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01 D e a n ’ s N ot e
Deborah Loewenberg Ball
On The Cover
CSHPE doctoral students in front of the
School of Education (left to right):
02 C SHPE : A L e g ac y
Leadership
of Carmen McCallum, Geisce Ly, Janel
Sutkus, James Barber, and Christopher
Jeff Mortimer Shults.
07 H i g h e r E d u cat i o n C e n t e r T e l l s
S to r y o f D e m oc r at i z at i o n
Photo by Mike Gould.
Jeff Mortimer
Annual Report
11 50th Anniversary Plans
Janel Sutkus and James Barber
An Honor Roll of donors to the School
of Education during the fiscal year
2005-2006 comprises the Annual Report
15 Profiles
Alumnus: Paul Lingenfelter 15
in a separate section at the end of In-
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Leadership
By Jeff Mortimer
T
he University of Michigan’s Center
for the Study of Higher and Postsec- graduates, led to the extensive postwar
ondary Education is both a reflection growth both in the numbers of students and
of institutions. After 1950 there was a virtual
and a major strand of the history of American higher education tsunami that would con-
higher education. tinue for the next two decades.
Until well into the 20th century, most Ameri- The other sea change in the wake of the war
can colleges and universities drew their was universities’ increasing dependence on
administrators from the ranks of faculty federal funds for research, with their com-
who had only on the job and usually limited plex reporting requirements. All of these
experience. The increasing complexity of pressures spurred an urgent need for trained
the job made it clear that more specialized administrators, as well as a rethinking of the
preparation was necessary. This process ac- purposes and policies of higher education.
celerated after World War II, as the GI Bill Thus, in 1957, the Carnegie Corporation of
profoundly altered the higher education New York funded the establishment of three
landscape. centers for the study of higher education,
one of them at the University of Michigan
GI Bill Sparks Transformation intended to prepare leaders for the new
playing field and find ways to create a more
The GI Bill, combined with the 1950 recom- scholarly, structured and professionalized
mendation by the Truman Commission on approach to higher education: in effect, to
Higher Education that higher education found a discipline.
should be made available to all secondary
2 Seminar at a National
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A Legacy of Leadership
Henderson insisted that the Center’s pro- Getting Strategic About Research
gram have a strong scholarly component,
a commitment to excellence, and that it Shortly after he took the Center’s reins in
shoulder social responsibilities beyond the 1976, Peterson began a discussion among
requirements of its mandate. The seeds of faculty, staff and alumni to strategize its
the future had been sown. future direction. “We concluded that one
of the Center’s past strengths in executive
The field of higher education grew, in large development and professional in-service
measure due to the Center’s influence, and training should be de-emphasized in favor
its mission grew as well. By the mid 1960s, of greater emphasis on more rigorous gradu-
the focus was shifting from post-doctoral to ate training for degree students (especially
doctoral education. Under the leadership at the doctoral level) and of more concern
of James L. Miller, who directed the Center for research and conceptual development in
from 1966-1970, and Joseph Cosand, who the field,” he says. “We also concluded that
directed from 1971-1976, the Center’s pro- our highest priorities should be strengthen-
gram gave greater emphasis to external and
governmental affairs—both state and na-
tional level, to the changing nature of higher
education, and to fostering faculty research
projects.
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1966
before becoming dean of school at
ary Teaching and Learning, a government
funded research and development center University of Rochester
focused on teaching and learning in higher Henderson retires, succeeded
education.” by James L. Miller Jr.
1958
Postdoctoral program begins with
one fellow, Dr. Summer Hayward
1957
The Center is one of three cre-
ated with Carnegie grant; first
director Algo D. Henderson
1947
Truman Commission on Higher Education:
Higher Education should be made available to
all secondary graduates.
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By Jeff Mortimer
I
t’s not always easy to see the connection New Visions of Leadership
between what happens in the academy
For example, she says, “higher education
and the fortunes of the larger society it provides paths to career success, and it’s
serves, but the University of Michigan Center certainly an important training ground for
for the Study of Higher and Postsecondary professionals in our society. It’s sometimes,
Education was founded in 1957 as an explicit but not always, valued for providing cri-
part of that connection. It has a compelling tiques of society. And then you have the ‘on
story to tell, and it plans to spend much of its the other hand.’ Not all graduates get good
jobs. Employers are sometimes dissatisfied
50th anniversary year telling it.
with the skill level of the graduates. The cost
is prohibitive for large portions of the popu-
The celebration’s official theme — “Under-
lation. There are questions about what is a
standing and Strengthening the Contribu-
relevant curriculum, the quality of teach-
tions of Higher Education to a Changing
ing, research integrity, and the perceived
Society” — sets the stage for the narrative.
discrepancy of values between the academy
and society.”
