{"id":696,"date":"2015-10-13T20:36:44","date_gmt":"2015-10-14T00:36:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/hegsa\/?p=696"},"modified":"2015-10-13T20:36:44","modified_gmt":"2015-10-14T00:36:44","slug":"october-2015-congratulations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/hegsa\/october-2015-congratulations\/","title":{"rendered":"October 2015: Congratulations!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>CONGRATULATIONS!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Katherine C. Aquino<\/strong>, doctoral candidate, has received a $10,000 grant through Policy Research Inc. to study how to better improve the disability determination process for disability insurance programs funded through the Social Security Administration; and was recently featured in Seton Hall University\u2019s Official Newsletter, Inside the Hall. For more information, read more <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shu.edu\/news\/ollege-of-education-and-human-services-doctoral-candidate-receives-federal-grant.cfm?utm_source=iContact&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=Inside%20the%20Hall&amp;utm_content=Inside%20the%20Hall%2020150914#.Vfa9eEbiOtY\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>David M. Chapinski<\/strong>, doctoral student, plans to attend the 2016 International Academic Business Conference \/ 2016 International Education Conference in Orlando, where his proposal entitled, \u201cChanging Forces: It\u2019s not Just A Matter Of Changing Education Policy And Disruptive Behaviors Today\u201d has been accepted for oral presentation and publication in the conference proceedings. The conference will be held from January 3-7, 2016 at Disney\u2019s Boardwalk Inn within Epcot Resorts in Lake Buena Vista, FL.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Dr. Kelchen<\/strong>, has been involved in the following publications and activities:<br \/>\n\u2022 Testified at the U.S. Department of Education&#8217;s Advisory Committee on Student Financial Assistance in Washington regarding the topic of &#8220;risk sharing&#8221;&#8211;holding colleges financially accountable for their students&#8217; performance and loan repayment. He released a white paper on risk sharing through the Lumina Foundation earlier this month (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.luminafoundation.org\/resources\/proposing-a-federal-risk-sharing-policy\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.luminafoundation.org\/resources\/proposing-a<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.luminafoundation.org\/resources\/proposing-a-federal-risk-sharing-policy\" target=\"_blank\">\u00a0federal-risk-sharing-policy<\/a>).<br \/>\n\u2022 Presented at the Education Writers Association conference in Orlando on the topic of employer tuition reimbursement plans. He discussed how the arrangements work financially and things that journalists should be aware of when writing stories.<br \/>\n\u2022 Quoted in numerous media outlets regarding the federal government&#8217;s release of new College Scorecard data that included metrics such as loan repayment rates and earnings of former students who received federal financial aid. Here are two interviews from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pbs.org\/newshour\/updates\/washington-wavers-states-provide-detailed-college-ratings\/\" target=\"_blank\">PBS.org<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wnyc.org\/story\/how-read-new-college-score-card\/\" target=\"_blank\">WNYC.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Mariel Pag\u00e1n<\/strong>, doctoral student, has been selected to participate in the inaugural cohort of NASPA\u2019s Escaleras Institute, designed for Latina student affair s professionals who aspire to attain senior or executive leadership roles at institutions of higher learning. The NASPA Escaleras: Student Affairs Latin@ Leadership Institute at the University of Rhode Island in Kingston, RI will be held October 25\u201427.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Your name here<\/strong>! Do you have an announcement to share with us? Be sure to send in your recent news to <a href=\"mailto:hegsa@shu.edu\" target=\"_blank\">hegsa@shu.edu<\/a> by the last Monday of the month for inclusion in the following month\u2019s newsletter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CONGRATULATIONS! Katherine C. Aquino, doctoral candidate, has received a $10,000 grant through Policy Research Inc. to study how to better improve the disability determination process for disability insurance programs funded through the Social Security Administration; and was recently featured in&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/hegsa\/october-2015-congratulations\/\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2669,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,5],"tags":[13,51,14],"class_list":["post-696","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hegsa-insider","category-home","tag-congratulations","tag-october-2015","tag-robert-kelchen"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/hegsa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/696","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/hegsa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/hegsa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/hegsa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2669"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/hegsa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=696"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/hegsa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/696\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":697,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/hegsa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/696\/revisions\/697"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/hegsa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/hegsa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/hegsa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}