2015 ANNUAL INSTITUTIONAL PROFILE
Submitted to
The New Jersey Higher Education
Office of the Secretary
By
The Office of Institutional Research
September 2015
Ramapo College of New Jersey
Table of Contents
Page
I.
Profile of Ramapo College of New Jersey
Institutional Mission
Institutional Vision
Goals and Objectives
Goal 1: Advance Academic Excellence and Engagement
Goal 2: Enhance Financial Strength and Institutional Stability
Goal 3: Improve Internal and External Relations and Communications
Goal 4: Cultivate and Support Diversity and Inclusiveness
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II.
Data by Category
A.
Accreditation Status
1.
Institutional Accreditation
2.
Professional Accreditation
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B.
Number of students served
1.
Number of undergraduate students by attendance status
2.
Number of graduate students by attendance status
4.
Unduplicated number of students for entire academic year
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C.
Characteristics of undergraduate students
1.
Mean math, reading, and writing SAT scores for First-time
Freshmen by admissions status
2.
Number and Percentage of Undergraduates Enrolled and
Those in Remedial Course(s)
FT FT FR Enrollment in remediation courses, and by subject area
3.a
Race/ethnicity, sex, and age for enrolled Undergraduates
by attendance status
3.b
Undergraduate enrollment by sex and attendance status
3.c
Undergraduate enrollment by age and attendance status
4.
Number of students receiving financial assistance under
each federal- ,state-,& institution-funded program [FY 2014]
5.
Number and Percentage of Undergraduates and FT FT FR
who are New Jersey residents
Student Outcomes
1.
Graduation Rates:
a. Four-,Five-and Six-year graduation rate by race/ethnicity
2.
Third-semester retention rates by attendance status
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D.
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Table of Contents (continued)
III.
Page
E.
Faculty characteristics
1.
Full-time Faculty by Race/ Ethnicity, Sex, and Tenure Status
2.
Percentage of course sections taught by full-time faculty
3.
Ratio of full-to part-time faculty
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15-18
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F.
Characteristics of the trustees or governors
1.
Race/ ethnicity and sex of trustees
2.
List of trustees/governors with titles and affiliation
3.
URL of webpages with information on trustees/governors
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G.
Profile of the institution:
1.
Degree and certificate programs
2.
Continuing Education
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H.
Major research and public services activities
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Major capital projects underway in FY 2015
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Other Institutional Information
*Not applicable for four year colleges.
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I. PROFILE OF RAMAPO COLLEGE OF NEW JERSEY
Ranked by U.S. News & World Report as Sixth in the “Best Regional Public Colleges &
Universities North” category, and also cited for excellence by Kiplinger’s magazine and The
Princeton Review. Ramapo College of New Jersey is sometimes mistaken for a private college. This
is, in part, due to its unique interdisciplinary academic structure, its fall 2014 enrollment of
approximately 6,000 students, and its pastoral setting in the foothills of the Ramapo Mountains on
the New Jersey/New York border. Its designation as New Jersey’s “public liberal arts college” by
the State legislature declares the Public College’s commitment to affordable, undergraduate and
graduate, liberal arts education.
The Public College is located in Mahwah Township, in northwestern Bergen County. The barrierfree campus occupies 300 acres. Facilities include general classrooms, laboratories, academic
buildings, an administration building, library, a center for fine and performing arts, a sports and
recreation center, campus life buildings, a spiritual center, athletic fields, dining halls, student
apartments and residence halls.
Increasingly, the Public College is attracting students with higher class ranking, SAT scores and
grade point averages. Many of these students are selecting the Public College as their first choice
school. For the fall 2014 semester, 53% of freshmen applicants were accepted. The average
combined-SAT score (critical reading and math) for regular-admit degree-seeking freshmen was
1162. The average combined-SAT score for all degree-seeking freshmen who enrolled, including
Educational Opportunity Fund and special admit students, was 1096.
The Public College’s mission is focused on its four “pillars” of education: international,
intercultural, interdisciplinary and experiential, all of which are incorporated throughout the
curriculum and co-curricular activities. The international mission is further accomplished through
an emphasis on global programs such as faculty/student exchanges.
Organized into five interdisciplinary schools offering more than 40 undergraduate and graduate
degree programs, the Public College’s offerings are complemented by lectures, performances, and
off-campus experiences. The Public College offers bachelor degrees in the arts, business, the
humanities, the social sciences, and the sciences, as well as in professional studies such as nursing,
social work and teacher education. Eight programs are currently offered leading to a master’s
degree: Master of Arts in Educational Leadership (MAEL), Master of Arts in Liberal Studies
(MALS), Master of Arts in Sustainability Studies (MASS), Master of Science in Educational
Technology (MSET), Master of Science in Nursing (MSN), Master of Business Administration
(MBA), Master of Arts in Special Education (MASE), and Master of Social Work (MSW). The
Public College has joint degree programs with Rutgers Biomedical and Health Sciences in Allied
Health Technologies, Clinical Laboratory Science and Medical Imaging Science and has a dual
enrollment program with Seton Hall University’s School of Law. The Public College maintains
articulation agreements with other participating institutions with programs in Physician Assistant,
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Biomedical Informatics, Physical Therapy, Chiropractic, Dentistry, Optometry, and Podiatric
Medicine, and other professional fields.
An important key to the Public College’s strategy has been the building of partnerships with
members of the college community, the surrounding communities, the state, high schools, other
colleges, and domestic and international corporations. Faculty have been successful in obtaining
major grants from state, national, and international sources to support scholarship, partnerships,
curriculum improvements, seminars and conferences. Their efforts have brought recognition in the
form of Fulbright Awards and Guggenheim Fellowships, major National Science Foundation and
National Endowment for the Arts grants, international presentations, and numerous prestigious
awards.
The Public College is currently undertaking a number of capital projects that will improve the
quality of campus life and the teaching and learning environment, and completed the following
projects in calendar year 2014:

Baseball and Softball Field Scoreboards; New Flagpole

Phase II Housing (College Park Apartments) -- Exterior Renovations, Heating and Cooling
System Replacement

Phase I Academic Building, Wings A and B -- Second Floor Renovations

Phase III Academic Building (Wing G) -- Renovations, Third and Fourth Floors

Site Utility Survey

Re-Roofing -- Academic Buildings, Phase IV Housing (Linden Hall)

Central Heating and Cooling Plant Boiler Replacement

Anisfield School of Business -- Installation of New Chiller
The Public College is a signatory to the American College and University Presidents’ Climate
Commitment and its solar power and other initiatives are helping achieve the objective of carbon
neutrality as soon as feasible.
INSTITUTIONAL MISSION
Ramapo College is New Jersey's Public Liberal Arts College, dedicated to providing students a
strong foundation for a lifetime of achievement. The College is committed to academic excellence
through interdisciplinary and experiential learning, and international and intercultural
understanding. Ramapo College emphasizes teaching and individual attention to all students. We
promote diversity, inclusiveness, sustainability, student engagement, and community involvement.
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INSTITUTIONAL VISION
As the region’s premier public liberal arts college, Ramapo College of New Jersey prepares students
to be successful leaders for a changing world through its distinctive commitments to hands-on
learning and faculty-student mentoring.
GOALS AND OBJECTIVES
Goal 1: Advance Academic Excellence and Engagement
Objective 1.1 The College will offer rigorous curricula and experiential activities that
prepare all students for a lifetime of achievement.
Objective 1.2 The College will ensure that students increase academic, personal, social,
and civic engagement by offering enhanced curricular, co-curricular, and extracurricular programming.
Objective 1.3 The College will continue to support and develop a diverse, highly
qualified, engaged, and accessible faculty through activities centered on teaching,
learning, and advising; scholarship and creative work; and service and college
governance.
Objective 1.4 The College will increase enrollment and graduation rates among
underrepresented groups, transfer students, international students, graduate students,
and returning students. The College will identify and make use of currently
underutilized capacity within undergraduate academic programs.
Goal 2: Enhance Financial Strength and Institutional Sustainability
Objective 2.1 The College will enhance its strength by managing its financial risk and
improving its financial position while maintaining conservative utilization of future debt.
Objective 2.2 The College and the Foundation will continue to increase external funding
through all constituencies to support the College’s mission and strategic initiatives.
Objective 2.3 The College will provide a supportive environment for work, study, and
social interaction.
Objective 2.4 The College will be environmentally sustainable.
Objective 2.5 The College will ensure that its major institutional decisions are based on
timely, accurate, and reliable data.
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Goal 3: Improve Internal and External Relations and Communications
Objective 3.1 The College will improve communication among constituents.
Objective 3.2 The College will strengthen mutually beneficial partnerships with alumni,
parents, friends, business, professional organizations, as well as community and
government agencies.
Goal 4: Cultivate and Support Diversity and Inclusiveness
Objective 4.1 The College will create a safe and supportive environment for all, with
particular consideration toward members of underrepresented and marginalized groups.
Objective 4.2 The College will retain and continue a diverse student population.
Objective 4.3 The College will develop and promote curricular, co-curricular, and extracurricular programs that demonstrate the value of diversity, self-awareness, examination
of multiple perspectives, and respect for others.
Objective 4.4 The College will recruit and retain employees who reflect and are
committed to diversity and inclusiveness.
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II. Data by Category
A.
ACCREDITATION STATUS
LICENSE
Ramapo College of New Jersey is licensed by the State of New Jersey.
INSTITUTIONAL ACCREDITATION
Ramapo College of New Jersey is accredited by the:
 Middle States Commission on Higher Education (MSCHE)
3624 Market Street, 2nd Floor West, Philadelphia, PA 19104
PROFESSIONAL ACCREDITATION
Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB)
Accreditation Commission for Education in Nursing (ACEN)
Council on Social Work Education (CSWE)
Teacher Education Accrediting Council (TEAC)
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Number of Students Served
B. Ramapo College served close to 6,800 students during fiscal year 2014. In the fall
semester of 2014, the college opened its doors to almost 6,000 students (5710
undergraduates and 293 graduates) to pursue a degree or certificate in over 40 programs
offered by the college.
Fall 2014 semester solicited almost 6,700 applications from new freshmen, of whom 53%
were admitted to the college. Roughly 27 percent of those admitted (978) eventually
enrolled at the college.
Among all undergraduates, over 17 percent joined the institution for the first-time and
roughly 11 percent transferred to Ramapo from another institution.
Although undergraduate enrollment was increased by roughly 1% since last fall, per the
college’s strategic plan, the graduate enrollment increased by over 23%.
Table II.B.1
Undergraduate Enrollment by Attendance Status: Fall 2014
Full-time
N
Percent
5,044
88.3
Part-time
Total
N
Percent
666
11.7
5,710
Table II.B.2
Graduate Enrollment by Attendance Status: Fall 2014
Full-time
N
Percent
36
12.3
Part-time
Total
N
Percent
257
87.7
293
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Table II B.4
Unduplicated Enrollment, FY 2014
Undergraduate
Graduate
Total
Number
Credit Hours
FTE
6,480
168,323
5,611
309
3,908
163
6,789
172,231
5,774
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Characteristics of
Undergraduate Students
C. 2. Characteristics of New Students
Of the 978 new students who enrolled in fall 2014, over 78 percent were regular admit
students, almost 12 percent were Educational Opportunity Fund (EOF) and the remaining
10 percent were special admits.
Incoming students at Ramapo were tested on Accuplacer to identify if they needed
remediation in the areas of Reading, Writing or Mathematics. About 5 percent of the
undergraduates required remediation in at least one area, i.e., computation, algebra,
reading, or writing.
Almost 22 percent of the first-time, full-time students required remediation in one or more
areas of remediation. A significantly higher proportion of them required remediation in
computation (almost 14 percent) compared to those requiring remediation in algebra
(almost 4 percent), and reading and writing (over 3 percent each).
Table II C.1
Mean Math, Reading and Writing SAT Scores for First-Time Freshmen,
by Admission Status and Overall, Fall 2014
Math
SAT
N
*Full-time Students
Regular
579.7
645
Admits
EOF
485.5
104
Admits
Special
476.2
98
Admits
All Admits
556.2
Part-time Students
Regular
520.0
Admits
EOF
Admits
Special
440.0
Admits
All Admits
480.0
Reading
SAT
N
Writing
SAT
N
559.4
645
561.1
637
470.9
104
470.8
96
460.7
98
468.4
114
847
537.1
847
539.3
837
1
490.0
1
500.0
1
1
490.0
1
490.0
1
2
490.0
2
495.0
2
*Math & Reading SAT scores were not available for 116 students.
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Table II C.2
ENROLLMENT IN REMEDIATION COURSES
Total Number of Undergraduate Students Enrolled in Fall 2014
Total Fall 2014
Undergraduate
Enrollment
Number of Students
Enrolled in One or More
Remedial Courses
Percent of Total
5,710
289
5.1
Total Number of First-time, Full-time (FTFT) Students Enrolled
in Remediation in Fall 2014
Total number of
FTFT Students
Number of FTFT Students
Enrolled in One or More
Remedial Courses
Percent of FTFT
Enrolled in One or
More Remedial
Courses
976
213
21.8
First-time, Full-time (FTFT) Enrolled in Remediation in Fall 2014
by Subject Area
Subject Area
Number of FTFT
Enrolled In:
Percent of FTFT
Enrolled In:
Computation
134
13.7
Algebra
38
3.9
Reading
31
3.2
Writing
34
3.5
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3. Demographics: Race/Ethnicity, Sex and Age
Fall 2014 Undergraduates
In the fall of 2014, 6,003 students enrolled in various programs at Ramapo College of New
Jersey, and among them 95 percent joined at the undergraduate level (5710).
