Glendale Community College
6000 W. Olive Ave.
Glendale, AZ 85302 USA
(623) 845-3645
E-mail: ladonna.lewis@gccaz.edu
Web: http://web.gccaz.edu/~ladat80191
EDUCATION
PhD in Experimental
Psychology (Social Psychology Specialization)
The University of Oklahoma, 1997
Dissertation Title- Stereotyping
in Black and White: Differences in Stereotype Knowledge and Stereotype Use.
Dr. Richard Reardon, Chair
The University of Oklahoma, 1994
Thesis title- Affective Reactions to Multiple Social Stigmas. Dr. Sarah Baker, Chair
BA Psychology
The University of Oklahoma, 1990
Minor: History
EXPERIENCE
Aug. 2002 –
present Residential Faculty Member, Glendale Community College
Courses: Introduction to Psychology, Introduction to Statistics,
Research Methods, Black Psychology (Online), and Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and
Transgender Studies.
Other responsibilities include undergraduate advising, research mentoring, and committee service including faculty senate.
Jan. 2006 –
May 2012 Psychology Department Chairperson, Glendale Community College
Responsibilities include: Supervision of 11 full-time and 24 part-time
faculty members in a department that serves over 3000 undergraduate psychology
students per semester, schedule building, curriculum management and curriculum
development, budgeting, strategic planning, hiring personnel, student advising,
faculty mentoring, dispute and student grievance resolution, and teaching.
Aug. 2000 – May
2002 Residential Faculty Member, Mesa Community College
Courses: Introduction to
Psychology, Statistics, Research Methods
Other responsibilities include
undergraduate advising, committee service.
Note: Mesa and Glendale are sister colleges
in a ten college system in Maricopa County, AZ
Aug. 1996 –
May 2000 Assistant
Professor of Psychology, The College of Wooster
Wooster Ohio
Courses: Black Psychology, Applied (I/O) Psychology, Introduction to
Psychology, Experimental Social Psychology, Junior Independent Study
Other Responsibilities include undergraduate advising (both majors and
non-majors), Senior Independent Study (Senior Thesis) Advising, supervision of
undergraduate research assistants, and committee service.
Teaching
assignments while a Full Time Graduate Student:
Instructor,
Introduction to Theories of Personality, University of Oklahoma.
DUTIES: Teaching one section
of Introduction to Theories of Personality .
Semesters: Three
Class sizes: from 22 students (summer) to 254 students (fall/spring)
Intersession
Instructor, Topics in Multicultural Understanding: Prejudice and the Civil Rights
Movement , The University of Oklahoma
Semesters: One
Class size: 11 student upper
division seminar
Instructor,
Elements of Psychology, University of Oklahoma.
DUTIES: Teaching one section of Elements of Psychology.
Semesters: Three
Class size: from 25 students to 63
students
Teaching
Assistant, Psychology Department, University of Oklahoma.
DUTIES: Teaching Elements of Psychology lab sections.
Semesters: Two semesters, 4 sections per
semester
Class size: 25-30 students
Aug.
1994-Dec. 1994 Instructor, General
Psychology and Personal Development, Rose State Junior College, Midwest City,
Oklahoma
DUTIES: Teaching one section of General Psychology
and one section of Personal Development as an adjunct faculty member
OTHER EMPLOYMENT
September
1995 - Aug. 1996 Psychology Technician, Federal Aviation Administration, Civil
Aeromedical Institute, Human Resources Research
Division: Human Factors.
DUTIES: I conducted human factors research with
implications for flight safety, focusing on general aviation pilots and air
traffic control specialists, and issues such as fatigue and hypoxia.
Participated in research design and implementation, data analysis, and report
writing.
August
1992-May 1993 Research Assistant, Center for Research on
Minority Education, University of Oklahoma.
DUTIES: Supervision of seven
undergraduate research assistants, maintenance of Graduate Survey project,
library research, writing, survey development and enhancement.
August
1989-August 1991 Student Production Control Specialist,
Geological Information Systems, University of Oklahoma.
DUTIES:
Production Control of a Well-Record data base, management of weekly
updates, use of a mainframe computer data base in Gypsy, and SAS. Some word processing (MS Word) and Lotus use,
and other associated tasks.
