SUMMER/FALL 2011

ALUMNI MAGAZINE

Going the Distance Dr. Lois Engelbrecht ’10 shares how she bridges cultures around the world to protect children from abuse

Bill Clinton’s Public Speaking Tips Dr. Michael Eric Dyson Personal Message to Alumni to Get Your Message Out on His Unexpected Path to a Ph.D. LETTER FROM THE PRESIDENT SUMMER/FALL 2011 CONTENTS A L U M N I M A G A Z I N E

Volume 6, Number 2 Summer/Fall 2011 ALUMNI MAGAZINE EDITORIAL BOARD Paula Singer CHAIR, WALDEN UNIVERSITY BOARD OF DIRECTORS

Jonathan Kaplan PRESIDENT, WALDEN UNIVERSITY

Linda Leftrict CHIEF MARKETING OFFICER, Dear LAUREATE GLOBAL PRODUCTS AND SERVICES CHANGEMAKERS Christian Schindler VICE PRESIDENT, MARKETING, 2 BEYOND THE DEGREE WALDEN UNIVERSITY Walden Reclaiming lives through A&E’s “Hoarders” Emily Demarco EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR, COMMUNICATIONS, 4 INSIGHTS WALDEN UNIVERSITY Alumni, How to calculate the value of Valescia Lee-Collick corporate giving IN READING THROUGH THIS MAGAZINE, I’m once again reminded of what an SENIOR MANAGER, ALUMNI RELATIONS, ••• WALDEN UNIVERSITY exceptional community we have at Walden University. Your accomplishments demonstrate 17 24 30 6 MEET A FUTURE GRADUATE EDITORIAL AND DESIGN that positive social change is more than an aspiration; it is a guiding principle that you Managing a crisis hotline constantly live by in meaningful ways. Eric Brosch DIRECTOR, EDITORIAL AND CREATIVE SERVICES Features 7 MEET THE FACULTY I am particularly excited to have the privilege of welcoming President Bill Clinton, one of Claire Blome Two faculty members on their time in Qatar our generation’s great humanitarians and global leaders, into our Walden community this EDITOR 17 How to Become a (Better) Public Speaker 8 MAKING A DIFFERENCE week. As our speaker at Walden’s 46th Commencement ceremony, President Clinton will Stacey Phinney Land speaking engagements, prepare presentations, and deliver talks inspire us to consider our interdependence with people around the world and to continue MANAGER, CREATIVE SERVICES Why mannequins are better than using our knowledge to make a difference. As honorary chancellor ofLaureate International Donna Thomas 24 Going the Distance textbooks and tests Universities, he offers strategic counsel in social responsibility, youth leadership, and GRAPHIC DESIGN Learn how one alumna has embedded herself in cultures around the world 10 MY MISSION POSSIBLE increasing access to higher education. CONTRIBUTORS: to make a difference Sandra Bienkowski, Jackie Krentzman, Improving counseling for the Making a difference is something we have been dedicated to since Walden’s founding. Lori Putnam, Dawn Reiss, Christine Van Dusen 30 Rewriting the Rules of the Road hearing impaired As you know, during our 40th anniversary year in 2010, we surpassed our goal of 400,000 Walden is published by the Walden Dr. Michael Eric Dyson explains how he built a path to a Ph.D. and became service hours. I am pleased to report that we are well positioned to double those hours in University Alumni Association. 11 HOW IT PAID OFF The views expressed herein are those of a social activist 2011. I hope you will help us meet that goal. I encourage you to stay involved in volunteer the authors and do not necessarily reflect From dean to deputy commissioner activities—your own as well as ours. Consider joining us for Walden’s Global Day of Service official Walden University policy. 12 LIFELONG LEARNERS on Saturday, Oct. 1, or find opportunities year-round through the Walden Service Network. INQUIRIES NEWS & NOTES Growing a business by helping others Thank you for your dedication to Walden, for your service to your communities, and for Alumni Relations: [email protected] sharing your accomplishments with us. or 1-877-235-3561 WINTER COMMENCEMENT 34 14 WHY I REFER Commencement: ON THE SCENE IN TUCSON 36 Becoming better nurses together Sincerely, [email protected] ON MY NIGHTSTAND 38 Diplomas: [email protected] 15 A MESSAGE FROM BILL CLINTON Re-enrollment: www.WaldenU.edu/apply THE TALENT MANAGEMENT CLOUD 42 A call for social change 1-866-492-5336 ACCOLADES 44 Transcripts: [email protected] Jonathan A. Kaplan 1-800-925-3368 ONE DEGREE, MANY CAREERS 46 16 FROM THE FIELD PROGRAMS AT A GLANCE 47 Bringing healthcare to schools ISSN number 1557-5578 © Walden University 2011 HOW I DID IT 48 Visit www.WaldenU.edu/servicenetwork today to join fellow alumni and friends. www.WaldenU.edu/magazine

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BEYOND THE DEGREE

Payden was cast on the hit structure of pursuing a Ph.D. in the fundamentals are similar. Reclaiming Lives show after sending an email to Psychology with a specialization “My dissertation talked about the producers. Now, serving as in Counseling Psychology in removing stigma and shame. On the hit A&E TV show “Hoarders,” Dr. Darnita L. Payden ’05, an expert on organization on the an online format. “I found out That’s my goal when working with television program is just one of pretty quickly that with distance my clients,” she says. “I want to helps people reclaim their lives the things she does as owner and learning you have to be organized make sure my clients can hold executive director of Dr. DClutter and disciplined,” she says. their heads up high and not be By Christine Van Dusen Life Management in Washington, And though her current stigmatized. They’re easy targets; D.C. For the last three years she focus seems far from that of her people don’t understand how has also provided one-on-one dissertation, which is titled Life they can live like that. My goal is ••• THERE WAS LITTLE shelter because her house was life-management sessions, Outside the Bars: The Psychosocial to give them tools and strategies JOY IN CLAUDIE’S HOUSE IN uninhabitable. But things changed training, seminars, and onsite Effects of Incarceration on the they need to live the lives ILLINOIS, just tons of stuff, when Dr. Darnita L. Payden walked coaching for organizations and African-American Female Spouse, they desire and deserve.” knee-deep and everywhere: stacks through the door with the crew individuals. She helps people who of old newspapers, broken-down from the A&E television show are overwhelmed, disorganized, musical instruments, empty bottles, “Hoarders.” isolated, and feeling out of canned foods long past the date Days later, Claudie and control by focusing on improving before and after of safe consumption, and her Payden were standing at the their thinking, language, and granddaughter’s cherished stuffed upstairs window, watching as a behavior. bear, now moldy from months buried crew placed item after item out Her interest in this field took under clutter. in the snowy front yard and then root from watching her mother To part with these items into trucks. Claudie looked at the and grandmothers while growing seemed insurmountable for 22,000 pounds of stuff—things up in Washington, D.C. The women Claudie, and it was ruining her life. she’d long thought were her were extremely organized and Her marriage was in trouble, her treasures—and instead of being led by example, and they told 12 children no longer wanted to traumatized, she was doing Payden she could be whatever visit, and she slept at a homeless something she hadn’t done in a she wanted to be. So, at age 12, long time: She was laughing. she wrote down her goal in an My dissertation talked about removing “She said, ‘I can let it go. My elementary school yearbook: to family is more important,’ ” Payden become a doctor. stigma and shame. That’s my goal when recalls. “We were able to give her During her experience “ what she wanted: a home for her at Walden, it wasn’t just the Images This Page: Screaming Flea Productions working with my clients. children to gather.” coursework that prepared Payden ” for her current career. It was the To tell us about your Beyond the Degree career, email [email protected]. 2 WALDENU.EDU 1-866-492-5336 WALDENU.EDU 1 - 8 6 6 - 4 9 2 - 5 3 3 6 3 CHANGE MAKERS CHANGE MAKERS

Calculate the Value of Corporate Giving INSIGHTS AS TOLD TO SANDRA BIENKOWSKI

••• BRAIN SCAN RESEARCH SHOWS that when people give to others, it makes them feel better. Giving is a reciprocal relationship, and it’s no different with corporations. When people run a business with the goal of serving others, financial benefits will follow. People want to support businesses that serve. Dr. David Finch, the 2011 recipient of Walden’s outstanding dissertation award, demonstrates the return on investment (ROI) of corporate giving in his dissertation research. Here, the assistant professor of marketing at Mount Royal University in Calgary, Alberta, highlights the benefits from two perspectives.

Dr. David Finch ’10 | Ph.D. in Applied Management and Decision Sciences (now Ph.D. in Management) Sally Elford/Corbis

The Corporate Perspective The Nonprofit Perspective

1 DON’T UNDERESTIMATE THE POWER 2 EXAMINE THE NUMBERS BEHIND 4 CONNECT WITH A CAUSE THAT 1 VIEW CORPORATE SPONSORSHIP during events, receptions, and in 4 BE THE BRIDGE TO SOCIAL AND OF ADVOCACY. Is it possible to LOYAL BEHAVIOR. Loyal behavior can MATTERS TO YOUR CUSTOMERS AS A LONG-TERM BUSINESS marketing materials as well as press ECONOMIC VALUE. Nonprofit measure the value of people liking be defined by consumer purchasing OR EMPLOYEES. CIBC bank in RELATIONSHIP. Know that a coverage on TV, print, and radio. Let partnerships can increase employee your company? Maybe not directly, habits. If consumers are more likely to Canada is the title sponsor for the partnership will build value for both the corporate sponsor know how you retention rates, job satisfaction, and but you can measure how people purchase your products because they national breast cancer run called parties, as opposed to a one-time will feature them in a prominent way. productivity. By showing how your behave differently when they like your believe they share your values, you CIBC Run for the Cure. The run contribution to your cause. By nonprofit can provide social and business. One of the key behaviors can measure this behavior and track raised $33 million for breast cancer forming a long-term relationship 3 SHOW CORPORATE SPONSORS economic value, corporations will that can be measured is advocacy. its impact. research, education, and awareness with a corporate sponsor, you are YOUR MISSIONS ARE IN SYNC. want to form an alliance to further Will your employees talk about your programs in 2010. CIBC got involved appealing to something they want— Research the demographics of your your mission. company in their community? Will 3 OFFER YOUR EMPLOYEES A WAY TO because many of its bank teller long-term visibility and association corporate sponsors’ consumers your customers refer your company GIVE BACK. One advertising agency employees are women between the with a reputable cause to build and look for connections to your to their friends? People will only be donates $100,000 a year in creative ages of 35–54 who are passionate credibility. nonprofit’s cause. The NFL Play 60 your advocate if they trust you. Trust services to two charities, including full about the cause. The bank’s program, for example, recognizes Read an extended version of this takes time, but it is an authentic rebranding for the nonprofits. In return, management team strategically 2 OFFER A SOLID MARKETING childhood obesity as a major issue. article and watch a video of Dr. Finch demonstration that you share the the agency is recognized as more decided that if the cause matters to INVESTMENT TO THE SPONSOR. Celebrity athletes encourage discussing his dissertation with his same values. This is the power of than just a place to work, because frontline employees, it’s important You can help corporate sponsors by young fans to be active, and the faculty mentor, Dr. Howard Schechter, corporate giving. it’s providing a way for employees to to them. When employees stay touting the promotional value you NFL partners with nonprofits with at www.WaldenU.edu/magazine. give back. The company gains public because they believe the bank cares will offer them. Pitch the amount of similar missions to promote healthy recognition and fosters goodwill about them—that’s measurable publicity you can provide to them lifestyles. with its employees because of the value to the bank. partnership.

