By Karen Westbrooks, program director, MA in Couples/Marriage & Family Therapy When celebrities like Robin Williams, Chris Cornell, Anthony Bourdain, and Kate Spade commit suicide, it gets the nation thinking about why people take their own lives — and what can be done to prevent it. In 2016 alone, nearly 45,000 Americans died by suicide. The 2017 data is not out yet, but according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the overall rise in suicide is 25%. The increase in suicide crosses all sexes, ages, races, and ethnic groups. Understanding suicide is generally guided by questions about cause: [...]

Dr. Carrie Arnold Carrie Arnold received her PhD in Human and Organization Development in 2017.  She is the Principal Coach and Consultant for The Willow Group, located in Denver, Colorado.  She is an Institute for Social Innovation Fellow, and her research focuses on the voice of female executives.  Dr. Arnold speaks to audiences across the country on what it means to be a silenced female leader and ways to heal from the phenomenon and leverage a voice with currency. Kipnes Fund Project and Final Report Dr. Arnold’s research project compared the experiences of female leaders in different public and [...]

Reflections on Asian Pacific American Heritage Month By Dr. Dang, Dean of Student Development Dr. Dang, Fielding's Dean of Student Development May is Asian Pacific American Heritage month—a month of reflecting on what it means to be Asians in America. I became an Asian when I arrived in America in 1989 as an international student. Prior to that point, I was just me, a Chinese-Thai woman, a daughter of Chinese immigrants, living in a homogenous country among friends from similar cultural and socio-economic backgrounds. Over the past 30 years, I have crossed many cultural borders and boundaries in this [...]

Frederic Hudson $100,000 Endowed Scholarship to Support Fielding Students The Frederic Hudson family recently made its final contribution to complete the $100,000 endowed scholarship named after one of Fielding’s visionary founders. Family, friends, and several leaders of the Hudson Institute of Coaching gathered at the Hudson family home on April 2, the third anniversary of the scholarship fund. Charles McClintock, PhD, dean emeritus and director of Fielding’s Institute for Social Innovation, presented Frederic’s spouse Pamela McLean with a commemorative certificate, as they remembered Frederic’s lasting impact on the self-directed adult graduate education model. The fund will be used to [...]

 Leading Workshops and Hosting Evening Get-Together Students, alumni and faculty are representing Fielding well at the Society for Applied Anthropology's annual meeting, taking place in Philadelphia from April 3-7. From 5:30 to 7:30 on Friday, April 6, an informal social get together will introduce Fielding folks to prospective students at Finn McCool's Ale House. Our scholar-practitioners can be found presenting in a variety of conference sessions, as well. See the schedule below for details. The Loews Philadelphia Hotel   1:30-3:20 Friday, Washington A Cruzando Puentes: Crossing Cultural Bridges to Sustainable Futures Chaired by faculty members David Blake Willis and Connie [...]