"Accepting the Challenge of Overseas International Educational: Opportunities, Integrity, and Institutional Disconnects," with Stuart Arends and Robert Kimball, in A Collection of Papers on Self-Study and Institutional Improvement 1995, Chicago, IL: Commission on Institutions of Higher Education of the North Central Association of Colleges and Schools, 1999.

"Only Connect!: A Collaborative Project in the Humanities," with Marjorie Checkoway and Richard Sax, in Partnerships in Teacher Education: Schools and Colleges Working Together, ed. by Thomas Warren, MD: University Press of America, 1996.

"Collaborative Strategies for Integrating the Humanities and Teacher Preparation," with Marjorie Checkoway and Richard Sax, in Interdisciplinary Humanities, XIII:2 (Spring 1996).

"Alternative Approaches to Educating for Diversity: The Madonna University Model," Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Association of Colleges for Teacher Preparation (February 21-24, 1996), with Marjorie Checkoway and Richard Sax (ERIC/RIE February, 1996, #ED 394 927).

"General Education Assessment Strategies at Madonna University: Ensuring Faculty Ownership/Securing Faculty Trust," with Paul Stemmer, in A Collection of Papers on Self-Study and Institutional Improvement 1995, Chicago, IL: Commission on Institutions of Higher Education of the North Central Association of Colleges and Schools, 1995.

"Teacher Preparation: Integrating the Humanities," Liberal Education, Vol. 80, no. 1 (Winter 1994), pp. 16-19.

"Educating Across Cultures: An Administrator's Perspective," Conference Proceedings: "Facing East/Facing West: North America and the Asia/Pacific Region in the 1990s," Western Michigan U., September 13-15, 1990.

Program Notes to Home by David Storey, Stratford (Ontario) Festival, Avon Theatre, 1990 Season.

"By Any Other Name, Students Learn the Lessons of Onomastics," Perspectives on Multicultural Education, Madonna College, 1989.

"Writing and the Senior Seminar," Notes on Teaching English, published by the Georgia-South Carolina College English Association (December 1988), pp. 1-2.

Coeditor, Learning to Write/Writing to Learn, NEH Writing Program Dissemination Booklet, 1986. Article included: "Writing and the Senior Seminar: Empowering Students for Entry into the Scholarly Community," pp. 19-26.

You Are the Message: Effective Video Presentation, script consultant, faculty professional development booklet funded by Title III.

"Planning for Telecommunications in the Liberal Arts College," Technological Horizons in Education Journal, April 1984, 82-5.

"Library Orientation Module: A Self-Instructional Learning Module" (ERIC/RIE January, 1984, #ED 233 719).

Coeditor, W. K. Kellogg Foundation Project: Model Continuing Education System. Madonna College, 1983. Article included: " 'O Brave New World': Telecommunications and the Liberal Arts College."

October 14, 2009:  “Yasmina Reza’s Deconstruction of Bourgeois Respectability in God of Carnage,”  Second Wednesday Book Club, Southfield, MI.

September 14, 2009:  Keynote Address:  “American Higher Education: Fueling Global Economic Recovery with New Ideas and Innovations,” World Summit on Economic-Financial Crisis and International Business, Washington, D.C.

April 18, 2009:  "Developing an Evidence-Based Approach to Self-Study: Marshalling People, Data, and Information Technology to Support the Evidence-Gathering and Writing Processes," with James O'Neill, and John Fosselman.  Commission on Institutions of Higher Education of the North Central Association of Colleges and Schools, 2009 (Chicago, IL).

March 11, 2009:  Detroit's Own Version of Apartheid in  Palmer Park by Joanna McClelland Glass.  Second Wednesday Book Club, West Bloomfield, MI.

February 9, 2009:  "Witi Ihimaera's Mythic Past:  The Whale Rider," Milford Community Library (Milford, MI).

September 10, 2008:  How a Family Gets on Each Other's Nerves:  The Sparks Fly in Tracy Letts’ August: Osage County. Second Wednesday Book Club, West Bloomfield, MI.

