights To Read! o The top ten book challenges for 2016 were based on LGBTQ characters, drug use, profanity, sexual content, offensive References political viewpoints, transgender characters, and for being disgusting American Library Association. (2017) Banned books week 2017: and offensive. (ALA, 2017). The ALA gathers the information for Sept. 24 – Sept. 30. Banned and Challenged Books. Re- the Challenged Book Lists from media stories and from voluntary trieved on July 19, 2017 from http://www.ala.org/bbooks/ challenge reports sent to the Office for Intellectual Freedom (OIF) frequentlychallengedbooks/top10#2016 from United States communities. American Library Association. (2017) Top ten most challenged My enterprise was a success! Over a quarter of the books lists. Banned and Challenged Books. Retrieved on July 19, 2017 from http://www.ala.org/bbooks/frequently- student body signed up to read challengedbooks/top10#2016 the community banned book. At American Library Association. (2017). Office for Intellectual some point during this adventure, I Freedom. Retrieved on July 19, 2017 from http://www. realized that what I was doing was ala.org/bbooks/frequentlychallengedbooks/top10#2016 more important than racking up Miller, J. (2014). America’s first banned book and the battle for the soul of the country. San Diego Free Press. Re- a bunch of sweet deals that would trieved on July 19, 2017 from https://sandiegofreepress. benefit me down the road. What org/2014/09/americas-first-banned-book-and-the-battle- I realized was that in my own for-the-soul-of-the-country/ Image courtesy of ALA

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Battalion Buddy Bears by Laura Pipoly

Volunteer work is an have taken me to fundraise this feedback (such as pictures and thank important part of building a strong amount of money would have been you cards) for my efforts. This personal community, and one of the keys to insurmountable. For years, I had been aspect of volunteering was inspiring being a volunteer is to draw on passion encouraging my GEN/127 students since I was often able to see my impact and experience. When I started doing to draw upon their strengths; and it directly. I was recently selected for the volunteer work, I wanted to make wasn’t until I realized this myself that award of 2017 Top 18 Base Military sure that it would be ongoing and my volunteering efforts began to feel Spouse of the Year for my volunteer relevant. The key, I found, was to find successful and productive. The time efforts, which was an unexpected a cause that I am deeply passionate commitment to write (and of course tangible reward. about. My husband is active duty rewrite) the grant was something I Now that I am in the mindset in the Navy, so this demographic is could fit in my busy schedule; and of using my time productively, it seems one that is close to my heart. that the needs for this population As a military spouse, I know continue to present themselves. firsthand that there are countless For example, when my daughter needs for the armed forces received an unexcused day family population. I started by from school for attending her brainstorming this community’s father’s homecoming after a long needs and then moved on to deployment, I began researching seeking potential sources of (which again plays into my funding to put my plan into strengths) educational policies action. The more I researched for students from military funding opportunities, the more families. I found out that several resources I found that were often states had guidelines in place underutilized. Image courtesy of Laura Pipoly for students missing school due When I started to deployment, but that there volunteering, I knew my time since it played on my strengths, it was was no such policy in my state. My commitment would need to be limited. also something I enjoyed. I was able to current volunteer efforts are focused As a faculty member, I knew I might pass out these adorable bears dressed on advocating at the state level for the not have a full day to devote to being in camouflage to the children of my unique educational needs of military the PTA room mom at my daughter’s husband’s battalion shortly before their students. o school or walking dogs at our local 6 month deployment to Spain. I have animal shelter on the weekends, but to say that after distributing the bears what I did have were my skills. After and seeing the joy from the families all, I use my expertise in my faculty as they received them, I was hooked. position daily; and I quickly realized With the success of my first grant that I could make a greater impact by motivating me, I wrote several more using my writing abilities, which I fine- grants for care packages to deployed tuned into grant writing, to use my single soldiers and for a grant valued time most efficiently. at $300 for holiday stockings filled Right from the start, I was with goodies that were distributed to able to successfully write a grant for soldiers in Rota, Spain. 500 “Battalion Buddy Bears” that was I think that my efforts were valued at $7500. The time it would especially rewarding since I received

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“Because I Can” by Andrea Disque, Ed.D.