Organizations
2003- Member
American Psychological Association
2002- Member
Society of the Psychological Study of Social Issues
2000- Member
Western Psychological Association
1996- Member
Association for Psychological Science
1996- Member
Society for Personality and Social Psychology
honors and
awards
2017-2018 Glendale Community College Honors Professor of the year
2014 Recipient of the NISOD Excellence Award2009 Participant
Maricopa Community Colleges Leadership Advancement Program
2002 Recipient
of the Teacher of the Year award from the Mesa Community College Student
Association.
1992-'96 Recipient
Oklahoma State Regents for Higher Education Doctoral Study Grant
(full graduate school tuition and fees
and stipend.)
1992 Honorable
Mention from the Ford Foundation Pre-doctoral Fellowship Program
1987 Outstanding
Achievement for Freshmen Award from the Association of Black Professionals, The University of
Oklahoma
1986-'87 Recipient University Scholars
Scholarship, National Merit Commended Scholarship for Minority Students
INVITED SPEAKER
Lewis, L.
(2014). Online teaching. An invited
lecture delivered to the APA Education Leadership Conference, Washington DC, Sept. 13th.
Invited keynote
speaker for the Psi Beta induction ceremony, Glendale Community College, Spring 2012
Invited keynote
speaker for the Psi Beta induction ceremony, Glendale Community College, Fall 2009
Lewis, L.
(2009). Making the library welcoming for
LGBT patrons. An invited lecture delivered to the 2009 Annual Conference of
the Arizona Libraries Association, December 9th.
Lewis, L.
(2009). Denial and other psychological
impediments. An invited lecture delivered to the Teach-In on Global Warming
Solutions, Glendale Community College, February.
Iudicello, K., & Lewis, L. (2004). Safe space general education training. An invited symposium
delivered to the Inclusive Beginnings Conference & Safe Space Training for
the Maricopa Community Colleges, April 23rd.
Lewis, L. (2003). GLBT issues in the classroom. An
invited lecture delivered to the Beyond the Rainbow Conference & Safe Space
Training for the Maricopa Community Colleges, April 4th.
PRESENTATIONS
Duggan, M. A., Lewis, L., Willeman, M., & Worthy, L. (2020). JASP all night: Open statistical software for the classroom and your own professional development. A workshop presented at the 2020 Arizona Regional OER Conference, Mesa, AZ.
Lewis, L. (2018). Why you need an institutional review board at a community college. A symposium presented at the 98th annual convention of the Western Psychological Association, Portland, OR.
Lewis, L. (2018). High school psychology for everyone: Why this course should be required. A symposium presented at the 98th annual convention of the Western Psychological Association, Portland, OR.
Lewis, L. & Lewis, K. (2016). Helping officers help themselves. A poster presented at the 96th annual convention of the Western Psychological Association, Long Beach, CA.
Lewis, L.
(2014). Navigating the unique challenges
of online teaching. A symposium
presented at the 122nd annual convention of the American Psychological
Association, Washington, DC.
Lewis, L.
(2014). APA PT@CC Resources. A
symposium presented at the 94th annual convention of the Western
Psychological Association, Portland, OR.
Lewis, L.
(2012). Creating inclusive environments
for LGBTQ faculty, staff, and students: SafeSpace at
a two-year college. A symposium presented at the 120th annual
convention of the American Psychological Association, Orlando, FL
Lewis, K.,
Lewis, L., & Garby, T. (2010). The personal impact of the job on probation
officers. A poster presented at the 90th annual convention of
the Western Psychological Association, Cancun, MX.
Lewis, K., &
Lewis, L. (2008). A taboo subject: The
personal impact of working with offenders on probation officers. A paper
presented at the 27th annual convention of the Association for the
Treatment of Sexual Abusers, Atlanta, GA.
Garby, T., Lewis, K., & Lewis, L. (2008). Surviving the trenches: The personal impacts
for probation officers. A workshop presented at the American Probation and
Parole Association 2008 Winter Training Institute, Phoenix, AZ.
