- Faculty Research
Related to Diversity
- Faculty-earned
Grants Related to Diversity
- Faculty
Presentations Related to Diversity
- Project Impact
Administrative Summary and Link to Website
- Faculty Leadership
Roles in Service Learning Projects
Faculty Research Related to Diversity
2004-2007
|
Author(s) |
Publication |
Department |
|
Dr. Celina
Echols |
“Challenges
Facing Black American Principals: A Conversation about
Coping” Connextions. 2006 |
Educational
Leadership and Technology |
|
Dr. Celina
Echols & Echols-Williams, Q. |
“Should we
throw the baby out with the bathwater: A review of Louisiana’s
educational assessment program.” In Singleton-Taylor, G (Ed.),
The impact of high-stakes testing on the academic futures
of nonmainstream students. New York: E. Mellen Press. 2004 |
Educational
Leadership and Technology |
|
Dr. Celina
Echols, Hwang, Y., and Nobles, C. |
“Campus
diversity: Implementing the town hall approach for racial and
cultural understanding at a predominantly White university.”
NASPA Journal. 4(1), 1-18. 2002
|
Educational
Leadership and Technology |
|
Dr. Celina
Echols & Stader, D. |
“Education
majors’ attitudes about diversity.” Educational Leadership
Review. 3(2), 1-7. 2002
|
Educational
Leadership and Technology |
|
Dr. Celina
Echols:
Hwang, Y.,
Echols, C., & Vrongistinos, K. |
“Multidimensional academic motivation of high achieving
African American students.” College Student Journal.
36(4), 544-554. 2002.
|
Educational
Leadership and Technology |
|
Dr. Robert
Hancock, Dr. Anne Nauman, & Dr. John Fulwiler |
“The Impact of
Hurricane Katrina on Technology and Media Infrastructures in
Louisiana and Mississippi School Districts,” Multicultural
Education 15(2) 2007 |
Educational
Leadership and Technology |
|
Dr. Margaret
Gonzalez-Perez
|
“From Freedom
Birds to Water Buffaloes,” in Cindy Ness, ed., Female
Terrorism and Militancy:
Agency, Political Utility, and Organization, Taylor & Francis, 2007.
*[This is a
chapter on women terrorists in Asia in an edited book] |
Political
Science |
|
Dr. Margaret
Gonzalez-Perez
|
“Guerrilleras
in Latin America,” Journal of Peace Research 43(3), May 2006: 313-329.
*[Article about
women guerrillas in Latin America] |
Political
Science |
|
Dr. Margaret
Gonzalez-Perez
|
“The Potential
for Bias in Capital Juries,” The Justice System Journal,
Volume 12, Issue 2-3,
Spring 2002.
*[Article about
black/white juror voting in capital cases] |
Political
Science |
|
Dr. Margaret
Gonzalez-Perez
|
“A House
Divided: Public Housing Policy in New Orleans,” Louisiana
History, vol. XLIV, no. 4,
Fall 2003.
*[Article about
origins and racial attitudes of LA public housing in the
1930s] |
Political
Science |
|
Dr. Randy
Sanders
|
Mighty
Peculiar Elections: The New South Gubernatorial Campaigns of
1970 and the Changing Politics of Race
(University of Florida Press, 2002) |
Political
Science |
|
Dr. Randy
Sanders
|
‘Rassling a
Governor: Defiance, Desegregation, Claude Kirk and the
Politics of Richard Nixon's Southern Strategy,’ Florida
Historical Quarterly (2002) |
Political
Science |
|
Diane Cole |
Strategies and
Resources for Integrating Cultural Diversity In Health
Education – American School Health Annual Conference, 2003 |
Kinesiology and
Health Studies |
|
Diane Cole |
Health
Education and Multicultural Education: Similarities and
Challenges – American Alliance of Health, Physical Education,
Recreation and Dance Annual Conference, 2004 |
Kinesiology and
Health Studies |
|
Diane Cole
Dr. Millie
Naquin |
Strategies and
Resources for Integrating Cultural Diversity in
Health and Physical Education
– Louisiana
Association for Health, Physical Education, Recreation and
Dance Annual Conference, 2004 |
Kinesiology and
Health Studies |
|
Diane Cole
Dr. Millie
Naquin
|
Sexual
Diversity: Respect for All – College of Education and Human
Development - Spring 2006 Diversity Lecture Series |
Kinesiology and
Health Studies |
Faculty-earned Grants
Related to Diversity
|
Author(s) |
GRANT |
Department |
|
Dr. Celina
Echols |
Service
Learning. Southeastern Louisiana University grant 2003
($200.00- awarded). |
Educational
Leadership and Technology |
|
Dr. Celina
Echols |
Diversity
Education Programs: Preparing for the Twenty-first Century
and Beyond. Southeastern Louisiana University grant 1998.