“The natural feeling that one wants to serve, to Family Action Plan, National Retail Federation Selection serve first,” is how I feel about leadership and volunteering Committee, JAG Career Development Conference, Fresh (Greenleaf, 1977, p. 22). I want to make a difference in the Start Selection Committee, and the We Rise Scholarship lives of others; I want to consistently review the question, Selection Committee, just to name a few. “How can I use myself to serve best?” (Center for Servant When asked how I find the time to work full- Leadership, n.d.). I have always been service-oriented as time, take care of my family, and volunteer, my response a student, a member of our nation’s military as an active is simply, “Because I can.” The impact of a volunteer goes duty Airman, and an active volunteer in my communities. much further than the value they bring monetarily and I believe that leaders should lead by example, and through their contribution of their time. Volunteers show volunteering is a wonderful behavior for others to emulate! up because they want to contribute to the betterment of I also feel that leaders should have the passion for helping others. Volunteering is selfless service; nothing is expected others reach their full potential; their “primary motivation in return! I can think of nothing better to do with my “free” and purpose is to encourage greatness in others” (Smith, time than working to contribute to the growth of others. 2005, p. 4). Allowing all people to reach greatness can I often mentor others to ask themselves why they may contribute to a ripple of change not just in individuals, but respond “No” when they are presented with a volunteer also in our communities, and ultimately our society as a opportunity. After reflecting on this question, I have found whole. that potential volunteers often don’t have a reason why! Currently, I am a volunteer for a variety of Taking the step to say, “Yes, I will commit to this” is often organizations. I am a Family Readiness Group (FRG) the hardest. Once that step is taken, the time, energy, and Advisor for the 2/35 Infantry Battalion, 3rd Brigade, 25th effort somehow magically appear. Infantry Division; I oversee FRGs that support over 650 When I am volunteering, I often ask myself these soldiers and their families. In this position, I help manage questions “Do those served grow as persons? Do they, information flow, organize large events, and act as an while being served, become healthier, wiser, freer, more advisor for six infantry company FRGs. I have embraced autonomous, more likely themselves to become servants?” this position as an opportunity to mentor other military (Center for Servant Leadership, n.d.). My service has been spouses and share my experiences with them. In my diverse, but all along, I have asked myself “How can I use military community, I am also a member of the board for myself to serve best?” (Center for Servant Leadership, n.d.). the Joint Spouses Conference Hawaii, where I serve as the I volunteer to promote promise, hope, empowerment, and Webmaster and Email Chairperson. This annual conference courage, concepts that are “at the heart of transformative provides a forum for spouses of active duty, reserves, leadership” for those who I serve (Shields, 2011, p. 559). o and retired military members of all services and ranks to learn, network, and help each other in our challenging Reference roles as spouses, parents, professionals, and community Center for Servant Leadership. (n.d.). Retrieved from www.greenleaf.org leaders through workshops and guest speakers. In my Greenleaf, R. (1977). Excerpt from Servant Leadership. Retrieved from https://www.essr.net/~jafundo/mestrado_materi- local community, I volunteer with Surfing the Nations al_itgjkhnld/IV/Lideran%C3%A7as/The%20Servant%20 and their Feeding the Hungry program. This is one of as%20Leader.pdf the most rewarding volunteer events that I participate in Shields, C. (2011). Transformative leadership: Working for equity in diverse contexts. Educational Administration Quarterly, twice a month; we distribute food, clothing, and household 46(4), 558-589. doi: 10.1177/0013161X10375609 items; and we also take the time to “talk story” and build Smith, C. (2005). Servant leadership: The leadership theory of Robert K. Greenleaf. Retrieved from http://www.car- relationships. This organization works diligently to show olsmith.us/downloads/640greenleaf.pdf each recipient they are loved and valued. I have also volunteered at a multitude of other opportunities to include Wreaths Across America, Operation Holiday Hearts, Army

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Creative Corner

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The Shattering of Worlds by Jenny Mark

Lauren opens the package and smiles. Another the shelf and lands on the floor, too fast for her to catch. globe for the collection, this one yellow on a brass As she bends to pick up the map, she notices mount, carefully packaged in bubble wrap. She gently something odd about the yellow globe. She looks closer takes it out of the box, spotting the and sees that red ink marks a heart card tucked beneath. shape around Australia. “To my wife, forever in my Frowning, she picks up the globe, heart. Love, Thomas,” the note reads the map forgotten. She cannot recall a in crisp, clear handwriting. time when Thomas had drawn on any She leaves the note on the of these globes. They were treasures table and takes the globe to the he had collected for her, their pristine “Knickknack Room,” a room of gifts condition essential to their value. sent from Thomas on his travels. She turns the globe over in her Each prize reminds her that he was hand, inspecting the sides and then "Australia" thinking about her from the other Image courtesy of Freepic the bottom. On the bottom, she side of the world. He sent her so many spots the same red ink, spelling out gifts - globes, lanterns, tiny ships in bottles, astrolabes, a message in tiny script. She squints to read it: “Don’t compasses, maps, and anything that reminded him of forget me – Love, Charlotte.” the sea. Lauren gasps, her hand going numb. The globe She looks for a place for this new globe, slips from her fingers and shatters on the ground, brushing aside some rolled up maps to place it on the echoing the sound of her breaking heart. o third shelf. One of the maps, marked “Africa,” slides off Micro-fiction Masthead Editor-in-Chief: Kristen McQuinn Writing Challenge Managing Editor: Cathy Smith Section Editors: Fran Pistoresi and Carrie Kendall We Rise would like to invite everyone to participate Editors: Brad Carroll, Katie Sommers, Denise in this micro-fiction writing challenge. Using the Gilmore, Judy Levin prompt below, send in your micro-fiction story of no Copy Editors: April Newman, Erica Letourneau, Barbara Lombardi, Melissa Warren, Mallory Dunkley more than 250 words. Please submit your piece for an Guest Contributor: Nathan Coley opportunity to be published in the December issue. Staff Writer: June Wagner Please email to the We Rise Quarterly Digest’s inbox Senior Design Editor: Teri Moore-Hirlinger at [email protected] by November 1. w w w v w w w

