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Danny Brown
Education Faculty
Program Development Director, Professional Preparation Programs
Chair, M.Ed. Programs
Programs, M.Ed., Northern Arizona University Educational Leadership, 1995; B.S., Ball State University, Secondary Education, 1988.
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Danny has spent over 20 years in the southwest and brings a wide variety of educational experiences to the College. He spent 12 years as a public school principal, including time on the Navajo Indian reservation and with the Jicarilla Apache Nation in New Mexico. Danny brings experiences, both in teaching and administration, at all levels, K-12. He spent 8 1/2 years teaching social studies at the secondary levels and enjoys studying the history of the state.
As educational reform is in the forefront across the nation, he sees that we must prepare teachers for the rigors of this paradigm shift. “It is critically important, however, that post-secondary institutions maintain their philosophy and mission in preparing teachers as all students can learn and learn in different ways.”
Danny is currently involved with West Yavapai Guidance Clinic as a member of their Board of Directors. He also enjoys hiking, camping and spending time with his wife and two young boys. |
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Jen Brown
Education Associate Faculty
M.A.T.C., Rhode Island College, Elementary Education, 1991; B.S., University Of Rhode Island, Natural Resource Science.
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Jennifer began her career in education teaching Environmental Education. Her experience includes teaching for the Rhode Island Audubon Society and the Audubon Society of New Hampshire. She also spent time in North Carolina teaching for the National Wildlife Federation. After teaching environmental education for several years Jennifer moved west and taught the early elementary grades in Arizona, Colorado, and New Mexico. She Spent three years on the Navajo/Hopi reservation in Northern Arizona. Jennifer also spent one year teaching on the Jacarilla Apache Reservation in Northern New Mexico. She enjoys working with the diverse group of students at Prescott College. She also enjoys hiking and spending time with her family.
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Paul Burkhardt
Chief Academic Officer, Prescott College
Dean, Adult Degree and Graduate Programs
Ph.D., University of Arizona, Comparative Cultural & Literary Studies, 1999; M.A., University of Arizona, Comparative Literature and Literary Theory, 1993; B.A., University of Arizona, English & American Literature, 1991.
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Paul grew up in the border town of Yuma, Arizona, and remains deeply committed to the people and places of the Arizona/Sonora border region. Paul believes that student learning and faculty scholarship can be most effective and transformative when integrated through participatory, field- and community-based projects. Paul’s academic background in interdisciplinary cultural studies focuses on the role of cultural discourses around the built and natural environment in movements for socio-economic and environmental justice in western communities. Paul has developed these interests into a range of interdisciplinary, community/field-based learning environments on topics such as Fire, Water, Desert Lands, Community-based Management, and Social Movements. Paul has held faculty and administrative positions at various institutions including the University of Arizona, The College of The Bahamas, and Arizona International College.
Paul is the Dean for the Adult Degree and Graduate Programs, which also include the Master of Arts Program and the Ph.D. Program. |
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Jeanine Canty
Liberal Arts Associate Faculty
Ph.D., California Institute of Integral Studies, Transformative Learning and Change, 2007; M.A., Prescott College, Cultural Ecopsychology, 2000; B.A., Colgate University,
International Relations, 1992.
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Education, awareness, and transformation are revered processes for Jeanine. She believes that teachers have immense power for creating change and awakening critical thinking skills in their students. Her favorite courses to teach are Ecopsychology and Educating for the Future: Environmental and Cultural Issues. Her areas of passion include ecopsychology, consciousness, transformative learning, environmental and social justice and cultural studies. She is very interested in the process individuals go through to reach heightened awareness of environmental and social justice. Jeanine is involved with multiple social justice and consciousness based organizations. Much of her understanding has come through her experience as an African American woman living in privileged communities.
Jeanine is also an affiliate faculty in the college's Ph.D. Program. |
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Ellen Greenblum
Education Faculty
M.F.A., Goddard College, 2010; M.Ed., Antioch College, Education, 1981; B.F.A., Massachusetts College of Art, 1979.