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MEET A FUTURE GRADUATE MEET THE FACULTY Hollis Easter Dr. Karen L. Kelly and Dr. Jock Schorger

By Dawn Reiss By Christine Van Dusen

••• WHERE I WORK: Reachout of ••• FOR THREE YEARS, FACULTY MEMBERS AND St. Lawrence County, a nonprofit 24-hour SPOUSES Dr. Karen L. Kelly and Dr. John “Jock” Schorger lived and crisis intervention, information, and referral worked in Doha, Qatar, to help develop a P–20 education system hotline in Potsdam, N.Y., that handles more that included high-quality educators who could address the than 28,000 calls a year. country’s literacy needs and promote educational excellence.

WHAT I DO: As hotline coordinator, I teach WHAT IS THE EDUCATION SYSTEM LIKE IN QATAR? volunteers to care for everyone who calls. Schorger: Prior to education reform in Qatar the schools were I show them how to handle everything Meet: managed by the Ministry of Education, with all curricula delivered from suicide and domestic violence to Hollis Easter entirely in Arabic, often by unqualified teachers. Accountability for people who can’t buy fuel to heat their student achievement was minimal, and the majority of students houses. Program: did not graduate with sufficient skills to be admitted into colleges M.S. in Instructional and universities. The current reform promotes school choice,

WHAT INSPIRES ME: I still remember Jennifer McCluskey Design and Technology with professional development of teachers and leaders, and a blended taking my first call on the hotline when a specialization in Training and curriculum that includes English and Arabic for K–12 students. I was 18 years old. I listened for nearly Performance Improvement six hours as a suicidal man shared his HOW WALDEN HAS HELPED ME: When Kelly: A similarity with other nations is that the key leaders in sorrow, pain, and grief with me—things Started: a major funder for the hotline angrily the country really believe that improving the education system he had never told anyone before. I’ll always January 2010 threatened to cut our program, I used it is critical to economic and social success. Qatar is one of the treasure his message the next day, as an opportunity to teach. I built and richest countries in the world, so school funding is not an issue; “Thank you to the volunteer who saved delivered a brief training program—in less however, there’s a growing need my life last night.” It’s a really powerful than two days—to explain our position. for qualified teachers. As with reminder of why this work matters and be as effective. The answer is “Yes!” I can Thanks to the training I received at Walden, “It’s all about any change, there is often some why it’s important to get it right. immediately apply what I’m learning. I was able to teach our funders what we resistance. We spent 75% of our Schorger: Education is a priority there, even though some do, the reality of the intense situations finding time building relationships so members of the previous generations remain illiterate. The current HOW I WANT TO MAKE A DIFFERENCE: WHEN I STUDY: I usually study from we work in, and how their requests did not that our guidance would be heard generation is rapidly embracing technology literacy, and funding Having grown up in a rural area, I’m very 10 p.m. to 3 a.m. and on the weekends. conform to the laws governing us. As a solutions.” and appreciated. is provided for wide-ranging initiatives that are invigorating K–12 committed to acting locally. I want to use Flexibility is key since my work at the result, I defused the situation and saved classrooms. We helped develop an e-school initiative that started the skills I’m learning at Walden to make hotline can come calling at any hour, day our business-sustaining $250,000 — Dr. Karen L. Kelly WHAT WORK DID YOU DO FOR with 14 schools, then grew to 25, then 80, then 100. our training more effective, and I want or night. There are always one to five operating budget. Our board of directors QATAR’S EDUCATION SYSTEM? HOW HAVE YOU SHARED YOUR INTERNATIONAL EXPERIENCES to help raise awareness about the value volunteers on the hotline, and I’m always was thrilled and later told me, “Your Kelly: I advised the education director on a wide range of issues, WITH THE WALDEN COMMUNITY? of distance education. on backup duty if they need help. master’s degree just paid for itself.” including standards and curriculum for grades preK–3, mentoring of curriculum specialists and school leaders, and the creation Kelly and Schorger: We used Skype almost daily, and we created WHY I’M PURSUING MY DEGREE: HOW I MANAGE MY TIME: I spend a lot of professional development courses for teachers. I also guided a Web site to show students and faculty the challenges and I attended a top-notch liberal arts college of time in the car. Thanks to Walden’s the design and construction plans for new school buildings for success stories. During our three years in Doha, we continued SM for my bachelor’s degree. When I decided MobileLearn , I can download lectures, kindergarten children. We opened more than 40 schools in three to teach and mentor doctoral students in the Ph.D. in Education to pursue my master’s, I wanted to see if upload them to my iPod, and listen to Refer a friend to Walden by visiting years, designed to serve about 8,000 children. program, serve on university committees and projects, and a distance-learning degree program could them while I’m driving. www.WaldenU.edu/refer. promote Walden’s mission.

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MAKING A DIFFERENCE INCREASE SPEED OF CARE

“My research found students educated in the care of a patient with a heart attack through THINK LIKE A NURSE simulation were able to perform CPR 30 seconds Paper or Plastic? “For many years, we struggled with faster than students taught through a traditional getting students to think like nurses pen-and-paper case study,” she explains. Why hyper-realistic mannequins are better than textbooks and tests and not nursing students, because “In traditional clinical training, nurses may the instructor is always there to help. 5 take care of a few patients a day, but they The human patient simulators help never encounter all the patient problems you By Sandra Bienkowski students bridge the gap from theory can replicate with human patient to practice more easily,” simulators,” Powell-Laney says. Powell-Laney says. ••• YOU’RE HAVING A HEART ATTACK. Quick: Will you receive 2 better care from a nurse trained with traditional pen-and-paper tests or with state-of-the-art simulation mannequins? Mannequins give 4 nurses an edge that could save your life, says Dr. Sharon Kay Powell-Laney ’10, who earned an Ed.D. and received Walden’s Outstanding Doctoral Study Award for her research into the topic. IMPROVE CONFIDENCE Here she shares how mannequins benefit students and patients. Studies show simulators increase confidence. “If you have done something once, the next time you do it, it’s easier,” Powell-Laney reasons. “Simulated REPLICATE encounters are still encounters. ANY SCENARIO Through patient encounters, nurses gain expert status.” Powell-Laney’s hyper-realistic, 75-pound human patient mannequins can breathe, 1 talk, and mimic common patient conditions that students might encounter in real life. Simulations include a patient having a heart attack TEACH CRITICAL or a stroke, a patient who is pregnant, THINKING

and patients who have had operations One scenario replicates a motorcycle where something went wrong. accident. “Students have to use critical thinking to figure out that the patient is getting pneumonia, while 3 taking care of immediate needs—like wrapping her leg—at the same time,” Dr. Sharon Kay Powell-Laney is the coordinator at the Princeton Powell-Laney explains. Information Technology Center (PITC) School of Nursing in Glenside, Pa. She is also an adjunct professor at Liberty University Read an extended version in Lynchburg, Va., and teaches nursing classes several times of this article at a year in Cap Haitien, Haiti. www.WaldenU.edu/magazine. Lisa Godfrey

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MY MISSION POSSIBLE

“When it came time to choose a thesis for my dissertation at Walden, HOW IT PAID OFF I initially thought I wanted to work on hearing impairment and eating Improving Counseling disorders. After doing some research, I saw how difficult it would be to tap into that particular community. So I said to myself, ‘What resources and From Dean population groups do I have access to?’ to Deputy for the Hearing Impaired “Since I was already a social worker, I realized the topic of comparing the effectiveness of Commissioner psychotherapy treatment

methods within the hearing- NAME: Dr. John E. Cech ’10 Psychotherapy patients ••• “I WAS BORN INTO A DEAF FAMILY. I’m not sure if I was born with a hearing impaired community was impairment or if it happened when I got an infection as a young child. We communicated staring me right in the face. DEGREE: Ph.D. in Education with a specialization with hearing impairments using American Sign Language—in fact, that was my first language. “I studied the different in Community College Leadership “Given that I had some hearing ability, my family relied on me to be their interpreter— rates of effectiveness in JOB TITLE BEFORE MY DEGREE: Dean and Campus aren’t improving as well making phone calls, talking to adults—and it put a big responsibility on me as a child. So treatment outcomes for Chief Executive Officer, Montana State University as their counterparts. as I got older, I tried to run away from the hearing-impaired community as fast as I could. those who worked with But by the time I reached college, I had regained my ties with the deaf community and therapists who used sign JOB TITLE AFTER MY DEGREE: Deputy Dr. Amy Storch ’10, made my peace with it. language, versus those who Commissioner for Two-Year and Community College worked with non-signing Education for the Montana University System therapists paired with Ph.D. in Psychology, HOW MY DEGREE HELPS ME BE A MORE interpreters. I conducted a EFFECTIVE EDUCATOR: Community colleges are survey with both sets of therapists and their clients, and the results clearly is on a mission to change affordable and nimble and can prepare students for demonstrate that outcomes among deaf clients with a signing therapist a career or to continue their studies at a four-year improved over time, whereas outcomes among deaf clients with a non- that. university. With my Ph.D., I was able to assume one signing therapist did not. of the key positions in the state to help create a “Walden was a huge help in my ability to conceive and complete this change movement that will help transform the project. My fellow students were amazing! We would often meet late at system and encourage more students to enroll. night, on chat or the phone, and sometimes some of us in neighboring states would get together to study. BIGGEST BENEFIT OF EARNING A DEGREE AT “Ultimately, I would like to continue leveraging research to create WALDEN: I had been following Dr. Terry O’Banion’s work for more than 20 years. He is one of the I realized my more support services for the hearing-impaired community. For example, giants in the community college field, both for his therapists who work with the deaf community need more training dissertation topic research and his innovation. When I found out he “ opportunities. In addition, the therapists need better visual tools—the deaf was the architect of Walden’s Community College community tends to be behind in reading comprehension levels because Leadership program and the program’s director, was staring me it is harder to learn to read without hearing pronunciation. I quickly realized Walden’s program was exactly “What all this boils down to is equal access—the deaf community does what I was looking for. right in the face. not yet have equal access to behavioral healthcare services. There is so much work still to be done!”