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Free at Last by Cathy Smith

“SHOOT!” he yelled at me from across the room as I blocked out all the expletives. All he wrestled with the intruder we found in our home. It was I could think about was how that same left punch connect- late. We had been away from home for two weeks, and this ed with my face two weeks earlier; how that same punch was not how I wanted to end my day. connected with me over and over again for 25 years. It was “FIRE THE GUN, NOW!” that punch that kept landing me in the hospital. It was that His voice was harsh and cold. I hated punch that landed me in the hospital for the last two weeks. that tone. I could still feel the pain, not just from the punch, It wasn’t that I was afraid to but from all the reconstructive surgeries. I shoot. It wasn’t that I was afraid of guns. It could also feel the young kid’s pain as he wasn’t that I was afraid at all. It was more struggled to get out from under my hus- about where I was in my life. I looked at the band’s death grip. intruder. He was a young kid. And, although he was “FIRE THE GUN!!! OR TOSS IT TO ME throwing some pretty mean punches, he did look scared. IF YOU’RE TOO GUTLESS TO KILL!” His voice Then I saw it in his eyes. I had seen this before when I was cruel and forceful. was working with at risk teens. This kid was on some I was far from gutless. I was strong. I was kind of drug. calculating. I pulled myself back to reality, and to “THROW ME THE GUN!” My husband yelled at the moment. I had to focus. I aimed… I sighted in on me as he threw a hard left punch that connected with the my target…. I took in a deep breath, and slowly exhaled… kid’s face. Blood splattered everywhere. “MOLLY! NOW! And, then I … A LITTLE HELP?” Image courtesy of Freepic A Tribute to All Mothers by John Garot

The following are a few accolades I’ve created in honor of my Mother and all the others throughout history who have left their mark on all of us throughout time. Through selfless giving, dedication, and overwhelming love and sharing, they have held us together throughout the years, rising above war, disaster, human frailty, and man’s inhumanity to man. In whatever capacity you’ve served or presently serve as a mother, these are meant for you, for all you’ve done to help us all carry the burden and share the joy throughout the years.

She may not have had the answers, but she was always willing to listen.

A Mother's true value outlives our lifetimes. Without her, life will never, never be the same.

Without a Mother, we'd never have won It takes a lifetime to appreciate what the war. you've done in one day.

True love is watching the family grow and Even suffering and in pain, she stood rallying around its successes. steadfast to protect and cherish our name.

