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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:
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B.A.
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Wheaton
College (IL), 1972 (Social Sciences)
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| M.
Ed. |
University
of Illinois (Urbana), 1975 (Educational Psychology) |
| Ed.D.
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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:
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2001
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Executive
Committee, "Christian Vocation: Service, Leadership, and Reconciliation,"
Messiah College Program for the Theological Exploration of Vocation,
Lilly Endowment
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| 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
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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
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| 1988
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Excellence
In Teaching Award, Messiah College |
| 1988
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Distinction
in Doctoral Exam, Temple University
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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.
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| 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.
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| 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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