— As told to Jackie Krentzman Tell us how your degree paid off at ” Amy Etra [email protected]. Dr. Amy Storch is a licensed clinical social worker for the Hospital of Central Connecticut in Southington. She also teaches graduate social work

students as an online adjunct professor for the University of New England. Tell us about your Mission Possible at [email protected].

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LIFELONG LEARNERS

Walden, it was like something jumped off he partners with local colleges to create the screen and said, ‘This is it,’ ” he explains. internship opportunities for students. Growing a “I also knew it would prepare me to be a “There’s nothing more valuable than better entrepreneur.” Jones earned his learning something in class and then being bachelor’s degree in 2009 and immediately able to put it to practical use,” he says. enrolled in the M.I.S.M. “When I was attending a local technical Business by degree program, which college, I saw employers turning graduates The Graduate: he hopes to graduate away because they didn’t have experience. Willie F. Jones ’09 from this summer. I want to give people the skills they need He credits Walden to find reliable employment.” Helping Others B.S. in Business Administration >> with giving him the Jones instructs a crew of 25 to 30 Master of Information skills he needs to interns annually on how to do everything Systems excel. A course in from repair computer operating systems Willie F. Jones ’09 is ••• IT’S NOT AN UNDERSTATEMENT Management (M.I.S.M.) entrepreneurship to run computer forensics. “Over the years, to say that education is a lifelong pursuit helped Jones start the program has been very productive,” leveraging the skills for Willie Jones. He completed his B.S. in Aliyah Dastour planning how to Jones reflects. “Some of my interns have he’s learned at Walden Business Administration in ’09, is scheduled expand his business gone on to major positions with the federal to complete his Master of Information from his life. He earned an associate degree There’s no limit for globally, and he’s government. That’s a huge plus for them. to grow a multimillion Systems Management (M.I.S.M.) this in psychology in 1983 through a satellite recently jumped into I’m just happy to be able to help.” dollar technology summer, and plans to enroll in the Doctor learning program. “It was a sacrifice to “ higher education as far e-commerce to sell Jones eventually hopes to teach at the of Business Administration (D.B.A.) degree attend class after you’ve worked 16 hours,” information technology university level and to be an even greater business that helps program at Walden this fall. Jones admits. “But it was a welcome as I’m concerned. services. positive influence on his community. “It His interest in technology started in challenge.” Other courses humbles me that I can achieve all of these college interns get high school, when he absorbed everything And when Jones officially retired from were available. “I had always wanted to own ”taught him how to market to his client goals,” he says. “Whenever you achieve the real-life experience he could about the subject after class. the Army in 1998, he went straight back my own company, to be an entrepreneur,” base. As a result, he’s expanded Systems something of magnitude at any time in “Technology has been a never-ending to school—this time for a two-year degree he explains. Systems Solutions offers Solutions’ advertising, which has helped your life, you should strive to give back as a they need fascination of mine,” Jones says. But he had in computer information systems from a services that range from in-house and him land subcontracting partnerships result. I want to give back by sharing what to overcome more than a few obstacles local technical college. After graduation in mail-order computer hardware and with companies in Minnesota, Ohio, and I’ve learned.” to become the successful entrepreneur 2000, he worked as a systems administrator software repair to subcontracting for other West Virginia. “We want to be sure we are he is today. for a bank and oversaw its technology and companies across the United States. reaching an area much larger than our own After a tour in Vietnam, Jones was software systems. “It was an awakening for Shortly after launching his business, local community,” Jones says. Combined, honorably released from the U.S. Army me, in terms of being in the civilian sector Jones applied to Walden University for his these courses gave Jones the business Tell us what mission your second Walden degree is helping you achieve in 1972 but realized he didn’t have the of information technology,” Jones explains. B.S. in Business Administration. He was savvy he needed not just to survive, but to at [email protected]. financing he needed to pursue a four-year In 2006, he says, “Another light came encouraged by Sheryl Stroud-Jones (then thrive in a difficult economy. degree and re-enlisted in 1974, launching on.” Jones founded Systems Solutions his fiancée, now his wife), who had enrolled But owning and running his company a military career that totaled 26 years. in Hinesville, Ga., to land some of the at Walden as a Doctor of Education (Ed.D.) isn’t enough for Jones; he has an innate Education, however, never disappeared information technology contracts he knew student the same year. “When I researched sense of community service. For example,

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WHY I REFER H H H Learning With My Colleagues at Yale A MESSAGE FROM PRESIDENT

NAME: Lisa Rioux take students’ needs into consideration when they plan out the programs. The BILL DEGREE EARNED: Master of Science in thinking is fresh and current, not musty Nursing (MSN) and old. My colleagues can see my proud CURRENT JOB: Clinical nurse and internal enthusiasm for Walden and ask me about consultant at Yale-New Haven Hospital, it. I immediately jump on Walden’s Web the primary teaching hospital for Yale site to show them what it’s like, and I CLINTON University’s School of Medicine, in New always tell them how comfortable I am HONORARY CHANCELLOR OF Haven, Conn. speaking with people at Walden. So far I’ve successfully referred several co-workers LAUREATE INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITIES HOW DID YOU LEARN ABOUT WALDEN? to Walden’s MSN degree program—three I always wanted to go back to school but are in classes now and two are seriously it was never the right time, what with the Dear Walden University Graduates, considering enrolling. Walden is now on house, the kids, and working part time in the hospital’s list of preferred education my career. One day a colleague who was Congratulations on your graduation from Walden University. Today is the day when all your hard work, dedication, providers. and sacrifice are rewarded. It will always have great meaning for you, your family, and your community. This is also the a doctoral student asked if I’d considered day when you enter the world with the potential to effect positive change for those in need, for our environment, looking online. I was not computer literate. WHAT DID YOU TAKE AWAY FROM THE for our shared future. But I did some research into a few online There is no WALDEN PROGRAM? Getting my degree universities. At the time, I was taking care feels like the beginning of a greater Walden is a member of the Laureate International Universities network, which means you are now part of a group of my best friend from childhood, who was “ question that thing for me. It’s really given me a lot of of alumni from more than 55 institutions of higher education in 28 countries, a worldwide community that shares dying of cancer. She put a fire under me encouragement and confidence. Now I’m a commitment not just to personal advancement but also to social responsibility and community leadership. I hope and told me I had to do this for myself. Walden has considering the doctoral program. that you, as a graduate of a Laureate International Universities institution, will commit yourself and your time to giving back to those less fortunate, to your own community, and to our common challenges. There is no question that Walden WHEN DID YOU KNOW THAT WALDEN made me a has made me a better nurse. I am more WAS THE RIGHT PLACE FOR YOU? I knew Our world needs new leaders like you—people with passion, vision, and critical knowledge and skills. Throughout my aware of my leadership abilities, and my from the first phone call to an enrollment life in public service, and now through my Foundation, I have seen the power individuals have to make a difference better nurse. colleagues see me as a scholar. Recently advisor. I’m not an online person, and I in their communities and around the world. With all our problems, there are tremendous opportunities for change ” I became a professor at Sacred Heart and renewal. It is now your profound responsibility, as you build your own lives, to apply what you have learned to never read emails. It was a great comfort University and am proud to show my address the large, long-term challenges of your nation and our world. to realize I would have 24/7 help as a WHY DO YOU REFER OTHERS TO students that anyone, at any age, student. There was always someone to WALDEN? For the richness of the Sincerely, can return to higher education, accomplish communicate with, and someone to offer coursework, the simplicity and clarity of their goals, and succeed. — C.V.D. help when I needed it. the approach, and the support. The pace President William Jefferson Clinton of instruction is absolutely perfect. They Honorary Chancellor Laureate International Universities Refer friends, family, and colleagues at www.WaldenU.edu/refer.

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FROM THE FIELD Heals on Wheels (Better) As told to Christine Van Dusen Public Aaron Lockwood

••• “WHEN KIDS ARE NOT ABLE TO SEE OR ARE IN PAIN, we provide on-site medical services to get them back in the classroom, which in turn can improve their academic performance. That’s the whole point of having the Ronald McDonald Care Mobile, a 40-foot- long medical vehicle affiliated with Ronald McDonald House Charities of Tampa Bay and the University of South Florida Department of Speaker Pediatrics. There is one student I think about who had vision problems. He was a high schooler, from outside the United States, and was failing all of his courses miserably. He’d had surgery in a developing country, and the nurse on the van saw some abnormalities. She referred him to a specialist who uncovered a condition that was easily repaired. That child’s vision improved dramatically. It was all free, and his grades LEARN HOW TO LAND SPEAKING ENGAGEMENTS, The student’s grades moved from Ds to As as a result of the intervention. It took various outreach PREPARE PRESENTATIONS, AND DELIVER TALKS— efforts to expand funding for Care Mobile services, but you know you’re doing the right thing when you see the faces of these children and their big smiles.” WHETHER YOU’RE A PRO OR A BEGINNER moved from Ds to As “ By Christine Van Dusen — Lisa Kern ’10, Master of Science in Nursing (MSN) graduate, Supervisor for as a result of the Care Health Services, Pasco County, Fla., School Board Mobile intervention.