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Resources

Photo Contest "The Stride of a Cat" Image courtesy of E. Perry

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From Elvish to Klingon: Exploring Invented Languages by Michael Adams – A Book Review by Cathy Smith With all the natural languages in the world, Doohan (Scotty) created some words in Klingonese for many ask why there is a need to invent new languages. the first motion picture. By the third motion picture, In Chapter 1 of the book From Elvish to Klingon: linguist Mark Okrand was hired to create the language Exploring Invented Languages, Adams (2011) states for the Klingons (Okrand, Adams, Hendriks-Hermans, Every new “natural” language, when it & Kroon, 2011). Mark Okrand, Michael Adams, Judith was new, was a fresh sprig from an ancient Hendriks-Hermans, and Sjaak Kroon take readers on root. One might think that plethora of the journey of how Klingonese teleported from screen naturally developed languages sufficient for to reality. o human purposes, but invented languages Reference suggest otherwise; inventing a language is Adams, M. (2011). The spectrum of invention. In M. Adams intimidating work; not one would attempt (Ed.), From Elvish to Klingon exploring invented languages to invent one unless driven by a serious (pp. 1-16). New York: Oxford University Press Okrand, M., Adams, M., Hendriks-Hermans, J., & Kroon, S. purpose or aspiration. (p. 2) (2011). Wild and whirling words: The invention and use of Klingon. In M. Adams (Ed.), From Elvish to Klingon Adams and other authors explore the exploring invented languages (pp. 1-16). New York: Ox- inspiration behind international auxiliary languages ford University Press Weiner, E. S. C., & Marshall, J. (2011). Tolkien’s invented (IAL), Newspeak, Nadsat, Elvish, Klingon, gaming languages. In M. Adams (Ed.), From Elvish to Klingon exploring invented languages (pp. 75-109). New York: languages, and Oirish. Throughout the book, various Oxford University Press authors provide their perspectives about the different invented languages. In Chapter 4, E. S. C. Weiner and Jeremy Marshall lead readers into the world languages invented by J. R. R. Tolkien. Weiner and Marshall Resources (2011) explain, “If there are two purposes for invented language – communicative function and art – Tolkien is (so far) the master of the art form” (p. 107). Tolkien’s invented languages are a balance between mythology and the real world. “According to the 2006 edition of the Guinness Book of World Records, the world’s ‘largest fictional language’ is Klingon” (Okrand, Adams, Hendriks- Hermans, & Kroon, 2011, p.111). Klingon was invented for the Star Trek films. Although Klingon "Poppies — Popping up All Over!" names first appeared in the original series, James Image courtesy of Elizabeth Barker

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Klingon - English Crossword Puzzle

How is your Klingon? Using the Klingon clues, please complete the crossword puzzle with the English translations. The crossword puzzle answers will be provided in the December issue of the We Rise Digest. The following website will help find the answers. http://klingonska.org/dict/about.html

Logic is the beginning of wisdom, not the end.

~Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country, 1991 (Spock)

42 We Rise Quarterly Digest, College of Humanities and Sciences September 2017 “Can a Diversified Instructional Approach Featuring Active Learning Improve Biology Students’ Attitudes Toward General Education?” – A Review by Brad Carroll Most general education pro- generate course materials for the study, Pre-course and post-course grams contain a component that allows Rutledge and Lampley designed an ex- surveys were used to measure three non-science majors to get their exposure ercise model called BEARCaT (Biology different outcomes of the curriculum to scientific literacy through special- Education Activities for Relevance and revisions: student understanding of the ly-designed general education science Critical Thinking) that identified biolog- goals of the general education program, courses. However, the number of courses their feelings on the rigor of general required of students to take is generally education courses, and the significance limited, and they only constitute one of general education programs to a com- part of a larger program. Therefore, prehensive university education. Where- courses should be designed to effectively as results showed favorable increases in foster scientific literacy for “outsiders,” the understanding of the role that these but also align with the objectives of the programs play, they revealed little impact university’s general education program. on the latter two outcomes. Given that a Can these conditions be synthesized? Likert scale was used to measure input Rutledge and Lampley (2017) explore (rating responses on a numerical basis), Photo Contest Rutledge and Lampley feel that follow up the potential in their article “Can a "Daphnia pulicaria through the microscope" Diversified Instructional Approach Fea- Image courtesy of S. Mcginns research can be conducted on this topic, turing Active Learning Improve Biology and providing students with open ended Students’ Attitudes Toward General Ed- ical concepts that held notable relevance questionnaires would likely be useful. ucation?” In their study, the professors to modern day issues. Those concepts Though the results were not as reorganized sections of their nonmajor were then incorporated into exercises revealing as hoped, the study does leave biology course to emphasize the connec- involving problems for students to solve. the door open for further research on tion between science and societal issues Through group discussions, students how to improve student perceptions of and to promote a deeper understand- were encouraged to collaborate and general education programs within the ing of the role that general education think critically about their understand- broader context of a university’s mission. programs play within the context of a ing of biological concepts to break down An increase in the understanding of the complete university education. those problems. The instructor then pre- objectives of a general education pro- Like our University Learning sented the results to the entire class. Part gram is an auspicious start. o Goals, their school’s general education of that process included a debriefing to program was established with specific “highlight the role of the general educa- Reference objectives in mind. And Rutledge and tion program in fostering well-rounded Rutledge, M. L., & Lampley, S. A. Lampley (2017) used those objectives individuals capable of thinking criti- (2017). Can a diversified in- to redesign their courses to “promote cally about important issues that face structional approach featuring student understanding and appreciation society” (Rutledge & Lampley, 2017, p. active learning improve biol- of the goals of the general education 22). Students concluded the exercise by ogy students' attitudes toward general education? Journal of program within the context of a non- answering individual questions designed College Science Teaching, 46(6), 20. major biology course” (p. 20). Exercises to synthesize the experience, their prior developed upon active learning strat- knowledge, and their understanding of egies were incorporated to promote the role that general education plays in the use of critical thinking skills and to making informed life decisions, particu- bolster levels of student engagement. To larly those about socio-scientific issues. 43 We Rise Quarterly Digest, College of Humanities and Sciences September 2017 Self-Direct Language Development: A Study of First-Year College Writers by Fran Pistoresi

