Robert E. Rapp

Title: Professor

Office Location:Martinez Rm. 208

Campus Phone: (575) 538-6351

E-Mail Address:rappr@wnmu.edu

EDUCATION: Ph.D. University of Arizona; M.Ed., University of Arizona; M.A. University of Colorado; B.A. University of Arizona

Date began at WNMU: 1988

RESEARCH & ACADEMIC INTEREST: Gang prevention and intervention; Quality schools and teaching Choice Theory and Reality Therapy along with working with at-risk children and youths.

PUBLICATIONS: Incorporating Quality School Instructional Concepts into University Course Work."Creating the Quality School: Select Readings;" ED. RW. Chance. Center for the Study of Small/Rural Schools: Norman Oklahoma, 1993 "Beyond Survival: Public Education in New Mexico (1989) "Albuquerque, NM: New Mexico First, Coauthor with A.W. Place and R.A. Anderson

Personal Interest: Community based programs for At-Risk children and Youths

Hobbies: Fishing

Favorite Quote: Jaime Escalante, "Students will rise to our level of expectation;" Ugo Betti, "Everyone has inside himself... what shall I call it? A piece of good news! Everyone is... a very great, very important character;" William Glasser, "Children will find in the eyes of parents and teachers who raise them mirrors in which they discover themselves."