2006 News

The Department is proud to have nominated five students this year - Brandon Daniels, Phillis George, David Greendeer, Latish Owusu-Yeboa, and Natalie Tran - for the University Council on Educational Administration (UCEA) Barbara L. Jackson Scholars Program, all of whom were accepted by the UCEA for participation at the organization's annual meeting in San Antonio Nov. 9-12. Open to students in UCEA member institutions, the Jackson Scholars Program is the nation's premier mentoring and networking opportunity for students of color who are interested in pursuing an academic career in the field of Educational Leadership. UW-Madison's strong representation is a matter of pride for the whole department.

The Department's 2006 Barbara L. Jackson scholars: from left, Brandon Daniels, Natalie Tran, Latish Owusu-Yeboa, David Greendeer, and Phillis George.

Alumnus Don Fraynd, now principal of Jones College Prep School in Chicago, has received a national award for his school's success in closing the achievement gap. Don and literature teacher William McHenry traveled to Washington, D.C. Nov. 9 to receive the U.S. Department of Education's Blue Ribbon Schools Award. The award recognizes schools that make significant progress in closing the achievement gap or whose students achieve at very high levels. All states, the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico have an assigned number of possible schools based on the numbers of students and schools in the state. Jones College Prep has an enrollment of 740 high school students comprised of approximately 80% students of color, 60% low income, and 10% identified for special education services. Located in Chicago's downtown educational and cultural corridor, the school focuses on helping students develop themselves as leaders with five particular characteristics as identified in the Jones Profile of the Ideal Graduate at Graduation: 1) socially skilled and mature, 2) compassionate, 3) socially just and responsible, 4) well-rounded and holistic, and 5) intellectually competent. As principal, Don strives for a collaborative leadership style focused on empowering teachers to take ownership of their classrooms and to operate as independent and free thinkers.

UW alumnus Don Fraynd has served as principal at his high school in Chicago since 2003. (Photo courtesy of Jones College Prep School, www.jonescollegeprep.org)

ELPA graduate student Elizabeth M. O'Callaghan's investigation into the tenure system's disparate effect on women is highlighted in the December 2006 issue of Women in Higher Education.

Emeritus Professor Dean Bowles was the only non-Latvian among five who were honored at the 10th anniversary celebration of the founding of Vidzeme University College, Latvia, Sept. 27-30. The faculty senate of the new post-Soviet college honored Professor Bowles for his contribution to capacity raising at the College generally, and specifically for the development of the political science and public administration program, support in initializing the information technology e-study program, and for the exchange of faculty and staff between Vidzeme and Madison and other UW System universities, and the Wisconsin Technical Colleges, from 1999 to 2004.

Professors Rich Halverson and Betty Hayes are among seven UW faculty researchers who'll play a significant role in a new $50 million MacArthur Foundation project investigating digital media and its impact on youth culture, learning and literacy.

The foundation's targeted investment, announced Oct. 19 in New York City, will support two dozen national projects looking at different aspects of the digital revolution and its implications for schools and society. Two of those projects totaling $3 million belong to the Advanced Digital Learning (ADL) Co-Laboratory at UW-Madison, which studies the enormous untapped potential of gaming, simulations and other digital teaching tools to transform the classroom.

"This is the first generation to grow up digital -- coming of age in a world where computers, the Internet, video games and cell phones are common, and where expressing themselves through these tools is the norm," says MacArthur President Jonathan Fanton. [...]

"The UW-Madison group has a particular focus on gaming," says Kurt Squire, an assistant professor of curriculum and instruction. "Video games are the medium of the computer * and the technology of choice for the millenial generation. They are having an impact on business, the military, entertainment, and now finally education."

While educators debate whether games "are good for you," Squire says every other sector is exploiting their power to engage, entertain and educate.

The group's $1.8 million MacArthur project actually supports a number of related and ongoing research efforts in the ADL Co-Lab. Examples include: [...]

* Richard Halverson, who is working to build new multimedia tools to communicate new ideas in the world of educational leadership.
* Elizabeth Hayes, who is investigating ways to keep young girls interested and engaged in technology past the middle school level, when interest levels often drop radically.

Excerpted from article by Brian Mattmiller, University Communications. Read full article at http://www.news.wisc.edu/13057.html.