Among all undergraduates, a large proportion was comprised of degree-seeking students
(95 percent). Interestingly, 88 percent of the undergraduates enrolled as full-time, while 88
percent of the graduate students enrolled part-time. Fifty-five percent of the undergraduates
were female and among those who provided information regarding their race/ethnicity, over
69 percent were Caucasians. The average age of new undergraduates was a little over 18
years, while the same for all undergraduates was over 22 years.
The majority of the undergraduates (over 93 percent) were from within the state of New
Jersey and over 39 percent were from Bergen County of New Jersey.
Table II C.3.a
Undergraduate Enrollment by Race/Ethnicity: Fall 2014
N
Full-time
Percent
N
Part-time
Percent
N
Total
Percent
White
3,216
63.8
425
63.8
3,641
63.8
Black
291
5.8
22
3.3
313
5.5
Hispanic
690
13.7
70
10.5
760
13.3
Asian
332
6.6
47
7.1
379
6.6
American
Indian
14
0.3
1
0.2
15
0.3
Alien
58
1.1
32
4.8
90
1.6
Unknown
443
8.8
69
10.4
512
9.0
5,044
100.0
666
100.0
5,710
100.0
Total
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Table II C.3.b
Undergraduate Enrollment by Sex: Fall 2014
N
Full-time
Percent
N
Part-time
Percent
Total
Percent
Male
2,292
45.4
268
40.2
2,560
44.8
Female
2,752
54.6
398
59.8
3,150
55.2
Total
5,044
100.0
666
100.0
5,710
100.0
Total
Percent
Table II C.3.c
Undergraduate Enrollment by Age: Fall 2014
Full-time
N
Percent
Part-time
N
Percent
10
0.2
0
0.0
10
0.2
18 - 19
1,640
32.5
39
5.9
1,679
29.4
20 - 21
1,975
39.2
43
6.5
2,018
35.3
22 - 24
1,057
21.0
190
28.5
1,247
21.8
25 - 29
244
4.8
118
17.7
362
6.3
30 - 34
52
1.0
51
7.7
103
1.8
35 - 39
23
0.5
45
6.8
68
1.2
40 - 49
29
0.6
74
11.1
103
1.8
50 - 64
13
0.3
74
11.1
87
1.5
65 and more
1
0.0
32
4.8
33
0.6
Unknown
0
0.0
0
0.0
0
0.0
5,044
100.0
666
100.0
5,710
100.0
Less than 18
Total
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4. Numbers of Students Receiving Financial Assistance
Under Each Federal-, State- & Institution-Funded Aid Program
During AY 2013-14 undergraduates at Ramapo received financial aid from multiple
sources, i.e., Federal, State, institution, and other private sources. Aid was provided in the
form of scholarships, grants, loans, and waivers. During the period, over 85% of the
undergraduates, (4,800 students), received some kind of aid. Roughly, 69 percent of the aid
was through Federal sources. It is important to note that the number of undergraduates
receiving Pell grants increased by almost 18% in the last five years.
Table II C.4
Financial Aid from Federal, State & Institution-Funded Programs, AY 2013-14
Federal Programs
Recipients
Dollars ($)
$/ Recipient
1,497
6,082,000
4,062.79
College Work Study
144
259,000
1,798.61
Perkins Loans
106
143,000
1,349.06
SEOG
192
184,000
958.33
PLUS Loans
501
6,541,000
13,055.89
Stafford Loans (Subsidized)
2,620
11,137,000
4,250.76
Stafford Loans (Unsubsidized)
3,112
13,553,000
4,355.08
17
23,000
1,352.94
Recipients
Dollars ($)
$/Recipient
TAG
994
5,218,000
5,249.50
EOF
331
423,000
1,277.95
Distinguished Scholars
0
0
0
Urban Scholars
5
5,000
1,000.00
NJ STARS
36
79,000
2,194.44
NJ CLASS Loans
213
2,872,000
13,483.57
Pell Grants
SMART & ACG or other
State Programs
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Table II C.4
Financial Aid from Federal, State & Institution-Funded Programs, AY 2013-14
(continued)
Institutional
Programs
Recipients
Grants/Scholarships
Dollars ($)
961
8,501,000
$/ Recipient
8,845.99
5. Percentage of Students Who Are New Jersey Residents
Over 92 percent of new and all undergraduates were from the state of New Jersey during fall
2014.
Table II C.5
Fall 2014 First-time Undergraduate Enrollment
By State Residence
State
Residents
Non-State
Residents
Total
% State
Residents
902
76
978
92.2
Fall 2014 Undergraduate Enrollment
By State Residence
State
Residents*
Non-State
Residents
Total
% State
Residents
5,322
388
5,710
93.2
* includes State unknown
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Student Outcomes
D. The one-year retention rate of first-time full-time students (fall 2013 cohort) is about 88
percent. The six-year graduation rate (fall 2008 cohort) is about 72 percent, i.e.; 72% of the
first-time, full-time degree seeking students who enrolled at Ramapo College in 2008
graduated by August 2014.
1. Graduation Rates:
Table II D.1.a
Four-, Five- and Six-Year Graduation Rate of Fall 2008
Full-time, First-time Degree/Certificate Seeking Students
Race/Ethnicity
Cohort Size
Graduated in
4 Years
Graduated in
5 Years
Graduated in
6 Years
N
Percent
N
Percent
N
Percent
White
664
411
61.9
484
72.9
497
74.8
Black
51
16
31.4
27
52.9
29
56.9
Hispanic
92
34
37.0
53
57.6
53
57.6
Asian
53
34
64.2
40
75.5
40
75.5
Alien
14
12
85.7
12
85.7
12
85.7
Other *
5
4
80.0
4
80.0
4
80.0
879
511
58.1
620
70.5
635
72.2
Total
*Other includes American Indian, Native Hawaiin & Pacific Islander, Two or More Races and Unknown.
2. Third-semester Retention Rates:
Table II D.2
Third-Semester Retention of First-time Undergraduates, Fall 2013 to Fall 2014
Full-Time
Part-Time
Fall 2013
First- Time
Undergraduates
Retained in
Fall 2014
Retentio
n Rate
Fall 2013
First- Time
Undergraduates
Retained in
Fall 2014
Retention
Rate
901
790
87.7
0
0
0
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Faculty Characteristics
E. 217 full-time and 248 adjuncts/administrators taught just over 6,000 students in fall
2014. Among the 217 full-time faculty, almost 72 percent were tenured, almost 50 percent
were female, and over 71 percent were Caucasian. Roughly 65 percent of the classes were
taught by full-time faculty.
Table II E.1
Full-time Faculty by Race/Ethnicity, Sex, Tenure Status and Academic Rank: Fall 2014
Male
N
Percent
Female
N
Percent
Total
N
Percent
Professors
Associate Prof.
Assistant Prof.
All Others
29
29
6
0
37.2
37.2
7.7
0.0
22
28
5
0
30.1
38.4
6.8
0.0
51
57
11
0
33.8
37.7
7.3
0.0
Professors
Associate Prof.
Assistant Prof.
All Others
0
0
14
0
0.0
0.0
17.9
0.0
0
1
16
1
0.0
1.4
21.9
1.4
0
1
30
1
0.0
1.4
19.9
0.7
78
100.0
73
100.0
151
100.0
White
Tenured
Non-Tenured
Total White
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Table II E.1
Full-time Faculty by Race/Ethnicity, Sex, Tenure Status and Academic Rank: Fall 2014
(continued)
Male
N
Percent
Female
N
Percent
Total
N
Percent
Professors
Associate Prof.
Assistant Prof.
All others
2
2
3
0
28.6
28.6
42.9
0.0
2
0
1
0
33.3
0.0
16.7
0.0
4
2
4
0
30.8
15.4
30.8
0.0
Professors
Associate Prof.
Assistant Prof.
All Others
0
0
0
0
0.0
0.0
0.0
0.0
0
1
2
0
0.0
16.7
33.3
0.0
0
1
2
0
0.0
7.7
15.4
0.0
7
100.0
6
100.0
13
100.0
Black
Tenured
Non-Tenured
Total Black
Male
N
Percent
Female
N
Percent
Total
N
Percent
Professors
Associate Prof.
Assistant Prof.
All Others
1
2
0
0
25.0
50.0
0.0
0.0
3
6
2
0
25.0
50.0
16.7
0.0
4
8
2
0
25.0
50.0
12.5
0.0
Professors
Associate Prof.
Assistant Prof.
All Others
0
0
1
0
0.0
0.0
25.0
0.0
0
0
1
0
0.0
0.0
8.3
0.0
0
0.0
2
0
12.5
0.0
4
100.0
12
100.0
16
100.0
Hispanic
Tenured
Non-Tenured
Total
Hispanic
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Table II E.1
Full-time Faculty by Race/Ethnicity, Sex, Tenure Status and Academic Rank: Fall 2014
(continued)
Male
N
Percent
Female
N
Percent
Total
N
Percent
Professors
Associate Prof.
Assistant Prof.
All Others
5
7
0
0
31.3
43.8
0.0
0.0
0
6
0
1
0.0
46.2
0.0
7.7
5
13
0
1
17.2
44.8
0.0
3.4
Professors
Associate Prof.
Assistant Prof.
All Others
0
0
4
0
0.0
0.0
25.0
0.0
0
0
6
0
0.0
0.0
46.2
0.0
0
0
10
0
0.0
0.0
34.5
0.0
16
100.0
13
100.0
29
100.0
Asian
Tenured
Non-Tenured
Total Asian
Male
N
Percent
Female
N
Percent
Total
Percent
N
Professors
Associate Prof.
Assistant Prof.
All Others
0
0
0
0
0.0
0.0
0.0
0.0
0
0
0
0
0.0
0.0
0.0
0.0
0
0
0
0
0.0
0.0
0.0
0.0
Professors
Associate Prof.
Assistant Prof.
All Others
0
0
0
0
0.0
0.0
0.0
0.0
0
0
2
0
0.0
0.0
100.0
0.0
0
0
2
0
0.0
0.0
100.0
0.0
0
0.0
2
100.0
2
100.0
Alien
Tenured
Non-Tenured
Total Alien
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Table II E.1
Full-time Faculty by Race/Ethnicity, Sex, Tenure Status and Academic Rank: Fall 2014
(continued)
Male
N
Percent
Female
N
Percent
Total
N
Percent
Professors
Associate Prof.
Assistant Prof.
All Others
1
0
1
0
25.0
0.0
25.0
0.0
1
1
0
0
50.0
50.0
0.0
0.0
2
1
1
0
33.3
16.7
16.7
0.0
Professors
Associate Prof.
Assistant Prof.
All Others
0
0
2
0
0.0
0.0
50.0
0.0
0
0
0
0
0.0
0.0
0.0
0.0
0
0
2
0
0.0
0.0
33.3
0.0
4
100.0
2
100.0
6
100.0
Race Unknown
Tenured
Non-Tenured
Total
Unknown
Male
N
Percent
Female
N
Percent
Total
N
Percent
Professors
Associate Prof.
Assistant Prof.
All Others
38
40
10
0
34.9
36.7
9.2
0.0
28
41
8
1
25.9
38.0
7.4
0.9
66
81
18
1
30.4
37.3
8.3
0.5
Professors
Associate Prof.
Assistant Prof.
All Others
0
0
21
0
0.0
0.0
19.3
0.0
0
2
27
1
0.0
1.9
25.0
0.9
0
2
48
1
0.0
0.9
22.1
0.5
109
100.0
108
100.0
217
100.0
TOTAL
Tenured
Non-Tenured
TOTAL:
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2. Percentage of Course Sections Taught by Full-time Faculty:
Table II E.2
E 2 - Percentage of Course Sections Taught by Faculty Fall 2014
**Total Number of Course Sections
925
Taught by Full-Time Faculty
Number
Percent
599
64.7
Taught by Part-Time Faculty Taught by Others*
Number
Percent
Number Percent
272
29.4
54
5.9
Total Number of Credit Hours
3,607
2,333
64.7
1,021
28.3
253
7.0
* Others include Full-time Administrators and Teaching Assistants.
** Excludes Service Learning, Co-ops, Lab, Seminars, etc.
3. Ratio of Full-to Part-time Faculty:
Table II E.3
Ratio of Full-time to Part-time Faculty, Fall 2014
Number
Percent
Total number of Full-time Faculty
217
46.7
Total number of Part-time Faculty
248
53.3
Total
465
100
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Characteristics of the Trustees or Governors
F. Characteristics of the Trustees or Governors:
1. Race Ethnicity and Sex (simultaneously)
Table II F.1
Race/Ethnicity and Sex of Board of Trustees
at Ramapo College of New Jersey, Fall 2014
N
Male
Percent
N
Female
Percent
N
Total
Percent
White
9
90.0
0
0.0
9
90.0
Black
0
0.0
0
0.0
0
0.0
Hispanic
0
0.0
0
0.0
0
0.0
Asian
1
10.0
0
0.0
1
10.0
Total
10
100.0
0
0.0
10
100.0
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2. List of Trustees/Governors with Titles and Affiliations
Table II F.2
Members of the Board of Trustees, Fall 2014
Name
Title
Affiliation
George C. Ruotolo Jr., Chair
Chairman and CEO
Ruotolo Associates
William F. Dator, Vice Chair
Real Estate Broker and Appraiser
Coldwell Banker Commercial
David G. Schlussel, Secretary
Founding Member
Key Properties LLC.
