#140
Date: Sat, 11 Feb 2006 01:11:27 -0500
From: Liz O'Grady <LizO@WRHHS.ORG>
Subject: Re: HEDIR-L Digest - 9 Feb 2006 to 10 Feb 2006 (#2006-31)
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I will be out of the office until Tuesday, 2/14. I will reply to you when I
return.
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#141
Date: Sat, 11 Feb 2006 08:36:52 -0600
From: "Mark J. Kittleson, PhD, FAAHB" <kittle@SIU.EDU>
Subject: FW: distance classes needed
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Debby has asked that I forward this over the HEDIR..
Mark J. Kittleson, PhD, FAAHB
Professor, Health Education
Director of Graduate Studies
Department of Health Education & Recreation
Southern Illinois University
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From: Debby McCormick [mailto:Debby.McCormick@NAU.EDU]
Sent: Friday, February 10, 2006 6:21 PM
To: kittle@SIU.EDU
Subject: Re: distance classes needed
Hi Robin and Others:
Northern Arizona University offers all of our undergraduate courses in Health
Sciences: Community Health entirely online--usually 6-8 course offerings per
semester distributed over fall, spring, and summer semesters.
Additionally, we offer approximately 7 health-related graduate courses per year
online. Robin, one of these is a Coordinated School Health course, offered in
the summer.
If you have further questions, please let me know, and I can connect you with
more information. My contact information is below.
Debby :)
At 11:54 AM 2/10/2006 -0800, GrayBallard, Robin wrote:
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Hi all,
I need to take 12 units of "Health Ed. " classes, my credential requirements
have recently changed. I have taught middle school health for 24 years, but,
alas, the state no longer thinks I am qualified.
I need some program suggestions so I can pick up the units by internet, one
class a semester for the next couple of years.
thanks,
Robin Gray Ballard
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Deborah J. McCormick, Ph.D.
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#142
Date: Sat, 11 Feb 2006 09:14:51 -0600
From: "Cissell, William" <WCissell@MAIL.TWU.EDU>
Subject: A single organization of professional health educators
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Karen, Michael and others,
I have thought long and hard about the benefits of being able to have a single
professional organization that would give health educators real clout. In the
1980s, SOPHE and AAHE explored a merger that many of us hoped would move our
profession toward a stronger organization. AAHE could not extract ittself from
the Alliance of Health, Phsycial Education, Recreation and Dance without giving
up substantial resources, so that merger never occurred.
At issue may be a bigger one, which is to promote the health of people. If we
were solely concerned about a trade union of health educators, more people would
have rallied behind Michael Pejsach's organization. We have more than 11
organizations in which professional health educators are active because we are
committted to improving the health of people. Within the various organizations
in which health educators are active, there are ways in which improving the
health of people is being accomplished.
When the Coalition of National Health Education Organizations was formed in
1971, the intent was to find a way for organizations in which professional
health educators were active to collaborate to achieve common goals. CNHEO
continues to work toward that end. CNHEO does not have the clout of a single
trade union of health educators, but it has an impressive track record of
promoting collaboration among organixations and agencies to advance the health
education profession.
Bill Cissell
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#143
Date: Sat, 11 Feb 2006 10:14:46 -0500
From: "Cleary, Michael" <michael.cleary@SRU.EDU>
Subject: Re: Health Ed Orgs Working Together...(but who's going to be out of
work??)
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Karen, Mark, and others are raising excellent points in favor of one
organization as well as potential obstacles. Speaking of obstacles, I want to
bring up the sensitive issue of how many employees of the national health
education organizations (AAHE, SOPHE, ASHA, etc) would potentially lose their
jobs (or be re-ranked "downward") were such a consolidation to take place. This
would be in addition to relocation of those employees who would still be
retained. Then again, would the resulting increased "clout" of one national
organization necessitate more staff?
Another item; is DC where the one org. would be housed? I recall several
conversations over the years that the National Commission (on which I served)
and ASHA might be better served by relocating around the Beltway.
Thoughts on the matter?