“We frame it by looking at the American
public’s love-hate relationship with higher
All these questions and criticisms are voiced
education,” says Patricia King, former
in an environment vastly more complicated
Center director. “While the public is under-
than that of half a century ago, in part be-
standing of its value, it has a lot of questions
cause of such concerns. Just as the Center’s
about higher education’s structure, process-
founding charge was to prepare adminis-
es and priorities.”
trators to manage the post-World War II
population explosion in higher education,
it now is called to respond to new demands
placed on colleges and universities arising
Themes for National Conference, from changes both inside and outside the
March 22-25, 2007 academy.
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versity of Michigan Law School’s use of race hallmarks. For the last five years, more than
as a factor in admissions, the Court cited 70 senior administrators from colleges and
evidence from a study directed by Associ- universities in China have taken workshops
ate Professor Eric Dey and Sylvia Hurtado, conducted by Center faculty as part of a
then the Director of the Center, that diverse program coordinated by Associate Profes-
educational environments led to improved sor Janet Lawrence. The initiative grew out
outcomes for all students, not just the tradi- of a U.S. State Department project Lawrence
tionally excluded. led to help scholars and administrators from
universities in Kyrgyzstan, one of China’s
Dey and his colleagues are continually neighbors, deal with major organizational
expanding their scope. “We’re doing work transformations in their higher education
on how diversity affects people in terms of system.
their life choices,” he says. “Our research
shows how people end up in different kinds “During my tenure, we started to move
of neighborhoods and have different friend- toward more of an international dimension
ships and different types of jobs if they go in our work,” says Lawrence, the Center’s
to a more diverse college. We’re also doing director from 1996 to 2000. “All of us had
some research with colleges to figure out been doing consulting work overseas, but
how we can do more than just open our we began to think more systematically about
doors to be more inclusive. How do we what was going on globally in higher edu-
structure educational programs so students cation. In addition to hiring faculty in new
really learn from one another? How do we areas and running professional develop-
actually make some progress in a couple ment programs for higher education admin-
of decades so we have a more positively istrators from other countries, we started
functioning system, instead of needing these growing student and faculty participation in
compensatory sorts of things?” conferences and research having to do with
international issues.”
Globally Engaged Scholarship The professional develop-
and Service ment program, in particular,
has spawned opportunities for
Along with diversity, and in many ways its cross-fertilization. “It
corollary, a growing international involve- became a hotbed of a
ment has been one of the Center’s recent lot of different ideas
that are just taking off
UM president, Mary Sue Coleman, now,” Lawrence says.
and former UM president, Lee
Bollinger, outside the Supreme
Court in 2003 .
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“The administrators that came here are and interpreting students’ learning experi-
asking if some of our doctoral students ences with an eye to understanding the
would like to come over and work with kinds that enable students to best serve in
them on some of the changes under way these roles.”
on their campuses, and our doctoral stu-
dents are fascinated with it.” The eight-year longitudinal phase of the na-
tional study, which begins this fall, will fol-
Ultimately, the most telling barometer of low approximately 5,500 students through
the Center’s utility is how its work affects their undergraduate careers and into their
the quality and value of students’ expe- early post-college years. Researchers will
riences, and what sort of citizens those examine a broad range of both students and
students become. institutions, including liberal arts colleges,
regional universities, research universities,
“A primary purpose of CSHPE’s 50th and community colleges. The fundamental
anniversary celebration is to strengthen goals are nothing less than to identify the
the contributions of higher education to a teaching practices, programs, and institu-
changing society,” says Patricia King. “One tional structures that support liberal arts
way to do this is to improve educational education, and to develop faculty-friendly
practices on college campuses in ways that and institutionally-useful methods of assess-
improve student learning, so that college ing it.
graduates are better able to contribute to
society as professionals, as leaders, and as That the Center is still around for its 50th
citizens.” anniversary is a tribute both to its adapt-
ability and its consistency. “It really does go
Toward that end, King heads the Michi- back to the values that were implicit in our
gan portion of the Wabash National Study founding as a center,” says John Burkhardt.
of Liberal Arts Education, funded by the “It came at a time when higher education
Center of Inquiry in the Liberal Arts at was not only growing dramatically in terms
Wabash College. “This is one of the most of the number of people involved, but also
comprehensive national studies of the making a transition from an institution that
effects of American higher education on was largely reserved for the wealthy to a far
student learning and development ever more democratic model.”
conducted,” she says. “We are examining
“We’re still at it.”