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CONSIDER THIS YOUR PRIMER: Tips for novices and seasoned

speakers alike, from experts, faculty members, and alumni who know

what it takes to win speaking engagements, present successful tanding speeches, and leave their audiences with a lasting message. Son the stage, palms a little A good speech should pull in the audience, inform them, sweaty, with a PowerPoint STEP ONE “ amuse them, and make them think. — Gregory Parker ’09 presentation on the screen ” Edward L. Holmberg and a room full of people Get the Gig 3. Promote yourself online. that can run in a journal, anthology, journals you read. You might find eager to hear what you have Build your credibility by networking or other publication. Or write a book. the association behind it also runs a Conferences, community meetings, rallies, coffee klatches—opportunities abound for with other influential speakers on This will build up your reputation as an successful conference. to say—this is the moment public speakers. If your goal is to share your scholarship, you can find an audience. social media sites, regularly writing expert, make you more attractive to But remember that patience is a virtue. Here’s how to land a presentation: compelling blog posts—or guest posts event planners and organizations “Many companies and organizations when a true public speaker on well-known blogs—and developing that need speakers, and give you book speakers far in advance and hold . . your own information-packed Web site a ready–made audience for your 1 Volunteer to speak at local 2 Market yourself through events just once or twice a year, so it comes alive. But getting to that offers examples of your writing, material. events or teach a class in networking opportunities. may take a long time before you are your community. Volunteering Whether you’re engaged in daily tasks research, and speeches. the podium to share your “Getting published in your area of chosen,” Farber says. to speak at events large and small, or attending a professional networking “I try to set myself up as the expert expertise can give you credibility as a and doing so without asking for a fee, event, think about ways you can . message of social change in a field by visiting social networking speaker,” says Saul Farber, a program 6 Sign up with a speakers can improve your visibility, give you market yourself. “Let people know Though signing up with Web sites and posting comments that consultant with the speakers bureau bureau. valuable experience, and open the door what you’re interested in and what a speakers bureau may seem like at a top-notch event takes lead back to who I am,” says author Leading Authorities. to bigger—and even paid—speaking you’re doing. Promote your agenda a logical idea, be aware that the and motivational life coach Pennie more than just desire. opportunities. “Volunteer to teach when you talk to people,” says Dr. . competition is fierce. “Everyone Murray ’06, M.S. in Psychology alumna. 5 Research a range of community education classes or speak Savitri Dixon-Saxon, associate dean “Take advantage of on those lists wants speaking “I’ve also done little teleseminars conferences. at your church. Any opportunity to of Walden’s School of Counseling opportunities with state, regional, and engagements, and it can be difficult to and teleconferences for free, where speak in front of five, or 25, or more and Social Service. Above all, self- national conferences. They’re always stand out,” Farber notes. The people I invite people to engage in an people will help you become more confidence is key, says Gregory Parker soliciting proposals for conference who do stand out have proven track informal, relaxed conversation with comfortable,” says Dr. Gary Kelsey, a ’09, a Master of Public Administration presentations,” explains Dixon-Saxon. records of success as speakers and me, virtually. It’s like a focus group faculty member in Walden’s School of (M.P.A.) graduate, Ph.D. student, and Start with professional associations compelling stories to tell. If you want experience, but online.” Public Policy and Administration. commissioner of the Texas Commission you’re a member of and branch out to compete on this plane, figure out on State Emergency Communications. into related conferences in your what makes you unique and pitch 4. Write for a wider audience. “Believe in yourself. If you don’t, no one field. Another tack is to research yourself accordingly. Take your thesis, dissertation, or else will see that in you.” the publisher of the professional research and convert it into an article

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Farber says. “And tailor your speech to STEP TWO fit the venue and the purpose of the meeting or event. Try to hear what you meet the have to say through the ears of the Prepare a Polished people you’re speaking to.” experts

7. Practice, practice, practice. Presentation “I like to write a speech in silence, in a Dr. Gary Kelsey, School of Public Policy and Administration faculty quiet room, and visualize the audience member Great presentations are interesting, entertaining, emotional, intellectual, and connect and what I’m going to say to them,” with the audience through skilled storytelling, Parker says. “A good speech should pull Parker explains. “Then I give my speech Dr. Savitri Dixon-Saxon, in the audience, inform them, amuse them, and make them think,” he continues. Getting in front of a mirror and visualize where associate dean of the School of there takes more than a set of note cards and good enunciation. Here are some tips on the audience might laugh or how it will Counseling and Social Service

proper preparation: George Shelley Productions/Photographer’s Choice/Getty Images be received.” Pennie Murray ’06, M.S. in Practicing your speech alone or in front Psychology graduate, Ph.D. in of a trusted and constructive critic 1. Start with an outline. “Never 3. Avoid technical terms. Use 4. Tell stories. Making your content 5. Offer detail, but don’t Psychology student, author, can help you fine-tune your message and motivational life coach underestimate the power of an old- clear, concise language. If you’re relatable is extremely important. overwhelm with statistics. and your delivery. “Practice will allow fashioned outline,” says Dixon-Saxon. building your speech from your thesis What’s the best way to do that? Simply Pick out the main points of each you to become really comfortable with Gregory Parker ’09, Master of “It allows you to map out your journey. paper, dissertation, or research put: Tell stories. “Communicate your concept you present; don’t bombard Public Administration (M.P.A.) the material so when you’re in front There’s nothing worse than a speech study, “make sure you simplify any research in a way that will connect your listeners with every last detail. graduate, Ph.D. in Public Policy of the audience, you can concentrate with no destination.” technical language or acronyms so with your audience by putting it into a “Figure out what it is that you really and Administration student, on the mechanics of the message,” that anyone can understand what narrative framework—what is the story want your audience to know,” Murray and commissioner of the Texas Greitens says. 2. Boil it down to three big you’re talking about,” Kelsey says. of your research?” says Dr. Eric Greitens, says. Commission on State Emergency concepts and load it with an accomplished speaker and author of Communications . Give real-life examples. When Don’t assume your audience travels The Heart and the Fist: The Education Remember, it all comes back to 8 Include a call to action. your presentation lasting power. Saul Farber, a program fashioning your outline, consider that in academic circles. Instead, give the of a Humanitarian, The Making of a your story. “People have a hard time consultant with the speakers speech in the same tone you’d use to remembering lots of statistics, but if Provide a call to action for the audience most listeners can’t process more than Navy SEAL. bureau Leading Authorities to take home. “It’s really important three large ideas at a time. “A speech explain the basis of your research to a you tell someone a really good story, for your audience to know what to with broad concepts in it is good,” new acquaintance at a cocktail party. they can often hold on to that and Dr. Eric Greitens, an do with your message,” Greitens says. Kelsey says. “But broad concepts remember the facts,” Greitens adds. accomplished speaker and author “Ask the question of yourself and with specific life examples are even of The Heart and the Fist: The then communicate the answer to Education of a Humanitarian, better. That makes your speech much 6. Tailor the speech to your Any opportunity to speak in front your audience—what do I want them The Making of a Navy SEAL more meaningful and helps people audience. When creating your narrative, consider who your audience is to do now?” relate to it.” “ of people will help you become and how your speech will sound. “Know what it is that they already know, so you more comfortable. ” — Dr. Gary Kelsey don’t tell them too much or too little,” 2 0 WALDENU.EDU 1-866-492-5336 WALDENU.EDU 1-866-492-5336 2 1 HOW TO BECOME A (BETTER) PUBLIC SPEAKER

STEP THREE Deliver a Stand-Out Speech

So now you’ve got the gig and you’re always looking down at your notes or 5. Read the audience’s standing in front of the audience. This is your hands. Maintain good eye contact physical cues—and adjust where the superstars are separated from and use your eyes to connect with your presentation as the ho-hum. Conquer your fears, steady your individual people in the room. necessary. As you’re presenting hands, and keep your listeners on the edge your speech, assess your audience for of their seats by following these tips for 3. Incorporate visuals and physical cues, Murray says. “Watch the giving a stellar, engaging presentation: video clips. Successful talks audience’s body language. If you’re often incorporate visuals and alternate losing them, make sure you can shift 1. Engage, inform, and amuse. between informative slides and video gears quickly to get them back on

More Tips From the Pros Edward J. Holmberg As you’re delivering your speech, clips, Farber says. “And err on the track.” Adjust your tone, vary your pace, Author Eric Greitens, right, was the plenary shorter side. People’s attention spans or rethink your body language—are speaker at Walden’s academic residency in think of ways to keep your audience Dallas, Texas, last January. You can spend hours writing and preparing a speech and working to book engaged. “Help your listeners be active, are much shorter than you’d think.” you too animated? Too relaxed? You engagements, but there are a few other points you should also include on not passive, by asking them to think can also try to reengage your audience your to-do list. about how they’d handle a certain 4. Complement your speech by asking a question. Once they situation,” Kelsey says. “Put an idea out with a PowerPoint respond, work their feedback into your 7. Enjoy what you’re doing— Here’s a cheat sheet with a handful of insider tips from the experts: presentation. It’s always a presentation: It can be a great passion is contagious. there and ask them to consider it. In • Check out the venue’s acoustics ahead of time, and find out good idea to adapt your speech into way to reconnect. “You can’t just talk. You have to some instances, it’s good to do small whether you’ll be using a microphone. Tailor the volume of your a PowerPoint presentation. “If you breakout groups. You can involve your perform it and draw people in with speech accordingly. audience in different ways.” can put your research into a simple 6. Reinforce your main point. good storytelling,” Murray says. • Study your audience. What kinds of speeches have they liked? five- to 10-slide PowerPoint, that’s Throughout your speech, make sure to “If they see you having fun, they’ll Which ones bombed? How can yours be one of the former? 2. Use your eyes and your all you’ll need to say in the speech,” restate your point often, Dixon-Saxon take their cues from you. You can voice to reach your Parker says. “All the rest is fluff.” It says. “It will show that you have a know all the logistics and mechanics • Know your intro. Find out how you’ll be introduced to the audience. audience. Even the best message also serves as a great set of visuals to clear message. It makes an impression. and still blow your opportunity to Will it focus on just a few things from your bio or follow it word-for-word? What will the listeners expect from you based on your introduction? will evaporate if you mumble and fail give the audience something to look The best messages are the messages be successful in front of the room. to project your voice to the back of at—something relevant, instead of their that are simply presented and allow Passion is key to your success as a • Get testimonials. Your work isn’t done when you step off the stage. the hall. “Make sure you’re speaking to phones—during the presentation. the listener to come along with you public speaker.” Take time to get feedback from audience members—preferably in writing all the corners of the room,” Greitens on the journey.” so you can share testimonials in your marketing materials. says. You’ll lose your audience if you’re The best messages are the messages that are simply presented and “ allow the listener to come along with you on the journey. — Dr. Savitri Dixon-Saxon Learn from the pros. Watch videos of past academic plenary speakers and alumni at www.WaldenU.edu/videos.

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Though this work has kept her firmly I’m like the missionary. I find all the research, By Christine Van Dusen focused on the present, she has recently and I find the right people to give it to, but then allowed herself to recognize its direct link “ Lois Engelbrecht doesn’t talk much about what to the past—and its ability to heal not just it’s up to them to determine how it impacts them happened to her when she was 6 years old, a student the wounds of others, but her own. and what we can do together. at a boarding school nestled in a beautiful mountain “I have protected myself emotionally range in southern India. It was 1961, and her parents for so long that these cases, by them- letter, Engelbrecht wrote about how some great deal of travel and relocation, so theirs were American missionaries working in India to improve ” selves, did not find their way through my older children had tied her hands and hung is a transient life. medical conditions and open up a dialogue between protective barriers. But five years ago, her from a rafter. The boarding mother who Muslims and Christians. In 1984, the couple moved to Hong when my mother died, it really hit me,” read the letter forbade Engelbrecht to send Kong, where Engelbrecht worked with It’s not that Engelbrecht is ashamed. She knows she says. “There was no support when it. “I got into big trouble,” she recalls. “We Vietnamese refugees through a Salvation the sexual abuse she suffered for years at the school it happened to me. When children are all learned that we could not communicate Army program. It wasn’t until she and her was not her fault. She’s simply too focused on today— in trouble, they have to have access to anything negative to our parents.” husband moved to Manila, Philippines, in on the sexual abuse still being suffered by children somebody who can help them. I want to After graduating from high school, 1988, and she began working in a Lutheran around the world—to talk much about her yesterdays. help make that possible.” Engelbrecht took a year off to study Indian church program, that the idea for her Since founding the nonprofit Center for the Engelbrecht was born in India during music and dance and then went to college nonprofit started to take shape. Prevention and Treatment of Child Sexual Abuse her parents’ mission there and attended a in Indiana to earn her degree in social work. It seemed that no matter where she in 1993, Engelbrecht has helped create systems boarding school. Every Sunday the students After that, she went back home to India went in the city, she encountered children of prevention and response in 394 schools in the were required to go into the dining room and met her future husband, Dennis, an begging in the streets and looking for little Philippines, Malaysia, China, India, Saudi Arabia, and and write a letter to their parents. In one international educator. His work requires a Vietnam.

