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Katherine A. Rhoades
Women's Studies
Brewer 55
University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire
Phone 715.836.5717
Email rhoadeka@uwec.edu
Website http://people.uwec.edu/rhoadeka
Ph.D., University of Wisconsin-Madison, Department of Educational Policy Studies, 1996
Distributed minor: Anthropology and Women's Studies
Dissertation: Women’s Studies Students and the Politics of Empowerment: A Qualitative Study
Honors: Matthew H. Willing Outstanding Dissertation Award, Department of Educational Policy Studies, 1995
Mary Washburn Willets Award for Excellence in Social Science Research, UW-Madison Women’s Studies Program, 1994
School of Education Dean’s Club Research Award, UW-Madison School of Education, 1993
M.A., University of Wisconsin-Madison, Department of Educational Policy Studies, 1991
Thesis: Cultural Borderlands and Educational Frontiers: Hmong Students in Two North American High Schools
M.E.P.D., University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point, Department of Education, 1979
Major: Education Concentration: Psychology
B.S.N., University of Nebraska, 1964
Major: Nursing Honor: Outstanding graduate, College of Nursing
Interium Coordinator, Women's Studies, College of Arts and Sciences, August 2008-present
Founding Dean Emerita, College of Education and Human Sciences, August 2007-present
Dean, College of Education and Human Sciences, August 2004-August 2007
Successfully organized, represented, and presided over faculty and academic staff in six departments in the college; provided visionary leadership within the college, university, and broader community; maintained academic and accreditation standards within the college; promoted professional development, research, and other scholarly and creative activities; led the development, evaluation, and administration of the activities of the college faculty, staff and academic programs including curriculum, instruction, advising and scholarship; promoted and supported international and other collaborative initiatives; developed and administered the college budget; and, sought gift and grant support for the college.
Associate Dean, School of Education, July 2003-August 2004
Interim Associate Dean, School of Education, July 2002-July 2003
Provided administrative and academic leadership to the School of Education including coordinating the Department of Public Instruction program review; strengthening partnerships with area PK-12 schools and CESAs; linking the school to the University Capital Campaign; developing and implementing a Center of Excellence for Collaborative Leadership in Education; promoting excellence in teaching, scholarship, professional development, service and advising; assessing graduate programs; and, working collaboratively with Arts and Sciences faculty to align content areas and document assessment.
Grant Development Specialist, August 1998-July 1999
Collaboratively initiated, developed, and wrote grants with faculty in the School of Education and the College of Arts and Sciences in partnership with teachers and administrators in area schools and CESAs. All grants submitted--including two major Eisenhower grants, one in language arts and one in social studies, received funding.
Director, University of Wisconsin System Women's Studies Annual Conference, "Speaking Out: Women, Poverty, and Public Policy," July 1998-June 1999
Coordinated all conference activities including writing grants totaling $10,000. Organized and collaboratively led a state-wide planning board, procured nationally known speakers, coordinated the review of presentation proposals, implemented a 3-day conference for 250 registrants from across the nation and globe, and served as the first editor for an anthology of selected conference papers.
Director, Women in Transition, July 1996-June 1997
Collaboratively led a Women's Studies Bremer foundation grant to increase economic self-sufficiency among low-income families through participation in post-secondary education. Raised $10,000 for single-parent scholarships, reinvigorated and advised the Single Parent Student Group, participated in a state-wide research project by gathering regional survey data about area families on welfare, and organized and led a University/Community Task Force that included members from the poverty community.
Research Assistant
Collaborated with Professor Dale Bauer, University of Wisconsin-Madison Women’s Studies’ Research Center Director, to plan, organize, market, and implement state- wide activities for a Ford Foundation grant to internationalize the curriculum, 1995-1996
Research and Project Assistant
Participated collaboratively with Professor Mary Metz, Educational Policy Studies, Spencer Foundation Faculty/Student Research Mentoring Program, 1994-1996
Worked collaboratively on a Zora Neale Hurston research project with Professor Nellie Y. McKay, Chair, Afro-American Studies, and as a research assistant to Professor Stacey Lee, Educational Policy Studies, 1990-1993
Assisted University of Wisconsin-Madison Chancellor Donna E. Shalala to develop a graduate-level political science course during the semester prior to her becoming the U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services, 1992
Served as the UW Centers’ Chancellor’s liaison to the UW Centers Senate Grants Committee, working collaboratively with faculty and staff at the 13 UW College campuses throughout the state, 1989
Director, University Relations and Continuing Education, 1986-1989
Developed a campus-wide Strategic Marketing Plan that became a model for other UW System Center campuses. In addition to continuing education activities described below, collaboratively created all campus publications, supervised personnel in two units, managed two budgets, and coordinated public relations within the community, campus, and UW System. Served as a spokesperson for the university and as a member of the 6-person campus Administrative Leadership Team.
Director, Continuing Education, 1982-1986
Working with faculty, community members, members of other educational institutions, and advisory boards, collaboratively initiated, planned, implemented, and assessed an array of credit and non-credit continuing education opportunities in the liberal arts. Received a national award from the American Association of Continuing Education for a Women's Leadership Series and a UW Extension Chancellor's Award of Excellence for a "College of the Emeriti" program that involved over 250 community members aged 55 and over in an ongoing liberal arts' program on campus. Collaboratively worked with faculty and co-led international credit liberal arts' study tours to England, Germany, Austria, and Africa. Coordinated additional courses in Mexico, Spain, and Peru and directed the London Semester Abroad program.
Chair, Mayor's Commission on the Status of Women, 1986-1989
As the Mayor's appointee to this volunteer position, collaboratively led a 20- member citizen advisory group, coordinated a county wide study on the Status of Women, and implemented the subsequent publication of the findings. Served as the Commission's spokesperson to the media and the City Council and as a citizen member of the Inter-governmental Affirmative Action Committee.
Team leader, Psychiatric/Mental Health Nursing, Associate Degree Nursing Program, 1973-1980
Chaired the Psychiatric/Mental Health Nursing component in a two-year Associate Degree Nursing program. Developed and taught sequential curriculum, wrote a learning outcome based textbook and produced multi-media instructional materials, organized and supervised students' clinical experiences, and collaboratively led and supervised the team of instructors. Served on the program's Curriculum Committee and collaboratively developed the program's conceptual framework and assessment system.
