2004 News
Awards and Honors
- We are pleased to announce that Dr. Jerlando
Jackson received Iowa State University's 2004 Young Professional Award
at the homecoming celebration in Ames in October. Congratulations, Jerlando!!
The Young Professional Award was established in 1997 to recognize
extraordinary early career achievements by alumni of the Iowa State
University College of Education. The award is limited to one individual
per year. Jackson received a Ph.D. in educational leadership and policy
studies from Iowa State in 2000.
Additional details about Dr. Jackson's accomplishments and the award
can be viewed at:
http://www.educ.iastate.edu/awards/alumni/2004/jjackson.html
(posted October)
- Professor Geoffrey Borman received the following
awards in 2004:
- The American Educational Research Association Review of Research
Award for the article "Comprehensive Schol Reform and Achievement:
A Meta-Analysis" (2004).
- The American Educational Research Association Raymond E. Cattel
Early Career Award (2004).
(posted September)
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Other News
- Vilas Fellowship Travel Award Winners
The 2004-2005 Vilas Travel Grants for UW-Madison dissertators were recently
awarded to Educational Leadership & Policy Analysis dissertators
Shelby Cosner, Frank Hernandez, Brad Kose, Gary Lindeman and Martin
Scanlan.
Vilas Travel Award winners receive $600 for either domestic or international
travel for research or a conference. This year there were over 470 applications
with funding awarded to 210 students.
For information on the Vilas Fellowships visit the Graduate Student
Collaborative website http://info.gradsch.wisc.edu/admin/gsc/index.html
- Judith I. Risch (Ph.D. 2004) was awarded the Dissertation
of the Year Award by the Education Law Assoication on Friday, November
19th at the ELA annual meeting. The award is described as follows: "To
recognize exemplary dissertations
by doctoral students in the field of education law. In addition to the
traditional legal research type of dissertations, studies that utilize
empirical research on specific problems will be considered. Topics selected
should reflect a direct relationship
between educational statutory and case law and the impact on school
or university operations." Her dissertation is entitled "The
General Counsel in a School District: Examining Prevalence and Roles."
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-
Professor Knox's art exhibit "Natural Mysteries"
features about two dozen paintings in three galleries at the UW
Hospital and Clinics: E 5/2 Main Entrance Gallery of the Hospital
and Clinics (600 Highland Ave.); Health Sciences Learning Center
(750 Highland AVe.) First floor gallery next to the Atrium; Second
floor gallery.
These paintings will be on display for one month, with an artist's
reception held on Friday, October 15, 5:00pm to 8:00pm, at the
HSLC Atrium. |
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(posted October)
- Professor Paul Bredeson was invited to give Keynote address at: Commonwealth
Council for Educational Administration and Management in Hong Kong,
October 2004 - "Creating Spaces for Professional Learning in Pluralistic
Societies: Leadership and Architecture for Professional Development"
(posted September)
- Professor Richard Halverson's National Science Foundation CAREER (Data-Driven
Instructional Systems) grant received final approval. The project assesses
how school leaders develop local capacity to use data to influence instruction.
This five-year grant proposes to study how local school leaders create
the capacity to systematically review and integrate student achievement
data into daily math and instruction in schools. This award is effective
June15, 2004, and expires May 31, 2005. The grant will be administered
through the Wisconsin Center for Educational Research. The CAREER program
recognizes and supports the early career-development activities of those
teacher-scholars who are most likely to become the academic leaders
of the 21st century. CAREER awardees will be selected on the basis of
creative, career-development plans that effectively integrate research
and education within the context of the mission of their institutions.
(posted September)
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- Professor Clifton Conrad was involved in the
Ethics Education Task Force ( The Association to Advance Collegiate
Schools of Business) to develop a resource document that provides guidance
on the design, delivery, and evaluation of business ethics education.
Professor Conrad made significant contributions to this project which
will not only have the potential to influence and enhance ethics education
in business schools, but also to provide support to other groups and
communities within higher education. For more information, please visit
the AACSB
Ethics Education webpage.
(posted July)
- The Pew foundation has just released Dr. Alberto
Cabrera's report titled 'Latino Youth & the Pathway to College'.
Co-authored with Scott Swail and Chul Lee, this manuscript examines
the experiences of Latino 8th graders on their pathway to postsecondary
education. It pays particular attention as to how their experiences
compare to their cohort of White peers. For more information, please
visit Pew
Hispanic Center's Reports webpage.
(posted in July)
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- Department alumnus Dean Pribbenow (Ph.D.,
2002), was recently named assistant professor (Education) and Director
of the Human Issues Studies Program at Edgewood College, in Madison,
where he began work July 1.
