SCPS Distinctions

Dr. Marisa Alicea, Professor and Resident Faculty

• Awarded Dean’s Innovation Funds for project Bachelor of Arts in Public Safety and Security Management project,

Dr. Joseph Chen, Associate Professor, Director, OPLA

• Awarded Dean’s Innovation Funds for the following projects:  Pre-Approved PLA Credentials Assessment, PLA Assessment Professional Development On-ground Training and “PLA Assessment Professional Development Online Course Development. Nicholas Hayes, co-recipient. 

Dr. Joseph Cunniff, Adjunct Faculty

• Toured Europe to Colmar in France to study the Isenheim Altarpiece by Grunewald and to the Lucerne Music Festival in Switzerland, where he wrote about the Gustav Mahler Chamber Orchestra and the Berlin Philharmonic. 

Nicholas Hayes, MFA, Adjunct Faculty and Assistant Director, OPLA

• Published a collection of prose poems Ante-Animots: Idioms and Tales (BlazeVOX).
• Awarded second place in the James Tate International Poetry Prize for his manuscript Amorphous Organics.
• Awarded Dean’s Innovation Fund for “Staff Meeting Affinity” with colleague Patrizia Acerra, Assistant Director, Academic Services. 

Dr. Janise Hurtig, Adjunct Faculty

• Co-edited Contested Spaces of Teaching and Learning: Practitioner Ethnographies of Adult Education in the United States, where Emerita Professor, Dr. Gretchen Wilbur authored a chapter entitled, “Every Voice Matters: Taking Action for Equity.”

Drs. Caroline Kisiel, Associate Professor

• Co-authored and published with Dr. Dan K. Hibbler, Biracial Families in Park and Recreation Spaces: A Case Study of Six Families, Implications and Possibilities in The Journal of Park and Recreation Administration, Online First (November 2019, ISSN 2160-6862, print edition forthcoming 2020).
• Presented “Antislavery Activism on the Frontier: The Story of the English Prairie,” at the Lawrenceville Historical Society, Lawrenceville, IL (Sep 2019); Groff Memorial Library, Grayville, IL and the Annual Albion Chowder (Oct 2019); and the Historic Elsah Foundation, Elsah, IL (Nov 2019).
• Awarded Dean’s Innovation Funds with colleague, Associate Professor, Dr. Dan Hibbler for Community Engagement Network (CEN), Building a Community-Engaged Learning Space

Dr. Catherine Marienau, Professor Emerita

• Published Thinking About the Brain and PLA, in the November 2019 issue of PLA Inside Out: An International Journal on Theory, Research & Practice.

• A Podcast with SCPS Alumni, Gail Zelinsky, (MAAPS ’15), Women Over 70: Aging Reimagined, releasing 29 episodes in 2019. One-third of the women guests are affiliated with SCPS.  Listen to weekly episodes, https://womenover70.com; info@womenover70.com

Dr. Arieahn Matamonasa Bennett, Associate Professor and Graduate Programs Director

• Awarded Dean’s Innovation Fund for “Graduate Programs Quality, Consistency and ON-LINE Expansion Project.

Dr. Susan McGury, Associate Professor

• Awarded QIC’s Departmental Initiative Grant for proposal entitled: The SCPS Toolkit: "Just in Time" Writing Support for Adult Learners.

• Appointed President of the DePaul Chapter 272 of Phi Kappa Phi, International Honor Society.

Telisa Robinson-Davis, Retention Coordinator

• Awarded Dean’s Innovation Funds for SCPS Peer Mentoring Initiative.

Dr. R. Craig Sautter, Adjunct Faculty

• Authored and published "Deep Freeze" in the 25th Anniversary Issue of the Chicago Quarterly Review.

• Presented at the Chicago Research Summit at North Park University, “Linking Students to Chicago's Political History".

Leyfane J. Thomas, MA, Communications Coordinator, Enrollment and Student Engagement

• Appointed Treasurer and Communications Director of the DePaul Chapter 272 Phi Kappa Phi, International Honor Society

• Awarded Phi Kappa Phi Chapter Officer Badge for Contributions and Achievements.

The following members of the SCPS staff received Staff Recognition Awards this fall, for their above-and-beyond contributions:  

• Cynthia Flores, Student Records Coordinator
• Scott Gabbert, Program Manager
• Ravi Grover, Web Developer
• Christine Hayda, Program Manager
• Sarah Hellstrom, Associate Director
• Telisa Robinson-Davis, Retention Coordinator