• Jean Falvo, coordinator of experiential learning in the Office of Career Services, successfully completed the distance counseling training program through ReadyMinds, Lyndhurst, NJ. The credential (DCC) is granted by the Center for Credentialing and Education (CCE), an affiliate of the National Board for Certified Counselors, Inc. Falvo is a licensed professional counselor (LPC) and nationally certified counselor (NCC).
• Dr. Pearlie Mae Peters, professor of English and a 2000 Paul Cuffee Fellow at Mystic Seaport, America’s Museum of the Sea, was a fellow in two summer professional development teacher institutes held at the Mystic Seaport Institute, Mystic, CT. The first teacher institute, “Black Hands Blue Seas: African Americans and the Sea,” explored the dynamic connection of African American history, literature, art and music with America’s seas, rivers and lakes. The fellows also studied the impact of life at sea on Cape Verdean and African American whalers during the Age of Whaling on the high seas. In the second teacher institute, “The Human Tide: Exploring American Immigration and Community,” fellows explored the classroom use of primary sources in immigration studies through hands-on work with museum teachers, curators, historical role-players, researchers, seamen and crews of the recently restored Amistad Slave Ship. Fellows studied original artifacts, archival materials, oral histories, period music, natural and human-made landscapes, cemeteries, photography, original and reproduction clothing, and the fine arts.