05/18/2009
The SUNY Board of Trustees promoted Joy L. Hendrick, a SUNY Cortland professor of kinesiology, to the rank of Distinguished Service Professor during its May 12 meeting in Fort Schuyler, N.Y
The 'distinguished' rank, which can only be conferred by the SUNY Board of Trustees on the recommendation of the campus, System Administration and SUNY chancellor, constitutes a promotion above that of full professor.
Hendrick, as a distinguished service professor, is honored and recognized for her substantial extraordinary service not only at the campus and within SUNY, but also at the community, regional, state and national levels.
"The genius of SUNY faculty lies not only in their intellectual capacity, but also in their surpassing excellence in teaching and in their ability to apply their scholarship and research in service to the campus and larger community in which we all live," said SUNY Board of Trustees Chairman Carl T. Hayden. "These SUNY faculty attract students and scholars to our campuses, enhance the prestige of the entire university and they are most deserving of the highest academic rank the university can bestow."
Hendrick, who has served the College for 25 years, coordinates the College's Exercise Science Unit. She directs the Motor Behavior Lab, teaches graduate and undergraduate courses within the exercise science area, serves as statistical consultant for all master's theses projects and many of the undergraduate research projects, advises more than 40 students each semester, conducts research and serves as a research mentor for undergraduate students.
A native of New Jersey, Hendrick graduated magna cum laude from Ithaca College with a Bachelor of Science in Physical Education and a minor in mathematics. She earned a Master of Science in Physical Education with an emphasis on research from Indiana University in Bloomington, Ind. Hendrick also received a Ph.D. in human performance from Indiana University. Her studies there focused on motor learning/control and she completed a minor in educational inquiry methodology.
In 1984, Hendrick joined SUNY Cortland's Physical Education Department as an instructor in biomechanics, measurement and evaluation, anatomical basis and activities. The area of study became its own department, Exercise Science and Sport Studies, now known as the Kinesiology Department. Hendrick was promoted several times and became a professor in 1999. She served as interim chair of the Kinesiology Department in both Spring 2002 and Spring 2004.
She is the author of many published journal articles, book chapters and conference abstracts in her field and is a frequent presenter in her academic specialty.
A reviewer for the journal Research Quarterly for Exercise and Sport since 2007, Hendrick has also reviewed for other publications in her field.
A member of the American Alliance of Health, Physical Education, Recreation and Dance since 1979, she is also active in the North American Society for Psychology of Sport and Physical Activity, and the New York State Association of Health, Physical Education, Recreation and Dance (NYSAHPERD).
Hendrick currently serves on the College's General Education Committee, the Quantitative Skills Committee, the Faculty Senate, the Workplace Violence Advisory Team, the School Personnel Committee, the Center for Obesity Research and Education (CORE) and the Undergraduate Research Council
She has chaired the School of Professional Studies Curriculum Committee, the All-College Assessment Committee, and has co-chaired the Honors Convocation Committee and the College's Long Range Action Planning Committee for Assessment. As faculty chair of the Middle States Reaccreditation Steering Committee from 1999-2002, she orchestrated the campus-wide self-study for Middle States reaccreditation along with the executive assistant to the president.
Hendrick chaired the State Employees Federated Appeal (SEFA) Committee SUNY Cortland Campaign in 2000 and was president of the Auxiliary Services Corporation (ASC) Executive Board from 1996-98.
Inducted into the national interdisciplinary honor society Phi Kappa Phi in 1978, she served as president of the Cortland Chapter in 1988-1989. In 1990, Hendrick was also named an honorary member to the Cortland chapter of Phi Eta Sigma, the national freshmen scholastic honor society.
She has served since 2007 as an assessment consultant with the SUNY Youth Sports Institute. As a member of SUNY's GEAR Assessment Review Group since 2005, she has been involved with helping SUNY campuses determine whether they meet their general educational requirements.
Hendrick has been the Southern Tier area chairperson since 1988 and has led successful fundraising efforts for the Association of Women in Physical Education in New York State (AWPENYS) Dorothea Deitz Memorial Scholarship, a statewide award involving close collaboration between high school guidance offices and college representatives.
She has helped the Cortland YWCA since 2001 to organize its Girls' Day Out, geared to promote self-confidence in middle school-aged girls through educational and recreational activities. The annual event attracts nearly 200 teenagers to interact with approximately 50 area professionals and college students.
A member of the Cortland Country Club Ladies Golf Association Board from 1998-2006, she chaired the organization in 2005.