In their article “Self-Directed Language The authors concluded that “The language Development: A Study of First-Year College Writers,” awareness promoted by the LDP may matter more Dana Ferris, Grant Eckstein, and Garrett DeHond than that the specific resources provided” (Ferris, examine the attitudes and needs of grammar and usage Eckstein & DeHond, 2017, p. 436). In subsequent instruction for First-Year Composition (FYC) students. terms, instructors used other resources such as The authors assert that explicit language instruction readings and website links to promote self-study. has largely disappeared in FYC classes over the past College instructors of all disciplines could therefore thirty years and that both monolingual English infer that when providing feedback on student writing, speakers and English language learners would benefit including simple and specific-to-need resources for from direct language instructions. There is concern self-directed study can help students close the gap because a gap has been created between what students between their current skill level and college writing are expected to achieve through college writing and expectations. o what they are taught to do. Reference: The authors created a study of FYC students at a large California university that began with students Ferris, D., Eckstein, G., & DeHond, G. (2017). completing a questionnaire concerning language Self-directed language development: A study of first-year college writers. instruction. The students were then separated into two Research in the Teaching of English, 51(4), groups, one that completed a series of self-directed 418-440. Retrieved from https://search- proquest-com.contentproxy.phoenix. online grammar lessons and another that completed edu/docview/1903429152/fulltextPDF/ a series of entries into a vocabulary and style journal. E157D0E0F46F44B6PQ/1?accountid=458 Students completed a second survey at the conclusion of the study. While the lessons’ effect on student writing was unclear due to the design of pre- and post-study writing tasks, the authors found that their FYC students “overwhelmingly wanted and expected language instruction and were largely positive about both types of LDP [Language Development Projects]” (Ferris, Eckstein & DeHond, 2017, p. 418). English language learners largely requested additional grammar instruction beyond the self-directed projects. Ferris, Eckstein, and DeHond found that student choice of what to study and proper guidance were essential elements of writing instruction. "Russian Sage" Image courtesy of Erica Letourneau

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Picture Perfect: The Face of Humanities and Sciences by Teri Hirlinger The Faculty Photo Contest theme “Picture Perfect: The uniqueness of concept, and how the photographer Face of Humanities and Sciences” was a big hit! Who knew interpreted the theme. that we had such a powerhouse of budding photographers First place winner is A. Dargahi, who received within our midst? Everyone had their own ideas of what a $100 gift card; her photo graces the cover of the digest. the “face of humanities Second place winner is J. DelliCarpini, who received a and sciences” meant to $50 gift card and his photo is featured within the digest. them. We had many selfies You will also notice other photos submitted by faculty and vacation pictures sprinkled throughout the digest. all vying to be the first We want to thank all of you who entered our winner of what I hope will contest and want to encourage you to continue to send become an annual event. pictures that can be used in the quarterly digest (please A committee no images of children or other protected classes). Please of three judges based email to the We Rise Quarterly Digest’s inbox at COHS. their voting criteria on [email protected]. o originality, creativity, Image courtesy of Pexels

L. Burns J. Garot C. Jenkins C. Roquemore

E. Murra R. Bucheit L. Evans K. Rucker

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Recommended Reading List for September 2017