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jobs. As a social worker, she felt moved to contractual karate teacher had touched the impact of the project on them and on so many doors. They’d say, ‘This is very need?’ ” she explains. “But I don’t want to talk to them and help them get back into him inappropriately. School administrators requested that they take it further—that’s interesting. We’ll look at your materials but just be a facilitator. I very much want to be the school system. In these discussions, were baffled. The concept of sexual abuse when we knew we’d really done our job.” you should talk to this other person.’ So I’d a part of the action.” she learned that many of the children had was a foreign one, even in the capital city. leave my materials behind and go to the Engelbrecht and her husband stayed Eventually she found people who were been sexually abused. There were clear laws in place to protect next place. And then I’d get the same story.” in Manila until 1996, when they decided working to stop sexual abuse in Malaysia, victims of sexual trafficking, but most “They didn’t know what to do, and to relocate, and he took a job at the She was an outsider, a foreigner. And and Engelbrecht was asked to replicate the judges, police officers, and social workers there weren’t necessarily any services for International School of Kuala Lumpur in she quickly learned the importance of program she’d created in the Philippines. were unfamiliar with the laws regarding these children,” she says. So in 1993, she Malaysia. Almost as soon as they arrived, humbling herself and showing deference This was particularly challenging, given child molestation. That meant that the formed the Center for the Prevention and Engelbrecht was out looking for an to the local culture and leaders. Too often, that the country has at least three distinct majority of cases were mishandled or Treatment of Child Sexual Abuse in Manila. opportunity to bring her programs and ideas Westerners approach other cultures with religious cultures that all address similar brushed aside. to her new community. preconceived notions and the assumption problems differently. So she had to find Engelbrecht’s first big case came In this case, the school was part of a that they know best, she says. people on the ground who could help her in 1995 through her affiliation with the “As a good social worker, you have church community whose leaders decided bridge the gaps. Lutheran church, where the agency to try to meet everyone and knock on “It’s better to say, ‘I’m here, what do they would handle the situation internally conducted its first pilot test to work in everyone’s door,” she explains. “I knocked you need? How can I facilitate what you “You need to find people who already by requiring the karate teacher to ask for schools in the Philippines. An 11-year-old Children participating in an educational session have the leadership skills,” she says. “I’m forgiveness. But the man refused to admit boy had complained that his school’s sing a song about safety. like the missionary. I find all the research, and I find the right people to give it to, but then it’s up to them to determine When children are in trouble, they have to have access to somebody how it impacts them and what we can do together.” “ who can help them. I want to help make that possible. In 2000, her husband was hired ” as a superintendent of the American any wrongdoing and quickly went into molestation. She also recognized the International School–Riyadh in Saudi Arabia, hiding. The school administrator who had importance of getting buy-in from the so the couple again relocated. It was during hired him was distraught and ended up in government. her time there that Engelbrecht decided the hospital. to pursue her Ph.D. at Walden. She’d read “As a result of our intervention and about the university in a professional Engelbrecht, who felt it was her duty 14 years of hard work, the government journal and felt that the school’s online as a social worker, helped create a system has stepped in and mandated that all structure would be a perfect fit for her of prevention and response by enlisting the schools must teach children personal nomadic lifestyle. government as a partner and by teaching safety and protective behaviors, and this

the school’s personnel how to better must be supported by community-based Peggy Fussell Living in Saudi Arabia also presented prevent abuse, spot victims, and provide multidisciplinary teams,” she says. “Our its own challenges: Women were given only Engelbrecht’s programs focus on the children’s role was to be there every step of the way restricted access to places like libraries. strengths rather than their deficiencies. the right support. Lois Engelbrecht partners with organizations in a growing list of countries and to train the teachers, the parents, and “But I loved that I could make my own She found allies in the school and the to improve the lives of children through her nonprofit Center for the the community. We created the necessary program and not have to sit in a class,” she community to help create an improved Prevention and Treatment of Child Sexual Abuse. support system. The first time a teacher says. “I really was able to tailor it for what system for recognizing and treating child and a parent talked through tears about

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She continued traveling between Saudi Arabia, Vietnam, and the Philippines until 2005, when the couple moved again, this time to Shanghai, China. Engelbrecht had expected to spend almost all her time on her degree and dissertation, but after stumbling upon a discussion on a Listserv for social workers in China, she was asked to speak at a conference on the prevention and treatment of child abuse. That Judge Cecilyn Villabert of Quezon City, Court personnel conduct orientation about Philippines, shows children legal documents court procedures during an educational session speaking engagement led a local advocate to educate them about how to file a case in in the Philippines. to seek out her help in creating training court concerning sexual abuse. and awareness programs in Shanghai.

Four years later, the couple moved to Ghana, where they currently live. My dissertation is designed to Engelbrecht is again attempting to replicate “empower social workers. her program in the country’s schools. But even with her widespread success ” as a calling card, Engelbrecht must still works best to meet my needs in my rather on the empowerment of social workers in sell herself and her services, given that unique situation.” the Philippines. awareness of child sexual abuse in Ghana is fairly new and any advocacy movements Engelbrecht was able to direct her Social workers are often the ground- are in their infancy. research to help her achieve the goals of level change agents in any community, CONNECT / SHARE / GROW her nonprofit organization, which in turn she says, but in countries like the Despite the significant obstacles, made her a better social worker, advocate, Philippines, the career is considered low Engelbrecht is unwilling to give up. She has and authority on the subject—and reminded in the professional hierarchy. “They are connected with several Lutheran schools her that there’s always more to learn. not empowered to do what they need to and will work with them to start a pilot JOIN the Walden University alumni network Professional resources and services do,” she says. “My dissertation is designed program. “I’ve been told that they’re not exclusively for Walden alumni: While in Saudi Arabia, Engelbrecht to empower social workers. I worked to ready and it can’t be done, but I will prove today at www.myWaldenAlumni.com! applied for and received a grant to bring » Alumni library develop a theory to figure out what we it can be done,” she says. “I’ve made it her programs to Hanoi, Vietnam, where » Career resources need to do and put it into practical pieces. my mission to use my talents to benefit GO TO www.myWaldenAlumni.com. her brother lived. She traveled there » Alumni news and accomplishments Then I take that to other organizations.” the world.” frequently and founded the Prevent Child » Alumni directory As a result of her research, Engelbrecht CLICK ON “First-Time Login.” Sexual Abuse Project, the first of its kind in And in doing so, she’s been able to » Member and event photos created a map anyone—in any country—can Vietnam. mend her own heartbreaks, bit by bit. “It’s SEARCH for your name. » follow to implement the principles of her Leadership opportunities like therapy,” she says. “When it happened » She also frequently returned to Manila nonprofit. ENTER your alumni ID number. Regional events to me, there was nothing you could do to to work on her dissertation, which focused stop it. Now, I can do something.”

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Rules of the Road

DR. MICHAEL ERIC DYSON EXPLAINS WHY “FAILING” AS A CHURCH PASTOR INSPIRED HIM TO BUILD HIS OWN PATH TO A PH.D.—AND BECOME A SOCIAL ACTIVIST

••• “YOU ARE NOT A PASSIVE CONSUMER IN YOU ARE A SELF-MADE MAN WHO STARTED YOUR THE CAFETERIA OF KNOWLEDGE,” Dr. Michael Eric CAREER AS A CHURCH PASTOR AND BECAME Dyson declared during his riveting plenary speech A COLLEGE PROFESSOR. YOU ENROLLED IN to Walden students and faculty members in Atlanta. COLLEGE AT 21 AND WENT ON TO COMPLETE “You’re obligated as a scholar to change the world YOUR PH.D. WHY EARN A DOCTORATE? in which you live.” The arresting orator, best-selling DYSON I got a Ph.D. at Princeton University because author, Georgetown University professor, and I failed as a church pastor. I failed in a sense that real-world activist underlined that learning is not I tried to ordain three women in the ’80s and it a solitary quest—there is a very real responsibility went over like a brick cloud. I was trying to live the to share your knowledge to positively impact your principles I talk about today. One Sunday morning, community. “Use your knowledge to transform the I went to my church and the locks to my office had world,” he stressed. Walden met with Dyson to learn been changed. I went in the pulpit and preached, more about his path to a Ph.D., his mission of social and afterward one of the deacons said, “Reverend, change, and how higher education opens up we have a problem.” And they voted me out on the “horizons of opportunity.” spot. That was the bitter comeuppance I received as a result of trying to institute real change and to bring about the transformation of gender roles within a specific local church. It was an eye-opening experience. I knew then that I really wanted to become a scholar. So I went back to college with an eye toward earning a Ph.D. Brad Newton

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OBTAINING YOUR PH.D. WASN’T A STRAIGHT PATH WHAT IS YOUR PERSONAL MISSION FOR FROM POINT A TO POINT B. WHAT CHALLENGES SOCIAL CHANGE? DID YOU HAVE TO OVERCOME TO COMPLETE DYSON I’m a social critic. So I have to try to bring the YOUR DEGREE? prophet’s tongue to the social practices of human DYSON I left graduate school after the first three community, as we struggle toward clarifying the years. I needed an outlet to express myself goals of democracy, freedom, and justice. I write vocationally and that would permit me to grow in my about those things and talk about those things, field as I was seeking to gain a master’s and then a but I also have to act on them. I’m a social activist. Ph.D. So I went to teach at the Hartford Seminary and I’m marching, speaking at rallies and organizations run a poverty project there for a year. And then I was that are devoted to social change. And I’m also an recruited to go to Chicago Theological Seminary for intellectual who’s trying to think out loud in the three years. I completed my master’s degree in ’91. public space about how to change the world. My

