Scholarly Activities

• Dr. Gerald Klein, associate professor of organizational behavior and management, has had his review of the book, Making Stories: A Practical Guide for Organization Leaders and Human Resource Specialists, by Terrence Gargiulo, published the spring issue of the Academy of Management's pedagogical journal, Academy of Management Learning and Education.
• John Buschman, professor-librarian at Rider University and department chair at Rider University Libraries, had his short essay, "The Customer Model and Diminishing the Public Sphere" published in the March/April issue of Public Libraries (the magazine of the Public Library Association division of the American Library Association).  It was part of a "Perspectives" column with seven other authors debating the use of the word "customer" in our field.  His book, Dismantling the Public Sphere: Situating and Sustaining Librarianship in the Age of the New Public Philosophy, was the basis of another of the essays by Samuel Trosow of the University of Western Ontario Faculty of Information and Media Studies. The book has also been selected for the New Jersey Library Association (NJLA) 2003 Research Award.  Buschman will receive the award April 20 during the College & University Section luncheon at the NJLA Spring Conference at the East Brunswick Hilton.
• Dr. Mary Morse, assistant professor of English, organized, chaired, and moderated "Adaptation and Transfer: Teaching English Majors to Write for the Workplace," a Special Session presented at the 2003 Modern Language Association convention held in San Diego in December. Panelists included Peter Beidler, professor of English at Lehigh University, Bethlehem, PA, speaking about a course he developed in partnership with Rodale, Inc.; Virginia Dorgan, instructor in English at Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, speaking about Kinneavy's Communications Triangle as a model for workplace writing; and Richard Jewell, instructor in English at Inver Hills Community College (MN), speaking on the connections between real-world expectations and students' writing selves.
• Dr. Frank Louis Rusciano, professor and chairperson of the political science department, and Dr. Roberta Fiske-Rusciano, adjunct assistant professor of political science, presented a paper co-authored with Christopher J. Hill of the London School of Economics at the International Studies Association Annual Meeting in Montreal on March 17, 2004.   The paper was entitled "International Media Perspectives on World Opinion during the War with Iraq."  Frank Rusciano and Christopher Hill also presented a co-authored paper entitled "Global Opinion Theory and the English School of International Relations" at the conference on March 19, 2004.  In addition, Frank Rusciano served as a discussant on a panel entitled "The English School, 9/11, and the War with Iraq."  Roberta Fiske-Rusciano is the discussant for a panel entitled "Diaspora and Migration," at the upcoming Association for the Study of Nationalities conference, April 17, 2004, hosted by the Harriman Institute, Columbia University.
• Dr. Pearlie Peters, professor of English, recently published an article entitled "A Reinvestigation of the Frederick Douglass-Nantucket Connection" in The Zora Neale Hurston Forum (Official Publication of the Zora Neale Hurston Society), Volume XVII 2003.  The article is based on research Peters conducted on Frederick Douglass on Nantucket Island under the auspices of a James Bradford Ames Fellowship at the University of Massachusetts at Boston.
• Dr. Stefan C. Dombrowski, assistant professor of graduate education (school psychology), presented a paper entitled, “Norm-referenced and Curriculum-based Assessment: The utility of each approach for LD diagnosis” at the Association of School Psychologists of Pennsylvania in Harrisburg on March 10, 2004.  This presentation discussed pending federal changes to LD classification and how each approach might be effectively used to diagnose LD in light of those changes.
• Dr. Sylvia Bulgar, assistant professor of undergraduate education, has been nominated for The 2004 American Association of University Women (AAUW) Educational Foundation Recognition Award for Emerging Scholars. In addition, Bulgar was part of a team of writers and researchers whose book, The Ambiguity of Teaching to the Test: Standards, Assessment and Education Reform, was published by Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Inc.       
• Ira Mayo, associate dean of freshmen, and Christine Carter, coordinator, new student resource center and orientation, presented the workshop titled, “Help! I Think That My Professor Is An Alien,” at the Mid-Atlantic NACADA (National ACademic ADvising Association) meeting, March 11-13 in Princeton.

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