Business and Workplace Education...

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82 Washington Square EastPless Hall, 6th FloorNew York, NY 10003

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In this Issue:

* Message from Professor O’Connor

* GraduaPon Update

* Scholarship Awards

* Alumni News

* Holiday Party Recap

* Department News

* Guest Lecturer Update

* Prof Bronner’s Browsings

* Doctoral Abstract

* In Memoriam

Business and Workplace Education NewsletterA Look Back...

During my first class at NYU, Professor O’Connor told us that =me would go by very fast... and it surely has. As I get ready to graduate, it would be hard not to reminisce on my experience in the program. Not only have I been challenged academically by the faculty, but I’ve also been exposed to many inspiring alumni and guest lecturers. One individual in par=cular had a significant impact on me. Professor Robert Gurland came my first semester and discussed how important the concept of “=me” was. He described how honored he felt that students gave him their =me, yet also expressed the responsibility he felt in crea=ng a memorable and meaningful experience for those individuals. He emphasized that for him, teaching was a career, not a job. His words were truly inspiring and greatly shaped my teaching

philosophy. It’s transforma=ve moments such as my =me with Professor Gurland that I can say I will truly miss.

I came to NYU knowing I would graduate with a great educa=on, but I never realized the bond that I would create with fellow classmates. Through them, I have grown immensely, both personally and professionally, and I am forever grateful for that. Those countless hours spent at Argo Tea will always stay with me. My colleagues each came with quite diverse backgrounds, which allowed for us to examine topics from many perspec=ves and gave us the ability to challenge and support each other.

So as I move on to my future endeavors, I can speak from everyone in the gradua=ng class in saying “thank you” to Professor O’Connor for the con=nuous support and encouragement, and for allowing us the opportunity to take part in this amazing experience

Annie MallanEditorGraduate Student Organiza4on Representa4ve

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NYU BUSINESS AND WORKPLACE EDUCATION NEWSLETTER! SPRING 2014

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A Message from Professor Bridget O’Connor, Program Director

ARer such a long winter, we celebrate the end of a superb semester! Our MA Program in Business and Workplace Learning con=nues its successes in enrolling the best students who are studying in a rich learning environment. New York University con=nues to expand its learning resources and the Steinhardt School is situated to con=nue what we do best—prepare professionals for lifelong learning and give doctoral-‐studies bound students the academic foo=ng that will serve them in the future.

Elsewhere in this newsleZer you’ll see stories about this year’s social and professional events. Also, I’m par=cularly proud of the success stories program alumni have sent to us—we can all be inspired by what they are doing AND that they con=nue to stay in touch with their alma mater!

To those of you who are gradua=ng, our alumni welcome you into their community. We all urge you

to con=nue your associa=on with each other and your Program. If you’re not already a member of our Google Group, please let me know. Group members will always learn about our events and receive our newsleZers. Send us updates on your lives and careers, and even consider making a dona=on to your favorite Business and Workplace Educa=on fund!

So, again, congratula=ons to our graduates! It’s your successes that make this program so proud and strong. Happy summer, everyone!

SUMMER 2013 PH.D.

Peter J. McAliney

WINTER 2013 MASTER’S DEGREE

Liwen (Sasa) XuAnne@e Rempel

2013 - 2014 Graduates

Congratulations to the class of 2013 - 2014! Students, alumni, and faculty came together to celebrate the accomplishments of the graduates.

SAVE THE DATE!Graduation Gala

May 9, 2014Pless Hall: 5:30 - 8PM

Valedictory CelebrationMay 19, 2014

Rockefeller Center: 2:30PM

SUMMER 2013 MASTER’S DEGREECourtney Remmey

Pamela Lee

SPRING 2014 MASTER’S DEGREEDiana E. Barone

Adrienne D. Blanks Nicole B. D’AntuonoSamantha Guss Anne W. Mallan


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Congrats, Grads!MICHAEL BRONNER AWARD FOR SCHOLARSHIP AND LEADERSHIP

Peter. J. McAliney

HERBERT A. TONNE AWARD FOR HIGHEST GPANicole B. D’AntuonoSamantha Guss

PETER L. AGNEW AWARD FOR SCHOLARSHIP AND LEADERSHIPAnne W. Mallan

Two MA graduates of the Business and Workplace EducaPon Program will be honored at the May 19 Valedictory Ceremony at Radio City Music Hall!

