News
- Dr. Dyer Joins JFKU as Chair of Department of Education
- Professor West Receives University's 2007 Distinguished Teacher Award
- Museum Studies Students Spread Across the Globe
Dr. Dyer Joins JFKU as Chair of Department of Education Dr. Penny Dyer joins John F. Kennedy University as an Associate Professor and the new Chair of the Department of Education in the School of Education and Liberal Arts. Education has been at the core of Penny's career since 1972. She taught at the middle school and high school levels and became a district administrator as a reading and language arts specialist/ coordinator. She earned a Ph.D. in Education from the University of California at Berkeley in Curriculum and Instruction in Mathematics, Science and Technology with a Reading/Language Emphasis. Penny's university career started at California State University, Fresno, where she was a tenured associate professor. She continued as visiting associate professor and coordinator of the reading specialist Master of Arts and advanced credential program at UC Berkeley Advanced Reading and Language Leadership Program. Dr. Dyer can be reached at pdyer@jfku.edu or (925) 969-3581.
Professor West Receives University's 2007 Distinguished Teacher Award Professor Susanne West is the recipient of the University's Harry L. Morrison Distinguished Teaching Award for 2007. Professor West has served as an adjunct faculty member in the School of Education and Liberal Arts (SELA) for the past 21 years and the School of Holistic Studies for the past 18 years, and as Chair of the Department of Liberal Arts for the past 8 years. Ms. West was presented the award during the commencement ceremony on June 16, 2007. She has served as an adjunct faculty member in SELA for the past 21 years and SHS for 18 years, but also been a Core Faculty member in SELA and Director of the BA in Psychology (in addition to Chair) for the last ten years.
Museum Studies Students Spread Across the Globe Museum studies students are spending their summers at different cultural sites around the world, helping to care for collections, translate educational labels, launch websites, develop curriculum and exhibitions and take on myriad other professional responsibilities that will help these museums better preserve their treasures and serve their publics.
- Melissa del Gado is headed to el Museo Nacional de la Cultura in Peru where she will help with
collections care and management.
- Gabriella Giuliani is helping with a full plate of educational research and activities at il Museo Diocesano in Sicily.
- Three museum studies students are
spending the summer at the Smithsonian in Washington DC. Arlene Galindo will be working on Latino
educational initiatives; Jane Reed will work at the Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibitions
program, and Libbie Hodas is helping to research an exhibition on Katherine Hepburn for the National
Portrait Gallery.
- Students are also lending their talents to three children's museums around the US: Sarah Winiger at the Chicago Children's Museum; Rebecca Horta at Brooklyn Children's Museum; and Pamela Wong at the Bay Area Discovery Museum.
- In San Francisco, the Asian Art Museum will benefit from the talents of Katie Williams, while Steve Correll will be working at the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco. Joseph Govednick and Emilie Louie will be helping with collections work as the California Academy of Sciences prepares to move to its new site in Golden Gate Park.