Michael Cleary
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#144
Date: Sat, 11 Feb 2006 11:05:50 -0600
From: Michael Pejsach <healthedman@COX.NET>
Subject: Re: Health Ed Orgs Working Together
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Consolidation is clearly needed, but it is loaded with excuses/issues:
1. "Employees with AAHE and SOPHE will lose their jobs." Staff will be needed
for a large single organization. If we consolidate, the number of NATIONAL
members WILL GO UP, therefore, the need for MORE staff is a more realistic
scenario.
This is, factually, an unknown. However, in my experience, watching several
hospital consolidations take place here in New Orleans, I can agree only that
there will be an initial loss, but not a long term loss. In the long run, less
than six months later, there a return to the same number of staff as before the
consolidation.
In addition, one organization was created after a major consolidation, the
Baptist Community Ministries, an average $30- million (based on assets of $300
million) per year non-profit community health organization. I managed to get a
School Health Education project underway before leaving for Central Michigan
University. This project was budgeted at about $6 million per year
(Pre-Katrina) in an effort to improve school health education efforts in
Jefferson and Orleans Parish School System. New employees and staff were hired
to implement this worthy program.*
2. "I like the size of SOPHE. I like small." (Actual comment made by a former
SOPHE board member). Special Interest Groups, "SIGs" within health education,
are plentiful (worksite health ed, school health ed, school heath (different
from school health ed), NGO health ed, Volunteer Org health ed, community health
ed, public health education, et al) would be part os a single organization, and
offer the intimacy and focus anyone needs and wants.
We are what we believe we should be. If we believe we are small, we will remain
small, and small doesn't cut it, or sit well in academia or in other worksites.
More importantly, we need a unified approach to support our graduates, and
fellow health educators. Small can't protect turf. If your students and former
students are reporting to you that starting salaries do not exceed $30,000, you
should STOP thinking small and think about empowerment, if not for yourself, for
others.
3. "I'm a Board Member of ____. I worked hard to get there." My
answer: "If I am not for myself, who will be? BUT if I am only for myself, WHO
AM I?" (Jewish Proverb, can be found, along with others, @ http://healthbehavior.com/quotes.shtml
We are going to make sacrifices in the name of improving our profession. We MUST
do this.
Any other excuses out there we need to deal with, discuss and hash out?
Please note: Some time ago when I co-instructed a human sexuality class at a
large urban university, my con-instructor and I made an agreement. We agreed
never to CORRECT an error publicly, "in front of the kids," letting a mistake go
by, correcting it later after discussing it privately. You and I know why that
it a better
professional approach. While we rarely made mistakes (can you
imagine!), it was reassuring and as a result, we had a higher degree of trust.
We did agree with our individual right to disagree, as we did on occasion, "in
front of the kids," but to correct each other privately (not even passive
aggressive comments). As you can imagine, I loved it, had a blast teaching and
use this "do not publicly correct" approach when co-teaching or presenting ever
since.
My personal, more mature recommendation, during our heavy HEDIR discussions, is
to give a person making a mistake or error the chance to correct themselves. If
we need to get a fact corrected, please feel free to do so, PRIVATELY with the
person making the mistake (we are human beings, and, therefore, make mistakes),
encouraging them to correct it on the HEDIR. Avoid, at all costs,
passive-aggressive comments as we all know they are attack techniques.
Michael
*in addition, the project used "Know Your Body," the K-6 school health education
curriculum (my recommendation to the Baptist Community Ministry project before
leaving for Central Michigan University), which helped invigorate that worthy
project, employing many other health education and non-health education staff in
several other areas!
On Feb 9, 2006, at 8:54 PM, KDG Consulting wrote:
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> It's nice to see the dialogue zipping right along again. Thank you,
> colleagues for your reactions to my comments about community colleges
> as a launch pad for health ed careers and where health ed program are
> or might be housed in a college or university.
>
> Recently there was a revival of the topic of uniting the profession,
> so, for what it's worth I thought I'd fan the flame a bit by
> attaching an article - an opinion piece - I wrote on the topic a year
> or so ago. It reflects my passionate belief that there must be some
> way we can harness the talents and energies of the 10 organizations
> that currently represent health education into one organization which
> still involves all of our leaders and preserves the specialization
> differences that are so valuable. I welcome your feedback.