First, Anne W. Mallan, will be awarded the Samuel Eshborn Service Award. This award is given to a “graduaPng graduate student in recogniPon of superlaPve and extraordinary service, exhibiPng the value of strong leadership in school acPviPes in NYU Steinhardt,” Annie was chosen as the Department of AdministraPon, Leadership, and Technology Awardee for this disPnguished honor. Thank you, Annie, for all you’ve done for the Program and the Department.

Second, Adrienne D. Blanks, also a 2014 MA graduate of the Business and Workplace EducaPon Program, was selected as the Alterna4ve Speaker for the Valedictory Ceremony. Adrienne may not have had the opportunity to address the audience at Radio City, but she did give her talk at the Business and Workplace GraduaPon Gala on May 9. She was terrific!

Steinhardt School Valedictory Ceremony


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Diana Barone: Post gradua=on, Diana will con=nue her posi=on as the communica=ons manager for Dom Pérignon at LVMH while aspiring to begin her career in post-‐secondary educa=on. Diana believes her experience in the business and workplace educa=on program at NYU has lit her path to a future in teaching. With the opportunity to expand her knowledge in the business field by taking classes at Stern, while focusing on adult learning, curriculum and the founda=ons of educa=on at Steinhardt, Diana believes this opportunity was exactly what she needed to get started on her next chapter in life.

Adrienne Blanks: ARer gradua=on, Adrienne plans to con=nue to train and educate budding entrepreneurs and provide them with the tools for success in growing a profitable business. Adrienne will also con=nue to grow her nail polish business and expand her product offering as a social enterprise to empower women in underserved communi=es to develop workplace and employability skills through her brand.

Nicole B D'Antuono: Nicole is currently the Technical Training Manager at Hearst Magazines. She has over 8 years of experience in adult educa=on, focusing specifically on technology and instruc=onal design. She received her B.A. from the University of Rhode Island in ItalianLanguage and Literature in 2006. Nicole feels that the Business & Workplace Educa=on program has solidified prac=ces commonly used in the corporate environment and will benefit anyone with an interest in the learning and development field.

Samantha Guss: ARer gradua=on, Samantha plans to con=nue in her posi=on as Data Services & Public Policy Librarian in the NYU Division of Libraries. Samantha’s biggest takeaway from the program was that learning theory is obviously key in designing and carrying out effec=ve formal instruc=on, but can also be incredibly useful in all kinds of workplace situa=ons. She already uses things she’s learned from the program on a daily basis and expects to con=nue using her new knowledge to improve her teaching and other aspects of her professional prac=ce.

Annie Mallan: In the fall, Annie will be heading up to Harlem to begin her doctorate studies in Adult Learning and Leadership at Teachers College, Columbia University. She feels strongly that the Business and Workplace Educa=on program has set the framework for her future career in L&D consul=ng. Her recommenda=on to students is to take advantage of all the resources available at NYU. It’s incredibly useful to establish rela=onships with your colleagues, alumni, and guest lecturers...you never know what opportunity will come your way!

What’s Next?


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Dr. Peter J. McAliney: Peter is the Vice President of Learning Design and Innova=on at Ameritas Hispanic Pathways. This Gates' Founda=on grantee has developed a comprehensive dual-‐language academic and student services program for Community Colleges created to address college entry, reten=on, and gradua=on for the U.S. Hispanic community. In his role at Ameritas, Peter is the chief architect of the curricular approach that integrates language, discipline-‐specific content, college and career readiness, informa=on literacy, and technology skills acquisi=on with an integrated student support model that leads to increased student success. He has applied the results of his doctoral research on using social media to support learning in this program and has delivered presenta=ons on this topic at a number of academic conferences including Educause, The League for Innova=on in the Community College, and the American Educa=on Research Associa=on. His work has also been recognized by Inside Higher Ed, an industry publica=on covering higher educa=on. Peter lives with his wife Kristan and daughter Sierra in Wesfield, New Jersey.

Anne=e Rempel: AnneZe is currently a Human Resources Business Partner at JP Morgan Chase. She has over 5 years of experience in both learning and development and human resources, focusing primarily on talent development, staffing adequacy, and coaching. AnneZe feels that the program has solidified her understanding of learning theory, and has provided her the skill set to link theory to the professional workplace. Her recommenda=on to students is to challenge yourself, network as much as possible, and make great friends along the way!

