Professional Activities

Frank Mazzola, Director, Physical Plant Operations, was a guest panelist at the winter 2010 meeting of IFMA, the International Facilities Management Association in Boston.
Frank addressed numerous issues facing higher education facilities managers today, including keeping operating costs low, addressing deferred maintenance, and how the physical appearance of a campus helps recruitment. Over 200 facilities managers from higher education, hospitals, and commercial properties were in attendance.

Sander Lee, Professor of Philosophy, contributed an essay titled “Why Are They Our Red Sox?” ” in the anthology The Red Sox and Philosophy, edited by Michael Macomber, as part of the Popular Culture and Philosophy series published by the Open Court Press, 2010.

“Tov L’hodot” for choir and piano, originally written for the KSC Chamber Singers by adjunct faculty member Lainee Broad Ginsberg, will be released by Transcontinental Music Publications, which has published 7 of her choral works. Transcontinental has now sold 3,000 copies of Lainee’s “Oseh Shalom.”

Meriem Pages, Assistant Professor of English, has been awarded a grant from the New Hampshire Humanities Council to lead an interdisciplinary workshop on the “Teaching the Middle Ages” for New Hampshire educators June 28-29, 2010. The goal will be to address and explore the richness and diversity of medieval European culture and society as well as to examine and investigate the connections between past and present, medieval Europe and modern American society. Targeting the specific needs of middle-school and high-school educators, the workshop meets a critical need by providing professional development on the literature, history, and art of the Middle Ages, and is expected draw educators from around the state.
KSC faculty Stephen Lucey of the Art Department and Susan Wade of the History Department will present sessions, as will faculty from Plymouth State University and the University of Massachusetts Amherst.
Matching funds are being contributed by the Office of the Dean of Arts & Humanities, Office of the Provost, English Department, History Department, Campus Commission on the Status of Women, and Alumni Association.

Candice L. Bosse, Assistant Professor of Spanish and Women’s Studies, delivered a keynote address, “La mujer nomada,” at the Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Honduras. She was also invited to speak about feminism in a talk entitled “Feminismo: la diferencia o la igualdad” at the Universidad Pedagogica de Honduras.