A. J. Sabath, Past Chair
Owner
Advocacy Group
Vincent P. Coleman
Vice Chairman
Pricewaterhouse Coopers LLP
W. Peter McBride
President and CEO
McBride Enterprises Inc.
Gary L. Montroy
Consultant
Construction Code Official
Thomas A. Zelante
Attorney
Kevin Ng ‘16
Student Trustee
Brandon Smith ‘17
Alternate Student Trustee
3. URLs of Webpages with Information on Trustees/Governors
Table II F.3
URL of Webpage with Information on Trustees
http://www.ramapo.edu/board/
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G. Profile of the Institution
1. Degree and Certificate Programs
Table II G.1
Active Degree Programs: Fall 2014
DEGREE
MAJOR
CONCENTRATIONS
BACHELOR OF ARTS
Africana Studies
American Studies
Communication Arts
Contemporary Arts
Economics
Environmental Studies
History
International Business
International Studies
Law and Society
Liberal Studies
Literature
Music
Political Science
Psychology
Social Science
Sociology
Digital Filmmaking
Visual Communication Design
Global Communication and Media
Writing
Journalism
Creative Writing
Music Industry
Music Performance
Music Production
Music Studies
Community Mental Health
Cultural Studies
Ethnic Relations
Gender Studies
Justice
Labor Studies
Sociology - Criminology
Sociology - Public Sociology
Spanish Language Studies
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Table II G.1
Active Degree Programs: Fall 2014 (continued)
DEGREE
MAJOR
CONCENTRATIONS
Theater
Acting
Directing/Stage Management
Design/Technical Theater
Theater Studies
Art History
Electronic Art & Animation
Drawing & Painting
Photography
Sculpture
BACHELOR OF ARTS
Visual Arts
BACHELOR OF SOCIAL WORK
Social Work
BACHELOR OF SCIENCE
Accounting
Allied Health Technologies
Biochemistry
Bioinformatics
Biology
Business Administration
Finance
Management
Marketing
Chemistry
Clinical Lab Science
Computer Science
Engineering Physics
Environmental Science
Information Technology Management
Integrated Science Studies
Mathematics
Medical Diagnostic Imaging Science
Nursing
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Table II G.1
Active Degree Programs: Fall 2014 (continued)
DEGREE
MAJOR
ARTICULATION AGREEMENTS IN THE HEALTH PROFESSIONS
Biology/Physicians Assistant
BS/MS (with Rutgers-School of Health Related Professions)
Bioinformatics / Biomedical Informatics
BS/MS (with Rutgers-School of Health Related Professions)
Physical Therapy
BS/Doctor of Physical Therapy (DPT) (with Rutgers-School of Health Related Professions)
Chiropractic
BS/Doctor of Chiropractic (with NY Chiropractic College)
Dentistry
BS/DMD (with Rutgers School of Dental Medicine)
Optometry
BS/Doctor of Optometry (OD) (with SUNY State College of Optometry)
Osteopathic Medicine
BS/Doctor of Osteopathy (D.O.) (with Rutgers School of Osteopathic Medicine)
Podiatric Medicine
BS/Doctor of Podiatric Medicine (DPM) (with NY College of Podiatric Medicine)
COMBINED DEGREE PROGRAMS
Drawing & Painting / Art Therapy, B.A., joint program with Caldwell College
Sculpture and Art Therapy, B.A., joint program with Caldwell College
JOINT BACHELOR OF SCIENCE DEGREE PROGRAMS IN THE PRE-MEDICAL AND PRE-HEALTH PROFESSIONS
OFFERED IN CONJUNCTION WITH RUTGERS BIOMEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES SCHOOLS AND UNITS
Allied Health Technologies (AHT) – Respiratory Therapy and minor in Biology.
Clinical Laboratory Science (Cytotechnology, Medical Lab Science).
Medical Imaging Science (BSMIS) with a specialization in Cardiac Sonography,
Diagnostic Medical Sonography, Nuclear Medicine or Vascular Sonography.
MASTER OF ARTS
Educational Leadership
Liberal Studies
Sustainability Studies
Special Education
MASTER OF SCIENCE
Business Administration
Educational Technology
Nursing (Education track)
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Table II G.1
Active Degree Programs: Fall 2014 (continued)
Certificate Programs, Fall 2014
Post-Baccalaureate:
Education, Elementary (Teacher certification)
Education, Middle-School (Teacher certification)
Post-Master's:
Nursing Education
Table II G.2
2. Continuing Education Programs
Continuing Education Courses Offered AY 14-15
The Center for Innovative and Professional Learning (CIPL)
Certificates of Achievement:
HTML 5 Mobile App Development Certificate (online)
Paralegal
Advanced Paralegal
Post-Baccalaureate:
Business Essentials
Project Management
Web Development
Certificates / Licensure:
Adobe Graphic and Web Designer CS6 Certification
Cisco CCENT and CCNA Routing and Switching Certification
CompTIA A+ and Network Certification
Microsoft Office 2010 Certification
Middle School Teacher Certification
PTIA Personal Trainer Certification (hosted)
Real Estate Broker Pre-Licensing
Real Estate Salesperson Pre-Licensing
Yoga Studies and Yoga Teacher Certification
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Major Research and Public Service Activities
Abbey, Emily
Published an article entitled, “The realness of history: Ambivalence, social norms and the
continuous movement of society” that was coauthored with A. Pfefferkorn in the Niels
Bohr Lecture in Cultural Psychology, Vol. 2, edited by T. Zittoun & A. Gillespie (2015).
Abzug, Rikki
i. Presented a paper entitled, “Digitally Enhanced Student Consulting: Information Literacy
in Service to Local Clients” at the Annual COPLAC Meeting, Connecticut, June 2015.
ii. Published an article, “Nonprofit Financing to the Rescue? The Slightly Twisted Case of
Local Educational Foundations and Public Education in New Jersey,” coauthored with A.
Olbrecht, M. Sabrin and E. DeLeon, in the Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly (first
published online on Dec. 29, 2014).
Addington, Tobin
Performed screenwriting and post-production edits on Hollywood film script for
“Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon 2: The Green Destiny” a Weinstein Company
production. Fall 2014 – Spring 2015.
Amen, Maisha
i. Presented a paper entitled “Mindfulness and Nursing” at the National Black Nurses
Association (local Newark chapter, Concerned Black Nurses of Newark). December 2014.
ii. Conducted a roundtable discussion entitled “Heal the Healer” at the American Public
Health Association Annual Meeting, Los Angeles, CA. November 2014.
Anderson, Phil, et al
Presentation of paper entitled “The defendant professor: when faculty are sued” at the
North East Academy of Legal Studies in Business (NEALSB) Annual Meeting, Princeton,
NJ, April 2015.
Anderson, Stephen
i. Presented a research paper entitled, “Reducing Unsaturated Organic Compounds Using
Hydrogen-Transfer Catalysts” at the Hudson-Bergen Research Symposium, May 2015.
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ii. Served as Treasurer of the Hudson-Bergen Chemical Society, New York section.
Ard, Patricia
Published an article entitled “George Austen’s Absence from Family Life: The Shifting
Biographical Response” in Persuasions On-Line: The Jane Austen Journal. 34.1,
December 2013.
Augis, Erin
i. Published an article entitled “Aïcha’s Sounith Hair Salon: Friendship, Profit, and
Resistance in Dakar” in Islamic Africa electronic journal 5 (2). Fall 2014.
ii. Presented a lecture about “Islamic Fundamentalisms and Women" at Carleton University,
Ottowa, Canada (by Skype). May 7, 2015.
iii. Presented a lecture about “Senegalese Muslim Women and Islamic Reform” at
Georgetown University, Berkley Center for Religion, Peace, and World Affairs and the
World Faiths Development Dialogue (WFDD), Washington DC, January 13-14, 2015.
Barnes, Todd
i. Presented a paper entitled “Striking Our Debt to Moral Tragedy” at the Modern Money:
Aesthetics After the Gold Standard Conference, Department of History of Art, UC
Berkeley, November 2014.
ii. Published an article entitled “The Tempest’s ‘Standing Water’: Echoes of Early Modern
Cosmographies in Lost” in the Shakespearean Echoes, eds. Adam Hansen and Kevin
Wetmore Jr; published by Palgrave (2015).
iii. Presented a paper entitled “The White Christian Shakespeare Complex” at the London
Conference in Critical Thought, University College, London, June 26-27, 2015.
Bautis, Martha
i. Conducted discussions and screenings of “A Condor in the Reeds” at the International
Film Festival of Human Rights in Bolivia, Sucre (8/2014), at the Traveling Showcase of
Indigenous Film of Wallmapu, Chile (11/2014), at the University de la Frontera, Chile
(11/2014), at Saint Peter’s Lutheran Church, NYC (11/2014), and at the Women’s
HerStory Month celebration at the Borough of Manhattan Community College, March
2015.
ii. Presented screening and roundtable of “A Condor in the Reeds” and “Women’s
Participation in the Struggle and the Social Documentary” at the Sixth International
Colloquium of Latino Artists Roundtable (LART), titled The Circumstances of Artistic
Creation, October 2014.
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iii. Guest speaker at the Gloria Waldman Seventh Annual Lecture for Women’s History
Month, April 2015.
Bear, Gordon
Presented a paper entitled “What the face can reveal about behavior: Formidability as
judged from facial photographs of professional hockey players correlates with aggression
on the ice,” coauthored with A. Koske, at the meeting of the Northeastern Evolutionary
Psychology Society, Boston, MA, April 2015.
Beecher, Amanda
Presented a paper entitled “Measuring Sustainability as a First Year Seminar” at the
Mathematical Association of America.
Brandon, Mack
i. Directed “Musical Words” for the Arts-in Education Children’s Program at the Teaneck,
NJ Board Of Education.
ii. Performed 14 Piano-Choral ensembles entitled “Salt & Light Café” throughout Metro New
York.
iii. Served as the musical director of 42 Churches in the New Jersey Conference of the African
Methodist Episcopal Zion Church.
iv. Directed 3 Choral Performances of 80-voice “Mack Brandon Project 2.0” at Asbury Park,
New Jersey.
Brudeva, Desislava
i. Presented a paper entitled “Does Culture Matter for International Market Selection?” at the
Academy of International Business-Southeast USA.
ii. Presented paper entitled “Experiential Learning: An assessment of Impact and
Engagement in the Marketing Curriculum using Kolb's Learning Styles” at the Marketing
Educators Association.
Budin, Rachel
Served as the lighting designer for “Lake Effect” at the Lake George Dinner Theater, for
“Secret Garden” at the Capital Rep Theater, and for “Tilt the Unlit Candle” at Luna Stage.
Buna, Daniel
i. Completed research on “Automatization of X-ray crystallography spectra collection“ for a
TLTR grant received in Summer 2014.
ii. Presented “Environmental Physics – a laboratory pilot” with two students at the American
Association of Physics Teachers Summer 2015 Conference Meeting: SM15.
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Burke, Kathleen
i. Gave a presentation about “The Future of Nursing Research” at the Annual Innovation
Day. Hackensack University Medical Center in Hackensack, NJ. April 15, 2015.
ii. Delivered the keynote speech “Magnet nurses working in a Global World – Experiences in
West Africa” at the Jersey City Medical Center - Barnabas Health “Nursing Excellence
Day.” November 21, 2014.
iii. Gave a presentation about “A Mock Trial: Professional Image of Nursing” at St. Joseph's
Regional Medical Center, Paterson, NJ. March 13, 2015.
iv. Gave a presentation about “Innovation” at Hackensack University Medical Center, Center
for Staff Development. July 2014.
Cabrera, Juan
Presented a paper entitled “Market Makers, Limited Attention, and Liquidity Provision” at
the Midwest Finance Association, and the Southwestern Finance Association.
Campbell, Peter
i. Presented a paper entitled “Making the Postdramatic: The Rupture Strategy” presented in
Working Session of American Society for Theatre Research Conference, Baltimore,
Maryland, November 2014.
ii. Presented a paper entitled “Unexpected Inspiration: The Jacques Verges Project.” at the
Mid America Theatre Conference, Kansas City, MO, March 2015.
iii. Published a book review of “Dramatic Revisions of Myths, Fairy Tales, and Legends.
Edited by Verna Foster. Theatre History Studies. Volume 34. (2014).
Carberry, Sarah
Presented a paper entitled “Green Chemistry Principles Incorporated Into the
Undergraduate Organic Laboratory” at the Hudson-Bergen Research Symposium, May
2015.
Carreon, Jay
Presented a paper entitled “Synthesis of Hydrazones as Antibiotics” at the Undergraduate
Research Symposium, Mid-Hudson Section of the American Chemical Society (ACS),
SUNY New Paltz, April 2015.
Cassidy, Lisa
Presented a paper entitled “Wharton’s Lily Bart as Existential Hero” at the Association for
Core Texts and Courses (ACTC) annual meeting in Plymouth, Massachusetts. January
2015.
