NEWS EVENTS: Focusing on What Works! Positive Deviance and Healthy Communities, Apr. 8

Wilkinson College of Humanities and Social Sciences and the Department of Communications presents, Dr. Arvind Singhal - Focusing on What Works! Positive Deviance and Healthy Communities, Friday, April 8, 2011 at 1 p.m. in Beckman Hall 104.

Dr. Arvind Singhal is the Samuel Shirley and Edna Holt Marston Endowed Professor of Communication and Director of the Social Justice Initiative in the University of Texas El Paso’s Department of Communication. He is also appointed as the William J. Clinton Distinguished Fellow at the Clinton School of Public Service, Little Rock, Arkansas.

Singhal teaches and conducts research in the diffusion of innovations, organizing for social change, and the entertainment-education strategy. His research and outreach spans sectors such as health, education, peace, human rights, poverty alleviation, sustainable development, civic participation, democracy and governance, and corporate citizenship.

Singhal is co-author or editor of 11 books which include, but are not limited to, Inviting Everyone: Healing Healthcare through Positive Deviance (2010); Protecting Children from Exploitation and Trafficking: Using the Positive Deviance Approach (2009); Popular with a Purpose (2008). 

Singhal has won Top Paper Awards from the International Communication Association and National Communication Association a dozen times, and Ohio University’s Baker Research Award twice. The Social Science Research Council and the International Communication Association recognized Singhal as the winner of the Communication Research as Collaborative Practice Award in 2009 and the winner of the Communication Researcher as an Agent of Change Award in 2008.

Wilkinson College and the Department of Communications is excited to welcome Dr. Singhal to Chapman University. We hope that you will join us during his visit. For more information, please contact Chris Di Tommaso at 714.744.7088.

EVENT NEWS: The Wilkinson Report Current affairs through the lens of the liberal arts, Feb. 14

Panel Discussion:

The Arab Youth Revolt

Chapman Experts Discuss the Events in Tunisia, Egypt and the Greater Middle East

Monday, February 14^th

12:00-1:00 p.m.

Beckman 404

(Feel free to bring your lunch to the session)

Panelists: James J. Coyle and Nubar Hovsepian

Moderator: Donald Will

James J. Coyle, Ph.D. is the co-author of "Politics in the Middle East:  Culture and Conflict."  Dr. Coyle is a graduate of Georgetown University (BSFS), Temple University (MPA) and George Washington University (Ph.D.).  He has extensive teaching experience including Politics of the Middle East, International Political Economics, and US National Security Strategy.  For the past seven years, he has been Director of Global Education at Chapman University.  Before he began his time at Chapman, Dr. Coyle served 24 years in the U.S. government with numerous assignments throughout the Middle East

Nubar Hovsepian, Ph.D. was born in Egypt. He teaches Political Science and is a specialist on Middle East politics. In addition to academic work, he has worked as: a political affairs officer in the United Nations,  journalist and columnist, and development specialist. In those capacities he covered and survived civil wars and wars in Lebanon. His last two books are: The War on Lebanon, and Palestinian State Formation: Education and the Construction of National Identity. His most recent trip to Egypt was in October 2010.

Donald Will, Ph.D. is the Delp-Wilkinson Professor of Peace Studies and worked for eleven years as a nongovernmental observer at the United Nations.  His work involved promoting a just peace in the Middle East and he was a presenter at the First UN Seminar on the Question of Palestine convened in Arusha, Tanzania in July 1980.

COLLEGE NEWS: The Laura Scudder Wilkinson College of Humanities and Social Sciences Dean’s Suite and Conference Room Dedication!

John Scudder shares stories of his grandmother Laura Scudder.

The Laura Scudder Wilkinson College of Humanities and Social Sciences Dean’s Suite and Conference Room was dedicated today in Roosevelt Hall. John Scudder, Laura Scudder’s grandson and family historian, represented the family at the dedication.

Scudder had complied and cared for the collection of his late grandmother for many years, but saw that so much more could be accomplished if the collection was displayed in an area where it could be cared for and made accessible to students and scholars.

The beautiful and one-of-a-kind display is an exhibit honoring the life of Laura Scudder and is now a permanent display in the conference room. The materials that make up the exhibit in Roosevelt Hall represent only a fraction of what the Scudder family has given to Chapman University. More on  Laura Scudder’s life resides in the Frank Mt. Pleasant Library of Special Collections & Archives in Leatherby Libraries.



(Left to Right: Chapman President James Doti, Dean of Wilkinson College Patrick Quinn, John Scudder, Former Dean of Wilkinson College Roberta Lessor)



Thanks to the generosity of Laura Scudder’s relatives and the Marjorie Mosher Schmidt Foundation, Chapman students of history, marketing, business and law will have access to an incredible archive of materials showcasing and honoring Laura Scudder’s career  as a nurse, lawyer, inventor, business owner and humanitarian.