CSHPE Students Samantha Carney, Kristen Korevec, & CSHPE students Samantha Carney, Jimmy Brown, Mary Dwyer, Najla Mamou,
Quinton Walker at a student event & Jenny Small talk about organizational change in John Burkhardt’s class.
T
he Distinguished Scholar Lecture sor of Sociology at
Series will reflect the three concen- UCLA and an Affili-
tration areas of the Center for the ated Scholar with the
Higher Education
Study of Higher and Postsecondary Research Institute
Education (CSHPE) – Academic Affairs and (HERI). Dr. Allen is
Student Development, Organizational Be- cited for distinguished
havior and Management, and Public Policy. achievement in “100
The CSHPE faculty identified four scholars Years of Change,”
on the cutting edge of higher and postsecond- Special Issue of Black
Issues in Higher Edu-
ary education theory or research to serve as
cation (1999). Dr. Walter Allen
Distinguished Scholars for the lecture series.
The Distinguished Scholars will spend two Dr. Allen’s research interests include com-
days on campus, during which time they will parative race and ethnic relations, compara-
present an open lecture that addresses new tive family studies, and higher education de-
theories, approaches or issues that will likely segregation. He is currently the Co-Director
shape future scholarly work in each concentra- of CHOICES, a longitudinal study of college
access and attendance among African Amer-
tion area. Each lecture will be published as icans and Latinos in California. Throughout
part of an edited volume of all presentations his career, Dr. Allen has authored over 80
given throughout the 50th anniversary year. publications, and most recently served as a
The Distinguished Scholars will also partici- co-editor for a volume titled Higher Educa-
pate in seminars and will meet with graduate tion in a Global Society: Achieving Diversity,
students and faculty while at the Center. They Equity, and Excellence. Dr. Allen is no strang-
er to Ann Arbor, as he served as Professor in
will also participate in the National Confer-
the Depart-
ence to take place at the University of Michi- ment of So-
gan March 22-24, 2007. ciology and
the Center
Academic Affairs and Student for Af-
roamerican
Development Lecture and African
“We, Too, Sing America: Race, Citizenship, Studies at
and Higher Education Opportunity” the Univer-
Thursday, September 21, 2006 sity of Mich-
igan before
Dr. Walter Allen is the Distinguished Scholar accepting
for the Academic Affairs and Student Devel- a position
opment Lecture. Dr. Allen holds the Allan
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tion. he Center for the Study of Higher and
Postsecondary Education will mark
Through sociological analyses of Ameri- the beginning of its anniversary year
can higher education, Dr. Gumport has
illuminated the organizational, political
with a special event that focuses on the emerg-
and intellectual interests that redefine the ing challenges to higher education. A distin-
content, structure and relative legitimacy of guished panel of current and former univer-
academic fields. She has examined the ten- sity presidents, all with ties to the University
sions arising during academic restructuring of Michigan, will speak to this theme with
under budgetary constraints, the structural special attention to the public purposes and
and normative strains in graduate educa- social dividends associated with higher educa-
tion, and the impact of statewide academic
planning initiatives tion. Each speaker will have the opportunity to
on public higher address a topic related to this theme, followed
education. She and by breakout sessions in which members of the
Dr. Michael Bastedo audience will discuss the remarks. This event
(assistant profes- will conclude with the panel reconvening to
sor, CSPHE) pub- share reactions to one another’s presentations
lished their recent
and to address specific challenges that have
work on academic
stratification in been raised throughout the day. The speakers
Higher Education include:
and the Review of
Higher Education. •Dr. Mary Sue Coleman, President, U-M
Dr. Gumport has •Dr. Nancy Cantor, Chancellor and Presi-
two forthcoming dent of Syracuse University and former
Dr. Patricia Gumport books — Sociology Provost and Executive Vice-President for
of Higher Education: Contributions and Their Academic Affairs, U-M
Contexts and Academic Restructuring: The
•Dr. James J. Duderstadt, Professor of
Ascendance of Industry Logic in Public Higher
Science and Engineering and President
Education — both with Johns Hopkins Uni-
Emeritus, U-M
versity Press.