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Ellen is an artist and has an eclectic history of working in the field of education, including work in alternative schools and experimental programs for at-risk populations. She has been involved with Prescott College in various capacities for more many years, as faculty in the Adult Degree Program, Master of Arts Program and teaching in the Resident Degree Program. |
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Amy Hartline
Liberal Arts Associate Faculty
M.A. Transformative Leadership, California Institute of Integral Studies, 2009. B.A. Wilderness Therapy, Prescott College, 2001.
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Amy has been involved with Prescott College in a variety of capacities over the past ten years. She believes that the combination of self-directed learning and dynamic pedagogies creates an academic environment that is both supportive in nature and ripe with possibility.
Into this setting, Amy brings her interests in wilderness therapy, adventure education, somatic psychology and consciousness studies. She values the unique education and life experience that each student brings to Prescott College and is committed to supporting students as they navigate their academic program and explore their fullest potential.
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Jan Kempster
Associate Dean of Academic Affairs; Liberal Arts Faculty
Ph.D. in Higher Education Leadership, Colorado State University, 2008;
M.A., English, Northern Arizona University, 1997;
B.S., English, Lewis Clark State College, 1993.
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In her teaching, Jan focuses on creating access and opportunity for learners. Her focus includes creating accessible courses in live and online environments, utilizing technology in ways that enhance learning. She applies her ten years of higher education teaching and technology experiences to assist Prescott College students and faculty with their learning needs. Jan’s doctoral dissertation at Colorado State University explores how the organizational cultures of higher education institutions have an impact on women’s abilities to negotiate those cultures and advance within them. Jan was a river guide in the Grand Canyon and in Idaho for twelve years. She has a great appreciation and love for the rivers of the West. She is also a novice horsewoman and long-time lover of dogs.
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Rich Lewis
Library Director; Library Faculty, Adult Degree and Graduate Programs
M.A., University of Arizona, Library and Information Science, 2003; B.A., University of Washington, English, 1988.
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Rich originally comes from the Pacific Northwest, but has lived in Prescott for over 12 years. His varied background has given him experience installing alternative energy systems, teaching computer networking, studying abroad in both Nepal and France, welding in Alaska, and being a rock climber (that career was ended after an abrupt run-in with terra firma.) Currently, besides being immersed in all things library, he is actively involved with the Prescott College Ultimate Frisbee team.
“We are living in a tremendous time. Information is hovering all around us, waiting for us to turn it into knowledge. I truly want to enable students to be able to find the information they seek.” |
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Vance Luke
Education Faculty
Ph.D., Secondary Education, University of Arizona; Ed.S., Educational Media, University of Arizona; M.Ed., Educational Administration, University of Arizona; M.Ed., Elementary Education, University of Arizona; B.F.A., Art Education, University of Arizona.
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Vance taught in Arizona Public Schools for over thirty years. He served as an elementary and secondary teacher, and as a Project Specialist in the Magnet schools. During the last ten years, he also worked with Prescott students as a mentor and graduate advisor. His doctoral dissertation centered on an evaluation of a math/science staff development program, in which he documented the participants perceived changes in attitude and behavior relative to prescribed goals and process components. He enjoys working with students in the areas of instructional design and implementation. He also likes to work in the visual arts. Vance serves students through our Tucson Center.
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Nancy Mattina
Coordinator of the Prescott College Writing and Learning Center
Ph.D., Simon Fraser University, Linguistics, 1996;
M.I.S., University of Montana, Native American Linguistics, 1987;
B.A., Allegheny College, English, 1978.
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Nancy brings the perspective of working scientists, scholars, and administrators to the teaching of expository writing. Despite an early interest in fiction and literary criticism, she has spent most of her career working to revitalize the Native American languages of the Northwest Plateau area. Her field studies on Nxa7amxcin (Moses-Columbia Salish) have led to
language curricula, journal articles, and a forthcoming bilingual dictionary. In the area of English language and rhetoric, Nancy believes that the desire for clear, cogent, and accurate written expression is shared across all disciplines.
Her goal in writing center work is to reveal to every willing student the strategies and tactics that professionals use to achieve insight and credibility through their writing. |
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Beth Scott
Education Faculty; Interim Director of the Tucson Center
Ed.D, Educational Leadership, Higher Education, University of Rochester; C.A.S., Educational Administration, State University of NY at Brockport; M.A., Linguistics, University of Rochester; B.A., Secondary Education, French/Spanish, State University of NY at Buffalo.
