article examines the implementation process of a federal program providing assistance to older adults in Puerto Rico and the United States, and provides policy implications from findings.
Dr. Michael Kasongo has had a chapter entitled "European Expansion and the Scramble for Africa," in a book titled (re)tracing Africa: A Multi-disciplinary Study of African History, Societies, and Cultures (Dubuque, IA: Kendall Hunt Publishing Company, 2012). The book will be one of the required textbooks at Eastern Kentucky University African/African-American Studies. Dr. Kasongo is an Associate Professor of History in the Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences.
The Kentucky State University (SOE) Chapter of Kentucky Education Association – Student Program sponsored a Reading Across America Campaign on March 1, 2012. This year's program included 35 KSU Students who read books in all seven Franklin County Elementary Schools and one Frankfort Independent School. Members of the Football Team, member from the Track Team, Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Kappa Kappa Psi, and Tau Beta Sigma jointed Education majors in this event.
Dr. Sylvia Mason and Dr. Beverly Downing have completed a book chapter titled "First Year Teachers' Perception on their self-efficacy in bullying intervention: Implication for teacher preparation programs." The book, titled Bullying is edited by Dr. Ashraf Esmail of Walden University and is scheduled for release later this year.
Dr. Shambra Mulder was recently named State Education Chair of the Kentucky NAACP.
Dr. Beverly Downing presented at the Office of Special Education Programs (OSEP) National Conference for State Personnel Development Grant Program with Ms. Renee Scott, of the Kentucky Department of Education. The topic of the presentation was Out of the Box Thinking: Resources for IHE Faculty and Students in an Online Environment.
The School of Education and the Social Work program are currently in preparation for accreditation.
College of Business and Computer Science
Megan LaRue, an undergraduate computer science major, has been accepted into the 2011-2012 NSF EPSCoR Cyberinfrastructure Student Engagement Program. During this program, she will learn about high performance computing, high throughput computing, parallel programming, campus-wide grids, national grids, virtual organizations, data (mining, management, file systems/storage), visualization, networking and cloud services (SaaS, IaaS, PaaS). LaRue will receive full financial support for travel to the program at Clemson University. After successful completion of the training program, she will be qualified to attend the largest conference in computer science – Supercomputing Conference (SC12) in Salt Lake City, Utah, and all expenses will be paid for with funds from a National Science Foundation EPSCOR grant, which was awarded to the Division of Computer Science approximately five years ago.