| August 26, 2009 | Vol 11. No. 1 |
Sroka, Stephenson Receive Education Award
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| E. Roger Stephenson, PhD |
Kenneth M. Sroka, PhD |
The ULLC experiences an impressive 86 percent four-year graduation rate. Alumni have gone on to graduate programs in education, medicine, business and social work or are employed in a variety of occupations.
Young Alumni Award Named in Honor of Estanek
Associate Professor of Graduate Education and Leadership Sandra M. Estanek, PhD, recently had an award named in her honor by the Association for Student Affairs at Catholic Colleges and Universities (ASACCU). The organization renamed its Young Alumni Award in Estanek’s honor. The new Sandra M. Estanek, PhD, Young Alumni Award will be conferred annually to an alumnus or alumna who exemplifies the Catholic mission and values of the college or university that plays host to the ASACCU conference each year. The Association for Student Affairs at Catholic Colleges and Universities is a professional organization for student affairs professionals who work at Catholic colleges and universities. The Young Alumni Award has been given since 2001 and will be renamed retroactively. Estanek founded ASACCU’s predecessor, the Institute for Student Affairs at Catholic Colleges in 1995. She also helped found ASACCU in 1999. Estanek served nine years as the organization’s executive director. In 2003, she was named director emerita by the ASACCU Board of Directors. Estanek is director of the master’s program in college student personnel administration at Canisius College.
NYS Regent Named Distinguished Professor of Educational Leadership
New York State Regent and Chancellor Emeritus Robert M. Bennett HON ’09 joined the Canisius College faculty this fall as a Distinguished Professor of Educational Leadership in the Graduate School of Education & Human Services. Bennett will teach a course entitled School and Community Relations, which examines the principles and practices involved in establishing and maintaining desirable relationships with all members of the community: parents, non-parents, businesses and community agencies. The course will qualify as a master’s degree elective in the Educational Administration and Supervision Program, and will be a required course in the Teacher Leadership Certificate Program. It will also be open to non-matriculated students. A former chancellor of the Board of Regents of the University of the State of New York, Bennett has dedicated his career to both early childhood issues and the advancement of education at the higher level. In 1995, he was elected to a five-year term as a Regent for the Eighth Judicial District of New York State, which encompasses the eight counties of Western New York. Bennett recently completed his third and final term as chancellor of the Board of Regents, which supervises all educational activities within New York State, including K-12 and post-secondary schools.
In 2009, Canisius College presented Bennett with an honorary degree.
Mittler Jagodzinski Receives Martin Award
(l-r) John J. Hurley, executive vice president and vice president for college relations, Marion A. Mittler Jagodzinski, director of donor relations and special events and George M. Martin, special counsel to the president.
Marion A. Mittler Jagodzinski, director of donor relations and special events, is the 2009 recipient of the George M. Martin Advancement Award. Established in 1983 by George M. Martin, then executive vice president for administrative affairs at Canisius, the advancement award is presented annually to a member of the college’s advancement staff whose initiative, creativity and teamwork brings distinction to him/herself and the college.
Mittler Jagodzinski oversees the college’s nearly 400 scholarship and endowment funds, and stewards endowed scholarship events between donors and recipients. In addition, Mittler Jagodzinski is responsible for the annual Canisius College Regents Scholarship Ball, which is the principal fund-raiser for the college’s Board of Regents Scholarship Fund. Proceeds provide vital financial support to promising young students, who otherwise would not be able to take advantage of a Canisius education. Under Mittler Jagodzinski’s leadership, the 2009 Regents Ball raised a record $116,000.
Mittler Jagodzinski holds a bachelor’s degree in business administration and secondary education from the College of St. Rose, and a master’s degree in education from Sage Graduate School.
Professors Co-Author Book
Linda A. Volonino, PhD and Ian J. Redpath, PhD, share the practices on managing electronic information for lawsuits in their new book E-Discovery for Dummies. E-discovery is the process by which electronically stored information is located, secured and preserved with the intent of using it as evidence. In E-Discovery for Dummies, Volonino and Redpath address the rules and process of E-discovery, the implications of not having good E-discovery practices in place, and how companies can develop an E-discovery strategy, if they don’t already have one in place.
Volonino is a professor of information systems. Redpath is an associate professor of accounting. Their book is available at amazon.com and barnesandnoble.com.
Lorch Publishes Change and Challenge
Professor Emerita of Biology I. Joan Lorch Staple, PhD, chronicles the middle years of her life in the new book Change and Challenge: My Life After 30. The book is a sequel to Chance and Choice: My First 30 Years, which Lorch Staple published in 2007. In her latest memoir, Lorch Staple details the change from her life as a London research biologist to motherhood. She reveals the challenges faced by raising her two sons in a segregated society of Birmingham, Alabama and how that led her to become involved in the Civil Rights Movement. Lorch Staple also describes the family’s eventual move to Buffalo, NY; how her research on living amoebas spawned national headlines; and her impressions of life at Canisius College where at age 50, she began her career as a biology professor.
Change and Challenge: My Life after 30 sells for $20.00 and is available at www.lulu.com.
O’Donnell Authors First Novel
Myth, history, music and sorcery make up a new novel by Neil P. O’Donnell, adjunct professor of sociology, anthropology and criminal justice, and academic skills coordinator in the COPE Office.People of the Sword tells a story about the classic struggle between good and evil. When two vastly different cultures are confronted by a common enemy, the wizard of Crarnock, they suddenly become dependent on one another for survival and realize that only through cooperation can they defeat Crarnock’s goblin army. Their journey tests the resolve of both cultures and its people, as they realize that their collective misunderstandings are as much a threat as Crarnock himself.
People of the Sword is available at the Canisius bookstore, as well as at all major bookstores and amazon.com.
History Professor Publishes Two Articles
David R. Devereux, PhD, associate professor of history, recently had two articles published. “The Sino-Indian War of 1962 in Anglo-American Relations” appeared in The Journal of Contemporary History and “The End of Empires: Decolonization and its Repercussions,” was included in A Companion to Europe Since 1945. The journal is edited by Klaus Larres and published by Blackwell Press. Devereux also presented a paper on Anglo-American relations with China at the eighth annual meeting of the TransAtlantic Studies Association at Christ Church University in Canterbury, England in July.
Snyder Teaches in Vietnam for WTO Program
David J. Snyder, PhD, associate professor of management and marketing (right), and his son Wesley drink coconut milk while they boat down the Mekong Delta in Vietnam this summer.
This summer, David J. Snyder, PhD, associate professor of management and marketing spent two Vietnam. He taught two marketing courses in Hochiminh City as part of a program to train Vietnamese managers to prepare their country to join the World Trade Organization (WTO). He also spent time in Nha Trang, the beautiful coastal city with a population of two million people.
Canisius Department of Public Safety Presents Second Annual Child Fingerprint Program
Public Safety Officer James P. Zsiros fingerprints several neighborhood children at the second annual Public Safety Child Fingerprint Program.
Nearly 40 neighborhood children participated in the Canisius College Department of Public Safety Child Fingerprint ID Program at the Upper Room Church of God in Christ on Florida Street. The free program, coordinated by James A. Murphy, III, lieutenant for public safety, was held in conjunction with the WNY Night Out Against Crime and National Night Out Against Crime on Tuesday, August 4. This is the second year that public safety offered the program.