($8,320.00 -awarded).
|
Educational
Leadership and Technology |
|
Dr. Celina
Echols |
Taking the
first steps: Communities working toward racial inclusion. .
Center for Faculty Excellence Southeastern Louisiana
University grant 2002. ($150.00 -awarded).
|
Educational
Leadership and Technology |
|
Dr. Margaret
Gonzalez-Perez
|
Innovative
Teaching Initiatives Grant, SLU 2006.
*[About
different cultures and political systems as seen in film] |
Political
Science |
|
Dr. Margaret
Gonzalez-Perez
|
Orr Memorial
Research Grant, SLU, 2004.
*[About women
terrorists in Latin Am, Asia, Africa, Europe] |
Political
Science |
|
Dr. Margaret
Gonzalez-Perez
|
Oscar Grant,
SLU, 2004
*[About women
terrorists in Latin Am, Asia, Africa, Europe] |
Political
Science |
|
Dr. Cynthia
Elliott |
Early Literacy
Initiative |
Teaching and
Learning |
|
Dr. Samuel C.
Hyde, Jr. and Dr. Keith Finley |
A grant
proposal and narrative, titled “The Historical Transformation
of the Manchac Basin Ecosystem: Ecological Degradation at the
Hands of Man,” for the Center for Southeast Louisiana Studies
that received a $63,000 grant from the Environmental
Protection Agency |
History |
|
Dr. Cheryll
Javaherian and Cathy Martin |
Youth Service
Grant for a service-learning project using students to teach
mini lessons of Spanish in Head Start and the SLU Lab School
|
Foreign
Languages and Literature and Coordinator of Service Learning |
|
Dr. Margaret
Gonzalez-Perez
|
Innovative
Teaching Initiatives Grant, SLU 2006.
*[About
different cultures and political systems as seen in film] |
Political
Science |
|
Dr. Margaret
Gonzalez-Perez
|
Orr Memorial
Research Grant, SLU, 2004.
*[About women
terrorists in Latin Am, Asia, Africa, Europe] |
Political
Science |
|
Dr. Margaret
Gonzalez-Perez
|
Oscar Grant,
SLU, 2004
*[About women
terrorists in Latin Am, Asia, Africa, Europe] |
Political
Science |
|
Dr. Cynthia
Elliott |
Early Literacy
Initiative |
Teaching and
Learning |
|
Dr. Samuel C.
Hyde, Jr. and Dr. Keith Finley |
A grant
proposal and narrative, titled “The Historical Transformation
of the Manchac Basin Ecosystem: Ecological Degradation at the
Hands of Man,” for the Center for Southeast Louisiana Studies
that received a $63,000 grant from the Environmental
Protection Agency |
History |
|
Dr. Cheryll
Javaherian and Cathy Martin |
Youth Service
Grant for a service-learning project using students to teach
mini lessons of Spanish in Head Start and the SLU Lab School
|
Foreign
Languages and Literature and Coordinator of Service Learning |
|
Dr. Margaret
Gonzalez-Perez
|
Innovative
Teaching Initiatives Grant, SLU 2006.
