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RHONDA HUSTEDT JACOBSEN

Messiah College
Grantham, PA 17027
717-766-2511
rjacobse@messiah.edu

Rhonda Hustedt Jacobsen is Professor of Psychology and Director of Faculty Development at Messiah College, Grantham, PA. Her scholarship explores relations between religious beliefs, practices and affections and the findings of social science research in the areas of psychology and education. A recipient of several teaching prizes, including the highly regarded Sears Roebuck Teaching Excellence Award, Professor Jacobsen has also received a number of grants from the John Templeton Foundation for her efforts to bring science and faith together. Her most recent publication is Scholarship and Christian Faith: Enlarging the Conversation (with Douglas Jacobsen), Oxford University Press (2004). She is currently a member of the United Church of Christ and an active laywoman in her congregation.


I. Education:

B.A.
Wheaton College (IL), 1972 (Social Sciences)
M. Ed. University of Illinois (Urbana), 1975 (Educational Psychology)
Ed.D. Temple University, 1989 (Social Foundations of Education)
Sabbatical Study Lancaster Theological Seminary, 1992-93

II. Employment:

1997- Professor of Psychology, Messiah College (Grantham, PA)

1996- Assistant Dean for Faculty Development, Messiah College

1991-1997 Associate Professor of Psychology, Messiah College

1984-1991 Assistant Professor of Psychology, Messiah College

1975-1984 Counselor, Bradley-Bourbonnais High School (Bradley, IL)

1974-1975 Research Assistant, Educational Psychology Department
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

1973-1975 Administrative Assistant/Travel Tour Leader
(Summers) Wheaton College International Study Program, The Netherlands

1972-1974 Teacher, History/Psychology, Bradley-Bourbonnais High School


III. Selective Listing of Academic Grants and Professional Awards:

2001
Executive Committee, "Christian Vocation: Service, Leadership, and Reconciliation," Messiah College Program for the Theological Exploration of Vocation, Lilly Endowment
1998 Prize to Faculty Mentor, Student Essay Contest Third Place Prize,
Science and Religion Course Program, Templeton Foundation
1998 Conference Funding, "Models for Christian Higher Education: Learning from Each Other" (held at Messiah College and co-directed with Douglas Jacobsen), Lilly Endowment Inc.
1997 Lecture Series Funding, "Modern Science and Christian Faith," (held at Messiah College and co-directed with Edward Davis), Templeton Foundation
1995 Model Course Award, Science and Religion Program, Templeton Foundation
1991 Finalist, Ted Ward Writing Award on "The Christian Mission in Higher Education," from the Institute for Christian Leadership
1990 "Teaching Excellence and Campus Leadership Award," Sears Roebuck Foundation
1988 Excellence In Teaching Award, Messiah College
1988

Distinction in Doctoral Exam, Temple University

IV. Selected Publications:

(in press, 2004). "A Woman, A Christian, an Academician," in Still Believing After All these Years, (Victoria L. Erickson & Susan A. Farrell, eds.), Orbis Press.

(2004). Scholarship and Christian Faith: Enlarging the Conversation co-authored with Douglas Jacobsen. (New York: Oxford University Press.)

"The Scholarship of Personhood Reconsidered: Implications for Christian Higher Education," Proceedings of the Wesleyan Center Conference, "What Happens to Person in the Postmodern Era?" Point Loma: Wesleyan Center for Twenty-First Century Studies, 1997.

"The Soul of Active Learning: Connecting Psychology and Faith," in the Proceedings of the Ninth Annual Conference on Undergraduate Teaching of Psychology, Resources in Education, 29, April 1996. Also available as ERIC document #389366.

"Good Testing: An Analysis of the Classroom Context," in the Conference Proceedings of the Seventh Annual Conference on Undergraduate Teaching of Psychology, Resources in Education, 29, 5, May 1994. Also available in ERIC document #365398, Hackett, M.S. & Levine, J.R. [Eds.], "Teaching of Psychology: Ideas and Innovations."

"What is Good Testing?: Perceptions of College Students," College Teaching, 41, 4, (Fall, 1993), 153-156.

"College, Community, Atheism, and Ethics" (with D. Jacobsen), Faculty Dialogue, 15, (Fall, 1991), 63-82.


V. Recent Academic Activities:

2004 (March). "Scholarship and Christian Faith: Enlarging the Conversation Review Panel." Christianity and the Soul of the University. Waco, TX. Baylor University.
2003 (May). "Speaking about the Other." Annual Conference of the Muslim Women's Institute for Research and Development. New York: Columbia University
2003 (March). "Inclusion or Interruption? How Religious Diversity Expresses Itself in the Classroom." (Co-leader with Douglas Jacobsen.) Faculty and Administrator Workshop. Selinsgrove, PA: Susquehanna University.
2002 (October). "How Christian Scholarship Can Sustain the Life of the Mind and enhance the Quality of our Scholarship." Pepperdine Center for Faith and Learning Conference on Stories of Vocation. Malibu, CA: Pepperdine University.
2002 Presenter, "Models for Strengthening Dean and Department Chair Leadership." San Antonio, TX: Council for Christian College and Universities Chief Academic Officers Conference. (March).
2001 Presenter, "Faith Development: Whose Dreams? What Realities?" Bluffton, OH: Bluffton College Faculty Forum. (November).
2000 Presenter, "A Developmental Approach to Faculty Development, CCCU Campus-Based Faculty Development Conference, Grand Rapids, MI: Cornerstone University, May 22.
1998 Conference Co-Convener, Models for Christian Higher Education: Learning from Each Other. Messiah College, March 26-7.
1997 Presenter: "The Dialogue of Psychology and Theology within the Circle of Scholarship." Science and Religion Conference, Templeton Foundation, St.Ann's College, Oxford University, July 19-25.
1997 Presenter: "Critical Realist and Wesleyan Perspectives on Personhood." What Happens to Person in the Postmodern Era?, The Wesleyan Center for Twenty-First Century Studies, Point Loma Nazarene College, San Diego, January 22-25.
1996 Presenter: "Students as Scholars: The History of Psychology Course" National Institute on the Teaching of Psychology, Tampa, January 3-6.
1995 Presenter: "The Soul of Active Learning: Connecting Psychology and Faith." Conference on Undergraduate Teaching of Psychology, SUNY, March 22-24.
1994 Presenter: "Students Ways of Testing: Transforming the Structures of Evaluation." American Educational Research Association, Annual Meeting, New Orleans, April 5-8.

VI. Professional Memberships:

American Educational Research Association
American Psychological Association: Teaching of Psychology Division
Board of Campus Representatives, Christian Scholar's Review
Professional and Organizational Development Network



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