>
> kdg
>
> Karen Denard Goldman, PhD, CHES
> Co-author, Health Education Tools of the Trade: Tools for Tasks That
> Didn't Come with the Job Description
>
> Health, Physical Education and Recreation Kingsborough Community
> College kgoldman@kbcc.cuny.edu
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> President, KDG Consulting
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> Organizations and Specialists www.kdgconsulting.net
> kdgconsulting@verizon.net
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#145
Date: Sat, 11 Feb 2006 10:36:03 -0700
From: Lynda Ransdell <lyndaransdell@BOISESTATE.EDU>
Subject: citation of paper on health dept. locations in colleges & universities
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Hi Folks: Since several people asked me to forward this information if I get it,
here is a citation for the paper on where health education departments are
located:
Lynda,
Is this what you are looking for?
American Association for Health Education. Directory of institutions offering
undergraduate and graduate degree programs in health education. J Health Educ.
2003; 34(4): 219-235.
Hope it helps,
Raffy
Lynda Ransdell, Ph.D., FACSM
Chair, Dept. of Kinesiology
Boise State University
1910 University Dr.
Boise, ID 83725
Email: lyndaransdell@boisestate.edu
Phone: 208-426-4270
Fax: 208-426-1894
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#146
Date: Sat, 11 Feb 2006 10:04:47 -0800
From: Mark Fulop <markfulop@YAHOO.COM>
Subject: Update on ethics case study
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For those interested in the ethics case study of the logging research I have a
brief follow-up. In a turn-around the BLM has restored the third year of funding
for the research although one of the congressman who is advocating for increased
logging promised public hearings to scrutinize the research.
This reversal, I think underlines Bill’s comments that exposing such stuff to
daylight is probably the best way to keep it from happening. As is summed up by
the Luanne Lawrence, OSU’s vice president for advancement, quoted in the
barometer article linked below:
“Lawrence said she fielded several media calls on the subject Wednesday. She
said an OSU news release on the subject went as far as Washington D.C. “I’ve
done interviews with the L.A. Times, with NPR ... The Associated Press ...” she
said. “It’s been pretty much all over the country.”
M
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See:
http://www.registerguard.com/news/2006/02/10/printable/ed.edit.osustudy.0210.SNZhD3il.phtml?section=opinion
http://barometer.orst.edu/vnews/display.v/ART/2006/02/09/43eaf509d205b
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#147
Date: Sat, 11 Feb 2006 10:09:15 -0800
From: Mark Fulop <markfulop@YAHOO.COM>
Subject: Re: Health Ed Orgs Working Together
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--- "kdgconsulting@verizon.net"
<kdgconsulting@verizon.net> wrote:
> A well linked collaborative network would be a valuable step forward,
> Mark, I agree. You're right, consolidation was probably not the best
> choice of words.
But Karen, your article was arguing for consolidation and that collaboration was
a step along the way to what I read as the ultimate goal of a
supra-organization. Or was I mistaken? Again, I posted the link to the
environmental movement paper because there are lots of parallelisms. in fact
abut a year ago, some environmentalists publiched a white paper suggesting that
the environmental movement was so ineffective it was basically dead. Sounds
similar.
I guess is that I wonder what the purpose of consolidation or collaboration is?
What do we want to acheive? If we want to acheive efficiency, that might require
one strucuture and if we want to acheive effectivenss, another and if it is
power we want it might take a third or fourth thinking about strucure.
If I go back to your article you state:
In the last three years, our goals and values as a profession have crystallized.
We have identified and prioritized five focal areas for the profession: 1)
creating synergy; 2) advocacy; 3) conducting, translating and disseminating
research into dynamic and contemporary practice; 4) professional preparation and
development and quality assurance; and (5) promoting and marketing the
profession.
I think we should find a foundation who would give us the resources to start a
dialogue about structures that support the acheivement of thise five focal
areas. Consolidation might be the outcome of such a process. I am simply putting
on the table another framework, which I think supports these five areas equally
well.
m
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