•Dr. Charles Vest, former President of the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
and former Provost and Vice President
for Academic Affairs, U-M
•Dr. B. Joseph White, President of The
University of Illinois and former Dean of
the Business School and Interim Presi-
dent, U-M
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he final event of the anniversary year
he National Conference will bring will be an early summer Alumni Cel-
together scholars, researchers, and ebration. All alumni, former faculty
practitioners from within and outside and visiting scholars, and current students
of higher education. The conference will begin will be invited to remember the Center’s past
with a keynote address on the general ways and look ahead to its future. Events will be
in which higher education can contribute to a held on- and off-campus and will include
changing society. Specific topics – economic cohort receptions, faculty- and student-led
development, citizenship in a diverse society, panel discussions, campus tours, social events,
and the advancement of knowledge – will be informal gatherings, an evening of dinner and
discussed in individual thematic sessions. dancing, a silent auction of CSHPE memora-
Each session will feature a keynote address by bilia, and more. Alumni-from the first class
a national speaker, a panel of respondents from to the most recent class-are invited to help us
the University of Michigan and Ann Arbor celebrate 50 years of shaping higher education
communities, and a series of breakout sessions leaders.
led by CSHPE faculty. The closing session
will synthesize the discussions and ideas from
each of the thematic sessions into an overarch-
ing role for higher education in the future.
By Jeff Mortimer
Paul Lingenfelter
P
aul Lingenfelter says there are two
initiatives he’s been involved in since
becoming Executive Director of the
national organization of State Higher Educa-
tion Executive Officers (SHEEO) in 2000 that
are the most significant of his tenure. One was
the creation in 2004 of the National Commis-
sion on Accountability in Higher Education.
The other is the publication of an annual
survey of state higher education finance.
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Profiles
Faculty
By Jeff Mortimer
Marvin Peterson
M
arvin Peterson has fashioned a
career of rare distinction. At a chance meeting with University of
Michigan Professor Robert Kahn, who
For someone whose work in was on sabbatical at MIT, he learned that
higher education has been largely focused he could study both higher education and
on organization, administration and plan- organizational behavior in the Center for the
ning, Peterson’s own career has been, as he Study of Higher and Postsecondary Educa-
himself puts it, serendipitous. The strap- tion’s relatively new doctoral program. That
ping farm boy from rural Illinois majored in was in 1966. Michigan has now been his
engineering and math at Trinity College in intellectual home for 40 years, half of them
Hartford, Conn., because they were subjects as Director of the Center where he earned
he did well in and enjoyed. After complet- his doctorate, but the last thing he could be
ing his bachelor’s degree, he then enrolled called is “set in his ways.”
in Harvard Business School. Ironically, his
experience there eliminated a business ca- “Outspoken” is closer to the mark.
reer from contention.
Although he was one of the first to earn a
While fascinated by planning, management, higher education PhD and a leader in devel-
personnel administration and the like, “I oping the field itself, he now decries hiring
never found an area of business in which only faculty with such degrees. “If you take
I wanted to make my life work,” he says. a look at executive officers these days, you
Perhaps because, as he puts it, “they did not find almost none of them read the higher
want to have an unemployed graduate,” the education literature. A lot of the problems
school offered him a position as Assistant to that institutions and leaders have to deal
the Dean. Within a year, he was an Assistant with are broader and more complex than
Dean, deeply involved in activities that had the research can really address in a timely
barely been named: institutional research, manner.”
advancement, strategic planning.
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Staff
By Eve Silberman
Linda Rayle
T
he phones don’t ring nearly as often as saying we have not been disappointed.”
they did eighteen years ago, when she
first started working at the Center for Rayle is highly visible in the Center, in
the Study of Higher and Postsecondary Edu- contrast to her previous job at the former
Consortium for Community College De-
cation, says Senior Administrative Assistant velopment, where for fifteen years she
Linda Rayle. Not because the Center is less was “tucked away in a part of the building
busy—hardly!—but because most people now where we didn’t get any traffic at all.” Still,
e-mail. Another change she’s observed is that Rayle had her work cut out as the organiza-
as the Center’s reputation has grown, more of tion grew from a membership of 18 com-
its graduate students come from out of state munity colleges to, at its peak, 160. Rayle
and from overseas. “We get a lot of exceptional possesses a “rare mix of people skills and
financial acumen,” says her former boss,
people applying to our programs,” emphasizes Professor Richard Alfred. “We couldn’t af-
Rayle, who staffs the admissions committee. ford to have things dropping through the
cracks. And with Linda there, nothing did.”
