a presentation by Dr. David L. Stoloff, Professor and Chair, Education Department, Eastern Connecticut State University, Willimantic, CT 06226 on Friday, April 16, 1999
before faculty and staff at The College of St. Rose.
also found as http://www.easternct.edu/depts/edu/stoloff/strose.html on the WWW
 

1) Recruitment - attracting students who will well represent diversity in American society.

Summer Institute for Future Teachers - an intensive four week residential program for high school students in Connecticut designed to expose them to the teaching profession, to develop knowledge and skills, and to further their education and career goals.

Professional Development School relationships - towards the seamless web between pre-school - K - 12 - community colleges - colleges and universities for teacher education - graduate studies - lifelong learning.

Outreach to the Community - grant-writing, alumni connections, community forums, faculty webpages, student webpages for the community.  The School as the center of learning in a community.

2) Retention - providing paths for success for learners within dynamic courses of study.

Expanding the University's attention on Teacher Education - connections with the Arts and Sciences, student services, recruitment, academic advisement, alumni planning.   Aero*Space and Environmental Education Resource Center

Infusion of the world cultures within and across the curriculum - regional, national, and international experiences.

Enhancing the modalities of learning and the variety of options for learning, including group, cooperative learning;  creating bright and safe places for discovery; seeking common literacies and strengths in a common core of societal assumptions and knowledge; asynchronous learning and different uses of time.

3) Reputation - highlighting the School of Education's identity as a major function of the college, for the college is the center of the wider community, region, state, nation, and world.

Building pride in the successes of the School's students, graduates, faculty, staff;  making connections across space and time, across the political landscape within state and national professional organizations and decision-makers.

Building on distinctiveness of individuals, programs, the college's networks, and the environment.

Revisiting the college's roots and strengths to prepare for the future.

As the past was built on importing knowledge from the world, the School of Education's future will be built on maintaining even more effective connections with evolving educational thought and on seeking to shape the conversation.

Your comments on these thoughts would be most appreciated - David L. Stoloff, Ph.D. email: stoloffd@ecsu.ctstateu.edu
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