August 8, 2008:  "How Higher Education Addresses Unemployment," First Annual Business Conference (IBC2008) sponsored by Global Strategic Management, Inc., Dearborn, MI.

April 14, 2008:  "Mark Dunn's Ella Minnow Pea and the Outer Banks of Language,"  Milford Community Library (Milford, MI).

March 12, 2008:  "David Lindsay-Abaire's Rabbit Hole:  The Anatomy of Grief," Second Wednesday Book Club, West Bloomfield, MI.

February 18, 2008:  "What Michigan Reads:  Ernest Hemingway's Nick Adams Stories," Lake Orion Community Library and the Michigan Humanities Council.

June 16, 2007:  "Globalization K-18," with Jonathan Swift, The Second China•Liaoning (Shenyang) Chinese-Foreign University Presidents Forum, sponsored by the Secretariat of China, Northeastern University, Shenyang, China.

January 23, 2007:  "Elizabeth in Context Series:  Shakespeare’s Realm - Elizabethan Literature and Theater,” Livonia Civic Center Library, as part of the Elizabeth I, Ruler and Legend Exhibition from the Newberry Library.

December 13, 2006:  "Martin McDonagh's The Pillowman: Fractured and Twisted Fairy Tales Made Real," Second Wednesday Book Club, Southfield, MI.

July 27, 2006:  “Jeffrey Eugenides’ Middlesex:  A Detroit Immigrant Saga,” video program in the series Global Connections, hosted by Jonathan Swift, Bloomfield Cable (part of the Michigan Humanities Council We the People Project).

January 11, 2006:  "John Patrick Shanley's Doubt,"  Second Wednesday Book Club, Southfield, MI.

June 8, 2005:  "Charlotte von Malsdorf and Doug Wright's I Am My Own Wife," Second Wednesday Book Club, Southfield, MI.

April 11, 2005:  "Implementing 'Foundations of Excellence in the First College Year' in the HLC Private Liberal Arts Setting," Higher Learning Commission 2005 Annual Meeting, Chicago, IL.

December 8, 2004:  "Tragedy and Melodrama in Nilo Cruz's Anna in the Tropics," Second Wednesday Book Club, Southfield, MI.

March 27-28, 2004:  Team Leader for Training of New Consultant-Evaluators; Presenter, Good team Practice Share Fair; Moderator, Corps Program Roundtable, Higher Learning Commission 2004 Annual Meeting, Chicago, IL.

February 11, 2004:  "Homophobia in Richard Greenberg's Take Me Out," Second Wednesday Book Club, Southfield, MI.

April 14, 2003:  General Program Theme Sessions  "Learning-Focused Organization," Higher Learning Commission 2003 Annual Meeting, Chicago, IL.

April 13, 2003:  Self Study Workshop Sessions on the New Criteria:  "Exploring the Criteria," "Working on the Project," "Sharing and Networking," Higher Learning Commission 2003 Annual Meeting, Chicago, IL.

January 15, 2002:  "Henry David Hwang's Golden Child,"  Carl Sandburg Library (Livonia, MI) and Michigan Humanities Council.

July, 2001:  Presentations for National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Institute for Teachers (on Philip Levine and W. B. Yeats, Oates' Expensive People, and Lenzo's Within the Lighted City).

December 4, 2001:  "The Final Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway,"  Carl Sandburg Library (Livonia, MI ) and Michigan Humanities Council.

November 14, 2000:  "Paul Monette and Borrowed Time", Carl Sandburg Library (Livonia, MI ) and Michigan Humanities Council.

October 25, 2000.  "Surviving by The Skin of Our Teeth (according to Thornton Wilder)," Elderwise, Eastern Michigan University and McAuley Senior Health Center, Ann Arbor (MI).

September 27, 2000:  "Michael Frayn's Copenhagen," History Book Discussion Presentation, Barnes and Noble Booksellers, Northville, MI.

March 22, 2000: "Sherman Alexie's The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven,"  Highland Community Library (Highland, MI) and Michigan Humanities Council.

