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Curriculum Design Committee
Membership | Activities
Membership
Last updated: January 27, 2009
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Higher Education & Student Affairs Master's Program
Department of Educational Leadership
Neag School of Education
249 Glenbrook Road Unit 2093
Storrs , CT 06269-2093
Phone: 860-486-4223
Email: jennifer.lease@uconn.edu
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Dr. Jennifer Lease Butts is the Associate Director of Honors Programs at the University of Connecticut. She received her Ph.D. in Student Affairs Administration from the University of Georgia. Originally from Arkansas, Dr. Lease Butts attended the University of Arkansas where she earned her bachelor's degree in History, and a master's of education degree in Higher Education. Dr. Lease Butts has worked in many different functional areas of Student Affairs throughout her career, including residential life, judicial affairs, student activities, and orientation, as well as working with Upward Bound. Her research interests include psychosocial and cognitive development of college students, honors programs, assessment and evaluation, and staffing practices and supervision in student affairs. |
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Instructional Design and Development
University of Connecticut
368 Fairfield Road Unit 2142
Storrs, CT 06269-2142
Phone: 860-486-3121
Email: desmond.mccaffrey@uconn.edu |
| Desmond McCaffrey is the Director of the Instructional Design and Development group at the Institute for Teaching and Learning. He oversees Instructional Design and Development's support of course design and development for face to face, blended, and online learning environments. Desmond received his master's degree in History with an education focus from Central Connecticut State University and his 6th Year Diploma in Educational Administration from the University of Connecticut's Neag School of Education. Prior to working in instructional design and faculty development, he taught social studies at the high school level for 7 years. |
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Department of Sociology
344 Mansfield Road, Unit 2068
Storrs , CT 06269
Phone: 860-486-4083
Fax: 860-486-6356
Email: ralph.mcneal@uconn.edu |
Dr. Ralph B. McNeal Jr. is an Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Connecticut ; he also holds a dual appointment in Educational Leadership at the Neag School of Education. He received his BA in sociology from the University of Miami , and his MA and PhD in sociology from the University of North Carolina – Chapel Hill . His research areas include sociology of education, adolescent substance use, risk behavior and program assessment and evaluation. His publications have appeared in leading sociology, education, and health journals including Social Forces, Social Science Quarterly, Sociology of Education, Evaluation Review, Journal of Educational Research, Health Education Research, Health Education and Behavior, and Journal of Drug Issues. His recent research focuses on substance use, dropping out of high school, parent involvement, adolescent employment, and participation in extracurricular activities. He is an experienced program evaluator and has co-authored evaluations of the D.A.R.E. and All-Star programs. Dr. McNeal has also published methodological selections on constraints placed on program effectiveness and on strategies for gaining convergent validity when evaluating program effectiveness. Dr. McNeal’s research has received funding from various agencies and institutes including the National Center for Education Statistics, the UCONN/Hartford School Partnership, and the National Institute of Drug Abuse.
Dr. McNeal's Vita (pdf) |
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Neag School of Education
249 Glenbrook Road, Unit 2064C
Storrs, Connecticut 06269-2064
Gentry - 240C
Phone: 860-486-0249
Fax: 860-486-0280
Email: david.moss@uconn.edu |
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Dr. David M. Moss is an Associate Professor who specializes in environmental education and teacher education. He has published numerous articles and books designed to promote educational reform. He was recently designated a Teaching Fellow at the university, the highest honor for instructional excellence. Dr. Moss directs the Teacher Education London Study Abroad program, and engages in scholarship in London schools. |
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Executive Program Director
First Year Programs
Center for Undergraduate Education, Unit 2232
Storrs, CT 06269-2064
Phone: 860-486-3772
Fax: 860-486-8325
Email: david.ouimette@uconn.edu
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David Ouimette has spent the last 15 years at the University of Connecticut. After eight years as an Assistant Dean of Students focusing on student discipline and academic retention, David moved into his current role as Director of First Year Programs in May 1999. As Director, David's primary responsibility is building a comprehensive support package for first year students combining FYE coursework, peer mentoring, and tutoring on campus. David Ouimette is currently the Executive Director of First Year Programs at the University of Connecticut. His primary responsibility is building a comprehensive support system for first year students combining FYE coursework, peer mentoring, and tutoring. David's prior positions include Assistant Dean of Students at UConn and Director of the Office for Student Conduct at University of Southern California. David has a Masters in Higher Education Administration from University of Vermont and a degree in History from Gettysburg College.