The Institute of Education Studies has named Professor Geoffrey Borman to a 15-member, nationwide Urban Education Research Task Force, formed Oct. 18 and charged with advising the Institute on a broad range of issues pertaining to improving education in the nation's largest public school districts. Grover J. "Russ" Whitehurst, IES director, said he expected the task force to make recommendations on areas of research and data collections that are not covered through existing programs. Additionally, the panel will help IES leaders think about the design of large, cross-district research projects, and it will serve to identify and support greater collaboration between the research community and urban educators. Michael Casserly, executive director of the Council of the Great City Schools, a coalition of the nation's largest urban districts, was named chairman of the task force.

Rod Marty (Ph.D. 2006) was awarded the Outstanding Dissertation of the Year award by the Education Law Association at their annual meeting Oct 13.  Rod's dissertation, "Antinepotism in Large American School Districts" is an exhaustive study of antinepotism policies in 27 large American school districts located in 13 states. The study provides a rich, meticulous examination of the interaction between state and local antinepotism policies in place in those school districts.  Congratulations, Rod!

ELPA grauates have been awarded ELA's Outstanding Dissertation of the Year for three years in a row:  Judith Risch (2004), John LaNear (2005), and now Rod.

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ELPA alumnus Brad Kose has received the 2006 Best Research Award from the National Staff Development Council, which will formally recognize his accomplishment Dec. 5 in Nashville at its annual conference.  Brad deposited his award-winning Ph.D. thesis, Leadership and Professional Development for Social Justice:  A multi-case study of the roles of school principals, in August 2005. The annual award recognizes research that demonstrates the impact of staff development on student performance and contributes to the knowledge base of the field.  Brad has completed a year as assistant professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. (posted 9/11/2006)

Photo courtesy Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Michael Brophy, who completed his Ph.D. in ELPA this summer, has been named President of Marymount College, a liberal arts college located in the Los Angeles area (Palos Verdes). The former Campus Executive Officer and Dean of University of Wisconsin–Baraboo/Sauk County became the sixth President of Marymount College Palos Verdes Aug. 1, 2006.

At UW-Baraboo, where he had been since 2002, Michael provided leadership and direction for a campus with 600 matriculating and 2,000 continuing education students. In addition, he was a tenured member of the UW English faculty. An accomplished pianist and filmmaker, he received a Fulbright Award in 2003 to study in Bulgaria.

Congratulations to Michael, both for his fine work on the dissertation as well as his presidential selection. (posted 8/24/2006)

Photo courtesy Marymount Palos Verdes

Michael Brophy (Ph.D. 2006), new President of Marymount College Palos Verdes, California

Christopher Thomas , Ph.D. student in ELPA, will receive the George Tipler School Law Study Program grant for 2006.  The grant is awarded to an ELPA student for the study of a school legal issue — in Chris's case, the study of the response to intervention model. Mr. Tipler is the former Executive Director of the Wisconsin Association of School Boards, which together with the Wisconsin School Attorney Association, co-administers the award program.
(posted 8/25/2006)

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School of Education Dean Julie K. Underwood presented Superintendent Rainwater the national Excellence in Educational Leadership Award from the University Council on Educational Administration. The ELPA faculty nominated him for the national recognition given to practicing school administrators who have made significant contributions to the improvement of administrator preparation. The UCEA is a consortium of major research universities with doctoral programs in educational leadership and policy.

Department alumnus Jay Scribner, recipient of the School's award, is now an assistant professor at the University of Missouri-Columbia. Dr. Crim is the Interim Associate Dean of Students at UW. Dr. Derr serves as Vice President for Learner Success at Madison Area Technical College. Dr. Milanowski is an Assistant Scientist in the Wisconsin Center for Education Research. (posted 5/10/06)

Professor Paul V. Bredeson, Department chair, hands Superintendent Art Rainwater a Senior Faculty Fellow award in recognition of his significant contributions to the work of the Department and his fostering of collaboration between the University and administrators throughout the Madison Metropolitan School District. Art is already holding the framed national University Council on Educational Administration's Excellence in Educational Leadership Award which he received moments earlier from UW School of Education Dean Julie K. Underwood.

New ELPA Senior Faculty Fellow Tony Milanowski (center) converses with Professor Eric Camburn (left) and Dr. Bruce King at the ELPA awards reception May 5.

