College of Education
Eastern
Michigan University
Issue
No: 600
April 26, 2004
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MONDAY
REPORT AT 600!
This is the 600th issue of Monday Report. The first issue--two pages--was released on September
9, 1991
and Monday Report has been issued most weeks since. In the early years, Monday Report was
issued only in hard copy. Later, it was
issued in both hard copy and online. In
recent times, it has been issued primarily in electronic format.
NCATE
ACCREDITATION RECEIVED
This past week, official notification was received from
the National Council for the Accreditation of Teacher Education (NCATE) that
reads, in part, "I am pleased to inform you of the Unit Accreditation
Board's decision to continue the accreditation of the College of Education at Eastern Michigan University at the initial teacher
preparation and advanced preparation levels."
This accreditation holds until our next scheduled visit in
the fall of 2010. Two "areas for improvement," both associated with the collection,
analysis, and use of data concerning our students, were included. The team's identification of numerous
strengths was included by reference.
EMU has been continuously accredited by NCATE for 50
years.
FACULTY
AND STAFF NOTES
Last week's account of presentations by
COE personnel at the AERA convention in
San Diego did not include that of John Palladino (with J. Haar,
MSU-Mankato), "Understanding the Social Context
of Youth in Foster Care: Instructional and Assessment Implications."
Steve McGregor presented "Acute Administration of
1-androstenediol Does Not Affect Endogenous Hormone Levels" and "Identification of the Prohormone
1-androstenediol in Porcine Fat Available as Food" at the meeting of the Federation
of American Societies for Experimental Biology in Washington, D.C.
At the Council for Exceptional Children convention in New Orleans, John Palladino presented "Special Education or Special Circumstances? Sudanese
Refugees in Omaha, Nebraska" and "Preparing Special Educators to
Collaborate on Behalf of Youth in Foster Care."
Don Bennion (with Michael Harris, associate provost) presented "Developing a Culture of Assessment" to a large audience at the NCA (Higher Learning
Commission) annual meeting last month.
Judy Williston and Sue Grossman presented "Leadership Training Workshop: Getting Your Ducks in Order" and "Teaching College Students Literacy
Skills . . . and All That Jazz" at the annual convention of the
Association for Childhood Education International in New Orleans.
Alane Starko recently met with the Lansing Community College Advisory
Board. Last week she was in
Lansing for back-to-back meetings. One
dealt with standards for preparing elementary teachers.
The other was a meeting of the Michigan Task Force on Creativity,
Education, and the Arts.
Beth Johnson recently participated in Wayne State University's conference on "Promoting the Well-Being of
Children and Youth."
Nora Martin received the "Professional Woman of the Year" award from the National Association of Negro Women and
Professional Club of Ann Arbor on April 17.
The work of Vic Chiasson and his students in
conducting a recreation study for the city of Ypsilanti was reported with much
appreciation in a recent issue of the Ann Arbor News.
Dibya Choudhuri and Chris Karshin appeared in the April 20 issue
of Focus EMU as two of the twelve recipients of the Josephine Nevins
Keal Fellowship Awards for 2003-2004.
COE AT
COMMENCEMENT
At yesterday's Commencement ceremonies, David
Anderson served as a marshal for both events. Leah Adams (emeritus) was the
Grand Marshal for the afternoon ceremony.
Jeff Armstrong, Don Bennion, and Nancy Halmhuber
served as marshals for the students during the afternoon ceremony.
President Kirkpatrick recognized two students during the
afternoon ceremonies. Both were from the
COE.
Mesha Terrell, an exercise science major, has completed her degree
while raising six children under 10 (with a 7th on the way). In addition to class work, she has helped at
the schools her children attend, was
co-leader for a Girl Scout troop, served as treasurer for her children's
nursery school, and presented in the Undergraduate Symposium.
Masataka Nose, a native of Nagoya, Japan, is a therapeutic recreation
major. He came to Michigan seven years
ago and spent two years studying English before enrolling in EMU. He has a 3.0
GPA. His parents flew from Nagoya (14 hours) to attend Sunday's event. Recreation therapy is a new profession in the
Japanese culture.
Gretchen Gabler and Patrick Nedry were awarded Ed.D.'s.
ALUMNI
NOTES
John Jiminez '88, the superintendent of the
Michigan Central district in Jackson County, has announced his retirement.
Marcus Kaemming has been appointed principal of Chelsea's North Creek Elementary School. He is currently principal at Mason County
Eastern Elementary School. Kaemming
formerly taught at Bingham Farms Elementary in the Birmingham Public Schools.
Jody Kinkaid '03 is a seventh grade mathematics
teacher at Pathfinder School in Pinckney.
She is planning to teach in North Carolina next year.
