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Mark Altschuler "Dark Voices: The Experiences of Negro League Ballplayers Who Served
         
in WW II." 17th Annual Symposium on Baseball and American Culture,
         
Cooperstown, NY, June 10, 2005.
 
     
Suzaan Boettger "Behind the Enantiomorph: Biographical Keys to Robert Smithson’s References
         
to Doubling and to Death," NURTUREArt Gallery, Brooklyn, March 2008.
"Women, Art and Nature: The Rising Ecofeminist Consciousness in
         
Contemporary Art," Conference on Women’s Achievements, invited
         
convocation speaker, Holon, Israel, March 2008.
"Biographical Sources of Smithson's Imagery and Earthworks," New York Studio
         
School, November 2005.
"Grandeur and Dirt: Earthworks in/as the Late Sixties." Kent State University,
         
April 2005 and SUNY New Paltz, April 2005.
"Thicker than Water: Smithson’s Spiraling Return in the Red Sea." College Art
         
Association Conference, February 2005. Chair of session, "Robert
         
Smithson’s Dialectics of Death and Creativity."
"Mother Dearest? Visionary Earthworks in the Sixties and their Relation to
         
Nature and to Politics." Storm King Art Center, November 2003; San
         
Francisco Museum of Modern Art, May 2003; and Rutgers University/
         
Newark, April 2003.
"From Earthworks to Abakanowicz Environmental Sculpture In, Of, and On the
         
Earth." Grounds for Sculpture, New Jersey, June 2003.
"New Yorkers' Earthworks The West as Source." The Museum of California,
         
Oakland, and San Francisco Art Institute, May 2003.
"Down and Dirty: Material Resistance in the Late Sixties." College Art
         
Association Annual Conference, February 2003.





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George Cronk

Keynote Speaker at Norwalk Community College Conference on Philosophy,
         
Ethics, and Religion: "Philosophy and Religion in the Community College."
         
February 23, 2007.
Keynote Speaker at Atlantic Cape Community College Faculty In-Service
         
Conference: "General Education and Diversity Courses." August 31, 2006.
Paper presentation: "Comments on Evans's 'Should Philosophy Courses Go
         On-Line?'" Concurrent Session I.1., NJ Regional Philosophy Association
         
Meeting, Felician College, November 13, 2004.
"Teaching Philosophy On Line." New Jersey Regional Philosophy Association
         
Conferences, Bergen Community College, April 2003; Felician College,
         
November 2003.

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Jessica Datema

"Cinematic Representations of the Former East Bloc: Subversion of an
         
Authoritarian Other." NeMLA: 39th Annual North Eastern Modern
         
Language Association Convention, SUNY Buffalo, April 2008.
"Line-Up: Accident and Crime in Cormac McCarthy's Blood Meridian." Nomos:
         
International Conference on the Violence of Everyday Life, Columbia
         
University, February 2008.
"Gertrude Stein's Poetics of Violence." New Jersey College English Association,
         
Seton Hall University, March 2008.
"Assessment of Reading and Writing at Bergen Community College." NJWA,
         
Edison, NJ, May 2007.
"Hope for Hard Times: Anxiety, Alienation, and Activism: Florian Henckel von
         
Donnersmarck’s The Lives of Others." Rutgers University, November 2007.
"Authorship and Anxiety in the Detective Fiction of Marcia Muller and Gertrude
         
Stein." South Atlantic MLA, Charlotte, NC, November 2006.
"Double Lives/Dream Histories in Wislawa Szymborska and Krzysztof
         
Kieslowski." Polish Institute, Hunter College, New York, NY, June 2006.
"The Modernist Untimely Autobiography: Friedrich Nietzsche and Gertrude
         
Stein." Twentieth-Century Modernism Conference, University of Louisville,
         
February 2005.
"Democracy’s Dance Around the Golden Calf." Psychoanalysis and Democracy
         
Conference, Columbia University, October 2004.

 
     
Kaye Demetz

"Toward a Synthesis of Science and Theatre Arts." Presentation at Oxford
         
Round Table Conference on Science and Art, Oxford, England, July 2006.
         