Heather Zezeck: Thanks to the help, support, and guidance of mul=ple NYU faculty members Heather uncovered a calling for researching student mo=va=on and evalua=on and will be aZending the University of Hawaii at Manoa in the fall, pursuing a PhD in Social Psychology. While her goal is to one day become a professor, she currently spends her days in the Training and Development Department at the CUNY School of Professional Studies, and nights either in class or teaching. Being out of school for 10 years, Heather was surprised at how applicable things learned in the program were to her own workplace experiences and would encourage others interested in further educa=on to take advantage of the op=on to aZend the program part =me while working.

What’s Next? Continued...


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Audrey Schmidt Rubin ScholarLiwen (Sasa) Xu

Karen R. Gillsepie ScholarAnnie Mallan

Herbert A. Tonne Scholars Mary Kate O’Leary!Annette Rempel!

Fall 2013 Student Scholarship AwardsPeter L. Agnew ScholarsAdrienne Blanks Thiago CarvalhoNicole D’AntuonoShalini Shroff!Angela Sommese! Heather Zezeck!

Spring 2014 Student Scholarship AwardsAudrey Schmidt Rubin ScholarsMary Kate O’LearyAngela Sommese

Karen R. Gillsepie ScholarShalini Shroff!

Adrienne Frosch ScholarsAdrienne BlanksAnnie MallanHeather Zezeck

Herbert A. Tonne Scholars Mary Kate O’Leary!Annette Rempel

Peter L. Agnew ScholarsEllen BartleyThiago CarvalhoNicole D’AntuonoChunhui Ma

2013 - 2014 Michael Bronner ScholarsEllen BartleySamantha GussChunhui MaAnnie Mallan Christina WalshHeather Zezeck

National Association for Research in Business Education (DPE) National Research Award for the Best Business Education Dissertation of 2013 was awarded to Dr. Paula Steisel Goldfarb in Anaheim, CA, on April 15, 2014. The title of her award-winning dissertation is Pathways to Business School for Women: Case Studies of the Enrollment Process of Female MBA Students. Paula’s committee consisted of Professors

Bridget O’Connor (chair), Laurie Behringer, and Kim P. Corfman. The award includes an expense-paid trip to California to accept the plaque. Congratulations! Bravo! Paula was awarded the Michael Bronner Doctoral Award for Scholarship and Leadership in Spring 2013.


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Support Your Program: Contribute to Special Scholarship Funds

The Program in Business and Workplace Educa=on is fortunate to have a number of special scholarships in the name of loyal graduates and re=red faculty. We would appreciate your con=nued support of these scholarships. To donate, simply send us a check payable to NYU along with a note indica=ng the fund you’d like to support. Here’s some biographical informa=on on these individuals.

Audrey Schmidt Rubin (MA, 1954) was the editor of Today's Secretary, and later, the editor of business texts for the Gregg Division of McGraw-‐Hill Book Company beginning in the mid-‐1960s aRer a successful s=nt of teaching business subjects on Long Island. Her many contribu=ons to NYU's Business Educa=on Program include her leadership of Alpha Chapter, DPE and a long and ac=ve career in NYU's School of Educa=on Alumni Associa=on. The Audrey Schmidt Rubin Scholarship is her most recent contribu=on to our Program

Adrienne Frosch (MA, 1955) has been ac=ve in Business Educa=on ac=vi=es for decades (she declines to elaborate!), joining the Program in many capaci=es including-‐-‐but not limited to-‐-‐serving on a number of Program advisory boards, leadership posts for Alpha Chapter, DPE, and formerly as a member of the Peter L. Agnew Founda=on's Advisory CommiZee. During her (infrequent) free =me she is an ac=ve travel agent, more comfortable 'at sea' than at a desk! Adrienne also served as a member of NYU's School of Educa=on Alumni Associa=on, as did Audrey Rubin.

Karen R. Gillespie (EdD, Columbia Teachers College 1959) was the former Chairperson of the Business Educa=on Department at NYU, with prior experience as an administrator in NYU's School of Retailing. Her many contribu=ons to the Program (then a Department) was as the long-‐running Sponsor of Alpha Chapter, DPE as well as serving as the influen=al leader of the revitalized doctoral curriculum in the Program. Her many awards and contribu=ons included NYU's Great Teacher Award, and numerous textbooks in merchandising and retail management. She also hired Professor Bronner away from his editorial posi=on at McGraw-‐Hill in 1970. Karen re=red from the Program in 1975; however she con=nued to serve as a 'Super Adjunct' with the Program un=l her death in 1992. Her scholarship fund is supported by her annual royal=es and numerous and con=nuing contribu=ons.

