Sigma Bulletin, March 17 - March 23, 2008

A. DEAN'S UPDATES
B. ANNOUNCEMENTS
C. CALENDAR
D. LOOKING AHEAD

A. DEAN'S UPDATES

Read today's Dean's Updates (Topics include faculty awards; student speakers, Commencement 2008; National Mathematics Panel report; Ethics and Equity award; School of Education Video Competition) by clicking on this link:

<http://sitemaker.umich.edu/soe.dean/updates&mode=single>

B. ANNOUNCEMENTS

See today's Announcements by clicking on this link:

<http://sitemaker.soe.umich.edu/education.announcements>

C. CALENDAR

- March 18: Each Tuesday, community members from SoE can join colleagues at Yost Arena's noontime public skating: http://www.umich.edu/~yostice/public_skate.htm All are welcome regardless of skill, grace, or the lack thereof. The cost is $2.00 for admission and $1.00 for skate rentals.

- March 18: Active U: Line Dancing, 12:00 noon - 1:00 pm, Whitney Auditorium (Room 1309). Contact Joan McCoy at 764-7569 or jemccoy at umich.edu for further information.

- March 18: CSHPE Brown Bag Presentation: Dr. Matthias Klumpp of FOM University of Applied Sciences, Essen, Germany on "European Integration Impacts on Universities: Coping with Bologna, EHEA/ERA and EQF," 12:00 noon - 1:00 pm, Tribute Room (Room 1322). Pizza will be provided. Please RSVP to Melinda Richardson (mmrichar at umich.edu ).

- March 18: OMSA Dialogue: Professor Larry Rowley, UM School of Education on "Community and the American Academy," 11:30 am - 1:00 pm, Room 2229. Lunch from Raja Rani will be provided. Please RSVP to Fuentes at umich.edu and indicate if you are a vegetarian, vegan, or have other dietary needs. If you would like background readings, please e-mail Fuentes at umich.edu.

- March 18: MAC Information Night, 5:00 pm - 7:00 pm, Whitney Auditorium (Room 1309).

- March 18: Baf" Baf" workshop open to SoE staff, faculty and graduate students, sponsored by the Staff Development and Performance Team and facilitated by Tasha Lebow and Elizabeth Mimms (Programs for Educational Opportunity), 9:30 am - 11:30 am, Whitney Auditorium (Room 1309). Take a fun and thought-provoking "voyage" in this unique cross-cultural simulation activity. Participants will spend time experiencing the subtle and global aspects of culture, group membership, and human interaction in this surprisingly meaningful structured activity. The follow-up discussion will crystallize the experience and connect it our real lives, our work and our futures. To register, please contact Lisa Clark, 615-3835 or ljclark at umich.edu.

- March 18: Welcome Night for Newly Admitted Undergraduates, 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm. Mix and Mingle, 6:00 pm, South Hallway; Informational Program, 6:30 - 8:00 pm, Whitney Auditorium (Room 1309).

- March 19 - April 30: Tai Chi Mini-Session for SoE Staff sponsored by the SoE Staff Development and Performance Management Team, 12:00 noon - 12:45 pm, Room 2328. Please RSVP to Bonita Kothe (bkkothe at umich.edu ).

- March 19: Dissertation Defense by Honor Passow on "What Competencies Should Undergraduate Engineering Programs Emphasize? A Dilemma of Curricular Design that Practitioners' Opinions Can Inform," 9:00 am - 11:00 am, Dean's Conference Room (Room 1211).

- March 19: "The Role of the Private Sector in K-12 Public Education," 4:00 pm - 5:30 pm, Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy, Annenberg Auditorium, 1120 Joan and Sanford Weill Hall, 735 South State Street. Panelists: Michael P. Flanagan, Superintendent of Public Instruction, Michigan Department of Education; Frederick M. Hess, Director of Education Policy Studies, American Enterprise Institute; JD Hoyle, President, National Academy Foundation; Sanford I. Weill, Chairman Emeritus, Citigroup, Inc. Discussant: Deborah Lowenberg Ball, Dean of the School of Education and William H. Payne Collegiate Professor, University of Michigan. Moderator: Brian A. Jacob, Walter H. Annenberg Professor of Education Policy, Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy, University of Michigan. This event is free and open to the public. A reception will follow. For further information, contact Stephanie James (estesjam at umich.edu) or call 647-4091.