March 24, 1999: "Joseph Heller's Catch-22,"  Baldwin Library (Birmingham, MI) and Michigan Humanities Council.

March 17, 1998: "The Wisdom that Comes with Age," Presentation on Robertson Davies' The Lyre of Orpheus, Highland Community Library (Highland, MI) and Michigan Humanities Council.

March 4, 1998: "Taking Care of Last Things: A Reading of Graham Swift’s Last Orders," Baldwin Library (Birmingham, MI) and Michigan Humanities Council.

November 24, 1997: "Aging in Scott McPherson's Marvin's Room," Carl Sandburg Library (Livonia, MI) and Michigan Humanities Council.

October 17, 1997: "Nobel Prize Winners: Nadine Gordimer's My Son's Story," Baldwin Public Library (Birmingham, MI) and Michigan Humanities Council.

April 28, 1997: "The Wisdom that Comes with Age," Presentation on Robertson Davies' The Lyre of Orpheus, Carl Sandburg Library (Livonia, MI) and Michigan Humanities Council.

April 2, 1997: "The National That Works: Work and Technology," Baldwin Public Library (Birmingham, MI) and American Library Association.

December 16, 1996: "Shakespeare's Macbeth and the Film, Men of Respect," Carl Sandburg Library (Livonia, MI) and Michigan Humanities Council.

December 10, 1996: "Jane Smiley's A Thousand Acres," Milford Community Library (Milford, MI) and Michigan Humanities Council.

October 29, 1996: "The National That Works: From Your Grandparents to Generation X," Baldwin Public Library (Birmingham, MI) and American Library Association.

October 19, 1996: "The West: On Gold Mountain by Lisa See," Bowen Branch Library (Detroit, MI) and American Library Association.

May 29, 1996: "In Pharaoh's Army by Tobias Wolf," Baldwin Public Library (Birmingham, MI) and Michigan Humanities Council.

February 23, 1996: "Alternative Approaches to Educating for Diversity: The Madonna University Model," with M. Checkoway and R. Sax, American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education Annual Meeting, Chicago, IL.

February 5, 1996: "Ghosts of Childhood: Brian Friel's Dancing at Lughnasa," Carl Sandburg Library (Livonia, MI) and Michigan Humanities Council.

November 15, 1995: "The Wisdom that Comes with Age," Presentation on Robertson Davies' The Lyre of Orpheus, Brighton Area District Library (Brighton, MI) and Michigan Humanities Council.

November 13, 1995: Presentation on Michael Ondaatje's The English Patient, Highland Community Library (Highland, MI) and Michigan Humanities Council.

November 6, 1995: "Survival and Renewal," Presentation on Ariel Dorfman's Death and the Maiden. Carl Sandburg Library (Livonia, MI).

October 18, 1995: Presentation on T. C. Boyle's World's End. Baldwin Public Library (Birmingham, MI) and Michigan Humanities Council.

September 29, 1995: "Mongrels Amok in the City of Brotherly Love: Cultural Identity and Insoluble Conflicts in T. C. Boyle's East Is East. Symposium on Contemporary American Fiction, Featuring T. Coraghessan Boyle. SUNY-Potsdam.

May 22, 1995: "Multifaceted Works by Multitalented Women," Presentation on Flannery O'Connor's A Good Man Is Hard to Find," Carl Sandburg Library (Livonia, MI) and Michigan Humanities Council.

April 12, 1995: Presentation on Michael Ondaatje's The English Patient, Baldwin Public Library (Birmingham, MI) and Michigan Humanities Council.

April 1, 1995: "Connecting Disciplines, Connecting Cultures: Collaborative Strategies for Integrating the Humanities and Teacher Preparation," College English Association Annual Meeting, Cleveland, Ohio.

March 27, 1995: "General Education Assessment Strategies at Madonna University: Ensuring Faculty Ownership/Securing Faculty Trust," with Paul Stemmer, Commission on Institutions of Higher Education of the North Central Association of Colleges and Schools, Chicago, IL.

