Recently, Rudolph virtually presented "Gen X and Gen Z: Navigating the Generational Gaps between Gifted Parents and Children."

Differences between generations have been evident for decades. Generation X is now parenting Generation Z, and the differences have become more challenging in today's environment. Overlap those differences with the characteristics of gifted children and teens, and the challenges become greater.

The presentation discussed the characteristics of the generations and gifted children and how to navigate those to promote effective relationships between parents and children.

Peck recently published a chapter in the book “Developing an Intercultural Responsive Leadership Style for Faculty and Administrators.”

The chapter, co-authored by Dr. Terrence Frazier of Michigan State University and Dr. Trisha Gott of Kansas State University, is titled, “Developing Intercultural Fluency Through Co-Curricular Programs.” The chapter is available on the IGI Global Publishing website.

Carbajal was recently elected to serve a two-year term on the Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing International Association Board of Directors. The goal of EMDRIA is to promote, foster and preserve the highest standard of excellence and integrity in EMDR practice for the association's membership, mental health professionals and the community.

Face masks present challenges for students who are deaf and hard of hearing and who rely on lip reading. The Office of the Dean of Student Affairs has a limited number of masks with transparent mouth areas available for faculty members who would like one.

To obtain a mask, visit Room 3.105 of the Baker Pattillo Student Center. Call (936) 468-7249 before you visit.

SFA’s Organization for Women's Leadership and Equity is excited to announce its first slate of officers for the 2020-21 year.

Officers include Dr. Heather Olson Beal, faculty co-chair; Ashley Johnson, staff co-chair; Dr. Mary Hawkins, faculty co-chair elect; April Chaney, staff co-chair; Dr. Sudeshna Roy, treasurer; Dr. Sara Bishop, ethics committee secretary; CC Conn, tenure, promotion and annual review committee chair; Dr. Chrissy Cross, tenure, promotion and annual review committee secretary; Sarah Sanchez, mentoring, membership and outreach committee chair; Dr. Lauren Burrow, achievement and advancement committee chair; Jill Carrington, achievement and advancement committee secretary; Sarah Drake, wellness committee chair; Dr. Amanda Rudolph, diversity committee chair; Dr. Lauren Brewer, governance committee chair; and Dr. Elizabeth Spradley, special projects committee chair.

OWLE seeks to empower and support women’s professional advancement while balancing their professional, personal, physical and mental health needs. It also advocates for policies that support female faculty and staff.

All faculty and staff who share the organization's mission are invited to join. For more information, click here.

To join, complete this form. Email Olson Beal with questions at owle@sfasu.edu.

The 2020 Stone Fort yearbooks have arrived. If you would like to purchase one or more for your department, email Rachel Clark, Student Publications and Divisional Media coordinator, at clarkr1@sfasu.edu.

The yearbook costs $67. Include a FOAP number for an interdepartmental transfer in the email. Past years’ Stone Fort yearbooks are available for $30, while supplies last. If you would like to purchase any past yearbooks, include the preferred year(s) in your email. Yearbooks will be delivered promptly to your department.

If you have any questions, call Student Publications at (936) 468-4703.

To help faculty and staff determine the best seating arrangements for their classrooms while adhering to Centers for Disease Control and Prevention social distancing guidelines, the Office of Institutional Effectiveness has posted floor and furniture plans and classroom capacities for nearly 400 rooms on SFA’s campus by building. Some rooms have two floor plans: one for lecture and another for group study.

The plans and capacities can be downloaded from OIE’s reading room.

Interior design students created these plans after interning for OIE over the summer to collect data on classrooms and design safe learning environments for their classmates. They took measurements, inventoried and photographed all furniture and technological equipment, and documented elements ranging from electrical outlets to floor, baseboard, wall and ceiling materials in hundreds of rooms across campus, including auditoriums, gyms and laboratories.

SFA’s Sound Recording Technology program has caught the eye of Audinate, the global leader of professional digital audio networking, for SRT’s cutting-edge use of Audinate’s Dante platform.

Audinate showcased SFA’s use of Dante in a recent industry article touting the platform’s innovative capabilities. The article has been picked up and distributed by multiple media outlets and read by thousands of industry professionals.

James Adams, assistant professor in the School of Music and director of the SRT program, has been integrating Audinate’s Dante across multiple studios and stages on the SFA campus for the past two years.

“This technology is being adopted throughout the music industry because of its cost efficiency, reliability and flexible ease of use,” Adams said. “Our students are being trained in the operations of Dante and similar technologies, which further expands their marketable skills.”

Students enrolled in Tyler Junior College’s wellness and exercise program now have a way to complete a four-year Bachelor of Science in kinesiology with a concentration in exercise science at SFA.

The new pathway helps TJC students transfer their credits based on the Workforce Education Course Manual to SFA, which recently switched to the Texas Common Course Numbering System.

“This allows more classes to be transferred into SFA, so that reduces the students’ time to graduation and it reduces their cost because we’ve already agreed that those certain courses are going to transfer in,” said Dr. Jay Thornton, chair of SFA’s Department of Kinesiology and Health Science. “Some of those transfer in as junior- and senior-level courses.”

A traveling exhibition of local photographer Richard Orton’s images of the Upshaw family of Nacogdoches County, currently showing in The Cole Art Center @ The Old Opera House, will be on display through Saturday, Aug. 22.

The photographs are the focus of Orton’s book, “The Upshaws of County Line: An American Family,” which is a documentation of the County Line community’s history through photographs and oral histories of the families who lived there.

Three brothers, Guss, Felix and Jim Upshaw, and their families established County Line in the 1870s. What stimulated Orton's curiosity about County Line was how quickly emancipated slaves were able to own their own land and, as a result, had the opportunity to live relatively autonomous, self-sufficient lives while raising their families in the time of Jim Crow.

"That is why I wanted to make photographs there and collect their oral history," Orton explained. "I was most fortunate to be allowed to do that."

For information, call the art center at (936) 468-6557.

Registration is underway for fall classes in the Music Preparatory Division of the SFA School of Music.

The fall roster for youth includes lessons in piano, violin, cello, viola, voice, Music Theory Adventures and Piney Woods Youth Orchestra, among many others. Lessons may be available for other instruments upon request. Music Prep also offers programs for adults in piano and strings.

As the world continues to struggle with the economic and emotional effects of the pandemic, music remains one of the best coping mechanisms for stress and uncertainty, according to Alba Madrid, Music Preparatory Division director.

Prices range from $20 to $180 per month, depending on frequency, type of lesson and lesson length. Registration for private and group instruction can be completed online at sfamusicprep.com or by calling (936) 468-1291.

Photographer Pang Way has a knack for snapping fascinating photos of praying mantises.

Typically known for being one of the most formidable insects, the praying mantises display their silly side to Way.

To see more, click here.