*[About
different cultures and political systems as seen in film] |
Political
Science |
|
Dr. Margaret
Gonzalez-Perez
|
Orr Memorial
Research Grant, SLU, 2004.
*[About women
terrorists in Latin Am, Asia, Africa, Europe] |
Political
Science |
|
Dr. Margaret
Gonzalez-Perez
|
Oscar Grant,
SLU, 2004
*[About women
terrorists in Latin Am, Asia, Africa, Europe] |
Political
Science |
|
Dr. Cynthia
Elliott |
Early Literacy
Initiative |
Teaching and
Learning |
|
Dr. Samuel C.
Hyde, Jr. and Dr. Keith Finley |
A grant
proposal and narrative, titled “The Historical Transformation
of the Manchac Basin Ecosystem: Ecological Degradation at the
Hands of Man,” for the Center for Southeast Louisiana Studies
that received a $63,000 grant from the Environmental
Protection Agency |
History |
|
Dr. Cheryll
Javaherian and Cathy Martin |
Youth Service
Grant for a service-learning project using students to teach
mini lessons of Spanish in Head Start and the SLU Lab School
|
Foreign
Languages and Literature and Coordinator of Service Learning |
|
Dr. Margaret
Gonzalez-Perez
|
Innovative
Teaching Initiatives Grant, SLU 2006.
*[About
different cultures and political systems as seen in film] |
Political
Science |
Faculty Presentations
Related to Diversity
|
PRESENTER(S) |
Title |
organization/
location |
Department |
|
Dr. David Benac |
"Taking Charge:
Women in Historic Preservation." |
Southeastern
Louisiana University's women's history month lecture series, March
2005
|
History |
|
Dr. David Benac |
"The Question
of Race in Louisiana During the 1940s." |
"One Book"
program at the St. Tammany Parish Library, Covington,
April 2004.
|
History |
|
Dr. David Benac |
"Manhood in the
Ozarks." |
Mid-America
Conference on History,
September, 2002, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville
|
History |
|
Dr. Kenneth
Bolton |
“Black in Blue:
African American Police Officers & Racism” |
Southeastern
Louisiana University’s Black History Month |
Sociology |
|
Dr. Yanyi
Djamba |
“A
Bio-Sociological Perspective on the Geography of HIV/AIDS.”
|
Southeastern
Louisiana University’s Black History Month |
Sociology |
|
Dr. Celina
Echols & Foster, K. |
“Chronicling
America’s racial boundaries through literature.
”
|
A paper
presented at the 14th European conference on
reading, Zagreb, Croatia. August 2005. |
Educational
Leadership and Technology |
|
Dr. Celina
Echols |
“From
dreamkeepers to gatekeepers: Highstakes testing and the
historically underserved students.” |
A panel
presented at the 13th annual conference of the
National Association of Multicultural Education, Seattle,
Washington. November 2003. |
Educational
Leadership and Technology |
|
Dr. Celina
Echols
Taylor, G.,
Okoli, E., Pryce, J., Tyson, C., & Echols, C. |
“In pursuit of
equity and excellence: High stakes testing and the diverse
student.” |
A roundtable
presentation at the 12th annual conference of the
National Association of Multicultural Education, Arlington,
Virginia.
November, 2002. |
Educational
Leadership and Technology |
|
Dr. Celina
Echols, Duhon-Sell, R. & Smith, P. |
“Each one
teach one: Building scholars among the historically
underrepresented” |
A
paper presented at the 12th annual conference of
the National Association of Multicultural Education,
Arlington, Virginia.
