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| After ten years of service to refugees and other newcomers in the San Diego area, Crystal took her leave of the non-profit sector in January 2009 and joined the counseling staff of the Faculty and Staff Assistance Program at UC San Diego. She is happy to be able to continue serving a culturally and linguistically diverse community on this large campus. She is challenged now with new opportunities for leading staff and faculty workshops in mind-body skills, crisis management, and inter-personal communication, and for supporting educators in their personal endeavors to find health and balance. Crystal maintains a private practice in the Hillcrest neighborhood of San Diego and invites you to learn more about her approach and offerings at www.thelevelcenter.com or www.greenmft.com. |
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Graduation Date:2002
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CLU welcomes 17 new faculty members
Expertise ranges from Hindu to theater design
(THOUSAND OAKS, Calif. – Aug. 28, 2009) California Lutheran University is welcoming 17 new faculty members.
Mariana Robles-Dalany
Assistant Professor, Teacher Education
Director, Liberal Studies Program
Robles-Dalany has been a teacher and administrator in public and private K-12 schools. A native Spanish speaker and first-generation college graduate, she understands the challenges faced by many California students. She has a bachelor’s degree from USC, a master’s degree from California State University, Los Angeles, and a doctorate in urban educational leadership from Claremont Graduate University.
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Graduation Date:2008
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CLU welcomes 17 new faculty members
Expertise ranges from Hindu to theater design
(THOUSAND OAKS, Calif. – Aug. 28, 2009) California Lutheran University is welcoming 17 new faculty members.
Maureen Reilly Lorimer
Assistant Professor, Teacher Education
A former Distinguished Teacher in Residence at CSU San Marcos and faculty associate at Claremont Graduate University, Lorimer has extensive experience as a teacher, mentor and program coordinator in K-12 schools. Her work has focused on middle school teaching and learning. She holds bachelor’s and master’s degrees in human development from Pacific Oaks College and a doctorate in education from Claremont.
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Graduation Date:1984
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SBOS congratulates alum Dr. Mark Runco, a Nationally recognized creativity researcher who was welcomed as the new E. Paul Torrance Professor of Creative Studies and Gifted Education at University Of Georgia College Of Education. Runco will serve as senior scholar for UGA’s Gifted and Creative Education Program and executive director of the Torrance Center for Creativity and Talent Development.
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Graduation Date:1995
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Azusa kindergarten teacher wins teacher of the year award!
By Kendra Ablaza, Correspondent
Posted: 08/17/2009 05:13:26 PM PDT
AZUSA - Azusa Unified school district honored Paramount Elementary School teacher Yvette Walker as the 2009 Teacher of the Year.
A kindergarten teacher for 15 years, Walker, 40, said she felt "very honored and humbled at the same time because Azusa is filled with so many great teachers."
"I love being teacher and I love what I do," Walker said. "I'm always evolving and looking for new and exciting ways to making the classroom relevant, and I'm open to new ideas."
Currently a resident of Los Angeles, Walker started off as an engineering major in college at Cal Poly Pomona, but after an experience working with at-risk teenagers her junior year, she realized she loved working with youth so much that she changed her major to liberal studies. She received her master's degree and California teaching credential from Claremont Graduate University.
According to the district, Walker was selected based on her "dedication to improving education."
"We have about 600 teachers (in the Azusa school district)," said Katherine Miller, director of communications. "It's a big honor."
Corey James, assistant superintendent of human resources at Azusa unified said Walker "shows exceptional dedication and hard work, and is a phenomenal teacher."
One of Walker's main focuses right now is explaining the importance of college to her students.
"They may not fully understand the concept (of college yet) but I try to embed into their heads that everybody has the opportunity," she said.
Walker tries to maintain a balance between academic excellence and working with her peers, administrators, and parents. She does her best as a teacher to engrave the importance of education in her students' brains.
Kindergarten "is the foundation where education starts," Walker said.
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Graduation Date:1979
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DON HOSSLER is the Executive Associate Dean for the School of Education at Indiana University Bloomington. He is a Professor of Educational Leadership & Policy Studies and also serves as the Coordinator of the Higher Education and Student Affairs graduate programs. Hossler has served as the Vice Chancellor for Enrollment Services for Indiana University Bloomington, and the Associate Vice President for Enrollment Services for the seven campuses of the Indiana University system, and Chair of the Department of Educational Leadership & Policy Studies. His areas of specialization include: college choice, student persistence, student financial aid policy, and enrollment management.