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Centrella-Nigro, Andrea
i. Gave a presentation about “Hatha Yoga in Cardiac Rehabilitation Patients to Reduce
Perceived Stress and Improve Quality of Life” at the 28th Annual Reinkemeyer Research
Day conference, Seton Hall University, South Orange, NJ. April 10, 2015.
ii. Gave presentations about “Collaborative Testing as Posttest Review” at the National
League for Nursing Annual Education Summit, Phoenix, AZ in September, 2014, and at the
Tristate Best Practice Annual State Conference, Lyndhurst, NJ on March 7, 2015.
iii. Gave a presentation about “The Effect of Hathaway Yoga on Perceived Stress and Quality
of Life in Cardiac Rehabilitation Patients” at the 6th Annual Research Evidence-Based
Practice (EBP) Conference, St.Joseph's Medical Center. October 29, 2014.
iv. Gave a presentation about “The role of the EBP Research Mentor” at the Annual
Spirituality Conference, Holy Name Medical Center. October 22, 2014.
Chen, Dean
i. Published a book chapter entitled "An Indispensable Pillar of Obama's Pivot to Asia:
Continuing Strategic Ambiguity across the Taiwan Strait" in Peter Chow ed., US Strategic
Pivot to Asia and Cross Strait Relations, pp. 31-54, (New York: Palgrave MacMillan
2014).
ii. Published an article entitled “Security, Domestic Divisions, and the KMT’S Post-2008 One
China Policy: A Neoclassical Realist Analysis" in International Relations of the AsiaPacific, Vol.15, Issue no. 2, pp. 319-365. (2015).
Choudhury, Naseem
i. Presented a paper entitled “Electrocortical Markers of Language-based Learning Disorders
in a Pre-linguistic Sample” at the Annual Meeting of the International Conference of
Business and Applied Sciences Academy of North America, Mahwah, NJ.
ii. Presented a poster entitled “Hemispheric and temporal dynamics as a function of auditory
experience in the infant brain” at the Annual Meeting of the Society for Neuroscience,
Washington, D.C.
iii. Published an article entitled “Plasticity in Developing Brain: Active Auditory Exposure
Impacts Prelinguistic Acoustic Mapping” in the The Journal of Neuroscience, 34(40),
13349-13363.
iv. Presented a poster entitled “Theta oscillations during processing of rapid frequency change
differ between infants with a family history of Specific Language Impairment and controls”
at the Annual Meeting of the Society for Neuroscience, Washington, D.C.
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Chung, Christina
i. Presented a paper entitled “Classical Music in Advertising: Brand Support or Detractor?
Conceptual Framework” at the Academy of Marketing Science World Marketing
Conference.
ii. Published an article entitled “Korean Consumer Perspectives toward Social Media
Advertising and Intention to Join Brand Pages” in the Journal of Global Scholars of
Marketing Science.
iii. Presented a paper entitled “Like the brand, Join Its Brand Page” at the Society for
Marketing Advances conference.
iv. Presented a paper entitled “Student Learning Process in a Real-World Team Project: An
Experimental Study Using the Google Online Marketing Challenge” at the Marketing
Educator's Association conference.
v. Published an article entitled “Student Reactions to Classroom Management Technology:
Learning Styles and Attitudes Toward Moodle” in The Journal of Education for Business.
vi. Presented a paper entitled “The Factors That Affect Donation Advertising Effectiveness:
An Experimental Research on Felt Ethnicity towards In-Group and Out-Group from Young
Americans' Perspectives” at the Association for Consumer Research Conference, and at the
Academy of Marketing Science (AMS).
vii. Presented a paper entitled “The impact of implication theories on student performance on
different types of assignments” at the Marketing Educator's Association conference.
viii. Published an article entitled “Transitions in Classroom Technology: Instructor
Implementation of Classroom Management Software” in The Journal of Education for
Business.
Clark, Regina
i. Published a short story entitled “Autumn’s Eyes” in the women’s fiction anthology, A Kind
of Mad Courage: Short Stories about Mothers, (S)mothers & Others.
ii. Presented a paper entitled “Reinventing Fatherhood: Shifting Paradigms in Black
Parenting” at The National Association of African-American Studies & Affiliates, Baton
Rouge, LA.
Cluett, Seth
i. Performed a radio profile entitled “Circles” at WebSynRadio, Paris, France.
ii. Performed “Objects of Memory” at Bucknell University, Pennsylvania
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iii. Produced a compact disk entitled “Forms of Forgetting” at Line Imprint, Los Angeles,
California.
iv. Presented “Micro-histories of sound in art” at a College Art Association conference.
v. Exhibited “Recollection” artwork at Ears Back, Eyes Forward, Vox Populi Gallery,
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
vi. Presented “Sound in the Arts” followed by a talk at SUNY Stonybrook.
vii. Served as a visiting artist for “Sound/Image” at the International Center for Photography.
viii. Presented a composition entitled “The Deformation of Figures” at Icebox Project Space at
Crane Arts, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
ix. Published a book chapter entitled “The Loudspeaker as Art Object” in ‘Sound Art’ at MIT
Press, produced with the Zentrum for Kunst Media, Karlsruhe, Germany. Peter Weibel,
Editor.
x. Performed at Experimental Intermedia, New York, NY, at MoMA/PS1, at Experimental
Intermedia Foundation, and at Studio 8, Berlin.
Cohen, Gilad
i. Composed a score entitled “Adon Olam” for voice, cello, piano, brass and drums as
commissioned by and premiered at Park Avenue Synagogue, NYC, May 2015.
ii. Composed a score entitled “Ballade for Piano” that was published on the “Piano Character
Pieces from Four Continents” CD, with Richard Zimdars on piano. Albany Records, April
2015.
iii. Published a paper entitled “Expansive Form in Pink Floyd’s Song ‘Dogs’“ in Music Theory
Online 21/2, June 2015 (peer-reviewed).
iv. Published a paper in Hebrew entitled “Finding a Way through the Maze: Unique LargeScale Structure in Pink Floyd’s song ‘Dogs’,” in “Pink Floyd: Tearing Down the Wall Collection of Essays,” Ari Katorza, ed., Resling Publishing House, Tel-Aviv. (2014).
v. Composed a score entitled “Parsley’s Hammer” for violin and piano as commissioned by
ASCAP (American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers) and SCI (Society of
Composers, Inc) which premiered at the SCI Region VI Conference, March 2015.
Crawley, Donna
i. Submitted a manuscript entitled “Contemplations on death: Themes and attitudes” for
publication in the journal Death Studies. Coauthored with R. Suarez.
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ii. Presented a poster entitled “Gender Preferences and Risk Taking” at the meeting of the
Eastern Psychological Association, Philadelphia, March 2015.
iii. Presented a poster entitled “Contemplations on death: Themes and attitudes” at the meeting
of the Association for Psychological Science, New York, May 2015.
iv. Submitted a manuscript entitled “Empathy, social dominance orientation, mortality
salience, and perceptions of a criminal defendant” for publication to the journal Sage Open.
v. Presented a poster entitled “Attractiveness and advertising: Reactions to pop-up ads” at the
meeting of the Eastern Psychological Association, Philadelphia, May 2015.
vi. Presented a poster entitled “Personality, mortality salience, and judgments of a hit and run
case” at the meeting of the Association for Psychological Science, New York, May 2015.
Crawford, Constance
i. Published an article entitled “2014 Individual Tax Landscape” in the CPA Journal.
ii. Presented a paper entitled “Corporate Inversions: Are They Merely Sophisticated
Maneuvers For Evading Taxes?” at a meeting of the Eastern Economic Association.
iii. Published an article entitled “If Credit Rating Agencies Provide Inaccurate Analysis of
Sovereign Nations, How Can Business Schools Effectively Teach Financial Statement
Reporting?,” coauthored with R. Rigoli, in the Global Journal of Management and
Business Research, Vol. 14, No. C-3 (2014).
iv. Presented a paper entitled “The Impact of Corporate Inversions on the US Economy” at the
USASBE/SBI Conference (United States Association for Small Business and
Entrepreneurship/Small Business Institute).
DaSilva, Aquida
Published a letter to the editor entitled “Being prepared for the unexpected” that was
published in the journal Nursing 2014, vol. 44, issue 12. December 2014.
D’Angelo, Rosetta
Served a chairperson and discussant for “(Re)reading Female Identities” at the
International Conference on Culture and Literature, University of Poznaniu, Poland.
December 2014.
D’Antonio, Lawrence
Invited to talk about “The Mathematics of the Encyclopedie” at a meeting of the
Mathematical Association of America.
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Del Amo, Yolanda
i. Presented two group shows, “The Female Gaze” at the Marshall Fine Arts Center,
Haverford College, Pennsylvania, and “VII Premio de Fotografía Fundación Aena” at
Palacio de Fernán Nuñez, Madrid.
ii. Presented an online show entitled “The Three Disciplines” at Stuart Pilkington projects.
iii. Gave an artist talk at Concordia University, Montreal.
Dolak, Kelly
Invited to participate in a film distribution conference at FILM-CON, Financing and
Distribution Market, Nashville, Tennessee. Spring 2015.
Dovi, Gina
Published an article entitled “Empowering change with traditional or virtual journal clubs”
in the journal Nursing 2014, vol. 44, issue 10.. October 2014.
Ecker, Martha
Presented a paper entitled “Bringing Class Back into Class” at the COPLAC Conference,
June 2014.
Edelstein, Michael
i. Published an article entitled “When Recreancy Becomes the Norm: Emergency Response
Planning and the Case of Tar Sands Upgrading in the Alberta Industrial Heartland,” pp.
119-175, in Susan Maret, (Ed.), William R. Freudenburg, A Life in Social Research in
Research in Social Problems and Public Policy, Volume 21, 119. London: Emerald Group,
2014.
ii. Published an article, coauthored with Elizabeth Hoover, Phil Brown, and Mia Renauld,
entitled “Social Science Collaboration with Environmental Health” in Environmental
Health Perspectives, May 2015.
iii. Presented the following papers as part of the Healthy and Sustainable Living MOOC 2015:
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“Cultures of Contamination and Their Psycho-Social Consequences” at the
Department of Anthropology, Uppsala University, Sweden, March 17, 2014.
“Peoples' Sustainability Treaties: Converging on a Peoples’ Transformative Agenda
Post 2015” at Ramapo College of New Jersey, April 5, 2014.
“Sustainability as a Frame for Decision Ethics.” at the Annual Seminar on Decision
Ethics: Global Challenges of the 21st Century, New York City, April 9, 2014.
“Charting the Path to a Sustainable Future” at MMVC14 online conference. August
3, 2014.
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“Nuclear Legacy: Prelude to Fukushima.” talk to Ramapo Community as part of the
Fukushima Anniversary celebration, February 26, 2015.
“Experience of a New York NGO: The Battle for Environmental Control” at the
EcoMovement and the Oliys Majalis (National Legislature) of the Republic of
Uzbekistan, Tashkent, March 27, 2015.
“Toward a Sustainable Uzbekistan.” Presentation to the Academy of Public
Administration, Tashkent, Uzbekistan, March 30, 2015.
“Making the Sustainable Transition” opening keynote in the Healthy and Sustainable
Living MOOC 2014 (HSLM14), September 6, 2015 < http://integratingtechnology.wiziq.com/course/62978-healthy-and-sustainable-living-mooc-2014>
Eisner, Susan
i. Published an article entitled “Onboarding the Faculty: A Model for Win-Win Mentoring” in
the American Journal of Business Education.
ii. Presented a paper entitled “The Leadership Lab: Immersive Learning in Upper Level
Management Courses” at the Society for Advancement of Management Annual
Conference.
Ellenbecker, Carol & Kazmi, Maryum
Published an article entitled “BS-PhD Programs in Nursing: Where are we now?” in
Nursing Education Perspectives, July 2014. 35(4), pp 230-37.
Fitzgerald, Julia
i. Presented a paper entitled “Simulation: Bridging Theory and Practice,“ coauthored with
Richards, J., at the Northeastern Interprofessional SimWARS Competition and Symposium
2014, held at St Barnabas Medical Center, Livingston, NJ. Nov. 7, 2014.
ii. Presented a poster entitled “Diabetes as An Exemplar in a Concept based Curriculum,”
coauthored with Stearns, C., Fonder, P., Richards, J., & Andronaco, D., at the Northeastern
Interprofessional SimWARS Competition and Symposium 2014. St Barnabas Medical
Center, Livingston, NJ. Nov. 7, 2014.
iii. Presented a poster entitled “Diabetes in a Concept Based Curriculum,” coauthored with
Fonder, P., Richards, J., Andronaco, D., & Stearns, C., at the: Concept Based Curriculum
Symposium 2014: Building a Foundation for Success. Bethesda, Maryland.
Flynn, Donna
i. Presented a poster entitled “Innovative Teaching: Use of the Mock Trial to teach EBP” at
Association of Professional Development Nurses Conference, July 18-19, 2014.
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ii. Presented a poster entitled “Reducing Wait, Improving Outcomes: Nurses Lead the Way!”
at the Emergency Nurse Association’s Emergency Nursing Conference in Atlantic City,
NJ, May 18-20, 2015.
Frech, William
i. Published an article entitled “The Globe Study and the MBA: Global Leadership in
Contemporary Times” in the International Journal of Business Strategy.
ii. Presented a paper entitled “The Globe Study and the MBA: Global Leadership in
Contemporary Times” at the International Academy of Business and Economics.
