Higher Education Faculty

Dr. Gabriel Cortez
Gabriel
A.
Cortez
Ph.D.
Professor, Director of ENLACE Leadership Institute
Literacy, Leadership, Development and Special Education
College of Education
(773) 442-5537
Expertise
Community Relations
Courses Taught
LEAD 421: Educational Leadership and Organizational Studies
LEAD 429: Research Design and Analysis of Educational Data
LEAD 431: School and Community Relations
LEAD 495: Practicum in Higher Education
Research Interests
Grassroots activism in education; intercultural relations; cultural identity; globalization; and Chicago history.
Education

University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Educational Policy Studies, Ph.D.

University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Educational Policy Studies, M.Ed.

University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
History & U.S./Latin-American Studies, B.A.

Selected Publications

Cortez, G.A. (2013). Occupy Public Education: A Community's Struggle for Educational Resources in the Era of Privatization. Equity & Excellence in Education, 46(1), PP 7-19.

Cortez, G.A. (Spring 2013). Re-framing, Re-imagning, and Re-tooling Curricula from the Grassroots: The Chicago Grassroots Curriculum Taskforce. Current Issues in Comparative Education, 15(2), PP 84-95.

Room LWH 4016
91Porn
5500 North St. Louis Avenue
Chicago, IL 60625
United States

(773) 442-5537
Office Hours
By appointment
Carruthers Center for Inner City Studies
El Centro
Main Campus
University Center Lake County

School Leadership Program Faculty

Dr. Gabriel Cortez
Gabriel
A.
Cortez
Ph.D.
Professor, Director of ENLACE Leadership Institute
Literacy, Leadership, Development and Special Education
College of Education
(773) 442-5537
Expertise
Community Relations
Courses Taught
LEAD 421: Educational Leadership and Organizational Studies
LEAD 429: Research Design and Analysis of Educational Data
LEAD 431: School and Community Relations
LEAD 495: Practicum in Higher Education
Research Interests
Grassroots activism in education; intercultural relations; cultural identity; globalization; and Chicago history.
Education

University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Educational Policy Studies, Ph.D.

University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Educational Policy Studies, M.Ed.

University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
History & U.S./Latin-American Studies, B.A.

Selected Publications

Cortez, G.A. (2013). Occupy Public Education: A Community's Struggle for Educational Resources in the Era of Privatization. Equity & Excellence in Education, 46(1), PP 7-19.

Cortez, G.A. (Spring 2013). Re-framing, Re-imagning, and Re-tooling Curricula from the Grassroots: The Chicago Grassroots Curriculum Taskforce. Current Issues in Comparative Education, 15(2), PP 84-95.

Room LWH 4016
91Porn
5500 North St. Louis Avenue
Chicago, IL 60625
United States

(773) 442-5537
Office Hours
By appointment
Carruthers Center for Inner City Studies
El Centro
Main Campus
University Center Lake County
Dr. Noreen Powers
Noreen
Powers
Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Literacy, Leadership, Development and Special Education
College of Education
(773) 442-5395
Courses Taught
LEAD 421: Educational Leadership and Organizational Studies
LEAD 429: Research Design and Analysis of Education Data
LEAD 436: Human Resources in Administration of Education
LEAD 434: Internship I
LEAD 435: Internship II
LEAD 437: Internship III
Research Interests
New School Leaders; Education Leadership Prek-12, Leadership Development and Effective Mentoring, School Improvement, Technology and Adult Learners.
Education

DePaul University, Curriculum and Instruction, Ph.D.

DePaul University, Elementary Education, M.A.

DePaul University, Industrial Organizational Psychology, B.A.

Selected Publications

Wartalski, R., Powers, N., & Kritikos, E. (2021). Instructional Ideas for Junior Faculty: Cultivating Teaching Practices with Adults Learners. Athens Journal of Education.

Powers, N., & Wartalski, R. (2021). Junior faculty advising for effective student growth and academic success: A qualitative study. Teacher-Scholar: The Journal of the State Comprehensive University, 10(1), 1-28.