Michael Bronner (PhD, NYU 1973; NYU Professor Emeritus 2007) re=red from 'ac=ve teaching' aRer nearly 40 years of service to NYU's Business Educa=on Program. Originally from California where he began his career teaching business subjects in San Jose in 1958, he served as the Business Educa=on Program Director, the Alpha Chapter, DPE Sponsor, the Director of the Puerto Rico Residence Center, and as the President of the New York Academy for Public Educa=on. His scholarship fund was ini=ally established by one of his doctoral graduates, and con=nues to be sponsored by such contribu=ons. The Michael Bronner Doctoral Student Support Fund, was aptly named for his service on 100+ doctoral commiZees as chair or member, many of whom won na=onal recogni=on and research awards.


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Alumni SpotlightInterview with Wolf Levenson

M.A. Business and Workplace Education, 2012Wolf Levenson has dedicated the past ten years of his career to training and development in the luxury jewelry and watch industry. ARer star=ng his career at a Swiss watch auc=on house, Wolf transi=oned to the Global Educa=on department at Tiffany & Co., responsible for instruc=onal design and class facilita=on for selling skills and product exper=se. While there, Wolf also matriculated at NYU Steinhardt earning his degree in Business and Workplace Educa=on, as well as being awarded the Herbert Tonne Award for highest GPA in his gradua=ng class (’12). Having worked at Tiffany, TAG Heuer and Car=er, Wolf has recently returned to Tiffany as the Director of Sales Training and Management Development for Northern America, based in NYC.

Why did you choose to come to NYU to pursue your MA degree in Business and Workplace EducaLon?

In addi=on to my masters, I also aZended NYU as an undergraduate at CAS. While pursuing my BA, I had the privilege of aZending classes with extraordinary faculty, like Professors William Baumol for economics and Larissa Bonfante for Etruscan art history. When it came =me to advance my career, I chose to seek out NYU’s superior faculty once again to help navigate the next step.

What was the catalyst for going back to school?

There was a point in my career where I realized the mentorship rela=onships, for which I am extremely grateful, required addi=onal academic study to complement them in order to reach my professional performance goals. The NYU Business Educa=on track, which blended adult educa=on coursework with profit-‐cri=cal business classes, ideally suited my development needs.

How has the degree helped your professional development/career?

I think what I learned from my coursework, and especially from my advisor, Professor Bridget O’Connor, has framed every learning and

development project I have been part of since I began my studies in 2008. The only thing that stood between my learning the concepts in class at NYU and applying those new skills on the job the very next day was a burrito dinner at Cosmic Can=na on 3rd Avenue.

Have you come across any new trends in the field? Well, thineLearning, mobile learning and virtual classroom con=nue to seize the spot light and righfully so. Leveraging your company’s LMS to build a consistent learn-‐over-‐=me approach with mul=ple touch points is an excellent way to develop a large, geographically diverse demographic. However, blended learning s=ll reigns. One can never replace the contribu=on of an instructor in a dynamic classroom or a coach in a mentoring conversa=on. There is no single catchall approach to adult learning.

What's the biggest piece of advice you would give current students?

It all comes down to commitment and mo=va=on. A student only gets out what he or she willfully puts in independently. As educators, in addi=on to teaching, we also need to create an environment that supports a student's personal mo=va=on to succeed.


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Amy Lui Abel (PhD, 2008) was recently promoted to Managing Director, Human Capital, at The Conference Board.

Sabra Brock, (PhD, 2007), Interim Dean at the Touro College School of Business, has published a book: At the Intersec2on of Educa2on, Marke2ng, and Transforma2on (New York: Touro College Press). She has also coauthored an arPcle enPtled “A tale of two cultures: Cross cultural comparison in learning the Prezi presentaPon soiware tool in the US and Norway” in the journal JITE: Research. She was on a panel, Working across Cultural, Gender, and Genera2on Differences at the MBA Women InternaPonal Annual Conference & Career Fair in Boston, MA. And she received the ‘best paper’ award for her presentaPon at the 2013 Informing Science + EducaPon Conferences, in Porto, Portugal. Dr. Brock has also been honored as a “Top Woman in Business” by the Queens Courier.

