Mansfield University 2013-2014 Annual Report of Accomplishments by Mansfield University

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Man s f i el d Un i ver s i t y Annual Report of

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Letter from the President............................................................1 Mission Statement.........................................................................2 Character....................................................................................3-4 Scholarship.................................................................................5-7 Culture........................................................................................8-9 Service......................................................................................10-12 Life After MU..............................................................................13 Mountie Pride.........................................................................14-15 Special Awards......................................................Inside Back Cover

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CHALLENGES FACED ... SUCCESSES EARNED

he initiation of this annual report is to inform you of the challenges and successes we have endured and mastered this past fiscal year. Through it we hope to enlighten you of all the great things going on at Mansfield University. Higher education is facing many challenges, including a shrinking demographic of high school graduates and the seemingly ever-rising cost to attend. Mansfield is working hard to address each of these challenges. To ensure the continued long standing success of our students, we authored our newest Strategic Plan, MU 2020. It will serve as our guide as we promote our many programs of distinction and develop new programs relevant to the needs of the Commonwealth and beyond. This report coincides with the completion of my first year as Mansfield University’s President. A year that has afforded me the honor to serve my alma mater, its students, faculty, staff, and alumni.

Francis L. Hendricks ’79 Brigadier General, USAF (Retired) President

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MISSION STATEMENT OF MANSFIELD UNIVERSITY Mansfield University is devoted to a personalized education with all programs grounded in the liberal arts. We are committed to promoting leadership development through our Creed. Dedicated to our students and encouraging their passion for learning, we develop individuals who will positively influence their communities.

Vision and Creed

The community of Mansfield University will embody the four virtues of our creed– Character, Scholarship, Culture, and Service. Character – We believe in integrity. We act with honesty and respect toward others. We take responsibility for our actions and reflect on their impact on ourselves and others. Scholarship – We believe in learning. We use rigorous, responsible, and critical inquiry to understand existing knowledge, acquire and share new knowledge, and apply what we learn. Each of us is both student and teacher. Culture – We believe in celebrating humanity. We enrich ourselves and others by sharing and exploring our similarities and differences. We honor the past as we invent the future. Service – We believe in helping others. We work with others to improve the communities in which we now live and will touch in the future. Knowledge invests us with the power to improve our world and the responsibility to act. In 1912, our student body adopted the above words, emphasizing their order: “Character as the essential, Scholarship as the means, Culture as the enrichment, and Service as the end of all worthy endeavors.” Mansfield University is a community in the best sense of the word. We look out for each other. We push ourselves to dream big. We work hard to achieve success. We care. Mansfield welcomed its first student in 1857 – and to this day, the University continues to seek and serve students with big dreams for their futures. Mansfield is a public, residential baccalaureate and master’s degree level university with approximately 2,900 students, of which 8.5% are graduate students.

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We in integrity. We act with honesty and respect toward others. We take responsibility for our actions and reflect on their impact on ourselves and others. • Three MU students were awarded 2013-2014 PASSHE Foundation Scholarships: • Brandon Mowery • Ryan Mowery • Jacqueline Vinton • Erin Ratliff, a psychology major, was one of only 12 students from across the nation selected to participate in the American Psychological Association internship program. • Sara Johns, Professor of School Library & Information Technologies, received the New York State Frederica Hollister Professional Educator’s Award from the Delta Kappa Gamma Society for women educators at the April state convention. • Cynthia Keller, Professor of School Library & Information Technologies, received the Pennsylvania Excellence in Education Award at the Alpha Delta Kappa International Women Educators state convention in April. 1 • Deb Kachel, Professor of School Library & Information Technologies, achieved the 2014 American Association of School Librarians Distinguished Service Award recognizing her outstanding national contribution to school librarianship and school library development. • MU’s Social Work Department was re-accredited through February 2022 by the Council on Social Work Education in recognition of the program’s high quality faculty, academics, service opportunities and exceptional internships. [1] • MU’s English Education program has been ranked by the National Council on Teacher Quality #19 nationally among all secondary education programs, #3 in the mid-Atlantic region, and the #1 secondary program in Pennsylvania. • Michael Robinson finished runner-up in the men’s mile at the NCAA Division II Track & Field Championships. [2]

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• The Women’s Cross Country team won the 2013 PSAC Championship and placed 9th at the NCAA Championships. [3] • The Softball team achieved its first-ever NCAA playoff appearance. [4] • Women’s Softball coach, Edith Gallagher, was named the PSAC Central Coach of the Year for the second consecutive year and the third time in her career. [5] • Mike Rohl, Women’s Cross Country coach, was named PSAC and ECAC Coach of the Year. • The Senior Transitions Conference, spearheaded by the MU Career Center and Student Transition Office, was attended by 122 students from 6 universities, including 58 MU students. [6-8] • 8 MU students were offered Summer 2014 7 8 internships with State Farm’s Corporate offices as part of a relationship established in 1996. One intern, Theresa Seiders, had the Best Project in the annual State Farm Hackathon national competition.