March 24, 1995: Presentation on New Technologies for Delivering Higher Education to Adult Students for UAW-Ford World Headquarters Staff.

February 21, 1995: "Rudolfo Anaya's Bless Me, Ultima," Milford Public Library (Milford, MI) and Michigan Humanities Council.

December 7, 1994: "Jane Smiley's A Thousand Acres," Baldwin Public Library (Birmingham, MI) and Michigan Humanities Council.

November 15, 1994: "Michigan Writers: Ernest Hemingway's The Nick Adams Stories," Highland Public Library (Highland, MI) and the Michigan Humanities Council.

November 3, 1994: "Creating Worlds in Words: Robert Frost," Elderwise, Eastern Michigan University and McAuley Senior Health Center, Ann Arbor (MI).

October 26, 1994: "Dead White Males - Still Worth Reading?," Presentation on Bruno Levi's The Monkey's Wrench, Carl Sandburg Library (Livonia, MI) and Michigan Humanities Council.

May 28, 1994: "Crossing Disciplines, Crossing Cultures: Collaborative Strategies for Integrating the Humanities and Teacher Preparation," with Drs. M. Checkoway and R. Sax, "The Integration of Liberal and Professional Education in Teacher Preparation" Conference, Center for the Study of Ethics and Character, Boston University.

May 10, 1994: "The Ox-Bow Incident," American Voices: The West series, Baldwin Public Library (Birmingham, MI) and Michigan Humanities Council.

April 13, 1994: "Creating Worlds in Words: Allen Ginsberg," Carl Sandburg Library (Livonia, MI) and Michigan Humanities Council.

March 29, 1994: "Working: Making a Living, Making a Life," Presentation on Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman, Milford Public Library (Milford, MI) and Michigan Humanities Council.

October 26, 1993: "Voices from the Middle East: V. S. Naipaul's Among the Believers," Carl Sandburg Library (Livonia, MI) and Michigan Humanities Council.

May 3, 1993: "Words for Their Own Sake: Hart Crane," Carl Sandburg Library (Livonia, MI) and Michigan Humanities Council.

March 3, 1993: "The Ox-Bow Incident," American Voices: The West series, Baldwin Public Library (Birmingham, MI) and Michigan Humanities Council.

January 15, 1993: Report on Participation in "Strengthening the Humanities Foundations for Teachers" Project, Association of American Colleges Annual Meeting, Seattle, WA.

November 16, 1992: "Lonesome Dove by Larry McGurtry," American Voices: The West series, Baldwin Public Library (Birmingham, MI) and Michigan Humanities Council.

November 13, 1992: Panel Moderator: "Progress with NCA Assessment Plans," Assessment Conference, Madonna University.

October 21, 1992: "The Royal Hunt of the Sun by Peter Shaffer," The Columbus Quincentenary: The Enduring Legacy of 1492 series, Madonna University and National Endowment for the Humanities.

October 21, 1992: "The Royal Hunt of the Sun by Peter Shaffer," Collision of Cultures: Discovering and Defining the New World, Carl Sandburg Library (Livonia, MI) and Michigan Humanities Council.

May 6, 1992: "Wise Blood by Flannery O'Connor," American Voices: The South series, Baldwin Public Library (Birmingham, MI) and Michigan Humanities Council.

April 22, 1992: "Poets Who Made a Difference: T. S. Eliot," Carl Sandburg Library (Livonia, MI) and Michigan Humanities Council.

December 4, 1991: "Louise Erdrich's Love Medicine," Baldwin Public Library (Birmingham, MI) and Michigan Humanities Council.

November 15, 1991: "Operationalizing the Mission: Assessing Student Outcomes of General Education," Assessment in Higher Education Conference, Detroit Catholic College Consortium, Madonna University.

November 13, 1991: "Walker Percy's The Moviegoer," Carl Sandburg Library (Livonia, MI) and Michigan Council for the Humanities

October 15, 1991: "Hemingway's The Old Man and the Sea," The Enduring Flame: Readings in American Literature series, Milford (MI) Public Library and Michigan Council for the Humanities.

