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STRASSEL RECEIVES STATE AWARD
Quinn M. Strassel was one of the top four persons recognized in the statewide "Outstanding Student/Intern Teacher of the Year" competition. Strassel was recognized for his unit on Shakespearean Sonnets, taught to students at Pioneer High School in Ann Arbor earlier this year. His cooperating teacher was alum Ellen Sapper '91 '95 and his EMU supervisor was Tina Tolen. Strassel plans to teach in New York City next fall.
Julie M. McKeeman and Renee M. Sandora were recognized in the Honorable Mention category. The three EMU students were among 19 recognized during the ceremonies held last Thursday.
The competition is sponsored by the Michigan Association of Teacher Educators. Barbara Gorenflo is the president of MATE and she presided at the ceremonies. Jerry Robbins brought welcoming remarks to the audience of students, cooperating teachers, school administrators, parents, and friends. Donna Wissbrun and Jan Alverson are other EMU persons who assisted with the entire awards process.
Nicole M. O'Karma of Central Michigan University was named the state winner. O'Karma plans to enter EMU's masters program in elementary education in the very near future.
PARSONS WINS MRPA AWARD
Lisa Parsons received a $2,500 award from the Michigan Recreation and Parks Association. The award was made during ceremonies held last Wednesday. Vic Chiasson represented EMU at the event.
FACULTY/STAFF NOTES
Ron Williamson was recently in New York City for eight days, making site visits to six middle schools to gather data about principal leadership. The project is sponsored by the Galef Institute of Los Angeles. More recently, Williamson was in Los Angeles attending the summer meeting of the National Forum to Accelerate Middle Grades Reform. He was elected to a three-year term on the group's steering committee. He has also been invited to coauthor a statement about effective middle level leadership.
Steve Press attended a conference in Philadelphia, sponsored by the National Coalition on Auditory Processing Disorders, on "Straight Talk About Auditory Processing."
Suzanne Hobson and the Department of Leadership and Counseling hosted the annual conference of the Michigan Association for Counselor Education and Supervision on May 17. The conference was held in the Porter Building and approximately 25 counselor educators and supervisors from six universities were in attendance.
Representing the Michigan Academy of Audiology, Lydia Lee recently visited Lansing, where she met with legislators from this area to discuss S.B. 394, which defines "audiologists" under the Public Health Code.
Last Friday, Lynne Rocklage participated in a meeting of the Michigan Assistive Technology Resource Advisory Board in St. John's.
Olga Nelson has been invited to speak on "Building Better Bridges: Moving on to Future Systems" at the MACRAO conference in Frankenmuth on June 12-13.
Jerry Robbins will conduct today a concert by the Ypsilanti Community/Barnhill Concert Band prior to the Memorial Day ceremonies at the Yankee Air Force Museum at Willow Run Airport.
ALUMNI NOTES
Jeannette Bartz '58, '78 was presented the 2002 Pyramid Award for outstanding leadership and service to the Eastern Michigan University chapter of Phi Delta Kappa.
Joe Ann Allen '71, principal of Henry Ford Elementary School in Willow Run, and her school were profiled in a recent edition of the Ann Arbor News. She taught at Kettering Elementary for 28 years, was assistant principal at Edmondson Middle School, and has been principal of Ford for three years. She grew up in the Willow Run community.
Jeff Drewno '88 '93, a media specialist and elementary teacher in Walled Lake, is currently appearing as Frank Butler in the Birmingham Village Players' production of Annie Get Your Gun. Drewno has had major roles in a number of other community theater and local-area productions, although he once performed on Broadway at the Circle in the Square Theatre.
STUDENT NOTES
Alison Billings, the incoming president of Pi Chapter of Kappa Delta Pi, will represent the chapter at the "I Teach" regional conference.
Colleen Michele Coyle, an honor graduate of Belleville High School, plans to attend EMU to become an elementary and special education teacher. Stephanie Huehl, an honor graduate of Chelsea High School, plans to attend EMU to become an elementary teacher.
Jessica J. Munday will come to EMU to prepare to be an elementary teacher. She is an honor graduate of Howell High School. Carrie Markley Maneikis, an honor graduate of Pinckney High School, plans to come to EMU to become an elementary teacher.
Michelle Dianne Williamson plans to come to EMU to become a secondary teacher. She is an honor graduate of Plymouth-Salem High School.
At the College of Education Celebration of Excellence, the following awards were made:
Doctoral Program Scholars (4.0 Cumulative GPA, based on completion of at least 22 graduate grade point hours): Eric Alburtus, Matthew Calfin, Nicholas Ceglarek, Jeffrey Cohu, Sharon Donahue, Melanie Ferrin, Ronald Flowers, Deborah Havens, Barbara Hoogenboom, Korin Quinn, Matthew Rader, Kathryn Sergeant.
