Friday, 12 February 2016 - 8:30am
NEWS FROM THE AMERICAN COLLEGE PERSONNEL ASSOCIATION (ACPA)
Washington, D.C. (February 12, 8:30 am EST):
Today, Dr. Cindi Love, Executive Director of ACPA, received the 2016 Stetson Law University Facilitator Award at the 37th Annual National Conference on Law Higher Education in Orlando, Florida.
The Facilitator Award is given in recognition of the efforts of educators to be proactive about safety and risk management and to develop organization environments that are reasonably safe, educationally relevant and developmentally sound, the principles embodied in The Rights and Responsibilities of the Modern University by Peter F. Lake and Robert P Bickel.
Love is the creator of training for inter-disciplinary campus teams entitled Constructing Cultures of Advocacy: Where Delineated Rights are not Abstractions. Love’s objective is to help higher education professionals researchers effectively navigate the highest level of civic engagement the last 50 years in the USA. Love is the former Director of Soulforce, home of the Equality Ride, an activist organization that led many of the student protests on campuses where LGBT students were marginalized for many years. (www.soulforce.org).
When asked why she is investing her time in the work of creating cultures of advocacy on campuses, she said, “We should never recreate the conditions that led to Kent State and we are at risk of doing so. The issues are different, yet grounded in the same failure of our leadership to listen deeply to the concerns of young adults and to those who feel alienated and disenfranchised within our communities.”
One part of the Love’s series deconstructs the 100-year build-up to the recent hunger strike at the University of Missouri and the challenges on the Saint Louis University campus, neighbor to Ferguson, following the death of Michael Brown.
Kevin Eagan, director of the Cooperative Institutional Research Program at the University of California at Los Angeles provides some insight into the rise in student activism from the American Freshman Survey, which collected responses from more than 141,000 first-year students during their first few weeks of college.
“Many of these students, if not nearly all of them, were seniors in high school last spring when demonstrations against hostile campus climates and sexual assault were occurring. And that engagement has continued into the fall, with protests related to the Black Lives Matter movement. That those protests have continued may be, in part, supported by this year’s incoming freshman class actually exercising that increased interest.” https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2016/02/11/survey-finds-nearly-1-10-freshmen-plan-participating-campus-protests.
Love is the Executive Director of ACPA—College Student Educators International (www.myacpa.org) in Washington, DC, a 91 year-old higher education association, which serves professionals in student learning & development. Love is also a member of the Working Group to the US Secretary of State on Religion & Foreign Policy and served as plenary speaker at the final session of the United Nations/UUO Compass Coalition for LGBT Human Rights. She served as a Thematic Country Specialist for LGBT Human Rights for Amnesty International and currently serves as one of 92 content experts for the Global Diversity & Inclusion Benchmarks Project (www.diversitycollegium.com). Love is the former director of Soulforce, an international human rights organization as well as Metropolitan Community Churches, a denomination known as the “human rights church” for its groundbreaking work on LGBT inclusion in the church and within the community of people living with and affected by HIV and AIDS. Love was an award winning entrepreneur (INC 500 # 73 in 1990) and senior executive in the Fortune 500 TORO Company. Love has been the invited guest of three presidential administrations to events honoring individuals advocating for underrepresented populations.
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Stetson University College of Law was established in1900, as the first law school is Florida. It is ranked #1 in trial advocacy and #2 in legal writing education by U.S. News. Stetson leads the nation in blending legal doctrine with practical training. The Center for Excellence in Higher Education Law & Policy is directed by Peter F. Drake, one of the co-founders of the National Conference on Law Higher Education, now in its 37th year of operation.
PREVIOUS AWARD RECIPIENTS
2015 Honoree - In Memoriam
Ada Meloy
Ada was the general counsel of the American Council on Education in Washington, D.C., where she represented the interests of more than 200 membership institutions. Prior to joining ACE, Meloy was the general counsel of New York University. Meloy was involved in higher education law for more than 30 years. She was a brilliant lawyer and national leader in higher education with an impeccable professional reputation. She worked tirelessly to cultivate safe and effective colleges and universities.
