FACULTY FORUM Stephanie Y. Evans, Ph.D., chairman of the African American Studies, Africana Women’s Studies & History Department, presented three invited lectures on “Healing Traditions of Black Women’s Writing”in Spring 2015 at Texas Southern University, University of Nevada-Las Vegas, and for the Bonner Office of Community Service & Student Development at Spelman College. In addition to her regular teaching, she instructed four students from the Atlanta Public Schools Gifted and Talented Program in a semester-long research internship course on women’s history and hosted participants in the youthSpark mentoring program for a “college student for a day” campus tour and lecture. Dr. Evans also chaired an SOS-Calling All Black People author panel with Professors Sonia Sanchez, John Bracey, and James Smethurst and dedicated the Sonia Sanchez Peace Benches to Clark Atlanta University as part of Founder’s Week.
“SOS—Calling All Black People,” author panel at CAU: Professors Sonia Sanchez, John Bracey, and James Smethurst.
APS Gifted and Talented Students with AUC Woodruff staff and CEO Loretta Parham.
Sonia Sanchez and John Bracey at the W. E. B. Du Bois bust.
Nsenga Burton, a visiting professor of new media and journalism, published in The Root: What Lucious Lyon has Taught Terence Howard About the Man He Can Be” and “American Crime Creator John Ridley Talks About the Controversial Heart.”
communications law at Clark Atlanta University since 2006, discussed the Atlanta Journal-Constitution’s awarding-winning coverage of the Michael Vick dog fighting trial and the more frequent intersection of professional sport, and the law. Felicia Mayfield, Ed.D., director of Field Services and Partnership Relations in the School of Education, was the featured speaker at the Georgia Professional Standards Commission Luncheon in December on the topic of EdTPA, a new state-mandated teacher performance
Mass Media Arts Department adjunct professor D. Orlando Ledbetter, J.D., spoke on the sports law panel at the 24th annual Georgia Bar Media and Judiciary Conference. The February event was hosted by the Institute of Continuing Legal Education in Georgia. Ledbetter, who has taught 12
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assessment. The event was held in Macon, Ga., at Middle Georgia College, December 3, 2014. Mayfield also presented at the American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education’s 67th annual conference held February 27-March 1, 2015. The presentation was on the implementation of EdTPA using Tuckman’s Group Dynamics as a backdrop. Mayfield was a co-presenter at the fall CAEP Conference held in Washington D.C., of a presentation titled Linking The Assessment of Candidate Performance to the State Teacher Effectiveness System. Charmayne E. Patterson, Ph.D., an instructor in the Department of History, attended her fourth and final session of the Higher Education Resource Service (HERS) Institute at Wellesley College and graduated from the prestigious program. For the past six months, she has represented Clark Atlanta University among a cohort of 60 women from colleges and universities across the country. Robert E. Mickens, Ph.D., Distinguished Fuller E. Callaway Professor in the School of Arts and Sciences, was honored in September 2014 by the Simon A. Levin Mathematical, Computational and Modeling Sciences Center (SAL-MCMSC) at Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona, which has launched a “Brauer-Mickens Distinguished Seminar Series” in recognition of his “stellar scholarly contributions to the mathematical, engineering and natural sciences, spanning many decades, and support for SAL-MCMSC and overall service and mentorship to the applied mathematical sciences community.” Mickens also has delivered several invited presentations, most recently: “Exact Finite Difference Schemes for the Cauchy-Euler Equation: Application to the Black-Scholes Equation,” 2015 Joint Mathematics Meetings; San Antonio, TX; January 10, 2015; “Ideology (Masquerading) as Science: The Laffer Curve,” 2015 Georgia Academy of Science Meeting; Milledgeville, GA; March 15, 2015; and “A Comparative Analysis of Single