2006 Chancellor's Excellence Award
Excellence in Professional Service - Marley S. Barduhn
Barduhn,
who has served the College in many different capacities since joining
more than 25 years ago as a Health Department faculty member, becomes
the 18th SUNY Cortland staff member to receive the Chancellor’s
Award for Excellence in Professional Service.
“More than her position can adequately inform, Marley is an outstanding human being who has used her scholarship, her lead-ership skills, and her deep commitment to service to develop community structures and organizations that benefit SUNY Cortland, members of the Cortland community, and the State of New York,” stated Helen Giles-Gee, Barduhn’s former dean and now president of Keene State College.
Barduhn’s extensive career at SUNY Cortland began as a student, earning first a Bachelor of Science in Health Education in 1976 and then a Master of Science in Education in Health Education (K-12) in 1979. She received her Ph.D. in human development, specializing in child and family studies, from Syracuse University in 1985. She holds a certificate in gerontology.
She served as the Health Department’s interim chair in 1995 and, the following year was assistant to the dean of the School of Professional Studies. In 1996, Barduhn was named interim associate dean of professional studies and served until 1999, when she was named permanent associate dean of professional studies. She helped develop and implement academic policies, most notably a new suspension and dismissal policy, a transfer credit articulation and online posting. Barduhn was responsible for reviewing all curriculum, both in-school and College-wide, for approval or disapproval. Along with the associate dean of arts and sciences, she collaborated extensively with the Registrar’s Office and campus community to assist in the transition to a more modern student records management system.
In 2002-03, Barduhn played a key role in the development of a campus-wide auto-mated external defibrillator program, assisting in identifying key areas and developing policy for usage. She led in the development of Emergency Squad/EMT program policy and management.
Barduhn directs the Cortland Migrant Education Outreach Program (MEOP), with the responsibility of overseeing the outreach services of the extensive program. Her efforts have resulted in enhanced visibility for MEOP via state-wide presentations, and a steady increase in grant funding which is currently in excess of $1 million.
As associate dean of professional studies, Barduhn played a major role in the New York State Education Department (NYSED)’s re-registry of all 71 teacher education programs in 2000 and 2001. She provided leadership in the development of both the Child Abuse Reporting Workshop (CAR) and the Schools Against Violence in Education (SAVE) Workshops, which are mandated by NYSED for state certification.
Barduhn served as a member of the National Council for the Accreditation of Teacher Education (NCATE) Executive Board, undertaking a rigorous national review that required three full years of campus-wide preparation, and was a member of numerous key committees.
In 2003, Barduhn helped the College develop a School of Education, a task involving extensive planning of the splitting of the School of Professional Studies into two schools. Subsequently, she was named associate dean of the School of Education.
Barduhn currently serves as interim director of international programs, managing 33 study abroad programs in 13 countries. She is responsible for ensuring that the College complies with federal security and immigra-tion regulations and for fiscal oversight of all domestic and international budgets established by the International Programs Office. She supervises the international student advisement process and study abroad orientation sessions.
In 1999, she became a member of the Clark Center for International Education, traveling on behalf of the College to Belize, Venezuela and England to review existing international initiatives and foster new ones. As a result, many internships have been created for SUNY Cortland students and teacher educa-tion candidates in Australia and England.
She is the author of book chapters and articles on topics ranging from gerontology to extra credit, oral health surveys, blood pressure and the role of the health educator in fire/burn prevention. She has made more than 40 statewide, national and international presentations on migrant education, pediatric crisis management, critical incident work, academic advisement accountability, death education, aging and hospice issues, rural mass disasters and emergency medical services.
Barduhn has served as a consultant to several agencies, including U.S. Behavioral Health, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the Cortland County Area Agency for Aging and the New York State Education Department.
A member of the Phi Kappa Phi national interdisciplinary honorary, she was inducted into the Sigma Phi Omega national geron-tologists’ honorary, the Sigma Phi Alpha national dental hygiene honorary, and elected to the New York State Emergency Medical Services Faculty.
At SUNY Cortland, she has served on more than 40 college-wide committees. She co-chairs both Undergraduate and Graduate Commencement Committees.
A Rural Metro Medical Services clinical director since 1990, she has provided counseling services for crisis intervention and helped develop its Critical Incident Stress Manage-ment Team policies, procedures and protocol. A founder and member of the Board of Directors of Caring Community Hospice of Cortland, she was a consultant to the Syracuse Fire Department’s Fire Prevention Bureau, co-developing an award-winning fire preven-tion video series titled, “Firestation 7.” Barduhn is a long-time member of the Central New York Regional Continuous Quality Improvement Committee of the Central New York Hospital Association.