HESA Program Faculty
Deborah
E. Hunter
Associate Professor
Dr.
Hunter joined the UVM HESA faculty in 1985 after serving as a student
affairs administrator at the University of Louisville and the
University of Indianapolis. She served as the Coordinator of the HESA
program from 1987-1997 and after a stint as Associate Dean of UVM’s
College of Education and Social Services, she again assumed the role as
HESA Program Coordinator from 2002 until 2010. In addition to her
involvement with the HESA Program, she is currently in her second year
as Chair of the Department of Leadership and Developmental Sciences,
one of three departments within UVM’s College of Education and Social
Services. She teaches The (Un) Changing Academy and
Controversies of the Academy, as well as a course in the doctoral
program, Leadership and the Creative Imagination. The University of
Vermont honored Professor Hunter with the 1998 Kroepsch-Maurice Award
for Excellence in Teaching Award and the Jackie M. Gribbons Award for
Extraordinary Service to the College of Education and Social Services
in 2007. In addition, Dr. Hunter has been honored with various
professional awards including: The Annuit Coeptis Senior Professional
Award from The American College Personnel Association; a Distinguished
Accomplishment Citation from the National Association for Student
Affairs Administrators; and the Dorothy Truax Award and the Ruth Strang
Research Award from the National Association for Women in Education.
Dr. Hunter has held leadership positions from each of these
professional associations: Chair of ACPA's Commission on Professional
Preparation; NASPA's Advisory Board and National Conference Committee;
Chair of the 1997 NAWE National Conference, and Chair of NAWE'S
Division on Teaching and Research. Professor Hunter's most recent
research explores the careers of women faculty and how they’ve crafted
fulfilling personal and professional lives. Her scholarship has
been published in the Journal of Higher Education, Journal of College
Student Development, Journal of Counseling and Development, Review of
Higher Education, and NASPA Journal. She co-authored NASPA monograph on
student affairs research. In addition to her teaching responsibilities,
Dr. Hunter has juggled responsibilities as Associate Dean of the
College of Education and Social Services, President of the Faculty of
the College of Education and Social Services, and two terms as Co-Chair
of the President's Commission on the Status of Women. Her
Ph.D. with a double major in Higher Education and Educational Inquiry
Methodology and her master's degree in Student Affairs were earned at
Indiana University, which honored her with the Elizabeth Greenleaf
Distinguished Alumnus/a Award.
After growing up in the New York City
suburbs, I never anticipated living on a dirt road in a farmhouse
that was built in 1810 with my husband and twin 17 year old sons,
complete with a big red barn and sheep, a peacock, 2 huge
dogs, 4 cats and 60 trout named “Fred”! No wonder I am so happy when I
am on campus: I am not surrounded by strange animal noises, mud, and
mess! I love to welcome my UVM colleagues to my home to enjoy Vermont’s
beautiful countryside.
Professor and HESA Program Coordinator
Dr.
Manning has experienced student affairs from the perspectives of an
administrator and a faculty member. Prior to 1989, she worked in
residence life, student union management, campus activities,
orientation, and judicial affairs. Since 1989 she has served as a
professor in the Higher Education and Student Affairs Administration
program. From 1999 to 2003, she served as the HESA Program Coordinator.
In the spring 2003, Dr. Manning received a Fulbright Fellowship to
teach higher education classes at Beijing Normal University in Beijing,
China. In 2004, she was accepted into the Fulbright Senior Specialist
Program.
Dr. Manning's research and writing interests include campus cultures,
qualitative research methodology, and cultural pluralism. She published
Organizational Theory in Higher
Education (2013), Where I Am
From: Student Affairs Practice from the Whole of Students’ Lives (2007,
with Susan Borrego), One Size Does
Not Fit All: Traditional and Innovative Models of Student Affairs
Practice (2006, with Jillian Kinzie and John Schuh), Research in the College Context:
Approaches and Methods (2003, co-edited with Frances Stage); Rituals, Ceremonies, and Cultural Meaning
in Higher Education (2000); Enhancing
the Multicultural Campus Environment: A Cultural Brokering Approach
(1992, with Frances Stage); and Giving
Voice to Critical Campus Issues (1999). With HESA alumnus F.M.
Munoz, Dr. Manning is also a chapter author in Harper, Schuh, and
Jones's Student Services: A
handbook for the profession (2010) and Stewart's Building bridges, re-visioning community:
Multicultural student services on campus (2010). She has chapers published in Diverse Methods for Research and
Assessment of College Student (1992) (edited by Frances Stage), Cultural Perspectives in Student Affairs
Work (1993) (edited by George Kuh), and Spirituality and Campus Life (2002)
(edited by Margaret Jablonski). She publishes in the NASPA Journal, Journal of College Student
Development, and Review of
Higher Education.
Recent research projects include a study of white social justice allies
with Garrett Naiman of University of California at Berkeley and Project
DEEP with George Kuh of Indiana University and a team of national
recognized researchers.