Accepting the award on behalf of Meloy and ACE is Bobby Colon, chief legal officer of Rochester Institute of Technology in New York. Colon is also an ACE Fellow placed at Stetson University under the mentorship of President Libby.
2014 Honoree
Dr. Jen Day Shaw
Dr. Jen Day Shaw is the associate vice president and dean of students at the University of Florida. At the university, she provides oversight of Student Conduct and Conflict Resolution, Disability Resource Center, New Student and Family Programs, Student Veterans Success Center, and assistance for students in distress. She also manages the 24-hour crisis/emergency duty for campus and serves as chair of the Behavioral Consultation Team, the Crisis Response Team, the Protest Team and the Emergency Deans.
Previously, Dr. Shaw was dean of students and coordinator of Academic Integrity at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, where she was also an adjunct associate professor in the Department of Teacher Education and Higher Education. She has also held positions at the University of South Florida and Florida State University.
Dr. Shaw received her undergraduate degree at Transylvania University, a masters of science degree from Miami University at Oxford and her Ph.D. in Higher Education from Florida State University. Currently, Dr. Shaw serves as the campus safety knowledge community national chair for the National Association of Student Personnel Administrators (NASPA) and has been appointed to the national panel of experts for the Virginia Tech Victims Family Foundation.
2013 Honoree
D. Parker Young
Dr. D. Parker Young is professor emeritus of higher education in the Institute of Higher Education at the University of Georgia where he taught Law and Higher Education. Since 1968, he has been at the University of Georgia where he has been cited for excellence as a teacher. Dr. Young is a past president of the National Organization on Legal Problems of Education. He has served on the board of directors of NOLPE as well as the American Association of University Administrators. He has received the Outstanding Contribution to Literature or Research Award by the National Association of Student Personnel Administrators, which also named Dr. Young a "Pillar of the Profession." The Association for Student Judicial Affairs has created the annual D. Parker Young Award to recognize the outstanding scholarly contributions of an individual in the area of higher education law and judicial affairs. The Education Law Association has given to Dr. Young its highest award, the McGhehey Award, for outstanding service to that organization and for national leadership in the field of education law. Dr. Young has served on the board of trustees for Pfeiffer University and is now serving his second term on the board of trustees for Erskine College.
2012 Honoree
Gwendolyn Dungy
An accomplished speaker, leader, and educator, Gwendolyn Jordan Dungy served as executive director of NASPA from 1995 to 2012. In her capacity as a national advocate for students and the primary spokesperson for student affairs administrators and practitioners, she draws on more than 40 years of experience in higher education.
Before joining NASPA, Dr. Dungy was associate director of the Curriculum and Faculty Development Network and coordinator of the National Diversity Network at the Association of American Colleges & Universities. Previously, she was a senior administrator at the County College of Morris (NJ), Montgomery College (MD), and Catonsville Community College (MD), and a counseling faculty member at St. Louis Community College (MO).
2011 Honoree
Ann H. Franke
Ann H. Franke consults nationally with colleges and universities on issues ranging from academic freedom to student affairs. She founded her firm, Wise Results, LLC, in 2005, after holding senior management positions with United Educators Insurance (1997-2005) and the American Association of University Professors (1982-1997). Her consulting engagements have included reviewing policies, conducting investigations, presenting campus workshops, and improving campus governance. She has also served as an expert witness. Franke speaks often to national groups and has published in, among other periodicals, Trusteeship, the Chronicle of Higher Education, Change magazine, Minerva, and The Review of Litigation. She is a fellow of the National Association of College and University Attorneys, a trustee of AAUP's Academic Freedom Fund, and a member of the editorial advisory board for "Educator's Guide to Controlling Sexual Harassment."
Franke earned her B.A. (magna cum laude), M.A. (linguistics), and J.D. degrees from the University of Pennsylvania and an LL.M. from Georgetown University. During her service to AAUP, Franke received tenure. She spent a sabbatical in Australia studying the development of private universities, funded by a Fulbright senior scholar award. By avocation, she is an amateur cellist and chamber music zealot. She resides in Washington, D.C.