Her “favorite part of the job” is working
with the students, says Rayle, who gives A native of Detroit, Rayle received her
them advice on everything from how to sign degree from U-M in 1972, marrying her
up for classes to where to buy a watch. She husband, Roger Rayle, when she was still
keeps a busy schedule: assuming the job a an undergrad. Rayle smiles when she recalls
year ago, she took the place of two people. that she met him early in her freshman year,
Rayle’s arrival was good news to people at a mixer at the Mosher Jordan dorm where
who knew her, like Professor Marvin Pe- Roger had brashly gone to recruit female
terson. “She had the reputation of someone students to his off-campus party. “Being the
who learned new things fast,” e-mails Peter- cautious type,” Rayle recalls, she consulted
son. “I think I speak for the other faculty in Continued on page 19
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Linda Rayle (Continued) her two children, she started at the Center as
a research secretary, and, when grant money
her resident advisor before she and several for her job ran out, moved on to the Consor-
other girls “squished into my future hus- tium.
band’s Corvair” and drove to his party.
Her ties to U-M have only strengthened,
After she graduated, Rayle received a says Rayle, since her daughter, Lisa, gradu-
library science degree from U-M but ated from the university and her son, Mi-
couldn’t find work near Ann Arbor, where chael, is now a junior. Although she has
she and Roger, who works in computers, started to ponder retirement, she acknowl-
settled. A few years later she received an edges she’s not sure what she’d do with her
M.B.A. from U-M, with a concentration in time. That’s never been a problem at the
marketing. She then bought car parts for Center. “I’ve enjoyed all my jobs here,” she
Ford but disliked the “high-pressure at- says. “I’ve never been bored.”
mosphere” and quit after less than a year,
moving to a computer company. Eventu-
ally, after taking several years off to raise
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News of Education School of Education University of Michigan
Claire Cameron, doctoral student in the Seán Delaney, doctoral student in Educa-
Combined Program in Education and Psy- tional Studies, has been named an Interna-
chology, has been awarded a Rackham tional Institute Individual Fellow. He will
Predoctoral Fellowship for the 2006-2007 be conducting a project in Ireland, entitled
academic year. A Study of the Relationship between the Culture
of Teaching Mathematics and the Knowledge
Kim Cameron, Professor of Management & Required for Teaching.
Organization, Ross School of Business,
and Professor of Higher Education, School Stephen DesJardins, Associate Professor
of Education, had four books published this in the Center for the Study of Higher and
year: Postsecondary Education, was named
Kim S. Cameron and Robert E. Quinn (2006) Associate Editor of Economics of Education
Diagnosing and Changing Organizational Cul- Review. See this URL for details about the
ture. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass. journal. http://www.elsevier.com/wps/
Edward Hess and Kim S. Cameron (2006) find/journaldescription.cws_home/743/
Leading with Values: Positivity, Virtues, and description#description
High Performance. New York: Cambridge
University Press. Barry Fishman, Associate Professor of Educa-
Kim S. Cameron, Robert E. Quinn, Jeff De- tional Studies and Learning Technologies,
Graff, and Anjan Thakor (2006) was the keynote speaker at the Hong Kong
Competing Values Leadership: Creating Value International Technology in Education
in Organizations. New York: Edward Elgar. Conference in February 2006. He has also
Kim Cameron and Marc Lavine (2006) Mak- been named an Associate Editor of the Jour-
ing the Impossible Possible: Leading Extraordi- nal of the Learning Sciences.
nary Performance-The Rocky Flats Story. San
Francisco: Berrett Koehler.
Eric Fretz, doctoral student in the Combined
Program in Education and Psychology &
Tabbye Chavous-Sellers has been selected Center for Highly Interactive Computing in
as one of five fellows of the National Center Education, was awarded a Navy Commen-
for Institutional Diversity at the University dation Medal by Vice Admiral Patrick Walsh
of Michigan (and located in the School of (Commander US Naval Forces, Central
Education building). Tabbye chairs the SOE Command), whom Fretz worked for during
Social Justice Initiative. The funding that she his recent six-month mobilization to active
has been awarded will help support collec- duty in the Persian Gulf. He qualified as a
tive work on issues of diversity and equity Battle Watch Captain in the Fifth Fleet Com-
in the School. mand Center and used his SOE training to
design and execute an interview/research
Jane Coggshall, 2006 PhD graduate from project to gather lessons from the Pakistan
Educational Studies, won the Lester W. earthquake disaster relief efforts.