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Director of African American Cultural Center
Student Union, Unit 3180
Storrs, CT 06269-2064
Phone: 860-486-3433
Email: willena.price@uconn.edu |
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Department of Geography
Clas Bulting Unit 4148
Storrs, CT 06269-2064
Phone: 860-486-2213
Email: alexander.vias@uconn.edu |
Alexander Vias is a population/economic geographer. In his research he brings an extensive background in the analysis and modeling of population change, especially migration, using a number of statistical and geo-spatial tools. This background was developed from work at the Census Bureau, the University of Arizona (Ph.D. in population geography), and specialized workshops on spatial analysis in the social sciences at the University of California at Santa Barbara . Over the past few years he has published a number of articles in leading peer-reviewed journals that touch on population issues, including interstate migration, the development of micropolitan areas, and rural population change. To finance his research, he has won grants from the USDA and NSF, and currently receives funding through the USDA to participate in a Multistate Research Project (W1001), "Population Change in Rural Communities." Dr. Vias' current and future research projects include analysis of micropolitan areas of the US . A slightly different research area will examine migration to rural areas, but with a focus on the impacts of population change (especially population decline) on rural public services such as health care, and the changing health care needs of the more diverse population emerging in many rural areas today. Some of this work will also investigate the health care needs of recent Hispanic immigrants to Connecticut communities.
Dr. Vias' Vita (.doc) |
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Department of Mathematics
Unit 3009
Storrs, CT 06269-3009
Phone: 860-486-3944
Fax: 860-486-4236
Email: vinson@uconnvm.uconn.edu |
Dr. Charles Vinsonhaler is a Professor of Mathematics at the University of Connecticut. He received a B.S. in Mathematics from the California Institute of Technology and an M.S. and Ph.D. from the University of Washington. He has published almost 100 papers, mostly in the area of Abstract Algebra, with a few in Actuarial Science and Mathematics Education. He is coauthor of a Problem Solving book with T. DeFranco. Dr. Vinsonhaler recently completed a 6-year term as Head of the Department of Mathematics. He was chosen as the 1992 Case Connecticut Professor of the Year, a University Teaching Fellow in 1994, and received the Award for Distinguished College or University Teaching of Mathematics from the Northeastern Section of the Mathematical Association of America in 1999. His primary interest in the TNE project is in curriculum reform.
Dr. Vinsonhaler's Vita (pdf) |
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Department of Modern and Classical Languages
337 Mansfield Road, Arjona, Room 208
Storrs, CT 06269-1057
Phone: 860-486-3317
Fax: 860-486-4392
Email: manuela.m.wagner@uconn.edu
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Manuela Wagner is Assistant Professor of Foreign Language Education at the Department of Modern and Classical Languages at UCONN. She holds a Ph.D. in linguistics from the University of Graz in Austria . During her graduate studies she spent 2 years in the baby lab of Psychophysics in the department of Neurophysiology at the Max-Planck-Institute for Brain Research in Frankfurt/Main, Germany , and 3 years in the Department of Human Development and Psychology at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. Her research interests include pragmatic development in first, second and foreign language acquisition, methods of foreign language teaching, intercultural communication and communicative development in special circumstances. In her role as the director of the Critical Languages Program in the Department of Modern and Classical Languages she finds it interesting to apply current methods of foreign language education in a program of less commonly taught languages.
Dr. Wagner's Vita (.doc) |
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