Visiting Professor, Education and Women’s Studies, fall semester, 2007
Professor Emerita, Foundations of Education and Women's Studies, May 2007-present
Courses taught:
WMNS 490 Conflicts in Feminism: Feminist Theories and Practices
WMNS 496 Capstone Course
Professor, Foundations of Education and Honors Program, May 2007
Courses taught:
WMNS HNRS 301 Power, Privilege and Inequality: Race, Class and Gender in the U.S.
Associate Professor, Foundations of Education and Honors Program, August 2002-present
Tenure awarded August 2003
Assistant Professor, Foundations of Education and Honors Program, August 1999-2002
Courses taught:
Directed Independent Studies, undergraduate and graduate
FED 490/690 Historical, Legal, and Philosophical Foundations of Education
FED 385/585 Social Foundations of Education: Human Relations
FED385/585 Special Winterim sections focusing on urban education experiences
FED Directed Study, American Indians in Wisconsin
HNRS 303 Power, Privilege, and Inequality: Race, Class, and Gender in the U.S.
FED 495/695 Hmong in the United States: Cultural Transitions and Educational Frontiers
CI 492 Ensuring Success for all Learners, Professional Teaching Seminar
CI 495 Diversity and Education, co-developed and co-taught with C. Gray-Mash & B. McCarty for the Title IX program designed to certify American Indian teachers
Lecturer, Foundations of Education, August 1998-1999
Courses taught:
FED490/690 Historical, Legal, and Philosophical Foundations of Education
FED385/585 Social Foundations of Education: Human Relations
Lecturer, Women’s Studies, September 1996-August 1998
Courses taught:
Directed Independent Studies, undergraduate
WMNS 100 Introduction to Women's Studies in the United States
WMNS 301 Examining Women's Studies in the United States
WMNS 480 Women and Poverty in the United States
WMNS 480 Women as Leaders
WMNS 480 Issues in Feminist Theories
Associate Lecturer, Educational Policy Studies, summer 1995
Course taught:
EPS 350/550 Education and Sex Role Socialization
Teaching Assistant, Women’s Studies, fall/spring 1991-92, fall 1993
Course taught:
WMNS 102 Women and Their Bodies in Health and Disease
Instructor, Departments of Health Occupations and General Education, 1973-81
Courses taught:
Psychodynamics of Human Behavior
Clinical Skills in Psychiatric/Mental Health
Systems Approach to Medical/Surgical Nursing
Sociology of Work
Abnormal Psychology
Teacher, English as a Second Language, 1968-70
Courses taught:
Conversational English
Clinical Instructor, College of Nursing, 1965-68
Courses taught:
Clinical Approaches to Psychiatric/Mental Health and Medical/Surgical Nursing
Feminist Mentor Award, UW-Eau Claire, 2009
Alumni Achievement Award, School of Education, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2007
Distinguished Service Award, UW-Eau Claire Office of Multicultural Affairs, fall 2006
Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction Superintendent's Service-Learning Award, fall 2004
Best Practice Award for Service-Learning in Teacher Education, American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education [primary proposal writer], winter 2004
Distinguished Alumna Award, Lincolin Southeast High School, Lincolin, NE, spring 2004
Wisconsin Teaching Fellow, 2002
"Professor of the Year," award, Future Teacher's Club and Kappa Delta Pi, spring 2000
UW Extension Chancellor's Award for Excellence, 1988
National University Continuing Education Association, Creative Programming Award, 1988
Business and Professional Women's "Woman of the Year" Award, 1987
Questioning Collaboration in Feminist Research: A Women and Poverty Research Model Reconsidered. Forum on Public Policy Online: A Journal of the Oxford Round Table, Summer 2007
Gender and Self-Esteem: Narrative and Efficacy in the Negotiations of Structural Factors. Invited chapter with A. Statham in Extending Self-Esteem Theory and Research, N. Goodman, T. Owens, & S. Stryker, Eds., Cambridge University Press, Paperback Edition, 2006
Can less be more? : Historical and Empirical Perspectives on the Wisconsin Human Relations Code with J. Prushiek. Wisconsin Human Relations Journal, winter 2005
Who Cares?: A Tale of Two “Good Daughters” with S. W. Jacobson. On Campus With Women, online journal, Association of American Colleges and Universities. Volume 33, Number 2, http:www.aacu.org/ocww/volume33_2/fromwhereisit.cfm?section=3, winter 2004
Women, Poverty, and Public Policy: A Community-based model for Collaborative Outreach Scholarship with M.K. Schleiter and A. Statham. Journal of Higher Education Outreach and Engagement, Volume 9, Number 1, pp. 11-24, fall 2003/winter 2004
Women’s Studies and the Women and Poverty Public Education Initiative. Invited chapter with A. Statham and M.K. Schleiter, Teaching Feminist Activism: Strategies from the Field. N. A. Naples & K.Bojar, Eds., Routledge, summer 2002
Building Local Partnerships and Working State-wide on Welfare Reform in Wisconsin, USA with M.K. Schleiter & A. Statham. Conference Abstracts. International Sociology Association XV World Congress of Sociology conference, The Social World of the Twenty-first Century: Ambivalent Legacies, Rising Challenges, Brisbane, Australia, summer 2002
Resistance and Transformation Among Women Impacted by Welfare Reform in Wisconsin, USA. with M.K. Schleiter & A. Statham. Conference Abstracts. International Sociology Association XV World Congress of Sociology conference, The Social World of the Twenty-first Century: Ambivalent Legacies, Rising Challenges, Brisbane, Australia, summer 2002
Poking and Prying with a Purpose: Student Engagement. Conference Abstracts, Institute on Race and Ethnicity, UW System, http:www.uwm.edu/Dept/IRE/Events/Confe…calConnections /Abstract/rhoades4f4.html, spring 2002
