About Our People

Keith Dempsey, Beronica Salazar and Lori DeKruyf (Graduate School of Counseling) attended the American Association of Counselor Education and Supervision Conference in Philadelphia Oct. 7-11. Keith received the Western Association for Counselor Education and Supervision Outstanding Leadership Award and presented on “African American Men in Counselor Education.” Beronica presented on “Voices of Doctoral Students of Color in Counselor Education,” “Obstacles and Opportunities: Establishing a Dynamic Counselor Education Career in a Changing Higher Education Environment,” and “Culturally Responsive Supervision: Working with Latino Supervisees and Clients.”

Kevin Jones and Jeff Birdsell (Department of Communication, Journalism, and Cinematic Arts) published their essay, “Teaching at-risk high school students communication competence skills through facework and improved self-monitoring,” in the October 2015 edition of the International Journal of Education and Social Sciences. The article identifies the success of a year-long study conducted by Jones, in which at-risk students were tested for communication skill deficiencies, a specific curriculum was designed for those students and taught to them to address those deficiencies, and then post test results showed an improvement in the identified communication deficiencies.

Plum Tree Tavern, an online poetry journal dedicated to nature, environmental and ecology themes, published Ed Higgins’ (English) poem, “Anticipating Winter,” in its Oct. 25, 2015 issue.

Jane Wilson (Admissions) was recognized as the Employee of the Month for October.

Mark David Hall (Politics) published an essay, “Religious Accommodations and the Common Good,” on The Heritage Foundation’s website on Oct. 26.

Ginny Birky (Education) presented a paper, “Mennonite High Schools: A Dynamic Environment for Relationships, Learning, and Faith Development,” at the Mennonite Education Conference at Bluffton University in Ohio Oct. 14-16. The conference was made up of attendees from the seven Mennonite institutions of higher education.

Randy Woodley (Seminary) has published a number of pieces of late.

In books:

  • “Beyond Homoiousios and Homoousios: Exploring North American Indigenous Concepts of the Shalom Community of God,” in Trinity in Global Perspective, Majority World Theology Series, Vol. 2
  • Forward to Jesus and Pocahontas: Gospel, Mission and National Myth, by Howard Snyder
  • Forward to Rescuing the Gospel from the Cowboys: A Native American Expression of the Jesus Way, by Richard Twiss

In journals and magazines:

  • “An Indigenous Theological Perspective on Sabbath” in Vision: A Journal for Church and Theology, Spring 2015, Institute of Mennonite Studies Anabaptist Mennonite Biblical Seminary
  • “Where Post-colonial and Pre-colonial Thought Touch Jesus,” GEEZ magazine, October 2015
  • “Mission and the Cultural Other: In Search of the Pre-colonial Jesus,” in Missiology: An International Review, Fall 2015 issue

Randy also spoke recently on “Native American History and Shalom Constructs in Common” in Klamath Falls, Ore., at Journey Towards Healing Community, an event for the public, Klamath Tribes and Klamath Evangelical Association.

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