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Top Shelf Librarian
Isabel Espinal, Humanities and Anthropology
Librarian, is one of 50 librarians recognized in Movers
& Shakers 2003, a special supplement published by
Library Journal in late March. This is the second annual
supplement celebrating innovative librarians in the U.S.
and Canada, “the people who are shaping the future of
libraries.” The issue includes librarians from all types of
libraries, public, academic, school and special libraries.
Espinal is one of five librarians honored particularly for
their work in recruiting others to the field.
Manuel Frau-Ramos presented “Integrando el
internet al Currículo: Promesas y Realidades” at VII
Congresso Puertorriqueño de Investigación en la
Educación, Facultad de Educación, Universidad de
Puerto Rico-Río Piedras in March 2003. He also
presented “Boricuas, Bilingüismo, Educación Bilingüe
y los Conflictos Lingüísticos de Baja Intensidad en
Massachusetts,” at the 5 th Puerto Rican Studies
Association Conference, Congress Plaza Hotel in
Chicago in October 2002.
Sonia Nieto presented “Language, Culture, and
Teaching: Critical Perspectives for Teacher Education”
at the 26 th Annual Charles DeGarmo Lecture of the
Society of Professors given at the American Education
Research Conference in 2002. She was a Panelist on
“National Latino/a Education Research Agenda Project:
Imagining New Possibilities for Latino/a Communities”
at the Annual AERA Conference in Chicago, IL in April
2003. In March 2002, she was named a Girls
Incorporated of Holyoke Honoree at the Annual Dinner
and Celebration. She was also awarded the Girlapalooza
Award for “Commitment to Education and Relentless
Pursuit of Girl Power,” at the O’Bryant High School of
Science and Math, Boston, Massachusetts in December
2002. She was named to the Hall of Fame of Spanish
Language Advocates in Críticas Journal in 2003.
Her book What Keeps Teachers Going was
featured in an article in the Daily Hampshire Gazette, in
the Bookmarks section of the March 12, 2003 issue of
the periodical. The article, written by Larry Parnass,
examines the inspiration behind the writing of the book,
and shows that Sonia Nieto remains an activist for
bilingual education, after three plus decades. Sonia
Nieto wrote the book as a result of her meetings with
teachers in the Boston public school system, as a kind of
motivational tool for teachers.
Jane M. Rausch continues in her second year as
Graduate Program Director of the History Department
She also was a commentator on a panel at the 50 th Annual
Meeting of the South Eastern Council on Latin American
Studies which met in Chapel Hill-Durham, NC in March
2003.
Nina M. Scott was invited by the College of
Charleston to present “Chocolate, Chile and Fertile Sows
in March 2003.
Wiarda Book Aids Budding Policy Wonks
Many undergraduates are attracted to life inside
the Washington Beltway, home of countless government
agencies, federal departments and think tanks, but
information on those types of careers is often hard to
come by.
But aspiring policy wonks have an ally in
Political Science professor Howard J. Wiarda, who has
edited a new collection of essays by a number of
prominent policy figures who recount their own careers.
Policy Passages: Career Options for Policy Wonks,
published by Greenwood/Praeger Publishers, is aimed
primarily at young people, says Wiarda.
“I have so many students who come to me and
say, ‘I’m really interested in a career in Washington and
I don’t know what it’s like,” he says. “Students have
nowhere to turn to get advice on these kinds of careers.”
Wiarda is a self-described “denizen” of the
Washington scene, having served in the State Department
and Defense Department as well as holding positions at
the Center for Strategic and International Studies,
Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars and
Georgetown University. “I’ve been down there every
week for 25 years,” he says.
Those longtime associations allowed him to
assemble an impressive list of 20 contributors to “Policy
Passages,” including former U.S. Secretary of Health and
Human Services Donna Shalala, political analysts
William Schneider and Norm Ornstein of the American
Enterprise Institute, Thomas Mann of the Brookings
Institution and Joseph Nye of the Kennedy School of
Government at Harvard University.
“This is not just the usual list of internship
telephone numbers and addresses to be found in your
college counselor’s office,” says Wiarda. “Instead, each
author explores a real-life career in policy, both the
opportunities and the disappointments... There are some
edges to this book. Each contributor offers a ‘warts and
all’ account of the careers, including bad decisions they
made along the way.”