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ALUMNI NOTES
Daniel Ross '68, '75 is retired from his position as assistant superintendent for personnel in the Swartz Creek schools. He was recently appointed by the EMU Board of Regents to serve on the board of the Grand Blanc Academy.
David Leach '87, '95, longtime band director at Ypsilanti High School, has accepted a similar position at Ann Arbor's Pioneer High School.
DEVELOPMENT REPORT
For the fiscal year recently ended, $476,498 was donated to the College of Education. Among the EMU colleges, this amount was second only to that contributed to COAS. The total amount is the second largest ever for giving to the COE, and it considerably exceeds last year's $198,867 and FY2000's $357,211.
Of the total, $261,982 is in the "expendable" category. This includes a gift of $157,001 to "market" programs of the COE (cultivated by Jackie Tracy) and a gift of $75,000 from Ameritech for technology enhancements involving student teachers, university supervisors, and cooperating teachers. Other large expendable gifts included $10,000 to the Department of Leadership and Counseling and $14,775 in undesignated gifts through the annual fund. An additional $2,175 was donated for expendable scholarships.
Various endowment funds in the COE received $18,671 during the year, including $6,671 to the COE general endowment fund.
A total of $121,195 was donated to 24 scholarship accounts, in amounts ranging from $41,000 to $50. The "event/expensed" category received $69,273. There were gifts-in-kind donated in the amount of $3,203.
STUDENT NOTES
Anna Elizabeth Schlecte, a major in education of the mentally impaired, was recently inducted into membership in the Golden Key International Honor Society.
COE CREDIT HOURS
As of July 6, near-final semester credit hour totals for the COE for Spring term were 4% above final figures for Spring 2001. For the fiscal year just ended, July 6 totals for the COE are 88,692-a 6.29% increase over the previous fiscal year total and the second largest number ever.
Summer 2002 credit hours are 9.49% above last summer, including increases in all four departments.
SHORT NOTES
The Renaissance Group has announced the competition for two $5,000 faculty fellowships. Applications are due August 1. Information brochures are in each COE department. COE faculty members have held this award the past two years.
AERA proposals are due August 1 or August 2. See "Calls for Papers/Proposals" below for additional information.
The deadline for proposals for the SINO-American Education conference is August 10. Information: http://www.kennesaw.edu/sino-american/
September 12 is the deadline for application for various AACTE awards. See "Calls for Papers/Proposals" below for additional information.
INITIAL PROGRAM ADMISSIONS
During the fiscal year just ended, we processed 1,630 applications (an all-time high) to the EMU initial teacher preparation program and we admitted 1,438 (an all-time high) of those persons. This is a 14% increase over last fiscal year.
We admitted 371 men. This is a 21% increase over the previous fiscal year. The portion of the admissions cohort that is male-25.8%-is the highest since 1997-98. We admitted 150 known minority persons. This is a 20% increase over last fiscal year. The portion of the admissions cohort that is minority-10.7%-is the highest since such records have been kept.
We admitted 534 post-baccalaureate students. This is a 24% increase over last fiscal year. This large number of "non-traditional" seekers of initial teacher certification makes EMU one of the largest (if not the largest) providers of services to the non-traditional audience of prospective teachers in the country.
Of those admitted, 45% are prospective elementary teachers, 34% are prospective secondary teachers, 10% are prospective K-12 grades teachers, and 10% are prospective special education teachers.
Admissions are up in almost all of the "high demand" teaching fields.
OPPORTUNITIES AND EVENTS
(For a complete list, see http://www.emich.edu/coe/newhome/opportunties.html)
August 28-29-EMU New Faculty Orientation.
September 3-College of Education Fall Conference, all day; Eagle Crest Conference Center.
CALLS FOR PAPERS/PROPOSALS
(For a complete list, see http://www.emich.edu/coe/newhome/proposals.html)
July 25-deadline for nominations for the Distinguished Teacher Educator Award of the Association of Teacher Educators. For information, johnm@siu.edu.
July 31-deadline for papers on "testing, teaching, and learning" for Teachers College Record. For information, http://www.tcrecord.org/Content.asp?ContentID=10858.
August 1-deadlines: Kappa Delta Pi Forum articles on math and science learning. Fulbright Scholar program applications; for information, see www.cies.org. Applications for 5-10 month lecturing awards in education at an institution in Ukraine; for information, mjoffe@cies.iie.org. Articles for Principal Leadership on "climate and culture"; for information, www.principals.org. Proposals for AERA Divisions I, J, K, L, and all SIGs. For information, see http://www.aera.net/meeting or questions@aera.net.
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