Wagner College business professor Mary Lo Re’s first book, “Experiential Civic Learning: Construction of Models & Assessment,” has recently been published by North American Business Press.
“Experiential Civic Learning” is a compact but all-inclusive essential resource guide for faculty, departments and administrators who wish to partake in this curricula initiative and address the challenge of producing a more skilled, ethical and civically engaged student citizen.
The book provides the background literature, rationale, practicalities, guidance and new resources for all the phases of this learning initiative, from the different modalities of experiential learning, funding and grants, considerations, construction and implementation of a single and departmental civic engagement series of courses, new rubrics to create a formal/direct and informal/indirect assessment plan, relating scores to grades and closing the learning-assessment loop.
Mary L. Lo Re, chair of the Department of Business Administration at Wagner College, teaches statistical modeling, managerial economics and varied finance courses at the undergraduate and graduate levels. She obtained her Ph.D. from the City University of New York Graduate Center, specializing in monetary theories and policies and international trade. She has written and obtained several external and internal grants, received numerous newspaper and media community and student involvement mentions, and presented and published in the areas of civic engagement, best practices such as writing across the curriculum, EU/EMU convergence and the economic financial crisis. Prior to entering the academy, Lo Re spent 17 years accruing practical business experience, including 9 years in computer technology and 8 years in upper/executive management.
Mary Lo Re publishes new book
September 12, 2012
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