Denise (Gamba) Cole (CerPficate of Advanced Study, 2004) and her husband Mike, are living in Roswell, Georgia. She sPll works for IBM, now as a Learning Leader supporPng the Global Technology Services Division. She is happy to be juggling working from home with parenPng their daughter, Jillian Anne, who was born in July of 2012.

Paula Steisel Goldfarb (EdD, 2013) was recently promoted to Dean, Academic Affairs, Admissions, and Graduate Financial Aid at the NYU Stern School of Business. She says she welcomes suggesPons as to how to shorten her Ptle! Paula was also the recipient of the NaPonal AssociaPon for Research in Business EducaPon (DPE) NaPonal Research Award for the Best Business EducaPon DissertaPon of 2013. CongratulaPons!

Peter McAliney (PhD, 2013) is Vice President of Learning Design and InnovaPon at Ameritas Hispanic Pathways. He presented at two conferences: First, at the October, 2013 Educause conference, he was on a panel, “Teaching and Learning Breakthroughs: Next-‐GeneraPon Academic Models in PracPce,” sharing the work Ameritas is doing to increase college complePon for Hispanic students. Educause is the leading community of IT leaders and professionals commi@ed to advancing higher educaPon. Second, at the League for InnovaPon in the Community College Innova2ons conference in February, 2014, Peter presented “Delivering Technology Assisted College Dual Language English Immersion Learning Experiences” discussing best pracPces in higher educaPon for introducing and employing technology with dual language learners. His presentaPon at AERA 2014 was well a@ended, and it made quite an impression; visit this site to learn more: h@p://www.insidehighered.com/news/2014/04/07/social-‐media-‐may-‐benefit-‐internaPonal-‐

Alumni News

http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2014/04/07/social-media-may-benefit-international-students-and-group-projects-researchers-argue

http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2014/04/07/social-media-may-benefit-international-students-and-group-projects-researchers-argue


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Kevin McEvoy (PhD, 2010) was awarded the University Of ConnecPcut School of Business Undergraduate Teaching Award for 2013 last April, and the University of ConnecPcut School Of Business Graduate Teaching Award for 2012. Faculty are eligible to win this award only once every five years..and he won five years ago, also!

Lisa S. Pon4 (PhD, 2009) has just accepted the posiPon of Assistant Vice President -‐ Research & EducaPonal Programs for the Global AssociaPon of Risk Professionals. She writes that the posiPon is involved with the creaPon, administraPon and maintenance of their Financial Risk Manager cerPficaPon/examinaPon, similar to the CPA exam but for those involved in finance and risk management. The organizaPon is located in the Newport/Pavonia secPon of Jersey City. CongratulaPons, Lisa!

Courtney Remmey (MA, 2013): Courtney announces the birth of Catherine (Cate) Ellio@ Remmey on April 7, 2014. Courtney, her husband, Ben, and Cate have recently moved to Pennsylvania. She currently serves as Technology Strategy & User Experience Lead, Vice President at J.P. Morgan.

Nancy B. Sardone (PhD, 2008) won ‘best conference paper’ awards for her papers:

(2014, December). Making the case for BYOD instrucPon in teacher educaPon. Issues in Informing Science and Informa2on Technology, xx(x), pp. x-‐xx.

(2013). PencasPng in a teacher educaPon program. In C. Maddux (Ed.) Research Highlights in Technology and Teacher Educa2on 2013. (pp. 109-‐116). Chesapeake, VA: AACE. (with a co-‐author)

And she had three manuscripts recently published:

(2013, December). Exploring earthquakes and tsunamis: IntegraPng science, social studies, and technology. Science Scope, 37(4), 3-‐9.(2013, August). Game-‐based learning to develop civic literacy and 21st century skills: Making judgments and decisions.Ci2zenship Teaching Learning, 8(3), 343–355 (with a co-‐author)(2013, January 3). CollaboraPon as a form of professional development: Improving learning for faculty and students.College Teaching, 61(1), 30-‐37 (with a co-‐author)

Alumni News Continued...