The lecture-demonstration explored how physics can be used to teach
         
creativity and skills in theatre and how the laws of physics are at work
         
onstage in performance.
"Origins of Tap Dancing in the Ante-Bellum South." Louisiana Historical

         
Association Convention, Houma, LA, April 1997.
"Modern Physics through Modern Dance." Innovations in Teaching Conference,

         
Raritan Valley Community College, May 2, 1997.
"Uses of Dance in Building the Dramatic Tension." Cross-Cultural Dance

         
Association, Miami, FL, November 1997.
"Modern Dance through Dance and Theatre." American Physics Teachers

         
Association Annual Convention, New Orleans, LA, January 1998.
"Suburbia Onstage." Conference on Redefining Suburbia, Hofstra University,
         
March 31, 2001.
"The Theatre as Social Barometer." Mahwah Library Artists & Lecturers Series,

         
September 10, 2001.

 
     
Philip C. Dolce "Blacks in Suburbia: The Motion Picture Version." The National Council for
         
Black Studies, San Diego, March 2002.
"Criminal Justice in Suburbia: A Comprehensive Approach." Academy of Criminal
         
Justice Sciences National Conference, Washington, D.C., April 2001.
"Motion Pictures and Suburbs." Keynote Address at the Conference on
         
"Redefining Suburban Studies: Searching for a new Paradigm," at Hofstra
         
University, March 2001.
"Corrections Management in Urban and Suburban Settings: Similarities and
         
Differences." American Society of Criminology National Conference, San
         
Francisco, CA, November 2000.
"A Comprehensive Approach to Criminal Justice Education and Professional
         
Development in a Suburban County." American Association of University
         
Administrators National Conference, Washington, DC, June 2000.
         
(Project received the Blackburn Award from the AAUA)
"Celluloid Suburbs: The American Middle Landscape on Film." Keynote Address,
         
Florida Conference of Historians, Orlando, Florida, March 2000.
Chair and Discussant, Session on "Media/Opinion Linkages." Southern Political
         
Science Association, Savannah, GA, November 2002.
 
     
Peter Dlugos
Moderated a roundtable discussion on "Cultivating and Sustaining a Shared
         
Commitment to Assessment." 2002 American Association for Higher
         
Education (AAHE) Assessment Conference, Boston, MA.
"Teaching, Learning, and Assessing the Ineffable." Paper presented at the
         
2002 American Association for Higher Education (AAHE) Assessment
         
Conference, Boston, MA.
"Emphasizing Reflection in Critical Thinking." Symposium on Critical Thinking in
         
the Classroom, Spring 2003 Regional Conference on Critical Thinking and
         
Philosophical Practice , Bergen Community College, April 4, 2003.
 
     
Paul Eckstein "Critical Reasoning and the Redemptive Power of Democracy." Spring 2003
         
Regional Conference on Critical Thinking and Philosophical Practice,
         
Bergen Community College, April 4, 2003.
 
     
Leigh Jonaitis "Researching Readiness for Composition: An Assessment Process" (with Beth
         
Snyder). New Jersey Writing Alliance Conference, Rutgers University,
         
April 2005.
"The Resource Envelope: Reinforce Outcomes by Sharing Materials with
         
Adjuncts Electronically" (with Bonnie MacDougall and William Jiang).
         
League for Innovation in the Community College, Conference on
         
Information Technology, Tampa, FL, November 2004.
"When Clicks Meet Bricks: How Hybrid Courses Are Transforming the
         
Classroom." League for Innovation in the Community College, Innovations
         
Conference, San Francisco, CA, March 2004.
"TOPP (The Online Professor Program): Teaching and Learning are TOPP
         
Priority" (with Judith Rae Davis and Michael Redmond). League for
         
Innovation in the Community College, Conference on Information
         
Technology, Long Beach, CA, November 2002.
 
     
Mark Kassop Panel Presentation at DLAAB (Distance Learning Academic Administrators
         
Board) – "Different Flavors of Online Education." Fairleigh Dickinson
         
University, October 15, 2002.
Presentation at The League for Innovation in Long Beach, CA – "OnLine,
         
OnTime, OnTarget: The New Jersey Virtual Community College
         
Consortium" [with VP Chuck Chulvick of Raritan Valley Community
         
College and Dean Diane Campbell of Mercer County Community College
         
(Vice-Chair and Secretary of the NJVCCC, respectively)], November 20,
         
2002.
Presentation at the TeleLearning 2003 Conference in Orlando, FL – "The
         
NJVCCC: A Consortium in Transition" [with VP Chuck Chulvick of Raritan
         
Valley Community College and Dean Diane Campbell of Mercer County
         
Community College (Vice-Chair and Secretary of the NJVCCC,
         
respectively)], February 10, 2003.
Presentation at the TeleLearning 2003 Conference in Orlando, FL – "Macro and
         
Micro: The Online Consortium (the NJVCCC) and the College (Bergen
         
Community College)" [with Linda Bloom, Director of Distance Learning and
         
of the Center for Instructional Technology (CIT) at Bergen Community
         
College], February 11, 2003.
Presentation at the New Jersey/Pennsylvania Chapter of the College Reading
         
and Learning Association in Philadelphia, PA – "The 10 Virtues of an
         
Online Education," March 14, 2003.
 
