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Dr. Joseph Armstrong
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Dr. Joe Armstrong’s Biography
Dr. Joseph L. Armstrong is an Assistant Professor of Adult and Community Education, and currently serves as Director of the Doctoral Program in Adult, Higher, and Community Education. He holds a BS in Psychology from Purdue University, an MS in Adult and Technological Education, and a PhD in Adult Education from The University of Tennessee. His dissertation, titled “Collaborative Learning: A Study of Two Classes,” won the 1998-99 University of Tennessee, College of Education’s dissertation of the year award, under the direction of Dr. John Peters.
Prior to coming to Ball State University, Dr. Armstrong served as Director of the Adult and Higher Education Program at Morehead State University in Morehead, Kentucky. His teaching career began as a graduate teaching assistant at the University of Tennessee and includes a stint as an instructor at Walters State Community College in Morristown, Tennessee.
Dr. Armstrong conducts research in the areas of Collaborative Learning and Program Evaluation and remains current in the field of Adult Education by being active in the American Association of Adult and Community Education (AAACE), the American Society of Training and Development (ASTD), the Commission of Professors of Adult Education (CAPE), the Adult Education Research Conference (AERC), and the Midwest Research to Practice Conference (MWRP).
Dr. Joe Armstrong’s Courses
EDAC 629 Psychology of Adult Adjustment
EDAC 631 Adult and Community Education
EDAC 632 Organizing Adult and Community Education Programs
EDAC 634 The Adult as a Learner
EDAC 635 Strategies for Teaching Adults
EDAC 638 Program Planning in Community and Adult Education
EDAC 644 Collaborative Learning in Adult, Higher, and Community Education
EDAC 646 Working with Volunteers in Community Agencies
EDAC 648 The Community Educator
EDAC 700 Seminar in Adult and Community Education
EDAC 710 Research in Adult and Community Education
EDCUR 660 Ethnographic Research in Education
ID 705 Research Colloquium
Dr. Michelle Glowacki-Dudka’s Biography
Dr. Michelle Glowacki-Dudka (Shelly) currently serves as an Assistant Professor in Adult and Higher Education in the Department of Educational Studies at Ball State University. She also is the Advisor for the Masters of Arts in Adult and Community Education and the Masters of Arts in Executive Development for Public Service.
Dr. Glowacki-Dudka has a Master’s in Adult and Continuing Education from Northern Illinois University (May, 1997) and Ph.D. from University of Wisconsin-Madison in Adult Education from the Continuing and Vocational Education Program. She studied under Dr. Alan Knox and completed her dissertation (Interorganizational Collaboration: Opportunities, Challenges, and Strategies for Program Development) in December, 1999.
Dr. Glowacki-Dudka has worked at universities in the US and abroad in Poland and Saudi Arabia as a faculty member, coordinator, and evaluator. She also coordinated a collaborative project among Wisconsin state agencies to promote, evaluate, and advocate for family literacy by giving voice to educators at the margins to shape public policy. In this position she developed a database system and handbook for data collection related to program evaluation.
Her research interests build on her experience in collaboration, evaluation, and educational program planning. She also is very interested in social movements, community development, and dialogue. In the realm of editorial and publication experience, she has co-authored two books and three chapters about teaching online. She also has published a journal article about community development through dialogue and multiple conference papers covering a variety of topics. She also has been very active in the Midwest Research to Conference Steering Committee.
Dr. Michelle Glowacki-Dudka’s Courses
EDAC 629 Psychology of Adult Adjustment
EDAC 635 Strategies for Teaching Adults
EDAC 638 Program Planning in Community and Adult Education
EDAC 646-Recruiting, Training, Supervising Volunteers
EDCUR 675 Evaluation of Educational Personnel to Strengthen Curriculum
EDCUR 660 Ethnographic Research in Education
EDCUR 671 Evaluation of Educational Programs
EDCUR 680 Staff Development to Strengthen Curriculum
EDCUR 770 Seminar in Evaluation
Dr. Lisa Merriweather-Hunn’s Biography
Dr. Lisa R. Merriweather Hunn currently serves as an Assistant Professor in Adult, Higher, and Community Education in the Department of Educational Studies at Ball State University. She holds a BA in Psychology from California State University-Long Beach, a MA in Adult Education from Morehead State University, a graduate certificate in Qualitative Research Inquiry and a Ph.D. from the University of Georgia in Adult Education. She studied under Drs. Talmadge Guy (Adult Education) and Ronald Butchart (Social Foundations). Her dissertation was titled Hitching a Wagon to a Star: An Oral History Study Exploring African American Adult Education in Cincinnati, Ohio, 1930-1949. She completed her degree in May, 2004.
This is Dr. Merriweather Hunn’s first academic appointment. She promises to bring vitality, fresh perspectives, and diversity to each course that she teaches. She has a big heart for learners which was nurtured while she was a graduate student at the University of Georgia where she was a member of the Students of African Descent support group. She acted as the group’s program coordinator and also as the conference chairperson for the Annual Spring Research Conference that the group organizes.
She will continue to do research in the areas of African American Adult Education history, African American adult learners, and Africentric Philosophical Theory. She has a special interest in redressing issues of equity and social justice especially within the historical discourse of the field. Toward this end, she plans to do other oral history projects to help recover the voices of African American adult learners who participated in adult education in past times. She has a chapter on Africentrism in New Directions for Adult and Community Education. She actively participates in conferences like AERC (Adult Education Research Conference), AAACE (American Association for Adult and Continuing Education, and QUIG (Qualitative Inquiry Group) as an attendee and presenter.
