Patricia E. Clark P.O. Box 126 Unity, Maine 04988 Academic Work Experience Unity College, Unity, Maine Vice Chair, Dept. of Instruction and Advising Services June 2006- June 2009 Associate Dean of Faculty January 2005 May 2006 Acting Division Chair, Liberal Studies July 2000-2002 Director of Summer Institute 2000 Professor 2009-present Associate Professor 1997-2009 Assistant Professor 1987-1997 Elderhostel Coordinator 1991-1992 Visiting Assistant Professor 1985-1987 Instructor 1982-1985 Taught classes in Oral Communication, Interpersonal Relations, Unity Experience, Unity Transfer Experience, Advanced Oral Communication, Introduction to Drama, Environmental Challenge, Community Practices, Introduction to Criminal Justice and Great Issues in World Civilization. Faculty sponsor and Director for the Drama Club, 1983- present Coach of the Woodsmen's team 1999-2000, 2003-present Co-coordinator, Presidential Committee on Alcohol and Other Drugs, 2004-present Member of the Faculty Evaluation Committee, 2009-present Member of Enrollment Management Committee, 2008-present WE Lead Mentor and Steering Committee, 2002-present Member of the Athletic Committee, 1997-present Chair, Student Engagement Committee and MELMAC Co-coordinator, 2008-2011 Faculty sponsor for Unity College Campus Crusade for Christ, 2005-2010 Co-chair, Student Engagement Committee, 2005-2008 Member of Film Series Committee, 2006-2008 Volunteer for Fishing for Scholarships, 2003-2009 Chair of the Faculty Priorities and Personnel Committee, 2000 Received minigrant for alcohol curriculum infusion in Interpersonal Relations course, 2002. Member of faculty team receiving a Maine Campus Compact grant for Lake Winnecook Water Quality, a service-learning project, 1998. Received a Maine Campus Compact minigrant for Books on Stage, service-learning project, 1996. Received a matching funds grant from Inter-Faith Hunger Appeal for conference on Hunger, 1991. Mount View Junior High School, Thorndike, ME, Facilitator, Speaker Up! March-May 2004, 2006
Mount View High School, Thorndike, ME, Director, State One Act Play Contest, 1983 Husson College, Bangor, Maine, CEED Instructor in Speech, Fall, 1981 Taught basic course in Public Speaking. University of Maine, Orono, Maine Instructor, Part-Time, Spring, 1980 Graduate Teaching Assistant, 1973-74, Fall, 1978 Technical Director, Hauck Auditorium, 1974-1975. Supervised the technical preparation and presentation of productions by the Maine Masque Theatre and visiting performers. Taught Public Speaking and Interpersonal Communication. University of Bridgeport, Bridgeport, Connecticut, Library Assistant, 1972-1973 Member of the Library Planning Committee. Lighting designer and stagehand at the Mertens Theatre. University of Maine, Orono, Maine Library Assistant, Fogler Library, 1968-1971 Head of Canadian and Foreign Documents, 1969-1971. Supervised student workers, helped catalog and maintain the Canadian Collection. Worked in U.S. Document Depository. Education Maine Criminal Justice Academy Law Enforcement Pre-Service Program (100 hour course) Unity, January 2-12, 1996 Master of Arts in Theatre, December 1979. University of Maine, Orono, Maine Thesis Title: "The Introduction of Electric Stage Lighting and Its Effect Upon American Theatre Practices, 1880-1920." Bachelor of Arts in General Speech, June 1972. University of Maine, Orono, Maine Minor in English Special Training and Certification State of Maine Training as Warden for Election Polls, October 2004 Human Participants Protection Education for Research Teams, October 3, 2004 Theatre Communications Group Maine Women s Studies Consortium Professional Affiliations
americancomm group at Yahoo! Groups HEAPP (Higher Education Alcohol Prevention Programs) MAPP (Maine Association of Prevention Programs Presentations Melmac Campus Success Poster Session, Support Early Success in College Conference, South Portland, April 25, 2011 Cross Campus Collaborations with Faculty and Staff with Brian Ufford, University of Maine Farmington Interim Director of Student Life, Maine Association of student Professionals Spring Summit, Gorham, April 15, 2011 The History of Memorial Day and Veterans Celebrations with Bill Russell and Charles Schaefer, Unity Historical Society, May 26, 2009 How to Understand Women with Dr. Kathryn Miles, Unity College, September 17, 2009 Integrating AOD Prevention Into the Classroom and Academic Advising Experiences with Lauri Sidelko, University of Maine Director of Alcohol and Drug Education, HEAPP Workshop, Charting a Course for Change: Creating a Year-Long High-Risk Prevention Plan for Your College or University, Orono, May 29-30, 2008 Speaker, Belfast and