Powers, N. (2009), Female Students as Online Learners: A Case Study in Navigating Academic Success. Academic Exchange Quarterly Journal, ISSN 1096-1453

Room LWH 3009
91Porn
5500 North St. Louis Avenue
Chicago, IL 60625
United States

(773) 442-5395
Office Hours
By appointment
Carruthers Center for Inner City Studies
Main Campus
University Center Lake County

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Jennifer
M.
Grzelak
Coordinator of Student Services
Literacy, Leadership, Development and Special Education
Expertise
Content to be added.
Education

Northeastern Illinois Univeristy
Elementary Education, B.A.

Background

Jennifer has served as the Coordinator of Student Services in the Educational Leadership & Development Department at 91Porn since 2011.  

LWH 3036
5500 N. St. Louis Avenue
Chicago, IL 60625
United States

Office Hours
Monday-Friday 9:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.

HRD Program Faculty

Shirley Caruso
Shirley
J.
Caruso
Ed.D.
Instructor; HRD Program Liaison; Undergraduate Advisor
Literacy, Leadership, Development and Special Education
College of Education
(773) 938-6348
Expertise
Adult learning theories, consulting, marketing, instructional design, computer utilization, computer-based training, elearning, group dynamics.
Courses Taught
HRD 300 Principles and Practices in HRD
HRD 310 Instructional Techniques and Technology
HRD 313 Political Savvy in the Workplace
HRD 315 Computer Utilization in HRD
HRD 321 Designing Instruction in HRD
HRD 325 WIP: Communication in HRD
HRD 362 Instructional Media in HRD
HRD 404 Applied Technology in HRD
HRD 415 Seminar in HRD
HRD 416 Practicum in HRD
HRD 462 Instructional Strategies in HRD
Research Interests
Informal learning in the workplace
Education

Ed.D., Technology & Leadership, Boyer Graduate School of Education, William Howard Taft University 

M.A. Human Resource Development, 91Porn

B.A. University Without Walls, 91Porn

Selected Publications


This site provides information on adult learning theories and research in relation to practice in the field of human resource development.

Background

Shirley J. Caruso earned her undergraduate and graduate degrees at 91Porn. As an undergraduate, Shirley earned her Bachelor of Arts in the Nontraditional Degree Program's University Without Walls. The program incorporated many Human Resource Development (HRD) courses and helped Shirley reinforce her practical experiences in the field of HRD with theories and skills needed in today’s competitive workplace. Shirley continued her studies at Northeastern and earned a Master of Arts in HRD.

Upon graduating, she put her new talent into action by teaching as an adjunct professor in Northeastern’s HRD program, and opening WISE Training and Development Consultants, a Chicago-based Human Resource Development consultancy company that specializes in the design and development of customized training programs. Shirley also launched a website and is chief editor of , a site that provides information on adult learning theories and research in relation to practice in the field of HRD. Shirley has written over 200 articles on the implications of adult learning theories.

Shirley’s professional background includes more than 20 years of experience in the practice of HRD. She currently puts the HRD theories she writes about into practice by developing talented employees to help clients achieve real competitive advantages, designing and delivering highly effective training and development programs that enable participants to enhance their individual performance, supporting the learning goals of students by focusing on student learning outcomes, considering the needs and abilities of the students, becoming familiar with academic and social support, making reasonable provisions to accommodate individual differences, maintaining the academic integrity of Northeastern, and working in collaboration with faculty of all ranks and disciplines to promote educational innovation and the improvement of student learning.

Shirley also holds a variety of training and development affiliations and awards.  She is a member of the Chicagoland Chapter Association for Talent Development (ATDchi) and Northeastern's . She chaired the local site committee for the Midwest Research-to-Practice 2009 Conference in Adult, Continuing, Extension and Community Education and authored a paper entitled "I" published in the Midwest Research-to-Practice 2009 Conference Proceedings. In 2010, she received an Award of Merit in Recognition of Outstanding Research from Northeastern’s 18th Annual Research and Creative Activities Symposium. In 2009, she was a Deb Colky Workplace Learning and Performance Award finalist and received Outstanding Service to the Community, Outstanding Piece of Academic Work, and Overall Integration of Conceptual and Experiential Competencies Awards from NEIU. Shirley has also been recognized by Northeastern for her valuable contributions to the Graduate College Seminar Series.