- March 19: CPEP Colloquium: Willy Lens, Dept. Psychologie, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Leuven, Belgium on "Intrapersonal Achievement Goals: What is Their Conceptual Status and What are Their Effects?," 12:10 pm - 1:00 pm, Tribute (Room 1322).

- March 20: IRB on the Road with Cindy Shindledecker, 9:00 am - 12:00 noon, Room 1350 SoE. Scheduled appointments will be held from 9:00 am - 11:00 am [please e-mail Cindy (cshindle at umich.edu) to arrange a time]. Alternatively, walk-in appointments from will be held from 11:00 am - noon.

- March 21: Winter 2008 Interdisciplinary Committee on Organizational Studies Seminar Series. Likert Award Winner (TBD), 1:30 pm - 3:00 pm, Room 4212 SoE. For additional information contact Paula Kopka, 936-1525 or pkopka at umich.edu.

- March 21: English Language Institute: Two AAAL Practice Presentations on "A Constructional Analysis of Tense-Aspect in Spoken English" and "Shifting Lexical Preferences in the Use of the Progressive," 12:00 noon, 500 East Washington Street, Conference Room A.

D. LOOKING AHEAD

- March 24: Deadline for proposals for the Ginsberg Center - Request for Faculty Proposals. The Ginsberg Center for Community Service and Learning invites proposals for teaching innovations and new research initiatives from University of Michigan faculty. The proposed projects should advance the Ginsberg mission to engage students, faculty, and community members in learning together through community service and civic participation in a diverse democratic society. Grants up to $10,000 are available to individual faculty members and projects should be completed by the end of June 2009. For further information, contact Jeffrey Howard at jphoward at umich.edu or call 647.7801.

- March 27: IRWG Winter 2008 Speaker Series on Changing Perspectives on Sexual Violence and Harassment. Amy Young, IRWG Researcher, "The Silent Epidemic in Women's Health: Adolescent Sexual Assault," 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm, 2239 Lane Hall. Event is free and open to the public. For more information visit http://www.umich.edu/~irwg/ .

- March 28: Winter 2008 Interdisciplinary Committee on Organizational Studies Seminar Series. Professor Isabel Fernandez- Mateo, Strategic and International Management, London Business School on "Relationship Duration and Returns to Brokerage in the Staffing Sector," 1:30 pm - 3:00 pm, Room 4212 SoE. For additional information contact Paula Kopka, 936-1525 or pkopka at umich.edu.

- March 28: Crossing Boundaries and Building Bridges in University- Community Collaborations, University of Michigan Detroit Center, 3663 Woodward Avenue, Detroit, 8:00 am - 4:00 pm. This conference will bring together faculty, staff, students and members of Detroit- area community organizations. Keynote speakers: Linda Burnham on "Different Strategies, Common Goals: Facing the Challenges of Collaboration" and Connie Evans on "Economic Development as if Black Women Mattered." For further information and to register, please visit http://www.cew.umich.edu/crossing/index.html.

- March 31: Deadline for written proposals for the School of Education Video Competition. Rules and entry form are at: http://www.soe.umich.edu/videocontest . Please e-mail Eugenie Potter (eugeniep at umich.edu) for further information.

- March 31: Teacher Education Seminar Series: Marilyn Guenther and Mark Fitzgerald, UM School of Dentistry on "Clinical Education for Dentists," 4:00 pm, Tribute (Room 1322).

- April 2008: Teacher Education Seminar Series: Kavita Kapadia, University of Chicago on "A Case Study: The University of Chicago Urban Teacher Education Program," date and time TBD.

- April 2: CPEP Colloquium: "Visual Attention of Emergent Readers During Book Reading," by Mary Ann Evans, Ph.D., C. Psych, Professor and Director of Clinical Training Clinical Psychology: Applied Developmental Emphasis, University of Guelph, Canada, 12:10 pm - 1:00 pm, Tribute Room (Room 1322).

