A CELEBRATION OF OUR PAST YEAR’S ACHIEVEMENTS

ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR DESSIE STAFFORD
 Took Advanced Accounting Students to a MSCPA Career Advancement Forum
 Assessment Advisory Board
 Attended the Missouri Society of CPA’s
2011 Spring Committee Day
 Attended the Missouri Society of CPA’s
Members’ Convention

ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR DESSIE STAFFORD
 Co-Chair Criterion #1 Self Study
 Earned CPE on State of the Profession,
Federal Regulatory Update, Ethics,
Roundtables, Financial Leadership & State of the Economy
 Attended 19 th Annual Estate & Charitable
Gift Planning Institute

ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR
DESSIE STAFFORD
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Attended the New CPA Recognition Luncheon sponsored by Missouri Society of CPA’s at the Mizzou
Arena
Attended the 2011 Missouri Business/Farm Income Tax
School
 Attended the Missouri Association of Accounting
Educators
 Attended an online Ethics Web Seminar

ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR
DESSIE STAFFORD
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Other continuing education, including Managing
Lean Operations, Cases in Not-for-Profit Accounting
& Auditing: Financial Statement Requirements plus
Net Asset Classifications, The Power of Professional
Communication: Techniques for Giving Presentations
Satisfactory Academic Progress Appeals Committee
Completed MT101: Moodle Basics with
Learning House

ASSISTANT PROFESSOR
VALERIE WEDEL
 Assistant Director of the Morris Gallery of Contemporary Art
 Organized an art department field trip to the Crystal
Bridges Museum in Arkansas
 MVC Film Festival
 Recruiting prospective art students

ASSISTANT PROFESSOR
VALERIE WEDEL
 Exhibition & Lecture- Shrine to You,
Invitational Solo Video Installation,
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William Woods University, Fulton, MO
Presented Perseverance and Memory: the Late Work of
William A. Berry, MVC Faculty Lecture Series
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The Art of William A. Berry, William Woods University,
Fulton, MO
Installation Art Lecture and Demonstration, CARE Gallery,
Columbia, MO

ASSISTANT PROFESSOR
HAROLD HYNICK
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Faculty Senate President
Acted in 3 productions at the Arrow Rock Lyceum
Theatre: Bobby in Run for you Wife, Treadwell in
Black Coffee, and Mortimer in The Fantasticks
Theatre Summer Day Camp in Improvisation and
Shakespeare
Served as the Missouri State Chair for Kennedy Center
American College Theatre Festival

ASSISTANT PROFESSOR
HAROLD HYNICK
 Served on the Region VI Committee for
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KCACTF
Responded to numerous productions for KCACTF in
Region VI
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Mentor for one of the Regional 10 minute plays at the
Regional Festival
Presented an improvisation workshop at the Missouri
Thespian Festival

ASSISTANT PROFESSOR
HAROLD HYNICK
 Presented 2 workshops at the Region VI
Festival at the University of Oklahoma –
Devised Theatre and Long-Form Improvisation

ASSISTANT PROFESSOR
CHARITY WOODARD
 Co-Chair Criterion #4 Self Study
 Curator of the Vern Nester Student Gallery
 Committee Chairperson and Lead Juror, Art in Motion
 Sponsor of MVC Art Club
 Co-wrote (MAC) Missouri Arts Council Grant

ASSISTANT PROFESSOR
CHARITY WOODARD
 Wrote a new course, Art on Location,
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Took students to New York City
Presenter: “Screen Printing on a Budget”, MAEA
Conference
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Co-Director of the Morris Gallery
Faculty and Staff Art Show
5 Field Trips with students

ASSISTANT PROFESSOR
WAYLON HILER
 Co-author on a short article published in
Herpetological Review
 Invited to give a talk at the Stream Amphibian
Symposium in Vancouver during the World
Herpetology Congress.

