Daniel Cantor Yalowitz, Ed.D.

Associate Dean for Special Projects; Associate Professor, the Donald Everett Axinn Division of Social Sciences

Daniel Cantor Yalowitz, Ed.D. Everett Mansion 357
dyalowitz@svc.edu
802-447-6351

Education

  • Ed.D., Human Development, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, 1995
  • M.Ed., Special Education/Moderate Special Needs, Lesley College Graduate School, Cambridge, Mass., 1981;
  • B.S., Child Study and Community Mental Health, Tufts University, Medford, Mass.

Administrative experience

  • Associate Dean for Special Projects, Southern Vermont College, 2006-present
  • Dean of Humanities, Middlesex Community College, 2004-2005
  • Director and Principal, The Victor School, 2002-2004

Teaching experience

  • Associate Professor, Axinn Division of Social Sciences, Southern Vermont College, 2006-present
  • Associate Professor, School for Undergraduate Studies, Lesley University, 1995-2002
  • Assistant Professor, Division of Human Services and Social Sciences, Lesley College, 1989-2005
  • Instructor, Division of Human Services and Social Sciences, Lesley College, 1987-1989
  • Lecturer, Division of Continuing Education, University of Massachusetts, 1985-1987
  • Faculty Associate, Hampshire College, Division of Humanities and Arts, 1983-1986

AWARDS and HONORS

Semifinalist for Outstanding First-Year Student Advocates Award, given by the National Resource Center for the First-year Experience at the University of South Carolina, for his design of SVC's "Quest for Success" first-year course, 2008. 

Courses

  • Sociology
  • Psychology
  • Human Services
  • Early Childhood Education

Research interests

  • Male personality development
  • Jungian psychology, conflict resolution/conflict response
  • Group dynamics/group process
  • Peace and social justice education
  • Creativity, leadership
  • Myers-Briggs Type Indicator, Multiple Intelligence Theory
  • Cross-cultural and multicultural human development
  • Play, neoteny

Why I teach

I enjoy cultivating a “community” in or out of the traditional classroom wherein a wide range of diverse personality and learning styles are maintained, supported and challenged, providing learners with a wide range of learning opportunities. All education is about several critical things, necessary for the continuance of the human species: growth, change, perspective-taking, understanding and greater awareness. For me, teaching is one venue and one domain in which all of these occur, often simultaneously.

Favorite Book

Too many and too varied to mention. I’ve a long list, which I add to each and every year.

Favorite Movie

Same as above: a constantly evolving list.

Best part of being at SVC

The intimacy of the teaching/learning experience. Small classes, a minimum of bureaucracy, an opportunity to truly impact on students, and the possibility of developing and designing new curricula and learning opportunities, both formal and informal.

HIGHLIGHTS

February 2011 - Dr. Yalowitz presented a Solo Poetography Exhibit, "I Wonder as I Wander: Archetypal Motifs and Symbols of the Self," at Greenfield's Market in Greenfield, Mass. The exhibit consisted of collected original poems and personal writings accompanied by his photographs from his travel/guests across and around the world.

November 2009 - Dr. Yalowitz facilitated a half-day retreat at Temple Israel in Greenfield, Mass., on November 15. The retreat was entitled "Envisioning Temple Israel of Greenfield's Second 100 Years."

October 2009 - Dr. Yalowitz served as Keynote Speaker for the Boston-based organization "Strong Women, Strong Girls" (SWSG) Annual Conference at Harvard University. SWSG is a fairly new nonprofit organization that matches undergraduate students from nine colleges and universities throughout greater Boston with young girls in high-risk, inner-city neighborhoods in one-to-one mentor relationships. 

April 2009 - Professor Yalowitz was honored as a finalist for the Campus Leadership for Civic Engagement Award at the Vermont Campus Compact Awards Recognition and Reception at UVM. 

March 2008 - Professor Yalowitz was a finalist for the Campus Leadership for Civic Engagement Award at the Vermont Campus Compact annual meeting. In his second full year at SVC, Professor Yalowitz conceived and developed a service-learning based First Year Seminar at the College. He trained six faculty and staff to instruct the newly-approved Quest for Success: The First Year Experience course. His efforts were also recognized by the University of South Carolina's National Resource for the First Year Experience. 

January 2008 - Professor Yalowitz served as the keynote speaker and lead workshop presenter at the State of New Hampshire's 21st Century Community Learning Center Director's Training Conference in Meredith, N.H. His keynote address focused on "Play as a Form and Forum for Community-Building and Developmental Wholeness."

January 2008 - Professor Yalowitz and the College's Quest for Success First-Year Experience Course that he designed were semifinalists (within our institutional category) for Outstanding First-Year Student Advocates' Award. This honor is given by the National Resource Center for The First-Year Experience at the University of South Carolina.

December 2006 - Commencement keynote speaker at Lesley University in Colorado in January. In addition to his speech to students graduating from the Master in Education (M.Ed.) program, Yalowitz spent a week meeting formally and informally with M.Ed. students, visiting their internship/work sites, and talked with them about life, work and hope after following the recent completion of their master’s degrees. In his address, Yalowitz focused on the challenge of taking what is learned in the classroom and applying it to real world issues and problems.