CENN, Fall 2005, Week 5, 926102

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CENN, Fall 2005, Week 5, 9/26-10/2
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Welcome to the College of Education
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• The U.S. Education Department has created a
  commission to devise a "comprehensive national
  strategy" on higher education's future, Education
  Secretary Margaret Spellings announced last week.
• The panel is to focus on rising enrollments,
  declining affordability, and colleges' role in
  America's global competitiveness.

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• THE EDUCATIONAL TESTING SERVICE is expanding its
  efforts to measure how savvy students are about
  technology and about the information that they
  get online. The testing service, which already
  offers an information-literacy for students
  entering their junior year of college, has
  designed a new test for high-school seniors.

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7 of the Golden Torch Award Winners are from the
COE!

• Stefanie Bechler (Womens Cross Country)
• Emily Breen, ELPS (Womens Swimming)
• Aaron Cheesman, SMRMPE (Mens Baseball)
• Anne Clinton, SMRMPE (Womens Cross Country)
• Jacob Davis, SMRMPE (Mens Golf)
• Willie Jones, SMRMPE (Football)
• Sydney Mondragon, MSE (Womens Cross Country)

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• The world's population is expected to swell to
  about nine billion people by 2050, becoming more
  urban and older in the process (per Joel E.
  Cohen, a professor of populations at Columbia
  University).
• The earth now grows by 74 million people each
  year -- a number equal to about a quarter of the
  United States' population.
• The 20th century was probably the last in human
  history in which younger people outnumbered older
  ones.

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• THE U.S. HOUSE unanimously approved a three-month
  extension of the Higher Education Act, freeing
  lawmakers to work on hurricane-relief measures.
  The act, which governs most federal student-aid
  programs, is due to expire on September 30.

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Florida Fund for Minority Teachers Scholarship
Application Deadline November 1st
What can you gain as an FFMT Scholar?

• 4,000 a year for two years.

What are the requirement to become an FFMT
Scholar?
Must be Resident of Florida plan to teach in a
Florida public school.
Must have Minimum 2.5 GPA
Must be African-American, Hispanic/Latino,
Asian Pacific Islander, or Alaskan Native.
Can not have more than 18 hours of upper division
course work. Must be newly admitted into a
teacher education program.
Get Application at http//www.ffmt.org/ or Jenny
Martinez 644-3763 jm04j_at_fsu.edu
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• FSU TO BREAK GROUND FOR TWO NEW RESIDENCE HALLS
  ON CAMPUS
• FSU will hold a ground-breaking ceremony on
  Tuesday, Oct. 4 for two new residence hall
  complexes -- Wildwood Hall and DeGraff Hall --
  scheduled to open in August 2007.
• The ceremony will begin at 330 p.m. and will be
  followed immediately by a reception on or near
  the construction sites.
• Budgeted at 36 million apiece, each of the two
  projects will encompass a pair of five-story
  buildings with approximately 156,000 gross square
  feet.
• Each complex will be home to 700 first-year
  students.

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Federal Education Research Priorities

• Studying education interventions that promote
  students academic learning and that can be
  widely deployed
• Finding out what programs or policies do not work
  in education and which might not be
  cost-effective
• Funding more basic research on the reasons that
  education programs, policies, and practices work
  in some places but not others and
• Developing systems for delivering research on
  which policymakers, educators, and the public
  will come to rely.

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September 15--October 15

• Hispanic Heritage Month

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News from CERDS

• Maria E. Vives Rodriguez will be defending her
  dissertation at 2 pm on October 4 in 206 STB.
• Title "Preschool Physical Education A case
  study of the factors that influence movement
  instruction to preschool children".
• Major Professor Dr. Vickie E. Lake.

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News from CERDS

• Burhanetting Keskin will be defending his
  dissertation at 12 noon on October 7 in 206 STB.
• Title The relationship between theory of mind,
  symbolic transformations in pretend play and
  childrens social competence.
• Major Professor Ithel Jones.

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Hispanic Heritage Month

• Celebration

Thursday, October 6th 1230p.m. Pioneer Room
010 Stone Building Featuring Dr. Santa Arias
ALL ARE INVITED
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Workshop Coming!

• The ISSA (EPLS) hosts a workshop IS practices in
  the business settings
• Date Friday, September 30
• Time 2 - 330
• Location 126 STB
• Guest speaker Darren Brooks (Wachovia).

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Visit COE website!
www.coe.fsu.edu
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News Needed!

• Any news, achievements, announcements?
• See them at CENN!
• Contact Dr. Dina Vyortkina for details
• 002 STB
• 644-9623

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3 Academics to Receive McGraw Prize in Education

• The annual prize honors individuals for
  contributions that have helped improve education
  in the United States. This year's winners are
  being recognized for work in early-childhood
  education and professional development for
  teachers.
• Barbara T. Bowman, a professor at the Erickson
  Institute, in Chicago, is being recognized for
  serving as an advocate for childhood education
  for more than 50 years.
• Sharon Lynn Kagan, an associate dean for policy
  and a professor of childhood and family policy at
  Columbia University's Teachers College, is being
  recognized for her role in shaping policies on
  early-childhood education.
• Ellen Moir, executive director and founder of the
  New Teacher Center at the University of
  California at Santa Cruz, is being recognized for
  helping teachers and administrators to study and
  develop educational-support programs.

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Eat healthy and exercise!
12 weeks left till the end of the Fall semester!
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Good luck!

• EPLS doctoral students, Paul Flowers and
  Sookyung Suh, were selected as one of three
  pairs of finalists in the Performance Improvement
  Competition held by AECT/PacificCorp.
• Paul and Sookyung will compete in the final round
  of the competition at the AECT conference on
  Saturday, October 22nd

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Have a great week!