In 1992, I went to Brown University, and the next year role is to try to raise as much consciousness and, Brad Newton I completed my Ph.D. and published my first book on occasion, as much hell to bring attention to in the same month. A year after I finished my Ph.D., problem areas and defend the vulnerable and those incumbent upon older people to reach out to younger WHAT ADVICE WOULD YOU GIVE TO OUR I was a full professor. I was off to the races. who wouldn’t ordinarily have a voice to speak for people. I’m not a young guy by any stretch of the STUDENTS, ALUMNI, AND FACULTY MEMBERS themselves. imagination, but when I’m spitting their lyrics and WHO ALSO WANT TO COMMUNICATE THEIR OWN listening to them, it shows them that, hey, here’s an MESSAGES OF SOCIAL CHANGE? You’re obligated as a scholar to IS THERE A DIVIDE BETWEEN YOUNGER AND old dude who’s actually so interested in our culture DYSON The obsession with learning is important: “ change the world in which you live. OLDER GENERATIONS IN AMERICA? IF THERE that he’s not just gonna trash it. He takes it seriously The desire to want to know and to expand the ” IS, HOW DO WE BRIDGE THAT GAP? HOW DO WE enough to understand us and to defend us to his parameters of your knowledge and the desire to LEARN FROM EACH OTHER? peers. That takes you a long way. facilitate social change by becoming well-informed so WHO WAS THE MOST IMPORTANT MENTOR IN DYSON The generation that was once the young one that you can have empirical proof, the data at hand YOUR LIFE? turns into the established generation; their stories AS A PROFESSOR, HOW DO YOU CONNECT WITH to engage in the examination of ideas, practices, DYSON I’ve had extraordinary mentors. There are so become the stories of the mainstream. Their outsider YOUR OWN STUDENTS AND COLLEAGUES? or behaviors that are taken for granted. I think the many teachers who were instrumental. And they stories become insider stories. I think it’s inevitable WHAT TOOLS DO YOU USE TO BRING THE BEST online community opens up horizons of opportunity mentored me in their various ways and various stages that there is tension. I try to point out, sometimes OUT IN ALL OF THEM? for people who might not otherwise get a chance to of my life and career and gave me a sense of who in a humorous fashion, to older generations, hey, DYSON You have to have an open mind; you have go to school, and I’m all for that. That’s what my life I was. And that provided the springboard for me you used to be young, and now you’re beating up to have the ability to innovate. You have to have is about as well—opening up horizons of opportunity into higher education. I started hanging out with on young people, and you sound worse than the creativity at the forefront of your academic regimen. for people who are otherwise left out. my mentor Dr. Sampson when I was about 12 years parents you claimed you’d never become. And yes, A little humorous self-deprecation is always good. An old, when he came to my church to be the pastor. as you grow older, you get more sense and a better identification with the culture of younger generations We would quote poetry to each other. He was perspective, but you don’t have to become calcified is good. If they know I’m interested in their culture, “ We have to challenge ourselves invested in me in a very serious way. He said, “Use and rigid. The ultimate good does not necessarily they tend to be more open to my insights about your education to help others.” He was my model, reside in your generation’s way of doing things. “my” culture. I write books, engage in the practices to be open to new generations’ the inspiration for me to go on to become a minister, I think we have to challenge ourselves to be open of a tenured professor, and try to be as intellectually ideas and identities. a pastor, and then a professor. to new generations’ ideas and identities. It’s rigorous as possible as a scholar. You have your ” mission; you’re out there to effect change.

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More than 4,500 students from 50 states and 43

countries celebrated their graduation this January,

many at the James L. Knight International Center

in Miami. Degrees awarded at commencement for Commencement is

the first time included B.S. in Communication, B.S. in only the beginning.

Computer Information Systems, B.S. in Interdisciplinary Continue to connect

Studies, Bachelor of Science in Nursing (BSN) with your colleagues at Completion Program, M.S. in Clinical Research myWaldenAlumni.com. Administration, and Education Specialist (Ed.S.).

Alumni celebrated with family, friends, and colleagues in Bayfront Park in downtown Miami Making Connections, following the ceremony, enjoying live music, food, entertainment, and the chance to connect face to face with faculty members and classmates. Community The Walden community gathers to honor its graduating students twice a year at summer and winter commencement ceremonies. Find all the details about commencement at Celebrating www.myWaldenAlumni.com/commencement.

Graduates at Walden University’s 45th Commencement ceremony started a new chapter in their lives as they crossed the stage to formally accept their degrees Christie’s Photography

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Connecting With Students SPOTLIGHT Walden at the time, responded as part of the Cheryl Bender, director of emergency services ••• TWO FACULTY MEMBERS Dr. Tony Leisner, Disaster Action Team of the American Red at the American Red Cross Southern Arizona KNOWN FOR MENTORING and fostering of the School of Cross Southern Arizona Chapter. At Walden, Chapter, says there are always volunteer a true connection with their students Public Policy and Mar learned that emergency preparedness is opportunities available in every community, have been named recipients of the Administration, one of the most important aspects of public even for people who don’t have mental health 2011 Presidential Award for Faculty focuses on health. “The immediate response to a disaster expertise. Excellence, which recognizes leadership helping first- is important to a community,” says Mar, who and commitment to Walden University’s year students Typically after an event—whether it’s man- has 20 years of clinical experience. “I am students and its mission of social change. assimilate and made or a natural disaster—people’s basic prepared for whatever disaster I might face.” move toward completing their degrees. needs come first. “People always need a Dr. Patricia To do so, he brings to bear his years of In the tight-knit city of Tucson, Mar says it place to stay, or need food and clothing. Thurmond, of professional experience—as an educator, was difficult to find anyone who was not Volunteers can assist in a shelter or at an The Richard W. a businessman, and a participant in impacted by the shooting. “As volunteers, we operations center. We need team members Riley College poverty-fighting nonprofits—and a level of understand grief is a universal emotion,” she on call 24 hours a day to respond to anything of Education

Kevork Djansezian/Staff/Getty Images News/Getty Images understanding as a Walden alumnus. says. “We are there to empathize and to listen from a single-family fire to major events.” and Leadership, carefully.” encourages Knowing that a true connection can’t be her students forged with a faceless professor, Leisner Mar earned her medical degree in Myanmar Responding to Tragedy Together we to think critically and create social created a video to introduce himself, (formerly Burma), and although she has “ change in ways large and small, including which, in turn, encourages his students to her U.S. medical license, she would have can all make a volunteering for school projects, tutoring, post photographs of themselves and their in Tucson to attend a formal medical program in the coaching, and working on committees. families in the class cafe and creates a United States to practice here. She decided difference. personalized, collaborative environment. Public health graduate Khin Mar ’11 offers support instead to work full time as a volunteer so she — Khin” Mar She also mentors new faculty and to victims and shows others how to help could be close to her son, who is attending serves on dissertation and governance “I still run a small business, but teaching the University of Arizona on a full scholarship, Bender says having a cadre of vetted committees while working on course gives me the most satisfaction,” he says. By Sandra Bienkowski and to apply what she’s learned at Walden in volunteers to respond to a disaster is and program development, including the “I have been where the students are, so the field. essential. “It doesn’t need to be our implementation of the student assessment I understand the challenges they face. I organization, but we need affiliated system and the redesign of the M.S. in believe they can all achieve their goal of ••• IT WAS A SATURDAY MORNING On the scene, Mar provided support, food, The cultural competency Walden integrates volunteers so we can be sure we’re putting Education (M.S.Ed.) specialization in Middle completing a degree and use it to create IN JANUARY, and Dr. Khin Mar was and water to comfort people. News circulated into the M.P.H. degree program has helped the people involved in these emergencies into Level Education (Grades 5–8). positive change.” — C.V.D. participating in a Red Cross disaster training that federal Judge John Roll was dead. Mar interact with a range of community safe environments,” she says. class when she received a call to respond to Some people were in shock; others were members, she says. “It’s important to “I want to help change the climate of a very real emergency. It was a mass shooting inconsolable. Volunteers gathered around understand the cultural beliefs, behaviors, Mar says there’s a role for everyone who education by providing hope and direction,” in Tucson, Ariz. Fourteen people injured. Six a car behind the office as a radio broadcast and needs of individuals to produce intended volunteers. At the Red Cross, it could be she says. “Our students complete our Read more about Walden dead. Mar was called to the office of Rep. the news that Giffords was alive. Everyone public health outcomes,” Mar explains. As a stuffing envelopes, teaching health and program with a renewed sense of purpose faculty members and their Gabrielle Giffords, where family, staff, and cheered. result of her work, she was quickly promoted safety classes, offering comfort to a that generates positive change at the accomplishments at well-wishers were gathering as they heard to assistant supervisor of the Disaster Mental person who has lost everything, and even classroom, school, district, and national www.WaldenU.edu/ Mar, who earned an M.D. in 1982 and was false reports of the congresswoman’s death. Health Team. communicating the news of a birth to levels.” facultyaccomplishments. pursuing a Master of Public Health (M.P.H.) at someone serving our country. “Together we can all make a difference.”

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ON MY NIGHTSTAND Communicating in the 21st Century

••• Susanna Davidsen, Walden University’s director of library services, is responsible for one of the world’s largest online libraries, which offers access to more than 100,000 electronic books and 1.5 million dissertations. The library also houses more than 50,000 journals—many of which are now available to alumni. Davidsen suggests the following titles for those interested in learning about how we communicate in the 21st century.

CRUCIAL CONVERSATIONS: TOOLS FOR TALKING WHEN STAKES ARE HIGH by Kerry Patterson, Joseph Grenny, Ron McMillan, and Al Switzler Think about all the tough conversations you face in life: Discussions with your manager, a heart-to-heart with a family member. Are you getting the most you can out of these exchanges? Crucial Conversations gives you Masterfile/Ron Fehling the tools you need to prepare for conversations where emotions run high and teaches you how to be persuasive and make it safe to talk about anything with anyone.

