York College Technology Fee. Online/Hybrid Course Development Program. ($2,500). Summer 2009.

This program helped me to design a hybrid course for students majoring in Social Sciences courses: SCWK 350/SOC 321/ANTH 321. I am going to offer this course in Spring 2010 as a pilot project. The course has already been approved by the YC Curriculum Committee. I also plan to offer this course during the summer. The hybrid format of the course will reduce the face to face class meetings from 4 hours to 2 hours a week. This format will also be more manageable when offering this course in the summer.

TITLE III – York College. Students’ perceptions and evaluations of York College professors: Does ethnic background, nationality, and accent matter? ($3000). 2009-2010.

My interest in issues related to how students evaluate their college professors, has evolved from my work as a Chair, and my interest in attitudes of people toward those who belong to ethnic minorities. I have decided to investigate several research questions such as: Are students more likely to judge harshly nonAmerican accented faculty than American faculty? Are students more likely to judge harshly ethnic minority faculty than White faculty? And how style of teaching affects students’ judgment of professors in relation to ethnicity/accented speech. I believe that with the diverse faculty at York College the findings of this research study will increase our knowledge and awareness in areas that have not been investigated sufficiently.

PSC-CUNY 40 - City University of New York: Attitudes of social work students toward working with older adults ($2,989), 2009 -2010.

This is a continuation of previous research in the area of role expectations of social work students. In this new research I will investigate how students perceive working with populations that are known to be undesirable to work with such as older adults. This project will expand to also studying social work and other health professions majors about their career plans of working with populations that are considered to be disadvantaged minorities in our society including homosexuals and transgender people. Those are very important issues for social workers and other helping professionals. The implications of such research can impact the training of helping professionals in academia and at the workplace.

NIH/MBRS/Pilot Research Project: The process of burnout among mental health service providers ($85,450), 2002-2004.

Since 2004 I have applied to several external funding including: NIH/MBRS, NIH/AREA (two separate times), and NSF. These attempts have not been successful. My last AREA application received a score but was not funded. I plan to reevaluate my previous proposals and to apply for external funding in year 2010-2011.