Garby, T., Lewis, K., Lewis, L., & Hallett,
S. (2007). Surviving the trenches: The
personal impacts for probation officers. A poster presented at the 26th
annual convention of the Association for the Treatment of Sexual Abusers, San
Diego, CA.
Lewis, L.
(2006). Creating an inclusive classroom:
Helping students connect with psychological science. A symposium presented
at the 114th annual convention of the American Psychological
Association, New Orleans, LA.
Lewis, L.
(2003). Using the internet in research
methods. A symposium presented at the 83rd annual convention of
the Western Psychological Association, Vancouver, BC.
Lewis, L. (2002).
Perceived controllability of homosexuality and emotional responses. A poster
presented at the 82nd annual convention of the Western Psychological
Association, Irvine, CA.
Preisser, G., Lewis, L., Call, W., & Cohen, R.
(2001). Revitalizing introductory
psychology through learning outcomes: A departmental model. A poster presented at the 81st.
annual convention of the Western Psychological Association, Maui, HI.
Rush, L. L.
(2000, Feb.). The effect of multiple social stigmas on affective and
behavioral judgments. A poster
presented at the 1st Annual Meeting of the Society for Personality
and Social Psychology, Nashville, TN.
Rush, L. L.
(1999, June). Teaching Black psychology
throughout the psychology curriculum.
A participant idea exchange presented at the Sixth Annual Association
for Psychological Science Institute on the Teaching of Psychology, Denver, CO.
Rush, L. L.
(1998, May). Stereotyping in black and
white: Differences in stereotype knowledge and stereotype use. A poster presented at the 10th Annual Meeting
of the Association for Psychological Science, Washington, DC.
Rush, L. L.
(1998, April). Stereotyping in black and
white: Differences in stereotype knowledge and stereotype use. A paper presented at the 70th annual meeting
of the Midwestern Psychological Association, Chicago, Ill.
Rush, L. L. (1997, Nov.). Flying too high: Hypoxia. A
paper presented at the Women In Science dinner forum
November 17th, The College of Wooster.
Rush, L. L.
(1997, May). Some stigmas mean more than
others. Poster presented at the 9th
Annual Meeting of the Association for Psychological Science, Washington, DC.
Rush, L. L.
(1997, April). Affective reactions to
multiple social stigmas. A paper
presented at the Great Lakes Colleges Association Black Studies Conference,
DePauw University.
Rush, L. L. (1997, Feb.). Effects of mild hypoxia on pilot performance at general aviation
altitudes. A paper presented at The
College of Wooster Science Roundtable, February 21st.(Other
Authors Nesthus, T. and Wreggit,
S.)
Lewis, L. (1993,
March) Knowledge of Welfare Programs and
Racism. A paper presented at the 11th Annual Spring Conference of the
Oklahoma Psychological Society, Edmond Oklahoma.
PUBLICATIONS
Lewis, K., & Lewis, L. (2017). Personal Impacts Survey for Criminal Justice Professionals. Retrieved from: http://www.kslresearch.org/assessments/.
Lewis, K., & Lewis, L. (2017). The Professional Impact Scale. Retrieved from: http://www.kslresearch.org/assessments/.
Lewis, K.,
Lewis, L., & Garby, T. (2013). Surviving the
trenches: The personal impact of the job on probation officers. American Journal of Criminal Justice, 38(1), 67 – 84. DOI: 10.1007/s12103-012-9165-3
Lewis, L.
(2007). Teaching black psychology throughout the psychology curriculum. Psychology Teacher Network, 16(4), 17.
Lewis, L.
(2004). Same subject, different setting: Teaching psychology from the two-year
perspective. The Observer, 17(4).
Rush, L. L.
(1998). Affective reactions to
multiple social stigmas. Journal of
Social Psychology, 138(4), 421-430.
Rush, L. L.
(1998). [Review of the book Racism: From
slavery to advanced capitalism]. The Journal of Black Psychology, 24(1),
101-106.
Rush, L. L.
(1997). The ebonics debate. Psych
Discourse, 28(2&3), 6.
Nesthus, T., Rush, L. L., and Wreggit,
S. S. (1997). Effects of mild hypoxia
on pilot performance at general aviation altitudes. Federal
Aviation Administration, Office of Aviation Medicine Technical Report
DOT/FAA/AM-97-9, Washington DC.
