Fund Will Support Students Researching Socially Just Leadership The Fielding community has a new reason to be thankful. Dean Emeritus Charles McClintock, PhD, and his wife Carol Wilburn have established a new scholarship to support our doctoral students’ dissertation research. The McClintock-Wilburn Family Fund in Leadership will provide financial support to students whose Fielding writing and/or dissertation research demonstrate conceptual clarity, rigorous methodology, and support for socially just leadership. It will be available to our students in 2019, when the next common application cycle opens. A $100,000 deferred gift with additional contributions from the McClintock-Wilburn family will ensure that the scholarship [...]

(L-R) Northern Arizona University alum Booker T Evans, Jr., JD and Dean Karen Pugliesi, PhD with inductees Dr. Katrina Rogers, Navajo Nation President Jonathan Nez, and Anthony Gibson, executive director of Federal Relations for the University of Pittsburgh Dr. Katrina Rogers inducted at Northern Arizona University Fielding President Katrina Rogers, PhD, was recently inducted into the Alumni Hall of Fame at Northern Arizona University, where she earned her Master's of Arts in History and her Doctorate in Political Science. She was one of the three honorees to be inducted over Homecoming Weekend in October to the College of Social and Behavioral Sciences (SBS) Alumni [...]

Dear Fielding Community, It is with a heavy heart that I must inform you that Dr. Gerald Porter, who served as Provost of Fielding from 2015 to 2018, passed away on Wednesday, November 7. Dr. Porter had been battling cancer for some time. Gerry was a warm and generous person, as well as an accomplished and thoughtful scholar with decades of experience as a faculty member and administrator in higher education, and in training mental health counselors, school psychologists, and educators. In addition to chairing the Department of Counseling and Psychological Services at SUNY Oswego and serving as Dean of the [...]

National Museum of the American Indian In honor of Native American Heritage Month, Fielding Trustee Patricia Zell, JD, shares her experience of helping to create the National Museum of the American Indian, which opened in 2004 on the National Mall in Washington, DC. Ms. Zell was chief counsel of the United States Senate Indian Affairs Committee, and served on the Board of Trustees of the museum. I was actually involved in the creation of the National Museum of the American Indian even before the idea had been born. Our mission was to rescue a priceless collection of over a [...]

On Saturday, Oct. 27, Fielding Graduate University will be hosting an Evidence Based Coaching Thought Leaders Webinar on “The Hidden History of Coaching.” Dr. Terry Hildebrandt Where did coaching actually come from? How did we acquire this relatively new profession which all of us are engaged in? Join us as we take a look at a range of experimental practices and intellectual developments out of which coaching grew. Some of our “ancestors” turn out to have been distinctly peculiar, others just intriguing in their ability to be in the right place at the right time or to write about it [...]

Considerations for the Fielding Family By Four Arrows, PhD, faculty in EdD Leadership for Change “It’s time to honor and to teach traditional Indigenous wisdom of our collective ancestors -- this may be our last hope.” —Nancy turn Banks, author of AIDS, Opium, Diamonds and Empire “There are many reasons to be learning from Indigenous knowledge systems.” —Chet Bowers, author of Ecological Intelligence and Educational Reform In 1990, President H.W. Bush signed a resolution designating November as “National American Indian Heritage Month.” In 2009, President Obama signed a resolution making the day after Thanksgiving “Native American Heritage Day.” The goal was [...]

Fielding Student’s Project Looks at Economic Impact of Folk Schools Santa Barbara, CA —Thanks to the work of PhD student Dawn J. Murphy, Fielding Graduate University has received a two-year, $200,000 federal research grant through the Corporation for National and Community Service (CNCS). Arbutus Folk School, WA Centered on Arbutus Folk School of Olympia, Washington, community and university researchers will develop and implement a Community-Based Research project in the Pac5, a five-county region in the Pacific Mountains of Washington. The “Leading from the Roots” project will engage local artisans, craftspeople, and tradition bearers in a study of economic vitality [...]