Faculty and Staff News Patricia Moran Bombardier ’67, M.L.S., associate professor and director of the Alumnae Library, has been elected president of C/W MARS (Central and Western Massachusetts Automated Resource Sharing Network) for 2008-2009. This is a consortium of more than 140 multi-type libraries that circulate more than nine million items annually to over one million registered borrowers. She will be actively involved in advocating for the network at legislative events both locally and on the state level. The library has been a member of C/W MARS since 1984. Katherine A. Currier, J.D., professor and director of paralegal and legal studies, has published the fourth edition of her acclaimed textbook, Introduction to Law for Paralegals. Enhancements in the fourth edition include new or expanded coverage of contemporary issues such as domain names, email, and same-sex unions; and discussion of recently decided, high-profile cases on issues such as the use of racial criteria in school assignments, police use of excessive force, and habeas corpus in terrorism cases. Christine Fay, Ph.D., associate professor of business management, presented a paper at the annual conference of the Institute of Behavioral and Applied Management in Orlando, Florida in October 2008. Based on research Christine conducted at four nonprofit organizations in 2005 for her dissertation, it showed that the organization’s social context had powerful effects on employees’ job satisfaction and on their feelings about the annual performance appraisal process.
Debra J. Gomes, M.S.L.S., M.S.C.I.M., associate librarian/ head of serials and systems, received a master’s degree in communications and information management from Bay Path College in May 2008. She also earned an M.S. in library science from Simmons College in 1991. Joyce Hampton, M.Ed., director of ELL/international programs, made a presentation about our first year seminars at the ACCESS Coalition conference at Mount Ida College May 21, 2008. Joyce also made a presentation entitled “Promoting Equity in Higher Education” on her doctoral research in Latino persistence issues in higher education at UMass School of Education’s Centennial Celebration June 14, 2008. Efrosini “Efi” Kokaliari, Ph.D., assistant professor of social work, published an article in the September issue of NASW Focus, the publication of the Massachusetts chapter of the National Association of Social Workers, entitled “Understanding Non-suicidal Self-Injury.” Efi also published an article entitled “Nonsuicidal self-injury among non-clinical college women” in Affilia: Journal of Women in Social Work, by Sage Publications in 2008. Russell Powell, B.A., assistant director of public relations, kicked off “On Message,” the Chronicle of Higher Education’s new column on career issues in academic public relations. The column, which appeared in the October 31, 2008 edition, was titled, “Training Your President to Meet the Press.” Russell will be an occasional contributor to “On Message.”
Cheryl Sheils, R.N., M.S., assistant professor of nursing, presented at UMassAmherst School of Education’s Centennial Celebration June 14, 2008 entitled “Promoting Equity in Higher Education.” The title of her presentation was “Latinos in the Pipeline to Baccalaureate Prepared Nursing: Challenges and Supports to Degree and Professional Licensure,” which is the area of research for her doctoral dissertation.
New Employees Carol A. Allan, SSJ has joined the college as campus minister. Sr. Carol, who has been an adjunct faculty member at the Elms since 2003, had been program director of Rutledge House and Tranquility House for Open Pantry Community Services, Inc. in Springfield since 2004. Before that, she worked for the Hampden County District Attorney’s Office as a victim witness advocate in Holyoke District Court, and was community prosecution coordinator for the Hampden County Restorative Justice Program. She earned a B.A. in psychology and an M.A. in human development with emphasis on learning disabilities from Salve Regina University, and an M.A. in theology of justice and peace at Maryknoll School of Theology. Karen Anti has been hired as director of the career center. Karen was formerly a career development specialist at Springfield College for six years, and worked at American International College for three years before that as a career counselor and assistant to the dean of students. She earned a bachelor’s degree in American studies from Trinity College in Hartford, and a master’s in education and student affairs administration from the University of Connecticut.
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