Participatory Qualitative Research on Women Affected by Wisconsin’s Welfare Reform with A. Statham, M.K. Schleiter, and D. Turner. Conference Proceedings, The Status of Women: Facing the Facts, Forging the Future. Institute for Women's Policy Research. Washington, D.C., 2001
Gender and Self-Esteem: Narrative and Efficacy in the Negotiations of Structural Factors. Invited chapter with A. Statham in Extending Self-Esteem Theory and Research, N. Goodman, T. Owens, & S. Stryker, Eds., Cambridge University Press, 2001
Collaboration and Collaborative Research. In L. Code, Ed., Routledge Encyclopedia of Feminist Theories, Routledge, summer 2000
Border Zones: Identification, Resistance, and Transgressive Teaching. In C. DiPalma and B. Winkler, Eds., Teaching Introductory Women’s Studies: Expectations and Strategies, Greenwood Press, 1999
Building Academic/Community Partnerships, with A. Statham. Feminist Connections: A Quarterly of Women’s Studies Resources, spring 1999
In, Out, and On the Edge: Early Reactions to Wisconsin's Welfare Reform with UW-EC undergraduate students, M. Lauhead and K. Thao. Conference Proceedings, Institute for Women's Policy Research and George Washington University's Women's Studies Program, Women's Policy Research Conference, summer 1999
Meanings and Metaphors of Student Resistance, with Dale M. Bauer. In V. Clark, S. Garner, & C. Kartrak, Eds. Anti-Feminism in the Academy, Routledge, 1996
Confessions of a Collaborator: Reciprocal Meaning-Making in Fieldwork. Conference proceedings, Qualitative Research in Education annual conference, University of Georgia, 1994
Other Publications and Research Reports
It’s All About People: Case Studies in Higher Education Leadership. D. Hopkins, S. Lovell, S. Bowman Damico, eds. Contributed case studies and served as a case-study respondent, American Association of Colleges of Teacher Education (AACTE), 2007
Revisiting the Memory House. In N.C. Scobie & J. Bredeson, Eds. Poeticus Grandma-ticus, Chippewa Valley Cultural Association, forthcoming 2006
Elvis lives: A Memoir. In N.C. Scobie & J. Bredeson, Eds. Poeticus Grandma-ticus, Chippewa Valley Cultural Association, 2005
A Series of Third Year Reports: A Collaborative Research Study Comparing the Preparation of Teachers at Fukushima University, Japan and UW-EC, U.S. published in Japan with W. Dunlap, B. Hollon, S. McIntyre, & J.T. Stephens, winter 2002
Women, Poverty, and Public Policy, lead editor with co-editor A. Statham, an anthology of essays published by the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Office of the Women’s Studies Librarian, fall 1999 and on-line, spring 2000
The UW-EC School of Education Advising Study, December 1999
The Impact of Wisconsin's Welfare Reforms on Low-wage Workers and Current and Former Welfare Recipients' Chances to Escape Poverty with A. Statham, et.al. Overview of Current Research on Wisconsin Works (W-2), Institute for Wisconsin's Future, Volume 2, July 1999
In Their Own Words: Women’s Responses to W-2, with A. Statham and L. Wittmann. Women and Poverty Public Education Initiative Research Executive Report, UW System Women's Studies Consortium, fall 1997
ConflictResolution. Invited faculty. Department Chairs’ Leadership Institute, American Association of Colleges of Teacher Education. San Antonio, Texas, spring 2008.
Collaborating for change: Women, Poverty, and Public Policy. Invited presentation. Oxford Women’s Leadership Round Table, Oxford University, England, summer 2007
It takes more than a village: Integrating Service-Learning into Teacher Education. Proposal accepted for the first annual International Service Learning in Teacher Education meeting, sponsored by Clemson University in Brussels, Belgium, summer 2007
Conflict Resolution. Invited faculty. Department Chairs’ Leadership Institute, American Association of Colleges of Teacher Education. San Juan, Puerto Rico, spring 2007.
Power, Privilege, and Place: Improving Strategies to Serve Diverse Learners with Critical Place-based Pedagogy with R. Tlusty. Annual conference of the American Association of Colleges of Teacher Education, New York City, winter 2007
Exploring Landscapes of Memory: Critical Mapping of Place and Family History as Foundations for Social Justice with R. Tlusty. Annual conference of the American Educational Research Association, San Francisco, spring 2006
Collaborative Leadership as a Conceptual Framework Model. Panel organizer and presenter with M. Kolis, S. Mc Intyre, J. T. Stephens, R. Tlusty. American Association of Colleges of Teacher Education annual conference, Washington, D.C., winter 2005
Advancing Feminism through Collaborative Research. Panel presentation with T.Reinders, A.Statham. J. Lorber, Panel organizer and Chair. Women’s World 2005: 9th International Interdisciplinary Congress on Women, Ewha University, Seoul, Korea, summer 2005
Engagement, Empathy and Endorsement: Exploring Teachers’ Constructions of Identity, Privilege and Multicultural Understanding in the Post-Brown Era. Panel organizer and presenter with D. Fry and T.Lindsey. National Association of Multicultural Education annual conference, Kansas City, Kansas, fall 2004
Teacher Hiring and Assessment Processes in Japan and the United States: Collaborative Activities and What We Can Learn from Each Other. Panel presentation with T. Asaka, M. Clark (Chair), S. Mc Intyre, T. Mori, J. T. Stephens, M. Suzuki, JUSTEC annual conference, Tokyo, Japan, fall 2004
Collaborative Scholarship with Wisconsin’s Poverty Community. Outreach Scholarship Conference, co-sponsored by Ohio State University, Penn State University, and UW Extension, Madison, WI, fall 2003
Higher Education Case Study Presentation. Women in the Deanship Conference, Denver, CO, July 2003.
