leadership — ϲ Tue, 28 Mar 2023 18:37:20 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.6.2 Brad Horn /faculty-experts/brad-horn/ Mon, 30 Jan 2023 16:38:45 +0000 /?post_type=faculty-experts&p=167872 Brad Horn brings more than 20 years of public relations management and organizational communications leadership to the public relations department as a professor of practice.

Horn has served in senior public relations roles for non-profit organizations, at the intersection of sport, society and American culture. As an active contributor within the public relations industry, he is focused on the roles of leadership, trust, ethics and digital engagement.

Horn has previously served as the vice president of communications and education for the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum and the director of communications and TrueSport for the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency. He has also held management roles for MLB’s Texas Rangers and the National Hot Rod Association.

Horn’s past experiences have focused on national and international media relations; public relations strategy creation; digital and social media engagement; educational program development; crisis management; and board and executive communication.

Horn was previously recognized as a “Top 15 to Watch” by PR News and as a “30 Under 30” by PR Week. He earned his M.S. in Communications Management from ϲ and a B.S. in Journalism (Advertising/Public Relations) from Texas Christian University.

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Beth Myers /faculty-experts/beth-myers/ Fri, 13 Aug 2021 21:41:42 +0000 /?post_type=faculty-experts&p=167887 Beth Myers is the Lawrence B. Taishoff Professor of Inclusive Education and Executive Director of the Taishoff Center for Inclusive Higher Education. She is a tenure-track faculty member in the Teaching and Leadership Department in the School of Education at ϲ, teaching in the Inclusive Elementary program where she started in 2014. She oversees InclusiveU, a federally-recognized model program for college students with intellectual and developmental disabilities.

Professor Myers taught in the Lower Merion School District in Pennsylvania and helped to create a best-practice inclusive program there. She opened a regional center for autism services in 2006 and served as Executive Director before joining the center’s consultation team in 2011. Beth holds a dual appointment with the Kelberman Center for Autism Services as Director of Special Projects. She has provided school consultations for students with autism and staff development to over 60 school districts. Additionally, Professor Myers has been the faculty liaison to the ϲ City School District for the SUITR Program, a Masters Residency program in urban special education.

Dr. Myers was awarded a $2 million grant from the US Department of Education for her work on Transition and Postsecondary Programs for Students with Intellectual Disabilities (TPSID). She has served on the Fit Families research team and has recently published several articles in that area and a forthcoming book chapter. Myers co-authored the recent special issue of TASH Connections: Post-secondary Education and Self-Advocacy. Her book, Autobiography on the Spectrum: Disrupting the Autism Narrative, was published in 2019 by Teachers College Press. Her second book, Narrating Higher Education: Intellectual Disability with co-author Michael Gill, is under contract with University of Minnesota Press.

Myers has conducted research to study the autobiographical works of adolescents with autism, which won the Ralph C. Preston Award for Scholarship and Teaching Contributing to Social Justice and Educational Equity. Myers currently serves on the National Down Syndrome Society Inclusion Committee. She is the founding Executive Editor of the Journal of Inclusive Postsecondary Education. Dr. Myers was recently awarded the CNY Business Journal’s Business Woman of the Year in Higher Education.

Dr. Myers holds bachelor’s and master’s degrees in elementary education, special education, and literacy from St. Joseph’s University in Philadelphia and a doctorate from the Graduate School of Education at the University of Pennsylvania.

Education:

  • Ed.D., University of Pennsylvania, 2012
  • M.Ed. Reading Specialist, Saint Joseph’s University, 2000
  • B.S. Elementary Education and Special Education, Saint Joseph’s University, 1999

Research Focus:

Autism Spectrum Disorders, disability studies, special education and teacher preparation, self-determination and transition planning, literacy education

Honors:

  • Business Journal News Network Successful Business Woman of the Year, Higher Education
  • Ralph C. Preston Award for Scholarship and Teaching Contributing to Social Justice and Educational Equity
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Beth Kubala /faculty-experts/beth-kubala/ Wed, 25 Jul 2018 20:00:52 +0000 /?post_type=faculty-experts&p=135109 Elizabeth Kubala is a Teaching Professor and the Executive Director of the Betty and Michael D. Wohl Veterans Legal Clinic (VLC). At ϲ, Kubala oversees VLC operations, supervises student attorneys in representation of veterans, teaches the Veterans Legal Clinic Seminar, and supports veteran community relations.

Kubala joined the College of Law from the ϲ Institute for Veterans and Military Families, where she served since 2015 as a Senior Director, managing the delivery of programs and services across the nation for service members, veterans and their families.

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Vice Adm. Robert B. Murrett (Ret.) /faculty-experts/vice-adm-robert-b-murrett-ret/ Fri, 01 Sep 2017 16:43:39 +0000 /?post_type=faculty-experts&p=122341 Robert B. Murrett serves the Deputy Director of the , and is a faculty member in the Department of Public Administration and International Affairs in the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs.  He holds a courtesy faculty appointment with the  and is on the Advisory Board of the , both at the University.

A specialist in defense analysis, military intelligence, national security, and international relations, Murrett teaches popular courses in the Maxwell School on the “US Intelligence Community: Governance and Practice” and “US Defense Strategy, Military Posture, and Combat Operations”; leads capstone projects for the Veterans Administration, Rand, and IDA; and organizes legendary “staff rides” for students to discuss military leadership and strategy at Fort Stanwix and Oriskany in Upstate New York and the Gettysburg, PA, National Military Park.

Before joining ϲ, Murrett was a career intelligence officer in the US Navy, serving in assignments throughout the Pacific, Europe, and the Middle East through 34 years of duty, retiring as a Vice Admiral. Murrett was the fourth Director of the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency from July 2006 through July 2010. Prior to his appointment, he served as the Director of Naval Intelligence from April 2005 until July 2006.

Following his commissioning, Murrett was assigned as an afloat intelligence officer, including Mediterranean, North Atlantic, and western Pacific deployments aboard USS Kitty Hawk, USS America, and USS Independence. He was assigned to Defense Intelligence College in 1980, then detailed to the Chief of Naval Operations Intelligence Plot as a watch stander and briefing officer for Navy civilian and military leaders. From 1983 to 1985, he served as Assistant Intelligence Officer for Commander, Second Fleet. In 1989, Murrett reported to Commander in Chief, U.S. Pacific Fleet, where he was assigned as Operational Intelligence Officer. From 1992 to 1995, he served as Assistant Chief of Staff, Intelligence for Commander, Carrier Group Eight, and deployed to the European and Central Command theaters.

Between 1995 and 1997, Murrett was Assistant Chief of Staff, Intelligence for Commander, Second Fleet, and served concurrently as N2 for NATO’s Striking Fleet Atlantic. From June 1997 until September 1998, he was assigned to the Chief of Naval Operations Staff as Executive Assistant to the Director of Naval Intelligence. He was then assigned as Director, Intelligence Directorate, Office of Naval Intelligence in September 1998. He assumed the duties of Commander, Atlantic Intelligence Commance August 12, 1999. Murrett served as the Director for Intelligence, U.S. Joint Forces Command, from August, 2000 through January 2002. From February 2002 through March 2005, Murrett was assigned as the Vice Chair Director for Intelligence, on the Joint Staff.

Murrett received a B.A. in history from the University of Buffalo and a M.A. in government and strategic intelligence from Georgetown University and the Defense Intelligence College.

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