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Nova Southeastern UniversityNSUWorksCAHSS Graduate SGA Dialogues College PublicationsFall 11-1-2011Fall 2011Graduate School of Humanities & Social SciencesFollow this and additional works at: http://nsuworks.nova.edu/shss_dialogsThis Article is brought to you for free and open access by the College Publications at NSUWorks. It has been accepted for inclusion in CAHSSGraduate SGA Dialogues by an authorized administrator of NSUWorks. For more information, please contact nsuworks@nova.edu.NSUWorks CitationGraduate School of Humanities & Social Sciences, "Fall 2011" (2011). CAHSS Graduate SGA Dialogues. Book 5.http://nsuworks.nova.edu/shss_dialogs/5Submitted by, Dean Honggang Yang Dean of the School of Humanities and Social Sciences Earlier this year, we lost two of our SHSS family members, Florence Ross and Noreen Hartmann as well as other friends and relatives. In 2001, Flor-ence received her Ph.D. in conflict resolution at the wonderful age of 81. She had an enduring impact on the community and around the globe that continued throughout her life. Noreen Hartmann, Family Therapy Pro-gram Coordinator, delivered quality personalized services in our everyday academic life.  She joined us on the east campus in 2004. The outpouring of sympathy and support depicted the philosophy of SHSS. Let's continue making a concerted effort to further the engagements about which both were so passionate. Please feel free to share your thoughts or reflections about Florence, Noreen, or any other friends from our School.  SHSS is entering into the academic review implementation phase, to re-fine and renew our cutting-edge curricula.  We are in the process of work-ing out the transitional details in the campus-wide academic calendar, keeping up the communications with you, and incorporating your valuable input.  The SHSS efforts are a tribute to our University community, students, fac-ulty, staff, alumni, and community partners. May your holidays be filled with prosperity and reflections on our shared values. From the Dean’s Desk I N S I D E  T H I S  I S S U E :  From the Dean’s Desk  1 A Message from the SHSS SGA President  2 A Conference from a Student’s Perspective  3 It’s STUEY Time 4 SHSS STUEY Process  5 CSA Student Presents at Re-gional Confer-ence  Marriage and Family Therapy Program Up-dates  6 Semester Highlights  Spring 2012 Diversity  Dialogues  7   8    S C H O O L  O F  H U M A N I T I E S  A N D  S O C I A L  S C I E N C E S   F A L L  2 0 1 1  SHSS Dialogs  P A G E  2  The Bridge between SHSS Students Faculty and Academic Program. A Message from your SHSS SGA President Submitted by Rob Keever, SHSS SGA President On behalf of the 2011-2012 School of Humanities and Social Sciences Student Gov-ernment Association, we would like to thank you for a wonderful start to the year.  We have had tremendous support from the entire SHSS faculty, staff and students with all of our initiatives.  We would like to continue to reach out to all of the SHSS community through our upcoming events and initiatives.  We have been creating connections with other Nova Southeastern University programs through Pan Stu-dent Government Association in order to collaborate on projects to meet our school’s needs. A large part of our duty as your SGA is to make sure your needs are being heard and met as a member of SHSS at NSU.  We encourage any faculty, staff, and stu-dents to voice these needs, whether they are financial, personal, administrative, or academic.  We want to support any cause that fits into the SHSS values to cre-ate a better experience for our community.  Please feel free to contact any repre-sentative of SGA to voice these needs and we will do our best to respond. For the remainder of the school year we hope to plan more social events to en-gage the SHSS community beyond the classroom experience.  These events in-clude another SHSS Social and an end of the year formal.  Along with these events we plan to create an opportunity for students to showcase their academic endeav-ors through an upcoming educational event.  Please continue to keep a look out for these events and we hope to hear from you all soon. Sincerely,  Rob Keever SHSS SGA President  P A G E  3  The VOICE for SHSS Academic Program Students. For those of you that have never been to an AAMFT Conference, I would definitely recommend looking into next year’s National Conference which will be taking place in Charlotte, North Carolina on September 13-16, 2012. The opportunity for me arose this year when I was discussing the option with a friend of mine. We bought our volunteer tickets early in advance as well as the hotel. That would force us to stay committed. There is an option to work the event a few hours a day in return for a discounted ticket price. One of the many positives about volunteering is that you must meet other people. You work alongside these same people for the extent of the event. The plane and hotel you purchase on your own. Roommates definitely help with the cost of the stay. As second year Master’s students, we didn’t have the slightest idea what to expect! I figured we would  