2005 News
Awards and Honors
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Professor
Jerlando F.L. Jackson accepted an appointment in December
to a multiple-year term on the Editorial Board of The Review of
Higher Education, the journal of the nation's leading professional
association in higher education research.
"Your expertise in your area of interest,
as well as the quality of your own research, is why I am asking you
to serve," said Amaury Nora, the publication's editor, in her
letter of request.
The official journal of the Association for the
Study of Higher Education (ASHE), The Review of Higher Education
provides a forum for discussion of issues affecting higher education.
The journal advances the study of college and university issues by
publishing peer-reviewed articles, essays, reviews, and research findings.
Its broad approach emphasizes systematic inquiry and practical
implications. Considered one of the leading research journals in the
field, The Review keeps scholars, academic leaders, and public
policymakers abreast of critical issues facing higher education today.
(posted 12/16/05)
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Pat
Nehm, 17-year veteran support staff member in the Department,
has retired after devoting 33 years, interrupted by a six-year break
while starting a family, in service to the University. The Department
celebrated her career on her second-last workday Dec. 15 with a reception
featuring many sweet foods and comments. The gathering resembled
an ELPA reunion as much as an office party, with former students,
faculty and co-workers back to the 1980s stopping in to wish her well.
In their letter recommending that the Chancellor
grant emerita status for Pat, the faculty and staff lauded her role
"as a positive ambassador for the Department and model for fellow
employees." The Chair said the Department's junior faculty,
the Dean's Office, and even the tenure-determining Divisional Committee
of the UW Faculty had noticed that Pat had become an expert in organizing
tenure packets at UW–Madison.
"The only one," quipped one
faculty member from the audience.
With her daughter Kari expecting Pat's third grandchild
this month, Pat plans to devote much of her newfound free time to
them. However, it was a difficult decision to leave the best
workplace she's known, Pat told the crowd.
ABOVE: Surrounded
by grandsons Kaidin (standing) and Cole, with daughter Chris behind
her and her mother, Charlotte, at right, Pat listened to several
of the former Department chairs whom she has worked with as they
thanked her for years of cheerful and professional service to the
Department. Not pictured: Pat's husband, Paul.
BELOW: Pat's colleagues,
Sue (left) and Yuyen serve the cake and the coffee which Pat made
before anyone else could get to the task; Pat's supervisor, Ken,
presented her with a gingerbread Ed. Sciences Building. (All
three photos by Professor Kent Peterson)
(posted 12/16/05)
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- John
LaNear (Ph.D. 2005) was presented with the Dissertation of
the Year Award by the Education Law Association (http://www.educationlaw.org/)
at its annual meeting Friday, Nov. 18. John's dissertation is
entitled "Academic freedom in Public Higher Education: For the
Faculty or Institution?" John is now an assistant professor at
the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee.
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- 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
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- 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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- Rhode Island College naming a building after
emeritus Professor Joe Kauffman. Read
more.
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Joseph F. Kauffman Center at Rhode Island College |
(posted 2/1/05)
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Brian Salzer, a recent Educational
Specialist Certificate recipient in ELPA, was recently invited to
present his educational specialist research entitled “The Library
as a Sanctuary: The Role Libraries Play in Engaging Students Who Fell
Isolated From the School Community” at the University of Hawaii’s
International Conference on Education in Honolulu on January 5, 2005.
(posted 2/25/05)
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Rod Marty, Ph.D. student in ELPA, recently received
the George Tipler School Law Study Program grant for 2005. The
grant is awarded to an ELPA student for the study of a school legal
issue. Mr. Tipler is the former Executive Director of the Wisconsin
Association of School Boards. (posted 11/2/2005)
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Other News
- Recent ELPA Master's
recipient Mark Tauscher supports child reading initiatives:
Packers lineman tackles literacy
His foundation hopes to give kids a boost to become better readers
By ALAN J. BORSUK, aborsuk@journalsentinel.com
[from Nov. 2, 2005 Milwaukee Journal Sentinel]
In first grade, Mark Tauscher was in the lowest of three
reading groups in his class.
"I had a hard time reading, had very low confidence,"
he told a group of students at Milwaukee's 21st Street Elementary
School on Tuesday. "They were diagnosing me with learning disabilities,
all sorts of things."
His mother thought maybe he should transfer to another
school nearby in Auburndale, his hometown near Marshfield, he added
in an interview. "I just remember I didn't want to have to make
that walk," he said.
His teachers worked with him, he got help at home and
by second grade, he was in the middle reading group.
By third grade, he was in the top reading group.
