UCA faculty news

Victor A. Puleo, Jr., CFP?, assistant professor of insurance and risk management in UCA’s College of Business, was selected as an Exam Content Specialists to work alongside the Council on Examinations to review all the questions and cases proposed for the November 2007 CFP? Certification Examination. CFP Board’s CFP? Certification Examination requires full integration of knowledge covered in CFP Board’s 89-subject financial planning topic list and is designed to evaluate one’s ability to apply a comprehensive understanding of financial planning to real-life financial planning situations. Score results for the July 2007 CFP? Certification Examination were recently released to exam takers. The 2-day, 10-hour exam was conducted at 50 sites nationwide. 1,180 (51 percent) of the 2,307 individuals who sat for the exam in July received a passing mark. Over 55,000 professionals in the U.S. hold the CERTIFIED FINANCIAL PLANNER? certification. The CFP Board is the professional regulatory organization for those who hold the CERTIFIED FINANCIAL PLANNER? certification.”

The following University College faculty members made presentations at last month’s Arkansas Association of Developmental Education (ArkADE) Annual Conference in Little Rock: Carl Olds, “Beat Not the Poor Desk: A Different Approach to Facilitating Student Writing”; Elaine Tomlinson Corum, “Harnessing the Power of Multiple Intelligence Theory in the Developmental Writing Classroom,” and “Infusing Asian Studies into the Developmental Reading and the Developmental Writing Classrooms”; Cindi Edwards and Mary Woods, “Intermediate Algebra: Different Teaching Approaches — Does it Really Matter?”; and Debbie Bratton, “Using SmartBoard Sympodium and MyMathLab in a Traditional Algebra Course”.