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FACULTY&STAFF NEWSIn Memoriam1COLLEBeloved teacher, administrator and colleague, Dixie Durr,passed away on Sept. 2, 2007. Dr. Durr was a member ofthe College of Education’s Health, Physical Education andRecreation Department from 1964 to 1984. A renowneddancer, choreographer and teacher of dance, she moved tothe Department of Theatre in 1984 when the dance programmoved to the College of Arts and Letters. She servedas chairperson of the Department of Theatre from 1994 to 2001. She servedon major national and state dance association boards and was recognized bythe National Dance Association with the Presidential Citation in 1994 and aLifetime Achievement Award from the Michigan Dance Council in 2004.John “Jack” Fuzak passed away at age 93 on June 2, 2007. Adedicated Spartan, he began his tenure on the MSU facultyas an associate professor of secondary education and curriculumin 1948. During his 31 years on faculty, Dr. Fuzakfulfilled many roles including dean of students and vicepresident of student affairs. He was MSU’s faculty athleticsrepresentative from 1959 to 1979 and served the ncaain many capacities, including as president from 1975 to 1976. Dr. Fuzak washighly regarded for his integrity and honesty and had significant influence inthe Big Ten and ncaa.Professors.Mark Conley, associateprofessor ofteacher education,was elected presidentof the newly incorporatedMichiganAlliance of ReadingNell Duke, associateprofessor of teachereducation and educationalpsychology, isa co-author of BeyondBedtime Stories: A Parent’sGuide to PromotingReading, Writing and Other LiteracySkills From Birth to 5. The book is writtenfor parents as a useful tool forunderstanding how they can help theirchildren develop early literacy skills.Thomas Franklin Green, an associate professor of educationand humanities from 1955 to 1964, passed away on Dec. 20,2006. He was recruited to Syracuse University in 1964 toinitiate a program in cultural foundations of education.He remained at Syracuse until he retired in 1993, havingserved as department chairperson and co-director of theEducational Policy Research Center. During his career, hewas awarded many honors, including being named the Margaret O. SlocumProfessor of Education, and was heralded for his contributions to philosophyof education and educational policy and practice.Renowned professor of measurement and quantitativemethods, Herbert Rudman, passed away at age 84 on Nov. 11,2007. Dr. Rudman was well known for his expertise in statisticsand measurement, having co-authored the StanfordAchievement Tests (SATs) during the time from 1964 to the1980s. He earned his bachelor’s degree at Bradley Universityand his master’s and Ph.D. from the University of Illinois.He came to MSU’s College of Education in 1956 after teaching elementary,junior and senior high school in Peoria, Ill., supervising student teaching atthe University of Illinois and serving as the chairman of the Department ofElementary Education at the University of South Carolina. A prolific author,Dr. Rudman authored or co-authored hundreds of tests, books, book chapters,monographs and convention papers. He was a beloved teacher who encouragedhis students to learn and appropriately use methods of testing andmeasurement. After his retirement from MSU in 1993, Dr. Rudman continuedto teach, consult and write periodically.Gail Dummer, a professorof kinesiology,received the StephenTsai Educator of theYear Award from theAutism Society ofMichigan.A new book from theAmerican EnterpriseInstitute for PublicPolicy Research, NoRemedy Left Behind,Lessons from a Half-Decade of NCLB,features a chapter co-written by ChristopherDunbar, an associate professorof k–12 educational administration,and former College of Education facultymember David Plank.Associate professorof teacher educationHelen Featherstoneand the now-retiredJoseph Featherstoneare co-editors38new educator
F A CUL TYGEKUDOS1of Transforming Teacher Education,Reflections from the Field, published byHarvard Education Press. This newbook offers an account of the developmentof the renowned Team Oneteacher education program at MSU.Deborah Feltz, aprofessor and chairpersonof the Departmentof Kinesiology,gave the 2007 ResearchQuarterly forExercise and SportAward Lecture for the Research Consortiumof the American Alliance forHealth, Physical Education, Recreationand Dance (aahperd). She also gavethe Penn State Dorothy Harris ScholarAward Lecture.Daniel Gould andLarry Lauer werenamed among the100 Most InfluentialSports Educators inAmerica by the Institutefor InternationalSport. Gould is a professor of kinesiologyand director of MSU’s Institutefor the Study of Youth Sports. Lauerserves as the institute’s director ofcoaching education and development.The Institute for the Study of YouthSports was honored by the NationalAssociation for Sport and PhysicalEducation with the Ross Merrick NationalRecognition Award for the center’slong-time commitment of usingresearch and best practice evidence toadvocate for young athletes.Michael Leahy, directorof the Office ofRehabilitation andDisability Studies,received the thirdplace American RehabilitationCounselingAssociation Research Award for anarticle in the Journal of Applied RehabilitationCounseling.Reitumetse Mabokela,an associate professorof higher, adultand lifelong education,is the editorof Soaring BeyondBoundaries, WomenBreaking Barriers in Traditional Societiesfrom Sense Publishers.Melinda Mangin, anassistant professorof k–12 educationaladministration, is theco-editor of a newbook, Effective TeacherLeadership: Using Researchto Inform and Reform, with SaraRay Stoelinga of the Consortium onChicago School Research.Barbara Markle, assistantdean for k–12outreach, receivedthe 2007 MichiganAssociation ofIntermediate SchoolAdministrators EducationFellows Award. The college’sEducation Policy Center, headed bySharif Shakrani and William Schmidt,also received the honor in 2006. Theaward honors individuals who placeservice above self interest, advocatefor public education and show leadershipon behalf of maisa, isds or k–12education.The college’s JohnA. Hannah DistinguishedProfessorBarbara Schneiderand University DistinguishedProfessorWilliam Schmidt arethe co-lead authorsof Estimating CausalEffects: Using Experimentaland ObservationalDesigns,published by theAmerican EducationalResearch Association.A productof a think tank ofthe aera GrantsProgram, the reportis designed to help researchers, earchers,policymakers and funders understandthe capacities and limits of examiningthe causes of educational outcomeswith large-scale databases.Practice.Barbara Schneideralso is the co-editor,with Sarah-Kay McDonald, of Scale-Upin Education: Ideas inPrinciple and Scale-Upin Education: Issues inJohn “Jack” Schwille,a professor andassistant dean forinternational studiesin education, is coauthorof the book,Global Perspectives onTeacher Learning: Improving Policy andPractice, with Martial Dembélé. It waspublished as part of the Fundamentalsof Educational Planning series by theunesco International Institute forEducational Planning.Maria Teresa Tatto,an associate professorof teacher education,is the editor ofReforming TeachingGlobally from OxfordStudies in ComparativeEducation.fall/winter 2008 39
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