Moosehead Lake Railroad 140 th Anniversary, Unity, June 23, 2007 Instructor, monthly training session on multicultural communication for all Waldo County Law Enforcement Officers, Belfast ME, September 15, 2005 Guest Preacher, First Baptist Church, Belfast, ME August 28, 2006 How to Attend a Film Festival, Panel with Dr. Lynn Sawlivich, Virginia Wesleyan College and Betty Jean Meader, Thomas College, Maine International Film Festival (MIFF), Waterville ME July 12, 2006 Guest Preacher, Thomaston Baptist Church, Thomaston, ME, August 20 and 27, 2005 and August 14 and 21, 2006 Guest Preacher, Colby College Protestant Worship Service, Waterville, ME, September 26, 2004, April 19 and 26, 2009 Invocation, Annual Meeting of the American Baptist Churches of Maine, China, ME, October 16, 2003 Green Campus Consortium: A Maine Partnership For a Sustainable Future North American Alliance for Green Education (NAAGE) 2002 Conference, Naropa University, Boulder, CO, October 17-19, 2002
Panel Member, New England Board of Higher Education 2002 Environmental Internship Symposium, Bethel, ME, August 1-2, 2002 Public speaking AmeriCorps Education Award Member Training, Kennebec Valley Technical College, Fairfield, ME, March 25, 2000 "Student Service in Small Communities" University of Southern Maine, State Wide Symposium on Students, Scholarship, Service October 22, 1999 "Reaching Out With Service Learning to Bring Communities Together" and Interdisciplinary Affinity Group Leader CIC Conference on Creating Cultures of Learning, St. Louis, MO June 4, 1999 1999 Maine Water Conference, "The Lake Winnecook Project" Augusta, ME April, 1999 Panel member on Juvenile Corrections, "Unity College Youth Outreach" New England Council on Crime and Delinquency 59th Annual Training Institute, Portland, ME September 14, 1998 Keynote Speaker, New England District of Circle K Retreat, Winthrop, ME October 1997 "Books on Stage: Service Learning and Drama, The Atlanta University Center Service Learning Collaborative 2nd Annual Conference, Atlanta, GA June, 1997 Service Learning Faculty Fellow, Maine Campus Compact, 1997 University of Southern Maine Student Leadership Conference, Portland, ME April University of Maine at Machias, Faculty Development, May Tribute to Maryann Hartman, Maryann Hartman Awards, University of Maine, Orono, November, 1996 Models of Co-curricular Service, panel presenter, Blaine House Conference on Volunteerism, Augusta, October, 1996 Faculty Development Workshop on Service Learning, Presenter, Unity College, August 1995 and 1996 Publications Unity s Lost Trotting Park Now Unity Raceway, reprinted September 2010 as blog on Last Trotting Park Heritage Center website Conferences and Workshops
Higher Education Alcohol Prevention Programs (HEAPP) training, University of Maine Orono, May 23, 2011 Support Early Success in College Conference, South Portland, April 25, 2011 Maine Association of student Professionals Spring Summit, Gorham, April 15, 2011 Charting a Course for Change: Creating a Year-Long High-Risk Prevention Plan for Your College or University, HEAPP, Orono, ME, May 20-21, 2009 Get Motivated Seminar, business seminar, Bangor, ME, May 7, 2009 Working the Bugs Out: Effective and Safe Practices for Protecting your Collection from Pests, Good Will Hinckley, Hinckley, ME, April 27, 2009 Using FSSE and NSSE Data, webinar, September 9, 2009. Charting a Course for Change: Creating a Year-Long High-Risk Prevention Plan for Your College or University, HEAPP, Orono, ME, May 29-30, 2008 Restorative Justice Mentor Training, Restorative Justice Project of the Midcoast, Unity, ME, March 30, 2008 Group Facilitation Training, Healthy Community Coalition, Unity, ME August 23 and September 20, 2007 HEAPP Resident Advisor Training, Thomas College, August 20, 2007 Academic Impressions Conference on Promoting Better Teaching and Learning, Memphis, TN July 25-27, 2007 Audio Conference on New Student Orientation led by Ryan Lombardi, May 31, 2007 MELMAC Conference on Supporting Student Success at Maine Colleges, South Portland, ME May 14, 2007 MELMAC Conference on Best Practices in Student Success Programs, Rockport, ME November 12-14, 2006 21 st annual Maine Women s Studies Conference, Globalization, Immigration, and Borderlands, University of Maine, Orono, November 18, 2006 Maine Rural Partners Harness the Wealth Workshop, Unity, ME, May 18-19, 2006 Higher Education Alcohol and Other Drug Prevention Conference, University of Maine, Orono, ME, March 31, 2006
