College of Education
Eastern Michigan University
Issue No: 609
June 28, 2004
We impact the way America
learns.
Previous issues of Monday Report are at http://www.emich.edu/coe/monday.
Send items and comments to jerry.robbins@emich.edu.
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This is the 609th and
final issue of Monday Report that I
will edit for you. Monday Report began on September 9, 1991, just two months
after I arrived in Ypsilanti. It has been issued most Mondays (except for
holiday times) since then, with news about "good things" happening in the EMU
College of Education.
Monday
Report actually began for me when I was dean of the COE at Georgia State
University (GSU). Having such a
newsletter was the brainchild of Benji Bailey, the staff member in charge of COE public
relations and publications. Bailey
devised the masthead, the footer, and the green paper, all of which I brought
with me from GSU.
For a number of years, the EMU Monday Report was issued only in hard
copy. Later, as the readership became
more sophisticated, both the hard copy version and an email version (same
content) were distributed to everyone. And, in more recent times, both to save
expense and because of increased sophistication of readers, the hard copy version has been reduced to an extremely
small distribution and two versions are available on line-a .pdf file in
newsletter format and a "no-columns" version.
Although the selection and
presentation of content is something that I will take the credit or blame for,
I (and we) are much indebted to various people for assistance with the posting and distribution. These include Val Hughes, Karen Hansen, and Carole
Zakrzewski. All have been assisted
by numerous student workers and GA's over the years. These folks have dealt
with newsletters ranging in size from two pages to four pages (common in recent
years) to, a very few times, eight pages.
We have shared with each other in
the COE, and with a wide variety of others who need to know, an enormous number
and variety of accomplishments over the
past 13 years, and thanks are due to all those who have shared an
accomplishment with me to use. Monday Report has been copied from extensively over time and imitated (with variations) by other COE's. David Imig, president of AACTE, is a regular
reader and frequently commends MR to
other deans as a valuable communications tool.
In the old newspaper days, when the
Linotype operator came to the end of the story, he inserted (or "slugged") the
story with what was called a "30-dash."
This is the end of the story, at least in terms of my involvement. 30- -Jerry Robbins
HAPPY FISCAL NEW YEAR!
This week COE welcomes Alane
Starko as Interim Dean, Virginia Harder as Associate Dean, and, soon
afterwards, Don Bennion as Interim Head, Department of Teacher
Education. In addition, after 44 years,
COE says farewell to what is now the Department of Health, Physical Education,
Recreation and Dance, as dance moves to Music and the remainder of the
department becomes the School of Human
Performance and Health Promotion in the College of Health and Human
Services.
BENNION NAMED INTERIM DH FOR TEACHER EDUCATION
Donald H. Bennion, professor
of Teacher Education, has been named Interim Head of that department, effective
next month. He served a lengthy period
of time as EMU's associate vice president for academic affairs in the 1980's
and 1990's.
Bennion holds the B.S. and M.S. from
State University of New York-Geneseo and the M.A. and Ph.D. from Ohio
University. Prior to coming to EMU, he
held professorial and administrative positions at Central Connecticut State
University.
Bennion's specialty is assessment
and evaluation. He has served as EMU's
NCA coordinator and as EMU's director of assessment, among many other
assignments.
TENURE
At the recent meeting of the EMU
Board of Regents, action was taken to award indeterminate tenure, effective
September 1, 2004, to 25 EMU faculty members.
This action included the following persons from COE: Jeff Armstrong,
Geffrey Colón, Ellen Hoffman, Sherry Jerome, Jodi
Johnson, Toni Stokes Jones, Shel Levine, Kathlyn Parker,
and John Tonkovich.
PROMOTION
At the recent meeting of the EMU
Board of Regents action was concluded resulting in the promotion of 25 persons,
effective September 1, 2004, including the following persons from COE:
To professor: Linda Lewis-White
To associate professor: Jeff
Armstrong, Ellen Hoffman, Sherry Jerome, Toni Stokes Jones,
Shel Levine, and Lizbeth Stevens.
REAPPOINTMENT
At the recent meeting of the EMU
Board of Regents, the following persons were reappointed for the 2004-2005
academic year: Joe Bishop, Wendy Burke, Caroline Burns, Ella Burton, Karen
Carney, Robert Carpenter, Caroline Carter, Dibya Choudhuri, Nancy Copeland,
Margo Dichtelmiller, Marion Dokes-Brown, Roberta Faust, Sarah Ginsberg, Debora
Harmon, Christine Karshin, Lidia Lee, Ethan Lowenstein, Jon Margerum-Leys,
Nelson Maylone, Susan McCarthy, Jacquelyn McGinnis, Steve McGregor, Murali
Nair, John Palladino, Lori Parks, Mary
Rearick, Jeffrey Schulz, Ron Williamson, Eboni Zamani.
FACULTY AND STAFF NOTES
Nel Noddings, former holder
of the John W. Porter Chair, is the author of "Learning from Our Students," published
in a recent issue of the Kappa Delta Pi
Record.
Jerry Robbins has been named
to a committee to advise the Chancellor of the University of Missouri-Kansas
City on the formation of an organizational unit at that institution to work
with urban schools.
Lisa Delpit, former holder of
the John W. Porter Chair, is Eminent Scholar and Executive Director, Center for
Urban Education and Innovation, at Florida International University. Delpit recently published Eight Milllion Voices: Letter to the Next
President, Teachers College Press.
