Welcome to the School of Education's newsletter, Sigma, which you can access online at http://www.soe.umich.edu/sigma/index.html. If you have any comments or suggestions, please send them to mailto:SOENews at umich.edu. Deadline for submissions is noon on Wednesday. The next Sigma will be Friday, April 4, 2003.

Sigma Vol. XXXII, No. 12, March 28, 2003

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CALENDAR: March 28 - April 4

SOE Community Day of Social Justice Dialogue

Date: Monday, March 31

Location: Whitney Auditorium, SEB

Facilitator: Dr. Kathy Obear, President, Alliance for Change

Events: 11:00 a.m. - 12:45 p.m., Keynote Address and Luncheon

If you would like lunch, please RSVP to mailto:spangler at umich.edu.

1:00 - 4:00pm, SOE Faculty/Graduate Student Dialogue Session

Additional information is available from Jennifer Mueller at mailto:muellerj at imich.edu.

CPEP Colloquium/Brownbag

"Supporting Preservice Elementary Teachers in Learning to Teach Science"

Speaker: Betsy Davis, Asst. Prof. of Science Education,

Date: Wednesday, April 2

Time: Noon - 1:15 p.m.

Location: 2346 SEB

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1. KING TO SERVE AS CSHPE CHAIR

2. FISHMAN INVITED SPEAKER AT HARVARD

3. CASES AND HI-CE HONORED

4. KING DELIVERS KEYNOTE ADDRESS

5. ED STUDIES STUDENT SELECTED AS CEW FELLOW

6. JOB AVAILABILITY INFORMATION

7. ACADEMIC INTEGRITY IN THE CLASSROOM

8. NEED TO ADVERTISE A SUBLET OR ITEMS FOR SALE?

9. EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE MINUTES

10. CAMPUS EVENTS OF INTEREST

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1. KING TO SERVE AS CSHPE CHAIR

Dean Karen Wixson recently announced that Prof. Patricia King will serve as the next Chair of the Center for the Study of Higher and Postsecondary Education (CSHPE). Prof. King will begin working in this role June 1 to ensure a smooth transition when current Director Sylvia Hurtado's term ends in July. Prof. King joined the faculty in the fall of 2000 and was elected to the SOE Executive Committee in 2001. She brings to the role of Chair a great deal of administrative experience, which she has already put to good use in serving the School.

2. FISHMAN INVITED SPEAKER AT HARVARD

Asst. Prof. Barry Fishman was an invited speaker at the Harvard Graduate School of Education symposium on "Scaling Up Success" recently held in Cambridge, MA. HGSE Dean Ellen Lagemann and Professor Chris Dede organized the symposium to develop a research agenda around "usable knowledge." Prof. Fishman presented a talk entitled "Collaborating Towards Scale: A Framework for Examining Innovations and Their Contexts of Use," which will appear in a forthcoming book representing the papers from the symposium.

3. CASES AND HI-CE HONORED

The Curriculum Access System for Elementary Science (CASES) and the Center for Highly Interactive Computing in Education (hi-ce) have been honored as Computerworld Honors Program Laureates for 2003. This award goes to projects that are making innovative and important uses of information technology. Additional information is available at http://www.cwheroes.org/briefingroom.

4. KING DELIVERS KEYNOTE ADDRESS

Prof. Patricia King recently delivered the keynote speech for the Annual Meeting of the Association of Student Judicial Officers. She addressed the conference theme, "Constructing Communities of Character; the title of my presentation was "Transforming Communities, Transforming Ourselves."

5. ED STUDIES STUDENT SELECTED AS CEW FELLOW

Learning Technologies student Tanya Cleveland has been selected by the Center for the Education of Women as a 2003-04 CEW Scholar/Fellow. These scholarships were established "to recognize the outstanding academic and professional competence and potential of women who have at least a four-year educational interruption." Ms. Cleveland's co-advisors are Elizabeth Moje and Nancy Songer.

6. JOB AVAILABILITY INFORMATION

Stop by the SOE Office of Student Services, room 1033, if you will be graduating soon or are just looking for work while in school. OSS maintains a book of job postings for various positions from tutoring for current students to teaching and administrative positions for teacher certification graduates. The majority of the positions are for elementary and secondary teachers.

7. ACADEMIC INTEGRITY IN THE CLASSROOM

The Center for Research on Learning and Teaching and the University Library have created a web site with a selected list of resources to help increase understanding of what academic integrity is in practice and in the breach. In addition, the site offers ideas for preventing and detecting plagiarism as well as guidance for using digital resources responsibly in the research process. The site is located at http://www.lib.umich.edu/acadintegrity.