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Chris4ne Janssen-‐Selvadurai (PhD, 2009) writes that she’s been busy at Fordham University building a new Entrepreneurship program -‐ from curriculum to a business incubator to an overarching center. The project has been gesng good press this past year from the NY Post, The Daily News, Crain's and various Fordham publicaPons. Also, in the Nov/Dec issue of BizEd magazine, she and her program are featured in an arPcle enPtled IDEA CENTRAL Bravo! Through her leadership, the undergraduate Entrepreneurship Program at Fordham is now #25 in the BusinessWeek rankings.

FrimeQe Kass-‐Shraibman (MA, 1996; PhD, 2008) reports that was recently promoted to full Professor of AccounPng at Brooklyn College.

Hyea Yoon Jung (Sherry) (MA, 2010) visited the NYU campus this Spring semester to share her exciPng professional adventures since graduaPon. Sherry has just begun a posiPon as Youth Networks Coordinator at the United NaPonals Development Program in Dili, East Timor. Prior to that she was a Research Associate at the Korea Development InsPtute in Seoul, Korea and a Consultant at Entrue ConsulPng, working on projects in Paraguay, Mexico, and Saudi Arabia.

Susan WaQers (MA, 2009) is a full-‐Pme online professor in the Fashion MarkePng and Management Department at Berkeley College. She is in the process of developing the first MOOC done in the area of fashion, which will run this summer.

Alumni News Continued...


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2013 Annual Holiday Party


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Guest Lecture by Dr. Len Cairns and Dr. Margaret Malloch

At the start of April 2014, we were honored to have Dr. Len Cairns and Dr. Margaret Malloch among us for a guest lecture on the features of the NaPonal Australian QualificaPon Framework (AQF). With their vast internaPonal experience in educaPonal research, adult learning and vocaPonal educaPon, Dr. Cairns and Dr. Malloch gave us a detailed insight in the ways in which AQF impacts college curriculum and professional competencies.

The AQF is Australia’s naPonal policy for regulaPng qualificaPons in their educaPonal and training systems and includes qualificaPons from each of these sectors into a single framework. Given our curiosity on the subject, Dr. Cairns and Dr. Malloch gave us an overview of AQF’s 10 levels, starPng from cerPficate courses to a doctoral degree. They also provided an example of how the resulPng requirements, learning outcomes, and accreditaPons for a Master’s degree would appear in the framework. To see a policy translated into quanPfied specificaPons gave us a great understanding of the standardizaPon provided by the framework.

What followed suit was a sPmulaPng discussion about the framework’s pros and cons. NaPon-‐wide portability of one’s degree, be@er employability and quality assurance were some of the strengths of AQF. Contrary to our assumpPons, they also menPoned that changing curriculum was a fairly fast-‐paced process within the AQF. Answering all our quesPons with a great amount of paPence and humor, Dr. Cairns and Dr. Malloch explained how universiPes do manage to maintain a certain degree of autonomy over the instrucPonal design and delivery process, in order to brand themselves differently. At the end of the lecture, we were lei with a deep appreciaPon of the large-‐scale, uniform implementaPon of the framework, along with a vision of how we could use this knowledge to create an innovaPve educaPonal approach for our countries.

Dr. Len Cairns is Adjunct Associate Professor in Faculty of Educa2on at Monash University, Australia.Dr. Margaret Malloch is Director of Research Training at College of Educa2on, Victoria University, Australia.

-- Shalini Shroff


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Professor Bronner’s Browsings

When your ‘to do’ plate is overflowing, some say, ‘get a bigger plate’! So I’m looking for a bigger plate! I was oien told that rePrement would be a ‘relaxing Pme of life,’ but whomever said that must have been thinking of a different type of rePrement—certainly not this one!

As many of you know, Professor O’Connor and I, along with a NYU colleague, Dr. Burt Kaliski, are working on a two-‐volume book, tentaPvely enPtled ‘Business EducaPon at NYU—The Next GeneraPon,’ which builds on the earlier 1981 book called ‘The Early Leaders in Business EducaPon at NYU.’ So far we’ve completed chapters featuring Professor Karen Gillespie, who led the Program in the late 1960s for a decade and Professor Padmakar Sapre, who did the same from the mid-‐1970s unPl his rePrement in 1988. You can see these chapters on our Business EducaPon Web page. Underway and currently being edited are chapters for Professors O’Connor and Bronner, thus complePng the first of these two volumes.

