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BIG WEEK FOR COE RECOGNITIONSPrevious issues of Monday Report are available at http://www.emich.edu/coe/monday. Send items and comments to jerry.robbins@emich.edu.
At the Employee Recognition Program on March 20, a number of COE employees (named in a previous issue of Monday Report) were recognized for 10, 15, 20, 25, 30, 35, and 40 years of service to the University. Prominent among these was the recognition of Marvin Johnson (one of two) for 40 years of service.
Later that same day, Valerie Polakow was recognized with the 2001 Ronald W. Collins Distinguished Faculty Award for Scholarly/Creative Activity during the 25th annual Faculty Awards Ceremony. Georgea Langer and Michael Paciorek introduced two of the major award winners.
All 14 COE recipients of the Distinguished Faculty Award since 1977 were recognized. These include Martha Irwin, Marjorie Lipson, Thomas Gwaltney, Mary Bigler, Georgea Langer, Nora Martin, Marylyn Lake, Lynne Rocklage, Elizabeth Johnson, Pat Pokay, Dale Rice, Michael Paciorek, and Kathleen Beauvais, in addition to Polakow.
Other COE faculty members recognized during the ceremonies were Kathlyn Parker, Nelson Maylone, Margo Dichtelmiller, Margaret Moore-Hart, Jeffrey Schulz, Judy Williston, Jeff Armstrong, Toni Stokes Jones, Kaia Skaggs, and Eboni Zamani.
At the Gold Medallion Awards Ceremony, the award to the outstanding group or team went to the Employee Wellness Committee. Kay Woodiel and Phil Bogle are members of this committee.
At the "Women of Excellence" awards luncheon, Lisa Frankes and Kay Woodiel each received the "Woman of Excellence" award. Beth Johnson and Martha Tack each received the "Exceptional Women of Excellence" award.
Several hundred COE students were recognized for various types of achievement during the College of Education "Celebration of Excellence" ceremony on Thursday afternoon, during which Bill Shelton received the COE Appreciation Award.
Five distinguished alums were inducted into the Education Alumni Hall of Fame last Friday evening in ceremonies that included a reception and photo unveiling, a dinner for the invited guests, and a concert party. Several previous inductees attended the event as well.
Those honored were the late Isaiah Bowman, world-famous geographer and former president of Johns Hopkins University; the late Marylyn Lake, beloved and distinguished EMU faculty member in Special Education; William "Bill" Mays, longtime executive secretary of the Michigan Elementary and Middle School Principals Association; Wilbert J. McKeachie, world-famous psychologist and leader in higher education; and Jack Price, distinguished mathematics educator and educational leader.
FACULTY/STAFF NOTES
Judy Williston (with student April Jackson) is the author of "Learning Teacher Dispositions When You Are a Child," which appeared in the "Focus on Elementary Education" newsletter of the Association for Childhood Education International.
Jerry Robbins, Shawn Quilter, and Don Staub are among those in the EMU delegation at the Spring conference of The Renaissance Group in Washington, D.C. today and tomorrow. Each has programmatic responsibilities.
Kathleen Conley participated in the second invitational conference of the Coalition of National Health Education Organizations, held in Atlanta.
Lizbeth Stevens and other members of the SLI faculty attended the annual conference of the Michigan Speech-Language-Hearing Association meeting in Mt. Pleasant. Stevens chaired the Public School Forum. She also presented "Working in the Schools" What Every SLP Should Know." As an officer of the organization, she was involved in the awards ceremony. The private practice with which Stevens is affiliated received the "Program of the Year" award in the area of clinical speech pathology services.
Gary Banks recently presented "Hot Topics and the Law-Michigan School Athletics" in Traverse City.
Julianne O'Brien Pedersen and three students presented her choreography for "See/Saw/Heard" in three performances in Livonia, as the guest artist piece for the annual ballet ensemble concert of the Bunny Sanford School of Dance.
COE faculty who participated in the most recent Explore Eastern event included Margo Dichtelmiller, Mary Rearick, George Barach, Roberta Faust, Sherry Jerome, Olga Nelson, and Jerry Robbins. Robbins presented on behalf of the college to a roomful of prospective students and their parents.
