No Class from March 15th to the 21st, have fun!

Scholarships

“Common Roots” The 2009-2010 Middle States Regional Honors In Action Program

MILLENIALS

Dr. Jeffrey Shalan is presently an Associate Professor of English and the Coordinator of the Honors Studies here in Union County College. He received his bachelor’s degree in English from Drew University and both his Master’s and Doctorate degree in Comparative Literature from the University of Winsconsin-Madison. His doctoral dissertation was titled “Writing the Nation and Its Others: Fictions of Community and Exile in the North African Novel” which explores the place of twentieth-century French and Arabic-language literary texts in the emergence of nationalism, the formation of national identities, and the development of national liberation movements in North Africa, and how these texts also call into question and expose the limits of anti-colonial nationalist ideology in post-colonial Egypt, Tunisia, Algeria, and Moroco. Currently, his areas of research are literature and nationalism, post-colonialism, and the effects of globalization on the nation as the dominant geopolitical form of modern community. In connection to the latter and the Honors Study Topic “The Paradox of Affluence: Choices, Challenges, and Consequences”, Dr. Shalan has prepared a presentation titled “The Paradox of Affluence… or the Logic of (Unbridled) Capitalism?” which focuses on how the dominant economic model of the last thirty to forty years has produced a massive upward redistribution of wealth in the United States that has resulted in gross inequality, hence, the current Wall Street meltdown and larger economic crisis.

The Official Phi Theta Kappa Iota Xi Chapter T-shirts are here, available for $20 per shirt from Small to 4XL.

To order your Phi Theta Kappa Iota Member T-Shirt print and fill out the form below and submit it with payment to Phi Theta Kappa Iota Xi’s Faculty Advisor Prof. Stokes-Dupass , Office N7. Across the hall from the Alumni Conference room in the Nomahegan hallway.Represent Iota Xi.

Iota Xi T-Shirts Order Form

Welcome to the new chapter blog, I’ve spent my holidays designing and implementing the new and improved Iota Xi blog. You will notice a calender to the right that displays the spring 2009 events, as well as a detail list below that calender. At the bottom you will find a form to register for chapter alerts and notification, pretty cool right?

So please take a look around and get comfy with our new digs. Make sure you register for blog access, it is the only way you will be able to post comments or articles; and don’t forget to register your mobile phone for Iota Xi chapter alerts sent to your phone.