Announcements

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Dr. Elsa Nuñez Appointed Eastern’s Sixth President

Willimantic, Conn.—Elsa Nuñez, vice chancellor for academic and student affairs of the University of Maine System, was unanimously elected today by the Board of Trustees of the Connecticut State University System as the sixth president of Eastern Connecticut State University.

Nuñez, 58, becomes the first Latina president of a Connecticut state university. She will succeed Michael Pernal, who has been acting as Eastern’s interim president since January 2006. Pernal succeeded David G. Carter, who served as president of Eastern for nearly 18 years before being appointed chancellor of the Connecticut State University System in December 2005. Nuñez will begin her term as president on Aug. 4.

“We are very excited to welcome Dr. Nuñez to Eastern Connecticut State University and the Connecticut State University System,” said Lawrence D. McHugh, chairman of the CSU Board of Trustees, noting that more than 80 applicants for the position were considered during a nationwide search.

“She is an outstanding leader and administrator, and the trustees are confident that she will be an exceptional president who will guide Eastern through what we expect to be a continued era of unprecedented growth and improvement,” McHugh continued. “Dr. Nuñez is an educator who believes strongly in Eastern’s mission, and in serving the needs and interests of our students.”

As vice chancellor since 2003, Nuñez has overseen all academic matters related to the seven universities that make up the University of Maine System. Her responsibilities have included new program approval, faculty reappointments, promotion, tenure, and academic and student policies.

Prior to joining the Maine system, Nuñez served as provost and vice president for academic affairs at Lesley University from 1999-2003. She was responsible for the university’s six schools, as well as student affairs, the library and the office of admissions. She joined Lesley from Wheelock College, where she served two years as the vice president for academic affairs and as an English professor. From 1993 to 1997, she was the dean for academic affairs and vice chancellor for student affairs at The City University of New York. She began her career as an instructor in the Upward Bound program in 1970.

Nuñez received a bachelor’s degree in Spanish and English from Montclair State College in 1970. She then earned a master’s degree in English from Farleigh Dickinson University in 1973 and an Ed.D. in linguistics from Rutgers University in 1979.

“Eastern is very fortunate to have Dr. Nuñez as its next president,” said Chancellor Carter. “She is an outstanding individual and administrator, and I am confident that she will excel as president. I join the trustees in welcoming her to the Connecticut State University System, and I look forward to working with her.”

Nuñez, who was born and raised in Puerto Rico, is married to Richard Freeland, who will step down as president of Northeastern University at the end of the current academic year. They have two children, Maria, a medical student at George Washington University, and Antony, an information technology professional who lives and works in New Haven.

2) Commencement Research Report - May 21, 2006

This an unofficial research report on a comparison of Eastern CSU graduates at Commencement on May 2006,

determined by counting names in the commencement program.  It would be an estimate because some of the students listed in the program are listed in two sections.  These statistics do not take into account the number of teacher candidates that the Education Department shares with other departments.  Teacher candidates are more often listed as graduating with their liberal arts major.

Some generalizations - Associate Dean Carol Williams reports that 275 (24.29%) of these graduates completed their programs by going part-time.  Over 41% of the graduates had majors in the School of Education and Professional Studies.  If there was a way to also attribute the teacher candidates majoring in another subject to the undergraduate early childhood education, elementary, and secondary education programs - which had 72 (6%) completing student teaching this Spring semester, then another estimate of graduates from our school would be about 47% of graduates were majors in the departments in the School of Education and Professional Studies. 

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The Education Department Faculty photo is posted at
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The 2002-2006 CSU AAUP-BOT Collective Bargaining
Agreement is on-line at the usual URL:
http://www.easternct.edu/aaup/cba.html

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Alumni News
http://www.easternct.edu/depts/edu/news/alumninews.html

Good news from Noah Ventola [mailto:noahventola@yahoo.com], shared by Dr. Ricklin

I am writing to tell you that I have been offered a social studies position at RHAM high school! The position will be either 9th grade global studies or 10th grade world civilization. I am thrilled with the position. It is the position that I wanted in the district that I hoped to work in. I owe part of my success in landing this position to my experience at Eastern as our education department has prepared me for a great future in the public schools. Thank you for all your help and support throughout the last 2 years.

Thanks again!
Noah

posted on May 22, 2006

News from Dr. Leslie Ricklin

I just had a call from Sandy Boscarino's father telling me that she is the first in this year's graduating class!  Sandy is doing her student teaching right now in the 5th grade in Andover and doing a terrific job; she passed Praxis II with flying colors (199 out of 200 on the multiple choice section, for example).  Oh, by the way, her other major is History.  I bet that Dept. is proud of her, too.