The Graduate Student Collaborative (GSC) will recognize the assistance which ELPA Ph.D. student Reid Prichett has given fellow students to succeed in grad school with a Graduate Student Mentor Award April 27. In 2006 the GSC is bestowing 30 awards to graduate students who have been nominated by letters from their colleagues. These graduate students who display positive mentoring skills are an important and positive part of our campus community. Reid and his adviser, Professor Rich Halverson, have been invited to an award reception hosted by the GSC, Pasrtners for Success, and The UW-Madison Graduate School.
(posted 4/19/2006)

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ELPA alumna and the inaugural recipient of the Wisconsin Distinguished Graduate Fellowship in Technical College Leadership, Lori A. Weyers, has been named president of Northcentral Technical College in Wausau, a position she'll assume upon Dr. Robert C. Ernst's retirement June 30. NTC Board of Trustees Chair Paul Grinde said, "Dr. Weyers brings an unparalleled depth of experience … and is ideally suited to marshal the talent and resources to maximize NTC's position as a leader in hands-on education." Dr. Weyers received her PhD in Educational Leadership and Policy Analysis from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in December 2004. In 2002-03, she was the inaugural recipient of the endowed Fellowship, which is funded jointly by the UW Foundation and the Morgridge Family Foundation. Former School of Education Dean Chuck Read, and former Wisconsin Technical College Sytem leaders Bob Sorensen and Ed Chin were instrumental in establishing this fellowship. Lori's adviser, Professor L. Allen Phelps, expressed confidence that she will be the first of many fellowship recipients who will make important contributions to the technical and community college enterprise in Wisconsin and nationally. The District Board of Trustees for the College named Lori as the College's 12th president at its meeting April 13.

Martin Scanlan (Ph.D. 2005) received the AERA Division A Award for outstanding dissertation.

John LaNear (Ph.D. 2005) received honorable mention.

Dr. James Shaw received a 2006 Academic Staff Distinguished Achievement Award in April for his significant contributions to the faculty, staff and students, and to the outstanding reputation of the School of Education.

The Wisconsin Association of School District Administrators (WASDA) has announced that professor emeritus Dean Bowles will receive the 2006 Outstanding Educator Award at the WASDA Annual Educational Conference at the Grand Geneva Resort in Lake Geneva April 26, 2006.  The Outstanding Educator Award is given to persons who have made clearly recognizable, outstanding contributions in the field of education at local, state, or national levels, have promoted better education, and have aided other educators in the development of worthy educational objectives.

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Applications for associate or assistant professor affliated with WISCAPE, the Wisconsin Center for the Advancement of Postsecondary Education, are due Jan. 7, 2007. Follow this link for the application procedure and full description of the UW position number 54790. http://www.ohr.wisc.edu/pvl/pv_054790.html

Professor Kent Peterson delivered the keynote speech at the University of Minnesota's Urban Leaders Academy on Oct. 26. His books and articles on school culture (co-authored with Terrence Deal) are used in leadership preparation programs in the US and other countries. Professor Peterson regularly works with principals and teacher leaders on ways to build positive school cultures. For more information on this program:www.education.umn.edu/CPS/ULA/schedule.html

We are very pleased to welcome Kate Conklin as our new half-time receptionist/webmaster in the front office!

She started Sept. 19. Among other things, she has taught English and humanities in grades 7 through high school in Madison (Shabazz and La Follette) and in Scotland and served on the Board of Directors for Madison Teachers, Inc., WEAC and NEA.  She currently mentors initial educators for the Madison Metro School District.  Leaps tall buildings in a single bound.  Things like that.  

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Emeritus professor Joseph F. Kauffman, emeritus professor of educational leadership at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, master administrator, one of architects of the Peace Corps, and Dean of Student Affairs at UW-Madison during the turbulent student demonstrations of the 1960s, died Sept. 29 after a courageous battle with cancer. He was 84.

Kauffman was a national expert in college and university leadership. At UW-Madison, he provided counsel to Chancellors John Wiley (2001-), David Ward (1993-2000), and Donna E. Shalala (1988-1993) and to countless university administrators and staff members at all levels. He served the UW System as executive vice president from 1980 to 1983 and contributed
significantly to the development of today’s UW-Madison faculty and academic staff governance structure. He was in great demand as a
consultant at other institutions.

“Joe Kauffman will be remembered as one of the great contributors to the success of this university,” says Chancellor John D. Wiley. “Joe was an idealist and innovative thinker who was well ahead of his time in understanding the educational power of service learning. He trained many of the university’s top leaders during his long association with the campus. His legacy is alive and well across UW-Madison.”

“Joe Kauffman was a scholar and practitioner of higher education administration who managed to make the two parts fit together,” Ward
says. “From personal experience I can attest that he was very generous as an informal mentor. He was patient and willing to talk with anyone.
To me he was a valuable confidant.”

“Joe was a remarkable man - and a special friend,” says Shalala, currently president of the University of Miami. “He was wise and loyal to his community.”