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Robert White '49, '51, age 83, died recently in Royal
Oak. He began his teaching career at
Northwood Elementary School in Royal Oak, later serving a lengthy period of
time as principal of Parker Elementary School in Royal Oak. He retired in 1979.
Iown Darling '61, '66, age 95, died recently in
Saline. She had a long career as a
teacher in one-room schools in the Milan area.
CHEMISTRY
APPROVED
The Michigan Department of Education has approved EMU's program at the major (but not at the minor) level for
the preparation of teachers of chemistry.
The readers noted that "the review was carefully and
thoughtfully prepared."
COE CREDIT
HOURS
As of the Winter term, the College of Education is running
5.6% ahead of the same time last year in terms of credit hours produced. We
already have 90,160 credit hours and, since we always have more than 10,000
credit hours in the Spring, we will easily break 100,000 credit hours this
fiscal year. This will be the first time
ever for the COE to break 100,000 credit hours in a fiscal year.
For the fiscal year to date, Leadership and Counseling is
running 10.0% ahead of the same time last year; Student Teaching is 7.9% ahead;
Special Education, 6.8%; Teacher Education, 6.2%; and HPERD, 1.8%.
For the COE as a whole, Summer 03 was 10.8% ahead of
Summer 02; Fall 03 was 8.5% ahead of Fall 02; and Winter 04 is 1.9% ahead of
Winter 03.
For the past five years of complete data and for the total
of the five colleges, the growth in credit hour production over the previous
year has been 0.2%, 2.8%, 0.9%, 3.0%, and 1.8% (1998-99 through 2002-03,
respectively). For the same period of
time, the growth in credit hour production for the COE has been 3.5%, 5.0%,
4.0%, 6.3%, and 8.1%, respectively.
Over a ten-year period, the growth in credit hour
production for the total of the five colleges has been 2.2%. For the College of
Education, it is 16.3%.
Between 1993-94 and 1998-99, the COE portion of all credit
hours generated at EMU ranged from 14.2% to 14.9%. However, in 1999-00, it was 15.0%; in
2000-01, it was 15.4%; in 2001-02, it was 15.9%; in 2002-03, it was 16.9%. For
this year to date, it's 17.4%!
CELEBRATIONS
The MARS (Minority Achievement, Retention, and Success)
group held a celebration banquet in the Porter Building on April 16. Nineteen minority students were recognized,
along with faculty/staff members Carolyn Finch, Deborah Harmon, Elizabeth
Broughton, Cheryl Price, and Christine Lancaster. Students Michael Johnson and Iman Khalid
served as masters of ceremonies and Ronald Woods was the keynote speaker.
Participants in The Renaissance Partnership for the
Improvement of Teacher Quality project over the past five years held a
celebration event on April 23. Those
recognized included 45 cooperating teachers, eight community partner
administrators, two from the Michigan Department of Education, 10 student teacher
university supervisors, two from ORD, 13 faculty members and administrators
from the College of Arts and Sciences, 24 faculty members and administrators
from the College of Education, and 40
student teachers who had participated in pilot projects. Project co-coordinators (Georgea Langer,
Pat Pokay, Carolyn Burns), assisted by Angela Schmidt and Ana
Claudia Harten, organized the event.
STUDENT
NOTES
Kimberly Kwasniak was featured in the April 20 issue of Focus EMU. She is a junior and a single mother who
received one of the 24 student/parent
child care scholarships for use in the Children's Institute.
Robert G. Krause, a graduate student in Emotional
Impairment, died on April 4. He had
worked in the Detroit Public Schools since 1999.
GRAND
ROUNDS
Sixteen graduate students in Speech/Language Pathology
presented their research at the "Grand Rounds" forum on April 23.
John Tonkovich served as the faculty mentor for the students. The presentations included:
Platform
Presentations:
Devon Bracken, "Collaborative Consultation and
Integrated Therapy in the Public Schools: Working Together to Achieve Academic
Success."
Tiffany Byars, "The Effectiveness of Social Stories
for Students with Asperger's Syndrome."
Traci Swarin, "Phonological Awareness: Helping to
Create Better Readers."
Rachel Czerwonka, "Group Treatment of Dyarthria:
Benefits, Challenges, and Outcomes."
Shelly Ellerholz, "A Balanced Scale: The Key to
Successful Stuttering Treatment of School-Age Children."
Alicia Brown, "The LSVT Program: Its Effects on the
Voice of a Parkinson's Disease Patient."
Pamela Ingram, "Stuttering: Benefits of Color-Coded
Assessment."
Brett White, "Why Doesn't He Socialize? Living in our
World with Asperger's Syndrome."
Poster
Presentations:
Sherwonna Anderson, "Manipulation of Temporal and
Prosodic Variables in Treating Sound Errors in Apraxia of Speech and Aphasia."
