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Ancestral Voices:
Transitioning
into Today's Technology is this year's American Indian Language Development Institute.
31st Annual Summer Institute
June 7-June 23
The University of Arizona
The two-week
Institute
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lectures on the integration of indigenous knowledge, language, and science and technology.
For more information, visit the AILDI site.
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Proposals are being accepted for presenters for The Cyberworld: Bullying Prevention in the Age of the Internet, a conference in Seattle, Washington, on November 15, 16, and 17. Although the theme of the conference will emphasize Internet issues, workshops in traditional areas also will be offered. Here's more.
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Education E-News
April 2010
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We're in Full Bloom!
Nature has been especially busy in Tucson this spring.
Our beautiful but dry desert is awash in color -- an unusual sight, especially for the native Tucsonans among us.
The College of Education also has been especially busy, as you're about to discover.
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 Undersecretary of Education Pays a Visit
Martha J. Kanter, the undersecretary of the U.S. Department of Education, accepted an invitation from Associate Dean Jeffrey Milem to present the second annual Ernest W. McFarland Lecture in late March at the UA's Gallagher Theater.
Milem initiated the lecture series last year in honor of the late McFarland, a former U.S. Senate majority leader who co-authored the G.I. Bill. McFarland also served as chief justice of the Arizona Supreme Court.
President Barack Obama nominated Kanter last year for the position, and she was confirmed by the U.S. Senate in June.
Want to see the lecture? This link will open the McFarland Lecture Series site in iTunes U. (If you don't have iTunes installed, it will prompt you to download and install it.)
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Taylor | An Elite Group
A small group of institutions across the nation was chosen to train individuals in a national fellowship program that targets the top-performing students of color -- and the University of Arizona is among them.
Hendricks | The Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation named our college one among 27 institutions chosen to accept students in its Woodrow Wilson-Rockefeller Brothers Fund Fellowships for Aspiring Teachers of Color program. Our Teach Arizona program -- founded by former College of Education Dean John L. Taylor (now a professor in Educational Policy Studies & Practice) and implemented by former Associate Dean J. Robert Hendricks (now the department head of EPSP) -- encompasses all secondary programs within the college and will begin taking WW-RBF Fellowship students during the 2011-2012 academic year.
"We are in an elite group with respect to this teacher-preparation program," says Dean Ronald W. Marx.
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We've Missed You
(In fact, we've missed you so much, we're offering
a door prize of four Homecoming football-game tickets!)
Dear Alumni and Friends:
We know our alumni and friends accomplish amazing things every day. As a college, however, we have lost touch with many of you. We want to reconnect -- beginning with our alumni in the Tucson area.
On April 22, from 5:30-7 p.m. in the College of Education Kiva Auditorium, we will begin the first of a series of events. Dean Marx will speak briefly on the importance of our alumni. Then, Professor Patty Anders will speak on "Literacy Connections: Our Schools, Our Communities, Our Children."
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Passionate about the impact literacy has on our communities, Anders believes we have the possibility of 100-percent literacy in Tucson and will share how we all can help achieve this goal.
The evening will end with a reception in our Worlds of Words library. The Alumni Council will tell you about coming events, followed by a drawing for four Homecoming football tickets. Of course, you can't win if you don't attend!
For more information, please contact Director of Development Stacey Turner at 621-7143 or smturner@u.arizona.edu. |
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Alumni: Are You in Colorado?
Are you attending the American Educational Research Association Annual Meeting?
If so, Dean Marx wants to see you! You are invited to a reception at the AERA Annual Meeting in Denver on Friday, April 30, 7-9 p.m., at the Hyatt Regency-Denver at the Colorado Convention Center, Centennial Ballroom B.
Please join us!
For more information, please contact Associate Dean Renee Clift at 520-621-1463 or rtclift@u.arizona.edu. |
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Faculty News
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Disability & Psychoeducational Studies
Adjunct Assistant Professor William T. Downey was selected to serve on the U.S. Department of Education, Rehabilitation Services Administration's 36th Institute on Rehabilitation Issues (The Vocational Rehabilitation/State Rehabilitation Council Partnership), as a member of the prime study group.
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Associate Professor Charlene Kampfe
contributed to the recently published 135-page monograph, The Aging Workforce, which will be used as a textbook for rehabilitation counselors.
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| Adjunct Assistant Professor L. Penny Rosenblum presented a full-day workshop (Social Skills Development for Students with Visual Impairments: Pre-K to Graduation) at the Insight 2010 Conference in Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada.
