Oklahoma Wesleyan University

Undergraduate

Mission & Passion

First, to create educational settings which “equip” students with tools to use in their chosen professions and secondly, to create in those same students a desire for lifelong learning.

Inspiring Verse/Quote(s):

“I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me.” Philippians 4:13

“All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing.” Edmund Burke

“I’m convinced more than ever that man finds liberation only when he binds himself to God and commits himself to his fellow man.” Ronald Reagan

Courses

  • Political Parties and Elections
  • Needs Assessment & Program Planning
  • Various Sociology and Psychology courses

Certifications, Presentations, and Professional Activities:

  • Licensed Social Worker
  • Certified Teaching-Family Practioner
  • Oklahoma Teaching Certificate (Secondary Social Studies)
  • School Board Vice-President, Siloam Springs, Arkansas (1999-present)
  • Leadership Council Christian Adult Higher Education Association (2010-2013 term)

Papers and Presentations:

Taking Your Program Online. Original research presented to the Oklahoma City national convention of the Christian Adult Higher Education Association. (July 2010)

Practical Parenting: a workshop curriculum for parenting difficult teens. Parental workshop series based on an original curriculum developed in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the Education Specialist Degree (Ed.S.), University of Arkansas. (1998)

Successful multi-disciplinary interventions with adolescent females manifesting violent behaviors. Presentation was before the Graduate School of Social Work, University of Houston/Clear Lake. Co-presenters were Nurit Patt, M.D., Rudy Kalain, M.S., and Timothy Brooker, Ed.D. (1992)

The use of music as an intervention tool in behavioral modification programs for adolescents. Co-presented with Timothy Brooker, Ed.D., to the National Teaching Family Association, Appalachian State University, Boone, North Carolina. (1990)

Paulita Brooker

Vice President

Adult & Graduate Studies
918.728.6143
pbrooker@okwu.edu
B.S.W., Eastern Kentucky University; Masters of Public Administration (en passant), University of Arkansas; Ed.S. and Ed.D. in A