College of Education
Eastern Michigan University
Issue No: 571
September 15, 2003
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FACULTY AND STAFF NOTES
Akosua Slough received one of the inaugural EMU "Institutional Value" awards. Congratulations!
"Teacher Knowledge of Educational Technology," a chapter by Jon Margerum-Leys (with Ron Marx, UM), has appeared in (Yong Zhao, ed.) What Should Teachers Know About Technology? Perspectives and Practices.
Alicia Li's article "A Model for Developing Programs to Improve the Use of Vision in Students who are Visually Impaired with Multiple Disabilities" has been published in RE-view-Rehabilitation and Education for Blindness and Visual Impairment.
Lizbeth Stevens (with Sarah Freitag, Tara Wall, and Kathi Kobeissi) will present "Learning Through Service: AAC Applications in the Community" at the ASHA convention. The authors include two recent alums and a current student.
John Tonkovich recently served as a medical rehabilitation surveyor (for CARF International) for a home and community based pediatric family-centered program in Vancouver, BC.
Nelson Maylone recently spoke at a meeting of the Oakland County Democratic Party on "NCLB, Education YES! and the MEAP: Bad Medicine."
Kay Woodiel is one of four EMU faculty members selected to be matched up with a nonprofit agency that will be awarded an AH/ASL mini-grant by the AHSA Philanthropic group. It is expected that a small (5-6) group of students will be permitted to conduct a project at the agency.
Donna Wissbrun was elected a delegate to the ATE annual meeting, representing the Michigan Association of Teacher Educators. Wissbrun is also EMU's representative to the Young Educator Society (YES).
Our extended family: Mildred Lintner (Computer Science) died recently. Lintner had been instrumental for years in matters at the state level concerning program standards for and testing of computer science teachers. For many years she coordinated our outstanding program for the preparation of teachers of computer science. She received the 2003 Distinguished Faculty Award.
STUDENT NOTES
Madonna Emond, the current "Miss Michigan," was featured in the EMU special edition of the Ann Arbor News. She is taking a year off from school to travel the state, promoting special education, and to participate in the Miss America contest.
EMU's Student Judicial Services seeks nominations of 20 students interested in "dispute resolution." Training sessions will be held on two weekends. For information, april.kooiman@emich.edu. There is no cost for the student participants.
ALUMNI NOTES
Jack Yates '92, '99, principal of Hawkins Elementary School in the Brighton district, is featured in the September 10 issue of Education Week with a photo on page 1 and a three-page story, with photos, on pp. 29-31. Yates started his career with the Brighton schools as a custodian at Miller Elementary School in 1977 when he completed high school. A few years later, he was taking courses on a part-time basis at Washtenaw Community College. In 1988 he became head custodian at Maltby Middle School (where Nelson Maylone was his supervisor).
About that time he transferred to EMU and pursued and completed a program in elementary education. During his student teaching semester, he performed his custodial duties at night (at one school building) and was a student teacher during the day (at another school building).
Yates was one of about 60 persons who applied for a 3rd grade teaching vacancy at Hawkins Elementary. He got the job. He recalls his last day as a custodian, setting up chairs for the district's new teacher orientation. The next day, he sat in one of them!
In the mid-90's, Yates started working on a master's in educational leadership at EMU, which he completed in 1999. The principal's job at Hawkins Elementary opened up in 2000, and Yates applied for and received that position.
Sandra Harris '74, '80, '97, assistant superintendent for the Lincoln schools, has been named interim superintendent, effective October 1. The current superintendent, Al Widner, is running for Congress.
Lana Tatom received her first degree from EMU in 1994 and she has since completed a master's degree. She is the Title I teacher at Kettering Elementary School in Willow Run and was featured in a recent story in the Ann Arbor News.
Patricia Jean Olson, age 60, taught music in the Dundee schools for 24 years. She and her fiancé were victims of a homicide in his home near Chelsea.
SHORT NOTES
Visiting Ukrainian educators will be the guests of honor at a reception to be held October 13, 205 Welch Hall, 5:00-7:00 p.m. Joe Bishop will be with the visitors in Washington, D.C. October 6-10 as they participate in an orientation program.
EMU's master's degree program in educational leadership has received national recognition status from the Educational Leadership Constituent Council as part of the NCATE review process.
A story on professional educator preparation at EMU appeared in the EMU special edition of the Ann Arbor News. The same edition included a sidebar on major events/people in the history of what is now the COE.
COE COUNCIL
The College of Education Council held its first meeting of the year on September 10. In the absence of the chair, Ellen Hoffman presided. Martha Kinney-Sedgwick was reelected chair for a two-year term; however, Hoffman was elected to serve as chair pro tem for this semester. There was agreement that Special Education would nominate a graduate student to serve on the Graduate Council.
There were no committee reports, but there were several brief reports from COE units.
The bulk of the meeting was devoted to a discussion of a proposal from Provost Schollaert that HPERD be moved in its entirety to the College of Health and Human Services. Provost Schollaert had requested formal input from various bodies, including the COE Council, by September 12. After extensive discussion, the Council voted (12-0-1) to "vehemently oppose" the Provost's proposal. A drafting committee (Ellen Hoffman, Jackie Tracy, Dibya Choudhuri, Christine Karshin) was named to prepare the message to the Provost.