Linda Baker, "Stroke in Young Adults: Implications
for the Speech-Language Pathologist in the Acute Care Setting."
Amy Creighton, "Neuromuscular Electrical Stimulation
to Aid Dysphagia."
Casey Dauzet, "Does Using AAC Inhibit the Development
of Speech?"
CELEBRATION
OF EXCELLENCE
At the recent COE Celebration of Excellence, the following
students were recognized:
Jack and Joanne Stapleton Endowed Scholarship: Kelly Wisner.
Edith Mays Swanson Endowed Scholarship: Larry Jackson.
Sweetland Sisters Endowed Scholarship: Kathryn Williams.
Henry A. and Flora S. Tape Memorial Endowed Scholarship:
Rachel Daien, Amanda Hanert, Rebekah Murphy, Jane Malek.
Estelle Thomson Endowed Scholarship: Sr. Annunciata Wentz.
May Tuan Wu Ting Endowed
Scholarship: I-An Chen.
Chloe Todd Endowed Scholarship: Laurel Ruehle.
Larry and Janice Warren Endowed Scholarship: Reginald
Kirkland.
Westerman Minority Endowed Scholarship: Che Carter.
Otis Williams and Friends Scholarship: Felicia Coleman.
Margaret E. Wise Endowed Scholarship: Vanessa Guastella.
Doctoral Program Scholars: Janet Fisher, Sarah Ginsberg, Cheryl
Hanewicz, Christopher Lewis, Marcia Mardis, Christopher Plouff, Kate Walters.
Specialist Program Scholars: Mary Koert, Walter Pytlak.
Master's Program Scholars: Michelle
Allen, Christy Campbell, Jan Cox, Pamela Cunningham, Jill Dean, Patricia Dean,
Martina Ezekiel, Chad Gibbs, Ana Claudia Harten, Heidi Huber, Amy Karaban,
Susanne Krummel, Scott Daniel Leach, Kathryn MacKercher, Bridget McGraw, Alison
Medeiros, Linda Murray, Sylvia Radhs, Erin Radtka, Stacey Rosol, Jennifer
Rydman, Paul Salah, Geneva Scully, Carol Sliwka, Elizabeth Smith, Elizabeth
Stevens, Susan Waldecker, Terra Webster, Scott Whitehouse, Cynthia Whitt.
2003-2004 University Honors Program, Seniors in Education
(Seniors with a 3.5+ Cumulative GPA):
Jenna Andrews, Kristina Balamucki, Casey Barnes, William Barton, Leif
Batell, Andrew Boissonneau, Sara Bresler, Lyndsay Buckman, Evan Chall, Jesse
Cogswell, Michelle Cooke, Benjamin Crary, Sarah Damphousse, Sara Delaney, Amy Doss,
Phyllis Mae Dragun, Patricia Dreher, Allan Edwards,
Samuel Froomkin, Evin
Green, Valerie Grier, Trisha Gundick, Heather Hamel, Stephen Harper, Summer
Haury, Lisa Heads, Roni Hedger, Dawn Hillyer, Alicia Howard, Tarran
Johnson-Lemieux, Rebecca Kauffman, Katherine Kramer, Claire Lannoye, Erica
Lozon, Christine Mac, Ashley Manning, Tanya Matthews, Amy Maylone, Jamie
McAdam, Michelle McGahey, Andrew Meloche, Steven Mientkiewicz, Fallon Miller,
Marisa Moceri, Megan Moharemoff, Kenneth Moore, Megan Myers, Jessica Nieman,
Erin-Marie Pack, Cassandra Peters, Rebecca Pietrowski, Erin Rosino,
Nicole Sauter, Julie Sayers, Brooke Schmitz, Tammara
Schober, Dan Schunck Jr., Brian Shifflet, Jaclyn Silver, Jennifer Skelton,
Carissa Slone, Angela Southworth, Timothy Spicer, Michelle Spindler, Cortney St
Pierre, Erica Thomas, Amanda Thomason, Eric Thompson, Jennie Tomich, Natalie
Tomlin, Christine Verbit, Jayna Vineyard, Mary Walsh, Stephanie Weber, Amy
Wheaton, Christina Wineski, Anne Wittla, Melissa Wood.