THE CASE FOR BOOKS: PAST, PRESENT, AND FUTURE share by Robert Darnton YOUR FEEDBACK Darnton, the director of the Harvard University Library and a history scholar, is conflicted about how he feels about paper books— YOUR SUCCESS IS his first love—and about all the tempting opportunities the digital ••• world offers. It’s easy for librarians to conserve space by scanning and HOW WE MEASURE OURS digitizing old newspapers, for instance, but is that system infallible? at Walden University. Watch You can see his gears working as he writes about whether print will for our upcoming alumni Sporting Walden apparel and go away, and what it will mean for society if books do disappear. satisfaction survey in your accessories shows your university email inbox. So that you BORN DIGITAL: UNDERSTANDING THE FIRST GENERATION OF DIGITAL NATIVES SHOW YOUR spirit and lets others know you are a don’t miss this opportunity by John Palfrey and Urs Gasser to participate, make sure proud graduate of Walden University. Our lives are filled with technology—TVs, personal computers, smartphones, your contact information and above all else, the Internet. Consider these advancements from the is up to date at PRIDE WITH We have a wide selection of quality T-shirts, perspective of “Digital Natives,” children born after 1980: They learn www.myWaldenAlumni.com. and think differently than previous generations because they were hats, bags, umbrellas, professional accessories, To see information from born into it. This book will teach you how to connect to Digital Natives and other Walden-branded mementos. and advise them on matters of safety, privacy, and data protection. previous surveys—alumni —J.K. career outcomes, social WALDENGEAR change, and more—go to www.WaldenGear.com SHOP ONLINE at www.WaldenGear.com www.WaldenU.edu/DATA. or call 1-800-468-4332 to order by phone. Alumni now have access to many journals in the Walden University Alumni Library. Join www.myWaldenAlumni.com today to continue your research.

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Putting A Call for Peace in the Middle East Research ••• JUST SIX DAYS BEFORE THE thinking, to forego the ability to reason and Into Practice UPRISING IN EGYPT, Jehan al-Sadat, keep our anger in check,” she continued. the widow of the late Egyptian president Sadat concluded by explaining that today’s Anwar al-Sadat and renowned social leaders must be realistic and sincere, that ••• THE RECIPIENTS OF THE 2010 activist, discussed her mission for peace they must forgive and exercise peaceful PRESIDENTIAL FELLOWSHIPS from Walden in the Middle East at Walden University’s intent. “Ring the bells of peace, for then University understand that research is more academic residency in Miami. Soon, millions there will be no more hands to beat the than just a paper—it’s a blueprint for social of protestors would take to the streets to drums of war,” she said. change. overthrow Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak Sadat documented her efforts in her best- in their struggle for basic freedoms. Walden Doctor of Education (Ed.D.) student selling autobiography, My Hope for Peace. Judith Buenaflor received the 2010 While recent events highlight the complexity As a woman who waited until after marriage Don E. Ackerman Research Fellowship in

of achieving peace in the Middle East, Sadat Christie’s Photography and children to complete her education, she Educational Leadership for her examination Join Walden’s Global Day of Service is on a mission to keep her husband’s legacy attests, “Education opens vistas and doors refusing to believe our history dictated a of the challenges of mixing mandatory civic alive 30 years after he was assassinated. She in front of everybody.” — S.B. future of war. service with instruction. With the help of this ••• SIGN UP FOR GLOBAL DAY OF SERVICE, scheduled for Saturday, Oct. 1. It’s the says the answer lies in a tenet her husband $10,000 award, she will use the findings from perfect opportunity to effect positive social change in your community while collaborating believed: “Start from a position that all people “We all feel love and hate. We forgive and Watch Jehan al-Sadat’s full speech at her study, Service Learning: A Potential for with other Walden alumni, faculty, students, and staff. Our 2010 global effort included want to live in peace. Accept history while avenge … our fears cause us to act without www.WaldenU.edu/videos. Growth for Student Teachers, to enrich the more than 1,700 Walden volunteers who gathered in 455 cities to make a difference. service learning experience for the students From Baltimore to Los Angeles, Minneapolis to Atlanta, Mexico to Germany, Uganda to she teaches as an assistant professor of South Korea, and in scores of places in between, volunteers worked to beautify beaches education at Northampton Community and schools, feed the hungry, and raise awareness of health and education issues, Continue to Connect College in Bethlehem, Pa. among other service projects. Global Day of Service is a growing, proud tradition at Walden. Join your colleagues today. Visit www.WaldenU.edu/servicenetwork to register. With the goal of helping patients find the ••• THE EXCITEMENT IN THE ROOM best solutions for their mental health issues, WAS CONTAGIOUS in April when Walden Joanne Souza ’09 is investigating whether hosted an alumni brunch for graduates drug company advertising influences in Maryland. One of the many attendees, consumers as they pursue effective online setting earned her the 2010 Research to or greater than those gained by students Walden graduate and faculty member treatment. The M.S. in Psychology graduate Fellowship in Distance Education, an award in land-based labs. — C.V.D. Dr. Walter McCollum ’04, shared news of his and Ph.D. in Psychology student at Walden of $10,000 to support the pursuit of her latest book, Breakthrough Mentoring in the received the 2010 Fellowship in Research study, Doctoral Students’ Research Skills and 21st Century: A Compilation of Life Altering Read an extended version and Applications for Social Change, an award Self Efficacy Gained in a Mentored Online Experiences. Other graduates introduced of this article at of $10,000 toward her study, The Impact of Research Laboratory. themselves to the group and shared why www.WaldenU.edu/magazine.

Direct-to-Consumer Advertising on Health they attended the event. The overwhelming Jason Putsche As a faculty member in the School of Seeking Behavior for Depressive Symptoms. reasons were to meet local alumni face to Psychology, Stadtlander is researching Above: Alumni relations manager Valescia Lee-Collick, second face and start building new friendships. from right, stands with a range of graduates at the Maryland-D.C. Dr. Leann Stadtlander’s interest in whether the skills and self-confidence gained Visit www.WaldenU.edu/fellowships to learn Log on to www.myWaldenAlumni.com to Alumni Brunch in April. examining the way students function in an by students in a virtual laboratory are equal about research grants. reach out to other alumni in your area. Left: Dr. Walter McCollum, left, with alumnus Gideon Nwatu.

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SPOTLIGHT ••• TALENT MANAGEMENT IS CRITICAL TO EVERY repository of practices, beliefs, or frames that are pulled into a plan ORGANIZATION. Retaining engaged employees is a lot more cost for improving talent management. It should be continually tuned efficient than rehiring—and it helps you further your mission faster. so that it is a good representation of what your employees are Ph.D. in Management student Lisa Haneberg, a public speaker, experiencing.” consultant, author of 12 books, and the vice president of MPI Consulting, is on a quest to help organizations improve their ability to retain and develop top talent. For her efforts, she was recently Create Your Own Cloud awarded the Management Innovation eXchange (MIX) and Human Capital Institute’s award, the M-Prize, for her idea “The Talent “Gather a small group of leaders together and ask these questions. Management Cloud.” You know more than you realize and will find a lot of agreement.

1. What do your organization’s turnover patterns tell you? I chose Walden because it will allow “ 2. How can you describe the reputation your management me the opportunity to research teams have? six meaty areas of study. 3. What feedback have you received from employees that might ” tell you more about why they stay or go and grow or stagnate? At Walden, Haneberg plans to research many aspects of talent 4. What are a few of the reasons employees rank their workplaces management, including how organizations can improve success while as the best? building employee psychological well-being and happiness. “I chose 5. Does your organization have qualities that are similar to highly Walden because it will allow me the opportunity to research six meaty ranked workplaces? areas of study,” she says. “I love to take complex information and Designing a translate it to the practitioner.” “Next, build out the cloud. Don’t simply create a list of what impacts Here, she explains how anyone can apply her Talent Management retention; craft a guide that will help you improve your organization’s Talent Management Cloud Cloud principles to improve employee retention: business practices. Each piece within your cloud should be explained “Most people know that the reasons employees stay or go and so that leaders and employees know how to build and reinforce for Your Organization whether they grow or stagnate are complex and numerous. For strengths, solve problems, and remove barriers. the last couple of years, I have been conducting an exercise during “Move from cloud to system. leadership training sessions that supports this assertion. I draw a long Share the contents of the cloud Larry Jones line on a large white board and ask participants to imagine that this with your team, facilitate discussion, and select a focused list of line represents the employee life cycle from interest in employment opportunities, initiatives, or projects that have the greatest potential Want to retain your top talent? Award-winning Ph.D. to retirement or termination. for improving retention and growth. Implement what you’ve learned.” in Management student Lisa Haneberg explains “Then I ask the entire class to walk up to the board and to write what most affects whether employees stay or go or are able to develop. how to start by asking the right questions Once they get started, the reasons begin to fly and number in the Want to create your own Talent Management Cloud? Visit dozens. The board looks like a swarm (or cloud) of what most impacts www.WaldenU.edu/magazine to read Haneberg’s award-winning idea. By Sandra Bienkowski retention and development. This ‘cloud’ can become an evolving