Educational Policy Studies & Practice
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Assistant Professor Regina Deil-Amen
and Heather Haeger, a graduate student and a specialist at the UA SALT Center, published Female College Students Working in the Sex Industry: A Hidden Population in the new issue of the NASPA Journal About Women in Higher Education. The study examines the perceptions and experiences of several women who are part of an overlooked group -- college students who work in the sex industry. Here's more on the article and more about the National Association of Student Personnel Administrators (NASPA).
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Departmental Climate and Student Experiences in Geography Graduate Programs, an article co-authored by Associate Professor Jenny Lee, received the Journal of Geography in Higher Education Award for Promoting Excellence in Teaching & Learning from the Association of American Geographers.
Teaching, Learning & Sociocultural Studies
Goodman  | The International Reading Association's 54th Annual Convention, held in Phoenix, brought together nine presentations by leading scholars and literacy researchers to explore IRA Past President and College of Education Professor Emeritus Kenneth S. Goodman's comprehensive model of reading. In the opening session, Goodman presented the central concepts of his model.
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| Norma Gonzalez has spent years studying children and families living in borderlands communities, received an award from the American Educational Research Association (AERA) for her body of work. The language, reading, and culture professor is a trained anthropologist who conducts extensive research into the immigration, household ethnographies, and education and language processes among children living in the U.S./Mexico borderlands. Here's more.
Moll  | AERA also presented Professor Luis Moll with the Presidential Citation for distinguished service and significant contributions to educational research.
Professor Kathy Short is the new president of the U.S. section of the International Board of Books for Young People.
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Crisis or Opportunity? You Decide.
The Higher Education lecture series, Higher Education and the New Economy: Crisis or Opportunity, has garnered attention from all over the state. The series continues through April. Here are highlights from the February and March speakers.
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February Speakers Arizona Board of Regents President Ernest Calderon discussed ways in which the Regents are planning for the future of higher education in the state of Arizona. Calderon spoke about the challenges facing public higher education and urged higher-education supporters to promote the value of education. Here's more in the Arizona Daily Star.
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UA President Robert N. Shelton said that if more progressive funding structures are not put in place to ensure that the state of Arizona will have "robust" universities in the future, the system will be hit with even more serious damage in the next five to 10 years. He urged supporters of higher education to become actively engaged in advocating for the UA and higher education.
Former President of the Association of American Universities and Former UA Provost Nils Hasselmo said the nation's higher-education institutions, particularly those that are research-driven, are critically important to aid the nation in competing with countries like China, India, and Germany.
March Speakers
UA Associate Vice President for Government Relations Greg Fahey and Christine Thompson of the Arizona Board of Regents spoke about the state and federal forces that shape public higher education. Both discussed the proposed one-cent tax increase, the federal "Jobs Bill," and the Regents' plan to redesign Arizona's public university system.
General Secretary for the Washington, D.C.-based American Association of University Professors Gary Rhoades spoke about displaced priorities at some of the nation's public higher education institutions. Rhoades, a professor in the college's Center for the Study of Higher Education (on leave to take the AAUP position), said some administrators lack creativity, are not planning for the future, and are breeding a culture of resignation and constraint.
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Former Arizona State Senator Tim Bee, who now directs Gov. Jan Brewer's southern Arizona office, spoke about the state budget, the deficit, and Proposition 100. Bee says it is important that voters approve the temporary one-cent sales tax, noting that it would help soften the impact of an ever-increasing deficit. |
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Building Bridges
In partnership with Tucson Unified School District, a new College of Education program transforms the way we look at teacher-education partnerships. Typically, preservice teachers are asked to cross the bridge between university courses and classroom practice alone. In the Beyond Bridging Pilot Project, preservice teachers will work with inservice teachers and university science and mathematics education faculty to build a new co-educational mathematics and science community.
For more information about this project, contact Teaching, Learning & Sociocultural Studies Clinical Assistant Professor Crystal Soltero at csoltero@u.arizona.edu.
Also on the Horizon
Given statewide and national concerns about teacher retention, we have introduced a teacher leadership training program to aid those newest to the field. The Teacher Ment2Lead program was created for teachers who want to become experts in mentoring and teacher leadership.
The master's level program will launch with its first cohort in August, training students to be effective leaders and mentors within their schools.
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That's our news. We'll see you in May!
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