DEPARTMENT AND CENTER NEWS ETHICS

When the Gilmore family moved back to the states, Deanna considered being a homemaker while her children were growing – but quickly realized how much she loved teaching. She told her husband she wanted to go back to Alaska and teach again.

“We went back for three more years and had our fourth child there,” said Deanna. “Our fourth baby was born at home because the weather was too bad to make it to the hospital. It was a really memorable experience.”

From Alaska, the family moved to Okanogan, Wash., where they taught on the Omak Indian Reservation at Paschal Sherman Indian School. After Omak, they moved to eastern Montana, where Deanna’s husband worked for U.S. Customs and where Deanna taught and was an elementary school principal. They were there for 12 years.

“Then one day my husband came home and asked if I wanted to move to Ireland,” laughed Deanna. “He had been offered a job there. So we moved there for two and a half years.”

Turning Corners

When they finally moved back to the U.S., Deanna wasn’t sure what she wanted to do next. “My husband suggested I go back to school to get a doctorate,” she said. “So I attended WSU in Pullman and taught children’s literature there for three years.”

After earning her Ph.D., Deanna taught at WSU Tri Cities for four years. When her mother became ill and went into a nursing home in Spokane, Deanna wanted to be closer, so she applied for a teaching position at the University of Idaho College of Education. She got the job in 2007 and quickly became a favorite professor by education students.

“Being at the University of Idaho has been wonderful,” said Deanna. “I really connect with the students here; I think I relate to them because I’m from a small town.”

Deanna takes some good memories with her, not just of her students, but also of two special awards she received: Professor of the Year by Gamma Phi Beta, and an Academic Excellence award in 2011 for being an inspirational mentor to Frances Hall, an outstanding undergraduate student at the U-Idaho.

Deanna wants to continue teaching online courses until she doesn’t feel effective anymore. She also wants to continue oil painting and visiting her grandchildren – and she would like to take classical piano lessons and write a unique children’s book.

Deanna’s lifetime accomplishments exemplify the rewards of risk-taking. She’s never been afraid to challenge the status quo, take on interesting challenges, or do what it takes to be a good teacher. No doubt, her retirement years will be as colorful as her teaching career.

The Center for ETHICS* and The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) are working on a collaborative education project titled “Competing with Honor: To Dope or Not to Dope.” One of the project goals is to educate high-level athletes on the value of competing drug free. Upon successful completion of the initial project, the course will become part of WADA’s educational curriculum.

If you would like to have your athletes participate in the project, contact Professor Sharon Stoll at sstoll@uidaho. edu. Teams currently participating include the Idaho Vandal women’s soccer team and the Washington State University Cougar men’s basketball team.

Students

Doctoral candidate Clinton Culp defended his dissertation “The pedagogy of moral reasoning of U.S. Marine Corps lieutenants while at The Basic School” on Monday, April 23, 2012. Clinton is Professor Sharon Stoll’s 21st completed doctoral student.

Major Paul Ovalle, USMC, was in attendance representing The Basic School in Quantico, Virginia. Ovalle was the Company Commander for Fox Company, the first company to receive The Center for ETHICS* new character education curriculum and pedagogy.

Doctoral candidate Tom Grant (scheduled to complete this summer) has secured a teaching position in journalism with Abraham Baldwin Agricultural College, a state college of the University System of Georgia.

Leadership and Counseling

Masters in Rehabilitation Counseling and Human Services

University of Idaho Boise Campus

By Beth Cunningham

I started working for the University of Idaho in January 2012 as the new half-time clinical faculty member promoting the master’s degree program in rehabilitation counseling. I am very excited to be a part of the launching of this new degree in Boise.

I have worked as a rehabilitation counselor in the Boise and Treasure Valley area since 1994. While the master of rehabilitation counseling program started in the 1970s in Moscow, it is brand new to Boise. One of the reasons we were able to begin offering the program in Boise is due to our relationship and partnership with the Idaho Division of Vocational Rehabilitation, IDVR. The agency employs 72 rehabilitation counselors in the state and has been very supportive in bringing this program to Boise, as well as several other rehabilitation agencies in the area.

We have an advisory board made up of rehabilitation professionals including Don Alveshere, Administrator of IDVR; Mary Barros-Bailey, a graduate from the program and owner of the private rehabilitation agency Intermountain Vocational Services; Sean Burlile, a graduate of the program and rehabilitation counselor with the Veteran’s Administration Vocational Rehabilitation program; Susan Stuntzner, professor of the Rehabilitation Counseling program in Coeur d’Alene; Russ Joki, College of Educational Leadership and Counseling Department chair at the Boise campus, and myself.

I began my career as a vocational evaluator in Denver, Colo., and moved to Boise in 1994 to work for IDVR as a rehabilitation counselor working with the school-to-work caseload. I later began working with Community Partnerships of Idaho and served as the employment services director for 12 years. In 2009, I began my own vocational consulting company, which I still maintain along with helping to launch this program with the University of Idaho in Boise.

In March of 2012, we had our first open house. The first introductory class was taught in April and is a prerequisite to the program. This summer marks our start with a new cohort of students in both Boise and Coeur d’Alene. While we encourage students to attend full time with the cohort model, we are also allowing open enrollment and will welcome part-time students if room is available in the program. For full-time students, the program is a two-year, 60-credit hour master’s degree.

We are excited to welcome our new tenure track professor, Bryan Austin, who began in August 2012. Bryan is a nationally certified rehabilitation counselor and comes from Michigan State University, where he will be receiving his Ph.D. in rehabilitation counselor education. Bryan has worked in rehabilitation for 15 years and has extensive clinical experience providing direct services to individuals with disabilities in a variety of practice settings in the fields of mental health, developmental disabilities, and vocational rehabilitation. His current research interests include: clinical judgment education, clinical supervision, professional identity of rehabilitation counselors, and outcomes for individuals with intellectual and co-occurring psychiatric disabilities.