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We in learning. We use rigorous, responsible, and critical inquiry to understand existing knowledge, acquire and share new knowledge, and apply what we learn. Each of us is both student and teacher. • Over 100 students made scholarly presentations at national and regional conferences and 14 students published articles in refereed scholarly journals. • Faculty had 64 articles published and made literally hundreds of scholarly presentations, including professional musical performances. • Lindsey Sikorski, Director of The Marcellus Institute at Mansfield, presented on Next Generation Recruitment at the ShaleComm East Conference held in Pittsburgh in June 2014. [9] • Students Kaitlyn Calvert, Justin Grubb, Megan Hoch, and Chelsi Wood presented papers at the Eastern Pennsylvania Regional Conference of Phi Alpha Theta History Honor Society at Shippensburg University in April 2014.

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• Students Kalen Honeyfield, Colton Long, and Alex Young presented papers at the Pennsylvania Political Science Association meeting in Harrisburg in April 2014. [11]

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• Dr. Christopher Bridges, Vice President for Student Affairs & Enrollment Management, presented on Student Affairs Trends at the NASPA Small Colleges and Universities Institute in Buffalo in June 2014. [12] • Two MU Posters were presented at the annual meeting of the Eastern Psychological Association in Boston, MA, in March 2014. 1. Sarah Ryan, Jessica Kerwin, Sarah Zwick, & Dr. Gretchen Sechrist presented “The role of race in attitudes toward obese individuals.” [13] 2. Danielle Harvey & Dr. Francis Craig presented “Writing the Wrongs: Using expressive writing to manage stress and health.” • 21 Psychology Students presented at the 2014 Annual Showcase of Student Scholarship in April along with over 60 students from other programs on campus [14] • 50 psychology majors completed their senior seminar in psychology capstone presentations. • In April 2014, 17 Psychology majors were inducted into Psi Chi – the International Honor Society in Psychology. [15] • Kate Pratt, senior softball pitcher, was selected by the Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference as one of the Top Ten PSAC Scholar-Athletes for 2014, and also a Capital One Academic/Athletic All-American.

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• The Field Hockey team achieved a team GPA of 3.44 to tie for the 3rd highest in NCAA Division II. • Dr. Jeanne Kagle, Professor of Biology, was awarded a Faculty Professional Development grant to continue her research with aerobic anoxygenic phototrophs. • Dr. Nanci Werner Burke, Professor of Education & Special Education, was awarded grant funding to continue the work of the Endless Mountains Writing Project. • Drs. Bosworth and Rothermel, Professors of Political Science, received the 2014 Student Life Award for Scholarship. • MU has achieved authorization to provide online academic programs in 30 states. MU Library has • MU’s Medical Technology is the only accredited the program of its kind in PASSHE. • MU’s Fisheries program is the only undergraduate per capita usage program in the US that provides certification to by both students graduates as Associate Fisheries Professionals by the and faculty in American Fisheries Society. [17] PASSHE. [16] • Dr. Michele Moore, Professor of Education & Special Education, worked closely with Nick Andre, Instructional Designer, to develop a playlist/series of 46 video casts to expose students to the process of Progress Monitoring that helps to prepare them for the required field component. • Professor of Education & Special Education, Dr. Michele Whitecraft’s article Casting a Wider Net: Understanding the “Root” Causes of HumanInduced Soil Erosion was published in the journal Agriculture. • Dr. David Stinebeck, Provost & Sr. Vice President for Academic Affairs, spoke on General George Henry Thomas at the National Civil War

