Forty-year awards will go to Arthur Coleman, professor of English, and Ralph Knopf, associate professor of mathematics.

Thirty-year honors will be bestowed on: Bob Brier, professor of philosophy; Carol Campbell, associate professor of psychology; Julia E. De Carlo, professor of education; Anthony DeFalco, professor of education and chair of the department of Curriculum and Instruction; Douglas Dreilinger, Associate Professor of Education; Carl Figliola, professor of health care and public administration; and Alvin Kravitz, professor of education and chairperson of the Department of Special Education and Literacy.

40-Year Faculty

Arthur Coleman
Over the past four decades, English Professor Arthur Coleman has dedicated his career to sharing and celebrating the world's greatest literary masterpieces with thousands of C.W. Post students. His teaching repertoire has included undergraduate and graduate courses in American, English, and world literature. In addition, he has devoted many years of service as deputy chairman or chairman of the English Department. Dr. Coleman has produced a steady stream of published works, including six books, a movie script and articles dealing with such major figures in American literature as Nathaniel Hawthorne, Sinclair Lewis and Ernest Hemingway. He is co-author of an annotated bibliography of World War II personal narratives that will soon be issued by Scarecrow Press. He is also completing both a book-length study provisionally titled "Sinclair Lewis: The Early Years" and a novel centered in the years of the Great Depression and World War II. Dr. Coleman earned his B.B.A. in accounting from Manhattan College and his M.A. in English and Ph.D. in American studies from New York University.

Ralph Knopf
Ralph Knopf received his B.A. from New York University and his Ph.D. in mathematics from Courant Institute. He began his career at C.W. Post in the Department of Mathematics in 1961 and currently serves as an associate professor of mathematics. Dr. Knopf is interested in mathematical economics and number theory and has written software for the fields of number theory, computer graphics and calculus. In addition to teaching at C.W. Post, Dr. Knopf served as math coordinator for the R.I.S.E. program (Reaching Individuals through Supportive Education), which helps students improve their study habits and achieve maximum success in college. He also chaired the Awards Committee and has also been active on the Personnel and Curriculum Committees. Dr. Knopf is a member of the faculty senate and currently serves as president of the C.W. Post Collegial Federation. He has conducted a seminar on number theory and has given talks to community organizations and mathematics clubs on "Math Models of Economic Cycles."

30-Year Faculty

Bob Brier
For the past 31 years, Bob Brier has combined his work as a philosophy professor at C.W. Post with pioneering research in mummies. A modern-day Indiana Jones, Dr. Brier has scaled the great pyramids of Egypt, solved the mystery of who killed King Tut, and was the first person in 2,000 years to mummify a human cadaver by employing the exact techniques the ancient Egyptians used to preserve the pharaohs. Recognized as one of the world's foremost experts on mummies, he recently uncovered the secret techniques used to mummify Evita Peron, and is currently examining three Inca children frozen in the Andes 500 years ago. He is the host of award-winning television specials for TLC and has published several scholarly books on mummies, including Egyptian Mummies and The Encyclopedia of Mummies. Dr. Brier won the David Newton Award for Excellence in Teaching in 1989 and this year was honored with the Long Island University Trustees Award for Scholarly Achievement. He earned his Ph.D. from the University of North Carolina.

Carol Campbell
Carol Campbell combines expertise in developmental psychology with a deep appreciation of the mind/body connection in her tenure as a C.W. Post psychology professor. In addition to teaching child, adolescent and adult development, she has created special topics courses on stress coping in children/adolescents, play therapy, creative arts therapy, dance-movement therapy and the psychological study of love. Her research interests include the teaching of psychology and developmental issues: emotions/play in children, stress-coping/love in adolescents, adult child/parent relationships in college students, and "midlife review"/ "quality of life" in older adults. Dr. Campbell earned her A.B. degree in secondary social studies education from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She received an M.A. in school psychology and a multi-discipline Ph.D. in education/clinical psychology, both from the University of Illinois (Urbana-Champaign). She earned a post-doctoral master's degree and certification as a Registered Dance Movement Therapist from New York University. Her ongoing academic/clinical training includes advanced degrees in play therapy and an interdisciplinary track in body therapies. Aside from work, her passions include her 14-year-old daughter, her animals, dancing, singing, yoga and restoring herself in nature.

