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Lorene Martin (2020 cohort) was voted Outstanding Faculty of the Year at 51�Թ���’s Salem Campus. She is also leading several community initiatives for the BSN program and campus, including coordinating a Memo of Understanding between the BSN program and the Columbiana County Career and Technical Center.

Laura Cope (2021 cohort) was elected to serve as the Student Member at Large, Division for Emotional and Behavioral Health, Council for Exceptional Children.

Kathy Zarges (2020 cohort) was nominated and selected as the KASADA Advising Administrator of the Year.

Debra Quarles (2021 cohort) was featured in a School Library Journal article titled, .

Cassie Konen-Butler (2020 cohort) will be co-presenting on interprofessional evaluation tools at the national conference for the Association of Standardized Patient Educators (ASPE) in June in Portland, OR.

Daniel Diaz Nilsson (2020 cohort) was published in the .

Lana Whitehead (2022 cohort) has taken a new position as the Assistant Vice President of Lifelong Learning at 51�Թ���.

Jonathan Gates (2022 cohort) co-authored the new publication, , in Strategic Enrollment Management Quarterly.

Lashonda Taylor (2020 cohort/2023 alumna) was promoted to Associate Chief of Staff at 51�Թ��� in February.

Jasmine Price (2020 cohort) welcomed daughter, Katheryn, in August of 2022!

Jamie Rhoads (2020 cohort/2023 alumna) is presenting her dissertation research and results at the Quality Matters Ohio Consortium 11th Annual Member Meeting on May 12 at Walsh University.

Tiffany Tyree (2021 cohort) was promoted to Assistant Director in Enrollment Management and Student Services at 51�Թ���, Trumbull.

Matt Mills (2021 cohort) presented at the Society for Information Technology and Teacher Education (SITE) conference in March with Dr. Rick Ferdig and Dr. Enrico Gandolfi. The presentation was titled The Utility of Asynchronous Low-Fidelity Simulation for Student Self-Efficacy and Anxiety: A Preliminary Analysis.

Paris Lampkins (2022 cohort) was recently hired as Director, Learning & Development, with AM Higley.

Sarah Kiepper (2022 cohort) was invited to train to become an evaluator for her employer's accreditor, .

Jeff Corbett (2022 cohort) has been tapped by his campus (51�Թ���-Geauga) to teach KSU’s new Freshman course, “Flashes 101.”

• A note from Jeff: This new opportunity will help me better connect with new students as I continue to function as our campus’ librarian. I would appreciate any veteran teachers reading this newsletter sharing any successes and challenges they have experienced in their teaching careers in future editions.

Congratulations all.

Lorene Martin (2020 cohort) took 11 BSN students for a week-long trip to the Pine Ridge Reservation in October of 2022. This trip focuses on cultural humility and understanding. Here are photographs and excerpts from a trip report that Lorene shared.

In order to attend this trip, students enroll in the Transcultural Nursing Course. This course is a semester long course that begins with cultural pre-immersion meetings where students are responsible for researching topics such as economics, education, geography, healthcare, and cultural traditions of the Pine Ridge reservation. The students are responsible for completing the Health and Human Services Modules on culture before departing on the trip.

We visited Crazy Horse Mountain so that the students could learn more about the Lakota Culture and history. We spent Monday, Tuesday, and Thursday at Bennett County Hospital in Martin, South Dakota. This facility serves Lakota natives both on and off of the reservation. Services include a small hospital, an emergency department, a rural health clinical, and an extended care facility. Students rotated through each of these units. Some also had the opportunity to engage in home visits with the public health nurses at Bennett County. While at Bennett County, the administrator, Michael Christenson, provided an in-depth presentation to the students about the Lakota Culture, healthcare disparities and lack of access, as well as cultural traditions.

On Tuesday late afternoon, we had the opportunity to take donations to the Pine Ridge Dormitory. We had approximately $2000 in donations from members of the KSU at Salem campus and members of the community in the form of Walmart and Dollar General gift cards. We purchased as much as we could of the following: Socks, boots, hats, gloves, clothing items (sweatshirts, sweatpants, and sweat shorts), toothbrushes, toothpaste, and soap. The dormitory is a facility for school aged children to live from Sunday night until Friday after school. These children are aged kindergarten through 12th grade and there are 110 children residing at the dormitory this year. We were invited to eat in the cafeteria with these students and spent a great deal of time on the playground and in conversation with them.

