Previous issues of Monday Report are at http://www.emich.edu/coe/monday. Send items and comments to jerry.robbins@emich.edu. The next issue of Monday Report will be January 6, 2003.

ALUM NAMED MICHIGAN SUPERINTENDENT OF THE YEAR

Robert O'Brien '72, '75, '82, superintendent of the Huron Valley school district (Milford area), was recently named Michigan "Superintendent of the Year" by the Michigan Association of School Administrators. O'Brien is now a finalist for the national award and a student from his district will receive a $1,000 scholarship.

This is his fourth year as superintendent in the district and his first superintendency. He resolved a $9.2 million district deficit in two years and led a successful $104 million bond proposal to pay for building additions and upgrades. O'Brien was also cited for his extensive efforts to gain community involvement with the schools.

Within the past decade, at least two other COE alums have received the same honor--James Doyle in 1993 and J. Michael Washburn in 1996.

COE PROMINENT IN EMU COMMENCEMENT

The College of Education was prominent in yesterday's EMU Commencement exercises. Georgea Langer served as one of two marshals of the faculty and David Anderson served as one of two marshals of the students.

Tina Skeel, who received her master's degree in speech/language pathology, was singled out by President Kirkpatrick for special recognition. Skeel also serves as secretary in the Department of Leadership and Counseling.

Thirteen doctoral students-a record number-were hooded during the ceremony. These included April Flanagan, EMU's director of organizational excellence; George Griffin, north regional manager for Spring Arbor University; Lynn Malinoff, coordinator of safe and drug-free communities and schools, Wayne-Westland district;

Nelson Maylone, assistant professor, EMU's Department of Teacher Education; Kevin O'Neill, superintendent, Cooperstown (MI) schools; Stephen Palmer, principal, Shay elementary, Harbor Springs; Dale Ranson, principal, Bursely elementary, Jenison; James Satterfield, Jr., assistant professor of educational leadership and foundations, University of Texas-El Paso; Mark Sharp, adjunct faculty, EMU's Department of Leadership and Counseling; Cynthia Swift, executive director, curriculum and staff development, Wayne-Westland schools; Joseph Thomas, Jr., chief of police, Southfield; Laura Wallace, assistant principal, Emerson elementary, Livonia; and Paula Welmers, counselor, North Michigan College.

3^RD CONSOCIATE SCHOOL PARTNERSHIP ESTABLISHED

In ceremonies before the Ypsilanti Board of Education on December 9, the College of Education's third "consociate" school partnership was established with East Middle School. East MS joins Farmington High School and Ypsilanti's Estabrook Elementary School in the consociate school arrangement. The special partnership arrangement commits both the school and the COE (and other EMU units) to providing mutually beneficial services to each other.

Attending the signing ceremony from EMU were Jerry Robbins, Jim Berry, Alane Starko, Don Staub, and Pat Williams-Boyd.

FACULTY/STAFF NOTES

Joe Bishop's paper "We the Students . . . : Democratic Education in a College Classroom" has been accepted for presentation at the Midwest Sociological Society meeting in Chicago.

Georgea Langer (with Amy Colton) presented "The Collaborative Analysis of Student Work" at the Michigan Education Association conference in Dearborn.

Gary Banks presented "Hot Shots-Law and Physical Education and Coaching" at a workshop for physical educators and coaches in the Monroe school district.

Cristina Jose-Kampfner's article "Yes You Can!" was published in both English and Spanish ("Sí se Puede!") in "La Voz Latina," a newspaper for Latinos in Washtenaw County.

Lidia Lee has received a $4,600 Provost's Research Award for New Faculty for 2003. Her award was one of 12 made this year.

Joe Bishop, Dibya Choudhuri, Marion Dokes-Brown, Ethan Lowenstein, and Toni Stokes-Jones were named by Provost Paul Schollaert as Fellows of the Diversifying the Curriculum Program for 2003-04.

Students in Jeff Schultz' Health Education for Diverse Populations course recently met with Dr. Adnan Hammad, director of the Community Health and Research Center for the Arab Community Center for Economic and Social Services in Dearborn.

Valerie Polakow was mentioned in an Ann Arbor News account of her son, Sasha Polakow-Suransky, receiving a Rhodes Scholarship.

Eboni Zamani won a prize of professional travel support, valued at approximately $650, in recent festivities of the Department of Leadership and Counseling. The event included lunch and a silent auction of goods and services that netted $1,307 for the department development account.

ALUMNI NOTES

Clarence Partin '61, '74, age 64, died recently. He taught industrial arts in the Livonia schools. He developed the building trades program in the Wayne-Westland school district, teaching high school students to build houses that the school district then sold to support the costs of the next year's program.

STUDENT NOTES

Todd Wriska of Tecumseh has been named EMU's 2002-2003 "Physical Education Major of the Year." Wriska has a GPA of 3.97, he has participated in professional development activities, and he has been involved in working with youth in several communities.

The award carries with it a $250 stipend toward travel to the AAHPERD convention in Philadelphia, a recognition during that convention, and other professional development opportunities.

COE BY THE NUMBERS

As of December 4, COE credit hours for Winter were within 19% of final credit hours for last Winter. However, Teacher Education was already 3.08% ahead of last Winter's total for that department.