Dr. Lisa Merriweather –Hunn’s Courses
EDAC 540 Educational Gerontology
EDAC 631 Adult and Community Education
EDAC 632 Organizing Adult and Community Education Programs
EDAC 635 Strategies for Teaching Adults
EDAC 780 Seminar in Managing Lifelong Education Programs
Dr. Thalia Mulvihill’s Biography
Dr. Thalia Mulvihill currently serves as a tenured Associate Professor in Higher Education and Social Foundations of Education, the Associate Director of the Adult, Higher and Community Education Doctoral Program, and as the Chair of the European Teacher Education Network.
Dr. Mulvihill holds a Ph.D. in Cultural Foundations of Education and Curriculum (Syracuse University, 1995) an interdisciplinary degree with a focus in History and Sociology of Education/Higher Education and a Concentration in Gender and Education Studies. She also holds two Certificates: (1) Gender and Education Studies and (2) Qualitative Research. Her MA is in Higher Education Research/Student Affairs Administration. (Syracuse University, 1987), and she earned dual degrees as an undergraduate in American Studies and Secondary Social Studies Education, (Syracuse University, 1985).
Her research agenda focuses on the history and sociology of education and higher education with a focus on women and gender issues. Some areas of special interest include: 1.) life histories of women educators, including 19th, 20th and 21st century women educators, deans of women, women college and university presidents, 2.) graduate student education with a focus on curriculum development for future professors and student affairs administrators, 3.) qualitative research methods, 4.) critical theory and pedagogies that focus on democracy and social justice issues, 5.) conflict resolution for educators, 6.) internationalizing the curriculum for educators, and 7.) cultural studies, popular culture and educational issues related to interscholastic and intercollegiate athletics.
Dr. Mulvihill’s recent awards include the University’s Excellence in Teaching Award (2004), the Virginia B. Ball Center for Creative Inquiry Fellowship (2002-2003), and
The Ray Williams Midwest - Central Award recognizing Outstanding New Higher EducationFaculty Member. In addition, Dr. Mulvihill was nominated, in 2002, for the History of Education Prize for outstanding history of education article, “The Extended Influence of Dean M. Eunice Hilton and Katherine Sibley: A Case Study of the Collegial Integration of Programs for Women University Students, 1930s - 1950s,” Initiatives, (Washington, DC: National Association for Women in Education, Fall 2000, vol. 59, no. 4.), and for the Dixon Ryan Fox Manuscript Prize, for the best book manuscript on New York State History, from the New York State Historical Association, The Promise of Educational Communities in Nineteenth Century America: Communal Notions at Work in Emma Hart Willard’s Educational Philosophy (forthcoming). In 2000 she was nominated for the History of Education Prize for outstanding history of education article, "Hart to Hart: Sisters Working in Tandem for Educational Change in Nineteenth Century America," Vitae Scholasticae: The Bulletin of Educational Biography, (Caddo Gap Press, Spring, 1999), pp. 79 – 95, and her research on Women College and University Presidents was featured in Women In Higher Education (November, 200).
Dr. Thalia Mulvihill’s Courses
The courses Dr. Mulvihill teaches serve a variety of undergraduate and graduate degree programs within Teachers College, the Honors College and University - wide Doctoral Programs.
EDHI 609 Preparing for the Professoriate
EDHI 610 Issues in Higher Education
EDHI 611 Teaching and Curriculum Issues in Higher Education
EDHI 613 Administration and Finance in Higher Education
EDHI 700 Seminar in Higher Education
EDFON 660 Comparative Education
EDFON 610 Women, Gender and Education
EDCUR 660 Ethnography
EDFON 641 History of Education
EDSEC 676 Research Methods for Secondary Education
EDMUL 660 Multicultural Education
EDSEC 500 Conflict Resolution for Educators
EDSEC 500 Popular Culture and Educational Studies
EDGEN 500 Educational Issues and Athletics
EDFON 420 Social Foundations of Education
EDMUL 205 Multicultural Education
HONRS 199 Community, Family and Education
Dr. Roger D. Wessel’s Biography
Dr. Roger Wessel came to Ball State University in 1991 after completion of his doctor of philosophy in higher education degree from Southern Illinois University at Carbondale (SIUC). His previous degrees include a master’s of education from SIUC and bachelor's degree from Lee University.
As an Associate Professor of Higher Education, Dr. Wessel has taught graduate courses and advised students in two graduate programs (i.e., Adult, Higher, and Community Education; Student Affairs Administration in Higher Education) in the Department of Educational Studies since 1994. At Ball State University Dr. Wessel has also served as the Assistant Vice President for Planning, Research, and Evaluation; Director of Orientation and New Student Programs; Assistant to the Dean of Admissions and Financial Aid, and as Assistant Director of the Career Center.
Roger’s scholarly activities include over 100 publications, papers, or professional presentations (forty-two in refereed journals or at refereed professional conferences) and six external grants. He served as the inaugural editor of The Journal of Employment in Education and as an associate editor of The Journal of Orientation and Transition. He has received several awards including the Ball State University Dale Bowman Outstanding Program Award in 2001, American Association for Employment in Education Meritorious Service Award in 1997, and the Ball State University Student Affairs’ Outstanding Researcher in 1996..
Dr. Roger D. Wessel’s Courses
EDCUR 671 Evaluation of Educational Programs
EDHI 600 Introduction to Student Affairs Administration
EDHI 601 Theories of College Student Development: Higher Education Application
EDHI 602 The American College student affairs
EDHI 613 Administration and Finance in Higher Education
EDHI 640 The Community College
EDHI 698 Principles and Practices of Student Affairs Administration
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Dr. Joseph L. Armstrong, Program Director
TC 814 Ball State University Muncie, IN 47306-0590
Phone: (765) 285-5460 Fax: (765) 285-5489
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