Excellence in Advancing Interdisciplinary Study
DANIEL MAHONEY, PH.D. & HARRY DAMMER, PH.D.
Dr. Daniel Mahoney and Dr. Harry Dammer have developed and launched an innovative cross-disciplinary program that greatly enhances the preparation of students for roles in the detection and prevention of accounting fraud. In an initiative that is unique among universities in Northeastern Pennsylvania and rarely seen elsewhere in the country, they have combined their expertise to offer a track in forensic accounting that provides students with critical knowledge and skills in such areas as fraud examination, auditing, criminology and white-collar crime. Because of their work, University students now have access to a curriculum that is ideally suited for developing careers in the growing field of forensic accounting. Daniel Mahoney, Ph.D.
DANIEL WEST, PH.D.
Dr. Daniel West’s efforts to foster service and leadership opportunities for his colleagues at the University and globally are well known. One of his more recent accomplishments was his role in securing the Health Profession Education and Training Grant, a two-year, congressionally directed project awarded to our Department of Health Administration and Human Resources. The grant supports a series of grant-writing workshops, as well as the inaugural Panuska Summit. The summit offers 100 participants the opportunity to engage is conversations about critical health care issues such as defining the health profile for Northeast Pennsylvania (NEPA) residents for 2020; identifying resources to support the health profile; addressing patient outmigration issues from NEPA; and recruiting talented health care professional to the region.
Excellence for University Service & Leadership
GLORIA WENZE, PH.D.
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Excellence for University Service & Leadership
Harry Dammer, Ph.D.
Dr. Gloria Wenze has demonstrated a leadership role and service commitment that has had an incredible impact of the quality of opportunities available to our students. She brought to the University her rich background of military experience — she retired as a Navy captain. With her fellow faculty in our Department of Education, she has developed a much richer culture of collaboration and a stronger focus on proactive development of their academic programs. Her work with the regional community is also reflective of her leadership skills. She is central to an ongoing project with the United Neighborhood Centers, where educators provide opportunities to students who are at risk and to an often ignored segment of our population whose cognitive skills are challenged.
Excellence in Integrating Mission & Justice into the Curriculum
MARY ANN FOLEY, PH.D.
Sister Mary Ann Foley is recognized throughout our campus and beyond for her commitment to issues related to justice and to the Jesuit and Catholic mission of our University. She is, indeed, a person who is committed to this work in her personal, professional and spiritual life. Sister Foley served as Education for Justice coordinator for many years having been a founding member of the group that develops structures and programs to support this most important aspect of University mission. Her activities are directed at different audiences. She served as a speaker and leader for University Ministries’ Student Silent Retreat Program. With colleagues from other departments, she coauthored a Clavius Grant Program proposal for interdisciplinary study. The proposal, “Issues of Peace and War in the Twenty-First Century,” was funded and served as an important event for faculty conversations about peace and justice issues.
Fall 2011 The University of Scranton
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