May 15, 1991: "Being Private in Public: Personal Voices and Visions in Modern American Poetry," presentation on Sylvia Plath, with James Reilly, sponsored by the American Library Association, National Endowment for the Humanities, and the Carl Sandburg Library (Livonia, MI).

May 1, 1991: "Being Private in Public: Personal Voices and Visions in Modern American Poetry," presentation on Langston Hughes, with James Reilly, sponsored by the American Library Association, National Endowment for the Humanities, and the Carl Sandburg Library (Livonia, MI).

April 18, 1991: "Being Private in Public: Personal Voices and Visions in Modern American Poetry," presentation on William Carlos Williams, with James Reilly, sponsored by the American Library Association, National Endowment for the Humanities, and the Carl Sandburg Library (Livonia, MI).

April 10, 1991: "Tennessee Williams' The Glass Menagerie and Lorraine Hansberry's A Raison in the Sun, Milford (MI) Public Library and Michigan Council for the Humanities.

April 3, 1991: "Being Private in Public: Personal Voices and Visions in Modern American Poetry," presentation on Walt Whitman, with James Reilly, sponsored by the American Library Association, National Endowment for the Humanities, and the Carl Sandburg Library (Livonia, MI).

March 13, 1991: "Being Private in Public: Personal Voices and Visions in Modern American Poetry," presentation on how to read poetry, with James Reilly, sponsored by the American Library Association, National Endowment for the Humanities, and the Carl Sandburg Library (Livonia, MI).

January 29, 1991: "Hemingway in Michigan," Linden Library/Genesee District Library, Linden, MI.

October 5, 1990: "Developing Resources for Program Expansion," Meeting of Michigan Council of Graduate Deans, Northern Michigan U., Marquette, MI.

September 15, 1990: "Educating Across Cultures: An Administrator's Perspective," Facing East/Facing West: North American and the Asia Pacific Region in the 1990s conference, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, MI.

May 26, 1990: "Destruction and Redemption-Romantic Love in John Fowles' The French Lieutenant's Woman," Detroit Public Library, Conely Branch, Sponsored by the Library of Michigan and the Michigan Council for the Humanities.

April 24, 1990: "Let's Talk About It: Robertson Davies' What's Bred in the Bone. Baldwin Library, Birmingham, MI. Sponsored by the Library of Michigan and Michigan Council for the Humanities.

March 22, 1990: "What America Reads: Myth Making in Popular Fiction" Series - Jack Schaefer's Shane. Milford Public Library. Sponsored by the Library of Michigan and Michigan Council for the Humanities.

December 14, 1989: "Mysterious Michigan: William Kienzle's The Rosary Murders," Milford Public Library. Sponsored by the Library of Michigan and Michigan Council for the Humanities.

November 2, 1989: Co-chair, Fall Meeting of the Michigan Council of Graduate Deans; panelist. "Recruiting, Retaining, and Graduating Minority Studies: A Critical Issue for the Next 25 Years," joint session of MCGD and Michigan Association of Collegiate Registrars and Admissions Officers, Shanty Creek, Bellaire, MI.

October 25, 1989: "The Cutting Edge: Ethics in Literature" Series, Walker Percy's The Moviegoer, Baldwin Library, Birmingham, MI. Sponsored by the Library of Michigan and Michigan Council for the Humanities.

May 16, 1989: "Destruction or Redemption - Romantic Love in John Fowles' The French Lieutenant's Woman," Milford Public Library. Sponsored by the Library of Michigan and Michigan Council for the Humanities.

April 22, 1989: "Learning and Knowing, the Catholic Tradition and Umberto Eco's The Name of the Rose," St. Anselm College's Centennial Symposium, Manchester, New Hampshire.

April 5, 1989: "David Storey's The Changing Room: Transformation, Solidarity, Transcendence," Popular Culture Association, St. Louis, Missouri.

March 7, 1989: "Destruction or Redemption - Romantic Love in John Fowles' The French Lieutenant's Woman," Baldwin Library, Birmingham, MI. Sponsored by the Library of Michigan and Michigan Council for the Humanities.

