Reich College of Education

Meetings/Events

Sympathy

BJ DeBell, long time staff member in the Office of Field Experiences who worked for the university for 29 years before retiring, passed away this past week. Funeral services for Mrs. B.J. DeBell were conducted Sunday afternoon, November 15, 2009, at 3:00 o’clock, at Boone United Methodist Church. Her devotion to and advocacy for students was well known among teacher education students and faculty. She will be sorely missed. The RCOE community extends its sympathy to her family.

The RCOE community also extends its sympathy to Lee Baruth (HPC) and his family for the loss of his brother this past week.

Kudos

Barbara Bonham (LES & NCDE) was honored recently for her national influence, distinguished professional achievements, and lifetime contributions to the profession of developmental education. She has been selected as a Fellow of the Council on Learning Assistance and Developmental Education. The award was granted during a formal induction ceremony held at the National College Learning Center Association conference in Golden, CO on October 1, 2009.

Barbara Scarboro (HPC) had a book titled School Counselors and Students with
Behavioral Emotional Disabilities published by Lambert Academic Publishing.

Hakan Ersever (HPC) had an article titled "Counseling in Turkey and western
influences" published in the latest issue of ACES Spectrum.

Daisy Waryold (HPC) recently received the Distinguished Scholar Award presented by the North Carolina College Personnel Association.

Laurie Williamson (HPC) recently received the Counselor Educator of the Year Award presented by the North Carolina School Counselors Association.

Hunter R. Boylan (LES/NCDE) published an article entitled "Research-based techniques for developing college student literacy" in the Journal of the Japan Association for Developmental Education.

Professional Core Forum

From 3-5 in Rm. 03 on Monday, November 16, an open informational forum will be held to discuss the proposed Undergraduate Professional Core; the forum will begin with a short overview of the work of the Professional Core Task Force including the new courses being proposed. The majority of the time will be available for discussion. The Task Force is seeking input on what has been proposed.

International Panel Presentation

To address the International Week theme "Sowing Seeds of Peace," a panel discussion entitled “Peace Building and Education: Cross-cultural Perspectives” will be held on November 17 at 4 pm on Room 03 sponsored by the RCOE International Activities Committee. The panelists will include Malanka Motlhoioa, a mathematics instructor from South Africa currently teaching at Watauga High School; Arshad Bashir, a Fulbright Scholar from Pakistan and RCOE doctoral student; and Vachel Miller, assistant professor in the Doctoral Program in Educational Leadership. The panelists will reflect on the potential and challenges of education as a tool of peacebuilding in their countries. Panel is open to the university community.

Selection of Book for Reading Groups

Deadline for selecting the book you might wish to discuss with colleagues next semester is Nov. 20. The RCOE Diversity Committee annually selects books for reading discussions related to issues of diversity; the committee has been doing this for several years now; such topics as gender, racism, special needs, sexual preference, etc. have informed past choices. The Committee has chosen the following fiction books that deal with issues of immigration and social justice for possible reading in Spring semester. When the Emperor Was Divine by Julie Otsaka; The Guardian by Ana Castillo; A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khalad Hosseini; Not My turn to Die: Memoir of a Broken Childhood in Bosnia by Savo Heleta. For reviews of these books, see last week’s Dean’s Update. If you are interested in reading and discussing any of these selections with colleagues during second semester, please contact Precious Mudiwa (LES) mudiwap@appstate.edu by Friday, Nov. 20.

APA Style Manual Errors Revisited

Having received strong feedback from a variety of sources, the publishers of the 6th edition of the APA Style Manual have issued the following:

We regret the errors that are present in the 6th edition of the Publication
Manual, and the inconvenience this has caused you. We are working on ways to
make it right.

We have produced a detailed corrections summary which supplies the error list in
a user-friendly presentation. This document notes all the known errors in the
Manual and puts them in context for greater understanding. A PDF version of the
corrections summary supplement is available now from a link on the APA homepage
( http://www.APA.org <http://www.apa.org/> ). A printed version of the
supplement will also be available by November 2 through the APA Service Center.
Please call 800 374-2721 for more information.

Many people have found that the corrections supplement meets their needs; if you
find, however, that it doesn’t meet yours, we will send you a replacement copy of
the second printing of the Manual at no cost to you. (The second printing
corrects all the known errors.) We are making this replacement process available
to individuals and institutions who have purchased the manual. In order to
receive a replacement manua,l you must return your current copy of the 6th
edition to APA no later than December 15, 2009. We would like to make this
transaction as cost neutral to you as possible, so efforts are being made to
provide you with pre-paid postage you can use to return the book to us. We
expect this process will be available the first week in November. If you are
interested in a replacement copy, please contact the APA Service Center at your
convenience for further information. Service Center staff can be reached at: 800
374-2721 from 8:30 AM- 6:30 PM (EST) M – F. Email correspondence can be directed
to order@apa.org.

Note: thanks to Rebecca Shankland (LRE) for passing this information on to us.

Possible Resource

Here is a link to a progressive magazine that highlights positive efforts people and organizations are making toward social, economic, and environmental justice. They are offering a one year free subscription to teachers and professors.

http://www.yesmagazine.org/forms/free-teacher-subscription

Thanks to PJ Nelsen (LES) for bringing this resource to our attention.

Academic Writing?

This site may give you a chuckle or two about perceptions of what constitutes “academic writing.”

http://writing-program.uchicago.edu/toys/randomsentence/write-sentence.htm

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“Change is a Journey, not a Destination.”
—M. Fullan