Posted on 2/14/06

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News from Kimberlee Kenney

Mathematics & Education

Class of 2002:

 My husband got orders to the USS Alaska, so we will be moving to Norfolk, Virginia around the first of March.  I resigned my position as a math teacher at Grasso Technical High School and  am subbing until we leave.  Parting is such sweet sorrow.  I have so many memories of our 7 years in Connecticut, some of the most special being spent at Eastern in our Real Analysis study group.  We spent 4-6 hours a week outside of class (studying) just to impress Dr. Kenton!  My love and best wishes go out to Dr. Kenton, John, Lisa, Matt, Kevin, Sita and all of the other math geeks who gutted it out with us.  We are truly a bounded unique subset (in the infinite domain of humanity) in which no other subsequence will converge near our epsilon neighborhood!  In Bolzano-Weierstrass we trust. 

Kimberlee Kenney, Mathematics

Culture Committee, Sophomore Advisor, National Honor Society Committee

441-0387, email:Kim.Kenney@po.state.ct.us

posted on February 6, 2006

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posted on October 6, 2005

Good news from Dr. Fred Ashton:

Past Alumni News is posted at
http://www.easternct.edu/depts/edu/news/alumninews.html

Call for Graduate News -

A request from Institutional Research -
Please share news about the plans of graduating seniors.
If they are going on to graduate school, please provide the graduate's name, undergraduate major, graduate university, location (city, state), field of study and degree program sought, and any information on scholarships and/or fellowships.
If they have been accepted for employment positions, please provide the graduate's name,
undergraduate major, company, location (city, state), position, salary.
Please email the information to David, who will compile it for the department. Thanks. 

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ECSU - ThinkQuest for Tomorrow's Teachers Projects

Faculty members and students from Eastern Connecticut State University participated in a US Department of Education grant to Prepare Tomorrow's Teachers to Use Technology with ThinkQuest
[ http://www.preservice.org/] and 13 other universities throughout the US. This project's homepage may be found at http://www.preservice.org/ecsu/ or http://www.easternct.edu/depts/edu/dept/pt3.html.
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Long Term Announcements
Alumni news may be found at http://www.easternct.edu/depts/edu/news/alumninews.html.
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Planning

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Past surveys of our graduates are available on the WWW -
an analysis of the survey of teacher education program graduates 1996-98
http://www.easternct.edu/depts/edu/assessment/survey9698.htm
results of the survey of teacher education program graduates - 1996-1998 -
http://www.easternct.edu/depts/edu/assessment/surveyresults9698.htm, and
results of the survey of teacher education program graduates - 1998-2000 -
http://www.easternct.edu/depts/edu/assessment/gradsurvey2001.htm
survey of interests in graduate programs -1999,
http://www.easternct.edu/depts/edu/assessment/gradinterestsurvey1999.htm
survey of interests in graduate programs - 2001
http://www.easternct.edu/depts/edu/assessment/gradinterestsurvey2001.htm
 
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Research and Creativity Activities
chronicling the ongoing progress of the Education Department at Eastern Connecticut State University

also found at http://www.easternct.edu/depts/edu/news/rca.html

Searches and Opportunities

for job announcements at Eastern CSU - http://www.easternct.edu/depts/personnel/jobs.html

departmental searches to start in Fall 2006 pending approval -

two full-time Reading/Language Arts tenure track faculty members
and

one research and assessment tenure track faculty member

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For opportunities for technology resources and recognition for exemplary leadership, please visit http://www.futureready.org/about/ .

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ADDED PRAXIS II

Elementary Multiple Choice Prep

May 24, 2006 or

August 10, 2006 (repeat)

9:00AM - 12:00PM

Fee: $50.00

Please bring the Educational Testing Service Guide: Test Code 0011 and 0016)

Or you can purchase it at the workshop

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Elementary Essay

May 24, 2006 or

August 10, 2006 (repeat)

1:00PM - 4:00PM

Fee: $50.00

Please bring the Educational Testing Service Guide: Test Code 0012)

Or you can purchase it at the workshop

Presenter: Angela Speck, Ph.D.

Register online: www.aces.k12.ct.us

For registration questions, call Dee Colson, 203-407-4403

Location:

ACES, 205 Skiff Street/SDA(rear bldg), Hamden, CT 06517

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PRAXIS I Workshop 2006

Reading and Writing Essays

May 31, 2006

August 8, 2006 (repeat of May 31)

Time: 9:00 A.M. - 3:00 P.M.