Dr. Manning's national and local awards include NASPA's Outstanding
Contribution to the Literature or Research (2007), NASPA's Pillar of
the Profession, Fulbright Fellow (2003), Fulbright Senior Specialist
(2004-2009), NASPA's Faculty Fellow (2007-2010), ACPA's Annuit Coeptis
Senior Scholar (1997), and Kroepsch-Maurice Award for Excellence in
Teaching (1992).
Prior to her work in Vermont, Dr. Manning served as the Assistant Dean
of Students at Emerson College/MA, Executive Assistant to Student Life
at Trenton State College/NJ, Director of Student Activities at Curry
College/MA, and a Residence Director at SUNY Albany/NY, Syracuse
University, and Mount Holyoke College.
Dr. Manning has a doctorate in Higher Education and Student Affairs
with a minor in anthropology from Indiana University and a masters
degree in Counseling and Student Personnel from the State University of
New York at Albany. During the 1994-95 academic year, she served in an
administrative assignment as the Chair of the Commission on Racial
Equality and Multicultural Education. She served as the Executive
Editor of the Journal of Student
Affairs Research and Practice from 2009 - 2012 and Program Chair
for the 2002 NASPA National Conference in Boston.
As an avid sailor and skier, I truly
enjoy living in Vermont. I can never decide which I prefer, the Vermont
summers or winters (yes, I love the snow and the cold). I don’t
consider myself a great outdoors-person, but I get re-charged by
walking along the lake, sailing on Lake Champlain, or just being
outside. I live in this terrific condo near the lake and the bike path.
Shametrice Davis
Henderson Post-Doctoral Fellow
Dr. Davis joined the HESA faculty as a Henderson Postdoctoral Fellow in
the fall of 2012. Her previous degrees include a B.S. in Public Health
from the University of Maryland, College Park and a Master’s in College
Student Services Administration from Oregon State University. Dr. Davis
finished her doctoral studies at the University of Denver, where she
completed her dissertation research on the success of historically
Black colleges and universities in the 21st century. Her distinguished
accomplishments include an Outstanding Ph.D. Student award and
participation in the notable Barbara Jackson Scholars Program. Through
her research, Dr. Davis hopes to expose underlying systemic injustice
leading to individual inequity or oppression and give voice to
non-dominant communities that are under-represented in the extant
literature and scholarship. Also integral to her research is a
strengths-based approach to empowering underrepresented communities and
leaders. In the HESA program, Dr. Davis teaches Introduction to
Research Methods in Higher Education and co-teaches Cultural Pluralism
in Higher Education with Kathleen Manning. Dr. Davis has 5 years of
experience in higher education in the areas of advising, admissions,
and academic counseling.
I am so excited to begin a new journey in the beautiful state of
Vermont. After living in Colorado, Washington, and Oregon, it is time
to finally embrace the beautiful outdoors by enjoying everything that
the stunning landscape of water and mountains has to offer.
Robert J. Nash
Professor
Robert J. Nash has been a professor in the College of Education and
Social Services, University of Vermont, Burlington, for 39 years. He
specializes in philosophy of education, ethics, higher education, and
religion, spirituality, and education. He holds graduate degrees in
English, Theology/Religious Studies, Applied Ethics and Liberal
Studies, and Philosophy/Educational Philosophy. He holds faculty
appointments in teacher education, higher education administration, and
interdisciplinary studies in education. He administers the
Interdisciplinary Master’s Program, and he teaches ethics, religion,
higher education, and philosophy of education courses, and scholarly
personal narrative writing seminars across four programs in the college
including the doctoral program in Educational Leadership and Policy
Studies. He has supervised over 100 theses and dissertations.
He has published more than 100 articles, book chapters, monographs, and
essay book reviews in many of the leading journals in education at all
levels. He is a member of the editorial board for the Journal of Religion & Education,
and one of its frequent contributors. Since 1996, he has published a
number of books, several of them national award winners: “Real World” Ethics: Frameworks for
Educators and Human Service Professionals (2002, 1st and 2nd
editions); Answering the
“Virtuecrats”: A Moral Conversation on Character Education (1997); Faith, Hype, and Clarity: Teaching About
Religion in American Schools and Colleges (1998); Religious Pluralism in the Academy:
Opening the Dialogue (2001);
Spirituality, Ethics, Religion, and Teaching (2001); A Professor’s Journey; Liberating Scholarly Writing: The
Power of Personal Narrative (2004); How to Talk About Hot Topics on Campus:
From Polarization to Moral Conversation (2008) with DeMethra
Bradley and Arthur Chickering;
Me-Search and Re-Search: A Guide for Writing Scholarly Personal
Narrative Manuscripts (2011) with DeMethra LaSha Bradley; and Helping College Students Find Purpose: The
Campus Guide to Meaning-Making
(2010) with HESA alumna Michele C. Murray and Sharon Daloz Parks.
Dr. Nash completed a book with Professor Penny Bishop,
Middle-Level educator, called Teaching
Adolescents Religious Literacy in a Post-9/11 World (2009).
