Student Affairs Employee Honors and Awards
Mandy Womack, Director of Student Organizations was selected Greek Advisor of the Year at the Western Regional Greek Leadership Conference in San Francisco on April 1st, 2006. Several USD student leaders and her Greek Advisor peers attended the event.
Guadalupe Corona, Director, United Front Multicultural Center
has been awarded the Community Leader of the Year by the San Diego County Hispanic
Chamber of Commerce. She will be honored at the Commerce's Iluminada Gala April
1st, 2006.
Kenneth Chep, Director of Disability Services, was recently awarded the University of San Diego Parents Association Award of Excellence.
Merrick Marino reports that USD has been selected as one of a few select universities in the "National Coalition for Electronic Portfolio Research," an international project coordinated through the National Association of Student Personnel Administrators (NASPA) and George Mason University. Each year a small number of institutions are selected to participate in working with other institutions to explore and document the use of electronic portfolios. USD has been selected to join Cohort III of this project, which will feature teams on campuses at which academic affairs and student affairs educators are collaborating on electronic portfolio development. USD will join a prestigious group of institutions doing cutting edge work and research on the development and use of electronic portfolios in higher education.
The other campuses with which USD will collaborate in the cohort
include:
- Arizona State University
- California State College System
- Florida State University
- Framington State University
- IUPUI (Indiana University/Purdue University at Indianapolis)
- Minnesota State Colleges and Universities
- Pennsylvania State University
- Seton Hall University
- Sheffield Hallam University (UK)
- University of Massachusetts
- Dartmouth University of Walverhampton (UK)
- University of Waterloo (Canada)
This project will be tied into the University's Strategic Directions Initiatives as a primary feature of the Integrated Learning: First Year Experience. Our goal for electronic portfolio development over the next three years is to transform our existing Student Development Transcript into a major learning and assessment tool for First Year Experience. Longer term, we hope to establish the portfolio, or transcript, as the primary tool for documenting and assessing student learning as part of a "four-year plan" for undergraduate student learning and development. The team leaders for the project are Dr. Michael Strait (Director of Assessment in Academic Affairs) and Merrick Marino (Director of Student Learning Initiatives in Student Affairs).