Anderson Memorial Award for best dis-
sertation in the field of secondary school Hala Ghousseini, doctoral student in Educa-
administration for her doctoral dissertation tional Studies, has been awarded a Barbour
entitled, High School Teacher Assignment and Scholarship for the 2006-2007 academic year.
the New Governance of Teacher Quality.
News Events
Matthew Gillery, (Educational Studies) has named to “Who’s Who Among America’s
been awarded a Martin Luther King Jr. Spirit Teachers.” She was a fifth-grade teacher in
Award. Shreveport (LA) at Claiborne Elementary
Fundamental Magnet (spring 2004) and
Vicki Haviland, research assistant with Anne Sunset Acres Elementary (2004-05) before
Gere in the Teachers for Tomorrow program, moving to Michigan and attending graduate
was selected for the National Council of school.
Teachers of English (NCTE) Promising Re-
searcher Award for her paper, “’Things Get Annemarie Palincsar has been named an
Glossed Over’: Rearticulating the Silencing Arthur F. Thurnau Professor. This program
Power of Whiteness in Education.” She will is designed to honor those tenured faculty
present this paper in November 2006 at the whose commitment to and investment in
NCTE conference in Nashville. undergraduate teaching has had a demon-
strable impact on the intellectual develop-
Jennifer Lutman, doctoral student in English ment and lives of their students.
and Education, was named a 2006 Outstand-
ing Graduate Student Instructor. Two doctoral students in CSHPE have won
awards from the American College Personnel
Lauren McArthur, doctoral student in Educa- Association (ACPA):
tional Studies, was named a 2006 Outstand-
ing Graduate Student Instructor. Mark Garrett from CSHPE received the “Out-
standing Doctoral Student Award” from
Allen Menlo, Professor Emeritus of Inter- the American College Personel Association
national Education, was given the Lifetime (ACPA) College Student Educators Interna-
Achievement Award by the International tional’s Standing Committee for Graduate
Studies Special Interest Group of AERA. Dr. Students and New Professionals.
Menlo originated an international team of
researchers that conducts parallel studies in Penny Pasque received the “Research and
a number of countries. The SIG recognized Scholarship Award” from the American Col-
his contributions to the field over a period of lege Personel Association (ACPA) College
more than 30 years. Student Educators International’s Standing
Committee for Women.
Vilma Mesa, Assistant Professor and Re-
search Scientist, gave an invited video Laurie Sleep, doctoral student in Education-
presentation in March 2006, about her al Studies, was named a 2006 Outstanding
research on texts as part of the “Thinking Graduate Student Instructor.
about Mathematics Education Series” at the
University of Haifa, Israel. The name of the Janel Sutkus, doctoral student and As-
presentation was: “What Counts as an An- sistant, CSHPE 50th Anniversary Events,
swer? Contrasting Undergraduate Calculus Center for the Study of Higher and Post-
Textbook Content.” secondary Education, was recently elected
to a three-year term as a Board Member for
Rebecca Murphy, who is working toward the Admissions, Orientation, and First-year
a Master of Arts degree in education with Experience Directorate of the American Col-
certification as a reading specialist, was lege Personnel Association.
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John Mott Foundation Technical Assistance in Support of the Bridges 4/1/2006-3/31/2007 $56,160
Burkhardt to the Future Program in Genessee County
John National Assoc. for Promoting Best Practices in Leadership within 5/15/2006-6/30/2007 $14,500
Burkhardt Equal Opportunity Historically Black Colleges and Universities
Patricia Wabash College Liberal Arts and the 7/1/2006-6/30/2010 $1,230,000
King Development of Wise Citizens
Magdalene Spencer Foundation Learning Complex Performance in, from, and for 9/1/2006-8/31/2007 $47,725
Lampert Practice: Implications for Teaching and Teacher
Education
Valerie University of Chicago A Comprehensive Evaluation of the Effects 7/1/2006-6/30/2010 $467,159
Lee /USDOE/IES of District-Wide High-School Curriculum
Reform on Academic Achievement and
Attainment in Chicago
Elizabeth Carnegie Corporation Adolescent Literacy Development in 2/1/2006-9/1/2006 $23,097
Moje Out-of-School Time: A Practitioner’s Guidebook
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Moss Foundation Support System for Elementary
Teacher Education
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and Prospects of College Opportunity and
Attainment of African-American Males in an
Urban Setting
School Updates
Medical and Professional Education Kenney to coordinate our secondary
teacher preparation programs. The School
Concentration is currently searching for a new faculty
member who would be the Director of
A new concentration for Master’s level students Teacher Education. The Director will
in the higher education program in medical and work with the faculty leaders to coordi-
professional education begins with the addition of nate the teacher preparatioin programs.