SHORT NOTES
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 highly encouraged. The dean's office will support convention travel expenses for one person per accepted presentation.
Nominations are open for USA Today's All-USA Teacher Team, honoring K-12 individuals and instructional teams. The 20 teachers selected for the First Team will receive $2,500 for their schools. Nominations are due June 29. Additional information is available at http://www.usatoday.com/life/academic/teachteam2002.htm.
The Michigan Association of Teacher Educators (MATE) web site is at www.geocities.com/matemembers
INITIAL PROGRAM ADMISSIONS
As of the end of April, COE Office of Academic Services personnel had processed 1,322 applications for admission to our initial teacher preparation program for this fiscal year and admitted 1,163 of them (88%). Projecting this out for the rest of the fiscal year, we will process 1,586 applications and admit 1,396 new students. This will be a 10.7% increase over last fiscal year. All statistics that follow are based on projected numbers.
The number of men admitted (365) is the highest ever, since such records have been kept. The percentage of men (26.1%) is approaching the levels of the mid-90's. Both the number (504) and percentage (36.1%) of post-baccalaureate students is the highest ever since such records have been kept. This makes us one of the nation's largest providers of services to this alternative audience. The number of minority students admitted (143) and percentage (10.5%) are both the highest ever since such records have been kept.
The number of students admitted to become elementary teachers (626) is at an all-time high since such records have been kept. The percentage (44.9%) is down slightly from last year. The number of prospective early childhood students (122) is at an all-time high since such records have been kept.
The number of prospective secondary teachers is at an all-time high (487) since such records have been kept, as is the percentage of those admitted (34.9%). In the high-demand secondary fields, the number in chemistry (13), general science (28), physics (7), and mathematics (52) is at an all-time high. However, there are large numbers entering low-demand fields as well, including speech (32), English (97), history (34), and social studies (68).
In the K-12 fields, the numbers entering physical education (59) are the highest since such records have been kept. Special education is essentially at the same level as last year (143), perhaps indicating a "bottoming out" of declines of a number of years. Those entering "mentally impaired" represent a relatively high number, as is the case with speech language impaired.
COE CREDIT HOURS
As of May 18, COE credit hours for the Spring term were 2.17% ahead of final figures for last Spring.
For the fiscal year, COE credit hours are 6% ahead of final figures for last fiscal year, including a 12% increase in Student Teaching, an 8% increase in Teacher Education, a 5% increase in HPERD, a 1% increase in Special Education, and a 0.56% decrease in Leadership and Counseling.
SPONSORED PROJECTS
A recent announcement concerning the Ameritech New Teacher Technology Program neglected to include the fact that Roberta Faust is a co-director of this project.
Ellen Hoffman has been notified of a $22,500 award from the Michigan Virtual University to prepare and deliver instruction related to professional development needs of the K-12 community.
COE COUNCIL
The College of Education Council met on May 22 with Martha Kinney-Sedgwick, chair, presiding.
The Council approved proposed new courses HIST 450 European Military History, 1815-1945; HIST 451 History of the First World War, 1914-1918; and IDE 222 History of Interiors. However, the Council declined to approve LAW 550 International Business on the grounds that it was identical to LAW 350.
The Council approved new admissions requirements covering masters programs in the Department of Teacher Education. A major difference is the dropping of the requirement of a GRE score.
The Council reviewed draft material for the initial program in History and the initial program in Science, both of which had been approved by the Basic Programs Committee. However, no action was taken on History, once information was received that a substantial revision was under way.
The Science material was returned to the originators with substantial comments from the Council, primarily along the lines that some science fields were well-represented and others hardly represented at all.
The Council will next meet on June 12.
OPPORTUNITIES AND EVENTS
(For a complete list, see http://www.emich.edu/coe/newhome/opportunties.html)
June 1-Kappa Delta Pi "I Teach" conference, Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis. For information, http://www.kdp.org/chapter_I_Teach.html.
June 10-AACTE conference for education school faculty members and partner school colleagues on "Leave No Child Behind" Act, Atlanta, GA. For information, kmcmullen@aacte.org.
CALLS FOR PAPERS/PROPOSALS
(For a complete list, see http://www.emich.edu/coe/newhome/proposals.html)
May 30-deadline for papers for the Association for the Advancement of Educational Research. For information, see www.aaer.org.
May 31-deadline for proposals for the MEA 2002 Instruction and Professional Development conference. For information, call Joy Stack at 800.292.1934, X4030.
May 31-deadline for submission of proposals for presentations, demonstrations, or leading a roundtable discussion for the Sloan-C International Conference on Asynchronous Learning Networks. For additional information, www.sloan-c.org.
June 3-deadline for submission of proposals for AACTE annual meeting. The COE Dean's Office will support the travel expenses of one person per accepted publication.
June 3-proposals due for presentation at the Council of Great City Schools. For information, sschwartz@cgcs.org.