by Fran Pistoresi

The first article is entitled “Ten Online Teaching Tips Shapiro’s article “Professional Skills as Cornerstones You May Not Have Heard” and is found in Faculty of Liberal Education: Moving Students from Theory Focus. In this article, Noura Bada- to Action” in College Teaching out- wi outlines ten steps that help both lines a curricular approach to provide instructors and students have a better students with practical skills so that experience in an online class. https:// they may translate theory into action www.facultyfocus.com/articles/on- with future academic and real world line-education/ten-online-teaching- challenges. To retrieve this article, tips-may-not-heard/ visit the University of Phoenix Library and search for the Jan-Mar 2016 issue The second article is also found in of College Teaching. https://library. Faculty Focus and is entitled “Using phoenix.edu/Phoenix Screencasts for Formative and Sum- mative Assessment.” In this article, The article “Using Online Journals Megan Von Bergan explains the Yosemite and In-Class Note Cards for Reflective Image courtesy of Fran Pistoresi many benefits of using screencasts as and Responsive Teaching and Learn- feedback for student work. https://www.facultyfocus. ing” by Vanessa Slinger-Friedman and Lynn M. Patter- com/articles/teaching-with-technology-articles/us- son also found in College Teaching explains the benefits ing-screencasts-for-formative-and-summative-assess- of requiring students to complete journaling activities ment/ so the instructor can address areas of student confu- sion in a timely manner. To retrieve this article, visit The next article by Rick Holbeck, et al., entitled “Re- the University of Phoenix Library and search for the porting Plagiarism in the Online Classroom” is found Jan-Mar 2016 issue of College Teaching. https://library. in Journal of Online Teaching and Learning. This phoenix.edu/Phoenix article explains the outcome of the authors’ study on instructors’ perception and enforcement of plagiarism In the article “Campus of Opportunity: A Qualitative protocols for online courses. http://jolt.merlot.org/Vol- Analysis of Homeless Students in Community College” 11no2/Holbeck_0615.pdf Jarrett T. Gupton examines the experience of homeless students attending community college. This article can Temple A. Walkowiak, Holly H. Pinter, and Robert Q. be found in Community College Review. http://jour- Berry published an article entitled "Reconceptualized nals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0091552117700475 Framework for ‘Opportunity to Learn’ in School Math- ematics" found in Journal of Mathematics Education at The final article by David W. Wildermuth entitled “The Teachers College. The author's identify key features in Benefits of Time Away” found in The Chronicle of mathematics instruction that affect students’ opportu- Higher Education explores the benefits that travel has nity to learn. http://journals.tc-library.org/index.php/ on teaching and learning. http://www.chronicle.com/ matheducation/article/view/1210 article/The-Benefits-of-Time-Away/240452?cid=wcon- tentgrid_hp_2 o Mindell Reiss Nitkina, Shelley K. Whiteb and Mary

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Call for Submissions - How Did a Degree Change Your Life? by Kristen McQuinn

On August 7, 2017 Univer- sity of Phoenix launched the new Reference: platform titled “A Degree Doesn’t Blackwood, J. (August 4, 2017). Just Change You,” with the ongoing We Rise continues with “a premise that “We do not just gradu- degree doesn’t change you” message. University of Phoenix ate students – we graduate families” ARC. (http://arc.apollogrp.edu/ (Blackwood, August 4, 2017, para. 1). magazine/05/Articles/Pages/ Thinking back to when you earned We-Rise-Continues-with- your first degree, how did this change Degree-Doesn't-Just-Change- your life and the lives of your family? A Degree Doesn’t Just Change You You-Message.aspx) Share your story in 250 – 300 words. Please submit your story If you want to read more about to COHS.BrownBags-Newsletters@ the new platform, please visit We Rise phoenix.edu with “DegreeStory_your- Continues with “A Degree Doesn’t Just lastname” in the subject line. Change You” Message o Tolerance by France Pistoresi In her novel Tolerance, University of three protagonists attempt to get from Author Kimberly Garcia is the Phoenix instructor Kimberly Garcia pulls THERE to HERE and thus save the long-time Lead Faculty Area Chair for off the impressive feat of crafting a story human race. It becomes clear through the Departments of Communications that is both creatively imaginative and the three lead humans’ experiences that and English for the Houston local instructive. Her story begins with the practicing tolerance not only provides campuses of University of Phoenix. She “Creator of all that is,” Mo, expressing to explains her intention in writing the his two sons his displeasure with humans’ novel: “My hope is that by putting the trajectory to destroy their own race. Son conversations on tolerance out in the Benny listens on, encouraging his father public arena, people will become more to give humans another chance while son cognizant of their own intolerance and Bane argues that his father should abolish start to take an introspective look and the race immediately. see what positive changes they can make Mo’s solution is to see if three people in themselves.” And it appears that can save the human race by succeeding in her efforts are working as she recently a series of tests to teach them tolerance. received an email from the Mayor of Resident pegacorn Destiny selects Jack Houston's office proclaiming October 13, Blighter, a Senator from California; 2017, as Tolerance Day in Houston. Ms. "Tolerance" Elizabeth Price, a reporter and single Book Cover image courtesy of Kimberly Garcia Garcia will be planning events centered mother of three; and Judah Stokes, pastor on raising tolerance awareness.To get of Church of Unity, Love and Truth. With the opportunity to bridge the gap of involved, contact Kimberly Garcia at the help of many colorful characters perspectives with others, but also to [email protected] or via her – such as talking bee Phibee and drag release the negative baggage associated Facebook page: tolerancethebook. o queen festival organizer Bobara—our with prejudice and narrow-mindedness. 47 We Rise Quarterly Digest, College of Humanities and Sciences September 2017

