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Community News Walden’s students, faculty and staff are contributing to their disciplines through publications, presentations and other professional activities. Email news of your accomplishments to ponder@waldenu.edu.
Gloria Brown, a Ph.D. in Education student, received the 2007 Lydia Donaldson Tutt-Jones Memorial Research Grant. The $2,000 grant was awarded through the African American Success Foundation in support of her research project, "African American Students Defy the Achievement Gap: A Phenomenological Study.” The grant was located via a search conducted by her dissertation chair, Dr. Joe Ann Hinrichs.
Joshua Dawson, a Ph.D. in Public Policy and Administration student, had a commentary concerning assumptions about the deaf published in The (Colorado Springs) Gazette.
Lt. Col. Dave Doane, a Ph.D. in Applied Management and Decision Sciences student specializing in Operations Research, presented “Optimize Lean Six Sigma Project Portfolios with Value Focused Thinking” at the 2007 International Lean & Six Sigma Conference held in Orlando, Fla. Doane is an operations research analyst at the Pentagon and has served as chief of the Army G-1’s L6S Deployment Office since March 2006. The G-1 is at the vanguard of the Army's massive deployment of Lean Six Sigma. His paper was published in the conference's proceedings. For more information, contact him at ddoane@waldeu.edu.
Dr. Joe Ann Hinrichs, a faculty member in the College of Education, had a chapter, “School Leadership in the 21st Century Will Require Constructivist Leadership Skills,” published by Elsevier in the book Teaching Leaders to Lead Teachers: Educational Administration in the Era of Constant Crisis.
Dr. Tony Leisner, faculty member in the School of Public Policy and Administration, presented a paper, “Policy, Politics, and Poverty,” at Goddard College in September.
Lori Smith, a Ph.D. in Education student specializing in K–12 Educational Leadership, and faculty member Dr. Evelyn Johnson co-authored an article, “Implementation of Response to Intervention at Middle School: Challenges and Potential Benefits,” that will be published in an upcoming issue of Teaching Exceptional Children Plus. The article is based on a Knowledge Area Module that Smith completed and Johnson assessed.
Doug Tedford, a Ph.D. in Education student, is volunteering with La Fundación Rigoberta Menchú Tum. Headed by Nobel Prize winner Rigoberta Menchú Tum, the foundation was created to lift indigenous people from poverty to lives of meaning through education and other social programs. Read how Tedford is “Breaking the Cycle of Perpetual Poverty.”
Email news of your accomplishments to ponder@waldenu.edu.
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