November 18, 1988: Presider and Master of Ceremonies, "Taking the Lead in Educational Television," SouthEast Michigan Television Educational Consortium (SEMTEC) Tenth Anniversary Conference and Luncheon, Lawrence Institute of Technology, Southfield, MI.

May 5, 1988: "Novels Native and Near - Joyce Carol Oates' Expensive People," Rochester Hills Public Library. Sponsored by the Library of Michigan and Michigan Council for the Humanities.

May 4, 1988: "The Michigan Experience - Gales of November: The Sinking of the Edmund Fitzgerald," Harper Woods Public Library. Sponsored by the Library of Michigan and Michigan Council for the Humanities.

April 14-16, 1988: "Promoting Discourse Communities for the Undergraduate Writer," session for the Nineteenth Annual Meeting of the College English Association, New Orleans, Louisiana.

March 16, 1988: "The Michigan Experience - Hemingway's Nick Adams Stories." Livonia Public Library. Sponsored by the Library of Michigan and the Michigan Council for the Humanities.

March 15, 1988: "Novels Native and Near - Joyce Carol Oates" Expensive People," Milford Public Library. Sponsored by the Library of Michigan and the Michigan Council for the Humanities.

February 27-March 19, 1988: Writer in Residence, Michigan Hispanic Scholarship Fund Writing Skills Workshops.

October 27, 1987: "The Michigan Experience - Hemingway's Nick Adams Stories," Milford Public Library.

October 9, 1987: "Discourse Communities and the Undergraduate Writer" (with Dr. Kathleen O'Dowd and Dr. James Reilly), session for the 21st Annual Conference of Academic Affairs Administration, Plymouth, Michigan.

April 3, 1987: "Process Writing in the Senior Seminar," Eighteenth Annual Meeting of the College English Association, Charleston, South Carolina.

October, 1986: Project Director and Program Convener, Michigan Life Film March, 1987 series, funded through the Michigan Center for Humanities Services/Michigan Council for Humanities.

August 29, 1986: "Writing in the Senior Seminar," presenter, Faculty In-Service Workshop on Writing, Madonna College.

July 20-25, 1986: Participant, 1986 Graduate Management Admission Council Summer Institute, UCLA, Los Angeles, California.

May 9, 1986: "English Only or English Plus," Debate Moderator, 1986 Hispanic Education Conference, Lansing, MI.

March 21, 1986: Program Chairman and Conference Convener, "The Options Are Wide Open," 1986 Annual Telecommunications Conference, SouthEastern Michigan Television Education Consortium.

August 30, 1985: "Taking the Pain and Plagiarism out of the Research Paper," Presenter, NEH Writing Workshop: Writing Across the Disciplines, Madonna College.

July 8-10, 1985: "UAW/Ford College and University Options Program Workshop for Trainers, UAW-Ford National Development and Training Center, Dearborn, Michigan.

July 1, 1985: "Writing to Encourage Creative Thinking, Values," NEH Writing Workshop for High School Teachers, Madonna College.

March 22, 1985: "Faculty Views on Bibliographic Instruction," Southeastern Michigan League of Libraries, Annual Meeting, Madonna College.

November 9, 1984: "Establishing a Telecourse Program in the Liberal Arts College," Presentation before Academic Deans from the Association of Independent Colleges and Universities of Michigan (AICUM), Madonna College.

May 16, 1984: Panelist, "Beyond 1984: Orwell's Vision and Our Reality," Michigan Council for the Humanities lecture series, Madonna College.

May 3, 1984: "The Action of Time and Aging on the Human Response to Love and Death: An Analysis of Iris Murdoch's Bruno's Dream," Time, Image and Aging Conference, University of Missouri, Columbia.

May 3, 1983: "Presentation before General Education Division, "General Education: Definitions/Directions," National Training Institute for the Deaf, Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, NY.

April 8, 1983: Workshop chairman: "Student Recruitment and Retention," SouthEast Michigan Educational Television Consortium Training Institute, Oakland Community College, Farmington, Michigan.