a new course: “Introduction to Medical and Profes- Lesley Rex
sional Education.” The inspiration for the new con-
centration came from two young faculty members Provost Sullivan Visit
in the Medical School, Emory Collins and Caren
Stalburg, who were pursuing master’s degrees in New University Provost, Teresa Sullivan, spent
higher education and saw a need to combine the June 30 in the School of Education as part of her
fields. “getting acquainted” tour of the programs on
campus. Dean Ball designed the day to be a sort
The students in the course will explore profes- of “field trip” where, rather than just meeting
sional education in the U.S., including medicine, people, Sullivan could get a sense of some of the
dentistry, law, business, nursing School’s current work. Consequently, she spent the
and pharmacy. Underlying theo- day participating in various meetings, and having
ries and practices related to edu- lunch with students. The purpose was to help her
cation in specific disciplines will learn more about the work that is going on in the
be presented by experts in each School. Dean Ball served as “tour guide” for the
of the fields. The goal of the day, going with her on all her stops and talking
course is to introduce students with her afterwards about what she had seen and
to the disciplines that comprise heard, and setting that in context. The School of
professional education, and to Education was one of Sullivan’s first stops in her
the educational methods and effort to learn more about the University. This is the
the current management, legal and policy issues first time in over seventy years that the University
within each of the disciplines. The instructors for has appointed a provost who was not a member of
the course come from the University of Michigan the UM faculty, so orienting her to the campus and
Health System: to the initiatives of each school or college was an
Casey White, Ph.D. is Assistant Dean for Medi- important agenda.
cal Education and Assistant Professor of Medical
Education. Hilary Haftel, M.D., is Clinical Associ- “She was enthusiastic all day long and made many
ate Professor, Department of Internal Medicine comments,” said Dean Ball. “Of course there is
and Clinical Associate Professor, Department of more for her to learn; the design I created for her
Pediatrics and Communicable Diseases. visit did not allow her to learn about all of our
programs or research. But this set a foundation for
our work with our new Provost. We were delighted
New Coordinators of Our Teacher that Provost Sullivan spent an entire day in the
building with us so soon after stepping into her
Education Programs new role on campus.”
Cathy Reischl has agreed to assume the role of
faculty coordinator for the elementary teacher edu- Elizabeth Moje (center), Amy Jeppsen, Emily Douglas, Me-
cation programs for 2006-07. Lesley Rex will take lissa Stull and Deanna Birdyshaw present their preservice
on this role for the secondary teacher education teacher research project to Provost Teresa Sullivan (upper-
programs. This represents a next step left) and Dean Ball.
in the development of a new leadership
plan for our teacher education programs,
where faculty members will take turns
in the role of “faculty lead/coordinator.”
Reischl will work with Sara Constant and
Stuart Rankin to coordinate our elemen-
tary teacher preparation programs. Rex
Cathy Reischl will work with Charlie Peters and Pat
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ome philanthropic contributions to the
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and to particular academic endeavors.
Some patrons choose to support aspects of the
School that are usually overlooked as possible
targets for giving.
On the Internet
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Mary Louise Hook Allen Arnold Engster
(BS 1951) is the author of her father’s biog- (BS 1963) has been a Whittemore-Prescott
raphy, Fightin’ Frank, about Frank Hook, (Iosco, MI) Board of Education member
the 12th District of Michigan’s only Demo- since 1994. He is running for reelection this
cratic Congressman. Allen herself taught for year.
