2009 Creative Activities and Research Symposium
Outstanding Teaching Award, Dr. Debra Brady, Nursing
Outstanding University Service, Dr. Joan Neide, Kinesiology & Health Science
Outstanding Community Service, Dr. David Rolloff, Recreation, Parks & Tourism Administration
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Outstanding Teaching Award, Dr. Debra Brady, Nursing
"Tell me, and I will forget.
Show me, and I may remember.
Involve me, and I will understand."
~Chinese Proverb~
The famous Chinese proverb is central to Dr. Debra Brady’s experiential learning approach to teaching. Involving her students in active learning experiences has been the driving force in her commitment to developing the Simulation Learning Center at Sacramento State and integrating simulation learning into multiple areas of the nursing program. Dr. Brady states, “Seeing students gain self confidence and observing their skills dramatically improve is the best part of the process.”
An alumna of both the Sacramento State undergraduate and graduate programs in nursing, Dr. Brady brings 20 years of intensive care nursing experience to her teaching. She maintains an active nursing practice and contends that, “Continuing to work as a per diem staff nurse in the ICU helps me stay in touch with the work environment I am preparing my students to enter.
Debra Brady completed a Doctorate of Nursing Practice at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio. Her doctoral studies focused on patient safety and development of a new model for continuing education course that integrate online learning and human patient simulation. The collaborative agreement provides our community hospitals with access to the latest in simulation technology to prepare nurses for working with highly unstable patients while promoting patient safety during this learning process. In turn hospitals donate expensive medical equipment, supplies, and computer software to the Simulation Learning Center that is used by our students in the undergraduate program. As Dr. Brady likes to state about the collaborative, “We ALL win on this one!”
Outstanding University Service Award, Dr. Joan Neide, Kinesiology & Health Science
Dr. Joan Neide is a professor of physical education at Sacramento State, where she specializes in physical education pedagogy, history and curriculum design. Since joining the faculty in 1991 she has committed her time and energy serving and/or taking a leadership role on department, college, and university committees and projects. At the department level she has been active in faculty searches, part-time faculty evaluations, and taking a leadership role on RTP committees as well as Post-Tenure review committees to name just a few. Over the past years Dr. Neide has also been very active on the College of Health and Human Service’s Academic Council as well as at the GE/GRPC and the GE Course Review Subcommittee. She is particularly proud of the work she completed for the Honor’s Committee by being a member of the subcommittee that designed the 9 unit upper division thematic general education courses.
Since coming to Sacramento State Dr. Neide has never missed a graduation ceremony. She will be attending her 36th graduation this May and has moved up the ranks to be the Head Marshall for the College of Health and Human Services.
Dr. Neide advises students for the physical education major. She has been active in outreach efforts and new student orientations. She has also been active with EO665 advising for the department. She serves as a student club advisor for several clubs on campus and for 18 years has volunteered every Friday night to teach a martial arts class for the Sacramento State students and alumni.
Outstanding Community Service Award, Dr. David Rolloff, Recreation, Parks and Tourism Administration
Dr. David Rolloff is an Associate Professor in the Recreation, Parks, & Tourism Administration Department and has been at Sacramento State since 2002. His areas of instruction and research include outdoor recreation and natural resource management. He received a Ph.D. from Oregon State University in Forest Resources, and an M.S. from Western Illinois University in Recreation & Park Administration. Dr. Rolloff’s public agency affiliations are primarily focused on the USDA Forest Service and California State Parks, but he has also worked with the National Park Service, the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service, the Bureau of Land Management, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, the California Department of Water Resources, Sacramento County Regional Parks Department, The Nature Conservancy, Outward Bound, the Wild Rockies Field Institute, and numerous county and municipal parks and recreation departments.
Dr. Rolloff’s field experience began as a wilderness ranger with the U.S. Forest Service, and he currently consults regionally with the agency on wilderness management and recreation use issues. Since 2003 he has annually brought students to Desolation Wilderness to serve as research volunteers on ecological monitoring of backcountry campsites.
Dr. Rolloff’s work with California State Parks has focused on the collection of social information through numerous visitor survey efforts, including the 2007-2009 State Park Visitor Survey in which almost 10,000 interviews with park visitors were conducted by 28 students across the CSU system. His most recent visitor survey work is with State Parks’ Off-Highway Motorized Recreation Vehicle Division, collecting social information from snowmobilers and other winter recreational users of snow trailheads in the Sierra Nevada range.