NCATE/STATE UPDATE
The NCATE accreditation and state approval processes have become "spread out" processes over the life of the approval period, rather than an "event." Although they remain separate processes in many respects (although less so all the time), they are closely coordinated in many other ways.
For example, the state "unit" approval period and the NCATE approval period are the same. State program review serves for SPA (NCATE-affiliated specialized professional associations) review in several cases, expected soon to expand to other fields.
Some program-area reports to the state were submitted and approved several years ago. These are in mid-cycle of approval and no further action is needed at this time. Materials were sent to SPA's last September 15 and "national recognition" approval has been received to date for initial teacher preparation programs in elementary education, computer science, all the special education fields, and technology education; and for advanced educator preparation in (master's program) educational leadership, educational media/technology, and physical education. (SPA's don't cover all the professional fields we offer.)
With the exceptions of (a) programs exempted while new state standards are being prepared and approved, (b) programs previously approved, ( c) new programs under review through a separate process, and (d) programs given special permission for a later filing date, state program review material was submitted on February 1. No reports have yet been received from these submissions.
Materials from programs given until September 2003 to report to the state have been submitted in recent days. The NCATE institutional report is due today and the required and optional exhibits to back up the IR are due approximately October 1.
In 1997, at the time of EMU's last review by NCATE, we were the first institution in the country to attempt a "paperless" review. We are now in the forefront of the "second wave" of institutions submitting materials solely electronically to both NCATE and to the state. The EMU professional education accreditation web site (NCATE and state) may be viewed at http://www.emich.edu/coe/ncate/2003/index.html.
A team from the NCATE Board of Examiners, including representation from the Michigan Department of Education, will be on campus Saturday, November 15 through noon, Wednesday, November 19. The chair of the team is Tes Mehring, Dean, Teacher's College, Emporia State University, Kansas. Other team members will be announced as soon as it can be verified that they are comfortable operating in a "paperless" environment.
An NCATE accreditation decision will be announced next spring; if it is positive, it will be retroactive to January 1, 2004, when our current accreditation expires. State program approvals will be announced on a case-by-case basis over the next several months. Additional SPA approvals are expected over the next several months as well.
NCATE is a nonprofit, non-governmental organization, founded in 1954. More than 30 national associations make up the Council. Currently, 550 institutions are accredited and more than 100 others are candidates and precandidates for accreditation. The number of candidates for accreditation has almost tripled in the past five years.
OPPORTUNITIES AND EVENTS
(For a complete list, see http://www.emich.edu/coe/newhome/opportunities.html)
September 15-ORD's Grant Writing Workshop on "Evaluation Component," 9:00 to 9:45 a.m. To register or for information, donna.noffsinger@emich.edu.
September 15-ORD's Grant Writing Workshop on "Developing the Budget," 2:00 to 2:45 p.m. To register or for information, donna.noffsinger@emich.edu.
September 16-Advanced Programs Committee meeting, 3:30 p.m., Porter 301B.
September 16-ORD's Grant Writing Workshop on "Evaluation Component," 9:30 to 10:15 a.m. To register or for information, donna.noffsinger@emich.edu.
September 16-ORD's Grant Writing Workshop on "Introduction to World of Grants," 11:00 to 11:45 a.m. To register or for information, donna.noffsinger@emich.edu.
September 17-ORD's Grant Writing Workshop on "Spring-Summer Awards," 12:00 to 12:45 p.m. To register or for information, donna.noffsinger@emich.edu.
September 18-ORD's Grant Writing Workshop on "Spring-Summer Awards," 1:30 to 2:15 p.m. To register or for information, donna.noffsinger@emich.edu.
September 18-ORD's Grant Writing Workshop on "Overview," 2:30 to 3:15 p.m. To register or for information, donna.noffsinger@emich.edu.
September 19-ORD's Grant Writing Workshop on "The Essential Elements," 9:30 to 10:15 a.m. To register or for information, donna.noffsinger@emich.edu.
September 22-ORD's Grant Writing Workshop on "Introduction to the World of Grants," 9:00-9:45 a.m. To register or for information, donna.noffsinger@emich.edu.
September 22-ORD's Grant Writing Workshop on "Sabbatical Leave Awards," 12:00 to 12:45 p.m. To register or for information, donna.noffsinger@emich.edu.
September 23-ORD's Grant Writing Workshop on "Professional Writing Tips," 9:30 to 10:15 a.m. To register or for information, donna.noffsinger@emich.edu.
September 23-ORD's Grant Writing Workshop on "Faculty Research Fellowships," 12:45 to 1:30 p.m. To register or for information, donna.noffsinger@emich.edu.
CALLS FOR PAPERS/PROPOSALS
(For a complete list, see http://www.emich.edu/coe/newhome/proposals.html)
September 15--deadline for Kappa Delta Pi Record articles on educational leadership: practical aspects.
September 15--Proposals due for Comparative and International Education Society Midwest Regional meeting; conference theme: "policy and practice in a shifting global environment." For information, http://bonisteellab.emich.edu/cies/ or donald.staub@emich.edu.
THEME STATEMENTS
Caring professional educators for a diverse and democratic society. (CPED2S) (Initial program)
Inquiry, advocacy, and leadership in education for diverse and democratic society. (Advanced programs)
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