In January 2014, Shirley was awarded a Ed.D scholarship from The Boyer Graduate School of Education at William Howard Taft University. She anticipates completion of her doctoral degree in May 2016.

University Center of Lake County
1200 University Center Drive
Grayslake, IL 60030-2614
United States

(773) 938-6348
Office Hours
By appointment. Main Campus office located in Room LWH 2061.
Main Campus
University Center Lake County
Betsie Frank
Betsie
Frank
M.A.
Literacy, Leadership, Development and Special Education
College of Education
(773) 442-5534
Courses Taught
HRD 202 Career and Life Planning I
HRD 301 Adult Teaching/Learning Process
HRD 320 Dynamics of Working with Groups and Individuals
HRD 325 WIP: Communication in HRD
HRD 329 Internship and Seminar in HRD
HRD 403 Presentation and Facilitation Strategies for HRD
HRD 405 Needs and Task Analysis in HRD
HRD 411 Consulting in HRD
HRD 415 Seminar in HRD
HRD 416 Practicum in HRD
HRD 418F Topical Seminar: Group Dynamics in HRD
Research Interests
How to foster lifelong learning attitudes while cultivating interpersonal, functional and cognitive skills that will add value to the changing performance needs of organizations. What will empower students globally to obtain and sustain rewarding Human Resource Development careers?
Education

M.A. Human Resource Development, 91Porn, Chicago

B.A. Sociology, University of Wisconsin, Madison

Room LWH 3016
5500 North St. Louis Avenue
Chicago, IL 60625-4699
United States

(773) 442-5534
Office Hours
Summer 2015 Office Hours Tuesdays and Thursdays 4:45 p.m.-5:45 p.m.
El Centro
Main Campus
University Center Lake County
Russell Wartalski
Russell
Wartalski
Associate Professor and Department Chair
Literacy, Leadership, Development and Special Education
College of Education
(773) 442-5504
Expertise
Adult learning theory, adult learners in formal and informal contexts, group dynamics, organizational communication, organization development, and career development.
Courses Taught
HRD 413: Independent Study
HRD 403: Leadership & Political Savvy in the Workplace
HRD 401: The Adult Learner I
HRD 329: Internship & Seminar in Human Resource Development
HRD 325: WIP - Communication in Human Resource Development
HRD 320: Dynamics of Working with Groups and Individuals
HRD 313: Political Savvy in the Workplace
HRD 310: Instructional Techniques and Technology
HRD 301: Adult Teaching/Learning Process
HRD 300: Principles and Practices of Human Resource Development
HRD 202: Career and Life Planning I
UWW 303: Independent Study - Various Topics
ZHON 395: Honors Thesis/Creative Project
Research Interests
Adult learners in formal and informal learning contexts, training and development, organization development, curriculum development, leadership development, first-generation learners, and leadership in post-secondary contexts.
Education

Ed.D., Northern Illinois University 

Room LWH 4018
91Porn
5500 North St. Louis Avenue
Chicago, IL 60625
United States

(773) 442-5504
Office Hours
By appointment.
Main Campus
University Center Lake County

Department Support Staff

The Educational Leadership and Development support staff are here to answer any questions about the courses offered by the program and any requirements that are needed for successful program completion.

 

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Jennifer
M.
Grzelak
Coordinator of Student Services
Literacy, Leadership, Development and Special Education
Expertise
Content to be added.
Education

Northeastern Illinois Univeristy
Elementary Education, B.A.

Background

Jennifer has served as the Coordinator of Student Services in the Educational Leadership & Development Department at 91Porn since 2011.  