Kauffman joined the UW-Madison faculty as Dean of Student Affairs in 1965 and professor of counseling and behavioral studies in the School of
Education. He held those positions until 1968, when he left to become president of Rhode Island College in Providence. He returned to
UW-Madison in 1973 as a professor in the Department of Educational Administration (now Educational Leadership and Policy Analysis).

Kauffman was born in 1921 in Providence, R.I., and educated in the public schools in Norwood, Mass. He earned his doctorate in education
from Boston University, his master’s from Northwestern, and his bachelor’s from the University of Denver.

Prior to his initial appointment at UW-Madison, he served in Washington, D.C., as a consultant to the Commission on Academic Affairs, the American Council on Education, and as director of higher education for the American Personnel and Guidance Association. He also was a consultant to the State Department, federal Office of Economic Opportunity and more.

Gladys and Joe Kauffman

An office portrait of Joseph Kauffman in 1977. Kauffman, a professor emeritus of educational administration, was dean of Student Affairs at the University of Wisconsin from 1965-68. He returned to Madison to teach in 1973 and went on to become executive vice president of the University of Wisconsin System from 1980-83.
Photo courtesy UW-Madison University Archives

Kauffman, who advocated for a national youth corps during John F. Kennedy’s 1960 presidential campaign, served on the staff under R. Sargent Shriver, Jr. that developed the Peace Corps. As the program’s first director of training from 1961 to 1963, Kauffman was responsible for the preparation of all volunteers for overseas assignments and developed training programs at more than 60 colleges and universities. He was instrumental in establishing recruitment for the Peace Corps on the UW-Madison campus, which today consistently leads the nation in the number of volunteers recruited for the program.

Kauffman also became a champion of service learning, in which students build on their work in the classroom and receive academic credit for volunteering in community settings around the city, state, nation and world.

Although he retired in 1987, Kauffman continued to have a significant impact on UW-Madison through the Joseph F. Kauffman Administrative Development Program. The seminars, now entering their 19th year, provide a means for current and potential UW-Madison administrators, faculty and staff, to meet informally and discuss the complex issues facing the university and resolve problems they are facing.

Among those mentored by Kauffman was Mary K. Rouse, who was UW-Madison Dean of Students between 1987 and 2000, and director of the UW-Madison Morgridge Center for Public Service from 2000 until her retirement in 2005. Rouse says that Kauffman not only changed the direction of her own life, but also altered the face of higher education.

“He wanted to interest people in higher education, not only on the local, state and national levels but worldwide,” she says. “The best thing about his seminars was the way he connected his classes to the Wisconsin Idea. He strongly believed that the campus has a
responsibility to disseminate knowledge to improve the condition everywhere, and that education is an important key to improving people’s lives.”

People who knew Kauffman often cite his graciousness and generosity. Arthur Hove, special assistant emeritus to the chancellor, has known Kauffman since the mid-60s. “My first contact with Joe came when I was the editor of the alumni magazine. I wrote an article about him and spelled his last name incorrectly - two ‘n’s instead of two ‘f’s. He was very gracious about it, and that led to a continuing interchange over the years.”

After she became Dean of Students, Rouse found the public scrutiny associated with the job more intense than she had expected, and difficult to deal with, she says. Kauffman reminded her that “what I really loved was working with students - that was why I had been selected for the position. He told me that if I concentrated on students and student services - my love and strength - I’d be able to survive anything.”

Noting that Kauffman served in the 85th Infantry Division in North Africa and Italy during World War II, Hove says Kauffman often credited the GI Bill, which allowed returning veterans to pursue a college education, for changing the direction of his own life. “He said he personified that bill, that he never would have gone on to college without it,” Hove says.

Kauffman made sure his students recognized the value of higher education and its role in the big picture. For instance, Judy Craig, emerita associate dean in the College of Letters and Science, says Kauffman encouraged her to pursue an advanced degree while she was working fulltime.

“He had a real love for the university, and he was able to pass that along,” she says. “He also was my major professor - I may have been the last student he escorted to the stage at commencement when I got my Ph.D. in 1986.”

His seminars, meanwhile, have become a campus institution, and have continued even when Kauffman himself was unable to lead them. Craig, along with Hove and Joseph Corry, associate vice chancellor emeritus, stepped in when Kauffman was recovering from open-heart surgery.

Kauffman was preceded in death by his wife, Gladys.

“They were a true team,” Hove says. “She made a substantial contribution to everything they did, and he always acknowledged it.”