October 19-20, 1982: Discussion Facilitator for Higher Education Management Workshop sponsored by the American Council on Education, Mercy College, Detroit, Michigan.

June-July, 1982: "Computer-Assisted Instruction in English 099: Basic Writing Skills," Madonna College Faculty Professional Development Program Summer Minigrant, 1982. Presentation at Faculty Forum, December 3, 1982.

March 13, 1981: "Interdisciplinary Studies: Redefining General Education Requirements," Michigan College English Association, Oakland University, Rochester, Michigan.

January 22, 1981: Presentation of David Storey's In Celebration, Exploration of Family Values lecture series, Michigan Council for the Humanities, Madonna College.

November 20, 1980: Presentation of William Saroyan's The Human Comedy, Exploration of Family Values lecture series, Michigan Council for the Humanities, Madonna College.

May 15, 1979: Panel Member, Role of Faculty in Career Education, National Conference on Career Education for the Liberal Arts College, Madonna College.

February 9, 1977: "Americans and Mass Culture: The Power of Self-Discovery," People Power in Public Decisions lecture series, Michigan Council for the Humanities, Madonna College.

TEXTS/LEARNING MODULES:

"Communication Arts Resources in Center for Personalized Learning," funded through AIDP.

"Combating Word Confusion: A Guide to the Parts of Speech," funded through AIDP.

"Avoiding the Nonsensical Nonsentence: Strategies for Writing Complete Sentences," funded through AIDP.

"Our Ethnic Experience: Mirror of American Life," anthology of suggestions and resources for writing, edited with James Reilly, funded through Ethnic Heritage Grant.

CONSULTANCY EXPERIENCE:

Consultant on Teach-Out, Ave Maria College, Ypsilanti, MI (2004, 2005).

Consultant on International Programs, St. Ambrose University, Davenport, IA (2002).

Outside Evaluator for the Michigan Humanities Council, "Diversity in the New Urban Landscape," Lawrence Technological University, September 1997 - April 1998.

Consultant-Evaluator for the North Central Association Commission on Institutions of Higher Education, 1996 - present.
            Team Chair, ARC Member, Transition Team Member

Proposal Reviewer, National Endowment for the Humanities, Washington, D.C., 1995 - present.

Humanist Consultant, Voice & Visions Project, Carl Sandburg Library and State Library of Michigan, funded by the American Library Association, 1991-92.

Outside Evaluator for the Michigan Council for the Humanities, "Ethics and the University" conference, Center for Academic Ethics, Wayne State University, October 11-12, 1990.

Humanist Consultant and Presenter, Annenberg Foundation Voices and Visions Project, Carl Sandburg Library, Livonia, Michigan, 1990-91; "Voices & Visions: Reading, Viewing, and Discussion Programs in America's Libraries Training Seminar," San Antonio, TX, November 1-3, 1990.

Effective Writing Workshop, Staff Development Program, FMC Corporation (Livonia Headquarters), Plymouth, Michigan, June 11, 1984.

Member of National Consulting Network of the Council of Independent Colleges, 1980-present.

Consultant for Communications Program at Southeastern College, Winfield, Kansas, December 15-16, 1980.

Professional Humanist Consultant for Michigan Council for the Humanities Proposal, Programs in Alternative Creative Education of the Detroit Public Schools, January-April, 1982.

Michigan Occupational Information System Script Reviewer, Michigan Department of Education, 1981-present.

Major Writer: Title III Proposal - "Improving the Persistence and Graduation Rates of At-Risk Students through Cognitive and Non-Cognitive Approaches at Madonna University (Livonia, MI),"  U. S. Department of Education, 2009-2014 ($2.0 million over five years).

Major Writer:  “Information Literacy as a Tool for Lifelong Learning,” curriculum development project funded by the McGregor Fund, 2006-08) ($125,000).

Major Writer:  “Three Defining Moments:  Historical Legacies that Shaped Michigan’s Present,” lectures and video series funded by the Michigan Humanities Council, 2006 ($15,000).