Dr. Nash consults throughout the country for a number of human service
organizations and colleges and universities. He makes major
presentations at national conferences and universities on the topics of
ethics, character education, religious pluralism, scholarly personal
narrative scholarship, and moral conversation. He is a frequent,
featured speaker at the national level. In 2003, he was named the
Official University Scholar in the Social Sciences and the Humanities
at The University of Vermont, only the second faculty member in the
history of the College of Education and Social Services to be so
honored.
Jill Tarule
Professor
Dr. Jill Tarule brings her expertise as a professor in human
development and leadership to the HESA program. She is currently
coordinating the practica program, a well-established aspect of the
HESA curriculum. Her emphases as a faculty member are on
leadership, organizational development, and qualitative research.
Dr. Tarule’s is a coauthor of Women's Ways of Knowing, The Development
of Self, Voice, and Mind, a book that has recognized by the Association
for the Study of Higher Education and the Association of Women in
Psychology. She also co-edited Knowledge, Difference and Power:
Essays Inspired by Women’s Ways of Knowing in 1996.
Dr. Jill Tarule joins the HESA faculty after service as an
administrator in a variety of positions. She came to the University of
Vermont as the Dean of Education and Social Services in 1992, after
holding various faculty and administrative positions in Vermont and
elsewhere. Under her leadership, the College for Education and Social
Services developed innovative programs for professionals statewide, saw
significant growth in graduate education, created new professional
development schools, and played a major role in education and social
services policy. After 13 years as the Dean of CESS, in 2005 Dr.
Tarule became an Associate Provost, a position she held for four
years. Before coming to UVM, she was a Dean and Special Assistant
to the President at Lesley College (now Lesley University), and a Dean
of Graduate Studies at Goddard College. She is also a former
chair of the board of the American Association of Colleges for Teacher
Education and of the New Dean's Institute of that organization.
Tarule is a champion for collaborative learning and social justice as
well as a human-strengths perspective in the professional education of
leaders and educators. Committed to the land-grant mission, she and the
CESS faculty worked with the Vermont State Department of Education,
Vermont State Colleges, and Agency of Human Services in a vast array of
projects and research focused on serving the children, adults, families
and communities of Vermont.
Her early research and scholarship focused on adult learners. Among her
publications in the 1980’s, she coauthored (with Rita Weathersby) Adult
Learners: Implications for Higher Education, an ERIC/AAHE Monograph and
a chapter called “Steps Toward Change: The Process of Transition”
in Greenberg, O’Donnel, and Berquist, (Eds.) Educating Learners
of All Ages. Her current scholarship focuses on leadership, with
two strands: women and leadership and moral leadership. Recent
publications include three book chapters (with Jane Applegate and Penny
Early) on women as leaders, and an article in 2010 (with Judy Cohen,
Betty Rambur, and Carol Vallett) on “The Moral Cascade: Distress,
Eustress and the Virtuous Organization” and, with the same authors, a
chapter on “Theories/Models of Organizational Stress.”
She was honored with the Jackie M. Gribbons Leadership Award in 1999
and holds an honorary doctorate from University of New Hampshire for
her work on adult learners. She also received the American Association
of Colleges of Teacher Education Gender Equity Award and the Pomeroy
Award for Outstanding Contributions to Teacher Education. Tarule,
a native of Vermont, attended Bennington College and earned degrees
from Goddard College and the Harvard Graduate School of Education.
I grew up in a small Vermont town,
and have been delighted to be in Vermont as a professional. My
passions are focused on ensuring that higher education – where I have
worked for nearly my entire professional career – and to some extent
all institutions continue to develop in ways that further and ensure
equity, justice and reflective thinking and practice. The chance
to engage with HESA students as they experiment with different parts of
the academy in the practicum experiences is a delight, providing an
opportunity to support new professionals as they work, themselves, and
learn about how the academy works and what they care about and can do
within it.
Jackie M. Gribbons (retired)
Professor Emerita
Professor Gribbons was a faculty member of the HESA program since its
inception in 1970 until her retirement in 2007. As the previous
Coordinator of the Practicum Internships, she developed over 200 credit
internships and provided the leadership, organization, and quality
control for this nationally acclaimed practicum program. When she took
early retirement in 1993 following 27 years of service as an
administrator at UVM, she continued her faculty assignment with the
HESA program as an advisor to HESA students. In 2007, she retired from
the HESA faculty but continues her contact with HESA alumni. She also
continues to serve on several University committees.
Professor Gribbon's areas of scholarly and professional interest
include staff development and training, strategic planning, women in
higher education, leadership development, and staff supervision and
recruitment. Professor Gribbons developed and taught a year-long career
development seminar to assist second-year students in their
professional preparation.
A national leader in higher education, she was the President of the
National Association for Women in Education (NAWE), Vice President for
Association Advancement and Director of Planned Giving. She served as
the Vermont State Coordinator for the American Council on Education's
National Identification Program for the advancement of women in higher
education. Her leadership and contributions have brought her numerous
national and state awards and citations, including three leadership and
service awards which carry her name at the UVM, State of Vermont, and
Bowling Green State University. Professor Gribbons holds a M.A. degree
in Counseling and Physical Education from Case Western Reserve
University.