His survivors include his daughter, Marcia Krasnow of Boston, and son, Frank of California. Graveside services are scheduled Sunday, at 11 a.m., at Forest Hills Cemetery, Madison.

by Barbara Wolff, (608) 262-8292 (posted 9/29/2006)

 

 

 

 

 

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Thirty educational leaders from across Wisconsin and northern Illinois gathered at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, July 12-14, 2006 for the first Wisconsin Idea Leadership Academy to discuss and address today’s key issues in education.

The participating superintendents and principals, along with UW-Madison faculty, engaged in discussions focused on issues of leadership and change, ethical dilemmas of leadership, and equity and learning. The academy, sponsored by the UW-Madison School of Education and its Department of Educational Leadership and Policy Analysis, also provided opportunities for the participants to interact and exchange ideas with colleagues.

2006 Wisconsin Idea Leadership Academy Participants included:

• Appleton School District : Judy Baseman, Principal, Stephen Foster Elementary Charter School ; John Magas, Principal, Wilson Middle School
• DeForest Area School District : Jon Bales, Superintendent
• Green Lake School District : Ken Bates, Superintendent
• Madison Metropolitan School District : Alan Harris, Principal, East High School ; Ed Holmes, Principal, West High School ; Ann Yehle, Principal, Sherman Middle School .
• Manitowoc Public School District : Marcia Flaherty, Assistant Director of Student Learning; Kathy Lemberger, Principal, Washington Jr. High School
• Marshall Public Schools : Barb Sramek, Superintendent; Ann Kox, Intermediate/Middle School Principal
• Mount Horeb Area School District : Wayne Anderson, Superintendent
• New Glarus School District : Barbara Thompson, District Administrator
• Oconomowoc Area School District : Joseph Moylan, Principal, Oconomowoc High School
• Verona School District : Dean Gorrell, Superintendent; Stephanie Edwards, Principal, Savanna Oaks Middle School
• Waunakee School District : Brian Kersten, Principal, Waunakee Community High School
• Wausau School District : Stephen Murley, Superintendent, Wausau School District

The Academy embodies the “Wisconsin Idea,” a tradition articulated in 1904 by University of Wisconsin President Charles Van Hise, who declared that he would “never be content until the beneficent influence of the university reaches every family in the state.”

The Academy was created to promote close working relationships with the University and among K-12 schools across the state and region. Participants will build upon their initial work in Madison by developing future partnerships and learning experiences designed to benefit their own schools and districts.

Alberto Cabrera has accepted a senior faculty position at the Department of Education Policy & Leadership at the University of Maryland. Faculty, staff and students gathered at the Memorial Union terrace July 31 to celebrate his work here at UW-Madison since 2002 and to wish the Cabrera family well as he, Maria and Victor return to the East Coast.
(posted 8/24/2006)

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Dean Julie Underwood stressed the importance of the UW link to professional groups and expanding the global boundaries of the UW in a brief address to the 2006 WCSS and International Education Conference, which attracted 500 participants to the Marriott Madison West Conference Center March 20-21. Included in the conference, jointly sponsored by the UW and the Wisconsin Council for the Social Studies, were twenty-four 60-minute sessions, four 2½-hour workshops, plus a keynoter - all focused on international and global education. The program covered international and global education across six continents and ran the gamut of curricular disciplines in Wisconsin’s classrooms. Approximately 350 conferees attended the 28 sessions for an average of 14.5 per session. The conferees gave a mean evaluation of 4.60 (5-point scale) on all sessions with 65% of the sessions above the mean.

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We are pleased to announce that Janet M. Josvai (JOSS-vay) has accepted our offer of a University Services Associate 1 position. She starts on Tuesday, April 25th.

Janet comes with a bachelor's in Philosophy from Stevens Point and a master's in Library and Information Studies from UW-Madison. Her work history includes libraries on and off campus, academic departments, and her own indexing service business.

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(posted 12/31/2005)

Annette has also chaired the Planning Committee for the 2006 "Lightning In Paradise" WEMA Brainstorm Joint Conference to be held at the Kalahari Resort in the Wisconsin Dells, March 5-7. The conference offers an opportunity to learn about the latest advances
in media and technology with more than 140 breakout sessions and workshops and more than 100 vendor exhibits.  This conference has something for everyone and attracts approximately 1,000 people, including administrators, technology integrators, library media directors, and technical staff. Everything you need to know can be found on the WEMA or Brainstorm web sites.

(posted 12/31/2005)

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(posted 2/3/2006)