8. NEED TO ADVERTISE A SUBLET OR ITEMS FOR SALE?

DON'T USE EMAIL.

As the end of winter term approaches, you may need to advertise summer sublet opportunities and/or items for sale. Please remember that off-topic spam sent to University-maintained official email lists is considered to be abuse of network resources. A better choice for these kinds of advertisements is http://marketplace.umich.edu (U-M's official site) or http://www.orangesorbet.com (a commercial site that gets lots of U-M traffic) to post your ads and sublet announcements. You'll reach far more people as well as avoid the wrath of the campus IT folks by placing your ads in one of these locations.

9. EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE MINUTES

Full minutes are available from Becki Spangler in the Dean's Office.

==March 4, 2003 Meeting

*Announcements/Updates

The search committee for the Spencer Endowed Chair in Education and Business has identified several candidates and will begin inviting them to campus in late April.

Former faculty member Biff Barritt died last week and will be greatly missed.

Joe Krajcik reported that a candidate for the Learning Technology position recently visited and another candidate will be giving a talk on March 10.

The SOE Graduate Student Community Organization has been awarded the Outstanding Student Organization award by the Michigan Leadership Awards Committee. The students who have worked so hard to create this organization deserve both this recognition and our gratitude.

Hsin Kai Wu, an SOE research associate, recently won an Outstanding Dissertation Award from NARST.

CSHPE student Tatiana Suspitsina received a Rackham Predoctoral Fellowship and Suzanne Spring of JPEE was named as an alternate for this award.

The School's budget conference with the Provost is Monday, March 10. A budget modeling both 3.5% and 6% cuts has been submitted. Dean Wixson explained the format of the budget report and advised that the actual budget will not be known until some time this summer.

10. CAMPUS EVENTS OF INTEREST

The following events will be taking place around campus. You may get more information on each event via the listed web site, email or telephone (when available).

English Language Institute

"Discourse Analysis and Professional Perspectives"

Speaker: Professor Srikant Sarangi, editor of "Text" and Director of the Health Communication Research Centre at Cardiff, Wales

Date: Tuesday, April 1

Time: 4:10 p.m.

Location: Conference Room A, ELI, 3rd Floor TCF Building

Discussion will follow talk.

3rd Annual Childwatch Conference

"Supporting Children's Development: The Role of Early Childhood Programs"

Date: Friday, April 4

Time: 8:00 a.m. - 1:30 p.m.

Location: Trotter House

Conference is free but requires registration.

Contact Chantal Follett at mailto:cfollett at umich.edu or 763-7751.

International Institute Upcoming Events

April 2: "Is Arab-Israeli Peace Still Possible?"

April 9: "End of the Two-State Solution?"

April 10: "Settlement: Space and Resources in Israel and Palestine"

April 11: "Islam in Europe"

April 16: "Peace-Building in the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, 1993-2003"

Information, times and locations are available at http://www.umich.edu/~iinet/iisite/events/religion_security_violence.html.

Faculty Exploratory Workshops

Complete descriptions of the workshops offered at the Faculty Exploratory can be found at http://www.lib.umich.edu/exploratory, which is also available for registration. These workshops are free of charge, and for faculty only, with the exception of EndNote and ProCite workshops, which are open to all.

Tue., Apr. 01, 1:00 - 2:30pm, Getting Started with Mac OS X

Thu., Apr. 03, 1:00 - 3:00pm, Getting Started with PowerPoint

Mon., Apr. 07, 1:00 - 2:30pm, Getting Started with Windows XP

Tue., Apr. 08, 2:00 - 4:00pm, PhotoShop 7 Intermediate: Touching Up Scanned

Images

Fri., Apr. 11, 1:00 - 3:00pm, Managing Your Citations with EndNote 6

Center for Statistical Consultation and Research (CSCAR) Workshops

CSCAR is offering workshops on statistical and geographic information systems topics April through June. Complete information is available at http://www.umich.edu/~cscar. To register, call 764-7828 (ext 1). Topics include:

REGRESSION ANALYSIS

INTRODUCTION TO ArcView GIS

APPLIED STRUCTURAL EQUATION MODELING

MULTIVARIATE TECHNIQUES

ISSUES IN ANALYSIS OF SAMPLE SURVEY DATA

INTRODUCTION TO SAS

INTERMEDIATE SAS

APPLIED SURVIVAL ANALYSIS

GENERALIZED LINEAR MODELS

GEOCODING

INTRODUCTION TO PROC MIXED

INTRODUCTION TO SPSS

STATISTICAL ANALYSIS WITH R

GEOSTATISTICS WITH R

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