Nesthus, T., Rush, L. L., and Wreggit,
S. S. (1996). Effects of mild hypoxia
on pilot performance at general aviation altitudes. Federal
Aviation Administration, Office of Aviation Medicine Technical Memorandum
DOT/FAA/TM-AAM-500-96-14, Washington DC.
Thompson, C. J.,
Ward, W. E., and Lewis,
L. (1994). Characteristics of the successful college student: A profile of
African-American student leaders . UCLA Journal of
Education, 5, 101-124.
Manuscripts in Preparation
Lewis, L. Affective and behavioral reactions to
social stigmas: Homophobia.
Professional
Development
Council on Undergraduate Research
Conference entitled Tapping the Potential of All Students: Undergraduate
Research for Community Colleges(North Hennepin
Community College, May 2013)
Undergraduate
Research: Facilitating Critical Thinking, Problem Solving, and Student
Engagement (Maricopa Center for Learning and Instruction, 2012)
Quality Matters ™ Master
Reviewer Certification, 2012
Council on
Undergraduate Research Institute: Initiating and Sustaining Undergraduate
Research Programs, 2012
The Academy, Academy
for Leadership and Development, 2011-2012
Maricopa Community
College sponsored workshops on the following:
Best Practices for Hiring
Legal issues in public sector
employment
Managing public resources
Legal Issues: Employment Law
Essentials
Managing Performance
Risk Assessment
Leadership Advancement
Program cohort member: One of 31 Maricopa Community College District (MCCD)
employees chosen to participate in the pilot of this program sponsored by the
MCCD Talent Management office. 2009-2010
Quality Matters
training for maintaining quality in the delivery of online classes, 2008
Maricopa Community
Colleges Dialog Day on Gender Identity, 2007
Society for the
Psychological Study of Social Issues Delegation to South Africa with Dr. James
Jones, 2004
National Science
Foundation Advanced Training Institute in Social Psychology: Conducting
Research on the Internet, 2002
Currently working on a
large scale research project involving adult probation departments from five
states with data collected from over 300 participants. This project is
assessing the impact of particular caseload events on adult probation officers.
Service
Faculty Senate 2017-2020 Elected to a three-year term on the GCC faculty senate
Faculty Advisor Student Honors Organization 2015 – present
Maricopa
Community College District:
Quality Matters (QM™) Master
Reviewer for online classes
College Committee Service Member and current chair, GCC College
Research Review Committee (CRRC)
Member Student Retention and
Persistence Committee, Glendale Community College
District Committee Service Member Maricopa Community Colleges IRB
National
Service:
2018 – 2020 American Psychological Association Committee of Teachers of Psychology in Secondary Schools (College Faculty Representative)
2015 – 2017 American Psychological Association Steering Committee for a National Summit on High School Psychology
2011-2013 American Psychological Association Committee of Psychology
Teachers at Community Colleges
2006 Member American Psychological Association
Steering Committee for a National Conference on Undergraduate Psychology
2005-2007 American Psychological Association
Committee of Psychology Teachers at Community Colleges
2006 American Psychological Association
Presidential Task Force on Diversifying the Curriculum
Past Service:
Member,
Arizona Judicial Council’s Committee on Probation Education
Volunteer,
Peoria Police Department Victim Assistance Team
Invited
lecturer, Arizona Intensive Probation Institute
District Diversity Advisory
Council
President Maricopa County Community College District Gay and Lesbian Human
Rights Association (Currently Equality Maricopa)
Advisor for the student club COMPASS- A Gay/Straight alliance
Advisor for the student club GCC College Democrats
Co-Advisor for the student honor society Psi Beta
Consulting
Editor, The Journal of Psychology
Member
editorial advisory board of A Turbulent Voyage: Readings in African American
Studies
Affirmative
Action Committee, Mesa Community College
Service while at The College of Wooster
Article
reviewer, The Journal of Social Issues
Black Studies
Curriculum Committee
Committee
on Committees
Affirmative
Action Committee
Ad-Hoc
Black Admissions Advisory Task Force
Faculty
representative on the Committee on Social Organizations
Advisor
Peanuts, a student organization