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We in celebrating humanity. We enrich ourselves and others by sharing and exploring our similarities and differences. We honor the past as we invent the future. • Dr. Lee Wright, Professor of Communications, won PASSHE’s competition to host and lead the annual international experience for all PASSHE institutions. • MU students and Education Professors developed and implemented a very successful distant teaching collaboration for the students in Lake and Peninsula School District children in Alaska. [18] • MU Art and Math Education students, led by Dr. Mardi Whitehouse, Professor of Art, traveled to the Alaska Peninsula at the beginning of the spring semester to deliver cross-curricular lessons at schools in two communities. • Political Science professors, Drs. Bosworth and Rothermel, taught a course for Mansfield students that included two weeks of field research in Belize and culminated in major research papers in June 2014. [19] • Political Science major, James Nixdorf, completed a semester abroad in India. • Dr. Shawndra Holderby, Professor of History, led an educational Spring Break trip for students to Ireland. [20]

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• Dr. Ira Newman, Professor of Philosophy, organized the English-language program of the Canadian Society for Aesthetics, which met May 31 - June 2, 2014 at Brock University in St. Catharine’s, Ontario. This group of scholars in theoretical aesthetics meets annually with 75 other academic societies under the auspices of Canada’s Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences. • Twenty-eight PASSHE honors students, including two MU students, learned about food sustainability in the Canadian Maritime through a course offered by MU faculty that began with learning about regional foods and preparing them in the lab and culminated in tours of facilities such as farmers markets, small food processing operations, and even a lobster fishing experience. • Mansfield University has 25 full-time international students enrolled which represents 8 countries. • Dalton Colbert (’13), Marcy Coleman, a liberal studies major, and Tanya Tews, a Music Technology major, each spent a semester in Jena, Germany, as part of MU’s direct exchange program with the FriedrichSchiller-Universität which has been active since 2000. [21]

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We in helping others. We work with others to improve the communities in which we now live and will touch in the future. Knowledge invests us with the power to improve our world and the responsibility to act. • Tom Grisanti (’14) bicycled across the United A total of States for cancer research. [22] community service • Daniel Teodoro (’14) established an hours were completed aquaponics sustainability project for a town in by students El Salvador. [23] for 49 service and • During Spring 2014, Graphic Design nonprofit organizations students collaborated with the Corning in Tioga County. Area Chamber of Commerce and Young Entrepreneurs Academy (YEA!) students on the importance of branding in growing a successful business. The MU students conducted market research and client meetings, as well as design negotiations and implementation in order to provide the YEA! students with appropriate visual identities for their products. [24] • MU’s Fisheries program was awarded a grant from the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation to assess over 80 streams to determine the presence of Eastern Brook Trout, species diversity and abundance, as well as morphological and water quality conditions.

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• MU’s Chemistry Department was awarded a grant from Tioga County’s Act 13 Impact Fees for well water testing around natural gas drilling sites. • With the assistance of six undergraduate students, Dr. Andrew Shears, Professor of Geography and Geology, pioneered the first night-time balloon mapping of an athletic event • MU’s Campus Technologies Department secured a grant from the Campus EAI Consortium worth over $105,000 in services and technology to launch a mobile app for the campus community. • Ruth Hermansen, Associate Director of Student Retention, helped form the Friends of Tioga-Hammond and Cowanesque Lakes organization to provide outdoor educational and recreational opportunities for area residents and visitors. • Yale University invited President Hendricks to give its first ROTC commissioning address MU alumni and friends since 1957. • MU’s Alpha Kappa Lambda chapter received donated more than AKL’s Chapter of the Year and Community Service Awards. through the Annual Fund • MU collaborated with Northern Tioga School District to implement a Summer Leadership and established new Program to assist high school students to Endowed Scholarships become contributing leaders in their schools and through the Mansfield communities. • MU almost doubled its non-electronic University Foundation. recyclable waste streams in a year from 44 tons to 80 tons. • The construction of Spruce and Sycamore dormitories, which are heated using geothermal energy, was completed using the crushed concrete and bricks from the previous structures as “engineered fill” to eliminate waste. The structural steel was recycled. [25]

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• Dr. Jannis Floyd, Professor of Education & Special Education, was elected to a three year term on the Board of Directors of the Council for Exceptional Children. • Dr. Colleen Ribble, Professor of Education & Special Education, joined the Southern Tioga School District Occupational Advisory Committee. • Brooke Klett, Education Graduate Student, coordinated the America Reads Program which recorded a record number of volunteer hours in local public schools. • Dr. Lynne Hammann, Professor of Education & Special Education, serves as a board member of The International Society for Exploring Teaching and Learning and a review board member of The International Journal of Teaching and Learning in Higher Education and had two proposals accepted for the 2013 International Society for Exploring Teaching and Learning Annual Conference. • Drs. Nanci Werner-Burke and Michele Moore, Professors of Education & Special Education, coordinated the Summer Reading Clinics as a part of the Reading Specialist program. [26] • The Mansfield Auxiliary Corporation provided $250,000 in New Housing Incentive Awards. All recipients joined MU’s on-campus community. • MU’s Human 26 Resources Department hosted 75 children at the “Take Your Child to Work” Day event.