SPONSORED PROJECTS
Stephen McGregor has received two awards, each in the amount of $10,000, toward the purchase of a gas chromatography mass spectrometer. This funding covers a portion of the purchase price of the device, which will have MSMS capabilities. This analytical equipment will permit investigators to study the metabolism of many compounds that they could not previously analyze on campus. This is a collaborative purchase by two sponsors, COE funds, and ORD matching funds. The two sponsors are Phoenix Laboratories, Inc. and Biotest Laboratories, LLC, Colorado.
ALUMNI NOTES
Loretta Grimes was recently featured in the Ann Arbor News for her work, with her husband, in Redbud Productions, a local theater company. Grimes uses her EMU degree in early childhood education in her day job, which is as a teacher at Huron Hills Nursery.
The Ann Arbor school district recently recognized seven district employees with the "Celebrating the Excellence" award. Five of these are EMU alums. These were: Helen Oliver '76, a teacher at Clague Middle School; Donna Kolokithas '90, '96, a teacher consultant at Haisley Elementary; Don Packard '94, a teacher at Pioneer High School; Waleed Samaha, assistant principal at Huron High School; and Patty Tracey '73, teacher at Angell Elementary School.
A recent issue of Monday Report reported on the efforts of the eighth grade students in the interdisciplinary science class taught by Jeff Bradley '90 at Slauson Middle School to get the mastodon declared as the state fossil. Through the efforts of the students and their parents, the bill to accomplish this passed the Senate in February. The bill passed the House, with Bradley listening in, last Wednesday. It now lacks only the Governor's signature and efforts are being made to have the Governor sign this matter into law at the school.
STUDENT NOTES
The names of students and the awards made during the recent College of Education Celebration of Excellence will be given in future issues of Monday Report. The number of participants was at an all-time high, with many guests present.
Marcia Mardis is one of 10 doctoral students in the country to receive the Judy Pitts Scholar Award from the Institute of Museum and Library Studies' Treasure Mountain Retreat. This session is a conference and research forum on the assessment of student achievement and information literacy education, with an emphasis on children and youth in a multicultural context. Participants include university researchers, doctoral students, school media specialists, and information educators in college and research libraries.
The EMU Women's Association has announced three awards, the Merit Award for Outstanding Scholarship, the Financial Assistance Award, and the EMU Wives and Associates Scholarship. Applications are due April 8 and forms are available at www.emich.edu/public/wassoc/scholarships.html.
COE CREDIT HOURS
As of March 14, COE credit hour production is 6.92% ahead of final figures for last Winter. For the fiscal year to date, COE credit hours are 6.48% ahead of the same time last year, including an 11.6% increase in Student Teaching, a 10.36% increase in Teacher Education, a 4.6% increase in HPERD, a 0.12% increase in Special Education, and a 0.13% decrease in L&C.
ADMISSIONS, INITIAL PROGRAM
Through February 2002, there have been 896 persons admitted to the EMU initial teacher preparation program in this fiscal year. That projects to 1,344 persons for the year, which will be a 6.6% increase over the previous year and an all-time high since such records have been kept.
The number and percentage of men admitted ares higher than in recent years, as is the case with the post-baccalaureate students. In the latter case, the numbers are at an all-time high. The number and percent of minority students are at the highest level since such records have been kept.
The portion of prospective elementary students remains at the 44-45% level, although the portion going into early childhood education has dropped from former years. The number and portion of prospective secondary teachers are at the highest level since such records have been kept. Within that, the increase in the numbers of prospective teachers of chemistry, earth science, German, mathematics, and physics is very heartening.
The numbers of students in the K-12 programs are at the highest level since such records have been kept, with an appreciable increase in physical education. In special education, the numbers and portion continue to drop from former years.
Total applications are projected to be 1,538 for the year, with 87.4% of them accepted.
VOLUNTEERS NEEDED
April 9. The "Day in the Life of the COE" photography event and competition needs volunteers for the organizational aspects and needs numerous participants to provide still and video photographic coverage of a "typical" day in the life of the COE- both in the Porter Building and elsewhere. For information, contact dayinthelife@online.emich.edu.
SHORT NOTES
Liberal Education. Carol Geary Schneider will speak on "Contemporary Understandings of Liberal Education" under the auspices of the General Education Reform Committee and the Division of Academic Affairs today, noon to 1:30 p.m., Room 300, Halle Library.