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Accolades Presentations Promotions Publications Dr. Rose M. Handon ’10 Debra Huddleston ’11 Eric Beebe ’07 Virginia Chavis ’10 Margaret M. Travis-Dinkins ’07 Ph.D. in Public Policy and Master of Business Administration Master of Business Administration The professional activities of Ph.D. in Applied Management and Master of Science in Nursing Administration Named program director for Redmond Launched Bee Squared Publishing, which Decision Sciences (now Ph.D. in Co-authored Schaum’s Outline of Psychiatric Walden’s alumni are having Presented “Dangers in the Field: An Wound Care and Hyperbarics Center in Rome, will publish business, academic, and general Management) Nursing (McGraw-Hill, 2010). a significant impact on their Ethnographic Study on Client-Initiated Ga., where she will oversee implementation, nonfiction works. Authored “Learning Culture and Other Violence Affecting Child Welfare Workers” ongoing management, and strategic growth. organizations, communities, Factors Affecting the Adoption of Electronic Mirhonda Studevant ’05 at the “Work, Stress, and Health 2011: Work Alex Camacho ’07 and disciplines. Here are some Medical Records in a Tertiary-Care Teaching Master of Business Administration and Well-Being in an Economic Context” Dr. Terry Overton ’10 Master of Public Health Hospital,” published in the AAMA Executive Co-authored the chapter, “Collaborating with recent highlights. conference held May 19–22, 2011, in Orlando, Ph.D. in Psychology Appointed to the Substance Abuse and Online (January/February 2011). The article is Customers Virtually to Improve Content” for Fla. The conference is sponsored by the Named dean of University College at the Mental Health Services Administration based on her dissertation research. Virtual Collaborative Writing in the Workplace: American Psychological Association, the University of Texas at Brownsville and Texas in Rockville, Md., where he will combine his Awards National Institute for Occupational Safety Southmost College. Overton is the first clinical expertise and research experience Computer-Mediated Communication and Health, and the Society for Occupational dean of University College; the position was to help inform the collection, analysis, and Lorraine Marzilli Lomas ’08 Technologies and Processes (Information Dr. Laura E. Weidner ’09 Health Psychology. created to assist first-year undergraduates’ interpretation of population-level data. Master of Business Administration Science Reference, 2010). Ph.D. in Education transition to college. Co-authored Driving Operational Excellence: Received an Exemplar Award from the Dr. Marie Larcara ’10 Patrick Lane ’06 Successful Lean Six Sigma Secrets to Improve Dr. Walter McCollum ’04 North American Council for Staff, Program Doctor of Education Cyndi Stroburg ’10 M.S. in Education the Bottom Line (MetaOps Publishing, 2011). Ph.D. in Applied Management and and Organizational Development. Dr. Weidner Presented at the United States Distance Master of Science in Nursing Named K–6 principal of Chase County Decision Sciences (now Ph.D. in is the dean of workforce development at Learning Association’s “International Forum Named chief nursing officer at StoneCrest Schools in Cheyenne, Wyo. Chase J. Young ’08 Management) Anne Arundel Community College. for Women in E-Learning” in December 2010 Medical Center in Smyrna, Tenn. M.S. in Education Authored and published Breakthrough and accepted a position as an instructional John Thompson ’06 Co-authored a chapter, “Mentoring Authors’ Mentoring in the 21st Century: A Compilation designer at Canisius College in Buffalo, N.Y. Julie Mullikin Beard ’09 Ph.D. in Health Services Margaret Young Bennett ’06 Voices Through Readers’ Theater,” in the book of Life Altering Experiences (Dr. Walter R. M.S. in Education Master of Science in Nursing Heads the District of Columbia Office Writing Strategies for All Primary Students: McCollum, 2011). Won a WYFF-TV Golden Apple Award Patrick McGee ’08 Accepted a position as a faculty member on Aging in Washington, D.C. Thompson is Scaffolding Independent Writing with for excellence in teaching. Bennett was M.S. in Education and full-time instructor in the Practical the senior policy advisor for the National Differentiated Mini-Lessons (Jossey-Bass, Dr. Shamir Andrew Ally ’94 nominated by the parents of a special Featured in THE Journal for his presentation Nursing program at Tri-County Technical Association of States United for Aging and 2011). Ph.D. in Applied Management and education student for her efforts to fully on engaging students through technology at College in Pendleton, S.C. Disabilities and the director of the National Decision Sciences (now Ph.D. in integrate their daughter into the classroom. the FETC 2011 conference. Aging Information and Referral Support Mary Ervi ’08 Center. Dr. Stacey A. Anderson ’07 Management) Kathleen Werner ’03 Dr. Geneva Craig ’04 Master of Science in Nursing Ph.D. in Psychology Authored a chapter, “A Look at the Watching M.S. in Education Ph.D. in Public Health Certified as a nurse educator by the Diane Zanetti ’06 Authored the article “Effect of Music on Friends and Relatives Market Segment at Named 2011 Washington State Was keynote speaker at the Alaska National League for Nursing and accepted M.S. in Psychology Reading Comprehension of Junior High the 2007 Cricket World Cup,” in the book Elementary Principal of the Year by the Statewide Nurses Convention in October a position as an associate professor at the Named executive director of Turning Students,” in School Psychology Quarterly Sports Event Management: The Caribbean Association of Washington School Principals. 2010. University of Mary Hardin-Baylor in Belton, Point of Lehigh Valley in Allentown, Pa., an (September 2010). Experience (University of the West Indies, Werner was selected from 18 statewide Texas. organization committed to ending domestic Trinidad & Tobago, 2010). winners. violence. Dr. Cassandra Robison ’07 Don Nelson ’08 Ph.D. in Education Dr. Robert G. Falter ’93 Master of Business Administration David Buddenbaum ’05 Authored A Brief Introduction to Writing Ph.D. in Health Services Promoted to vice president of facilities M.S. in Education Poetry: Heart’s Craft (Pearson Publishers, We want to hear from you! Received the 2010 Educator of the Year operations at PRIDE Industries, a leading Named principal of North Hart Elementary 2012). Share your accomplishments at Award from the Worcester, Mass., Regional employer of people with disabilities. School in Bowersville, Ga. Buddenbaum’s [email protected].

Association of Realtors. new post culminates a 20-year career in education.

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Programs at a Glance

Walden University offers programs at the bachelor’s, master’s, and doctoral levels to help working adults like you accomplish your personal goals and prepare for career advancement. Now is the perfect time to return to Walden or share this information with your friends, family, and colleagues. (new programs in bold) , DOCTORAL Management Nursing degree Business Administration (D.B.A.) Marriage, Couple, and Family Counseling Project Management Counselor Education and Supervision Mental Health Counseling Psychology Education (Ed.D.) Nonprofit Management and Leadership Public Policy and Administration many careers Education (Ph.D.) Nursing (MSN) SPECIALIST Health Services Project Management Ed.S. in Administrator Leadership Human Services Psychology for Teaching and Learning Management Public Administration (M.P.A.) Ed.S. in Curriculum, Instruction, and Nursing Practice (DNP) Public Health (M.P.H.) Professional Development Psychology Public Policy (M.P.P.) Master of Business Administration (M.B.A.) Ed.S. in Educational Leadership and Public Health Teacher Preparation Program with a Administration (Principal Preparation) See the diverse mix of careers held by graduates who all Public Policy and Administration Master of Arts in Teaching (M.A.T.) Ed.S. in Educational Technology

Dave Cutler/Stock Illustration Source completed the same degree program. MASTER’S BACHELOR’S Ed.S. in Special Education Accounting Accounting Ed.S. in Teacher Leadership Accounting and Management Business Administration ENDORSEMENT PROGRAMS Sherry Amberson ’10 Douglas Biere ’07 Antonia Natale ’10 Adult Learning Child Development 1. 4. 8. Special Education Endorsement Programs DIRECTOR OF HUMAN RESOURCES & PRODUCT MANAGER OWNER Business Administration (M.B.A.) Communication Special Education Endorsement Programs EMPLOYEE HEALTH SERVICES Continental Western Group Abacus Daily Money Management Career Counseling Computer Information Systems with an M.S. in Education with a Ochsner Health System Des Moines, Iowa Mead, Colo. Clinical Psychology Criminal Justice Specialization in Special Education New Orleans, La. Clinical Research Administration Educational Studies

5. Kenneth Christine ’10 9. Charles Richardson ’10 Criminal Justice Forensic Psychology 2. Malica E. Dunnock ’07 FOUNDER/CONSULTANT SENIOR TECHNICAL SUPPORT ENGINEER Criminal Justice Leadership and Executive Health Studies SENIOR FINANCIAL ANALYST, ThisIsItShops.com LLC/SOHO Consulting Raytheon Management Healthcare Management For more information on education licensure and RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT Royal Oak, Mich. El Segundo, Calif. Early Childhood Studies Information Technology professional accreditation, visit www.WaldenU. edu/educlicensure. SafeNet, Inc. Education (M.S.Ed.) Instructional Design and Technology Belcamp, Md. 6. Alicia Fereday ’07 10. Luc Riel ’09 Forensic Psychology Interdisciplinary Studies DIRECTOR, ANNUAL FUND SERVER PRODUCT LEAD TEST Health Informatics Nursing (BSN) Completion Program For more information about Walden’s 3. Harry Imbeau ’10 Cornell Law School EQUIPMENT ENGINEER Healthcare Administration (M.H.A.) Political Science and Public Administration programs, including a complete list Higher Education Psychology DIRECTOR OF INTERNATIONAL Ithaca, N.Y. IBM of program specializations, go to EDUCATION Essex Junction, Vt. Human Resource Management Public Health www.WaldenU.edu. Emporia State University Terri Eileen Liggins ’09 Information Systems 7. CERTIFICATE Emporia, Kan. GHOSTWRITER Information Systems Management (M.I.S.M.) Clinical Research Administration The Literary Front Information Technology Refer someone to Walden at Read an extended version of this list at Education San Diego, Calif. www.WaldenU.edu/magazine. Instructional Design and Technology www.WaldenU.edu/refer. Information Systems Leadership

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Document and Weapons Exploitation Detachment. That is where I wrote the bulk of my dissertation.

WHERE I LIVED: In Afghanistan, I lived in what could only be described as half of a semi-truck trailer. It was extremely cramped, dark, and dusty, with a single window that I tried to keep closed to limit the dust flow. I slept on a metal cot—which actually was pretty comfortable after 16-hour days!

WHEN I STUDIED: I got up around 5:30 each morning to review the flow and progress of my dissertation before I reported to my office at 7. I would usually stay until close to midnight to research material or draft sections of my dissertation—but only when the mission allowed. For example, whenever there was insurgent activity—and this could happen weekly—the mission’s focus required all of my attention.

MOST CHALLENGING PART: Trying to work in a war zone. I was stationed at a base in Kabul, just outside the Green Zone. I remember my first night there; it was close to 1 a.m., and I was just starting to fall asleep. I heard machine-gun fire in the distance—it was daunting, but I came to accept this as routine, like crickets back home. I had to  get used to the idea that attacks on your compound are a fact of life  there. When our base was hit directly with a rocket attack, we had to  take cover in hardened bunkers. During one attack, I suffered a torn rotator cuff from a fall—this made typing challenging and hampered Plant the seeds of inspiration How I Did It both my mission responsibilities and dissertation progress.

HOW OTHERS HELPED ME: I had the unwavering motivation from LISA RIOUX ’10, MSN Inspire your colleagues, friends, and family members Lisa refers her colleagues at my family and unconditionalMore info support of my dissertation committee. Yale-New Haven Hospital to who share your commitment to lifelong learning by DR. JOHN CHERRY ’09 My family would sendon thestudy Ph.D. packages—mostly snacks and pictures Walden for the richness of the referring them to Walden. from home—and referenceprogram material at as needed, and my committee coursework and the 24/7 support. DEGREE EARNED: Ph.D. in Applied Management and Decision members were willingwaldenu.edu to listen to ideas about my research at odd Sciences (now Ph.D. in Management) with a specialization in hours due to the time difference. “Getting my degree has really Engineering Management given me a lot of confidence.” Visit www.WaldenU.edu/refer or call WHAT KEPT ME MOTIVATED: I wanted my children and my wife to 1-877-209-1357 to refer someone you Learn more about Lisa on HOW I PAID FOR IT: My tuition was subsidized by the federal be proud of the fact that I had attained a Ph.D. I wanted my parents page 14 of this issue. know to Walden today. government, USAF to be similarly proud.

HOW LONG IT TOOK: Five years, including two leaves of absence MY NEXT BIG CHALLENGE: I currently have a civilian assignment for deployments with the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter Program as enterprise data architect, procuring the next generation strike aircraft for the WHAT I WAS DOING AT THE SAME TIME: After I was accepted at Department of Defense. When that ends, I will rejoin the Air Force Walden in 2005, I volunteered to go to Iraq. When I came home, Research Laboratory. — J.K. I began the program and completed Air War College for the U.S. Air Force. In 2008, I was assigned to a yearlong training and deployment mission to Afghanistan as the Commander for the Tell us how you did it at [email protected].

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