ASSISTANT PROFESSOR
WAYLON HILER
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Presentation: “Balancing Conservation and Resource
Development on Public Lands” for the Conservation
Biology Seminar series
Faculty Senate
Primary author on a manuscript accepted for publication in Herpetological Conservation and
Biology

 Coral Group Ecology Class in Belize

 Field Biology class in Monument Valley, Utah

 Stream Amphibian Symposium

ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR WILLIAM WRIGHT
 Faculty representative to MVC
Board of Trustees
 Accepted as an instructor for the
Missouri police Chiefs Association
Command school
 Taught at the Missouri Sheriffs
Academy

ASSISTANT PROFESSOR
DAVID L. ROBERTS
 Delta students received 20 MCMA awards
 Attended the MCMA convention with 2
Students
 Served on Faculty Senate
 Served on Internship Task Force

ASSISTANT PROFESSOR
DAVID L. ROBERTS
 Co-Chair Criterion #5 Self Study
 2011 Convocation speaker
 Delta Online website

 Missouri College Media Association convention in St.
Joseph, Mo.

ASSISTANT PROFESSOR
RACHEL MAYFIELD/
CAMPUS COUNSELOR
 Practicum Director for MACC
 Master of Arts in Community Counseling Committee
 Co-Chair of Criterion #5 Self Study

ASSISTANT PROFESSOR
MICHELE REINKE
 Biology Club Advisor
 Board Member of the Missouri
River Bird Observatory
 Attended the Missouri Academy of
Science Meeting with 2 students

ASSISTANT PROFESSOR
MICHELE REINKE
 Attended the Women in
Agriculture Conference
 Gave scientific presentations at local schools
 Coordinating the lab renovation project going on in the science building

ASSISTANT PROFESSOR
JENNIFER LIVENGOOD
 Sponsor of Psychology Club
 Sponsor Of Universal Equality Alliance

ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR
JOSHUA TETTEH
 Co-Chair of Criterion #2 Self Study
 Contributed as reviewer of the 9 th edition of J. John
Palen’s leading textbook in Urban Sociology, The
Urban World.

ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR TAMARA KING
 The MoVal Cares for Soldiers Project
 Grievance Committee

PROFESSOR DR. LOREN GRUBER
 Satisfactory Academic Progress Committee
 “The Muskie Professor” on KMMO’s
“In the Outdoors with Brad and Brian”
 Creative Writers Conference
 Medieval Academy of America
 Society for the Advancement of Scandinavian Studies

PROFESSOR DR. LOREN GRUBER
 Reviewed the following:
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An early British Literature manuscript for Flat World
Knowledge e-textbook
Samuel Cohen’s 50 Essays: A Portable Anthology, 3 rd edition, for Bedford/St. Martin’s in preparation for a fourth edition, and
Jane E. Aaron’s The Little, Brown Handbook, Brief
Fourth Edition, for Longman

ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR
JAY ROZEMA
 Attended the Speech Theatre Association of Missouri
 Presented 2 workshops at the Missouri Thespians Festival
 Presented 2 workshops at Smith-Cotton High School on lighting
 Responded to schools entered in KC/ACTF

ASSISTANT PROFESSOR
DR. JENNIFER EIMERS
 Advisor of the student literary arts publication The Purple Patch
 Faculty advisor for Sigma Tau Delta, the English Honor
Society
 Wrote a book review for Overtones of Opera in
American Literature from Whitman to Wharton, forthcoming in The Henry James Review

ASSISTANT PROFESSOR
DR. JENNIFER EIMERS
 Honors Program Committee
 Graduate Committee
 Presented a paper on Henry James at the national
American Literature Association Symposium
 Curriculum Committee

ASSISTANT PROFESSOR
DR. JENNIFER EIMERS
 Co-Chair of Criterion #4 Self Study
 Developmental Education Committee
 Published book review of Overtones of Opera in
American Literature from Whitman to Wharton, by
Carmen T. Skaggs. The Henry James Review 33.2
(Spring 2012): 188-90.

