Higher Education Faculty
Higher Education Faculty
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.
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
School Leadership Program Faculty
School Leadership Program Faculty
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.
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
DePaul University, Curriculum and Instruction, Ph.D.
DePaul University, Elementary Education, M.A.
DePaul University, Industrial Organizational Psychology, B.A.
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
Contact Us
Contact Us
Northeastern Illinois Univeristy
Elementary Education, B.A.
Jennifer has served as the Coordinator of Student Services in the Educational Leadership & Development Department at 91Porn since 2011.
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5500 N. St. Louis Avenue
Chicago, IL 60625
United States
HRD Program Faculty
HRD Program Faculty
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
This site provides information on adult learning theories and research in relation to practice in the field of human resource development.
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
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
Ed.D., Northern Illinois University
Room LWH 4018
91Porn
5500 North St. Louis Avenue
Chicago, IL 60625
United States
Department Support Staff
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.
Northeastern Illinois Univeristy
Elementary Education, B.A.
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
M.A. in Human Resource Development 2003 91Porn
B.S. in Sociology, Minor Economics 2000 91Porn
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
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
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5500 North Saint Louis Avenue
Chicago, IL 60652
United States
Thursday-Friday: 9 a.m.-2 p.m.
Northeastern Illinois Univeristy
Elementary Education, B.A.
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
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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.
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
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
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.
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