- April 2: Education Policy Initiative (EPI) Seminar Series, Susanna Loeb, Stanford University, "Teacher Labor Supply Decisions and Effectiveness in the Classroom." 4:00 pm - 5:30 pm. Location: Annenberg Auditorium, 1120 Joan and Sanford Weill Hall. Free and open to the public. Reception to follow. EPI is a program of coordinated activities at the Ford School's Center for Local, State and Urban Policy (CLOSUP), designed to bring the latest academic knowledge to issues of education policy.

- April 3: IRWG Winter 2008 Speaker Series on Changing Perspectives on Sexual Violence and Harassment. Lilia Cortina, U-M Women's Studies and Psychology, "Workplace Harassment and Incivility: What's Gender Got to do With it? " 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm, 2239 Lane Hall. Event is free and open to the public. For more information visit http://www.umich.edu/~irwg/.

- April 4: Winter 2008 Interdisciplinary Committee on Organizational Studies Seminar Series. Professor Cristina Gibson, Organization and Strategy, Paul Merage School of Business, University of California-Irvine, 1:30 pm - 3:00 pm, Room 4212 SoE. For additional information contact Paula Kopka, 936-1525 or pkopka at umich.edu .

- April 5 - April 6: 36th Annual "Dance for Mother Earth" Ann Arbor Pow Wow, Crisler Arena. April 5: 10:30 am - 9:00 pm (Grand entries at 12:00 noon and 7:00 pm); April 6: 10:30 am - 6:00 pm. (Grand Entry at 12:00 noon). Admission prices are: adults $10, students with ID $5.00, seniors (60 years and older) $5.00, children (4 - 12 years) $5.00, children (3 and under) free. Family and weekend passes are available. For more information, please visit www.umich.edu/~powwow/ or call 647.6999. Sponsored by The Native American Programming Task Force and the Office of Multi-Ethnic Student Affairs/Trotter Multicultural Affairs.

- April 10: Educational Studies Colloquia Brown Bag Series: Yvonne Goddard, Assistant Professor of Education, School of Education on "Differentiating Instruction: Research and Practice" 12:00 noon - 1:00 pm, Brownlee (Room 2327).

- April 11: Winter 2008 Interdisciplinary Committee on Organizational Studies Seminar Series. Professor Don Hambrick, Management and Organization, Smeal College of Business, Penn State University, 1:30 pm - 3:00 pm, Room 4212 SoE. For additional information contact Paula Kopka, 936-1525 or pkopka at umich.edu.

- April 15: Dissertation Defense by Annemarie Hindman on "School- Family Partnership and School Readiness," 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm, 2327 SEB, Brownlee (Room 2327).

- April 15: MAC Information Night, 5:00 pm - 7:00 pm, Whitney Auditorium (Room 1309).

- April 17: IRB on the Road with Cindy Shindledecker, 9:00 am - 12:00 noon, Room 1350 SoE. Additional information forthcoming (appointment hours vs. open hours).

- April 22: Center for Proficiency in Teaching Mathematics Brown Bag Colloquia: Judith Jacobs, Professor of Mathematics and Director of the Center for Education and Equity in Mathematics, Science and Technology (CEEMaST) at California State Polytechnic University, Pomona; Visiting Scholar, Center for Proficiency in Teaching Mathematics, School of Education, University of Michigan on "Preparing Teachers to be Professionals, 12:00 noon - 1:30 pm, Brownlee (Room 2327).

- April 25: Dissertation Defense by Marina Epstein on "Adolescents in Conflict: Associations Between Gender Socialization, Gender Conflict, and Outcomes," 11:00 am - 1:00 pm, Brownlee (Room 2327).

- April 26: SoE Commencement, Hill Auditorium, 4:00 pm - 5:30 pm; reception to follow on Ingalls Mall.

- May 15: Deadline for submission of finished videos for the School of Education Video Competition. Rules are at: http://www.soe.umich.edu/videocontest . Please e-mail Eugenie Potter (eugeniep at umich.edu) for further information.