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Activities For The 2006-2007 Academic Year

• The Committee on Faculty By-Laws
• The LUC-AAUP’s Negotiation Team
• The Committee on Nominations
• The Ad Hoc Committee on Black Studies (School Committee)
  
  Conference Attendance
• The National Association of African American Studies
• The Egyptian Conference & Tour
• Presentations
  Building a Humanistic Psychology: On the Way to Answering Akbar’s Decree at the 2006 National Association of African American Studies conference

• Selected as NSF Sponsored Participant at the June 11 – 14, 2006 AEA/CDC Evaluation Institute in Atlanta, Georgia
• Chaired a Session focusing on devising an academic program in program evaluation at an HBCU during the 2006 AEA/CDC Evaluation Institute in Atlanta, Georgia
• Panel Reviewer for NSF Research and Evaluation on Education in Science and Engineering (REESE) program June 26-27, 2006
• Visited the Tumanin Orphans School in Mombassa, Kenya-August 2006
• Attended the American College of Forensic Examiners’ 2006 National Conference
  September 22nd – 23rd Orlando, Florida
• Discussant for September 27th presentation of Dr. Donald J. Brandt’s “The Political Economy of African-American Suicide” as a part of The Social Sciences and Behavioral Studies 2006-2007 Colloquia Series at Lincoln University
• Attended the American Evaluation Association’s Evaluation 2006 Annual Conference October 30-November 5, 2006 in Portland, OR
• Invited in November 2006 to be a professional delegate for the People to People Ambassador Programs Mental Health delegation to China and Tibet scheduled for September 16th thru 28th 2007
• Selected to be an examiner for the standardization of the Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale - Fourth Edition and Wechsler Memory Scale - Fourth Edition standardization by Harcourt Assessment, Inc.
• Panel Reviewer for NSF Research and Evaluation on Education in Science and Engineering (REESE) program March 26-27, 2007
• Invited to be a Reviewer for the Social Science Library (SSL) of the Global Development and Environment Institute of Tufts University. The SSL has been in the process of compiling a list of articles and book chapters that will be distributed by CD-ROM (free of charge) to university libraries throughout the developing world. Previous work in developing countries made the SSL aware that libraries, especially in the remote, rural parts of those areas, are even more lacking in social science materials than in the natural sciences. The CD-ROM will be focusing on seven social science disciplines, one of which is Social Psychology, within which the subfield of Race and Ethnicity will be reviewed, in part, by Dr. Favor.

• Co- Principal Investigator, $284,530 grant from Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP), “Primary Care Network for the Treatment of Adolescent Obesity.”
• Advisory Board Member, Primary Care Research Network for the Treatment of Adolescent Obesity, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia
• Received Certification by the Collaborative Institutional Research Board (IRB) Training Initiative (CITI)-Miami/CHOP, program in the Protection of Human Research Subjects in Social and Behavioral Research, January 2007, (2 year certification)
• Serve on Pencader Charter High School’s Leadership Committee
• Panelist “ Turning the Tables of Hip Hop: Examining the Fear and Fascination America has with Black Men”, sponsored by Lincoln University Office of Minority Male Health, October 17, 2006
• Submitted grant proposal on, “Urban Adolescent Obesity” to the Faculty Development Committee
• Served on the Lincoln’s Juridical Review committee
• Interviewer-Secretarial position, Office of Academic Advising
• Advisor Psychology Club
• Assisted a senior with their applications for graduate school, Ms. Nikelia Chisolm has been accepted into NYU and Columbia University
• Faculty research consultant, Continuing to provide assistance to faculty submitting grants, conducting research, and preparing research reports under the auspices of Lincoln’s Office of Research Development, Planning, and Coordination (ORDPC) funded by National Institute of Health (NIH),
• Ex-Officio Officer, Office of Research Development, Planning, and Coordination (ORDPC)
• Serve as Academic Advisor for Freshmen

• Awarded Sabbatical Leave: Fall Semester, 2006-Organized and began writing student manual for use in Senior Seminar I, and in Senior Seminar II.
• Continued co-editing process with Dr. Delroy Louden: Fall and Spring Semesters, 2006-2007-Organized and continued collaboration for book, Critical Equity and Access Issues in Health Care Delivery for African Americans, Vol. 3, the third book in a series written under the auspices of the Office of Research, Development, and Planning, Lincoln University.
• Kinsey, P. (2006). The religious-spiritual orienting system and coping: Implications
  for assessment of African-Americans. In Carter-Obayuana, A., McNicol, S., & Louden, D., Personality assessment and culture: Vol. 2. Office of Research Development, Planning & Coordination, Lincoln University, PA
• Spring Semester, 2007-Taught History and Systems of Psychology, Multicultural Psychology, Abnormal Psychology, and Theories of Personality
• Assisted with preparation of 10 psychology majors for the Senior Colloquium

• Member, Advisory Committee, Office of Research Development, Planning, and
  Coordination (ORDPC)
• Member, Faculty Oversight Committee, Office of Research Development, Planning,
  and Coordination (ORDPC)

• Selected as a member of United Who’s Who Registry of Executives and Professionals-2007
• Awarded recognition by Lincoln’s Board of Trustees for peer-reviewed scholarly work
  The religious-spiritual orienting system and coping: Implications for the assessment of
  African-Americans. (2006). In Carter, A., Gopaul, S., and Louden, D. (Eds)., Personality Assessment and Culture: Volume Two, Lincoln University, PA: Office of Research, Planning, and Coordination.

• Awarded Sabbatical Leave: Fall Semester, 2006-Organized and began writing student manual for use in Senior Seminar I, and in Senior Seminar II.
• Continued co-editing process with Dr. Delroy Louden: Fall and Spring Semesters, 2006-2007-Organized and continued collaboration for book, Critical Equity and Access Issues in Health Care Delivery for African Americans, Vol. 3, the third book in a series written under the auspices of the Office of Research, Development, and Planning, Lincoln University.
• Kinsey, P. (2006). The religious-spiritual orienting system and coping: Implications
  for assessment of African-Americans. In Carter-Obayuaana, A., McNicol, S., & Louden, D., Personality assessment and culture: Vol. 2. Office of Research Development, Planning & Coordination, Lincoln University, PA

• Spring Semester, 2007-Taught History and Systems of Psychology, Multicultural Psychology, Abnormal Psychology, and Theories of Personality
• Assisted with preparation of 10 psychology majors for the Senior Colloquium
  Service on University Committees
• Member, Advisory Committee, Office of Research Development, Planning, and
  Coordination (ORDPC)
• Member, Faculty Oversight Committee, Office of Research Development, Planning,
  and Coordination (ORDPC)

• Selected as a member of United Who’s Who Registry of Executives and Professionals-2007
• Awarded recognition by Lincoln’s Board of Trustees for peer-reviewed scholarly work
  The religious-spiritual orienting system and coping: Implications for the assessment of
  African-Americans. (2006). In Carter, A., Gopaul, S., and Louden, D. (Eds)., Personality Assessment and Culture: Volume Two, Lincoln University, PA: Office of Research, Planning, and Coordination.

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