September Call for Submissions – Quick Picks by Cathy Smith

Calling all writers! And yes, you – that’s right, I’m talking to YOU – are a writer. The coming quarter has a lot of interesting literary and social events that you may not know about. A very few are listed below. I am challeng- ing you to send in your writing about one (or more!) of these events to be considered for the December We Rise Quarterly Digest. o

Births Deaths Other Events and Issues Anne Rice, b. Oct 4, 1941 Edgar Allen Poe, d. Indigenous Peoples Day, Oct 9 Oct 6, 1849 Frank Herbert, b. Oct 8, 1920 Gene Roddenberry, d. International Freethought Day, Oct 12 Oct 24, 1991 Vergil, b. Oct 15, 70 BCE Geoffrey Chaucer, d. Orson Welles performs The War of the Worlds Oct 25, 1400 on the radio, Oct 30, 1938 Ursula K. LeGuin, b. Oct 21, 1929 Anne McCaffrey, d. National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo), Nov 21, 2011 all Nov long Kurt Vonnegut, b. Nov 11, 1922 Christopher Hitchens, d. Carl Sagan Day, Nov 9 Dec 15, 2011 Margaret Atwood, b. Nov 18, 1939 The Sistine Chapel ceiling opens for public viewing, Nov 1, 1215 Mark Twain, b. Nov 30, 1835 Transgender Awareness Week, Nov 14 – 20

Christina Rossetti, b. Dec 5, 1830 Lincoln delivered the Gettysburg Address, Nov 19, 1863 Shirley Jackson, b. Dec 14, 1916 On the Origin of Species was published, Nov 24, 1859 Jane Austen, b. Dec 16, 1775 Sherlock Holmes Day, Dec 1

Arthur C. Clark, b. Dec 16, 1917 Human Rights Day, Dec 10

Rod Sterling, b. Dec 28, 1927 Fascism

National Supremacists

Domestic Terrorism

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The Music of Lindsey Stirling by Cathy Smith The music of Lindsey Stirling is magical and mystical. Through song and dance, Stirling reaches into the hearts and souls of her audience, guiding them on a fantastical journey of self-discovery. With 9,572,186 You Tube subscribers and 1,866,649,035 YouTube views, it is easy to see how Stirling’s videos and songs captivate audiences from around the world (Stirling, n.d.). o

Lindsey Stirling (Website) “The Arena” “Master of Tides” “Dragon Age” http://www.lindseystir- https://www.youtube. https://www.youtube. https://www.youtube. ling.com/home/ com/watch?v=4MC- com/watch?v=RrutzR- com/watch?v=AuJn- jU-Du3eI WXkKs vC8voJY

“Lost Girls” “Roundtable Rival” “Shadows” “Beyond the Veil” (Origi- nal Song) https://www.youtube. https://www.youtube. https://www.youtube. https://www.youtube. com/watch?v=pWn- com/watch?v=jvipPYFe- com/watch?v=JGCsys- com/watch?v=Qg7L0O- 7PYm-W90 bWc hUU-A QiN78

“Crystallize” (Dubstep “Zelda Medley” “Beauty and the Beast” “The Phoenix” (Audio) Violin Original Song) https://www.youtube. https://www.youtube. https://www.youtube. https://www.youtube. com/watch?v=b3KUyPK- com/watch?v=DTl- com/watch?v=X-AjhXh- com/watch?v=pT685rcs- bR7Q l3IPQOJ8 k19U B5E

“Skyrim” “Shatter Me” https://www.youtube. https://www.youtube. com/watch?v=B- com/watch?v=49tpIMDy- SLPH9d-jsI 9BE

Reference

Stirling, L. (n.d.). About [YouTube Channel]. Retrieved on July 11, 2017 from https://www.youtube.com/user/ lindseystomp/about

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Faculty Recognition

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5 Years 10 Years 15 Years Candice M. Shehorn Bonita J. Sivi

