State Representative James O'Neill, chairman of the Joint Capital Outlay Sub-Committee, will visit EMU on Thursday, January 16.
Rep. O'Neill will address senior administrators, members of the Library staff, and COE faculty and staff at 11:00 a.m. on the top floor of Welch Hall.
All members of the COE faculty and staff are invited and urged to attend the 30-minute session. Please notify your department head of your plans to attend, so that adequate space can be made available.
Rep. O'Neill will tour Boone Hall and the Library between 11:30 and 12:10. Jerry Robbins will join Rep. O'Neill and senior administrators for lunch.
OVERALL, SAYS RAND, NO TEACHER SHORTAGE LOOMING IN THE 1990'S
A recent Rand study predicts no national teacher shortage in the '90's. Reasons: low attrition, higher pay, large "reserve pool." Art Wise of NCATE pointed out continuing needs for the Sunbelt states, inner cities, rural areas, minorities, bilingual teachers, and male teachers.
COE ALUM IN TOP FOUR FOR NATIONAL TEACHER OF THE YEAR
Tom Fleming, Michigan's 1991-92 Teacher of the Year, is among the four finalists for the national Teacher of the Year Award.
Fleming, who received his masters in special education from EMU in 1968, is a teacher at the Washtenaw County Juvenile Detention Center.
Announcement of the winner will be made in April. The award is sponsored by the Council of Chief State School Officers and Encyclopedia Britannica.
KNOWLEDGE BASE WORKSHOP SET FOR FEBRUARY 7
Gary Galluzzo, Associate Dean of the COE at the University of Northern Colorado, and nationally-known authority on "the knowledge base" for professional education, will conduct a workshop at EMU on February 7.
Sponsored by the two ad hoc institutional committees (Georgea Sparks-Langer and Cal Michael, chairs), the workshop is for all University faculty directly or indirectly involved with professional education preparation programs.
In addition to helping to focus on what the EMU "knowledge base(s)," "model(s)," and other conceptual aspects of professional preparation programs should be, the workshop will address how these should be implemented through syllabi, learning experiences, scholarly activities, and the like.
The content is applicable to both undergraduate and graduate programs and will address "general education," "specialty studies," and "professional studies," with an emphasis on the latter.
The workshop will be from 9 to 4 in Hoyt Conference Center. There is no charge, but lunch is "on your own." Representatives from other Michigan public institutions have been invited.
ETHEL O'CONNOR DIES
Associate Professor Emeritus Ethel O'Connor died over the holidays. She taught at EMU, primarily in the lab school, from 1932 to 1964, when she retired.
O'Connor had recently been interviewed for a videotape on one-room schools in Michigan. The tape will be available for viewing soon.
OVERSEAS EDUCATOR PROGRAM TERMINATED
By action of the Provost, the Overseas Educator Program, formerly housed in the COE, was terminated, effective December 19. Continuing Education will arrange for offering a limited number of courses in London in the summer of 1992 (and, as necessary, in 1993) for degree-seeking students who are near program completion.
Action was based on input from the COE Council. Remaining funds went to Student Teaching deficits.
FOCUS ON...
BILL PRICE
Associate Professor Bill Price joined the Leadership faculty this fall after a career in a variety of K-12 administrative positions.
Price's hobbies revolve around sports--golf, snow skiiing, boating, and swimming. Living on a lake in Waterford, he often enjoys the luxury of an early morning swim or a boat ride on the lake at sunset.
His intellectual interests include the superintendancy, superintendent-board relations, and negotiations. He was a faculty member at MSU earlier in his career. While there, he assisted with the doctoral program, bringing that experience to EMU's first such program.
THE REST OF THE NEWS THAT FITS
Visiting Lecturer Youssef Yomtoob, superintendent at Willow Run, recently received the "Winners Circle" award from MASA. Dorothea French is now president of the state chapter of the Alexander Graham Bell Association for the Deaf. Scott Westerman is the volunteer curator for EMU's One-Room Schoolhouse. Rosella Bannister will be in Seoul and Taipai January 18-26 for the Asian Consumer Education Study.
CALENDAR
January
15: COE Council, 2:00
16: O'Neill speech, 11:00
O'Neill tour, 11:30
UCTE, 3:30
20: M.L.King events, all day
21: COE Adm'tive Staff, 10:00
22: Provost group on "America 2000," noon
23: DAC consideration of college budget priorities
24: COE Council retreat, 12:30
31: Coffee w/dean, 8:30, 12, 4:30
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