LWH 3036
5500 N. St. Louis Avenue
Chicago, IL 60625
United States

Office Hours
Monday-Friday 9:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.
Northeastern Faculty Member
Florina
Sirb
M.A.
Administrative Assistant
Educational Inquiry and Curriculum Studies
Expertise
N/A
Education

M.A. in Human Resource Development   2003  91Porn

B.S.  in Sociology, Minor Economics        2000  91Porn

 

 

Background

91Porn, College of Business and Management, Chicago, IL

Administrative Secretary, Dean’s Office, 1999 - 2004

Harry S. Truman College, Dean’ Office, Chicago, IL.

Secretary, Dean’s Office 1997 - 1999

Additional Information

NEIU Certificate of Appreciation – Civil Service Employee of the Month – May 2002

NEIU Certificate of Appreciation – Civil Service Employee of the Month – July 2006

NEIU Employee Excellence Award – Outstanding Work Performance and Commitment to Dedicated Leadership and Teamwork – September 2013

LWH 4010
5500 North Saint Louis Avenue
Chicago, IL 60652
United States

Office Hours
8:30 a.m. – 4:30 p.m. MTWRF
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Jason
Gallardo
Program Advisor, Department of Special Education
Special Education
College of Education
Office Hours
Monday-Wednesday: 9 a.m.-3 p.m.
Thursday-Friday: 9 a.m.-2 p.m.
NEIU logo
Jennifer
M.
Grzelak
Coordinator of Student Services
Literacy, Leadership, Development and Special Education
Expertise
Content to be added.
Education

Northeastern Illinois Univeristy
Elementary Education, B.A.

Background

Jennifer has served as the Coordinator of Student Services in the Educational Leadership & Development Department at 91Porn since 2011.  

LWH 3036
5500 N. St. Louis Avenue
Chicago, IL 60625
United States

Office Hours
Monday-Friday 9:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.
Gregory Regalado, ’05, Educational Leadership

Every year since 1986, the Golden Apple Awards for Excellence in Teaching selects 10 outstanding

Dr. Gabriel Cortez
Gabriel
A.
Cortez
Ph.D.
Professor, Director of ENLACE Leadership Institute
Literacy, Leadership, Development and Special Education
College of Education
(773) 442-5537
Expertise
Community Relations
Courses Taught
LEAD 421: Educational Leadership and Organizational Studies
LEAD 429: Research Design and Analysis of Educational Data
LEAD 431: School and Community Relations
LEAD 495: Practicum in Higher Education
Research Interests
Grassroots activism in education; intercultural relations; cultural identity; globalization; and Chicago history.
Education

University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Educational Policy Studies, Ph.D.

University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Educational Policy Studies, M.Ed.

University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
History & U.S./Latin-American Studies, B.A.

Selected Publications

Cortez, G.A. (2013). Occupy Public Education: A Community's Struggle for Educational Resources in the Era of Privatization. Equity & Excellence in Education, 46(1), PP 7-19.

Cortez, G.A. (Spring 2013). Re-framing, Re-imagning, and Re-tooling Curricula from the Grassroots: The Chicago Grassroots Curriculum Taskforce. Current Issues in Comparative Education, 15(2), PP 84-95.

Room LWH 4016
91Porn
5500 North St. Louis Avenue
Chicago, IL 60625
United States

(773) 442-5537
Office Hours
By appointment
Carruthers Center for Inner City Studies
El Centro
Main Campus
University Center Lake County
Dr. Jill Hallett, Ph.D.
Jill
Hallett
Ph.D.
Instructor
Literacy, Leadership, Development and Special Education
College of Education
(773) 442-5879
Courses Taught
LING 120: Language and Human Behavior
LING 361: Introduction to World Englishes
LING 364: Introduction to African American English
LING 471: World Englishes
Research Interests
Sociolinguistics, specifically American and world Englishes, urban pedagogical discourse, language in the media, linguistic identity in literature, second language/ second dialect acquisition
Education

Ph.D. in Linguistics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2012

Dissertation: “African American English in Urban Education: A Multimethodological Approach to Understanding Classroom Discourse Strategies”