Invited interviewee, Multicultural Education, a 30-minute interview for a Culture and Intellect series on community-access television, hosted by Dr. Patricia A. Dingle, Bowie, MA, winter 2002
Another Look at Innocence: Making Peace, Promoting Change. Paper presented at the National Association for Multicultural Education annual conference, Washington, D.C. fall 2002
A Comparative Study of Student Teaching in the U.S. and Japan at the Dawn of Educational Reforms: Results from a 3-year Cooperative Research Project between Fukushima University and UW-Eau Claire. Paper presented with B. Hollon, S. McIntyre, & J.T. Stephens, JUSTEC annual conference, Narita, Japan, fall 2002
Resistance and Transformation Among Women Impacted by Welfare Reform in Wisconsin, USA. with M.K. Schleiter & A. Statham. Paper presented at the International Sociology Association XV World Congress of Sociology conference, The Social World of the Twenty-first Century: Ambivalent Legacies, Rising Challenges, Brisbane, Australia, summer 2002
Building Local Partnerships and Working State-wide on Welfare Reform in Wisconsin, USA with M.K. Schleiter & A. Statham. Paper presented at the International Sociology Association XV World Congress of Sociology conference, The Social World of the Twenty-first Century: Ambivalent Legacies, Rising Challenges, Brisbane, Australia, summer 2002
Embarrassed Silences: Interrogating Identification in Educational Praxis. Paper presented at the American Education Research Association annual conference, New Orleans, LA, spring 2002
Invited panelist, Asian American Identity: A Panel Discussion of Imperative Issues in Hmong Education, Asian American SIG, American Education Research Association annual conference, spring 2002
Rethinking Multicultural Field Experience: State Regulations, Student Reflections, and Advocacy for Diversity. Paper presented with J. Prushiek, Association of Teacher Educators annual conference, New Orleans, LA, winter 2001
Pedagogical Landscapes: Exploring the Familiar in Unfamiliar Ways. Paper presented at the National Association for Multicultural Education annual conference, Las Vegas, NV fall 2001
The Interactionist Implications of Democratic Policy Making, with M.K. Schleiter and A. Statham. Paper presented at the Society for Social and Symbolic Interactionism annual conference, Anaheim, CA, summer 2001
The Consequences of Welfare Reform Through the Lens of Research Incorporating The Collaboration of Members of Poverty Communities. Paper presented at a Roundtable Presentation with M.K. Schleiter and A. Statham at the American Sociological Association annual conference, Anaheim, CA, summer 2001
Collaborative Research and Policy Making as a Path to Social Justice. Paper presented with M.K. Schleiter at the National Association of Women's Studies annual conference, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, summer 2001
Writing Co-culturally: A Cautionary Tale. Paper presented with UW-EC undergraduate student Xia Lor, American Educational Research Association annual conference, Seattle, WA, spring 2001
Illuminated Shadows: Privilege, Policy, and Diversity in Education. Paper presented with T. Lindsey, National Association for Multicultural Education annual conference, Orlando, FL, fall 2000
Collaborative Qualitative Policy Research: Benefits and Challenge. Paper presented, with A. Statham, M.K. Schleiter, & D. Turner at the Association for Public Analysis and Management annual conference, Seattle, WA, fall 2000
Stories from the Field. Paper presented at the Women, Work, and Policy Conference, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR, winter 2000
Embarrassed Silences: The Missing Language of Identification in Education. Paper presented at the American Educational Studies Association annual conference, Detroit, MI, fall 1999
In, Out, and on the Edge: Early Effects of Wisconsin’s Welfare Reform. Paper presented with UW-EC undergraduates M. Lauhead & K. Thao, Women and Policy Research Conference, George Washington University and the Institute for Women’s Policy Research, Washington, D.C., summer 1998
Early Reactions to Wisconsin’s Welfare Reform Measures: Participant Experiences with W-2. Paper presented, with A.Statham at the American Sociological Association annual conference, Toronto, Canada, summer 1997
Learning to Teach for Empowerment. Paper presented at the second annual Teaching from Within Conference, St. Olaf College, Northfield, MN summer 1996
Panel organizer, Conceptualizing Differences in Educational Settings: The Rhetoric of Individualism and the Politics of Collectivity, American Educational Research Association annual conference, San Francisco, CA, April 1995
The Rhetoric of Individualism and the Ethos of Women’s Studies. Paper presented at the American Educational Research Association annual conference, San Francisco, CA, April 1995
Through a Glass Darkly: Reflections on Teacher Research in a Women’s Studies Classroom. Paper presented at the Research on Women and Education Conference, American Educational Research Association, Minneapolis, MN., October 1994
Confessions of a Collaborator: Reciprocal Meaning-Making in Feminist Fieldwork. Paper presented at the Qualitative Research in Education annual conference, University of Georgia, Athens, GA, January 1994
In Their Own Words: High-achieving Hmong Girls and Theories of Success. Paper presented at the Ethnography in Education Research Forum annual conference, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, February 1992
Plenary co-presenter Dominance in Higher Education: Race, Class, and Gender with L. Fuller, Feminist Graduate Students’ Conference, UW-Madison, spring 1990, and Presentation, National Women’s Studies Association annual conference, University of Akron, Akron, OH, summer 1990
Exploring Feminist Models of Academic Mentoring, with K.Welch, English, UW System Women’s Studies Consortium annual conference, spring 2005
Coming of Age: Negotiating Parent Care with Professional Life/Work. Wisconsin Women in Higher Education annual conference, University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire, fall 2004
Service-Learning in Teacher Education. Invited panelist, State Superintendent’s PK-16 Institute on Service-Learning and Citizenship, University of Wisconsin-Madison, fall 2004
Collaborating on the Women and Poverty Public Education Initiative: Follow-up to a consortial research and policy project. UW System Women’s Studies Conference, UW-Stout, fall 2003
Invited keynote, Inside/Out: Exploring the power of Readers Theater in diversity education. A performance with 8 UW-EC Honors Program Students, UW System Institute on Race and Ethnicity conference, "Critical Connections: Race, ethnicity, and inequality," Madison, spring 2002 [conference cancelled due to state budget concerns]
Panel moderator and organizer, "Poking and prying with a purpose": Exploring technology and inquiry to enhance student engagement with diversity with 10 UW-EC School of Education students accepted for presentation at the UW System Institute on Race and Ethnicity conference, "Critical Connections: Race, ethnicity, and inequality," Madison, spring, 2002. [conference cancelled due to state budget concerns]
Invited Convener, Research Café: Adventure Feminism: Building feminist classroom communities through adventure education. UW System Women's Studies Consortium annual conference, Waukesha, WI, fall 2001
Panel member, Reflections from the Field. University of Wisconsin Women’s Studies Consortium annual conference, Madison, WI, fall 2001
Panel organizer and plenary presenter, Grassroots Research and Welfare Reform: A Collaborative Model for Policy Change and Higher Education and Welfare Reform. Women and Poverty Conference annual conference, Stevens Point, WI, fall 1997
Panel member, Reading Between the Lines: The Politics and Poetics of Student Responses to a Science-Based Women’s Health Course. University of Wisconsin Women’s Studies Consortium annual conference, University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point, November 1994
Invited panel presenter, UW-Madison Women’s Studies Program: Past and Present. The Power of Synergy: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Knowledge, Undergraduate Teaching Improvement Council Conference, University of Wisconsin-Green Bay, April 1994
Panel moderator, Women and Leadership. University of Wisconsin-Madison Women’s Research Center, Midwest Feminism Conference, Madison, WI, 1992
Invited panel member, “Race Relations in the Post-Obama Era,” UW-Eau Claire, Black History Month Faculty Panel, February 2009
External reviwer, promotion of Dr. Catherine A. Kelly, Associate Professor and Chair, Curriculum and Instruction, University of Colorado at Colorado Springs, fall 2008.