As of December 11, COE programs had admitted 1,019 new graduate students for Summer and Fall 02 and Winter and Spring 03. These included 427 admissions into provisional or professional teaching certificate programs, 221 into Leadership and Counseling programs, 189 into Teacher Education programs, 157 into Special Education programs, and 25 into HPERD programs.

COE COUNCIL

The College of Education Council met on December 11 with Martha Kinney-Sedgwick, chair, presiding. The Council reviewed 12 sets of materials for state periodic review/program evaluation recommended by the Basic Programs Committee. Seven of these were approved for final posting and submission-economics, chemistry, geography, history, political science, psychology, and social studies. The remaining five were tabled pending rewriting of certain passages. The Council reviewed three sets of materials for state periodic review/program evaluation recommended by the Advanced Programs Committee.

Reading and counseling were approved; the other was tabled, all pending rewriting of certain passages.

The Council reviewed proposed changes in the physics teaching major and minor, as recommended by the Basic Programs Committee. The changes were approved.

The Professional and Affiliated Programs Committee recommended approval of a new concentration in film studies and revisions in the M.S. in Information Systems. Both proposals were approved.

Various reports were received. Dr. Berry requested that an item of old business-approval of a proposed graduate certificate in economics for K-12 teachers-be removed from the agenda until such time as the Department of Economics resubmits the matter.

The Council adopted a resolution, addressed to Provost Schollaert, requesting changes in the way that EMU catalog preparation is currently handled.

SHORT NOTES

Today is the deadline for submitting nominations for the EMU Martin Luther King, Jr. Humanitarian Awards. For information, contact Kathy Tinney at 487-2420.

January 6 is the deadline for nominations for the K. Patricia Cross Future Leaders Award. Graduate students planning a higher education career are eligible. The stipend covers travel, lodging, conference registration, and a one-year membership in the American Association for Higher Education. For information, contact AAHE in Washington.

Nominations are due by January 10 for the awards to be presented at the annual EMU Alumni Awards Dinner. Categories are (a) Outstanding Young Alumnus/Alumna, (b) Alumnus/Alumna Achievement, ( c) Distinguished Alumnus/Alumna, and (d) John W. Porter Distinguished Service, which may be awarded to a person not an EMU alum. Forms are available in each COE office. For information, alumni.relations@emich.edu.

There is a February 1 deadline for applications for the Educational Testing Service Fellowship and Internship program. The awards include a summer program in research for graduate students, a year-long Fellowship for doctoral students, and a postdoctoral fellowship program. For information, gmoreland@ets.org.

There is a February 3 deadline for submission of proposals for the National Conference on Race and Ethnicity in American Higher Education. For information, www.ncore.occe.ou.edu.

The COE's membership in the SINO-American Education Consortium makes faculty and staff members and students eligible to participate in the "Education Trip to China" of that organization (May 31 to June 15). Application must be received by February 15. For information, ywan@kennesaw.edu.

February 17 is the deadline for submitting proposals to the fifth International Conference of the Athens Institute for Education and Research in Greece. For information, atiner@otenet.gr.

There is a March 7 deadline for submitting proposals for the Kappa Delta Pi biennial convocation. For information, www.kdp.org.

The deadline for applying for one- to two-week international faculty development seminars in June and July of 2003 is March 15. Seminars are sponsored by the Council on International Educational Exchange and are available in Australia, Brazil, China, Croatia, Cuba, Hungary and the Czech Republic, India, the Netherlands, Northern Ireland, Senegal, South Africa, Spain, Turkey, Vietnam, Costa Rica, New Zealand, South Korea, and Taiwan. For information, see www.ciee.org/seminars.

Standard and Poor's School Evaluation Services and the MI School Info Online-both managed by the state's Center for Educational Performance and Information-provide a great wealth of information about Michigan's K-12 public schools. The URL is www.michigan.gov/cepi.

EMU's web site with information about area community colleges, articulation agreements, etc. is at www.emich.edu/public/aa/ccr.

OPPORTUNITIES AND EVENTS

(For a complete list, see http://www.emich.edu/coe/newhome/opportunities.html)

January 8-COE Council meeting, 2:00 p.m.

CALLS FOR PAPERS/PROPOSALS

(For a complete list, see http://www.emich.edu/coe/newhome/proposals.html)

December 16-proposals due for Michigan Association for Adult and Continuing Education conference. For information, ab6179@wayne.edu. Proposals due for NCREL project on academic achievement gaps. For information, ray.legler@ncrel.org.

January 1-deadline for Journal of Teacher Education articles on technology and teacher education. Deadline for Journal of Teacher Education articles for open topic issue.

January 2--deadline for articles for Principal Leadership on "brain-based learning." For information, www.principals.org, click on News and Views, Publications, Principal Leadership, Submission Guidelines.

January 6-Applications due for K. Patricia Cross Future Leaders Award. For information, contact American Association for Higher Education in Washington.

January 10-Nominations due for EMU Alumni Association annual awards. For information, alumni.relations@emich.edu.

Caring professional educators for a diverse and democratic society. (CPED²S) (Initial program)

Inquiry, advocacy, and leadership in education for a diverse and democratic society. (Advanced programs)

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HAPPY HOLIDAYS!!!!

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