go out dancing and learn a couple new topics in Family Therapy. Little did I know how deeply affected my life could be by the people I would meet. Before the conference, my opinion was swaying on applying to UGA in Athens, Georgia. During a program exhibit, I had the incredible chance of meeting the di-rector of UGA’s MFT program. All COAMFTE accredited programs are represented there with a surplus of information. I met and spoke with several UGA students and even joined on a research project to get experience with a UGA doctoral can-didate. I am now co-authoring that project! I met so many new people and made great friends. I also became closer with our current faculty members and students. I have a collection of business cards, belonging to incredible people, in my wallet.  This trip was such an amazing chance for me. I really hope that the Nova students go next year and realize how helpful it could be for any career or education path you will be taking in your future. You will also get the opportunity to see just how different Nova is compared with other schools. We truly are lucky to belong to such an incredibly profound and open-minded program. A Conference from a Student’s Perspective Submitted by Katharine Melyssa Murphy, SHSS SGA Vice Present P A G E  4  The VOICE for SHSS Academic Program Students. Once again the Division of Student Affairs prepares to sponsor and host the annual Student Life Achievement Awards: The STUEYS. The Oscar-like award represents for NSU one of the highest achievements in several areas of aca-demic life. For Vice President Williams, the originator of the tradition, it's about building community. NSU is one of the most diverse collegiate communities in South Florida, and all of the activities surrounding the STUEY's remind us that we are not only one people--one human community--we at NSU are SHARKS!  For newcomers in SHSS we want to welcome you to join us in our tradition of recognizing those among us who have over the past year excelled in scholar-ship, leadership, involvement, service, commitment, integrity, and inclusion.  This brief message is to put us on alert for the 2012 STUEY nominations: see the nomination link below.  It's not too soon to begin noticing standouts in our immediate (SHSS) commu-nity (see categories below). The only category that is limited to administration is "The Student of the Year." But honestly, in our inclusive environment, you may offer suggestions: Dean Yang's office is open to your suggestions. It’s STUEY Time  Submitted by, Dr. Debra Nixon  P A G E  5  The VOICE for SHSS Academic Program Students. STUEY’s Process: 1. You will get an email inviting you to nominate someone in the following categories: Staff Person of the Year Administrator of the Year Co-Curricular Advisor of the Year Professor of the Year Alumnus of the Year SEC Student of the Year Executive of the Year Corporate Partner of the Year Student Government of the Year Graduate Organization of the Year Staff Person of the Year Athletic Team of the Year  2. You will use the appropriate form (see below) to make your nomination 3. Submit by the deadline (TBA in the email) 4. Our School will vote on who we want to represent us in the "final" selection; yes, this will be our very own STUEY election process. 5. Once we've made our choices via the school wide vote, I (Dr. Nixon, SHSS's STUEY Repre-sentative) will meet the university's committee and market rigorously :) on our final nomi-nee's behalf. I am the SHSS "Jerry McGuire" (sorry old school movie reference, check it out). NOTE: In this meeting, school representatives are allowed to offer our personal voice on nominations.  So, the better your original submission the better my argument is in the meet-ing. In short--get to the point and give specific examples of why your nominee should win.  6. Finally, we show up on STUEY night in April and walk away with at least one STUEY in any one of the categories. Although we are usually deserving of many more :)--it wouldn't be fair to the others for us to clean up (win all the awards). Being the social conscious, relational, and social justice-minded individuals we are, we can accept with gratitude and graciousness our sole STUEY. See you at the STUEY's! SHSS STUEY Process  Last summer six students from Nova’s Marriage and Family Therapy program took place in the 2011 In-tercultural Exchange to China.  The students, made up of both Masters and Doctoral students, were ac-companied by Dr. John Miller and Martha Marquez.  The exchange took place with Beijing Normal Uni-versity. Beijing Normal University is one of the leading graduate programs in China in the areas of Psy-chology and Family Therapy.  During the week-long exchange, students engaged in cross-cultural shar-ing of clinical techniques and research by presenting areas of interest to one another.  Students were also able to tour and embrace China’s rich culture.  It is through Dr. Miller’s extensive research that these exchanges are made possible.  Students who attended this exchange felt it was an amazing life changing experience.  For more information on future exchanges to China contact Dr. Miller at jm2790@nova.edu.  