Education:

1983-1987 The Fielding Institute, Santa Barbara, California
Ph.D., Human and Organizational Systems

1974-1976 Stanford Graduate School of Business, Stanford, California
MBA (Organization Development emphasis)

1968-1972 Pomona College, Claremont, California
BA, Magna cum laude, Spanish Literature

Professional Expertise:

1995-present Associate Dean, School for New Learning
1994-present Associate Professor (with tenure), School for New Learning,
1990-1994 Assistant Professor, School for New Learning, DePaul University, Chicago, Illinois

Responsible for academic administration, particularly with relationship to resident faculty (29 members); chair, International Activities Committee; former chair, Committee for assessment of Student Competence; former co-chair, Diversity Task Force; member of thirteen other college committees as well as three university committees. Teaching includes Foundations of New Learning, Major Seminar, Capstone Seminar: Encountering the New Age, Invisible Minorities, Valuing Human Differences (lead faculty), Learning Plan Colloquium, Societies in Transition: El Salvador and Poland/Romania.

1988-1990 Program Director and Assistant Professor, Alfred North Whitehead Center, University of Redlands, Redlands, California

Directed non-traditional MBA program with overall responsibility for administrative and academic aspects. Member of seven college and three university committees. Taught int he areas of leadership, management, and organizational behavior, as well as issues of gender and diversity.

1982-1987 Adjunct Faculty
Elmhurst College, Elmhurst, Illinois
National College of Education, Lombard, Illinois
Aurora University, Aurora, Illinois
School for New Learning, DePaul University, Chicago, Illinois
Mallinckrodt College, Wilmette, Illinois

Taught courses in management, leadership, communication, and business ethics.

1982-present Consultant, Organizational Development and Transformation

Analyze organizational needs and design methods to meet those needs; major activities include program evaluation, team building and small group facilitation. Topics have included global and intercultural diversity, stress, learning design and leadership. Certified MBTI acilitator.

Selected Scholarship:

Books

• (Forthcoming) Reclaiming the Spirit: The Journey of Gay Men and Lesbian Women Toward Integration. Rutgers University Press.

• The gay male professional who is out at work: A naturalistic study of his experience. 1987: UMI (Ph.D. Dissertation).

Refereed Publications

• (Forthcoming) Reclaiming the spirit: Journeys of gay men and lesbian women toward wholeness. Qualitative Sociology.

• (1996). Companions on a journey. Journal of Pastoral Care

• (1995). Negotiating boundaries: Conflict, personal loyalties, and the politics of diversity. Journal of Thought 30 (1), 35-54. (With Marisa Alicea and Ann Folwell Stanford).

• (1994). The exodus and spiritual odyssey of gay men and lesbians. Religious Humanism 28 (3), 139-145.

• (1994). Gifts of gay and lesbian ministry. Pastoral Psychology 43 (2), 105-113.

• (1994). Professional and openly gay: A narrative study of the experience. Journal of Management Inquiry 3 (2), 116-142.

• (1991). Invisible minorities: Coming out of the classroom closet. Journal of Management Education 15 (3), 325-224.

• (1988). Linking leisure with sexuality: The gay and lesbian experience. Leisure Information Quarterly 14 (4), 4-7. (With Helen Finch).

Papers and Conference Participation

• (1994, October) Border Crossings, Collaboration and Connections: An International Perspective. 14th Annual Conference on Alternative and Adult Degree Programs for Adults. ACE/Alliance. San Francisco, California. (With Ann Folwell Stanford).

• (1993, March) Valuing Human Differences, Valuing Human Difference. Conference on Transformative Learning: Trends in Education. DePaul University, Chicago, Illinois.

• (1992, October) Take this Job and Shove It: Using Journal Writing to Enrich Your Professional Life. 12th Annual Conference on Alternative and External Degree Programs for Adults, ACE/Alliance, Evanston, Illinois.

• (1991, October) Teaching to Diversity. International Conference, Council for Adult and Experiential Learning. San Diego, California.

• (1991, October) Dialogue on Diversity: The Person and the Institution. 11th Annual Conference on Alternative and External Degree Programs for Adults, ACE/Alliance, Mobile, Alabama.

• (1991, June) So What about the Invisible Minorities? Organizational Behavior Teaching Conference, Bellingham, Washington.

• (1989, November) Unleashing Leaders. International Assembly, Council for Adult and Experiential Learning, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Awards:

(1995). Journal of Management Inquiry "Redefining the Limits" Award.

(1995). DePaul University Quality of Instruction Council Grant to plan a course for SNL students to travel to Poland and Romania ( Societies in Transition ).

(1993). DePaul University Quality of Instruction Council Grant to plan a course for SNL students to travel to El Salvador ( Societies in Transition ).

(1992). DePaul University Competitive Research Grant to study the spiritual journeys of gay men and lesbian women.

(1991). DePaul University Quality of Instruction Council Grant to do research on the ways in which the School for New Learning addresses the issues of diversity in its constituencies.

(1972). Sigma Delta Pi (national Spanish honorary society)

(1972). Phi Beta Kappa.

Professional Associations:

• Alliance: An Association for Alternative Degree Programs for Adults; former member of task force on diversity.

• Association for Humanistic Psychology

• Association for Integrative Studies

• Association for the Sociology of Religion.

• Organizational Behavior Teaching Society.

Miscellaneous Information:

Fluent in Spanish and French.

Basic understanding of Portuguese, Catalan, Swedish, Esperanto, Thai, Polish and Romanian.

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