Participant, Dismantling Racism, College of Arts and Sciences, summer 2008-present
The effect of school violence on student teachers. News interview, Channel 13, fall 2006.
Hiring trends for recent education graduates. News Interview, Channel 18, spring 2006
Issues and trends in teacher education. Interview on the Judy Clark Morning Show, Channel 13, spring 2006
Life, Work, and Caregiving: Seeking Balance. Panel convener with K. Lang and T.King, sponsored by the UW-Eau Claire Professional Development Committee of the Student Development Council, winter 2005
The dawn of PI 34: Drama and Details. Presentation, UW-Eau Claire Student Wisconsin Education Association, fall 2005
Life, Love, and Work: Negotiating Elder Care in an Era of Hypertasking. Invited presentation for the UW-Eau Claire Alumni Association, spring 2005
Notable Women at UW-Eau Claire. Panel member, Women’s History Week, spring 2005
The Power of Participatory Poetry. Invited class participation in LMED 305 classes with R. Reid, winter and spring 2005
Aligning PI 34 with Music Education. Invited presentation for the Association of Choral Directors, UW-Eau Claire, spring 2005
Regional spelling bee judge, CESA 10, winter 2004.
The Effects of PI 34 on School Social Workers, invited presentation, UW-Eau Claire Social Work Department, winter, 2004
Let’s Celebrate Education! Presentation for UW-Eau Claire chapter of the Student Council for Exceptional Children, winter, 2004
Welcome speaker. 29th Annual Conference of the Northland American College of Sports Medicine, fall 2004
An Overview of Changes in Teacher Education after PI 34. Invited presentation with student J. Morris, CESA 10 Superintendents, Chippewa Falls, WI, fall 2004
Balancing Life with Work. Campus Brown Bag Presentation sponsored by the UW-Eau Claire Work/Life Initiative, fall 2004.
Exploring PI 34. Invited presentation, UW-Eau Claire Student Wisconsin Education Association conference, fall 2004
Got Leaders? Keynote presentation. UW-Eau Claire National Residence Hall Association, Beaver Creek, fall 2004.
Invited participant, Examining the Status of Women in Wisconsin with Lt. Gov. Barbara Lawton, Wisconsin Public Radio, fall 2003
Keynote. Leadership in the Spotlight. UW-Eau Claire National Residence Hall Honorary Chapter Leadership Retreat, fall 2003
Interviewee, response to the NEA Report on Teachers, Channel 13, fall 2003
Where am “I” in PI 34? Student Wisconsin Education Association (SWEA) conference, fall 2003
A state accreditation survival story. The state-wide math professor Networking Project in Mathematics Education (NPRIME), Edgewood College, Madison, WI, fall 2003
Welcome speaker. Wisconsin TESOL Conference, “Blending Shades of Meaning: Converge, Construct, Confer.” UW-Eau Claire, fall 2003
Reviewer, American Educational Research Association (AERA) proposals for presentation at the annual conference, fall 2003
Reviewer, American Association of Colleges of Teacher Education (AACTE), proposals for presentation at the annual conference, fall 2003
Interviewee, School of Education state accreditation success, Channel 10, summer 2003
Presenter, Linking theories of difference with classroom realities. Regional Student WEA Conference, spring 2003
Invited participant, Ethnicity and Culture Reading Seminar organized by Pang Cher Vue, spring 2003
Co-researcher, with S. Dempsey & R. Tlusty, Exploring the relationship between class size and constructivist classroom practices. Chippewa Falls School District, fall 2002
Presenter, Charting differences in classrooms: Gender, race, and social class in Practice. UW-EC Student WEA, fall 2002
Presenter, The Human Face of Ethnography, an interactive presentation to FED740 & CI788, graduate research seminar, UW-EC, fall 2002
Panel member, The New Wisconsin Teaching Standards. School of Education and College of Arts and Sciences panel, Network for Excellence in Teaching, UW-EC, fall 2002
Presenter, Becoming a Teacher: An Introduction to the School of Education. Hmong Pre-college Program, summer 2002
Presenter, Exploring the landscape of urban schools. UW-EC Student Wisconsin Education Association organization, spring 2002
Interviewee, A Commentary on `Take Your Daughter to Work Day.' Televised Interview, Channel 18, spring 2002
Co-presenter, Comparing the Preparation of Teachers in Japan and the U.S., with W. Dunlap, B. Hollon, S. McIntyre, J. T. Stephens. Office of University Research all-campus Forum, spring 2002
Co-presenter, Reading Strong Women, with T. Lindsey. Campus-wide Women's History Month Celebration, spring 2002
Co-presenter, Promoting Peace with T. Lindsey. "Breakfast with a Professor," Honors Program, spring 2002
Invited presenter, Cartographies of Culture: Mapping the terrain of being and doing. Presentation to the graduate Learning Community, Curriculum & Instruction, UW-EC, spring 2002
Invited co-presenter, Reading, Writing, and Responding to Peace, with T. Lindsey. The Third Annual Human Rights Awareness Conference at UW-EC, fall 2001
Invited panel member, Women Exploring the Terrain of Leadership: Mentoring and Beyond. WOW [Women on Wednesday], an all-campus forum on women’s leadership, fall 2001