Hossler has consulted with more than 45 colleges, universities, and related educational organizations including: The College Board, Educational Testing Services, the University of Cincinnati, Inter-American University of Puerto Rico, the Pew Charitable Trust, the University of Missouri, Colorado State University, the University of Alabama, and the General Accounting Office of the United States Government. He has presented more than 130 scholarly papers and invited lectures and is the author, or co-author, of 12 books and monographs and more than 65 articles and book chapters. Hossler is currently directing funded projects of The College Board, the Lumina Foundation for Education, and the Spencer Foundation focusing on student success and persistence. He has received career achievement awards for his research and scholarship from the American College Personnel Association, the Association for Institutional Research, and the National Association of Student Personnel Administrators.
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Graduation Date:1979
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Don Hossler
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National organization honors Hossler for contributions to institutional research.
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June 23, 2009
BLOOMINGTON, Ind. -- Don Hossler, the executive associate dean at Indiana University's School of Education, has been named the Sidney Suslow Award recipient by the Association for Institutional Research (AIR).
The award honors his distinguished scholarly contributions to institutional research. The AIR award committee selects honorees "for their cumulative and ongoing scholarly efforts to keep institutional research on the cutting edge of research practice, policies and procedures in higher education," according to the organization's Web site. While the Suslow Award is presented at the group's annual forum, it is not always an annual award; it is given to an honoree only when the selection committee receives a nomination that meets the award criteria.
Hossler is an internationally recognized expert on issues of college choice, student financial aid policy, enrollment management and higher education finance. His nearly 50 articles in peer-reviewed academic journals are widely cited in other research. Hossler has authored or co-authored six books, including 1998's Going to College: How Social, Economic, and Educational Factors Influence the Decisions Students Make.
"It's mandatory reading for anyone doing research on this broad and important topic," said Rob Toutkoushian of the book when he introduced Hossler during the award presentation earlier this month at AIR's annual forum. Toutkoushian is an associate professor in the IU Department of Educational Leadership and Policy Studies.
"I was delighted to see Don selected to receive the Suslow Award," said Gerardo Gonzalez, dean of the IU School of Education. "His work has influenced higher education policy for decades. Given President Obama's stated goal of having the greatest proportion of college graduates among nations in the world by the year 2020, Don's research is more important today than ever."
Hossler said the award was a surprise, but quite gratifying. "I have always had a really strong interest in how research could inform institutional practice, and the Association of Institutional Research is the primary membership organization for people who do research on campuses," he said.
Hossler was appointed to IU's faculty in 1985. He became vice chancellor for enrollment services in 1997, and he became associate vice president for academic affairs in 2001 -- positions he maintained until 2005. He became executive associate dean for the School of Education in 2008 -- a role he also served from 1996 to 1997.
His research arises from issues he discovers while working in the field of institutional leadership. "I often describe my research as being driven by 'I bump into problems,'" Hossler said. "Then I begin to wonder, 'Gee, is there some way that research could help inform that?'" Good institutional research can either narrow a myriad of choices to a manageable few, he said, or give many more options when just a few seem likely.
Hossler has consulted with numerous colleges, universities and related educational organizations, including the College Board, Educational Testing Services, the Pew Charitable Trust, and the U.S. government's General Accounting Office. He was an expert witness in the nearly three-decade Knight v. State of Alabama case that challenged Alabama's state college and university policies on the grounds that they were discriminatory. Hossler also has lived in Russia and conducted research on change and reform of higher education in that country.
Regarding Indiana higher education, Hossler concluded a series of studies last year through the "Indiana Project on Academic Success" -- a collaboration with higher education institutions around the state to examine data, and identify and research challenges to college students' success. Recent studies have examined factors surrounding the success of Ivy Tech Community College students across the state, including factors affecting transfers, mobile students and new college students.
Hossler is the third Sidney Suslow Award recipient with ties to the IU School of Education. In 2003, AIR recognized Trudy W. Banta, professor of higher education and senior advisor to the chancellor for academic planning and evaluation at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis.