Customer Services Skills Workshop, Unity College, Unity, ME March, 2006 Unity College Alumni Association Planning Retreat, November 19, 2005 Noel-Levitz National Conference on Student Recruitment, Marketing, and Retention, Washington, D.C., July 27-30, 2005 Academic Impressions Conference on Retaining Students in Higher Education: A Framework for Improvement, Vail, CO, June 15-17, 2005 Maine Campus Compact 10 th Anniversary celebration, Augusta, ME, March 15, 2005 MELMAC Conference on Supporting Early Success in College: Best Practices in Student Retention, Rockport, ME, October 28-29, 2004 2004 Northeast Regional Triad Conference, Nashua, NH, September 19-21, 2004 AACC Civic Responsibility Workshop, Southern Maine Technical College, April 14, 2003 US Dept. of Education Annual National Meeting on Alcohol and Other Drugs in Higher Education Reaching New Heights: Building Partnerships in Comprehensive Prevention, Seattle, WA, November 21-24, 2002 Elijah P. Lovejoy 200 th Birthday Celebration, Co-organizer with Janet Dow, Albion, ME November 9, 2002 17 th Annual Maine Women s Studies Conference, Women and Politics, University of Southern Maine, Portland, ME October 26, 2002 New England Women s Environmental Network, National Wildlife Federation, Fairlee, VT, June 14-15, 2002 16 th Annual Maine Women s Studies Conference, Women in the Arts, Colby College, Waterville, ME, November 3, 2001 Campus Compact Faculty Seminar, NH Technical Institute, Concord, NH, October 19, 2001 Maine Academic Management Institute, 2000-2001 21 st Century Campus, Bar Harbor, ME April 5-6, 2000
New Managers Developmental Seminar, National Association of Academic Affairs Administrators and Commission XIV of the American College Personnel Association, Charleston, SC, Nov. 8-10, 2000 15 th Annual Maine Women s Studies Conference, Women Around the World: Bringing the Global Home, University of Maine, Orono, ME, November 18, 2000 National Alliance for Green Education (NAAGE) 2000 Conference, Unity College, Unity, ME, August 3-6, 2000 Conference Organizer and Steering Committee member CIC 2000 Teaching and Learning Workshop, June 7-9, 2000, Albany, NY Workshop on Recycling, Composting, and Waste Reduction at Maine's Colleges & Universities sponsored by the Maine State Planning Office, October, 1999 National Alliance for Green Education (NAAGE) 1999 Conference Antioch College July 22-25, 1999 National Alliance for Green Education (NAAGE) 1998 Conference Northland College August 6-9, 1998 Northern New England Campus Compact Conference, Portland, ME April 3, 1998 12th Annual Maine Women's Studies Conference, Bates College November 15, 1997 PEW Higher Education Roundtables, Unity College, 1997 New England Triad Conference, Bedford, NH April, 1997. Mentor Training Day, Building Alternatives, Portland, ME April 1996. Reflection: Framework to Help Faculty Integrate Learning With Service, Maine Campus Compact Workshop, Farmington, February 1996. Strengthening Mentoring Programs, Maine Campus Compact Workshop, Portland, January 1996. CIC National Institute on Learning and Service, St. Charles, IL, May-June, 1995 Campus Compact New England Regional Institute on Integrating Service with Academic Study, Providence, RI, January 1995 Honors and Awards
Biltmore Who s Who of Executives and Professionals 2011 Who s Who in American Education 2010-2011 National association of Professional Women 2010 Woman of the Year Maine International Film Festival Fan Award for seeing the most movies, 1999-2006 Who s Who Among American Teachers, 2005-06 Friends of Campus Prevention Award from Maine s Higher Education Alcohol Prevention Partnership, Blaine House, Augusta, ME, February 4, 2005 Colleagues on a Mission award, Unity College January, 2004 Unity College Nominee for the 2001 Thomas Ehrlich Faculty Award for Service- Learning 1 st Service Learning Faculty Fellow, Maine Campus Compact, 1997 Community Involvement and Service Member of Healthy Waldo County Governance Board (formerly Comprehensive Community Health Coalition) September 2007-present Executive Board Member 2010-present Member of Assessment Subcommittee and Hiring Subcommittee 2007-present Member of Unity Historical Society, President, 1997- present China Baptist Church Sunday School Teacher, 1985-present Deaconess, 1998-present Chair of Diaconate Board, 2002-present Guest preacher 1997-present Board Member, Sexual Assault Crisis & Support Center, 2003-2005 Member of Waldo County Domestic Violence Task Force Member of Waldo County TRIAD, Vice Chair Member of Unity and Waldo County Democratic Committees Director, Whistle-stop Museum and Café, (Stoves, railroad and Unity area memorabilia museum) 2001 Unaffiliated Judge, Maine Forensic League Competitions in Central Maine, 2000-2001 School Street Arts, Unity, 2000-2001 Judge, Maine Fellowship of Christian Writers Dorothy Templeton Writers Contest, 1999, 2000