 Sigma Tau Delta International Convention

ASSISTANT PROFESSOR
TIFFANY BERGMAN
 Career Planning
 Spring Career Fair
 Our Majors Fair (Choosing Your Path)
 Technology Committee
 Certified Non-Profit Profession
 Missouri Valley College Book Club Member

ASSISTANT PROFESSOR
TIFFANY BERGMAN
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Secretary of Valley Woman
Curriculum Committee
Advising Committee
Dancing with the Faculty/Staff
Faculty Advisor of Theta Phi Alpha
Faculty Advisor of Pi Gamma Mu, Academic
Organization for Social Sciences

ASSISTANT PROFESSOR
TIFFANY BERGMAN
 Alpha Phi Omega, Service Organization
 American Humanics Spring Banquet Presenter
 Alma 4-H Club
 Today’s Woman
 Santa Fe Agri-Leaders

 Art in Motion Committee:
Charity-Mika Woodard
Chad Jaecques
Susan Dittmer

ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR
ALLAN WILSON
 Weekly odonate sampling at Van Meter
State Park
 Take tree leaf samples from a selected
10 mx 10 m plot at Van Meter for estimating herbivory levels at the Park
 Graduate Committee
 Co-Chair Criterion #1 Self Study

PROFESSOR
DR. GERADO M. ACAY
 November 2011, presented a paper in
Association (Midwest) Conference held
St. Louis, Missouri.

PROFESSOR STEPHEN PATTON
 Continued epilepsy research at Ohio
University Department of Chemistry and
Biochemistry
 Submitted a paper on the effects of statins on nitric oxide synthase

 PROFESOR EARL WELLBORN
 Dean of Education
 Attended the Fall Missouri
Association of Colleges for Teacher
Education Conference
 Attended the Missouri Department of Elementary and Secondary
Education Redesign of Leadership Preparation
Programs meeting

 PROFESOR EARL WELLBORN
 Attended a Missouri Department of
Elementary and Secondary Education
Regional meeting
 Attended the Spring Missouri Association of Colleges for Teacher Education Conference
 Attended a Missouri Department of Elementary and
Secondary Education meeting for Deans/Unit Leaders

ASSISTANT PROFESSOR
BEVERLY KATZ
 Face book Page- “Katz Korner”
Created and serviced by a MVC student in Social Media

ASSISTANT PROFESSOR
PAM SEBASTIAN
 Ezekiel's Wheels Project
 Renovated Chapel
 Students for Christ
 Habitat for Humanity
 Organizing Sunday rides to churches
 Accepted to the doctoral program at the University of Dubuque Theological Seminary

ASSISTANT PROFESSOR
DR. SARAH MACDONALD
 Chair of General Education Curriculum Committee
 Presented for science and religion series
 Use of the classroom response system (clickers)

ASSISTANT PROFESSOR
JEFFERY KIMMONS
 Member of Finding My Path
Committee
 MVC Faculty Lecture Series “Life
History Variation of Island Nesting Seabirds in the
Gulf of Maine”

ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR
LARRY STOCKMAN
 Maastricht Institute
 Criterion 3 committee
 Internship Task Force
 Attended a conference last fall sponsored by Academy of Business Research

 BUSINESS DIVISION & DEVELOPMENT OFFICE hosted and sponsored the 6 th Maastricht Institute

ASSISTANT PROFESSOR PEGGY SHERMAN
 MVC Early Childhood Education
Students read to local preschool for the Jumpstart to Read program in
October. (Broke our record)
 Organized a free Children’s Concert on Campus “Mr. Stinky Feet” for the community.

 Assistant Professor Peggy Sherman
 Attended the Young Years Conference at Tan-Tar-A sponsored by DESE with students
 MVC Education students Assisted the local Parent’s As Teacher’s organization with the DIAL screening.
 Early Childhood Education students volunteered at Head Start and at
Parent’s As Teacher’s events.

 ASSISTANT PROFESSOR PEGGY SHERMAN
 Organized the Care Conference held on campus (A conference for parents/ teachers and child care providers of children birth-five)
 The Early Childhood Education Students organized and participated in Mother Goose on the
Loose at the Education Library in April.

ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR
GENE MARKSBURY
 Obtained approval by the
Curriculum Committee of the
GIS minor

ASSISTANT PROFESSOR LINDA GORDON
 Co-Chair Criterion #5 Self Study
 Curriculum Committee
 S-MSTA advisor
 Took the S-MSTA officers to the state meeting in
St. Louis in November
 Primary sponsor for the Scholastic Book Fair, SMART
Board Training
 Attended the MACTE (Mo. Association for Colleges of
Teacher Education)

ASSISTANT PROFESSOR
LINDA GORDON
 WAC Committee
 Organized a Legal Issues Forum
 Promote World Reading Day
 Middle School Program Report writing

ASSISTANT PROFESSOR
MARILYN MILOVICH
 Evidence Document Coordinator
 for the HLC Self Study
Administrator for Valley’s Turn It In.com
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English major’s Senior Thesis Committee
Online Program Student Advisor
Presented a PowerPoint lecture on Antarctic Wildlife and Climate Change in collaboration with Dr. John
Gault

ASSISTANT PROFESSOR
MARILYN MILOVICH
 Obtained a successful grant award from the Missouri Arts Council for a Visual Arts
Gallery at Valley, in collaboration with Charity
Woodard
 Completed professional continuing education on the following topics: a) b)
GradeMark online training by TurnItIn.com
Psychology Symposium Webinars

ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR
ED LESLIE
 Organized and coordinated the 55th anniversary Homecoming
Torch Run
 Hall of Fame Board
 MVC Scholar Committee

ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR
ED LESLIE
 Model A “spirit car” at football games
 Sponsor of the Lamp of
Knowledge Award
 Presented the Outstanding Senior
Woman at the Women’s Hall of Fame Tea

PROFESSOR JOHN GAULT
 Dean of Graduate Studies
 Chair of the Graduate Committee
 Completed Learning House Best Practices online classes
 Our Redeemer Lutheran Church congregation, congregational Executive Director

PROFESSOR JOHN GAULT
 Non-Fiction Book Club
 Host of the weekly Bible Discussion Group
 Congregational Executive Director and Lay Liturgist one Sunday per month

ASSISTANT PROFESSOR
SHAWN TERRYBERRY
 Volunteered with Men’s wrestling team
 Student Senate Faculty of the Year

ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR
SUSAN DITTMER
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Technology for Classroom Committee
Art in Motion Committee
Speech Association in Missouri
Assisting in a new orientation process for new faculty

INSTRUCTOR
KELLEY MCKAY FUEMMELER
 Developmental Education Committee
 Student Success Committee
 Text reviewer for the Bedford/St. Martin’s company

ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR/ DEAN, SCHOOL OF
NURSING AND HEALTH SCIENCES/ATHLETIC
PROGRAM DIRECTOR DR. KARLA BRUNTZEL
 Successful Athletic Training Program accreditation comprehensive site visit
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Internship Task Force
Graduate Committee
Curriculum Committee

ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR
DR. KARLA BRUNTZEL
 Chair of the College and University Athletic Training
Student Advisory Committee for the State of Missouri
 Liaison for the Student Leadership Committee for the
State of Missouri

PROFESSOR/ CAMPUS SCRIBE
DR. JOHN L. MCLEAN
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Campus Scribe
Presented, “The Bible as Literature” on October 17,
2011, at Missouri Valley College’s annual Science &
Religion Seminar
Attended The Higher Learning Commission’s annual conference
Scholarship Committee of the Marshall Rotary Club

ASSISTANT PROFESSOR
PAM REEDER
Co-Chair of Criterion # 4 Self Study

ASSISTANT PROFESSOR
MILENA SIMIC
 Criterion 4 committee
 Organized the foreign student banner presentation for convocation
 International Advisor
 Faculty Senate
 Faculty advisor for International Club

ASSISTANT PROFESSOR
MILENA SIMIC
 Professional development opportunities with the
Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City: Federal Reserve
Chairman Bernanke Lecture Series
 Participated in several web-training sessions for international education provided by IETS

ASSISTANT PROFESSOR
MILENA SIMIC
 Two-day training for Microsoft Excel
 Led a visit to the Kansas City Federal Reserve Bank
 Served on MIE 6 Planning Committee
 Faculty representative to the Board of Trustees