Major Writer:  Proposal sto the Thompson-McCully Foundation to fund students in need, 2001-2003 ($240,000); 2004-06 ($450,000).

Major Writer: Title III Proposal - "Effective Applications of Teaching-Learning Technologies to Improve Student Retention and Success, with Emphasis on Students at Risk,"  U. S. Department of Education, 1999-2004 ($1.6 million over five years).

Major Writer:  "Preparing for a Lifetime of Inquiry," curriculum development project funded by McGregor Fund, 1998-2000 ($96K).

Major writer: "Bridging the Gap Between Teaching and Knowing in the Humanities: A Collaborative Project," National Endowment for the Humanities, 1995-97 ($181,000).

Major Writer: American Council on Education, "Spreading the Word" project, consultation in Japanese language from University of Oregon, 1993-94; visit to mentor institution (U. of Oregon), February, 1995.

Major writer: "Integrating the Humanities and Teacher Preparation," National Endowment for the Humanities, ($180,000) 1993-95.

Major writer: Michigan Department of Education, Summer Institute for Gifted and Talented High School Students: "Changing Worlds/Changing Selves: The Arts and Sciences Guide Us from Past to Future," awarded six times: 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 2000 ($64,823 - $89,000).

Participating writer: Title VI - International Studies/Foreign Language Grant, responsible for one of three objectives ($42,806 with $39,640 match), 1992-94.

Major writer: Association of American Colleges' "Strengthening Humanities Foundations for Teachers" project, consultation with University of Dayton.

Major programmatic writer: National Endowment for the Humanities Challenge Grant for Distinguished Teaching Professorship ($150,000 with $450,000 challenge match for endowment of $600,000), 1991.

Participating writer: "The Alternative Press: A Blending of Disciplines," workshop and public exhibit, Michigan (Detroit) Council for the Arts, 1990.

Major writer: Japanese Studies Faculty Development Project, Panasonic (formerly Matsushita) Foundation, 1990.

Participating writer: Black Artists in Residence Project, Michigan Council for the Arts, February 1987. Michigan Life Film Series, Michigan Center for Humanities Services/Michigan Council for Humanities, 1986-87.

Participating writer: Humanities Writing Project. National Endowment for the Humanities, 1984-86.

Major writer: Beyond 1984: Three Views of the Future, Michigan Council for the Humanities, 1984. Exploration of Family Values, Michigan Council for the Humanities, 1980-81.

Visit and Negotiations with Chinese Colleges and Universities and the Qinhuangdao Bureau of Public Health (2009)

Visit and Negotiations for Partnership with Shenyang Architectural University, Shenyang, China (2007).

Visit and Negotiations for Partnership with El Massria Schools:  Egypt (2006).

Visit and Negotiations for University Exchanges:  Krakow, Poland (2006).

Participation in the Middle East Partnership Initiative Project Visits to Lebanon (2004, 2005).

Visit and Negotiations for Educational Exchange:  Hidalgo, Mexico (2004); Lebanon (2004).

Co-leader of study group to Greece, July 2001.

Visit and Negotiations for Educational Exchange, Yanshan University and China Agricultural University, People's Republic of China, July 2000.

Visit and Negotiations for Educational Exchange, TOBA Center, Seoul, South Korea, January 1999 and  July 1999.

Coordination of Madonna University Graduate Program in Taiwan (1989-1996); on-site visits: Taipei, Taiwan, June 1989; June 1992; October 1993; July 1999.

Visiting Assistant Professor, Jundi Shapur University, Ahwaz, Iran (1975-76).

COMMUNITY SERVICE:

Board Member, Michigan Campus Compact, 2004-present

Commencement Speaker, SER-Metro Detroit.

"Shakespeare for Kids," Presentation for Young Authors' Conference, Livonia Public Schools, Academy of the Sacred Heart, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan.

PROFESSIONAL/ACADEMIC ASSOCIATION MEMBERSHIPS:

Modern Language Association

Phi Beta Kappa (Sustaining Member)