School Finance. The third statewide Summit on School Finance will be held tonight at 7:00 p.m. in the Plymouth Salem High School cafeteria, which is located in Canton at the southwest corner of Joy Road and Canton Center Road. The public is invited. For information, see www.mischoolfunding.org.
Survey. If you have not already done so, please complete the COE Faculty Technology Needs Assessment Survey as soon and possible and send it to Jean Rauch, Teacher Education.
COE Web Site. In a recent one-month period, the average number of "hits" per day for the COE home page was 119. Other pages with heavy use were the catalog pages and the Teacher Education page.
Virus Software. The University Computing website (http://ucinfo.emich.edu/helpdesk/virus/virus_page.html) has a downloads page. This software is available for both Macintosh and Windows systems. The license extends to faculty and staff machines at home. The software can be set up automatically to update new virus definitions each month.
Symposium Webcast. Brian Filipiak was part of the technical team that produced a webcast of last Friday's Undergraduate Symposium. There were 117 viewers for at least some portion of the event, making this the single largest webcast initiated on campus to date. There were some off-campus viewers, but most were watching from offices on campus.
Webcast. A webcast on computerizing college composition, featuring Joel Foreman, whose current article in The Technology Source proposes a number of information technology innovations that can help streamline teaching composition. March 28, 1:00-2:30 p.m., http://ts.mivu.org/default.asp?show=article&id=967.
Writing Across the Curriculum. The EMU Writing Across the Curriculum Celebration and Lunch with FCIE will be on April 2, noon to 2:00 p.m. in Halle 300. For additional information, estrem@online.emich.edu.
Banner Day. "Banner Day" has been rescheduled to April 4. Sessions will be held in G03 Halle (Auditorium) from 1:30 to 3:00 p.m. and 3:15 to 4:45 p.m. The campus community is invited to see "a demonstration of the seamless, single sign-on web environment that EMU is creating to deliver services, information, campus communications, and academic resources."
Free Lunch (and much more) at MACTE. The Spring Conference of the Michigan Association of Colleges for Teacher Education will be held on April 12, 10:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m., at the University of Michigan-Dearborn. An unlimited number of EMU faculty members may attend as a result of our institutional membership. There is no registration fee and a free box lunch will be provided for all who register before April 5. A variety of state and national teacher preparation issues are on the agenda.
International Cultural Competence Institute. Applications are due by April 8 to participate in the EMU International Cultural Competence Institute. There will be a $1000 stipend for those who do so. The activities occur June 10-14. For additional information, contact Andrew Nazzaro in the World College at geo_nazzaro@online.emich.edu.
Use Your Camera! Bring your camera, or borrow one, for the "Day in the Life" of the College of Education on April 9. Join in this celebration of all the things we do on a "typical" day. For additional information, see http://www.emich.edu/coe/ditl.
35th Annual HPERD Honors Reception. The 35th annual HPERD Honors Reception will be held on April 14, 1:00 to 3:00 p.m., McKenny Ballroom.
World Organization for Early Childhood Education (OMEP). The COE will host the meeting of the Executive Board of the World Organization for Early Childhood Education (OMEP) on April 19-21. Representatives will be present from Nigeria, Switzerland, Chile, Columbia, Singapore, and the U.S.A.
Community College Dialogue. Lansing Community College, the Michigan Department of Career Development, and the Michigan Department of Education are sponsoring "a day of dialogue" on "The Role of Community Colleges in Teacher Preparation" at the Holiday Inn West in Lansing on April 19. For additional information, contact sfeffries@lcc.edu.
Technology Conference. Sponsored by the College of Education, the first (probably annual) Technology Conference will be held on Saturday, May 4, from 8:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. Various tracks/strands during the day will include such topics as HPERD, teaching with technology, leadership, COATT, teacher education, special education, etc. If you have a suggestion for a workshop or a featured speaker, please contact coetechsig@online.emich.edu.
Call for Reviewers. The American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education (AACTE) has issued a call for reviewers of papers for the 2003 AACTE annual meeting. Forms are available in each COE office or from AACTE Reviews, 1307 New York Ave., NW, Suite 300, Washington, DC 20005-4701. The deadline for submission is May 17.
Traverse City. Fourteen COE courses/sections are scheduled to be offered in Traverse City this spring/summer.
