Bethel Magazine Spring 2019

Faculty and Staff News Fish Presents at Young Authors’ Conference 1 Michelle Fish ’94, Ph.D., assistant professor of education, presented at the Penn-Harris-Madison Young Authors’ Conference, March 9. The presentation focused on how parents can use children’s literature to connect with writing at home. For the past year, Fish has served as a Children’s Choices Team Leader, a designation by the International Literacy Association. Bethel Kinesiology Professor Releases Book, “Power Play: Empowerment of the African American Student-Athlete” Assistant Professor of Kinesiology and Department Chair Enzley Mitchell IV, Ph.D., recently released his book, “Power Play: Empowerment of the African American Student-Athlete.” In this book, he proposes two reforms to the present commercialization of NCAA Division I football and basketball and the exploitation of African- American student-athletes. Mitchell presents detailed data about revenue generation in college sports, as well as compelling reasons why student-athletes in the revenue- producing sports of Division I football and basketball are exploited, and why it happens most often to African-American students. ( PowerPlaytheBook.com ) “The reader will discover how race, politics, equity and other issues make the question of whether or not to share revenue with student- athletes a difficult issue to tackle,” says Mitchell. Chi Published in Journal of Research in Personality Terry Chi, Ph.D., assistant professor of psychology, was the second author of the article, “Facial affect recognition in college students with psychopathic traits: A comparison using test matched in discriminating power,” published in the Journal of Research in Personality. Chi worked with colleague and first author David S. Kosson, Ph.D., Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine and Science, along with four other colleagues, to complete the eight- year study. Their work examined underlying characteristics of people with psychopathic traits by developing measures of facial affect recognition. According to Chi, two important contributions of this study are: first, what are the true underlying characteristics of people with psychopathic traits? Second, can we be sure that the findings out there have truly and accurately addressed these issues? Bethel Nursing Professors Publish Article Dean of Nursing Deborah Gillum, Ph.D., and Miriam Mast, were co- authors of the article, “Case Study of Nurses’ Experiences Related to the Deaths of Their Patients,” published in The Health Care Manager (January/March, 2019, Vol. 38, Issue 1). Mast, as a graduate student in Bethel’s MSN program, chose to do a qualitative case study methodology, which was applied to explore how nurses cope when their patients die. Gillum was her advisor and co-author, lending expert insight to the research project. Mast sampled 16 participants at a rural 123-bed community hospital and came away with nine themes (such as family issues and role of nurses). 1 CAMPS START IN JULY Register online at BethelCollege.edu/Camps . For more information, call 574.807.7196 or email Academic.Camps@BethelCollege.edu. B e t h e l C o l l e g e a c a d e m i c c a m p s S u m m e r 2 0 1 9 ART • MUSIC • SCIENCE • THEATRE 10 BethelCollege.edu/Magazine