Two faculty members received the highest teaching honors conferred by Harcum College during the Virtual Commencement ceremony premiering on May 29.
Julian Crooks, associate professor and assistant director of the fashion programs, won the Philip Klein Memorial Award in 2020. Chairman of the Board Alex Klein bestowed the award on Crooks, which was established in memory of his grandfather. The award recognizes demonstrated inspiration and creativity in his/her efforts; a faculty member who provides outstanding service to Harcum students, and someone who through thought, vision, and action, is dedicated to Harcum College.
Julian Crooks joined Harcum College in 2013. She volunteered in the planning and implementation of several Centennial elements including the crowd-sourced art show Bears & Squares and organizing and curating a museum-caliber gallery show called “WHAT WE WORE: 100 Years of Fashion,” an elegant, richly informative exhibition in the Trout Library.
Each year she devotes her time and talent to dozens of fashion students who must complete their capstone projects toward a successful annual fashion show. She has organized and offered numerous workshops for prospective students and the community through the Art & Design Experience and the Makers Series.
Her nominators said that she was abundantly talented, collaborative, innovative, and generous with her time and talent to her students and her colleagues.
Leading in Uncertain Times
These times are so difficult, the uncertainty so frightening that it seems very fraught to want to lead at all. The only way forward is to reframe the process internally. In moments like this, when the social order breaks down, we can pave the way for great and profound change.
The Idea of Pivoting - An entirely virtual fashion show. The students will be able to do this too, eventually. CLo3D is going to be such a game-changer for them.
Enjoying the folks at Non-Profit Commons, there's always an interesting speaker, and at least 30 avatars representing all sorts of non-profits. I haven't left the house in 3 months, my cancer makes it very dangerous for me, so it's great to be able to interact with other people virtually.
I was really impressed by the amount of work and
passion behind the Relay for Life.
I also joined Twitter to keep up the conversations that are beginning with
other scholars and researchers in VR. It's such a vital community!
I did a lot of thinking about Transformational Leadership this week. Clearly! It is the kind of leader that I would hope to be, but sometimes it's hard to sustain that level of passion and energy. When I received the Klein Award this year, I was filled with gratitude, but also some level of satisfaction. Is this an indication that I am becoming a Transformational Leader? Transforming into one, perhaps? I've been spending a great deal of time in Virtual worlds, interacting with other educators there and really enjoying the vibrant, collaborative community. This is so much fun, and so invigorating. There's nothing like sharing ideas to excite and inspire. I've been invited to apply for a space to continue my project at the Non-Profit Commons, and I absolutely will. Change.... This catclysm has forced a huge change on us all. It's allowed parts of me to grow and shine. I'm letting the path lead me, it seems to know what it's doing. Digital Climate Crisis Ta...
Too many changes. Too much to do. I'm whining. I need to get back to the work of the actual change that we're working on at Harcum, or I'm going to lose my job! The change to online teaching is INTENSE! It's so time consuming, and we've got 6 going at once. I'm going to have to get myself together, and reach out to the students and faculty that I've been neglecting. They must be feeling frightened and disoriented, too. Transformational Leader? Servant Leader? Authentic Leader? It seems to me that the key is to take a little from each. Worked all week and got one course finally finished, developed and on Canvas. Figured out video set up, and gotten pretty fast at making videos. The last thing I'm going to do this week, Monday, is tour Virbela to set up a classroom. The one in Second Life is amazing!
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