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Mary Jo Finney, Ph.D., Dean of the Graduate School and Professor of Education, provides leadership in graduate education through advocacy, partnerships, grants, and collaborative curriculum development with direct responsibility for all graduate-level interdisciplinary degrees. Her Ph.D. in Reading and Language Arts centers on psycholinguistics, literacy, and comprehension psycholinguistics across the lifespan undergirds her research focused on literacy among struggling readers of all ages. With over 20 years of teaching faculty, doctoral, master鈥檚, and baccalaureate students, Mary Jo has taught courses in leadership, literacy, assessment, research methodologies, nursing education, and interdisciplinary learning. She established international and intercultural teacher identity exchange programs in Prague, Czech Republic and Beijing, China. Her administrative roles include serving as an academic dean, director of faculty development, department chair, and director of a clinically-based, urban master鈥檚 degree program serving urban, rural, international, and rural Alaskan schools.

 

 

Kristen VanDeRostyne is the Administrative Assistant for the Graduate School. She's originally from a small town called Parker, South Dakota (Population 1,033). She grew up on an acreage where her family had horses, cows, dogs, and cats. After she graduated high school, she then went on to join the South Dakota Air National Guard, which is a subset of the Air Force. After her Basic Military Training, she started working on her Bachelor鈥檚 Degree in Business Management with a Minor in International Business at Northern State University. While attending college she continued to serve in the military part-time, and even deployed overseas to the Middle East midway through her schooling. Before she graduated with her degree, she studied abroad in Australia, working at an internship at a 5-star hotel in Gold Coast. Once she graduated Magna Cum Laude with her degree, she set off for Seattle to work for Amazon as an operations manager, and then as an operations manager of a company called EOS IT Solutions. Her work experience includes managing teams, forecasting, product management, and inventory control.

 

 

Tiffany Creed is the Communications Specialist for the Graduate School. She grew up between Kotzebue, Fairbanks, and Sitka, Alaska. Tiffany graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in Film from Portland State University in 2013 and earned a Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing and Literary Arts from the 彩神vlll争霸 in 2018. She has worked in communications, social media, and web editing in the fields of education, government, healthcare, and recreation (including dog mushing). In her current role, she carries out web maintenance, creates print and digital materials, and develops communication channels.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Sunny Mall is the Program Director of the McNair Scholars Program, and she has a background as a mathematics teacher, teacher educator, and administrator. She has lived in Alaska (born in Chugiak, working mainly in Anchorage and Homer) her entire life save a summer in South Korea, one in Japan, and three years living in Nepal in the Peace Corps. She holds degrees in mathematics, teaching, and mathematics curriculum with an emphasis in rural education. In the classroom, her goal has consistently focused on instilling in reluctant math learners a love of mathematics and a joy of learning! Her research interests include patterning, reasoning and teacher disposition. In the McNair Scholars Program, she works to enhance the undergraduate experience for students from first generation, income eligible, and underrepresented backgrounds. She encourages any undergraduate student with questions about graduate school to reach out for a meeting irrespective of their intentions to apply for McNair, as opportunities abound for any individual serious about pursuing a post baccalaureate education!