College Student Personnel MS Program
Student Activities and Accomplishments
(To submit news items, please e-mail Karen Crumley.)
Joe Colangelo has successfully completed the NODA internship at the University of North Carolina. Congratulations, Joe!
(11/20/2009)
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Dan Stypa has successfully completed the ACUHO-I internship at the University of Central Florida, Congratulations, Dan!
(11/20/2009)
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Stephanie Cohn sends greetings from Seattle, Washington! She now works as a consultant with a nonprofit organization called Management Leadership for Tomorrow which provides MBA admission coaching and guidance to underrepresented minority professionals. Stephanie reviews MBA application essays from the late summer through early winter and provides feedback on essays in terms of areas for development and improvement. This job enables her to work from home on a part-time basis, which has been wonderful since the birth of her and Cecil's new baby girl, Joely last December. Congratulations on your job and the new baby, Stephanie!
(10/27/2009)
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Laura Krouse has been accepted to the Wayne State University Law School. Congratulations, Laura!
(10/15/2009)
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Abigail Hursh is now the Assistant Director of Disability Services at Gateway Community and Technical College, which is in northern Kentucky in the close suburbs of Cincinnati. She was offered the position, accepted, moved, and started over a two-week period! There are 3 campuses, so she travels amongst them. It seems to be a really good fit for her, and she's enjoying herself in both the job and the location- lots to do! Thanks to Dr. Mertz and the faculty with CSP for everything they did to help get Abigail there!!!
(05/29/2009)
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One of our CSP alumni, Dr. Daniel Pugh, will be assuming the position of Interim Vice-Chancellor at the University of Arkansas - Fayetteville. Please contact him to congratulate him and wish him well in his new position! He can be contacted via e-mail, djpugh@uark.edu, or by phone at (479) 575-5004. Congratulations Danny!
(01/30/2009)
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Please join me in congratulating two new authors in our doctoral program and CSP alums: Amanda Blakewood (research associate, Ph.D. student) and James DeVita (research associate, Ph.D. student). Amanda and James co-authored an article (with Strayhorn) titled, “Factors Affecting the College Choice of African American Gay Male Undergraduates: Implications for Retention.” And, James also authored a review of Frank Hale’s book titled, “How Black College Empower Black Students.” Both of these appear in a recently released special theme issue of the NASAP Journal (volume 11, issue 1).
Not only is this great news for two of our doctoral students but it continues to strengthen the reputation of our program/department nationally. Join me in celebrating their success!!! Feel free to respond to them directly: ablakewo@utk.edu and jdevita@utk.edu.
(posted 10-31-08)
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Congratulations to Julie Lynch for being elected as the University of Tennessee Graduate Student Senate President!
Congratulations to Megs Johnson for successfully completing a NODA Internship at Oakland University!
Congratulations to Joe Colangelo for successfully completing a NODA Internship at Johnson & Wales University and for being selected as the NODA National Conference Intern 2008 in Boston, Massachusetts!
Taryn Hendershot, Megs Johnson, Gabby Mora, and Dr. Terrell Strayhorn presented "Charting a Plan for Success: Implications for Academic Advising of Minority Student" at the 2008 NASPA Conference held in March, 2008 in Boston, Massachusetts.
Congratulations to Megs Johnson for successfully completing an ACUHO-I Internship at North Dakota State University! Summer 2007
Congratulations to Sarah Knight for successfully completing an ACUHO-I Internship at Valdosta State University!
(8/25/08)
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Please join us in congratulating Amanda Blakewood (ablakewo@utk.edu) for being selected as a recipient of a highly competitive Summer Graduate Research Assistantship (GRA) funded by the Office of Research at UTK! For more, go to: https://my.tennessee.edu/portal/page?_pageid=43,5485218&_dad=portal&_schema=PORTAL
In this role, Amanda will work with me this summer to carry out two grant-funded research projects, analyze data from UT’s study of first-year students, co-author at least one research article and book chapter, to name a few. (4/25/08)
Congrats, Amanda!
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James DeVita and Dr. Terrell Strayhorn presented "Student Affairs Administrators’ Perceptions of Sexuality and Male Gender Identity" at the 2008 ACPA Conference on Multiracial and Multiple Identities held February 8-10, 2008 in St. Louis, Missouri. (3/5/08)
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James DeVita, Amanda Blakewood, and Dr. Terrell Strayhorn presented "Factors Critical for the Success of African American Gay Male Undergraduates" at the 2008 ACPA Conference on Multiracial and Multiple Identities held February 8-10, 2008 in St. Louis, Missouri. (3/5/08)
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Amanda Blakewood and Dr. Terrell Strayhorn presented "Using empirical data to improve first-year seminars" at the 27th Annual Conference of the First-Year Experience & Students in Transition held February 15-19th in San Francisco, CA. (3/5/08)
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James DeVita was selected to participate in the 28th annual Graduate Student Policy Seminar to be held at the annual meeting of the Association for the Student of Higher Education in Louisville, Kentucky. The ASHE policy seminar is a highly competitive, highly prestigious opportunity that brings doctoral students in contact with leading policy scholars in the field of higher education. Students will learn about cutting-edge policy research innovative policy frameworks, and discuss their dissertation topics with experts and panelists. (10/8/2007)
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Gavin Luter will present "Community: What Student Affairs Administrators Say...and What They Don't" at the Civility and Community: Exploring the New Frontier, SACSA Region III/TACUSPA Joint Student Affairs Conference to be held in Dallas, TX. (6/29/07)
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Amanda Blakewood and Dr. Terrell Strayhorn will present "Studying the Wonder Year: A University-Wide First Year Assessment" at the 2007 NASPA International Assessment and Retention Conference to be held June 7-10, 2007 in St. Louis, Missouri.
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James DeVita and Dr. Terrell Strayhorn will present "Assessing LGBT Student Learning Outcomes and Factors that Impact Retention" at the 2007 NASPA International Assessment and Retention Conference to be held June 7-10, 2007 in St. Louis, Missouri.
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Dr. Terrell Strayhorn and Fred C. McCall with present "Preventing Black Men from Dropping Out of College" at the 2007 ACPA/NASPA Joint Meeting to be held March 31-April 4, 2007 in Orlando, Florida.
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DJ Baker and Fred McCall will present "The State of Back Greeks: Is There Still a Need?" at the 2007 ACPA/NASPA Joint Meeting to be held March 31-April 4, 2007 in Orlando, Florida. Dr. Terrell Strayhorn will serve as panelist during this session and speak to the role of Black Greeks in promoting student retention.
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Dr. Terrell Strayhorn, Ferlin McGaskey, and Shanna Pendergrast presented "Creating Inclusive Environments for African American Males in College" at the Scholarship of Diversity Conference at Virginia Tech in Blacksburg, Virginia.
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Dr. Terrell Strayhorn, Dr. Jane Redmond, Ferlin McGaskey, Shanna Pendergrast, and Demetrius Richmond presented "African American Student Success programs in a Post-Geier Era" at the 53rd Annual National Association of Student Affairs Professionals (NASAP) Conference in Savannah, Georgia. Special thanks to other members of the team that contributed to the development of the presentation including DJ Baker, Chrissy Hannon, and Porche' Wynn.
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Congratulations Keri Morhbach! Keri has been offered a position this summer for an ACUHO-I internship! (2/24/2007)