ASSISTANT PROFESSOR
HARRY CARRELL
 Presenter at the Learning House Conference on On-
Line education
 Chaired the Curriculum Committee
 General Education Committee
 On Line Class Advisory Committee

ASSISTANT PROFESSOR
DR. PETER WARNOCK
 Director of Study Abroad program
 Archaeological research in Arrow Rock
 Sponsor of Pigs & Yams Society
 Took students on a number of field trips to museums,
MU research reactor, archaeological sites, and KC zoo
 Worked with People to People, International and the
Marshall-Saline Development Corporation

ASSISTANT PROFESSOR
DR. PETER WARNOCK
 Working with materials from Tel Halif, Israel, part of the Lahav Research Project, and Emory University
 Working with Missouri State University on the
Northern Jordan Project

ASSISTANT PROFESSOR
CYNTHIA ADAMS
 Honors Committee
 Student Appeals Board
 Sponsor of Criminal Justice Organization, LAE

ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR
DIANA MALAN
 2011 Alumni of the Year
 Chair of the Division of Fine Arts
 Concert Choir participated with the Habitat for
Humanity fundraiser
 Performance tours to Chillicothe, Concordia, Jefferson
City
 Show Choir traveled to Marceline, MO for a fundraiser
 Disneyworld Performance tour

ASSISTANT PROFESSOR
HEATHER TROTH
 Cohan Grant Recipient to develop rubrics to measure learning outcomes for nonprofit students at colleges throughout the country
 Presented at the Nonprofit Leadership Alliance
Management Institute

ASSISTANT PROFESSOR
HEATHER TROTH
 Presented for Kennesaw State University Nonprofit
Management Symposium- “Risk Management in
Nonprofit Settings”
 Vice-president on the Board of Directors for D.I.G.S. a teen homeless Shelter in Marshall

ASSISTANT PROFESSOR
HEATHER TROTH
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Presented at Association of Nonprofit Educators
Conference on Assessing Learning Outcomes in the
Areas of Governance and Legal and Ethical Decision
Making
National Planning Team for the American Humanics
Management Institute
Host Committee for the American Humanics
Management Institute

ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR
WENDY LESLIE
 Faculty Senate
 Campus Safety & Security Committee
 Academic Scholar Awards Banquet
Committee

ASSISTANT PROFESSOR
GARRY ANDERS
 Vice-President of Missouri
Music Educators

ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR
WADE HUGHES
 Attended S.T.A.M. and presented 2 workshops
 Attended Missouri Thespian Conference
 Fight Director For State Fair CC production of “Noises
Off”
 Presented workshops to 10 different High Schools on
Stage Combat and Improvisation

ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR
WADE HUGHES
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Served on the “Technologies Committee” also “Core
Committee”
Region IV respondent
 Has written a play “Zombies from Uranus” that he will be producing this Spring in the MET. It is a social satire on bigotry.

ASSISTANT PROFESSOR
JANIE ROSS
Attended the Vaganova Ballet Teacher Training Program

 Dance Students at American College Dance Festival

 Dance students at Cottey College

 Trip to Disney Land

ASSISTANT PROFESSOR
VLADIMIR SIMIC
 Established a great connection with
ConAgra Foods, Marshall
 Mid-America Energy
 Malta Bend and Cargill Meat Solutions, Marshall and their management teams

ASSISTANT PROFESSOR
VLADIMIR SIMIC
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Successful class trips to all 3 plants as a part of the experiential learning exercise
Men’s varsity soccer team
2 academic All-American recipients
3 All-American Athletes

ASSISTANT PROFESSOR
MARILYN AHRENS
 Served on Criterion
1 committee
 Chair of the sub committee for the MVC Service to
Public
 Presenter at the Missouri Council of Teachers of
Mathematics conference in December of 2011 in
Columbia, MO. The title of my presentation was “The
Beauty of Math.”

ASSISTANT PROFESSOR
TONYA EDDY
 Working on PhD
 Established an external advisory board for the nursing program

ADMINISTRATIVE ASSISTANT TO THE CHIEF
ACADMIC OFFICER SHARON HOEFLICKER
 Keeping it all together!!