Invited presenter, Only Connect!: Making Connections in Cross-cultural Collaborative Research with K.B. Her and K. Xiong. UW Board of Regents' UW-EC campus visit, fall 2001
Member, visiting faculty delegation. Fukushima University, Fukushima, Japan, fall 2001
Cooperating professor, undergraduate student X. Lor, capstone history project, Hmong Oral History and Migration from China to Southeast Asia, spring 2000
Invited reviewer, UW-Eau Claire annual Master’s Thesis Award Competition, fall 2000
Invited review panelist, TRIO Dissemination Grants. Department of Education, Washington, D.C., summer 2000
Reviewer, American Educational Research Journal (AERJ), Section on Teaching, Learning, and Human Development, 1999-2001
Faculty mentor and co-presenter, Student Research Day, UW-EC 1997-2004:
Invited presenter, Lives on the Edge: Research on Women and Poverty in Wisconsin. Presentation at the Universalist/Unitarian Fellowship Conference, winter 2001
Invited participant and discussion leader, Finding Common Ground: Ethnic and Cultural Diversity in Teacher Education, sponsored by a UW System Discipline-based Consortial Activity grant, Madison, WI, spring 2001
Invited participant, UW-Eau Claire Faculty, Staff, and Student Postcolonial Literature Reading Group, sponsored by a UW Institute on Race and Ethnicity grant, spring 2001
Panel member, African Americans and Education, with Civil Rights activist James Meredith, UW-EC, spring 2001
Invited presenter, Diversity in Education. Presentation to Kappa Delta Pi education honor society, winter 2000
Invited reader, Fish in the River of Knowledge: Celebration of Freedom to Read. Banned Book Read-in, Chippewa Valley Civil Liberties Union and the Chippewa Falls Library, fall 2000
Co-presenter, Exploring Privilege: Negotiating the Identities of our Lived Experiences. Breakfast with a Professor presentation with T. Lindsey, Honors Program, UW-EC, fall 2000
Keynote presenter, Hmong Culture in Transition, with students K.B. Her and X. Lor. Midwest Financial Aid Directors' annual conference, Eau Claire, fall 2000
Invited presenter, Reading Together Instead of Bowling Alone: Creating a Faculty/Staff Reading Group. Network for Excellence in Teaching (NET) faculty/staff presentation, UW-EC, fall 2000
Invited panel member, How Students are Alienated in Classrooms with B. Stevens, Affirmative Action Office and undergraduate students B. Licht and A.Tompkins. UW-EC Faculty/Staff In-service, summer 2000
Guest lecturer and curriculum developer, Culture, Folklore, and Oral History. ProjectTEACH, a federally funded bilingual/bicultural program for Hmong students majoring in education, UW-EC, summer 2000
Interviewee, TV Notions. Community Access Channel a 30-minute segment discussing issues relating to Women, Poverty, and Policy, summer 2000
Invited presenter, Dealing with Differences. Teen/Parent Dialogue Group, University Lutheran Ecumenical Center, spring 2000
Invited participant, Multidisciplinary Faculty/Staff Reading Group, Hmong Education in the United States by Paoze Thao. Sponsored by a UW Institute on Race and Ethnicity grant, spring 2000
Invited presenter, Wisconsin Welfare Update. UW-EC Student Homeless Awareness Committee (SHAC), spring 2000
Co-presenter, Building Classroom Communities Through Adventure Education with A. Wiberg, Outdoor Recreation. School of Education Professional Seminar, spring 2000
Co-presenter, Understanding Diversity: Moving Beyond Racism, Classism, Sexism, and other "isms," with J. Prushiek . "Breakfast with a Professor," Honors Program, UW-EC, spring 1999
Invited presenter, Generations of Women: U.S. Women's Movements, English as a Foreign Language classes, UW-EC, spring 1999 and spring 2000
Co-presenter, Everything you wanted to know about sex--or do we mean gender? with J. Prushiek "Breakfast with a Professor," Honors Program, UW-EC, fall 1999
Keynote presenter, Traversing a Slippery Slope: Middle School Girls and Self-Esteem. Challenges and Choices for Middle School Girls annual conference, UW-Eau Claire, spring, 1998
Keynote presenter , “Women of Vision” annual Convocation, , Wausau, WI, 1997
Invited presenter, Girls in the Middle. UW-Eau Claire Future Teachers’ Club, spring 1998
Panel presenter, Women and Poverty. Leadership Eau Claire, EC Chamber of Commerce, winter 1998
Discussant, Gender and World Civilization Conference, UW-Eau Claire, spring 1997
Plenary session moderator,Women and Poverty annual conference., Stevens Point, WI, fall 1997
Guest lecturer, Women in Higher Education (WHE) UW-Eau Claire, fall 1996, 1997, and 1998
Invited co-presenter, Student Resistance and Feminist Style with Professor Dale M. Bauer, University of Wisconsin-Madison Sociology Department Seminar, spring 1995
Guest lecturer, Multiculturalism and the University. Cultural Pluralism seminar, Department of Educational Policy Studies, UW-Madison, 1993
UW-Eau Claire Summer Research Grant with student C. Emmanuelle. The awakening of Mamie Til-Mobley: Examining resiliency within personal tragedy transformed to activism,summer 2009.