Presenter: Angela Speck, Ph.D.

Fee: $90.00 (If you bring the ETS Guide 2^nd Edition

for PPST, Test Codes 0710, 0720.0730, 5710,5720, and 5730)

- OR -

Fee: $135 to purchase the ETS Praxis I Study Guide 2^nd Edition from ACES

Register online: www.aces.k12.ct.us or

Call Dee Colson: 203-407-4403

Location: 205 Skiff Street/SDA building

Hamden, CT 06517

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Recommendation from Diane Reale, OnlineCSU instructor, to subscribe to Edutopia:

"You may already be familiar with Edutopia, but I recently received an invitation to a free magazine subscription from them, in the mail, so I thought I would send the link along to you....(re: exemplary programs in K-12 schools)....thought your faculty and students might be interested.

http://www.edutopia.org/foundation/foundation.php

Diane"

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Reference from Walter Diaz, Director, Career Services:

Teaching Jobs at SchoolSpring.com

Description: Free educator job search. Apply online, get email job alerts, find 1000s of teaching jobs from dozens of sites with the SchoolSpring SuperSearch. Apply to any job, anywhere with SchoolSpring PLUS!

URL: http://www.SchoolSpring.com

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Looking for an internship, co-op or full-time job? Then check out our new on-line system-eRecruiting at http://eastern.eRecruiting.com

Walter Diaz
Director
Career Services
Eastern Connecticut State University
83 Windham Street
Willimantic, CT  06226
Phone: (860)465.5244
Fax:(860)465.4440
Email: diazw@easternct.edu
University Web Page: www.easternct.edu
Department Web Page: www.easternct.edu/depts/career/

 

Announcement from Robin Shefts, Career Counselor, Career Services:

"I discovered this website recently which I wanted to share with you, faculty and students. http://careers.education.wisc.edu/projectConnect/MoreInfo.cfm

Project Connect is a national cooperative resource between school districts and universities to assist with teacher/education staff employment efforts on the internet.  If you are not familiar with Project Connect, it's worth checking out!"

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For Connecticut teaching opportunities, please visit http://ctreap.net .

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Teacher Substitute Openings in Windham Public Schools

Posted on November 27, 2005

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Multicultural Professional Development Opportunities

Registration is now available online for both the:

1) Developing a Multicultural Curriculum Institute - August 15-16-17, 2006 in Ledyard, CT at the Mashantucket Pequot Museum and Research Center and the

Download brochure at: www.state.ct.us/sde  Click on Calendar

2) 11th Annual CT Conference on Multicultural Education - Oct. 16, 2006 in Farmington, CT.

Download brochure at: www.state.ct.us/sde  Click on Calendar

Register Online at: http://www.aces.k12.ct.us/conferences

3) Closing date is approaching for the Multicultural Educators to South Africa Trip - Oct. 23- Nov.1, 2006. Information is at www.billhowe.org  Click on SouthAfrica2006.

4) SAVE the Date also for the NAME Conference in Phoenix, AZ - Nov. 8-12, 2006. Brochure should be coming out in next few weeks. Info at www.nameorg.org.  PLEASE direct all inquiries about the PHOENIX NAME conference to name@nameorg.org

shared by William A. Howe, Ed.D.
Education Consultant for Multicultural Education & Gender Equity
Connecticut State Department of Education - Bureau of Educational Equity
and

Jack Hasegawa

Bureau Chief

Bureau of Educational Equity

Division of Teaching, Learning, and Assessment

Connecticut State Department of Education

860-713-6544

e-mail address:  jack.hasegawa@ct.gov

posted on May 19, 2006

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Alma Exley Scholarship Program

This scholarship program supports and encouraged persons of color who are committed to a career in public school teaching.  A scholarship award of at least $1,500 a year for two years will be granted to an individual who has been admitted to a teacher-preparation program in a Connecticut College or university.  For more information and an application, please contact David Stoloff in the Education Dept, Webb 129 or visit http://www.almaexleyscholarship.org .

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Recently acquired media - in the Chair's Office or on the Web

1) Thank you, Ann, for enriching the Education Department Chair's office with

Dan Brown's Digital Fortress (Corgi Books, 1998)

and worry beads from Greece. 

2) Also available in borrowing for summer reading -

Cambre, M. & Hawkes, M. (2004). Toys, tools & teachers: The challenges of technology. Lanham, Maryland: Scarecrow Education.

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