Next up we’ll consider the history of the Business EducaPon Program itself along with the same type of history for Alpha Chapter, Delta Pi Epsilon. As you may know, NYU is the ‘Home of Business EducaPon’ in the U.S. in 1926 and DPE, our naPonal honorary research society, was founded at NYU in 1936, so these chapters should be very informaPve in capturing these histories. In addiPon, and another chapter—in its near-‐finished form—is the history of the Peter L. Agnew FoundaPon, again created at NYU by Professor Peter L. Agnew in 1966, just prior to his unPmely rePrement and death in 1969. I think you’ll find all of these chapters both interesPng and informaPve as they review YOUR connecPon with NYU. Aier all, these are all cornerstones of your work here so they’re all part of your history, too!

Now I must get back to work. Where IS that larger plate?

-- Michael Bronner, Professor Emeritus

THE PETER L. AGNEW FOUNDATION by Arthur H. Rubin

The history of the Peter L. Agnew Founda=on will soon be posted on our Program’s website as a companion piece to earlier chapters featuring Drs. Karen R. Gillespie and Padmakar M. Sapre.

The Founda=on played an essen=al and cri=cal suppor=ng role in the history of the Business Educa=on Program since its formal crea=on in 1969 by Dr. Agnew himself. The review was wriZen by Arthur H. Rubin, the Administra=ve Trustee of the Founda=on, who served NYU over 50 years as an alumnus, member of the faculty, administrator, and Director of Public Occasions. A former student and a close associate of Dr. Agnew, Arthur has made substan=al professional contribu=ons to NYU with his con=nued involvement, especially with our Business Educa=on Program.

This history is designed to become a separate chapter in the two-‐volume book series extending the 1981 publica=on, The Early Leaders in Business Educa2on at NYU. We think you’ll enjoy reading it.


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Doctoral AbstractHOW UNDERGRADUATE STUDENTS USE SOCIAL MEDIA TECHNOLOGIES TO SUPPORT GROUP PROJECT WORK

Peter J. McAliney NYU Ph.D, 2013

In this case study, I explored the role of social media technologies in group project work for undergraduate students in a public university. Data were gathered through group discussion forums, group meePng logs, individual reflecPon logs, peer assessments, team observaPons, focus groups, and individual interviews.

Technology conPnues to evolve and become accessible to students in higher educaPon. Concurrently, teamwork has become an important skill in academia and the workplace. The purpose of this study was to document project-‐oriented work groups as they went through different developmental stages and to describe how they employed social media technologies as they went through these stages. A goal was to know how technology in the blended classroom, including emerging social media technologies, supported or interfered with group development processes underlying the development of team skills as they completed a project. Findings present a picture of the role social media technologies play in project task complePon and the corresponding group dynamics associated with group projects.

The findings in this case study led to six major themes, which included: 1) social media technology choices my team used to support our work group depended on individual team members’ prior use and astudes about technology; 2) I found social media technology most useful for the “people” aspects of team projects; 3) I found certain technologies more useful at different stages of the project; 4) lack of an explicit social media technology “contract” within a group led to some unintended, negaPve consequences; 5) the immediacy associated with social media technology can blur the lines for defining specific team roles, ownership of tasks, and overall integrated project planning perspecPve; and 6) we used social media technologies to help us produce a cooperaPve, not a collaboraPve, deliverable.

This study concludes with recommendaPons for insPtuPons, instructors, and researchers. InsPtuPons may benefit by providing general resources to students on how they can use social media technologies to support their learning. Instructors who use social media technologies can enhance students’ connecPons with their coursework by using social media technologies. Researchers can extend this study into addiPonal types of student populaPons and course delivery modaliPes.


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In MemoriamIt is with great sadness that we acknowledge the passing of NYU’s 14th President, Dr. L. Jay Oliva. Dr. Oliva was a great friend of our Program; he was our Agnew Lecturer in 1991 and he awarded Delta Pi Epsilon several Service Awards during his 11 year presidency (1991-‐2002). Dr. Oliva was a community builder at the same Pme he was the architect of a global NYU. He always seemed to put students and faculty first. You could find him around campus—in the hallways of Bobst, in the Coles Sports Center, and everywhere students and faculty gathered. The NYU Torch Club (NYU’s faculty club) was his work as well as the Skirball Center (where he frequently performed in student producPons), and numerous programs for global scholars, including the League of World UniversiPes. The photo below shows him with his friend, Niel Diamond, aier a performance at the Skirball Center.

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