Lead By Example: Staff
We’re not just a lot of talk. We practice what we preach. And we’re open to listening, too. Our staff bring unique perspectives and gifts to the Center for Intercultural Teaching and Learning (CITL). Directors, listed below, oversee our key components of research and curriculum development. The access to education component is tended to by an inter-departmental team of academic leaders.
Dr. Anita Stalter
Academic Dean
Phone: (574) 535-7503
E-mail: dean@goshen.edu
Dr. Stalter became vice president for academic affairs and academic dean in 2001 following 14 years as a professor in the education department and director of teacher education at Goshen College.
Before coming to Goshen College she was a teacher in the Harrisonburg, Va., public school system and served as director of the school for youth and adolescents at Oaklawn Hospital in Goshen.
Dr. Rebecca Hernandez
CITL Director
Phone: (574) 535-7775
E-mail: rhernandez@goshen.edu
Born in Joliet, Ill., and a daughter of migrant farm workers, Dr. Hernandez has been working on Latino issues throughout her career. She began as a schoolteacher, then served as a community program director and now conducts research at CITL.
Previously, Dr. Hernandez was the director of community building for the Hacienda Community Development Corporation of Portland, Ore. She also held faculty appointments at Oregon State University and at Oregon Health and Sciences University, School of Nursing, where she worked to develop community-based programs to reduce health disparities among Latinos.
Dr. Hernandez completed her doctoral work in human development and family studies at Oregon State University. She earned a master’s degree in public administration from Portland State University.
Dr. Robert Reyes
Research Director
Phone: (574) 535-7778
E-mail: rreyes@goshen.edu
Dr. Reyes is originally from San Juan, Puerto Rico. Before coming to Goshen College, he taught for 11 years as an associate professor of human development and family science at Messiah College, where he also directed the Latino Partnership program.
Dr. Reyes has been a research consultant on a number of regional and national initiatives, including the Administration of Children and Families Hispanic Healthy Marriage education initiative. He earned a master of divinity degree and a doctorate in marriage and family studies from Fuller Theological Seminary.
Dr. Ross Peterson-Veatch
Director of Curriculum, Teaching and Faculty Development
Phone: (574) 535-7504
E-mail: rosspv@goshen.edu
Dr. Ross Peterson-Veatch is originally from Oklahoma, but has lived in Indiana since 1984. Before coming to Goshen, he was on the faculty of the Liberal Arts and Management Program at Indiana University and served the Kelley School of Business at I.U. as a full-time instructional consultant and faculty developer. He began his college teaching career in 1987 as a Spanish instructor and has been in the classroom at various levels ever since. He has taught many different subjects to college students, including Spanish, Economics and Folklore, but is most at home teaching interdisciplinary social science courses to first-year college students.
Dr. Peterson-Veatch has been involved in college pedagogy initiatives since 1992 and served on the program committee for the 2009 Annual Meeting of the International Society for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning. He has also been directly engaged in high school reform efforts in the state of Indiana since 2003. He is currently a National Facilitator for School Reform Initiative, Inc. and from 2003-2008 worked with the National School Reform Faculty and the Center for Excellence in Leadership of Learning on large-scale structural reform projects in urban school districts in Cleveland and Indianapolis.
Dr. Peterson-Veatch’s academic background is in Spanish language and Colonial Latin American Literature, and he serves Goshen College as Associate Academic Dean. He holds master’s and doctorate degrees in folklore from Indiana University, Bloomington.
Rocio Diaz
Administrative Assistant
Phone: (574) 535-7800
E-mail: srociod@goshen.edu
Diaz was born in Mexico and joined CITL’s staff in February 2008. She is married and has two daughters who are students of Goshen College. In addition to her job at CITL, Diaz is earning a bachelor’s degree with a major in communications as a student of Goshen College.