2010 Honoree
Beverly E. Ledbetter
Beverley E. Ledbetter is vice president and general counsel for Brown University. Prior to Brown University, she was legal counsel for the University of Oklahoma and an adjunct professor at the University of Oklahoma College of Law and at the Center for Higher Education, College of Education. She is on the faculty of the management development program at Harvard University and has been an adjunct professor at Harvard. Ledbetter received a bachelor's degree from Howard University and a law degree from the University of Colorado. She lectures frequently on higher education issues including employment, civil rights, sexual and racial harassment, and federal regulatory compliance and is regarded as an expert in the field of higher education law.
A past president of the National Association of College and University Attorneys, and a former member of the NCAA Infractions Committee, she is a member of the International Advisory Council of the Center for Excellence in Higher Education Law and Policy of Stetson University College of Law, and is a faculty member of the HERS Programs at Wellesley and Bryn Mawr, the WACUBO Business management Institute at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and the College of Business Management Institute at the University of Kentucky. She is a former member of the Review Group of the Higher Education Center for Alcohol and Other Drug Abuse and Violence Prevention, and of the U.S. Department of Education. She also served as chairman of the Rhode Island Rhodes Scholarship Selection Committee.
Awards received include an honorary degree of Doctor of Laws from Roger Williams University School of Law, the Order of the COIF award from the University of Colorado Law School, the Minority Counsel Award from the American Bar Association, the Distinguished Service Award from the National Association of College and University Attorneys, and the Thomas S. Biggs, Jr. Award for professional leadership from Stetson University College of Law. She is also the recipient of the Education Leadership Award from the Urban League of Rhode Island, YWCA Outstanding Woman in Business and the Professions, the Paris Vaughan Sterrett for Exemplary Leadership Award from the John Hope Settlement House, and the Rosa Parks Award from the Providence Chapter of the NAACP.
2009 Honorees
Thomas Workman and Liviu Librescu
Thomas Workman is an associate professor of communication studies and and co-director for the Center for Public Deliberation at the University of Houston - Downtown. He is an associate with the Baylor University College of Medicine Center for Collaborative and Interactive Technologies.
Workman is chair-elect of the Alcohol and Other Drug Knowledge Community for the National Association of Student Personnel Administrators, and is a member of the International Advisory Council for the Center for Excellence in Higher Education Law and Policy at Stetson. He is on the editorial boards of Health Communication and Communication Quarterly, and is co-editor of NASPA's AOD section for NetResults, an online journal.
Liviu Librescu (August 18, 1930 - April 16, 2007) was a Romanian-Israeli-American scientist and academic professor whose major research fields were aeroelasticity and aerodynamics. A prominent academic in addition to being a Holocaust survivor, he is most widely known for his actions during the Virginia Tech massacre, in which he held off the gunman, giving all but one of his students enough time to escape through the windows.
Librescu was shot and killed during the attack. Librescu was posthumously awarded the Order of the Star of Romania, Romania's highest civilian honor. At the time of his death, he was Professor of Engineering Science and Mechanics at Virginia Tech.
2008 Honorees
May 4, 1970 Faculty Marshals at Kent State University
Dr. Jerry M. Lewis, accepted the Facilitator Award on behalf of the May 4, 1970 Faculty Marshals. He is an emeritus professor of sociology at Kent State University. He joined Kent State faculty in 1966 as an assistant professor of sociology. He earned his bachelor's degree from Cornell College in Iowa, his master's degree from Boston University, and his Ph.D. in sociology from the University of Illinois, Champaign/Urbana. His research areas include collective behavior, sociology of sport and the sociology of teaching. He has done research on crowd behavior in the United States, England and Belgium. Dr. Lewis has received several awards for teaching including Kent State University's Distinguished Teaching Award and the Kent State President's Medal. In May 1970, he served as a faculty marshal during the demonstrations at Kent State University.