November, 2002 . |
Educational
Leadership and Technology |
|
Dr. Celina
Echols & Stader, D. |
“A look at
pre-service administrators’ attitudes about diversity and
multiculturalism in the Florida parishes.” |
A paper
presented at the National Council of Professional Educational
Administration 56th Annual Conference, Burlington,
Vermont. August, 2002. |
Educational
Leadership and Technology |
|
Dr. Celina
Echols |
“Building
scholars among alternative certification students.”
|
A poster
session presented at the National Association of Alternative
Certification Conference, Los Angeles, California. April,
2002. |
Educational
Leadership and Technology |
|
Dr. Becky
Parton, Dr. Rober Hancock,& Dr. Wendy Siegel |
“Web
Accessibility Compliance Across Diverse Cultural Slices of
Society” |
Paper presented
at 37th Annual Meetings of the Society for
Cross-Cultural Research, New Orleans, Louisiana, February 2008 |
Educational
Leadership and Technology and Teaching and Learning |
|
Dr. Cynthia
Elliott |
Early Literacy
Initiative |
SLU Lab School |
Teaching and
Learning |
|
Dr. Keith
Finley |
“Concessions on
the Periphery: World War II and the Alteration of Southern
Legislative Strategy in the United States Senate.”
|
Twenty-Third
Gulf South History and Humanities Conference, 9 October 2004.
Mobile, AL. |
History |
|
Dr. Keith
Finley |
“Divine
Sanction: The Use of Religion by Southern U.S. Senators in
Defense of Segregation.”
|
Twenty-Fourth
Gulf South History and Humanities Conference, 8 October,
2005. Pensacola, FL. |
History |
|
Dr. Keith
Finley |
“Segregation’s
Less Conspicuous Friends: The Importance of Non-Southern U.S.
Senators in Delaying Civil Rights Advances, 1938-1964.”
|
Presented 2
February 2006 Black History and Politics Lecture Series, SLU;
4 February 2006 Saturday Teacher’s Workshop for Black History
Month; 7 February 2006 Christwood Arts and Lecture Series. |
History |
|
Dr. Keith
Finley |
“Coming to
Terms With the Inevitable: Russell Long and Civil Rights.”
|
Forty-Ninth
Louisiana Historical Association Meeting, 23 March 2007.
Alexandria, Louisiana |
History |
|
Dr. Keith
Finley |
“Educational
Campaign or Filibuster: Myths and Realities of Senate Rules
and Southern Resistance to Civil Rights.” And Commentator on
Religion and Civil Rights Session.
|
Twenty-Sixth
Gulf South History and Humanities Conference, 13 October
2007. Mobile Alabama. |
History |
|
Dr. Keith
Finley |
“Segregation’s
Less Conspicuous Friends: The Importance of Non-Southern U.S.
Senators in Delaying Civil Rights Advances, 1938-1964.” |
Southeastern
Louisiana University’s Black History Month |
History |
|
Dr. Margaret
Gonzalez-Perez |
“Women &
Globalization in International Political Economy,”
|
The 2004
International Political Science Association Conference,
Boston, Massachusetts.
|
Political
Science |
|
Dr. Margaret
Gonzalez-Perez
|
Chair,
“Diasporas and Ethnic Minorities: Governance and Conflict,”
|
2004 International
Political Science Association Conference, Boston,
Massachusetts.
|
Political
Science |
|
Dr. Margaret
Gonzalez-Perez
|
“Nationalism
and Women Terrorists,” |
The 2004
Midwest Political Science
Association Conference, Chicago, Illinois.
|
Political
Science |
|
Dr. Samuel Hyde |
"Worse Than
Slavery -- Black Louisianans and the Painful
Challenges of
Freedom, 1800-1900," |
Southeastern
Louisiana University’s Black History Month |
History |
|
Dr. Samuel Hyde |
“Louisiana’s
Curious Connection to the Desegregation Movement.” |
Southeastern
Louisiana University’s Black History Month |
History |
|
Dr. Peter
Petrakis |
The 14th
Amendment and
civil rights, (Summer 2006) |
Presentation
for the teaching American history grant at Southeastern
Louisiana University |
Political
Science |
Project
Impact Administrative Summary
Project Impact
Thursday November
20, 2006
Project Impact Fall
2006
2006-2007 Calendar
of Activities Summary:
- Faculty Workshop:
The grant provides funding for LEP training for 10 Southeastern
Louisiana University teacher certification faculty members each
year.