In 2002, the Sidney Suslow Award went to George Kuh, chancellor's professor of higher education and director of the Center for Postsecondary Research. |
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Graduation Date:1995
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Claremont Graduate University Alumna, Now a University Professor,
Named 2009 Fellow of the American Speech and Hearing Association
Claremont Graduate University alumna Carolyn Conway Madding, department chair and professor of communicative disorders at California State University, Long Beach (CSULB), has been named a 2009 recipient of the Fellowship Award of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA).
One of the highest honors the association can bestow, the ASHA Fellowship recognizes professional or scientific achievement and is given to members who have made outstanding contributions to the professions – contributions that are significant and would be so regarded within and beyond one’s community or state. The honor is retained for life.
“I know a number of the other individuals who were also selected as fellows this year, and I am very proud to be in their company,” said Madding, who joins CSULB colleague Geraldine P. Wallach as a fellow of ASHA. “Having two faculty members from the same university honored as ASHA fellows is quite an honor for the department.”
It was Wallach who nominated Madding for the honor along with two other current fellows –Judy Montgomery from Chapman University and Lynn Snyder from the University of Colorado. To be nominated for the award, a candidate must be endorsed by two ASHA fellows.
Highest among her achievements in the field, Madding is most proud of creating and organizing the Linguistically Different Clinic at CSULB – which, she noted, is what she was hired to do when she joined the university in 1989. The Linguistically Different Clinic provides assessment and intervention for children and adults with many disorders, and it provides these services to non-English speaking clients in their own languages.
“During the 20 years I have been here, we have treated clients in 26 different languages with disorders that cover the spectrum, including aphasia, traumatic brain injuries, autism, stuttering,” pointed out Madding, who has brought in almost $2 million in grant money for the education of bilingual speech-language pathologists. “These linguistically different services are so rare in this area that people will come from 40-50 miles away to avail themselves of these services.”
In her recommendation, Wallach wrote: “Dr. Madding’s commitment to the development and implementation of intervention tools and techniques across languages has been among the landmark work she has passed on to hundreds of graduate students who have been supervised by her for over 20 years…The Linguistically Different Clinic was not part of students’ training before 1989. Its creation under Dr. Maddings’s direction was, in essence, ahead of the curve of our understanding of more integrated ways to assess and treat individuals with cultural and linguistically different backgrounds with concomitant communicative, language, speech and hearing disorders.”
In addition to the clinic, Madding is also responsible for creating a new Special Cohort M.A. Program, which is run through the university’s College of Continuing and Professional Education (CCPE), formerly University College and Extension Services (UCES). Started in 2007, the program has doubled the number of graduate students in the Communicative Disorders Department. The first cohort of 30 students graduates this summer, and according to Madding, all 30 students are leaving the program with good-paying jobs. A second cohort of students begins classes this fall.
Madding earned her Ph.D. at Claremont Graduate University. She also has a bachelor’s degree from Ohio State University and a master’s degree from Cal State Fullerton.
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| Ivannia Soto-Hinman, PhD, Education (2005) and June Hetzel, PhD, Education (1996) have co-written a book for Corwin Press called "The Literacy Gaps: Building Bridges for ELLs and SELs". Set for launch at the end of August 2009, the book explores strategies for closing the three literacy gaps-the gap between the teacher and text; the teacher and student; and student and student--which often negatively impact achievement with ELLs and standard English learners. Ivannia Soto-Hinman is now associate professor of education at Whittier College and June Hetzel the dean of the school of education at Biola University. |
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Carla K. Bartlett, Ph.D.
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| Carla Bartlett (1992) returned to teaching instrumental music in 2004 after 18 years as Professor and Director of Secondary Education at Mount St. Mary's College, Los Angeles. In 2007, Carla won the Bravo Award from the Los Angeles Music Center for excellence in secondary music teaching; in 2008, she was awarded Teacher of the Year by the Alhambra Unified School District; and in 2009, the Alhambra Educational Foundation gave her its annual outstanding educator award, "Alhambra's Everyday Hero." In addition to teaching full time at Mark Keppel High School, Carla also directs the Alhambra Unified School District Band, which marched in the 2009 Pasadena Tournament of Roses Parade. As a freelance composer, Carla published her first two piano books in 2008, Friendly Letters and Piano Postcards, through Centerstream Publishing (Hal Leonard). |
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