As president of MACTE, Jerry
Robbins has been named to a task force to advise the Michigan Department of
Education and Merit, Inc. on the formation of an electronic placement service
for teachers.
Julianne O'Brien Pedersen danced with the Peter Sparling Dance Company in a new work by Sparling, "Peninsula." The performance was at
UM's Power Center, part of the
Summer Festival.
Jerry Robbins conducted a
performance of the Ypsilanti Community Band in Recreation Park last Thursday
night.
Jeff Schulz is the director
of the Community Leadership Fellows Program, an activity of the EMU Center for
Community Building and Civic Engagement.
Schulz and the Fellows Program are featured in the current "ORD Digest."
ON THE INTERNATIONAL FRONT
Linda Lewis-White and Marina
McCormack recently emailed from Lugano, Switzerland where they were
presenting papers at the World Conference on Educational Multimedia,
Hypermedia, and Telecommunications. (See
April 19, 2004 Monday Report.)
Lidia Lee recently presented "Speech Perception: An Audiological Perspective" at Hunan University, Changsha,
P.R. China.
Jerry Robbins is in Manila,
The Philippines this week, where he will present "Best Practices Toward Quality
Teacher Education" at the International Conference on Teacher Education.
SPONSORED PROJECTS
Steve McGregor has received
$13,020 from LPJ Research, Inc. for "Testing and Analysis for Etiocholanone in
Food Samples." Male bovine and swine fat
and liver tissues will be tested for the presence of Etiochonanone.
Charles Monsma, director and
administrator, with Marion Dokes-Brown as codirector, has received
$14,775 from Washtenaw United Way for "Ypsilanti Student Literacy Corps." This project will continue providing after-school tutoring to children
on Ypsilanti's south side using EMU teacher education students as tutors.
ALUMNI NOTES
Mike Turner '71, '77, the
hockey coach at Trenton High School, won his seventh state championship. He has been named as "prep person of the
year" by the Detroit Free Press.
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Francis Eugene Heger '52 died
recently in California. He was a former
teacher of English at Lincoln Park and Plymouth high schools and a former
school psychologist in Jackson and South Lyon.
In between his K-12 experiences, he taught at Western Michigan
University and at Madonna College. He
was well known for his views on war, racial discrimination, violence against
women, and other social justice and environmental issues.
Vivian Imre Ortiz '92, of
Allen Park, died recently. She taught
special education in Melvindale for almost 30 years, followed by a year
teaching special education at Pier-Trusant Elementary School in Detroit. The last few years of her career were spent
training special education teachers for The Leona Group, a charter school
management company.
SHORT NOTES
"Institutional Values" award
nominations are due
by June 30. See www.emich.edu/iva/ .
New faculty orientation will be held
on August 24-25 in Boone Hall.
The COE Fall Conference will be held
on August
31, beginning at 8:00 a.m. in the usual format with a large-group session
in the morning, lunch, and department meetings in the afternoon. All sessions will be held in the Porter
Building.
On September 14, there will
be a career retirement reception honoring Jerry Robbins, 4:00-6:00 p.m., Eagle
Crest Clubhouse. All COE faculty and
staff members are invited.
STUDENT NOTES
Lindsay Sarin, a senior at
Belleville High School and an Ann Arbor
News "Student of the Week," plans to attend EMU to become a secondary
teacher.
CALLS FOR PAPERS/PROPOSALS
(For a complete list, see http://www.emich.edu/coe/newhome/proposals.html)
June 30-proposals due for the
2004 Patterson Research Conference, sponsored by the Frederick D. Patterson
Research Institute of the United Negro College Fund. The conference will celebrate the 60th
anniversary of the UNCF, the 50th anniversary of Brown, and the 40th
anniversary of the Civil Rights Act. For
information, see www.patterson-uncf.org.
June 30-applications due for
EMU "Institutional Values Awards. For
information, see www.emich.edu/iva/ or call April Flanagan
at7-4998.
June 30-deadline for
submissions for the next issue of the Michigan
Journal of Teacher Education. For
information, alber@oakland.edu.
July 1-deadline for
nominations for ATE's Distinguished Dissertation in Teacher Education. For information, ckelly@mail.uccs.edu.
July 5-deadline for articles
for Principal Leadership on "best
practices in school management." For information,
www.principals.org/publications/pdf/pl_subguides.pdf.
July 10-registration deadline
for Western Oregon University conference on "Teacher Work Samples." There is a call for presentations on one of
three themes: initial preparation, mentoring and second stage licensing, and
related research and evaluation. For
information, www.wou.edu/education.
July 15-deadline for
nominations for ATE Distinguished Clinician in Teacher Education Award. For information, jsnyder@coe.wayne.edu.
July 16-Council of Great City
Schools "High School Partnership Profiles" due.
For information, sschwartz@cgcs.org
July 16-proposals due for 22nd
annual Academic Chairpersons Conference.
For information, sharonb@ksu.edu.
OPPORTUNITIES AND EVENTS
(For a complete list, see http://www.emich.edu/coe/newhome/opportunities.html)
July
28-COE Council meeting, 10:00 a.m., Porter 301.
August
24-25-EMU New Faculty Orientation, Boone Hall.
August
31-COE Fall Conference, starting at 8:00 a.m., all day; Porter Building;
includes lunch
September
14-Retirement reception for Jerry Robbins, 4:00-6:00 p.m., Eagle Crest
Clubhouse.
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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