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09/23/07 - Alumni Profile: Nancy Benjamin
Nancy Benjamin had no burning desire to teach when she received her certificate from U-M in 1949. But in that era, the career choices for women were very limited. “I didn’t want secretarial work,” she says. “And I liked children.”
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07/23/07 - Security strategy unveiled at EMU
About Donald Loppnow
Education: Ph.D. in Education (Higher Education Administration) University of Michigan, Ann Arbor; M.S.W. Social Work, Washington University, St. Louis; B.S. Social Work and Psychology, University of Wisconsin, Madison
"Through all of this, the core of this institution -- what takes place in the classroom between faculty and students, in laboratories and in the scholarly and creative activities that go on at a university -- that is in very excellent shape," said the school's interim president Donald Loppnow.
Read the entire article from the Detroit News
07/16/07 - Denise Young Named Associate Vice President, Director of Brevard Campuses
Denise Young has been appointed associate vice president and director of the University of Central Florida’s Southern Region Campuses in Brevard County. She has held that position on an interim basis since October.
Young, of Melbourne, has worked 17 years as a UCF administrator. During her eight months in Brevard, UCF and Brevard Community College established a joint writing center and expanded the student center at the Cocoa campus.
Read the entire article from the University of Central Florida
05/19/07 - St. Vrain Teacher Named Fulbright Scholar
Dr. Cynthia Luna Scott has been named a 2007-08 Fulbright Scholar after eight months of technical panel reviews in the United States and Europe. Dr. Scott, Team Leader for Special Education at Sunset Middle School, has been appointed to the faculty of Presov University in the Slovak Republic to prepare teachers for the upcoming consolidation of Slovakia’s two parallel public school systems serving students with and without special needs.
While at Presov University, Dr. Scott will lecture and conduct seminars and discussions in both the undergraduate and graduate programs. She will focus on the educational needs of students with learning disabilities – how to identify them, diagnose them, and strategies for intervention. Slovak special educators are not prepared for integrating children into the mainstream or for working with mainstream colleagues to support students. Consequently, Dr. Scott will also establish training sites in urban and rural areas for student teachers to work with adolescents with disabilities in mainstream schools, and will offer seminars for teachers on professional collaboration in inclusive settings.
As part of her assignment, Dr. Scott will also explore the educational discrimination that confronts members of the Romani community – about 90,000 in the Slovak Republic. Romani children are placed in special schools at exceptionally high rates. Therefore, the Slovak Government has ordered the special schools to close and the two systems will be merged.
Read the entire article from the St. Vrain Valley School District
05/03/07 - Public Education Veteran Picked As Superintendent
Nicole Saginor of Cornish, N.H., has been tapped for the top slot at St. Johnsbury School.
She takes over July 1 as the new superintendent and director of curriculum, replacing Lou Lafasciano who resigned effective June 30, a year after he started.
Saginor earned her doctorate in education from the University of Vermont in Burlington in 1999. She has a master's degree in French literature from Boston University and a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor.
Read the entire article at the Caledonian Record
04/06/07 - Former Mensa leader to discuss IQ, gifted students
"When I went (to Lapeer), there were no Advanced Placement classes," Becker said. "About the best you could do was advanced English and physics."
Becker said she found her niche after high school when she was attending Oakland University, where she earned a bachelor and master's degree in psychology. She then received a doctorate in education from the University of Michigan. She recently retired from a state post in which she administered child and family programs.
Becker now currently serves on an advisory board for the Brighton School District and the Michigan Alliance for Gifted Education.
Read the entire article at the Flint Journal
12/06/06 - Laker superintendent interviews under way
The first candidate interviewed was Dr. Steve Lewis of Jackson, who has 34 years of education experience. He most recently was superintendent of North Central Local Schools in Pioneer, Ohio. Before that position, which he had for three years, Lewis was elementary principal/curriculum director at East Jackson Community Schools in Jackson for 21 years; elementary principal at Westwood Community Schools in Dearborn for three years; and high school principal at Leslie Public Schools for five years. Before that, he taught at Leslie Public Schools. Lewis also has a real estate brokers license and is a real estate investor.
Lewis attended Olivet College for his bachelor's degree and Michigan State University for his master's degree. He received his doctorate in administration at the University of Michigan.
Read Full Article from the Huron Daily Tribune
10/03/06 - Denise Young Named Interim Regional Director of UCF's Brevard Campuses
Denise Young, a Melbourne resident who has worked 16 years as a University of Central Florida administrator, has been appointed interim associate vice president and regional director of UCF's Southern Region campuses in Brevard County.
Young earned a Ph.D. in higher education from the University of Michigan. She received a master's degree in social work administration from Florida State University and a bachelor's degree in psychology from Oakland University in Michigan.
Read full article from UCF News
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