Gayle R. Thomas Ahmad Alkhayyat Norma H. Antunano Cathie C. Alder Russell E. Warner Omega E. Arteaga-Gamboa Mark C. Bell Rassoul Alizadeh Matthew Barrett Anthony Boccia Kevin G. Anderson 20 Years Ray Bitar Dianne A. Campbell Svetlana Averbukh Amanda J. Blekes Nadohou Amber C. Carpe Charlotte H. Babb Christopher C. Whitehead Luis Cintron Margarette Chavez Mary Bagley Robert D. Allen Stacy Davies Leonid Chernyak Kristina S. Barnes Erik P. Bean Stephanie S. Delong Cynthia L. Collier Mark A. Bateh David H. Bolton Maureen Doyle David L. Cook Susan B. Batson Thane J. Messinger Mark Durfee Rick De La Pena Joanna C. Bauer Sripathi Nilkar Michael Farrell Donald J. De Santo Paula K. Brobst Daniel Stark, Jr. Rochelle Harley Melissa Edwards Mary-Beth Brophy Brian G. Thiele Jilan Hatamleh Mary Edwards-Andrews Mary H. Bruce Antonio Woo Michelle Holmes Sally Fierro Lorna D. Carriveau Garret K. Yoshimura Lataunya Howard Yasmin L. Henry James E. Condon Javier Jaime Steven Herman Carolyn C. Crane Carlo Jimenez Michael Hilley Dean E. Dowling Muir Woods Desiree Johnson Wilbert Jones Bonnie M. Ellis See if you can find Antonia Juvera Angela Lipschuetz Yusuf E. Farran Matthew Kimble Kate Murphy William L. Gaught the fairies! Margarette Loiseau Claudia Norris Donald Haback Nashmeel Madjd-Sadjadi Jacqueline A. Novak Robert E. Harris Luanne K. Mauro-Atkinson Susan M. Query Cynthia Harrison Suzette W. Meeks Francisco Penafiel Robert H. Hart Jerry O. Nwonye Cesar Rangel Edward Hyman Murad Odeh Kimberly A. Raposo Ram I. Iyer Sam Ofori Keith Rolle Rita A. Johnson Rosa Osuoha Karmin Ruocco Elizabeth K. Kachmor Mark Preston Regina Sadono Sally J. Keely Arlene Reinhardt Yvonne Sherrell Joseph M. Kincaid Edward Rodine Tom Taylor Bob Laurent Laura Royster Nancy Thompson Helen M. Lopez Christy Lynn V. Ryan Bree Waite Catherine L. Malone Douglas D. Schorling Kenneth F. Wall Jayne E. Marek Clement Stubstad Will Watts Sushrut Mehta Todd Z. Takahashi Shalandys Williams Richard P. Mestetsky Deborah Thompson Marjorie Williams-Cooper Richard L. Moyer Chris Traffanstedt Sam A. Mryyan Deborah Tringale Wayne L. Neidhardt Nathan J. Urbancic Danh H. Ngo Donald Walker Tuan A. Nguyen Michael S. Weatherall Joseph J. Oslakovic Michelle Weiss Deidra K. Powell-Wallace Michelle White Udaya A. Ranawake Gloria A. Reeves Timothy M. Resh Nancy Reynolds Nashat A. Saleh "Fairies" Fred A. Salomon Image courtesy of Kristen McQuinn

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Accolades

• Denise Gilmore, Kim Mickle, Michele Lively: Conference Presentation. "Examining Higher Education Social Media Policies and Best Practices” at the 24th International Conference on Learning on July 19-21, 2017 at the University of Hawaii at Manoa. • Jenny Mark: Academic Review of The Hollins Critic - April 2017. Review published on New Pages: https:// www.newpages.com/literary-magazine-reviews/hollins-critic-april-2017 • Judy Drilling, Lori Brooks: Conference Presentation. "The role game science plays in promoting a growth mindset in the first year online college student" at TCC Conference April 18-20, 2017. • Mallory Dunkley: Publication. “Earthen Sustenance” in Afridiaspora. http://www.afridiaspora.com/earth- en-sustenance-mallory-anyango-dunkley/ • Nathan Coley: Publication. "Good Boys and Bad Things" in Crack the Spine Literary Magazine, July 12, 2017, issue 220. http://pub.lucidpress.com/crackthespine220/#YJUYqZUusL1G • Pamela Gordon: Publication. “The Role of Volunteer Organizations in Leadership Skill Development” in Journal of Management Development. • Rehema Underwood, David Mohr, Michelle Ross: Journal article. "Attachment Style and Leadership" in The Journal of Leadership Education. • Tracy Crawford, Melissa Stock, and Laura Policar: Conference Presentation. "Personalizing the Online Classroom" at the TCC 2017 Conference on April 18 – 20, 2017.

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Quarter Recognition Today! by Denise Gilmore

Do you or one of your colleagues have an achievement to share relating to one of the following areas?

· Scholarship · Service to community · Service to the COHS community · Innovation in the classroom · Teaching excellence

You may submit your nominations for our quarterly recognition program through this link: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/achievementCOHS. We encourage you to nominate yourself or one of your colleagues. Quarterly recognitions will be featured in the next issue of We Rise digest and on the COHS website. The deadlines to submit your quarterly nominations are:

· November 15th – Featured in our December newsletter · February 15th – Featured in our March newsletter

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