Frees, Scott
i. Published a paper entitled “A place for node.js in the computer science curriculum” in the
Journal of Computing Sciences in Colleges archive Volume 30 Issue 3, Pages 84-91.
January 2015.
ii. Published a paper entitled “QGRS-Conserve: A Computational Method for Discovering
Evolutionarily Conserved G-quadruplex Motifs” in Human Genetics, BioMed Central, Vol
8, Issue 8. May 2014.
Gangemi, Renata
Directed, edited, screened and discussed film “Documentary Stories of Courage:
Argentinean Political Women” at the Festival International of Political Cinema.
Giacoppe, Monika
i. Presented a paper entitled “Language, Identity, and Politics in Moi, Jeanne Castille, de
Louisiane” at the North East Modern Language Association meeting, April 29-May 3,
2015, Toronto Canada.
ii. Presented a paper entitled “World Literature Without the Survey: Some Options” at the
North East Modern Language Association meeting, Toronto Canada, April 29-May 3, 2015.
Gidal, Marc
Published book review of “Making Samba: A New History of Race and Music in Brazil”
written by Marc A. Hertzman in the Quarterly Journal of the Music Library Association,
Vol. 71, Issue , pp. 499-502. March 2015.
Goldberg, Max
Gave a conference talk entitled “Does Lipschitz imply fast convergence of a diffusionsmeared function to itself as time goes to 0?” at the American Mathematical Society.
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Gonsalves, Sandra
Presented a 2-hour workshop entitled “Brain Development in Infants and Toddlers: Best
Practices “ at the Coalition of Infant/Toddlers Educators 30th Annual Conference, Hilton
Meadowlands Hotel, East Rutherford, NJ. March 28th, 2015.
Gorewitz, Shalom
i. Performed art screenings at Portland Literary Arts in Oregon, at St. Johnsbury Athenaeum
in Vermont, and at Ear Up in NYC.
ii. Served as academic panelist at the Rutgers University Electronic Arts Intermix
(EAI)/Symposium on the Videofreex (held in conjunction with the Dorsky Museum at
SUNY New Paltz). Panel and screening took place at EAI in NYC on March 25, 2015.
iii. Presented and conducted a “Day of Mindfulness” workshop at Montclair University.
Greene, Margaret J.
Presented “Enhancing Cultural Competence through Academic and Clinical Experiences” at
the 19th Annual Nursing Research and Evidence-Based Practice Conference. NYU Langone
Medical Center, New York, N.Y. June 10, 2015.
Gronbeck-Tedesco, John
i. Published an article entitled "Documenting The Crime of Cuba: An Américan Left and the
1933 Cuban Revolution" in the journal American Quarterly.
ii. Published an essay entitled “Rethinking the Nation and the Body Politic: The Wrestler and
the Demise of American Exceptionalism" in the forthcoming book entitled In Screening
Images of Masculinity in the Age of Postfeminism (Lexington Books).
Haase, Timothy
i. Presented a paper entitled “Do the Fans Care if We Lose the Juice? An attendance analysis
of steroid use in Major League Baseball".at the Annual International Conference on Sports
Economic, Management, Marketing & Social Aspects.
ii. Published an essay entitled “Financial Constraints and U.S. Recessions: How constrained
firms invest differently” in the International Journal of Economics and Finance.
Hangen, Susan
i. Presented a paper entitled “Navigating Interdisciplinarity” at the International Studies
Association Conference.
ii. Presented a paper entitled “The Blurry Boundaries of ‘Nepaliness’ in New York” at the
University of Buffalo conference on “Articulating Ethnicity: Language and the Boundaries
of the Himalayas.”
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iii. Published a book review of “Maoists at the Hearth” in the journal South Asian History and
Culture Volume 6, Issue 2, pages 296-298. April 2015.
Harvey, Mary Ellen
Published an article entitled “The Effect of Employee Ethical Ideology on Organizational
Budget Slack: An Empirical Examination and Practical Discussion 13(1)” in the Journal of
Business & Economics Research.
Haye, Eric
i. Published an article entitled “Hedge Fund Ownership, Board Composition and Dividend
Policy in the Telecommunications Industry” in the International Journal of Financial
Research.
ii. Presented a paper entitled “The Impact of Institutional Ownership and Board Composition
on the Dividend Policy of Telecommunication Firms” at the American Society of Business
and Behavioral Sciences.
Hecht, Jason
i. Published an article entitled “Hedge Fund Ownership, Board Composition and Dividend
Policy in the Telecommunications Industry” in the International Journal of Financial
Research.
ii. Gave presentations about his paper entitled “Is Net Stock Issuance Relevant for Capital
Formation? at a Columbia University Seminar in Political Economy & Contemporary
Social Issues, and at the Eastern Economics Association.
iii. Published an article entitled “Is net stock issuance relevant to capital formation?
Comparing heterodox models of firm-level capital expenditures across the advanced and
largest developing economies” in the Cambridge Journal of Economics.
Heinze, Peter
Presented a paper entitled “How is it All Symbolized? Thoughts on PTSD and Semiotics" at
the Annual Semiotics conference in Seattle, October 2014. The paper has been accepted for
publication in Semiotics 2014.
Hoch, James
i. Presented a paper entitled “What That Painting Says: Poems Inspired by Another Work of
Art” at the San Miguel Writers Conference, Sam Miguel de Allende, Mexico, February,
2015.
ii. Delivered the keynote address for the English Undergraduate Research Conference at
Millersville University of PA on April 16, 2015.
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iii. Performed poetry readings as a volunteer member of “the Dead Rabbits Reading Series” in
Upper Manhattan during January 2015, and as a “Dodge Poet in the Schools (Geraldine R
Dodge Foundation)” at Madison High School, NJ in spring 2015.
iv. Submitted poetry for publication in the following journals: The American Poetry Review,
The New Republic, The Common, Waxwing, The Columbia: A Journal of Arts and
Literature, and The Colorado Review.
Hoch, James & Kisor, Yvette
Performed poetry readings at the Dodge Poetry Festival, New Jersey Performing Arts
Center, Newark, NJ on October 24, 2014.
Horowitz, Howard
i. Organized and presented, with Geoff Welch, the 20th Ramapo River Watershed
Conference on April 24, 2015.
ii. Conducted experiential learning in environmental studies at the Finger Lakes National
Forest Field Program, October 24-26, 2014.
iii. Presented a poster entitled “The Ramapo River Near Hillburn, A Wordmap” at the 20th
Ramapo River Watershed Conference on April 24, 2015.
Howenstein, Mark
i. Presented a paper entitled “Into the Wild” at the Annual Gathering of Thoreau Society.
ii. Delivered a sermon entitled “Wake, Walk, Wild” at the Unitarian Universalist (UU)
Society, and the UU Congregation.
Hutchins, Teresa
i. Published an article entitled “A New Approach to Teaching Business Writing: Writing
Across the Core: A Document-based Curriculum” in the American Journal of Business
Education.
ii. Presented a paper entitled “Immigrants Financing Immigrants: A Case Study of a ChineseAmerican Rotating Savings and Credit Association in Queens” at the 2014 New York State
Economic Association Annual Conference.
Karlin, Eric
Published an article entitled “Subgenome analysis of two Southern Hemisphere allotriploid
species in Sphagnum (Sphagnaceae)” in the Journal of Bryology (36: 165–179) in 2014.
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Keeton, Pat
Presented a paper entitled “From Wealth Inequality and DIY to Occupy and Ferguson:
New Opportunities for Teaching Marxist Concepts in the media Studies Classroom" at the
Union of Democratic Communications, University of Toronto in spring 2015.
Kim, Seon Mea
i. Published an article entitled “The Impacts of Gender Differences in Social Capital on
Micro-Entrepreneurs’ Business Start-up” in AFFILIA (Journal of Women and Social
Work), 29(4), 404-417 in 2014.
ii. Presented a paper entitled “How social networks differently affect female microentrepreneurs’ business performance” at the 2014 International Conference of Business and
Applied Sciences Academy of North America (BAASANA), Mahwah, NJ. The paper was
published in the Journal of Sociology and Social Welfare, 41(3), 49-69 (2014) and
submitted to the Journal of Small Business and Entrepreneurship.
iii. Presented a paper entitled “The Conditions and Strategies of the Success of Local Currency
Movements” (coauthored with Lough, B, & Wu, C.F) at the Annual Conference of the
Society for Social Work and Research in New Orleans in January, 2015. The paper was
also submitted for publication in the Local Economy Journal.
Kim, Seung-Sup
i. Presented a paper entitled “Biochemical Studies of the Effects of pH and Oxygen Levels on
the Growth and Protein Expression Patterns of Lactobacillus rhamnosus GG” at the ACS
New York Undergraduate Research Conference in May, 2015.
ii. Served as Faculty Advisor of the American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular
Biology Undergraduate Affiliate Network (ASBMB UAN) and the Chi Omega Lambda
(ΧΩΛ) Biochemistry Student Honor Society at Ramapo.
iii. Presented a paper entitled “Protein x-ray crystallography and structure-based drug
development” at the Institute of Immunity and Symbiotic Balance (IISB), Gold Balance
Inc. South Korea. July, 2014.
Klein, Eileen
i. Presented a paper entitled “How to Hone Your Social Work Skills to Become a Sucessful
Manager” at the Network for Social Work Management 26th Annual Conference,
Washington, D.C., June, 2015.
ii. Supervised Student Interns as a member of a Multidisciplinary Team, and gave a
presentation at the 10th and the 11th Annual Interdisciplinary Conferences on Clinical
Supervision at Adelphi University, Garden City, NY. June, 2014 and June, 2015.
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iii. Supervised students in placement on a multidisciplinary team for development of
leadership skills, and gave a presentation at the Network for Social Work Management 25th
Annual Conference. Boston, Mass. June 2014.
iv. Published an article entitled “Khat” in the Encyclopedia of Pharmacology and Society.
Boslaugh, S. And Golson, J.G. (eds.) (2015).
v. Gave a presentation entitled “How the Social Work Manager Distinguished Themselves
Against Other Degrees” for a Network for Social Work Management on-line webinar.
December, 2014.
vi. Presented a poster entitled “Using Social Support to Keep LGBT Mental Health Clients
Well” at the Minority Health and Health Disparities Grantees’ Conference, National
Harbor, MD. December, 2014.
vii. Presented a paper entitled “Treating Mentally ill Offenders in an Inpatient Setting” at the
Annual Conference of the National Organization of Forensic Social Workers. NYC. July,
2014.
viii. Presented a paper entitled “Clinical and policy considerations in providing integrated
trauma informed care for those impacted by substance abuse and mental health problems”
at NASW- NYC 46th Annual Addictions Institute. NYC. June, 2014.
ix. Presented a paper entitled “Providing Culturally competent services to LGBTQ clients” at
Hunter College 3rd International Conference on Practice Research, NYC. June, 2014.
x. Presented a paper entitled “Teaching Students Leadership Skills through Service Learning
on a Multidisciplinary team” at the 4th Annual Tri-State Best Practices Conference, Bergen
Community College, NJ. March, 2015.
xi. Presented a paper entitled “Supervisory Focus for Students Placed on a Multidisciplinary
Team to Enhance Development of Clinical, Collaboration, and Leadership Skills” at New
York State Social Work Education Association. Saratoga, NY. October, 2014.
Kowal, Katarzyna
Gave a conference talk about “Enhancing Learning in a Proof Writing Course” at the
Mathematical Association of America.
Kumar, Amruth
i. Gave a presentation about “A Rule-Based Expert System for Diagnosing Student Errors in
a Tutor on Counter-Controlled Loops” at the Second Workshop on AI-supported Education
for Computer Science, ITS 2014, Honolulu, Hawaii, 6/6/2014.
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ii. Published a paper entitled “A study of the influence of code-tracing problems on codewriting skills” in the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Digital Library, 314319, in 2015.
iii. Presented a paper entitled “Affective Learning with Online Software Tutors for
Programming” at the proceedings of the Psychology of Programming Annual Conference
(PPIG 14), Brighton, U.K..June 25-27, 2014.
iv. Presented a paper entitled “An Evaluation of Self-Explanation in a Programming Tutor” at
the proceedings of Intelligent Tutoring Systems (ITS 2014), Honolulu, HI, June 5-9, 2014.
v. Presented a paper entitled “Programming Tutors, Practiced Concepts, and Demographics”
at the proceedings of Frontiers in Education Conference (FIE 2013), Oklahoma City, OK,
October 23-26, 2013, Session F2C.
vi. Gave a presentation and keynote speech entitled “Some Perspectives on Programming
Tutors” at the Second Workshop on AI-supported Education for Computer Science
(AIEDCS), held at 12th International Conference on Intelligent Tutoring Systems (ITS
2014), Honolulu, HI, June 5-9, 2014.
Kwak, Tae Yang
i. Gave a lecture about “Confucianism: The Essence of Politics” at the Asia Institute, Seoul,
ROK, 12/31/14.
ii. Published an essay entitled “History Guides the Future in South Korea’s Latest
Blockbuster” in Korea Exposé, 2/1/15.
iii. Gave a lecture about “New Perspectives on Korean Studies and Education,” co-hosted by
the Research Institute of Korean Studies, Korea University and University of California,
Berkeley, 6/2-3/2014.
iv. Gave lectures entitled “Korean Colonial Modernity” and “Post-Korean War Political and
Economic Development” at the Korea Society, New York, NY, 2/10/15 and 3/16/15.
v. Published an essay entitled “The Failure of Women Cross DMZ” in Korea Exposé, 5/27/15.
vi. Gave a lecture about “The Political and Social Climate of North and South Korea” at the
Voices from North Korea Conference, hosted by Trinity College, Hartford, CT, 3/28/15.
