Week of  September 11

Hello, and welcome to the inaugural College of Human Development, Culture, and Media newsletter! We have already kicked off the semester with our Inaugural Convocation last week—watch the video here if you weren’t able to attend—and I look forward to this being an annual tradition going forward. It was also great to premiere the College’s new promotional video, which spotlights the innovative work being done by our faculty and students, and outlines the innovative interdisciplinary future of our new academic community!

This newsletter is a space where we won’t only be giving you important dates and information, but will also be giving shout outs to the people of CHDCM who are doing great work in and beyond the classroom, who are already demonstrating the power and potential of our new College. 

We’re planning to have these newsletters on a biweekly basis, so watch for these in your inbox, be sure to pass on your good news so we can recognize you, and I look forward to what we are all able to build together in the years to come!

Have a great week, and thanks again to everyone who worked hard to make our Inaugural CHDCM Convocation such a success!

Dr. Bryan Crable
 Founding Dean

Jane McManus

The College of Human Development, Culture, and Media would like to give a shout to our very own Executive Director of the Center for Sports Media, Jane McManus, who has been doing some incredible work on behalf of the Center. 

Recently, Executive Director McManus reported and analyzed the record-breaking women's volleyball match in Lincoln, Nebraska with an audience of over 90,000.

Speaking to Nebraska Public Radio as well as CNN, McManus emphasized the importance of centering women’s sports: “By putting volleyball in Memorial Stadium, the home of Cornhusker football, it just shows what can happen – if you build these kinds of events around women’s sports, they are growing in popularity.” 

Click here to hear more from McManus on NPR and CNN. 

In addition, last week she hosted an event that brought Stephen A. Smith to campus where he engaged with our current students who want a career in sports for a documentary that will be streamed on ESPN's platforms. 

Make sure to check out the Center's upcoming events this week including a conversation with play-by-play extraordinaire, Kenny Albert on Sept. 12 at 2pm in the Beck Rooms and then NFL writer and podcaster, Peter King in the University Center Theatre on Sept. 28 at 2pm.

WSOU 89.5 FM

WSOU 89.5 FM is the University’s award-winning radio station housed within the College of Human Development, Culture, and Media. Operated by a team of student managers, and under the leadership of professional staff, WSOU functions as a learning lab with an array of career-oriented educational experiences. Opportunities for student staff include on-air hosting (DJ), production, promotion, newscasting, sportscasting, programming, sales and marketing, and engineering. WSOU draws participation from each of the University’s Schools and Colleges, including many from communication, business, biology, education, nursing, sports management, and diplomacy.

Celebrated for its heritage status and coverage of Seton Hall athletics, WSOU's signal reaches all five boroughs of New York City and much of northern and central New Jersey, with live streaming availability anywhere via iHeartRadio. WSOU was the 2016 winner of the National Broadcasters Association's Marconi Award for Noncommercial Station of the Year and a repeat nominee for the Marconi Award for Best Non-Commercial Radio Station. WSOU also recently won the prestigious New York Press Award for its 2021 election night coverage.

Be sure to check out the exhibition based on WSOU located in Walsh Gallery from August 23 – December 8. For more information on the exhibition, click here.  Special thanks to the WSOU Professional Staff and Student Managers for hosting the dessert trucks and offering giveaways at our recent inaugural CHDCM Convocation!

Also, starting next issue, WSOU will receive its own section in the newsletter regarding recent and ongoing news, as well as opportunities to get involved.  Stay tuned for more! 

Ryan Sliwak

Ryan Sliwak, a fifth year doctoral student, will be an upcoming panelist representing families of 9/11 for a forum on lessons from mass violence, trauma, and loss. Sliwak previously had explored research on how children who lost a parent in 9/11 develop a personal narrative about this trauma in both a collective context as well as a national tragedy, and how they make meanings of their experiences. 

Sliwak shared, “More specifically, I wanted the work to stimulate a process where I was unpacking and diving deeper into parts of myself throughout the work. The experiences of 9/11 children are near and dear to me, as I am one of those children. My dad worked for Cantor Fitzgerald with my uncle on the 105th floor of the North Tower. I was seven at the time of 9/11 and turned eight four days later on the 15th.” 

Sliwak continued about his research that “I wanted to tap into my story and loss and use it as a tool to connect with the other children and allow them to convey their narrative in a manner that felt genuine, raw, and guided by the deep emotions of the trauma and their loss. The most significant driving influence throughout the entire research process was, in fact, the deep and painful emotions we shared during our discussions.”

Sliwak is pursuing his dissertation with intentions of further research that involves “exploring how the relationship with their parent before 9/11 influences or impacts their ability to maintain or continue a bond with their parent after 9/11, likewise, how their ability to transform or reconfigure a more internal sense of connection to their parent impacts experiences of grief. Moreover, I want to look at how 9/11 children process ‘who’ died and the meaning of their parents to them, outside of the lenses of solely examining how they died.”

Ryan Sliwak will be participating as a panelist in “2023 Lessons in Recovery and Resilience Forum” on September 20, 2023 from 9am to 5pm. Registration for this event is free and can be accessed by clicking HERE. It will be live-streamed and include interactive online content.

Drs. Al Galloway and Daniel Gutmore contributed to the IGI Global book, Reimagining Systems Thinking in a Post-Pandemic World. 

Drs. Galloway and Gutmore wrote Chapter 8’s “Systems Thinking Through Mass Customization in Response to COVID-19 in the Higher Education Context,” which explains the systemic changes that needed to occur at SHU in order to adjust to the changing environment due to the pandemic. 

Dr. Jennifer Timmer’s article, “Mitigating invalid and mischievous survey responses: A registered report examining risk disparities between heterosexual and lesbian, gay, bisexual, or questioning youth,” was published in June 2023 in the Journal of Child Development. 

To read Dr. Timmer’s article, click here. 

Dr. Minsun Lee Article Highlight

In collaboration with our student spotlight, Ryan Sliwak, Dr. Minsun Lee of the Department of Professional Psychology and Family Therapy aided and co-authored the article , “Where Are They Now: The Narratives of Children Who Lost a Parent on 9/11.”

To read Dr. Lee & Ryan Sliwak's article, click here.

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