UW-Eau Claire Professional Development Program Grant. White Privilege: A university-wide convocation, spring 2007
UW-Eau Claire Professional Development Program Grant. The Art and Science of Partnering in Times of Radical Change: A College of Education and Human Sciences Convocation, winter 2005
UW-Eau Claire Faculty Student Research Collaboration Grant with S. Kinderman. Analyzing Student Responses to Multicultural Theories and Experiences. With D. Fry and T. Lindsey, summer 2004
UW-Eau Claire Professional Development Program Grant. Education Celebration, fall 2003
UW-Eau Claire Faculty Student Research Collaboration Grant with undergraduate student C. Asuquo, Continuing Research on Hmong Teachers, fall 2003
UW-Eau Claire Faculty Student Research Collaboration Grant with graduate student S.S. Larson, Enacting Differences: Readers Theater as a Strategy of Exploring Power, Privilege, and Inequality, fall 2002-spring 2003
University Research and Creative Activity Grant, Culture, Identity, and Change: Becoming Hmong American Teachers in a Multicultural Millennium, spring 2002 (awarded but delayed until 2003/04 academic year)
NET grant with C. Gray-Mash to support a campus visit of author/educator Greg Michie and his Latino students, winter 2001
Faculty/Student Collaborative Research Grant with undergraduate J. Johnson, Walking the Talk: Exploring Diversity on a College Campus, fall 2001
UW-System Institute for Race and Ethnicity Grant, with S. Moch, Family Nursing, R.Burns, Service Learning, J. Hein, Sociology, D. Mowry, Social Work, Pang Cher Vue, Continuing Education, Hmong Lao American Veterans and the University: A Partnership, summer 2001
Palmer Foundation grant with M.K. Schleiter and A.Statham, for data analysis of a longitudinal study on women transitioning off welfare in Wisconsin, summer 2001
UW-Eau Claire Summer Research Grant with undergraduate K.B. Her, Educating Edgewalkers: Hmong Teachers and the Process of Becoming Bilingual/Bicultural Educators, summer 2001
UW-Eau Claire Faculty Student Research Collaboration Grant with undergraduates K.B. Her, X. Lor, and N. Thor, Educating Edgewalkers:A Qualitative Study of Hmong Teachers and the Process of Becoming Bicultural/Bilingual Educators, fall 2000
UW System Institute on Race and Ethnicity, Curriculum Development Grant, Hmong in the United States: Cultural Transitions and Educational Frontiers, fall 2000
NET grant with Karen Loeb, English, to support a visit from Kyoko Mori, Harvard scholar and endowed lecturer in Creative Writing, fall 2000
UW System Institute for Race and Ethnicity and Network for Teaching Excellence (NET) grants, Diversity Dialogues 2000, fall 1999
UW-Eau Claire Faculty Student Research Collaboration Grants with J. Prushiek and undergraduate A. Peterson, Unraveling Multicultural Field Experience: State Regulations and Student Reflections and with T. Lindsey and graduate student P. Sampson Illuminated Shadows: Privilege, Policy, and Diversity in Education, fall/spring 1999/2000
UW-Eau Claire Small Grant, Redefining Multicultural Collaborative Research, fall 2000
UW-Eau Claire Service Learning Grants (2), An Urban Education Excursion, fall 1999 and spring 2000
Network for Excellence in Teaching (NET) Grant, Power, Privilege, and Inequality: Race, Class, and Gender in the United States, curriculum development grant, summer 1999
UW-Eau Claire Faculty/Student Research Collaboration Grant with undergraduate S. Hedlund, Crossing the Great Divide: From Welfare to Work, fall 1998
NET grant, UW-Eau Claire, Teaching and Learning at Century’s End symposium, spring 1998
UW-Eau Claire Faculty/Student Research Collaboration Grant with undergraduates M. Lauhead and K. Thao, Early Reactions to Wisconsin Welfare Reform, , fall 1997
UW-Eau Claire Faculty/Student Research Collaboration Grant with undergraduate S. Dahlke, Current Perspectives on Women, Poverty, and Higher Education, fall 1996
Wausau Area Community Foundation, Gender Differences in Educational Aspirations and Attitudes in a Selected Population of Southeast Asian High School Students, 1990
Foundation grants to support institutional programming: Wausau Insurance Companies, Wausau Area Community Foundation, and the Gannett Foundation, 1987-89
Wisconsin Humanities Committee, Black History Month Celebration, 1988
UW System/UW Centers program development grant, 1986
UW Extension innovative programming grants (2), 1984
Department
Chair, Women's Studies Steering Committee, fall 2008-present
Chair, Curriculum Committee, spring 2001-spring 2002
Elected representative, School of Education Academic Policies Committee, spring 2001-2002
Member, Faculty Search and Screen Committees (two), 2000
Departmental representative, School of Education Graduate Council, spring 2000-spring 2001
University
Invited Member, Dismantling Racism Campus Initiative, fall 2008-present
Member, Holistic Admissions Committee, fall 2005-present
Member, Americorps VISTA Program Advisory Board, fall 2004-present
Member, Search and Screen Committee, Associate Dean for Development and Diversity, 2004
Member, University Graduate Council, fall 2004-present
Member, The View Campus Advisory Group, winter 2004
Member, University Scholarship Taskforce, fall 2003-present
Member, Campus Campaign Advisory Committee, fall 2003-present
Member, All-campus Advising Task-force, summer 2003-fall 2004
Co-Chair, Chancellor’s Commission on the Status of Women, fall 2003-fall 2004
Member, planning committee, Women in Higher Education Leadership Conference, spring 2003
Member, committee to plan a UW System grant for campus-wide professional development based on the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning , fall 2002
Member, Women’s Studies Committee, fall 1996-present
Faculty mentor, Blugold Scholar, fall 2002-2003
Member, Search and Screen Committee, Grant Manager, Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL) Department of Education grant, fall 2002
Discussion facilitator, all-campus forum featuring John Gardner, fall 2002
Faculty mentor, Student Learning Project, T. Hable, Psychology major and Honors' Program student, Meals on Wheels, summer 2002
Faculty mentor, Student Learning Project, A.Latka, English major and Honors' Program student, Habitat for Humanity, spring 2002
"Winger," a faculty liaison with students residing on a 2nd floor wing, Bridgman Hall, fall 2001
Elected member, College of Professional Studies, Search and Screen Committee, Director of Women's Studies, spring 2001
Arts and Sciences Dean Appointee, Women's Studies Steering Committee, fall 2000-fall 2002
Elected School of Education representative, Search and Screen, Dean, College of Professional Studies, fall 2000
Elected School of Education representative, Search and Screen, Vice Chancellors (2), spring 2000
Elected School of Education representative, University Graduate Council, spring 2000-spring 2001
Member, University/Community Hmong Center Committee, spring 2000-present
Associate Dean-appointed member, University Honors Council, spring 1999-2002
Office of University Research and Supported Programs appointee, Institutional Review Board for the Protection of Human Subjects, fall 1999-present