Larson, Stephen
Presented a paper entitled “The Return of Common Stockholder Capital: A New Measure
for Capital Budgeting Projects” at the Eastern Economic Association.
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Lee, Changhee
i. Presented a paper entitled “Corporate Social Responsibility and the Value of Analysts'
Recommendations” at the 41st Northeast Business & Economic Association Annual
Conference, and at the Canadian Academic Accounting Association (CAAA) Annual
Conference.
ii. Presented a paper entitled “Does Bold Recommendation Signal Overconfidence or Higher
Ability?” at the American Accounting Association Mid-Atlantic Regional Conference.
Lepore, Ann
i. Exhibited her works entitled “Flocking Algorithm” at the Pierro Gallery South Orange, NJ.
One Month Exhibit of “Thou Art Mom”, Fall 2014 Group Show.
ii. Gave a talk about “Virtual 3D Origami” at the CAA THAT Camp Digital Humanities
Conference, NYC, February 2015.
Leung, Rebecca
i. Presented a paper and lecture entitled “Pushing the Limits and Making the Most of
Diversity” at the Tri-State Best Practices Conference, Bergen Community College
Meadowlands. Spring 2015.
ii. Authored website content entitled “The Authentic Voice: The Best Reporting on Race and
Ethnicity” of a teaching site for textbook/DVD published by Columbia University Press.
Fall 2014.
Li, Huiping
Gave a panel presentation about “Foreign Exchange Trading” at the Academy of
International Business.
Lipkin, Jonathan
i. Published photography in the Ain’t Bad Magazine.
ii. Published photography as the featured artist in the Fall 2014 JAM Edition,
http://www.jameditions.com/.
iii. Served as external reviewer and presenter for the “Kwek Leng Joo Prize of Excellence in
Photography” at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. Spring 2015.
Lorber, Kim
i. Presented a poster entitled “Students' Perceptions of the Use of Internet Tools for Effective
Learning,” coauthored with Weiner, A, at the CSWE, Tampa, Fla. October, 2014.
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ii. Submitted a paper entitled “The Holocaust Among holocausts: A Child's Lessons Became
The Teacher's” for publication in the journal Reflections: Narratives of Professional
Helping (October 2014, under review).
Lustiger Thaler, Henri
i. Appointed Series Editor of “Memory Studies: Global Constellations Book Series” by
Ashgate Publications, U.K. 2015. The Series has 6 books in contract for 2016.
ii. Published a book chapter entitled “Religious Revival in the Bergen-Belsen Displaced
Persons Camp, 1945 – 1950” in Bergen-Belsen Neue Forschungen, edited byH. Knoch &
T. Rahe, Gottingen: Wallstein Verlag, 2015.
iii. Developed and produced a film documentary entitled “Memory After Belsen.”. The
American Library Association has awarded the documentary their highest rating, a “Starred
Review” in their prestigious publication Booklist, one of the highest-circulating educational
review publications in America, 2015. The film has been acquired by The Discovery
Education Division Channel for streaming distribution rights in Colleges and High Schools
in the USA and Canada.
iv. Edited a book entitled “Re-imagining Social Movements: From Collectives to Individuals,”
coedited with Antimo Farro, published by London: Ashgate Publications, United Kingdom,
(2014). The book includes a chapter written by Henri entitled “Occupying Human Values:
Memory and the Future of Collective Actions.” The book has been nominated by the
prestigious French journal Panorama des Idées as one of the hundred most influential books
in the Social Sciences in France for the year 2014.
v. Appointed Associate Editor of Sociopedia Colloquium 2015, a new interactive on-line Sage
Journal. This appointment was made by Sage Publications and The International
Sociological Association.
Lutter, Lisa
i. Collected and notated the unpublished music of the Kapingamarangi people in the
temporary settlement located in Pohnpei, Federated States of Micronesia, July 2015.
ii. Conducted a concert with orchestra of G.F. Handel’s Messiah at Cantate Guam with KIA
String Quartet (Tokyo) and members of the Guam Symphony, January 2015.
vi. Provided artistic direction and facilitated planning for the 8 concert season for Cantate
Guam, and the Pacific Summer Music Festival at Hu nae hao kanta, 501(c)(3) non-profit
corporation, Guam, 2014-15.
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Magnaye, Romulo
Published a peer-reviewed article entitled “Earned readiness management for scheduling,
monitoring and evaluating the development of complex product systems” in the
International Journal of Project Management, coauthored with B. Sauser and P. Patanakul.
Martin, Catalin
i. Gave a lecture on “Non-centrosymmetric semiconductors with strong spin-orbit coupling” at
the 10th International Conference on Physics of Advanced Materials (ICPAM-10), Iasi,
Romania, September 2014.
ii. Coauthored an article entitled “Optical properties of amorphous indium zinc oxide thin films
synthesized by pulsed laser deposition,” (with V. Craciun, G. Socol, D. Tanner, H.C. Swart,
N. Becherescu, D. Craciun), published in Applied Surface Science, Vol. 306, Pages 52-55,
July 2014.
iii. Coauthored an article entitled “Pressure tuning the Fermi level through the Dirac point of
giant Rashba semiconductor BiTeI,“ (with D VanGennep, S Maitil, D Graf, S W Tozer, H
Berger, D L Maslov, and J J Hamlin), published in the Journal of Physics: Condensed
Matter Vol. 26, No. 34 (2014).
iv. Gave a lecture on “Structure and Symmetry of the Superconducting Gap in Fe-based
Superconductors” at the 1st Autumn School on Physics of Advanced Materials, PAMS-1,
Iasi Romania, 2014.
v. Published two co-authored articles, “Temperature-driven band inversion in Pb0.77Sn0.23Se:
Optical and Hall effect studies” and “Unusual Shubnikov-de Haas oscillations in BiTeCl” in
the American Physical Society journal Physical Review B, vol. 90, issues 20 and 23 (2014).
McFeron, Donovan
i. Gave conference talks about “The twisted Kahler-Ricci Hermitian Yang-Mills flow” at the
American Mathematical Society and at the International Mathematical Union.
ii. Gave a conference talk about “Elliptic Curves with Non-abelian Entanglement Fields” at the
American Mathematical Society.
McMurdy, Ken
Gave a conference talk about “Elliptic Curves with Non-abelian Entanglement Fields” at
the American Mathematical Society.
Mentore, Rob
Presented paper entitled “Noncovalent Bonding of Fibrinogen in Monomolecular Polymer
Films” at the American Chemical Society (ACS) New York Undergraduate Research
Conference. May 2015.
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Merringer, D., Valenti, M., Burke, K., & Bognar, L.
Gave an online presentation about “Its Not Just a Whiteboard” at the Advance for Nurses.
9/19/14. http://nursing.advanceweb.com/Features/Articles/Its-Not-Just-a-Whiteboard.aspx.
Meyer, Carter
Wrote a book review for “Hippies, Indians and the Fight for Red Power” to be published in
the American Studies Journal.
Monen, Joost
i. Published a research article entitled “Separase Cleaves the N-Tail of the CENP-A Related
Protein CPAR-1 at the Meiosis I Metaphase-Anaphase Transition in C. elegans“ in PLoS
ONE.
i. Organized a meeting with The American Society for Cell Biology for Ramapo Students.
Morley, James
i. Chaired a panel entitled “Phenomenologized Naturalism: the Future of Phenomenology” and
presented a paper entitled “Regional Ontology and the Phenomenology of Nature” at the
International Human Science Research conference, Nova Scotia Canada. August, 10, 2014.
ii. Chaired a symposium entitled “Voicing the Voiceless: Descriptive Phenomenology as
Emancipatory Psychiatric Research” and presented a paper entitled “Introduction to
Descriptive Phenomenological Method” at the Society for Qualitative Research in
Psychology, City College Graduate Center, New York, NY. May 12, 2015.
iii. Chaired a discussion panel entitled “The Meaning and Scope of Phenomenology” at the
Annual Conference of The Interdisciplinary Coalition of North American
Phenomenologists, Brock University, Ontario, Canada.
iv. Invited to address a conference on the Contemplative Studies in the Academy and presented
a paper entitled “Phenomenology as Contemplative Research Methodology” at the
University of San Diego, CA. November, 20, 2014.
v. Appointed Book Reviewer for Rutledge Books (Philosophy and Psychology), with one
review this year.
vi. Served as Consulting Editor of the journal The Humanistic Psychologist.
vii. Served as Editor in Chief of the Journal of Phenomenological Psychology. Oversaw the
publication of Volume 45. Numbers 1 and 2.
viii. Served as External Tenure Reviewer at Worcester Polytechnic Institute. One review this
year.
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ix. Served as Member at Large, on the Executive Council of The Interdisciplinary Coalition of
North American Phenomenologists.
x. Serves as Director of Krame Center for Contemplative Studies and Mindful Living.
Facilitated the development of over 16 community-service programs on mindfulness, 6
mindfulness workshops at Ramapo, and 2 workshops at local high schools.
Negron, Edna
Presented a paper entitled “New Spanish-Language Community Press Continues Old
Legacy of El Misisipi [sic]” at the Latino Media and Marketing Conference, Florida State
University. Spring 2015.
Neill, Ben
i. Produced and composed music for 8 national television and internet commercials for
Cadillac automobiles entitled “Doors Blown Off”, “Monkey Do”, “Driven Seat”,
“Lightweight Architecture”, “Twins”, “Garages”, ‘DJ Crest”, and “Stop the Camera”.
ii. Commissioned as visiting artist in 2-week residency at the American Academy in Rome to
develop Fantini’s Footsteps, a new multimedia work for mutantrumpet and Baroque organ
with interactive electronics.
iii. Collaborated with a mathematician/artist/professor at UC Santa Cruz for a week developing
new multimedia work for mutantrumpet fractal music and interactive video/audio based on
Abraham’s chaos mathematical research.
iv. Produced an Extended Play (EP) recording entitled “Horizonal,” a 6 song EP of music for
the mutantrumpet with live electronics, to be released summer 2015 on Audiokult Records,
Vienna.
v. Presented a paper entitled “Keeping it III; Experimentalism in the Downtown New York
City Electronic Music Scene” at the IASPM Pop Conference, Experience Music Project,
Seattle, WA.
vi. Received a New York State Council on the Arts Individual Artist’s Grant of $8000 to
compose a site-specific work for brass quintet and live electronics. Commissioned by
Manitoga, the Russell Wright Center for Art and Design, Garrison, NJ. Premiered July 26,
2014. WNYC New Sounds dedicated an entire program to previewing the composition and a
documentary video was produced with Ramapo students’ production support.
vii. Completed a two-week artist in residency for Mutantrumpet and new software development
at Studio for Electro-Instrumental Music, Amsterdam, the Netherlands, June 1-13, 2014.
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viii. Co-composed and performed in The Demo, an electronic biographical opera of computer
pioneer Douglas Engelbart, at the Stanford University Bing Concert Hall world premiere,
April 1, 2015. The project was funded by a Rockefeller Foundation MAP Fund grant of
$46,000 in 2014 and received international press coverage in publications including New
York Times, Wired Magazine online, and London Daily Mail. An excerpt was performed at
PS1/MOMA in Nov. 2014 as part of the Semiotext (e) event, “The Return of Schizo
Culture.” Participated in panel discussion at Stanford on technology in live music
performance, as part of The Demo premiere week.
Oh, David
i. Published an article (as second author) entitled “Bring some hustle & run”: Parody,
Asianness, and Bakhtinian carnival” in the journal Chinatown Hustler. Spring 2015.
ii. Presented a conference paper entitled "’Racist xenophobia’ in South Korea: Negotiations of
race, racism, and privilege on YouTube” at the National Communication Association
(NCA). Fall 2014.
iii. Presented paper entitled “Is there a communication pedagogy unique to our discipline?” at
the New Jersey Communication Association (NJCA) Spring 2015 conference.
iv. Presented paper entitled “Our visibility at NCA: Past, present, and future of Asian/Pacific
American Communication Studies Division and Caucus” at the National Communication
Association (NCA) Fall 2014 conference.
v. Published a book entitled “Second-generation Korean Americans and transnational media:
Diasporic identifications.” Lexington Books. Spring 2015.
vi. Presented paper entitled “White expatriates in cyber-protest: The case of blogs and a
Facebook page denouncing South Korean televised ‘racism’” at the Eastern Communication
Association (ECA) Spring 2015 conference.
Olbrecht, Alexandre
Published an article entitled “Nonprofit Financing to the Rescue? The Slightly Twisted Case
of Local Educational Foundations and Public Education in New Jersey,” coauthored with R.
Abzug, M. Sabrin, and E. DeLeon, in the Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly (first
published online on Dec. 29, 2014).
Origoni, M., Burke, K. & Perez, E.
Gave a presentation about “Clinical Resource Nurses – Bring em on!.” at the 6th Annual
Research EBP Conference St. Joseph's Medical Center. October 29, 2014.
