Chalkboard Winter 2009 - School of Education - Indiana University

Highlights
Honors come for faculty
Russ Skiba
George Kuh
Nancy Chism
The U.S. Department of Education
Office of Special Education Programs
asked Russ Skiba, professor in counseling
and educational psychology, to
consult on national efforts to monitor
disproportionality in special education
and school discipline. Skiba is a nationally
recognized expert on school discipline
and school violence. Skiba also sits on
the board of the Indiana Disproportionality
Commission, a joint commission of
the Indiana General Assembly and the
governor’s office. Skiba is director of the
Equity Project, a consortium of research
projects that offer evidence-based
information to educators and policymakers
on equity in special education
and school discipline.
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future.
St. Cloud State University honored
Chancellor’s Professor of Educational
Leadership and Policy Studies and Director
of the Center for Postsecondary
Research George Kuh with its Distinguished
Alumni Award on Oct. 17 in St.
Cloud, Minn. Kuh earned his degree
from St. Cloud in 1971. The St. Cloud
State Alumni Association presents the
award for career accomplishments and
service to society and the University.
Assistant Professor of Art Education
in the Department of Curriculum and
Instruction Marjorie Manifold has
been elected as the North American
representative to the World Council of
the International Society for Education
Through Art (InSEA). InSEA is an affiliate
of the United Nations Educational, Scientific
and Cultural Organization, with
the stated goal of advancing creative
education through arts and crafts in all
countries and the promotion of understanding.
Three representatives from
each of six regions serve three-year terms.
Anne Ottenbreit-Leftwich, assistant
professor in Instructional Systems
Technology, has been selected from a
field of nine candidates to receive the
2008 Young Researcher Award from the
Research and Theory Division of the
Association for Educational Communications
and Technology (AECT). The
award is for her article co-authored with
Krista Glazewski, Timothy Newby, and
Peggy Ertmer titled “Values Associated
with Using Technology to Address Professional
and Student Needs.”
Nancy Chism, professor of higher
education and student affairs at IUPUI,
was in Thailand from January through
early May as a Fulbright Scholar, working
on issues of professional development
with university teachers. Her appointment
was with the Thai Commission on
Higher Education. “My job was to work
with all of the universities, theoretically,
in Thailand on professional and organizational
development,” Chism said.
Based at Bangkok’s Chulalongkorn
University, Chism traveled to 17 other
campuses, including one in Vietnam and
another in Singapore.
A journal paper published in November
has earned national media attention
for Mary Waldron, assistant professor
in the Department of Counseling and
Educational Psychology. The article,
published in the journal Alcoholism:
Clinical and Experimental Research,
finds evidence to suggest alcoholism
is associated with delayed childbearing
for women. Many publications, including
The Washington Post, reported on
the study’s findings. Waldron has just
joined the IU faculty from Washington
University in St. Louis.
Emeritus Chancellor’s Professor of
Education Frank Lester received an
honorary doctor of pedagogy degree
from Abo Akedemi University in Turku,
Finland, in late May. The professor of
mathematics education and cognitive
science at IU Bloomington was part of an
elaborate ceremony that included a fivehour
banquet at a 13th-century castle
CHUCK CARNEY
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