Faculty mentor, Blugold Scholar, 1999-2001
Advisor, Multicultural College Women’s Association, fall 1998-2001
Member, Forum Advisory Committee, 1998-2001
Member, Women’s Studies Awards Committee, spring 1998
Advisor, Student Parents’ Network, fall 1997-1999
Chair, Parent Scholars Scholarship Selection Committee, summer 1997
Member, Feminist Theory Curriculum Committee, summer 1997
Chair, Women in Transition Steering Committee, summer 1996-1997
Presiding member, Hunt Lecture, Gloria Ladson-Billings, AACTE annual meeting, winter 2007
Elected representative, Midwest Region, American Council of State Representatives, American Association of Colleges of Teacher Education, winter 2007
Co-convener, DPI-IHE Program Approval Work Group, winter 2007
Invited member, State-wide Steering Committee, Quality Matters Conference. Sponsored by UW-System, fall 2006
Appointed member, Membership Development and Capacity Building Committee, American Association of Colleges of Teacher Education, spring 2006-present
Elected member-at-large, Associated Council of State Representatives, winter 2006
Invited participant, Leadership Summit, American Association of Colleges of Teacher Education, Denver, summer 2005
Appointed member, Professional Development Committee, American Association of Colleges of Teacher Education, fall 2004-spring 2006
Member, PK-16 Advisory Council, University of Wisconsin System, 2004-present
Elected convener, University of Wisconsin Deans and Directors, fall 2004-present
State representative, annual conference of the American Council of State Representatives, American Association of Colleges of Teacher Education, Norfolk, Virginia, summer 2004
President Elect, Wisconsin Association of Colleges of Teacher Education, spring 2004-present
Advisory Board member, Institute for Women’s Policy Research, Washington, D.C., The Status of Women in Wisconsin, fall 2001-2002
Member, Evaluation Committee, National Association of Multicultural Education, fall 2001
Co-chair with T. Lindsey, American Educational Research Association, Division B, Section 5, Diversity and Curriculum Studies, coordination and management of review and selection of annual conference proposals, summer 2001
Member, UW System Women’s Studies Consortium Outreach Advisory Board, fall 1997-2000
Member, Welfare Reform Research Coordinating Team, Institute for Women’s Policy Research, Washington, DC, summer 1997-1999
Member, State-wide Planning Committee, Women and Poverty Conference, fall 1997-1998
Board member, Women and Poverty Public Education Initiative, fall 1996-present
Board member, Chippewa Valley Literacy Volunteers of America, fall 2009-present
Volunteer Butterfly Lab Assistant, Beaver Creek Reserve, summer 2009
Board member and Education and Program chair, Women's Giving Circle, fall 2008-present
Member, Strategic Vision Task Force, Eau Claire United Way, 2005
Committee Member, Workforce Development, Eau Claire Chamber of Commerce, 2005-2006
Board member, Friends of the Chippewa Falls Library, 1999-2000
Board member, Chippewa Falls 2000 Steering Committee, 1998-2000
Mentor, Chippewa Falls Middle School, spring 1998-1999
Homebound volunteer, Friends of Chippewa Falls Library, spring 1998-spring 2001
Volunteer, Beaver Creek Reserve, fall 1996-2000
Graduate affiliate, UW-Madison Women’s Studies Program, fall 1995
Chair appointee, School of Education Academic Policy and Programs Committee, 1994-95
Selected Member, UW-Madison Women’s Studies Program Personnel Committee,
fall 1992 and 1994
Member, UW-Madison Women’s Studies Program Committee, 1990-96
Selected member, Faculty Search and Screen Committee, Department of Educational Policy Studies, 1994
Student representative, Educational Policy Studies Department Self-study and Program Review Committee, 1991-92
Invited member, UW-Madison Women’s Studies Outreach Committee, 1990-94
Invited member, UW Extension Planning Board, state-wide Hmong conference, 1989
Campus coordinator, University of London Exchange Program, 1987-89
Elected member, UW Centers Senate Grants Committee, 1987-89
Campus representative, Wisconsin Women in Higher Education and the American Association of University Women, 1986-89
Selected member, UW System and Campus Search and Screen Committees, 1984-89
Dean appointee, Wisconsin Women in Higher Education Forum, 1988
Chair, Campus Marketing Committee, 1988
Coordinator, Black History Month Celebration, 1988
Dean appointee, English as a Second Language and Women's Studies Committees, 1985-89
Literacy Volunteers of American, Eau Claire, 2009-present
Wausau Performing Arts Foundation, 1988-89
United Way of Marathon County, 1988-89
Wausau Area Volunteer Exchange, 1987-89
Wausau Symphony League, 1980-82
Children’s Service Society of Wisconsin, 1977
Women’s Giving Circle, Eau Claire Community Foundation, 2008-present
Wausau Conservatory of Music Strategic Planning Committee, 1989
City/County Intergovernmental Affirmative Action Committee, 1987-89
Mayor’s Commission on the Status of Women (Chair), 1986-89
Wausau Area Chamber of Commerce Long Range Planning Council, 1987; Business and
Education Committee, 1982-89
Northcentral Technical College Women’s Development Center, 1982-89
UW-Oshkosh B.S.N. Degree Completion Program, 1988
Wausau Daily Herald, area Gannet newspaper, editorial board, 1987
United Way of Marathon County Needs Assessment Task Force Executive Committee, 1989; Education Task Force, 1984; Communications Committee, 1983-87
Center for Professional Development CESA #9, 1986
Governor appointed citizen member, Wisconsin Pharmacy Regulation and Licensing Board, 1985
Marathon County Private Industry Council, 1983-85
UW-Stevens Point College Week for Women, 1982-85
Cloverbelt Regional High Schools Honors Convocation, spring 1989
Wisconsin Association of Hospital Auxiliaries, State Convention, fall 1988
Good Samaritan Hospital Staff Professional Development Seminar, fall 1988
Almond-Bancroft, Edgar, and Elcho School Districts Teacher In-Service Programs, fall 1988
Northcentral Technical College Honor Society Banquet, spring 1987
Central Wisconsin Data Processors Association Conference, fall 1987
Wausau Paper Management Club Conference, fall 1986
Wausau Carriers' State Conference, fall 1986
UW Center-Marathon Area Advisory Board Conference, fall 1986
UW-Centers Deans and Public Information Managers Annual Conference, summer 1986
University of Wisconsin Family Practice Center Residents' Professional Development Seminar, fall 1986
American Association of University Women State Convention, spring 1986
Mosinee Paper Corporation Retirement Banquet, spring 1985
Security Savings and Loan Association Professional Development Workshop, spring 1985
Kettle Moraine and Marathon County Chapters, Professional Secretaries International Annual Conferences, fall 1985
Girl Scouts of America Regional Convention, fall 1984
Marathon County Health Department Professional Development Seminar, spring 1983
Visiting Nurses Association and Hospice Professional Development Seminar, spring 1983
Wisconsin Association of Nutrition Directors Annual Conference, fall 1983
Wisconsin Women in Higher Education