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Owen, Thomas
i. Published peer-reviewed article entitled “Transgenic Expression of Osteoactivin / gpnmb
Enhances Bone Formation in Vivo and Osteoprogenitor Differentiation ex Vivo” in the
Journal of Cellular Physiology.
ii. Presented a poster entitled “Stimulation of osteoblast differentiation and increased rate of
bone defect repair by a novel potent series of lactam acetylene EP4 receptor agonists” at a
meeting of the Orthopaedic Research Society.
Padhy, Sanghamitra
i. Submitted article entitled “Commons” Perspective to Environmental Human Rights: Making
Rights Sustainable for publication (under review) in the Columbia Journal of Human Rights
Law Review.
ii. Presented paper entitled “’Rights sans Stilt’: Human Right to Water and Groundwater
Governance in India” at the Annual Law and Society Meeting, Seattle, 2015.
Patterson, Gwyneth
Gave a podium presentation about “African American Nurses step up to deliver care to
Native Americans” at the National Black Nurses Association 42nd Annual Institute and
Conference in Philadelphia, PA, August 8, 2014.
Petkus, Ed
i. Presented a paper entitled “Pirsig Meets Kotler: Marketing 3.0 and the Metaphysics of
‘Quality’” at the National Business and Economics Society.
ii. Presented a paper entitled “You're a Marketing Major? The Public Image of Marketing and
its Implications for Marketing Education” at the Marketing Educators' Association.
Rainforth, Emma
Presented a research poster entitled “Microcontroller Applications in Remote Environmental
Monitoring,” coauthored with B. Wlodawski and M. Papilli,, at the First Annual Student
Night, Association of Environmental and Engineering Geologists, Somerset, NJ; 2015.
Redd, Tammi
i. Presented a paper entitled "Smile: Click! Here is your money! The effect of non-verbal cues
on crowdfunding success" at the 2015 Academy of Management Annual Meeting,
Vancouver, BC, Canada. August 2015.
ii. Presented a paper entitled “Classroom Engagement: Reaching the Millennial Students”at the
Organizational Behavior Teaching Conference, Los Angeles, CA. June 2015.
iii. Presented a paper entitled “The Influence of Environmental Context on Social Network
Orientation among U.S. Minority Groups” and received the John Jack Award at the U.S.
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Association of Small Business and Entrepreneurship, Tamapa, FL. January 2015. The John
Jack Award is presented to the overall best paper presented at the USASBE Annual
Conference that addresses entrepreneurship by women or minorities or conditions of
adversity, and is sponsored by the Journal of Developmental Entrepreneurship (JDE).
iv. Published a peer reviewed article entitled “The Influence of Social Network Dynamism on
Business Start-up Activity: A Longitudinal Examination of Female Nascent Entrepreneurs”
in the Journal of Women’s Entrepreneurship and Education.
Richards, Joan & Nickles, Debra
Presented a poster entitled “STOP Simulation: Students take the Observation Platform” at
the Northeastern Interprofessional SimWARS Competition and Symposium 2014. St
Barnabas Medical Center, Livingston, NJ, November 7, 2014.
Rigoli, Raymond
Published an article entitled “If Credit Rating Agencies Provide Inaccurate Analysis of
Sovereign Nations, How Can Business Schools Effectively Teach Financial Statement
Reporting?,” coauthored with C.Crawford, in the Global Journal of Management and
Business Research, Vol. 14, No. 3-C (2014).
Roy, Barnard
Presented a paper entitled “Who is Socrates?” at the Core Text Association annual meeting
in Plymouth, Massachusetts.
Sabrin, Murray
i. Published an article entitled “Nonprofit Financing to the Rescue? The Slightly Twisted Case
of Local Educational Foundations and Public Education in New Jersey,” coauthored with
R.Abzug, A.Olbrech, and E. DeLeon, in the Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly, (first
published online on Dec. 29, 2014).
ii. Presented a documentary and symposium entitled “The Income Tax: Necessary Evil or Root
of All Evil” that was funded by grants from the Ramapo Foundation, and the Charles Koch
Foundation.
Salvador, Roberto
i. Published two papers entitled “Antecedents of Consumers' Corporate Social Responsibility
Evaluations: Incorporating Consumer Expectations” and “Corporate Social Responsibility,
Attribution, and Customer Satisfaction: New findings from the Expectancy
Confirmation/Disconfirmation Paradigm” at the American Marketing Association Winter
Marketing Educators' Conference.
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ii. Presented and published a paper entitled “Experiential Learning: An assessment of Impact
and Engagement in the Marketing Curriculum using Kolb's Learning Styles” at the
Marketing Educators Association conference.
iii. Published an article entitled “Is neuromarketing ethical? Consumers say yes. Consumers say
no” in the Journal of Legal, Ethical and Regulatory Issues.
Salter, Nick
Gave four presentations at the national Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology
conference, and one presentation at the national Academy of Management conference.
Santangelo, Lorraine, Beck, Susan, Manney, Devon, & Sands, Kristy
Gave a presentation about “Development and Implementation of a Simulation Scenario for
Teaching Presence During End-of-Life Care” at the American Association of Colleges of
Nursing (AACN) Baccalaureate Education Conference, Baltimore, MD, November 20,
2014.
Sarabia, Stephanie
i. Published, by invitation, a paper on “Drug and Alcohol Screening” in the Encyclopedia of
Human Services and Diversity, Thousand Oaks: Sage Publications, Inc.
ii. Presented a paper entitled “Creating Meaningful Learning Experience in Substance Abuse
Courses” at the NAADAC: The Association for Addiction Professionals National
Conference, Washington, D.C. (2015).
iii. Presented papers entitled “Start Where the Learner Is At: A Social Work Approach to
Helping Addiction Professionals in Recovery Embrace Evidence-based Practice” and
“Everybody is Not Doing It: Evolving Parent Perceptions of Marijuana Use from
Acceptance and Indifference to Disapproval” at the Addiction Institute for the New York
City Chapter of the National Association of Social Workers, 46th conference (June 2014)
and the 47th conference, June 2015.
iv. Presented a paper entitled “Creating Meaningful Learning Experience in Social Work
Electives” at the Annual Program Meeting of the Council on Social Work Education,
Tampa, Florida, October 2014.
v. Presented a paper entitled “Evolving Parent Perceptions of Marijuana Use from Resignation
and Indifference to Disapproval,” coauthored with Hyppolite, M., at the Annual Program
Meeting of the Council on Social Work Education, Denver, Colorado (October, 2015).
vi. Published a paper on “Social Work Practice with Older Adults with Substance/Alcohol
Abuse Problems,” coauthored with Shibusawa, T., in the Handbook of Social Work in
Health and Aging (2nd Edition), (2015).
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Scheckner, Peter
Presented a paper entitled “Twenty-First Century Dystopian, Apocalyptic, and Science
Fiction Films: How Hollywood Imagines Social Inequality, People’s Power, and the
State.”at the Union of Democratic Communication Conference held at the University of
Toronto, Canada. Sunday, May 3 2015.
Scott, Neel
Produced a feature film entitled “Love Hunter” that played theatrically in New York,
Chicago, San Francisco, Washington DC, Miami, Toronto, Las Vegas and Los Angeles in
2014-15. The film received positive reviews in New York Times and Hollywood Reporter
publications.
Sen, Ruma
i. Published a coauthored article entitled “Contradictory Concepts and Experiences of Time on
a Study Abroad Program in South India” in the Special issue of Cultural Geography.
ii. Published a chapter entitled “Bollywood in the City: Can the consumption of Bollywood
cinema serve as a site for intercultural discovery and dialogue?” in Case Studies in
Intercultural Dialogue, Part IV, Building Dialog Between Arts and Media, N. Haydari and
P. Holmes, (Eds.), Kendall Hunt Publishing Company. (2014).
iii. Presented two papers entitled “Consuming desi popcorn: Impact of globalization on
television audiences in urban India” and “Deconstructing empowerment: An analysis of the
discourse in social media surrounding a progressive jewelry commercial” at the annual
conference of the International Association for Media and Communication Research
(IAMCR) at Hyderabad, India.
Serban, Mihaela
i. Presented a paper entitled “Courts and the Construction of Ethnic Identities during
Authoritarianism in Romania (1940-1945)” at the Law and Society Annual Conference,
Seattle, May 27-31, 2015.
ii. Presented a paperentitled “Plus ça Change? Changes in Legal Culture in Central and Eastern
Europe post-1989” at the Legal Mobilization in Germany & the European Union, York
University (Canada), DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service) Research Workshop,
Canadian Centre for German & European Studies (CCGES), February 13, 2015.
iii. Presented a paper entitled “Regime Change and the Legal Culture of Property in Communist
and Post-Communist Romania” at the Mid-Atlantic Law and Society Conference,
Philadelphia, October 18, 2014.
iv. Published a peer-reviewed chapter entitled “Rule of Law Indicators as a Technology of
Power in Romania” in The Quiet Power of Indicators: Measuring Development, Corruption,
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and the Rule of Law, Sally Engle Merry, Kevin Davis, and Benedict Kingsbury (eds.),
Cambridge University Press (2015).
v. Published a peer-reviewed article entitled “The Exceptionalism of Housing: Ideology and
Politics in Early Communism in Romania (1945-1965)” in Europe-Asia Studies 67(3)
(2015).
vi. Published a peer-reviewed article entitled “The Loss of Property Rights and the
Construction of Legal Consciousness in Early Socialist Romania (1950-1965)” in Law &
Society Review 48(4): 773-805 (2014).
Shannon, Edward
Presented a paper entitled “Listening is Literature: Audio Podcasts and the Literature
Classroom” at the North East Modern Language Association meeting, Toronto Canada,
April 29-May 3, 2015.
Sherman, Cherie
i. Presented two papers entitled “Asbestosis: Examining the American Asbestos Litigation
Phenomenon” and “Effectively Assessing Risk in New Product Development: A tool for
Engineers and Managers” at the 2014 International Conference of Business and Applied
Sciences Academy of North America (BAASANA).
ii. Published an article entitled “Mass-bestosis: Examining the American Asbestos Litigation
Phenomenon” in the International Journal of Business & Applied Sciences.
Shivarajan, Sridevi
i. Presented a paper entitled “An Aristotelian approach to understanding corporate citizenship”
at the International Society of Business and Society (IABS), Sydney, Australia
ii. Presented a paper entitled “Psychological self-help strategies for the poor: An Aristotelian
Approach” at he 2015 Eastern Academy of Management Annual Meeting.
Skowrsonski, Mark
i. Presented a paper entitled “Shiftwork and the Psychosocial Work Environment: A
Longitudinal Exploration of Moderation and Mediation” at the 22nd International
Symposium on Shiftwork and Working Time.
ii. Presented a paper entitled “Ways to say "goodbye": A Review of the Employee Termination
Literature” at the SAM 2015 International Business Conference.
Skrzynski, Jackie
i. Exhibited artwork in the group exhibit entitled “Animal Heart” at the Slater Museum. The
exhibit was reviewed in the Hartford Courant newspaper.
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ii. Contributed to the book review of “Reconciling Art and Mothering” for publication in the
Women’s Art Journal.
iii. Presented artwork entitled “Cross Pollination: The Contemporary Arts First Year Seminar”
at the Foundations in Art: Theory and Education (FATE) conference.
iv. Exhibited drawings at group exhibitions held at the Theo Ganz Gallery and at the Slater
Memorial Museum.
v. Published artwork entitled “Trophy Shot Series” in the Lunch Ticket Literary Journal.
Spar, Ira
Published a book entitled “The Ebabbar Temple Archive and Other Texts from the Fourth to
the First Millennium B.C.,” coauthored with Jursa, M., that was exhibited at the
Metropolitan Museum of Art in 2014.
Stawicki, Robert
Presented a paper entitled “Preventing Infeasible Solutions to Supply Chain Mixed Integer
Programming Models” at the IIE Conference and Annual Expo.
Steindel, Charles
i. Submitted a chapter entitled “Computing the Aggregate Cost of a Disaster: National and
Regional Issues” for publication in the book Cities at Risk: Planning for and Recovering
from Natural Disasters, http://www.ashgate.com/isbn/9781472441683.
ii. Presented a paper entitled “New Jersey: Coping with Volatile Revenues” at the National
Federation of Municipal Analysts conference.
iii. Published an article entitled “State Income Taxes and Interstate Migration’ in Business
Economics. July 2014.
Sundarajan, Malavika
i. Presented a paper entitled “Emotions, Weak Ties and Sustainability of the Family Business”
at the 11th Annual Family Enterprise Research Conference, Burlington, VT.
ii. Presented a paper entitled “Knowledge Gains and Satisfaction in Performance Using Faceto-Face and ICTs in E-Learning and Blended Learning Environments” at the Instructional
Development Division of the International Communication Association (ICA) Annual
Conference, San Juan, Puerto Rico.
iii. Presented a workshop entitled “Pause before pressing the send button: Email Characteristics,
Perceived Power of Words & Impulsivity” at the Academy of Management Annual Meeting,
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
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Tan, Lorraine
Presented a research paper entitled “Fluorescence Study of Methylene Blue Encapsulated
AOT Reverse Micelles” at the TAS Student Research Symposium (SRS) (4/15).
