Cato native coaching at Albright Nov 19, 2009
Photo provided Albright College assistant coach/defensive coordinator Mike Hoyt, a Cato-Meridian graduate, reacts on the sideline during a game this season ... Hoyt is currently the defensive coordinator for the Albright College football team, and also serves as the college's director of strength and conditioning ... He also thoroughly enjoys being the strength and conditioning coach for each of Albright College's varsity sports. (Auburn Citizen, NY)
Local College Basketball Preview Capsules Nov 17, 2009
Dec. 2 - * - ALBRIGHT COLLEGE, 8 ... Feb. 20 - * - at Albright College, 4 ... Dec. 2 - * - ALBRIGHT COLLEGE, 6. (Carlisle Sentinel, PA)
100 years in the air started with the Zeppelin Oct 29, 2009
"All passengers even got to enjoy a cold fare on board, complete with wine or Champagne," says historian Guillaume de Syon of Albright College in Reading, Pa. author of Zeppelin. (USA Today)
Gossip in the workplace: A weapon or gift, new research from IU Oct 28, 2009
Hallett's study, which is co-authored by IU sociologist Donna Eder, a leading authority in gossip research, and Brent Harger, now a sociologist at Albright College, is based on a two-year ethnographic study of workplace politics at an urban elementary school. The school was undergoing an uncomfortable managerial transition as a new principal began her first full year. (EurekAlert!)
Underground workers inspire poet's prose Oct 14, 2009
"I don't have to explain myself." Czury works as a lecturer at Albright College in Pennsylvania, 70 miles from where he was born, and said the irony of his home is not lost on him. "Our whole life we were taught that life was elsewhere," he said. (Montana Standard, MT)
No Bullies Here: Student Labels Of 'Bullying' Can Be Misleading Aug 11, 2009
Typically both students and researchers include physical and emotional abuse in their definitions of bullying, yet students differ from researchers in how they label others "bullies." Brent Harger, a recent graduate of Indiana University Bloomington's Department of Sociology and now assistant professor of sociology at Albright College in Reading, Penn. found that many students view bullying as a false dichotomy in which others are either "bullies" or "non-bullies." In this false dichotomy,... (Science Daily)
Indiana University research at the American Sociological Association annual meeting Aug 9, 2009
" Brent Harger, a recent graduate of Indiana University Bloomington's Department of Sociology and now assistant professor of sociology at Albright College in Reading, Penn., found that many students view bullying as a false dichotomy in which others are either "bullies" or "non-bullies. " In this false dichotomy, students argue that if somebody is to be labeled a bully, he or she must fit that label at all times. This applies to how students label themselves, too. As a result, students may... (EurekAlert!)
INVISIBLE DADS: Fathers looking to step up feel left out Jul 6, 2009
"There is so much conditioning, in terms of thinking that women instinctively know more and have more experience with children," said Claudia Strauss, a family communications expert and lecturer at Albright College in Reading, Pa ... "Agree in advance to divide up the questions you're going to ask" during meetings with child care providers or medical appointments, says Claudia Strauss, a family communications expert and lecturer at Albright College in Reading, Pa. (Orangeburg Times and Democrat, SC)
Fathers try to step up but are left feeling invisible Jul 1, 2009
"There is so much conditioning, in terms of thinking that women instinctively know more and have more experience with children," said Claudia Strauss, a family communications expert and lecturer at Albright College in Reading, Pa. "You can't just turn off the switch of what's been there, in terms of role models and what's been inculcated culturally and societally" for so many generations. (AZCentral -- News)
Celebrations Jun 17, 2009
Local student graduates from Albright College Albright College in Reading, Pa. announces that Nicole E. Wheeler-Dennett of Newton graduated with a bachelor of arts degree in sociology/criminology at the 150th commencement ceremony on May 24. (Newton Tab, MA)
Analysis: Nation of certainty, uncertain outcomes Apr 30, 2009
"We insulate ourselves by thinking that we're protected all the time by insurance, by medications, by airbags. And then we get surprised when the world gives us some other challenge," says Emily Godbey, a scholar at Albright College in Pennsylvania who studies how Americans process catastrophe. "The rhetoric is often that we have this baby under control," Godbey says. (Anchorage Daily News)
Greg's Greg-alogue Feb 21, 2009
So Albright College commemorated Black History Month by hanging two signs on a drinking fountain near their cafeteria. One sign read, "white," while the other was marked "colored only." The goal: to remind all that segregation sucked. (Fox News)
Community Profile: Mark Barnhart, part 2 Feb 7, 2009
Barnhart earned a Master's Degree in Public Administration from the University of Pennsylvania, after receiving an undergraduate degree from Albright College in Reading, Pennsylvania. He lives with his wife, Katherine and two children. (Fairfield Minuteman, CT)