On Wednesday, we visited the Oglala Lakota College Historical Center where the students were taught about the history of the Oglala Lakota inclusive of the colonization of the tribes to the reservation, the stripping of their culture and spiritual beliefs, the killing of the buffalo, and the atrocities of the Wounded Knee Massacre. We then went to the Wounded Knee Cemetery and the site of the massacre and mass burial. While there, several Pine Ridge residents came to talk with the students and sell their handmade dreamcatchers and jewelry. We then traveled into the heart of Pine Ridge where the students were given the opportunity to complete a “windshield” survey (seeing the homes, available resources, etc.) as well as were charged to price compare groceries in the only grocery store in the town of Pine Ridge.

On Friday we met with Patricia Hammond, who is and had been extremely active in a community gardening initiative on the reservation. Patricia is Lakota and not only discussed health disparities, food insecurities, but could also speak to living and growing up on the reservation. She toured the students through the “high-tower” gardens on her property and did a great deal of teaching about traditional herbs and foraged foods. She also discussed accessible gardens for persons with disabilities that her organization has built in the community.

[For students, our] goal is for them to begin a reflective evaluation of their cultural biases, begin to find humility in the ethnocentricity that they may not have noted before, and to be intrigued enough to further their cultural experiences and education. One thing that [we] try to make them understand is that cultural competence is a journey, not a destination!

Our first-ever Ed.D. graduates cross the stage on May 11, 2023. Congratulations to…

Valli Stauffer

• Dissertation in Practice: Meeting the Unique and Individual Needs of Learners in a Diverse Fourth-Grade Classroom: An Action Research Study in the Area of Spelling

Lashonda Taylor

• Dissertation in Practice: Building the Senior Team after a Presidential Transition: A Qualitative Study of Senior Leaders in Higher Education

Stephen Elkins

• Dissertation in Practice: Becoming A Weak Educational Leader in Neoliberal Corporate Culture

Katy Pietz

• Dissertation in Practice: USE OF SIMULATED PATIENT EXPERIENCES IN ATHLETIC TRAINING EDUCATION: INCORPORATING AN ACTION RESEARCH APPROACH

Daysjia Black

• Dissertation in Practice: UNDERREPRESENTED MINORITY ATHLETIC TRAINING STUDENTS: A MIXED METHODS RESEARCH APPROACH TO IDENTIFYING THEIR EXPERIENCES AND PERCEIVED FACTORS AFFECTING SUCCESSFUL PROGRAM COMPLETION

Carla Chapman

• Dissertation in Practice: Teacher and Staff Perceptions of the Roles of Dialogue and Self-reflective Practice in an Equity Training Program

Leah Bradley

• Dissertation in Practice: IMPROVING TRANSPARENT ASSIGNMENT DESIGN WORKSHOPS: HELPING FACULTY TO COMMUNICATE EXPECTATIONS FOR STUDENT SUCCESS

Mackenzie Simmons

• Dissertation in Practice: The Effectiveness of a Mental Health Literacy Webpage for Parents, Coaches, and Athletic Trainers."

Jamie Rhoads

Dissertation in Practice: Student Perceptions of Quality Learning Experience in Online Environments

Dr. Kim Peer, faculty member in the Ed.D. program, was honored as a National Academies of Practice as a Fellow Scholar at a black-tie event in Washington, DC in March. This organization focuses on Interprofessional Collaborations across medical professions.

Dr. Karl Martin, instructor in the Ed.D. program (Curriculum and Instruction concentration), published . This book revisits the 1970 51�Թ��� shootings, also known as the May 4 massacre and the 51�Թ��� massacre, using a new approach of currere and psychoanalytic guided regression. Drawing on a variety of interviews with those who were present at the events or who have close connections to the aftermath, the author engages in what he terms a doubled currere. This includes weaving a description of currere and narrative work with the actual storytelling of the subjects in order to build bridges.
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