January 2024 // Homeland Security Program Accreditation | HSTEM Symposium | Resilience Reimagined: Ukraine | Publications & Presentations | and more
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From the Dean
Dear Members and Friends of the Embry-Riddle Worldwide | College of Arts & Sciences,
I hope the new year 2024 finds you and those you care about well! We continue to make big steps toward the realization of our mission
to be a destination college for multidisciplinary studies and impactful collaborative research as well as continue to be a national leader in general education, developing opportunities for our diverse student population to fulfill their educational goals and become responsive, responsible global citizens.
The month of January is Human Trafficking Awareness Month, and January 11 is "Wear Blue Day," in support of the Blue Campaign:
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security Blue Campaign (with the Blue Lightning Initiative, focused on the Air Transportation sector and led together by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security and the U.S. Department of Transportation) "is a national public awareness campaign designed to educate the public, law enforcement, and other industry partners to recognize the indicators of human trafficking, and how to appropriately respond to possible cases." (https://www.dhs.gov/blue-campaign)
Our college contributed to this year's Wear Blue Day with a collage of college members' selfies while dressed in blue:
Human trafficking often involving air transport, we as a college of Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University -- which also provides the general education program to all students of Embry-Riddle's Worldwide Campus -- feel a particular responsibility to contribute to the national awareness effort in combating human trafficking. We have previously partnered with the Blue Lightning Initiative in delivering awareness webinars to Embry-Riddle students, faculty and staff across the country and around the world.
This engagement of ours also aligns with several of our degree programs, including but not limited to our online B.S. in Communication that is currently adding a Risk, Crisis and Resilience Specialization, our online M.S. in Human Security and Resilience, as well as our online B.S. in Homeland Security, which has just become the first accredited homeland security bachelor's program nationwide (read more below)!
These are also examples of how we live our college's motto:
Teaching and Research to Foster Positive Global Change
Let me invite you to be a member of our thriving virtual community and stay current on what we are up for. Thank you for being so interested as we now have more than 1,600 followers on LinkedIn and over 1,100 subscribers to this newsletter!
Best wishes
Alexander Siedschlag, Ph.D., Dean and Professor of Homeland Security and Security Studies
Homeland Security Program Accreditation
The Embry-Riddle Worldwide | College of Arts & Sciences B.S. in Homeland Security, as the first bachelor in homeland security program nationwide, was accredited by the Council for the Accreditation of Emergency Management & Homeland Security Education (CAEMHSE) Board of Directors' for the full five-year period. The effort was championed by the Program Chair, Assistant Professor and Associate Department Chair Cihan AYDINER , with the support of Security and Emergency Services Department Chair Tanya Corbin . Kudos!
Humanistic STEM Study Abroad Program Summer 2024: A Humanistic STEM Experience: Math, Art and Culture in Greece and Italy
Application Deadline: February 29, 2024
Art, mathematics, culture, engineering, literature, warfare and democracy - find the European roots of them all on this trip.
Learn through experiences at FIVE United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) World Heritages sites - two in Italy and three in Greece. The trip begins in Rome and ends in Athens with Naples/Pompeii and the home island of Pythagoras along the way. Planes, trains, buses and feet offer a variety of perspectives on landscape, technology and modern European culture in between the historic and ancient .
Take up to six hours of the following: MATH 201, MATH 202, HUMN 299 or HUMN 399 all of which can meet general education requirements. Humanistic STEM blends content from Science, Technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) with humanities habits of mind in a way that will show you how these areas impact and influence each other.
Led by Debra Taylor Bourdeau and Beverly Wood , this will be a two-week immersion into the ways in which Mathematics, Science, Engineering and Technology inform and are informed by the Humanities (philosophy, rhetoric, literature, ethics, etc.).?
Second Humanistic STEM Symposium, February 12-13, 2024, Daytona Beach Campus & Online
Supported by a National Science Foundation Grant and led by Debra Taylor Bourdeau , Associate Professor of English and Associate Dean for Student Success and Academics, we hold our second Humanistic STEM symposium next month. If you are interested in attending, please contact Debra Bourdeau at [email protected]
Upcoming Event: "Resilience Reimagined" Dean's Virtual Speaker Series, January 30
Past Events
In case you missed some past events, we have recordings for you on our college's growing YouTube channel that also includes informational videos on our degree program as well as select courses!
Student Feature: Maura Muldoon, M.S. in Human Factors Program
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Faculty Research Feature: Zackery Reed, Department of Mathematics, Science and Technology
Faculty News
Faculty Research Startup Fund Program
Sponsored by Dean Alexander Siedschlag and managed through our college's new Research Council chaired by Christina Frederick, our recently launched Faculty Research Startup Fund Program is intended to aid full-time faculty by supporting a range of expenses associated with original research and scholastic activities that address new topics, and/or use new approaches and methods.
The following are the program's two inaugural projects:
Further Faculty News
Thanks and congratulations to all contributors! Below are a few highlights.
Publications and Presentations by Our Faculty
The College conducts basic, applied and translational research, and engages in creative work; it provides mentored research opportunities for undergraduate and graduate students. In doing so, it fosters unique and innovative disciplinary, multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary research, approaches and applications to STEM, social and behavioral sciences, humanities, and comprehensive civil security studies that have a societal impact.
Publications
Faulconer, E. & Kam, C. (2023). Safety competency in an online introductory chemistry laboratory course. Quarterly Review of Distance Education, 24(2).
Hook, K. & Hoban, I. (2023). Children's agency and co-construction of everyday militarism(s): Representations and realities of war in Ukrainian children's art, 2014–2022. In Beier, J.M. & Berents, H. (Eds.),?Children, childhoods, and global politics (pp. 193-209). Bristol University Press.
Jung, J.-Y., Kwesell, A. & Mai L.? (2023). Multidimensional internet connectedness and local civic engagement in the context of post-disaster Fukushima, Japan. Communication Monographs, 10.1080/03637751.2023.2279562.
Rister, A. (2023). Partnerships for a nonprofit organization's human trafficking digital activism, training, legislative advocacy, and survivor support efforts. Journal of Public Interest Communications, 7(2), 4-25. https://doi.org/10.32473/jpic.v7.i2.p3
Presentation
Frederick, C. (2023, December 8). Vitality: The energy behind flourishing [Conference presentation]. Nova Institute Annual Conference, Seeds of Change: Inspiring a Better Future, Virtual.
Learn More about Who We Are and What We Do
Including Our 9 Online Degree Programs, 2 Graduate Certificates and 13 Minors
Visit our recently upgraded website?https://worldwide.erau.edu/colleges/arts-sciences.
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Learn more about our online degree programs that focus on applied studies that implement state-of-the-art curriculum to educate students for long-term success in their profession.
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Giving to the Embry-Riddle Worldwide | College of Arts and Sciences
We continue to solicit kick-off philanthropic giving for our Virtual Collaboratory on Security and Resilience Education, Research and Engagement, planned for launch in 2024! If interested in becoming a founding donor, please reach out to Shelley Johnson.
Support our college and its ambitious goals in fostering positive global change through innovative education and research by?giving to Embry-Riddle.
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