     
David Levinson "A Center for the Study of Intercultural Understanding." American Association of
         
Community Colleges Annual Meeting, Dallas, Texas, 2003.
"Benchmarking Community College Instructional Costs and Productivity: The
         
Kansas Study." American Association of Community Colleges Annual
         
Meeting, Dallas, Texas, 2003.
"A Technologically Transformed Campus: Going from the Ridiculous to the
         
Sublime." American Association of Community Colleges Annual Meeting,
         
Seattle, Washington, 2002.
"Creating Successful Partnerships with K-12." New Jersey Council of County
         
Colleges Best Practices Conference, North Branch, NJ, 2002.
"Bridging the Organizational Divide: Uniting Academic and Student Affairs
         
During a Time of Crisis." League for Innovation in the Community
         
College, Boston, MA, 2002.
"The Human Drive for Community in the Aftermath of September 11." Keynote
         
address, Phi Theta Kappa Middle States Regional Convention, Newark, NY,
         
2002.
"Teaching Introduction to Sociology." Workshop organizer and presider, Eastern
         
Sociological Society Annual Meeting, Boston, MA, 2002.
"K-12 Partnerships with Higher Education." Presentation at the National
         
Education Association Northeast Leadership Conference, Newport,
         
Rhode Island, 2002.
 
     
Gena Luby Paper: "Parental Liability and Truancy: Is It Effective? Is It Fair?" American
         
Society of Criminology Annual Conference, Panel on "Family and
         
Parenting: The Effects on Crime," November 14, 2002.
 
     
Rubil Morales-Vazquez
(Bill Morales)
"Imagining Washington." Smithonian Institution Lecture Series, Washington,
         
D.C., June 2000.
"Redeeming a Sacred Pledge." Seventh Annual Conference, Perspectives on
         
the American Capitol, Washington, D.C., November 2000.
"Inventing the Modern White House." Fourth Annual International Conference,
         
Society of Philosophy and Geography, Towson, MD, April 2002.
 
     
Robert Saldarini


"Information Technology and the Changing Nautre of Collegiate Social
         
Relationships" (with Eugene DeRobertis). League for Innovation 2003
         
Innovations Conference, Phoenix, AZ, March 2003.
"Recreating Leadership Development from beyond the Four Walls: Linking
         
Instruction and Student Life" (with Calvin Wooland, Ralph Choonoo, and
         
students). A presentation to the 2005 Community College Futures Assembly
         
National Policy Summit on "Re-Creating America's Community Colleges."
         
The presentation showcased the multicultural leadership development
         
instruction of Saldarini’s "Patterns of Leadership" course and its
         
relationship to student life. The latter course has been identified as an
         
Institute of Higher Education’s Bellwether Award finalist and one of 2005's
         
top-10 community college educational experiences.
 
     
Mehul Shah "Mindfulness and Genuine Relationships." Unitarian Universalist Church,
         
Summit, NJ, Septermber 22, 2002.
"The Socratic Method: Theory and Practice." Symposium on Critical Thinking
         
in the Classroom, Spring 2003 Regional Conference on Critical Thinking
         
and Philosophical Practice , Bergen Community College, April 4, 2003.
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Joan S. Tscherne "Technology and Teaching Conversations." Professional and Organizational
         
Development Network Conference, Vancouver, B.C., November 2000.
"Teaching Stategies to Match Your Students' Learning Styles" (with Lucy
         
Caruso-Deane, Lynn Gold, and Susanna Lansagan). Thirteenth
         
International Conference on College Teaching and Learning,
         
Jacksonville, FL, April 2002.
 
     
Jon Yasin "Hip Hop and Education." Harvard University Hip Hop Educational Roundtable,
         
September 28, 2002.
"Hip Hop Emceein' and the Writing Process." University of California (Berkeley)
         
Conference on Hip Hop Culture, October 2001.
"Hip Hop: Maintaining and African Oral Tradition." University of Arizona
         
Conference on Hip Hop Culture, March 2002.
 
     
Kil Yi "Making of the Tigers: South Korea’s Military Experience in the Vietnam War."
         
Paper presented at the 2002 [Australian] Army History Conference,
         
Canberra, Australia, October 2-3, 2002.
 
     


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