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Karolyn Chowning
Oklahoma City, OK
Director of TRiO Grant Programs, OCCC
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    Altruism doesn't have to be antithetical to narcissism. Even grandiose, entitled, selfish millenials can engage in prosocial behavior. We just need to create the right context and that might be as easy as similarity salience, perspective taking manipulations or empathy training.

    95 weeks ago

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    Currently checking out options for migrating our telecourse offerings (http://tvi.ou.edu) to streaming video / podcast / mobile learning

    97 weeks ago

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About Me

My overarching long-term goal is to create and support pragmatic opportunities for individuals in my generation who struggle with the competing motives of a socially meaningful career and educational debt reduction.

Work History

  • Department of Student Support Services at Oklahoma City Community College
  • Director of TRiO Grant Programs: TRiO Upward Bound & TRiO Student Support Services
  • November 2010 to Present
  • Center for Independent and Distance Learning at the University of Oklahoma's College of Continuing Education
  • Cohorts Coordinator
  • October 2008 to October 2010
  • Department of Psychology at the University of Oklahoma's College of Arts and Sciences
  • Graduate Teaching Assistant
  • August 2004 to August 2008
  • Sinclair Community College in Miamisburg High School
  • Academic Resource Center Facilitator
  • January 2004 to May 2004
  • SARDI-RRTC at Wright State University's College of Medicine
  • Research assistant
  • January 2003 to December 2003
  • Division of Structural Integrity at the University of Dayton Research Institute
  • Research assistant
  • June 1999 to May 2000

Education

  • University of Oklahoma
  • M.S., Social Psychology
  • 2004 - 2008
Interests
reading nonfiction, reading fiction, writing both, utopias, dystopias, education, post-it notes, sewing, quilting.
Goals
  1. Update:Now working in TRiO! XXXXDevelop a grant-funded program that improves existing social systems
  2. Finish my Ph.D. Maybe.
  3. Update: 5 to HS me, under 5 him!// Work partly from home while my future children are under age five
  4. Update:drafts in 2009&2011 NaNoWriMo// Write a science fiction trilogy about societal/climate change
Favorite Quote
It's the end of the world, said the caterpillar.
Specialties
social cognition, self-regulation, positive illusions, entitlement, narcissism, millennials, online learning, distance education, instructional technology

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