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Helen Farmer
Professor Emeritus
Working with her research team, Helen Farmer has focused her research on investigating why women contribute less to the arts and sciences than men. The model developed to investigate this topic is a shift away from models that propose that internal psychological and biological factors are the cause of women’s lesser contributions in these areas. Instead, they investigated the contribution of external factors that women and men experience growing up as well as psychological and biological factors. Experiences in the family, community, and the school all are predicted to affect women’s motivation to contribute to society.more information...
Walter Feinberg
Professor Emeritus
My research centers on the issue of education for democratic citizenship. I believe that democracy is not an automatically self-renewing process but it that is requires conscious collective attention and deliberate educational and cultural work. Hence all of my research projects, from my studies of multiculturalism, to my examination of the justification for affirmative action, to my exploration of religious education, to my evaluation of the idea of school choice, are intended to understand the relationship between education and democracy and to find ways to enhance what I believe to be our most valuable inheritance.more information...
Tweety Felner
Research Assistant Professor
Tweety Yates' research interests include parent-child interaction and personnel development issues in early childhood. She is currently evaluating the validity and feasibility of a parent-child relationship-based model of early intervention in culturally and geographically diverse settings. She is also involved in training, outreach, and evaluation of a story-based creative arts curriculum derived from a variety of cultural and ethnic traditions designed to promote child learning and early literacy skills.more information...
Priscilla Fortier
Adjunct Assistant Professor
My primary research interest is in higher education history, particularly issues of access within the traditional, as well as the evolving, mission of land grant institutions. The opportunity to compete for viable access to selective public institutions such as land grant universities is an aspect of the "public good" that is embedded within the mission of such institutions. In a related area, I believe that large public research institutions provide an ideal venue for facilitating undergraduate research. ;Every fall since 2004 have taught an undergraduate Ethnography of the University course in which students increased their engagement with, and knowledge of, this institution by conducting research on the university.more information...
Susan Fowler
Professor
Susan Fowler is active in research related to families of young children with developmental delays and issues involving access to early care and education. She involves graduate students in her research and scholarship. Recent studies with graduate students have included survey and analysis of early care and education providers with a focus on ECSE teachers; involvement of families in story book reading routines with children at risk for school problems and assessment of family supports in helping children with developmental delays develop friendships. She receives funding for her work from state and federal agencies.more information...
James Frasier
Clinical Assistant Professor
Jim Frasier’s ongoing program of research focuses on US government and private sector HRD policies and programs that specifically address the transition of individuals to knowledge-intensive employment, education, and training environments. An underlining theme of Jim’s investigations has been to inform US public and private sector policy formation with data relevant to investing in the retraining of individuals with disabilities for employment within Information Age work environments. Most recently, Jim's investigations have focused on cultural factors that influence the formation of multinational corporations’ HR practices as they expand manufacturing operations into Southeast Asian countries and China.more information...