At 28, he has a master's in education administration
and continues to take university courses.
Oh, yes, he's also a starting offensive lineman for the
Green Bay Packers and - as of Monday - a $10,000 benefactor of reading
programs in Milwaukee Public Schools so that children in the situation
he was in, kids who need a boost to make it as readers, will have
better opportunities.
Photo/Kristyna Wentz-Graff [from Nov. 2, 2005
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel]
Mark Tauscher of the Green Bay Packers reads to students Tuesday
at the 21st Street Elementary School in Milwaukee. He announced
the formation of the Trifecta Foundation, which will assist child-literacy
programs. Trifecta stands for Tauscher’s Reading Initiative
for Every Child to Achieve.
Family, literacy, school - those are the three words
worked into the logo of the Trifecta Foundation, which was launched
with the announcement of the grant. Trifecta stands for Tauscher's
Reading Initiative for Every Child to Achieve.
"We're going to help as many schools as we possibly
can," Tauscher said. He started with Milwaukee because, as part
of work at the University of Wisconsin-Madison on his master's, he
had seen statistics on how many MPS students are struggling to read.
He said he hoped to support programs in other districts around the
state, particularly in Green Bay and Madison.
Joining Tauscher at 21st Street School was Paul S. Beideman,
president and chief executive officer of Associated Banc-Corp. He
said the bank will contribute at least $50,000 to the Trifecta Foundation
and possibly more, based on giving $10 for each new "Packer checking"
account opened in coming months.
Tauscher said he hoped to raise more than $100,000 for
the foundation and to make it a long-term effort.
MPS Superintendent William Andrekopoulos said Tauscher
called his office about six months ago, asking whether there was something
he could do to help with reading education in Milwaukee. Tauscher
told Andrekopoulos in a subsequent meeting that he wanted it to be
something that showed up directly in classrooms.
The grant from the 315-pound, 6-foot-4 tackle will support
the Teacher EXCEL Grant Program of the MPS Foundation. Teachers can
apply for grants of up to $750 to provide enrichment materials for
literacy programs.
Andrekopoulos praised Tauscher, saying, "His heart
is with the children."
Jayne Jaskolski, a speech-language pathologist at 21st
Street who works with 3- and 4-year-olds with learning difficulties,
told Tauscher and others at the presentation ceremony how she had
used EXCEL grants to develop "literacy kits" that included
books and props that could be used in storytelling. Each child was
able to keep the kits. Last year, she used a grant to support programs
in which reading, arithmetic, science, music and art all were used
around themes dealing with bears and farms.
During the visit, Tauscher read a book, "Miss Nelson
Is Missing," to 18 fourth- and fifth-graders from the school.
Color commentary on his performance: He should do a better job of
holding the book so the kids can see, but his post-reading discussion
with them about what the story was saying was done very well.
He also offered to answer other questions from the kids.
The main one was, can we have autographs? The answer: Yes, and quite
a few.
Then there was one student who asked, "Is Brett
Favre a nice thrower?"
Tauscher answered. "He seems like he throws pretty
well, as long as he's hitting the right guy."
More online at: www.trifectafoundation.com
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- Department hosts
annual Swedish Principals' delegation
A delegation of more than 30 Swedish school principals and faculty
members of Umeå
University will arrive Oct. 29 for a week-long international seminar
co-sponsored by the Department and the UW School of Education International
Committee, in partnership with the Evansville, Madison, Middleton
and Verona Area school districts.
The annual study tour offers school leaders in Umeå, which
lies in northern Sweden across the Gulf of Bothnia from Finland, presentations
by officials from the school districts, ELPA and the Department of
Educational Policy Studies, and the Wisconsin Department of Public
Instruction, as well as tours of various types of elementary schools.
This year ELPA Ph.D. student Socorro Shiels will
present an additional overview of education and school leadership
in California, based on her recent experiences as a principal there.
Discussion topics will include an overview of education in Wisconsin,
comparing and contrasting school leadership in Sweden and Wisconsin,
and "Why Americans Love to Reform the Public Schools."
Outside of the seminar's shop talk, the host, Professor Paul V. Bredeson,
plans informal tours of Madison-area sights as well. (posted
10/28/05)
- ELPA Community provides immediate hurricane
help
Within a period of a few hours Sept. 1-2, members of the ELPA community
— students, staff, and faculty — donated (many anonymously)
about $1,100 to purchase supplies help people who had been affected
by Hurricane Katrina. That amount was supplemented by another
$700 donated by friends and family of ELPA members and a member of
the Ed. Psych. department.