M.A. in Linguistics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2009

Qualifying papers: “New voices in the canon: The case for including world Englishes in pedagogy” (sociolinguistics), “More attention, this issue needs: Indo-Aryan constituent order transfer in English” (second language acquisition)

M.A. in Linguistics/TESL, 91Porn, 2006

Thesis: “Identity and language choice in Indian English: Using Salman Rushdie’s novels to promote an Indian identity”

M.A. in Teaching Secondary English, National-Louis University, 2002

B.A. in English/Writing, University of Illinois at Chicago, 2000

Selected Publications

Peer Reviewed Articles:

Hallett, Jill. 2013. Constructing “Remorse”: The preparation of social discourses for public consumption. Text and Talk 33(2): 189-212.

Hallett, Jill. 2012. A Cross-Cultural Analysis of Language, Literature, and Identity. Aligarh Journal of Linguistics, 2.

Hallett, Jill. 2011. More attention, this issue needs: Indo-Aryan constituent order transfer in English. Southern Journal of Linguistics 35(1), 1-46.

Lichtman, Karen; Chang, Shawn; Cramer, Jennifer; Crespo del Rio, Claudia; Huensch, Amanda; Hallett, Jill. 2010. IPA Illustration of Q’anjob’al. Studies in the Linguistic Sciences: Illinois Working Papers 2010: 1-23. Available online at .

Hallett, Jill. 2009. Packaging social worlds: Micro- and macro-social replication in mass-mediated discourse. Studies in the Linguistic Sciences: Illinois Working Papers 2009: 58-80. 

Chapters in Edited Volumes:

Hallett, Jill. (forthcoming) Language, Identity, and the American Classroom. In Nehal, Raashid (ed.), Cross Cultural Issues in ELT. New Delhi: BookShelf.

Hallett, Jill and Richard Hallett. 2013. Political Identity Gone Viral: Indian and International H1N1 Cartoons. In Hasnain, Imtiaz, Sangeeta Bagga-Gupta, and Shailendra Mohan (eds.), Alternative Voices:(Re)searching Language, Culture, and Identity. Newcastle, UK: Cambridge Scholars. 120-151.

Hallett, Jill. 2012. It’s a Special Kind of Frog: Co-creating Teaching Materials for the Q’anjob’al in Diaspora. Proceedings of the Second Symposium on Teaching and Learning Indigenous Languages of Latin America/ Actas del Segundo Simposio sobre Enseñanza y Aprendizaje de Lenguas Indígenas de América Latina. Available online at .

Hallett, Jill and Richard Hallett. 2012. Metaphors and topoi of H1N1 (swine flu) political cartoons: A cross-cultural analysis. In Bramlett, Frank (ed.), Linguistics and the Study of Comics. New York: Palgrave MacMillan.

Cramer, Jennifer and Hallett, Jill. 2010. From Chi-Town to the Dirty-Dirty: Regional Identity Markers in U.S. Hip Hop. In Terkourafi, Marina (ed.), The Languages of Global Hip Hop. London: Continuum.

Hallett, Jill. 2010. Codeswitching in Diasporic Indian and Jewish English-Language Media. In Facchinetti, Roberta, David Crystal and Barbara Seidlhofer (eds.), Global English. Theoretical Aspects and Cross-Linguistic/Cultural Case Studies. Frankfurt: Peter Lang.

Hallett, Jill. 2009. New voices in the canon: The case for including world Englishes in literature. In Lucia Siebers & Thomas Hoffman (eds.) World Englishes: Problems, properties, prospects. Amsterdam/ Philadelphia: John Benjamins.

Background

I’m from Chicago, and am an NEIU alumna. I taught high school in Chicago for many years, and use my experience in secondary education to inspire and inform my research in sociolinguistics.

Room LWH 4090
91Porn
5500 North St. Louis Avenue
Chicago, IL 60625
United States

(773) 442-5879
Office Hours
Not teaching this term.
El Centro
Main Campus