Call for Papers. The American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education (AACTE) has issued a call for papers for the 2003 annual meeting, to be held in New Orleans, LA. The deadline is June 3. For additional information, see www.aacte.org.
AACTE participation is strongly encouraged. The dean's office will cover the travel expenses to the 2003 AACTE convention of one person per accepted presentation.
Program Review. As part of the EMU program review process, there will be open sessions for interested parties in a series of roundtable discussions. The teacher education programs of each of these departments will be included in these discussions. All sessions are scheduled for Halle 300, 8:00 to 9:30 a.m. The calendar includes Art, April 2; Geography and Geology, April 9; Chemistry, April 23; Psychology, May 14; and HPERD, May 21.
OPPORTUNITIES AND EVENTS
(For a complete list, see http://www.emich.edu/coe/newhome/opportunties.html)
March 25-Carol Geary Schneider lecture on "Contemporary Understandings of Liberal Education," noon to 1:30 p.m., Halle 300.
March 25. School finance conference at 7:00 p.m. in the Plymouth Salem High School cafeteria. For information, see www.mischoolfunding.org.
March 26-Coffee with the Dean, Porter 3rd floor Faculty/Staff Lounge, 2:30-3:30 p.m.
March 26-ORD's "The Essential Elements," 9:30-10:15 a.m. For information, donna.noffsinger@emich.edu.
March 27-COE Council, 2:00 p.m., Porter 301 B/C.
March 28-Basic Programs Committee, 3:30-5:00 p.m., Porter 301 B/C.
March 28. Webcast on computerizing college composition, featuring Joel Foreman, 1:00-2:30 p.m., http://ts.mivu.org/default.asp?show=article&id=967.
Week of April 1-Lisa Delpit, holder of Porter Chair, residency.
April 2-Advanced Programs Committee, 3:30-5:00 p.m., Porter 301 B/C.
April 2-Writing Across the Curriculum Celebration and Lunch with FCIE, noon to 2:00 p.m., Halle 300. For information, estrem@online.emich.edu.
April 9-"Day in the Life" of the College Photography event. For information, http://www.emich.edu/coe/ditl.
April 3-COE International and Global Education Project brown-bag discussion session, 11:30 a.m. to 1:00 p.m., Porter 320. For information, donald.staub@emich.edu.
April 4. "Banner Day" sessions, G03 Halle (Auditorium) from 1:30 to 3:00 p.m. and 3:15 to 4:45 p.m.
April 9-COE International and Global Education Project brown-bag discussion session, 11:30 a.m. to 1:00 p.m., Porter 320. For information, donald.staub@emich.edu.
April 9-"A Day in the Life of the COE" photographic event. For information, dayinthelife@online.emich.edu.
April 10-COE Council, 2:00 p.m., Porter 301 B/C.
April 11-EMU Teacher Job Fair. For information, contact Career Services.
April 11-Basic Programs Committee, 3:30-5:00 p.m., Porter 301 B/C.
April 11-COE Research SIG, noon, Porter 301 B/C.
April 12-Michigan Association of Colleges for Teacher Education Spring Conference, University of Michigan-Dearborn, School of Management Auditorium, 10:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. There is no registration fee and any EMU faculty member may participate. A free box lunch will be provided. Program: The new accrediting body for teacher education, TEAC. Speaker: Frank Murray of Delaware, head of TEAC.
April 12-EMU Faculty Commons "Teaching and Learning Showcase." 9:00 a.m. to 7:30 p.m. For information, contact jceaglin@online.emich.edu.
April 13-Community Dance Concert, 3:00 p.m., Pease Auditorium. Tickets: $6. For information, Sherry Jerome, 734.487.0090.
April 14-HPERD Honors Reception, McKenny Ballroom, 1:00-3:00 p.m.
April 16-Advanced Programs Committee, 3:30-5:00 p.m., Porter 301 B/C.
CALLS FOR PAPERS/PROPOSALS
(For a complete list, see http://www.emich.edu/coe/newhome/proposals.html)
March 29-deadline for proposals for National Association for Multicultural Education conference. For information, www.nameorg.org.
April 1-Application date for "Schools to Watch" state program. For information, contact Don Staub or Ron Williamson.
April 8-deadline for application for EMU International Cultural Competence Institute. For information, geo_nazzaro@online.edu.
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