Fall 2003 Undergraduate Scholars (Seniors admitted to the
Professional Preparation program with a 3.5+ GPA): Tracy Abney, Catherine Ackerman-Bunker,
Kimberly Adams, Mary Alef, Sandra Alef, Ruth Alexander, Yvonne Anclard, Jill
Angelo, Nieka Apell, Ellen Arble, Cheryl Arney, Elizabeth Arnold, Carol
Arslanian, Beth Ave-Lallemant,
Rachel Bach, Brenda Bailey, Deborah Bailey, Kimberly
Bailey, Kimberly Baker, Michelle Balow, Sara Banker, Steven Barber, Michelle
Bardell, Susan Barill, Casey Barnes, Debra Baron, Kristin Barry, Andrea Bassil,
Amy Baxter, Mary Bazinet, Bethany Beaudrie, Stacey Beck, Nichole Beier, Janessa
Benner, Stephanie Benner, Katherine Beyer,
Debra Black-Arnett, Amy Blatt, Sister T. Block, William
Bolton, Laura Bonnough, Johnny Borg, Maria Bornhorst, Michael Bottini, Rachel
Boxrud, Rachel Bracey, Mila Bradley, Meagan Brancheau, Jennifer Bregand, Sara
Bresler, Twyla Brink, Elissa Brode, Cathryn Brodie, Christy Browne Milka
Bulatovic, DeLynn Bushouse, Andrea Butler,
Dana Butler, James Byrnes, Elizabeth Cadovich, Allison Camilleri, Julie Campau,
Kelly Canfield, Leslie Canham, Marcia Cannon, Lauri Carey, Camille Carr,
Dawn Carrillo, Laura Carroll, Jillian Catanese, Lois Champion, Lee Chang,
Monica Chapman, Nicole Chapman, Jennifer Chesman, Justine Chiolino, Stephanie
Chobot, Cristina Ciarlo, Julie Claflin, Celestine Clark, Suzanne Clement, Marlene
Conlisk, Jennifer Conte,
Wendy Conway, Jennifer Cooney, Michelle Corrunker, Lisa
Cousineau, Regan Cowger, Amanda Craft, Mindy Cramer, Travis Craven, Courtney
Crowley, Kassandra Cumming, Kimberly Czartoryski-Matthews, Rachel Czech, Rita
Dachs, Rachel Daien, Cynthia Davis, Lou Davis, Sarah Dean, Barbara Decker, Sara
Delaney, Linda Demers,
Mandy DeRoy-Thames, Margaret Deskins, Joy Devaughn, Joshua
Diepenhorst, Bonnie Dietrich, Jody Dillinder, Andrea Dillion, Elizabeth Dillon,
Tamara Dominick, Andrea Donohue, Amy Doss, Phyllis Mae Dragun. Donna Dreon,
Tina Drosis. Deborah Drouillard, John DuBois, Beth Duncan, Kristin Duncan,
Carrie Dunn, Ronda Duran, James Eason, Benjamin Edwards, Dawn Eldred, Michelle Ellis, Molly Epperly,
Staci Evans, Sarah Fairless, Kristin Fatt, Rachel Fauman,
Andrea Fedewa, Heather Finney, Brandie Fitzsimmons, Beth
Flint, Glenna Ford, Tonya Forgie, Megan Fowler-Ouillett, Jacquelyn Franze,
Richard Frizzell, Amanda Fryer, Katie Funk, Catherine Furnari, Michelle Gasco, Jennifer Gatesy,
Erin George, Elizabeth
Gibbons, Jennifer Gibson, Jamie Gilbertson, Sally Gill, Shelly Glass, Hillary
Glowski, Keturah Godfrey, AuBree Goedde, Ashley Goethe, Jane Goldberg, Stacey
Golembiewski, Jovanka Golshan, Courtney Gramlich, Katie Greyerbiehl, Bailey
Griffin, Deanna Griffith, Tina Gross, Erin Grove, Vanessa Guastella, Amy Gunn,
Meggin Guthrie, Nathan Haag, Julie Haigh, Heather Hamel, Danielle Hamman,
OPPORTUNITIES
AND EVENTS
(For a complete list, see http://www.emich.edu/coe/newhome/opportunities.html)
May 3--Multi-State Educators' Career Fair, the University of Montana, Missoula. For information, www.umt.edu/career/ecf.htm.
CALLS
FOR PAPERS/PROPOSALS
(For a complete list, see http://www.emich.edu/coe/newhome/proposals.html)
April 30--deadline for proposals for Sloan-C
International Conference on Asynchronous Learning Networks. For information, www.sloan-c.org/conference/info/apcon04.asp.
May 1--deadline for Educational Forum
articles for non-themed issue. For
information, see www.kdp.org.
May 1--applications due for Presidential
Awards for Excellence in Mathematics and Science Teaching (includes $10,000
prize). For information, mshanej@mi.gov.
May 1--deadline for application for
Distinguished Chairs awards to Europe, Canada, Israel, and Russia (Fulbright
Program). For information, www.cies.org.
May 3--deadline for articles for Principal
Leadership on "support systems for principals." For information, www.principals.org/publications/pdf/pl_subguides.pdf.
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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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