Julia E. De Carlo
During Julia De Carlo's tenure at C.W. Post, she has educated and guided more than 6,000 literacy, special education and elementary school majors to become proficient in the teaching of literacy. As a professor of education in the Department of Special Education and Literacy, she assisted in the development of C.W. Post's first master's program in the teaching of reading and has created and taught numerous courses. In addition, she has served the campus as coordinator of elementary and special education, chairperson of the Department of Instruction, and director of reading. She has contributed to numerous departmental, school and campus-wide committees and is the author of several articles and author of the textbook Perspectives in Whole Language. She has written and directed state and federal grants and has presented her research at professional conferences and workshops. De Carlo has been a tenured master teacher in the Scarsdale Public Schools, taught at Hofstra University, and served as adjunct professor at State University College at Buffalo and SUNY Albany. Dr. De Carlo has a Ph.D. in curriculum and teaching from Fordham University.

Anthony DeFalco
Anthony DeFalco's fascination with how we learn has led him to study a vast range of subjects, ranging from computers in classrooms to the ways teachers educate children about death. He has shared his findings through workshops, papers and published articles while teaching at C.W. Post as a full professor of education. Originally a third grade teacher, Dr. DeFalco served as adjunct professor at several universities before joining C.W. Post in 1971. He earned his doctorate from Rutgers University and has been a consultant for the U.S. Office of Education, Nassau BOCES Tech Prep program, and for elementary and secondary schools. His work in helping to implement the "I Have a Dream" scholarship program in the Westbury School District earned him the Board of Education's Excellence in Education award. At C.W. Post he has served as dean of the Long Island University Plan, associate dean of the School of Education and chair of the Department of Curriculum and Instruction. Dr. DeFalco's research interests currently focus on John Dewey's view of occupations as a vehicle for learning.

Douglas Dreilinger
Douglas Dreilinger earned a B.A. in psychology from Hofstra University, a master's degree in experimental psychology from the University of Bridgeport, and a Ph.D. in clinical psychology from Texas Tech University. Prior to joining the C.W. Post education faculty in 1971, he completed a post-doctoral fellowship in child-clinical psychology at the renowned Develeux Institute in Devon, Pennsylvania. An associate professor in the C.W. Post Department of Special Education and Literacy, Dr. Dreilinger specializes in the areas of classroom control and management, teaching disturbed and conduct-problem children, and teaching of the disabled child in the classroom and special settings. His teaching philosophy to "treat students with fairness, dignity and respect" and "to create a positive, non-stressful learning environment" earned him two Dean's Awards for Teaching Excellence as well as the David Newton Award for Excellence in Teaching in 2000. A New York State certified psychologist, he serves the community as a consultant in Nassau and Suffolk county school district and in private practice, limited to the treatment of children and adolescents.

Carl Figliola
Carl Figliola's vision has set precedents in health care, government and business for 30 years. A founder and teaching professor of the Department of Health Care and Public Administration, he developed C.W. Post's Master of Public Administration program and shepherded it to professional accreditation by the National Association of Schools of Public Affairs and Administration. He helped establish the Conference for Minorities in Public Administration, the first private university Small Business Development Center, and helped organize the American Society for Health Care and Public Administration, Long Island Chapter. He has served as an academic assistant to the dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, dean of the School of Health Care and Public Service, university dean of the Faculty of Business, Public Administration and Accountancy, and university director of Government Relations. He consults on government relations for universities, hospitals, museums and businesses from mid-size to Fortune 100 companies. Dr. Figliola was a Suffolk County Regional Planning Board member and past president of the Queens Library Foundation. He was selected to serve on the New York City Charter Review Commission by former Mayor Giuliani. Dr. Figliola holds a Ph.D. with distinction in American Political Institutions from NYU.

Alvin Kravitz
From the local to the international level, Dr. Alvin Kravitz is a recognized expert in reading methods and assessment. Chair of the Special Education and Literacy Department for the past 11 years, Dr. Kravitz recently traveled to the University of Oxford to guest lecture on disproportionate representation of minority students in special education. He has served as a committee member of the International Reading Association and as president of the Nassau Reading Council. Educated in New York at City College and Queens College, Dr. Kravitz received his doctorate in reading from Hofstra University. He was an elementary school teacher and a clinician and faculty member at four universities before coming to C.W. Post in 1971. A consultant to the bureaus of Reading and Education, In-Service, and Independent Study Assessment and Testing for the New York State Education Department, he has also consulted with many school districts and states throughout the nation and has authored 69 reading instruction books and tests.