All of the $1,800 was used to purchase supplies in Wisconsin, Arkansas,
Tennesee, and Mississippi that, in turn, were personally delivered
by a member of the department to Baton Rouge — a place where
over 100,000 refugees from Katrina have relocated. More specifically,
at 7 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 3 the supplies, including bottled water,
baby formula, baby bottles, baby wipes, toothpaste, modest kids' clothing,
and other hygiene products, were delivered to an official Hurricane
Shelter on the Louisiana State University–Baton Rouge campus
that was designated as such by the Governor of Louisiana. This
shelter serves individuals and families who had recently left the
New Orleans area as well as some folks from the Gulf Coast of Mississippi.
Both volunteers and refugees enthusiastically and apppreciatively
received the supplies, which were much needed at the time.
A Department alumna and her husband hosted our driver overnight in
Baton Rouge, and when asked by a reporter from the St. Louis Post
Dispatch on his way home why people from ELPA at UW–Madison
would send someone to Louisiana with supplies, he said, "People
just wanted to try to help out a bit." Pretty simple.
Our contributions last week were very much appreciated, as will be
the donations many among us have made and will make in other ways
in the weeks and months ahead. (posted 9/8/05)
- Thurs., Sept. 1, 2005 is
ELPA Orientation Day
Beginning at 9:30 am in the 13th floor lounge of the Educational Sciences
Building, the day includes orientations by the Department and Graduate
School, a lunchtime picnic, and dinnertime social. Read
more about the day's schedule.
- For Latino Students, Early Aspiration
to Attend College Improves Likelihood of Graduation, says report by
Professor Alberto F. Cabrera.
Monday, April 4, 2005
By ERIC WILLS
Latino students who get help on their college-entrance or financial-aid
applications, or who receive such aid, are not significantly more likely
to graduate from college than those who get no help, according to a
report scheduled for release today by the Educational Policy Institute.
The report, "Latino
Students and the Educational Pipeline: Pathways to the Bachelor's Degree
for Latino Students," says that financial concerns are important,
but that "it is the types of funding in certain combinations along
with the costs," not the question of whether Latino students do
or do not receive aid, that affects whether they graduate from college.
The report also says that the courses Latino students take in high school
are more important to their success in college than any help they may
receive with college applications.
Latino students who either aspire to attend college as early as eighth
grade, who enroll in college right after high school, who stay enrolled
continuously, or who have parents who expect them to get an advanced
degree, among other factors, are the ones who are significantly more
likely to graduate from college than their counterparts who do not meet
those criteria, says the report.
Among other recommendations, the report says that postsecondary institutions
should:
* Give Latino students enough academic support services and "safety
nets."
* Track their academic progress, especially during freshman year.
* Stress financial-aid programs that allow students to stay enrolled
continuously.
* Link the financial-aid office to the academic and social-services
branches of the university to provide coordinated support.
The report is based on data drawn from the U.S. Education Department's
National Education Longitudinal Study, a long-term study of the academic
progress of a random sample of 26,000 students who were first surveyed
in 1988, when they were in the eighth grade. Follow-up surveys were
conducted in 1990, 1992, 1994, and 2000.
In its conclusions about Latino students, the Educational Policy
Institute's report also says that:
* Eighth graders who plan to attend college are 48 percent more likely
to complete college than their counterparts who have no such plans.
Those who plan to get a bachelor's degree are 53 percent more likely
than their counterparts to graduate.
* Students who maintain continuous college enrollment are 60
percent more likely to graduate.
* Students who have a grade-point average between 2.50 and 3.19
are 47 percent more likely to graduate, and those with a GPA between
3.2
and 4.0 are 62 percent more likely.
* Students with parents who expect them to get an advanced degree
are 46 percent more likely to graduate than their peers without such
expectations. Students with parents who expect them to get bachelor's
degrees are not significantly more likely to graduate than peers whose
parents have no such expectations.
* Latina students are 20 percent more likely to get a college
degree than their male counterparts.
* Delaying college enrollment after finishing high school reduces
graduation rates among students by 20 percent.
(posted 4/13/05)
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2005-2006 Scholarship/Fellowship Competition for:
Arvil S. Barr Fellowships
Earl E. Hoffman Fellowship
Lanore A. Netzer and Glen G. Eye Scholarship
ALL APPLICATION MATERIALS SHOULD BE SUBMITTED TO:
ELPA Scholarship Committee
Attention: Shari Smith
Educational Sciences Bldg, Room 1152
1025 W. Johnson Street
Madison, WI 53706
DEADLINE: Friday, February 25,
2005
For more information, click
here.
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