34 years in secondary school, followed by
seven years in higher education. She says,
“Without my undergraduate years at UM, George Falkenhagen
I would never have been in Who’s Who in (MS 1990) is seeking a third term in Oscoda
American Education,” and received numerous (MI) school board service. He served a two-
other awards and recognitions for her career year term ending in 2003, then ran again
in women’s sports and teaching. and was elected to his current term in 2004.
Falkenhagen taught in Oscoda schools for 31
years and currently is the coordinator at
Nancy Craik Beights Alpena Community College’s Huron Shores
(BS 1972) After teaching mathematics for Campus, as well as an adjunct instructor in
over 31 and a half years, Beights has now biology and computer science.
been chosen as the District Mathematics and
Computer Science Coordinator for Collier
County Public Schools in Naples, FL. Antonio R. Flores
(PhD 1990) received the 2005 Hispanic
Magazine Achievement Award for his work
Babette M. Benken as president of the Hispanic Association
(Cert. 2000; PhD 2004) has become an Assis- of Colleges and Universities. Since he took
tant Professor in the Department of Math- office in 1996, the organization has more
ematics and Statistics and California State than doubled its membership. Today HACU
University-Long Beach. serves more than two-thirds of the nearly
two million Hispanic students in higher
David Churchman education.
(MA 1964) writes, “I have just returned from
a Fulbright (my second) to Ukraine, dur- Matthew Francis
ing which my latest book, Why We Fight: (BA 1996) was hired by the Ann Arbor Fire
Theories of Human Aggression and Conflict, Department in December of 2005. His duties
was published. I am dividing my time include protecting University of Michigan
among Internet teaching for California State property and providing emergency medical
University (from which I retired in 2003), care to students. He comments, “It is great
writing, traveling, and volunteering at the to be back in Ann Arbor.”
Shakespeare Festival in Ashland OR where
we now make our home.”
Edward A. Gallagher
(BA 1959; PhD 1968) recently completed four
Melon (M. Ellen) Dash years as president of the Michigan Academy
(MS 1980) has owned and run a swim school of Science, Arts and Letters. The Academy
exclusively for adults afraid in water since began in 1894 to promote research and pub-
1983. She recently published her book, Con- lication in a variety of academic and profes-
quer Your Fear of Water: An Innovative Self- sional fields. Membership is open to all UM
Discovery Course in Swimming. The book is School of Education alumni.
available from the Transpersonal Swimming
Institute, LLC
http://www.conquerfear.com.
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Seth Oppenheim
(BA 1999) has been selected as a Fulbright In Memoriam
Scholar to France. He will be assigned to the
Division of Cultural Heritage at UNESCO Leonard W. Brumm, Jr
in Paris to work on cultural heritage legal (BS 1950), or “Oakie” to those who knew
issues. Previously, he was in Vienna as a him, a former University of Alaska Fair-
Fulbright Scholar to Austria. banks hockey coach, athletic director, and
men’s basketball coach, passed away on
January 17, 2006, in Racine, Wisconsin, after
Mark Thompson battling an aggressive form of cancer. His
(BA 1967) ELL teacher at Como Park (MN) obituary can be found at:
Elementary, receives a “thumbs up” from http://www.uscho.com/news/id,11775/
staff, students and families
during a school assembly Raymond Madigan
in his honor in September (1968 PhD) former superintendent of South
2006. Mark received the Lyon Community Schools, passed away
Minnesota’s American Star March 1, 2006 at the age of 83.
Award of Teaching from
the Bush administration. Madigan was born in Detroit and spent
Those in attendance included U.S. Senator much of his early educational career in the
Norm Coleman,Assistant Secretary for plan- Detroit Public Schools. In 1970, after earning
ning with the U.S. Dept. of Education, and a doctoral degree in education from the Uni-
Saint Paul’s new superintendent, Dr. Meria versity of Michigan, he became director of
Carstarphen. Complete stories can be found instruction in South Lyon. Eleven years later,
at: http://www.startribune.com/1592/sto- Madigan retired as superintendent.
ry/680396.html
To view the obituary, go to:
Michael Weiskopf http://www.hometownlife.com/apps/
(BS 1995) has achieved national board pbcs.dll/article?AID=2006603090868
teacher certification in adolescent and young
adult mathematics. He is one of only five
teachers in Michigan to have earned this cer-
tification. He is in his eleventh year teaching
mathematics at Walled Lake (MI) Western
High School.
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Dear School of Education alumni and friends,
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of Education has reached 93% of our original cam-
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you for your generous support of our work. Thank
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