·
Project Impact has invited approximately
25 faculty members to participate in the workshop on January 4&5
and May 17&18.
·
As of November 20, 2006, 16 faculty
members have signed contracts agreeing to participate in the
workshops.
·
Professors have been notified as to
their obligations under the terms of these contracts.
·
Kristin Grayson from IDRA has agreed to
be the consultant/trainer for each workshop.
·
Each faculty member will receive
materials, meals, a certificate of completion, and a daily stipend
of $100 as part of their agreement with Project Impact.
·
Aramark will be contacted regarding
catering for these events.
·
Sessions will occur in room 2015 of the
TEC building. Lunch will be served in room 2020.
·
Information regarding the workshop will
be submitted to the College Newsletter and the University By-Lion
as soon as it is available.
·
The External Evaluator will be invited
to attend all events. Her survey will be given to all
participates.
- Teacher Candidate
Workshop: In each project year, teachers candidates enrolled in
4 methodology courses will receive training about how to address
the needs of LEP students.
·
Dr. Leah Sadden has agreed to give the
training/workshop to at least 4 methodology classes with a
targeted audience of 90 teacher candidates.
·
The first two classes will be given the
workshop together on October 16 for 21 students.
·
The second workshop was held by Dr.
Sadden to her class was held on October 31 and November 7 to 11
students.
·
A third workshop was given on November 7
for Dr. Ainsworth’s class for 11 students.
·
Additional workshops will be scheduled
for Spring 2007 semester.
·
The External Evaluator will be invited
to attend all events. Her surveys will be given to all
participates.
Note:
Due to the temporary closure of Jefferson Parish School District
in the Fall 2005 semester due to Hurricane Katrina and the serious
illness of the Jefferson Parish LEP/ESL coordinator liaison, many
of the training activities that should have been scheduled for
year 2 for West Jefferson High School did not take place. Miesler
Middle School is the year 3 school to be serviced as stated in the
Project Impact grant.
- Administrator
Training at Jefferson Parish School District: Scheduling
conflicts and other restrictions have prevented this training to
be scheduled before May 2007.
·
Project Impact will invite both the year
2 administrators from West Jefferson High and the year 3
administrators from Miesler Middle School to be serviced together
in a 3 half-day training workshop by Dr. Rayma Harchar sometime at
the end of May/beginning of June.
·
Meals, stipend and materials will be
provided to all administrators who complete the workshop.
·
The External Evaluator will be invited
to attend all events. Surveys will be given to all participates.
- Teacher Training at
Jefferson Parish School District:
·
Part 2 of the training for teachers from
Grace King High School occurred on October 23 and 24. The
training for Grace King High School’s teachers are complete.
·
Part I of the teacher training for
Miesler Middle School and West Jefferson High School teachers is
tentative scheduled for January 24 – 26, and Part II will be
scheduled in late May/early June.
·
The consultant Stacy Piker has agreed to
give the workshop to the teachers. Meals, stipend, materials will
be provided to the teachers as well as substitute pay.
·
The External Evaluator will be invited
to attend all events. Surveys will be given to all participates.
- Support Staff
Training at Jefferson Parish School District:
·
The 3 half-day training for support
staff of West Jefferson High School and Miesler Middle School is
tentatively scheduled to be given by Elizabeth Anderson, the ESL/LEP
coordinator liaison, on January 10, 11 and 12, 2007.
·
Meals, stipend and materials will be
provided to all support staff who complete the workshop.
·
The External Evaluator will be invited
to attend all events. Surveys will be given to all participates.
Faculty Leadership
Roles in Service Learning Projects
1.
Early Literacy
Initiative
2.
Project TEACH
3.
Project
Jumpstart
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