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Prior to joining the faculty at Prescott College Tucson Center, Beth worked in higher education for over nine years at the SUNY Geneseo Ella Cline Shear School of Education and the University of Rochester Warner Graduate School of Education and Human Development, coordinating all field placements for student teachers.
Previously, she was a public school teacher for 17 years, with 12 of those years in the Rochester City School District. Beth served as a site team evaluator and reviewer for the Massachusetts Charter School Office and New York State Charter School Institute, and has consulted in numerous other charter school endeavors.
She holds teaching certifications in French and Spanish for grades N -12 and a Certificate of Advanced Study as a school district administrator in New York State. Beth completed her doctorate in educational leadership at the University of Rochester. Her dissertation examined five community college programs that enable dropouts and potential dropouts from the Rochester City School District to obtain a high school diploma and then access and succeed in higher education.
Beth received her Bachelor's degree from SUNY Buffalo in secondary education with a major in French and minor in Spanish and holds a Master's degree in Linguistics from the University of Rochester. She is also a graduate of Leadership Rochester and often speaks to community organizations on education reform initiatives. She and her husband Fred are looking forward to their new life in Tucson. |
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Terril L. Shorb
Liberal Arts Faculty
Ph.D., Prescott College, Education: Sustainability Education; M.A., Sonoma State University, Interdisciplinary Studies, 1992; Journalism
Certificate, Sonoma State University; B.A., Sonoma State
University, Communications Studies, 1989.
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Terril is the Founder and Faculty Coordinator of the Sustainable
Community Development Program. He is a Core Faculty member of
the Adult Degree Program and is Co-Publisher of a small, natural
history
press, Native
West Press. He is currently working to help save a treasured
local wetlands area from extinction due to development pressures. |
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Kistie Simmons
Coordinator of E-learning; Liberal Arts Faculty
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Gary Stogsdill
Liberal Arts/Education Faculty
M.A., Northern Arizona University, Community College Education,
1990; B.A., Prescott College Adult Degree Program, Elementary
Education, 1986.
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Gary has a long relationship with Prescott College, first as a student
in the Adult Degree Program in the mid-1980s, then as faculty for
the Resident Degree Program from 1990 to 2003, and since 2004 as
faculty for the Adult Degree Program. His interests include education, spirituality, energy healing, and creative mathematics. He designed and mentors the course, Mathematical Explorations, to give ADP students a more holisitic and anxiety-free option for meeting the math proficiency requirement at Prescott College.
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Susan Yeich
Liberal Arts Faculty
Ph.D., Michigan State University, Community Psychology, 1992; M.A., Michigan State University, Community Psychology, 1988; B.S., Virginia Tech University, Psychology, 1985.
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Susan brings with her a background in human services and
community organizing. One of her most significant experiences involved
implementing a grassroots-organizing project with the homeless, which
she completed for her dissertation. In 1994, she had a book called "The
Politics of Ending Homelessness" (University Press of America)
published, which was based on the project. Susan is grateful to now
be a part of an academic community that is committed to social justice,
multiculturalism and environmental awareness. Susan serves students through our Tucson Center. |
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Vicky Young
Education/Liberal Arts Faculty; Coordinator
for CIBTE and Native American Students; Life Experience
Coordinator
Ph.D., Fielding Graduate University, Human Development, 2007; M.A., Fielding Graduate University, Human and Organizational Systems, 2004;
M.Ed., Northern Arizona
University, Counseling with an emphasis in Human Relations, 2001; M.Ed., Northern Arizona University, Educational Leadership, 1999; B.A.,
Prescott College, Human Services, 1995.
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Vicky has lived in the Philippines, Iceland, and in the richly diverse
communities of Philadelphia, Key West, San Ysidro, and San Diego.
She has served on the Navajo Nation Teacher Education Consortium and provides administrative support for Native American students in the Center for Indian Bilingual Teacher Education (CIBTE). Vicky believes the mission of education is to promote understanding and respect for our environment and diverse world community. As a social change agent, Vicky became a living kidney donor in 2004. |
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Last updated August 6, 2010. |
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