During and since his doctoral studies, Dean held student service
and personnel development positions at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
and with the Office of Quality Improvement at UW-Madison, as well
as lecturing in Educational Planning in our department. At Edgewood,
Dean will teach courses in and direct a program that offers interdisciplinary
teaching and learning experiences designed to advance the liberal
arts as fundamental to the world of citizenship, work, and public
life.
“We're excited at the prospects for service learning that he
brings to our students,” said Edgewood’s vice president
for academic affairs, Dr. Judith Conrad Wimmer, in a letter to The
Capital Times in April. “Dr. Pribbenow was founding director
of the Institute for Service Learning at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.
He also co-led the planning team that established the Wisconsin Campus
Compact, which promotes service learning, community-based research,
and civic engagement among colleges and universities.”
The Human Issues curriculum, mandatory for Edgewood undergraduates,
helps them confront significant human issues with intellectual rigor
and reflective judgment, from an interdisciplinary perspective, within
the context of Dominican values and the liberal arts. The program
involves topics reflecting students' own interests and experiences.
As part of the Human Issues curriculum, the Center for Democracy in
Action develops opportunities for students to participate in public
life and service. To foster a community of publicly engaged citizens
and scholars, it draws its faculty both from the academy and, through
its Community Scholars program, from society at large.
(posted in July)
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| On May 24th, 2004, a name change ceremony was held
at 1152 Educational Sciences Building to say good-bye to "Educational
Administration " and to welcome our new department name - Educational
Leadership and Policy Analysis. Approximately 15 people including
guests and ELPA staff attended the ceremony. Many of them took part
in the inscription of new name on glass door while enjoying refreshments
and music. Read the offical department
announcement on name change. |
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(posted in June)
- The Department is pleased to announce that Eric
M. Camburn, Ph.D., most recently from the University of Michigan, will
be joining the faculty as an assistant professor in the fall semester,
2004. He earned his Ph.D. in Education at the University of Chicago
and has valuable experience working on two large-scale studies: the
Chicago School Reform Study (with Professor Anthony Bryk) and the Study
of Instructional Improvement (with Professors David Cohen, Brian Rowan
and Deborah Ball). Dr. Camburn, who will join Assistant Professor Geoffrey
Borman in teaching data-based decisionmaking and research methods, brings
to the Department strong statistical skills and an interest in instructional
leadership and school improvement.
(posted in May)
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- The US News and World Report released
its 2003 annual national ranking of graduate programs in April. We are
very pleased that deans of colleges/schools of education have ranked
the Department No. 1 again among 31 peer institutions offering programs
in Educational Leadership and Policy Analysis and Supervision. Over
the past decade, the Department of Educational Administation has consistently
ranked in the top five, and for three years running has been ranked
No. 1.
(posted in April)
- 2004-2005 Fellowship and Scholarship Competetion:
Deadlines are approaching for the following fellowships: Lanore A. Netzer
and Glen G. Eye Scholarship; Earl Hoffman Graduate Fellowship; Arvil
S. Barr Graduate Fellowships; Wisconsin Distinguished Graduate Fellowship
in Technical College Leadership. For more details: http://www.education.wisc.edu/edadmin/admissions/funding.htm
(posted in March)
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- CONGRATULATIONS, TODD! Todd Mortensen (anticipated
M.S. 2004) has been awarded the Summer 2004 internship from the Appalachian
and the Community Together resource center which arranges service learning
opportunities for students. He and his family will spend the summer
at Appalachian State University in the mountains of North Carolina.
Another of the department's grad students, Ann Dingman, won this internship
award in 2002.
(posted in March)
- CONGRATULATIONS, MARJORIE! Marjorie Cook, selected
as the winner of the University's 2003 Outstanding Undergraduate Returning
Adult Student Award, transferred from Madison Area Technical College
where she was very involved in student leadership through the student
senate and other campus organizations. She is now working toward a graduate
degree in Educational Leadership and Policy Analysis and plans to become
a college administrator.
(posted in March)
- Congratulations to Judith Risch, whose proposal to
support the study of "The General Counsel in a School District:
Examining Prevalence, Roles, and Costs" was selected to receive
the George Tipler
School Law Study Program grant for 2003.
(posted in March)
- Wisconsin-Spencer Doctoral Research Program (DRP) 2003-04
students preparing for a career focused primarily on research in education
are invited to apply for the School of Education's Wisconsin-Spencer
Doctoral Research Program. A small number of DRP fellowships are available,
including some reserved for AOF-eligible students (targeted minority
of disadvantaged students). Full
descriptions will be available on the SoE's website. Deadline for
applications: January 14, 2004. For more information, please contact:
Prof. Beth Graue, DRP
Director at 263-4674; or Jane
Hay, DRP Assistant, at 263-4669.
(posted in March)
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