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• Alex Young ’14 accepted a job with the Pennsylvania House of Representatives. • History graduate Coty Behanna ’14 was accepted into the Master’s program in Student Life at the University of Maryland. • Amanda Ward ’12 was accepted into the PhD program in History at Ohio University. • Dual major in Philosophy and Political Science, Lillian Hines ’14, was accepted into the Syracuse University School of Law program. • Communications graduate, Damon Jaggers ’14, was employed immediately at ABC News in Manhattan as a Digital Content Editor. • Nutrition, Radiology Technology, and Respiratory Therapy graduates have pass rates on national licensing exams of 100%. of MU’s • All but one MU graduate who have taken Nursing graduates the Registered Dietitian’s exam in the last found jobs in their seven years have passed. The national average field shortly after pass rate is 83%. graduation. • Business graduate, Jessica Mueller ’14, is completing her Masters in Fashion Management at Domus Academy in Milan, Italy. • Dane Moist ’13 accepted a job with a development organization and is working in Somalia. • Mike Stablein ’14 was one of eight selected nationally for the Military-Baylor Graduate Program in Nutrition and selected for commissioning into the U.S. Army. • Dr. Francis Duffy ’79, distinguished educator, was the speaker at MU’s Spring ’14 commencement. • 102-year old alumnus, Chester Bailey ’35, flipped the switch to turn on the newly installed lights at Karl Van Norman Field during MU’s “Light it Up Again” festivities.

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• MU Field Hockey set a NCAA attendance record on September 14, 2013. • After artificial turf was added, MU’s football field was the primary backdrop for the ESPN segment highlighting the Collegiate Sprint Football League’s 75th anniversary. • MU is nationally recognized as the “Birthplace of Night Football.” On September 14, 2013, the first night football game was played since that first game in 1892 which was televised to an estimated 6 million households. [27] • Dr. Alissa Rose, Professor of Music, was a semi-finalist in the Art Song Preservation Society Mary Trueman Vocal Competition in New York City on November 2013. • MU Bass Club earned a regional birth at the Collegiate National Fishing Championship.

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• An all MU-faculty team took first place in 18-over Co-ed teams in the Step Outdoors Triathlon at Hills Creek State Park in September 2013. The first all MU student team, made up of Outdoor Recreation Leadership majors, also competed. [28] • The Mansfield University Concert Wind Ensemble was deemed Grammy Nomination eligible in seven categories for two recordings: Critical Speed: the Music of Greg Danner, Volume II was eligible for nomination in the categories of Album of the Year, Best Engineered Album Classical, Producer of the Year Classical, Best Orchestral Performance. The recording MU was selected as Malachi: A Celebration of a Special Life was eligible for of the safest Grammy Nomination in the categories of Album of the campuses by Safewise Year, Best Orchestral Performance, Best Contemporary as well as the school Classical Composition. with the number • In the first year of transitioning from the previous one safety rating system, the Mountie Career Connection registered 110 among all PA colleges new employers, posted 407 jobs/internships via the MU and universities by site, and posted 734 jobs/internships via the PASSHE StateUniversity.com. Consortium. • The Public Relations Department partnered with Blue Ridge Communications to create the monthly half hour news magazine television show “Into the Northern Tier” which airs to over 170,000 homes in Pennsylvania. • One Bullet Beyond Justice, PR Director Dennis Miller’s third novel, was published in September 2014. The proceeds from all of Dennis’ books go into an endowed scholarship for English majors. • The Mansfield University Facebook Page ranks in the top 100 of Meltwater News’ most Likable Facebook Pages based on content and reader engagement. • The Marcellus Institute at Mansfield University hosted and sold out the 5th Annual Northern Tier Marcellus Shale Business Expo. [29]

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2014 Society of Honors Recipients Alumni Citation Award

Maureen Fallon-Walsh ’78

Elsie Burk Service Award

John Quashnoc ’70

Distinguished Educator Award

Mary Jane Todd Eckel ’74

Outstanding Young Alumni Award

Ali Soufan ’94

2013 Athletic Hall of Fame Recipients Robert Brisiel ’66

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Scott Frick Class ’93

Football

Nate Gibson ’97

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Terry Manning ’63

Baseball

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