Additionally, Doctoral candidate Laura Mantell presented the MFT Masters Workshop Series this se-mester. Mantell designed workshops to help Master’s students navigate through the program. The workshops are part of her “Applied Clinical Project” and topics covered included: introduction to the MFT program, review of the internal practicum at the Brief Therapy Institute, information on external practicums and the comprehensive exam.  There will be one more workshop held this semester on pre-paring for licensure and Mantell plans on presenting this workshop during the winter term.  For more information on these workshops contact Laura at mantell@nova.edu.   Check out the MFT club’s Facebook page for upcoming events and information by searching “Nova Southeastern University - Marriage and Family Therapy Club.”  S H S S  D I A L O G S   CSA Student Presents at Regional Conference  Submitted by Kelley McCarthy, CSA Master’s Student   On October 7, 2011 a group of CSA students attended the NASPA Florida drive-in whereI had the oppor-tunity to present at my first conference with my friend, Amma Marfo, Assistant Director of Student Ac-tivities at Florida State University.  Our session was called Tweetworking: 52 minds in 52 weeks. In January I started the 52 in 52 Project as a desire to engage the world of student affairs in more than 140 characters.  I undertook the task of in-terviewing fifty-two student affairs professionals from across the country, aided by the Student Affairs Collaborative’s Twitter community, #sachat. The presentation shared the results of this ambitious pro-ject, compared my results to the expectations of graduate students currently in preparatory programs, and explored how new professionals in the field are using the advice of the seasoned and diverse pro-fessionals who contributed to the project. I had a wonderful experience at the conference and it was exciting to finally meet those who I have been tweeting with for the last year. Marriage and Family Therapy Program Updates  Submitted by Matthew Biehl, Marriage and Family Therapy Representative   Semester Highlights Submitted by Heilit Biehl, College Student Affairs Representative This last semester has held many highlights for the many students in the College of Student Affairs program. In September, the College of Student Affairs Association (CSAA) hosted guest speaker, Cherise James, alum of the NSU and the CSA program. Ms. James spoke about the history of the program and gave useful advice on the upcoming job search for our soon-to-be graduates.  October was when over a dozen CSA students attended the state conference for the National Asso-ciation of Student Personnel Administrators (NASPA) in Tampa, FL. At the conference, two groups of CSA students participated in the annual case study competition. One of the groups, consisting of Alli-son Walker, Bill Lacava, and Russell Slendebroek, took third place in the state competition – this was the first time students from Nova Southeastern University had ever placed! Kelley McCarthy was se-lected as a presenter for her “Tweetworking: Lessons learned from 52 minds in 52 weeks” presenta-tion on social networking in the field of student affairs. The College of Student Affairs was repre-sented by Katie Monsour in recruiting potential students at the Undergraduate Symposium. In addi-tion, NSU received the “FL-NASPA Drive In 2011 Travel Award” and our very own DMS and DCAR Practicum Coordinator, Jake Shilts, CSA alum, was recognized for his involvement as the state NASPA Knowledge Community Chair and serving on the conference planning committee. Our SHSS SGA was happy to help support these students in attending this conference through the issuance of eight con-ference scholarships.  At this time, CSA students are scheduled for a few socials before the semester ends, in addition to preparing for a mock job placement exchange that will be held at Florida International University. At this event, students will have the opportunity to network with fellow student affairs staff and stu-dents at FIU while participating in mock interview simulations. This event is hosted by CSAA and FIU’s student affairs division.  Spring 2012 Diversity Dialogues  The Diversity Dialogues, a monthly, Tuesday afternoon brown bag forum began February 16, 2006. Initiated by Dr. Debra Nixon, the dialogue was created to bring the university community together to discuss issues of diversity and inclusion. The guiding premise of the dialogue,  then, is to provide a healthy platform to talk honestly and openly about issues of diversity in a safe, accepting environment.  2012 Diversity Dialogues Schedule Date Time Location Facilitator January 10th 12:00-1:00 p.m. President’s Dining Room Horvitz Administration Building Dr. Debra Nixon February 7th 12:00-1:00 p.m. President’s Dining Room Horvitz Administrative Building Dr. Jason Campbell March 6th 12:00-1:00 p.m. President’s Dining Room Horvitz Administrative Building Dr. Martha Marquez April 3rd 12:00-1:00 p.m. President’s Dining Room Horvitz Administrative Building Dr. Delores Smiley 

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