Experience and Interests
Teaching Experiences
- Full Professor, Family and Consumer Sciences, UW-Stevens Point (2002-present)
Research Interests
- Marital Quality
- Diversity Experience & Human Development
- Emotional Intelligence
Professional Experience
- Wisconsin Council on Family Relations (WICFR): Founding board member, past president, board member at large.
- Specialized Foster Care Provider
- Co-Owner “Tomorrows Leaders” youth leadership development enterprise
Involvement
Campus
- Adviser – Child Life Association of Stevens Point (CLASP)
Community
- Specialized Foster Care Provider
Professional Memberships
- National Council on Family Relations (1997-present)
- Wisconsin Council on Family Relations (2010-present)
- WICFR President (2017-2018)
Presentations and Publications
- Li, C., & Wall, S., Loy, M., & Schoonaert, K. (2012). Supporting international faculty: Perspectives of a tiger teacher who adapted to the American classroom, a colleague, and an administrator. To Improve the Academy, 31, 247-260.
Fun Facts
Last book you read?
Unbroken
Top 3 books: Unbroken, Born to Run, Eating With the Enemy
Best advice you ever received?
Find a good enough idea [not necessarily the best one], and then make it work.
What did you want to be when you were growing up?
Rancher … I still have photos of my TWO ‘famous’ bull rides … when I was 18.
Favorite Quote?
“Any fool can learn from their own mistakes, a wise person learns from the mistakes of others.” – Baron Otto Von Bismarck
or…. “A life changing experience is only a life changing experience… if you change your life” – Me!!! 🙂
One thing about your school that you are most proud of?
- Innovation in the face of adversity.
- Developed Child Life Specialist track.
- We are the absolute KINGS of short-term service learning abroad trips (e.g. China, Mexico, Romania, Nicaragua…)
What do you enjoy most about teaching?
Variety, opportunity, to get out and apply it to the world with peers at conferences, or students while serving in foreign countries and cultures.
A piece of advice for students in your school?
Join the student orgs, we have the BEST in the nation and awards to prove it!!! And … go on one of our diversity service learning trips. LIFE CHANGING!!!