Taeigen, Jeremy
i. Published a chapter entitled “Experiments in Military Studies,” in the Routledge Handbook
on Research Methods in Military Studies, Rietjens, Shields, and Soeters (eds), Routledge,
New York, 2014.
ii. Presented a paper entitled “Military Veterans and the Vote: The Implications of Changing
American Demography,” coauthored with David Leal, at the Eastern Sociological Society
Annual Meeting in February 2015, and at the Midwest Political Science Association
Conference in April 2015.
iii. Presented a paper entitled “Role of Place in Suburban vs. Urban Voting: How Residential
Density Patterns Shape Voting and Party Registration,” coauthored with Daron Shaw, at the
Midwest Political Science Association Conference, April 2015.
Torres-Baumgarten, Gladys
i. Presented a paper entitled “Rainforest in the Savannah: The Case of Brazilian FDI in
Africa” at the International Business and Education Conference.
ii. Published a coauthored book entitled Business in an Emerging Latin America, Routledge/
Taylor & Francis Publishing, 2014.
iii. Presented a coauthored paper entitled “Grains for Good: Breaking the Gala Addiction” at the
Eastern Academy of Management 2014.
iv. Presented a coauthored paper entitled “Institutional Voids and Illegal Mining in South
Africa” at the Academy of International Business Northeast Regional Conference.
v. Presented a coauthored paper entitled “Multi-Latinas’ Leadership Role in Corporate Social
Responsibility and Sustainability Efforts in Latin America” at the World Marketing
Congress – Academy of Marketing Science.
Vail, Maria
i. Served as script consultant for “Ghost Supper” at the River to River Festival and the NY
Theater Workshop.
ii. Directed the production of “Servant of Two Masters” at Vassar College, NY.
Vandergaw, Terra
i. Instructed students at a mask and clown workshop at the Green Meadow Waldorf School in
Chestnut Ridge, NY.
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ii. Producer for the performance of “Preuve D’Amour” at Dixon Place in NYC. Awarded
Ramapo Foundation grant to offer a “Preuve d’Amour” evening (2/27/15) of theater, dance
and music featuring Argentine theatre artist and Fulbright scholar-in-residence Rafael
Bianciotto, Zefiro Theatre from Paris, tango artist Sandra Antognazzi, and acclaimed
musician, Oscar Feldman and his band.
iii. Directed and produced the “Shakespeare Day” events at Ramapo College, sponsored by the
Salameno Center for British Studies. April 23, 2013.
Vasishth, Ashwani
i. Served as researcher and climate-change activist on United Nation's committees as follows:
 Organized a panel on the "Peoples’ Sustainability Treaties and the Sustainable
Development Goals (SDGs)" at the 65th Annual United Nations DPI/NGO Conference
(Aug. 27-29, 2014) , presented a paper and moderated the panel
 Organized a side event at the UN Conference that focused on the potential role of the
Peoples Sustainability Treaties (PSTs) in structuring an implementation strategy.
 Participated in UN Stakeholder sessions in the efforts of Civil Society Organizations
(CSOs) to shape the Targets and Indicators for implementing the Sustainable
Development Goals Process.
 Presented a Position Paper at the Focus session on the Secretary-General’s Synthesis
Report on the Proposed Sustainable Development Goals. at the UN Stakeholder
Preparatory Forum for the Post-2015 Development Agenda Negotiations (1/16/15).
 Presented a Concept Paper titled: “Living In Harmony with Nature: An Ecosystem
Approach” at the UN Interactive Dialogue of the General Assembly on Harmony with
Nature to Commemorate International Mother Earth Day (4/27/15).
ii. Co-Organized a 2015 Environmental Studies Alumni Event at Ramapo.
iii. Designed, organized and presented a coherent "Certificate in Urban Sustainability" program
for Sustainable Jersey City, a collaborative network of organizations and individuals
committed to developing sustainability skills in Jersey City.
iv. Organized a debate proposition: “Is GMO Technology a Solution to World Hunger—Or
Does It Pose a Threat To Our Global Food Supply?” at Montclair State University.
v. Organized meetings with Dr. Mitchell Thomashow, a consultant on campus sustainability,
for the Ramapo Campus Sustainability Convergence event (4/22/15).
vi. Organized student participation and bus transportation for a 360.org event called the
"People’s Climate March" in New York City.
vii. Organized the “America Recycles Day” Film Screening of the movie "Trashed", followed
by a panel discussion.
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viii. Participated in the Second Nature Summit On Campus Sustainability in Boston, MA, and
presented Ramapo College as a signatory of the American College and University
Presidents Climate Commitment (ACUPCC).
ix. Presented a module within the "Healthy and Sustainable Living" MOOC organized by Dr.
Michael Edelstein.
x. Published an article entitled “Reconceptualizing Systemic Change Using An Ecosystem
Approach from Process-Function Ecology” in the Spanda Journal, Vol. 1, January 2015.
xi. Served as a judge for the Environmental Problem of the Interdisciplinary Contest in
Modeling (ICM) 2015, and helped formulate the problem and assess entries.
xii. Served as an expert on Green Infrastructure with the NJ Future Urban Water Group.
xiii. Served on the Together North Jersey (TNJ) Standing Committee for Livability and the
Environment, helping shape a Sustainability Plan for Northern New Jersey.
Vengerov, Alexander
Published an article entitled “SCHMOOC Form of MOOC Organization” in the
International Journal of The World Association for Case Method Research & Application
(June 2014).
Vides, Marta
Provided editing for a textbook (and companion website) entitled “Social Welfare Policy for
a Sustainable Future, The US in a Global Context,” Van Wormer & Link (eds.), Sage
Publications, https://study.sagepub.com/vanwormer, (2015).
Vigna, Anthony
Presented a paper entitled “Does a Trust Have Standing in a Foreclosure Action” at the
European Accounting Association Annual Meeting.
Wada, Warner
i. Implemented a gallery installation called “the Piero/Leonardo Project: Recent Work by Jay
Wholley” at the Berrie Center Galleries in February 2015 which included a wide variety of
artwork that Professor Wholley produced with faculty, students, and professional artists
during his 44 years of teaching at Ramapo. Also produced a Ramapo catalog publication of
the “Piero/Leonardo Project: Recent Work by Jay Wholley” exhibition in April 2015.
ii. Installed a permanent exhibition of 12 large (22”x30”) archival ink jet prints of the historic
Le Corbusier’s ATMA (Ahmedabad Textile Millowners Association) building in
Ahmedabad, India during 1954. The research trip was made possible with the support of Mr.
Abhinava Shukla, Secretary General of ATMA and a SCA faculty travel grant in January
2015.
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Warner, Leah
Presented a research poster at the Eastern Psychological Association conference in
Philadelphia, PA, December 2014. The research was done in collaboration with six students
who each learned how to conduct social psychological research and how to ethically and
effectively collect data using human participants.
Weiss, Jillian
i. Gave presentations at Cornell University Johnson School of Business (2015); Lawline CLE
(2015); National LGBT Bar Association (2014); Transgender Law Institute (2014); National
Employment Lawyers’ Association, New York Regional Association (2014); Pennsylvania
Bar Institute (2014).
ii. Published a paper entitled “Protecting Transgender Students: Application of Title IX to
Gender Identity or Expression and the Constitutional Right To Gender Autonomy” in the
Wisconsin Journal of Law and Gender 13, 331-367.
iii. Served as Chair of the Transgender Law Institute, held at National LGBT Bar Association.
Weiner, Eric
i. Gave the keynote lecture entitled “The health of our forest trees” at the New York – New
Jersey Trail Conference 2014 Summer Meeting, RCNJ, Mahwah, NJ
ii. Presented research posters entitled “Species Composition and Size of Trees Toppled by
Severe Storms in an Upland Forest,” coauthored with A. Solimine and A. Assante, and
“Tree Mortality in Two Floodplain Forests of the Ramapo River: the Impact of Severe
Storms,” coauthored with Scherm, A. Gubitosi, S. Bauer, and A. Lilien, at the Ramapo TAS
Student Research Symposium in April 2015.
iii. Presented a research poster entitled “Spatial Distribution of American Chestnut Seedlings
and Saplings in a Forest Tract Along the Highest Ridge of the New Jersey Highlands,”
coauthored with D. Bara, at the 2015 Conference of the Ecological Society of America’s
Mid-Atlantic Elizabethtown College, Elizabethtown, PA. It was awarded second prize for
most outstanding undergrad research poster. Also presented at RCNJ TAS Student Research
Symposium and RCNJ Scholar’s Day.
iv. Presented a research poster entitled “The Ramapo Mountains as a Potential Lookout for Fall
Raptor Migration,” coauthored with K. Scherm, A. Assante, and D. Rosana, at the 2015
Conference of the Ecological Society of America’s Mid-Atlantic Chapter, Elizabethtown
College, Elizabethtown, PA. Also presented at RCNJ TAS Student Research Symposium.
v. Gave an oral presentation entitled “Severe Weather and Tree Mortality in Two Mixed
Hardwood Forests of the New Jersey Highlands,” coauthored with B. Wlodawski, at the
2015 Conference of the Ecological Society of America’s Mid-Atlantic Chapter,
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Elizabethtown College, Elizabethtown, PA. Also presented at RCNJ TAS Student Research
Symposium.
Williams, Lisa
i. Published a poem entitled “At Fourteen” in the Gargoyle Poetry Journal, 2015.
ii. Published a poem entitled “Blue Years” in the Pirene Fountain Journal, Online, December
2014.
iii. Published a poem entitled “When you Were Wild” in the Mom Egg Review, May 2015.
iv. Served as a peer reviewer of “Article on Morrison, Faulkner, & Woolf” published in the
African American Review.
v. Published a poetry chapbook entitled “Sky Studies,” Finishing Line Press, Fall 2014.
vi. Published a poetry chapbook entitled “The Eighth Phrase,” Porkbelly Press, October 2014.
Woodley, James
Published an article entitled “How the Alliance Pie is Split: Value Appropriation by Each
Partner in Cross-Border Technology Transfer Alliances” in the Journal of World Business,
vol. 50, issue 3, pages 535-547. (2015).
Wu, Xiaoyu
Presented a paper entitled “Immigrants Financing Immigrants: A Case Study of a ChineseAmerican Rotating Savings and Credit Association in Queens” at the 2014 New York State
Economic Association Annual Conference.
Xu, Yan
Published a research article entitled “Photosynthesis, vegetative habit and culinary
properties of sage (Salvia officinalis) in response to low-light conditions,” co-authored with
Christine Mapes, in the Canadian Journal of Plant Science 94: 881-889 (July 2014).
Yaghmaian, Behzad
i. Published an opinion entitled “How Sanctions and the Arab Spring Helped Iran,” in
Aljazeera.com, March 30, 2015.
ii. Submitted an opinion entitled “Migrant Death in the Mediterranean: Learning from Failed
Policies and Saving Lives” to be published in Foreign Affairs (currently under
consideration).
iii. Published an opinion entitled “What Greece’s New Government Mean for Migration Policy”
in The Press Project, January 30, 2015.
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iv. Gave television interviews entitled “Deadline Looms for Iran Nuclear Deal” and “Iran’s
Economy in the Spotlight” on CNN on November 18 & 24, 2014.
v. Gave a television interview entitled “On Europe’s Migration Crisis” on Dish TV, Uprising
with Sonali, April 21, 2015.
vi. Gave a radio interview entitled “Migration Crisis in the European Union” on Wisconsin
Public radio (NPR), April 23, 2015.
vii. Published an opinion entitled “Sanctions Relief is the Critical Prize for Iran in Nuclear
Agreement with the West” in Global Post.com, March 8, 2015.
Yeaton, Kathryn
Published an article entitled “A New World of Revenue Recognition: The FASB and IASB
Converge” in the CPA Journal (2015).
Zeno, Kathryn
i. Presented a paper entitled “Experiential Learning: An assessment of Impact and
Engagement in the Marketing Curriculum using Kolb's Learning Styles” at the Marketing
Educators Association.
ii. Presented a paper entitled “Institutional Voids and Illegal Mining in South Africa” at the
Academy of International Business Northeast Regional Conference.
iii. Gave a presentation about “Enhancing Cultural Competence through Academic and Clinical
Experiences” at the 19th Annual Nursing Research and Evidence-Based Practice
Conference, NYU Langone Medical Center, New York, N.Y.. June 10, 2015.
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I. Major Capital Projects in Fiscal Year 2015
FACILITIES PROJECTS, FY 2015
Under Construction
Library Fourth Floor -- Renovate Space for Archives
Academic Buildings and Student Center -- Installation of Interior Room/Wayfinding Signage
Adler Center for Nursing Excellence
Sports & Recreation Center -- Installation of New Boilers
Phase III Academic Building (Wing G) -- Renovations, First and Second Floors
Upcoming Projects
5-Megawatt Photovoltaic System -- Parking Lot Canopies, Ground-Mount, and Roof-Mounted Solar Panels
Student Center Food Servery Alterations and Expansion
Phase I Academic Building Core Restrooms/ Ceiling/Lighting Renovations/Door Replacement
Main Administrative Building (Mansion) -- Replacement of Entry Steps and Ramp
Phase I & II Housing (College Park Apartments) -- Interior Renovations, Laundry Room Exterior Renovations, Site Upgrade
Conversion of Stone Carriage House Into a College Commons
Athletic Field Site Lighting
Campuswide Fiber Infrastructure Upgrade
Phase II Academic Building (H-Wing) -- New Sound Studio
Construction Documents Record Retention and Retrieval System
Campuswide Fire Alarm Monitoring and Network Upgrade
Central Heating and Cooling Plant -- Chiller Replacement
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