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UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY                           OCTOBER 1998

We're glad to welcome our newest faculty
Lynley Anderman is an assistant professor of educational and counseling psychology who will be working with the Institute on Education Reform.  Before joining the college, she was an assistant professor in the Department of Educational Research and Psychology at the University of Missouri, Kansas City.

Jody Clasey is an assistant professor of kinesiology and health promotion.  She was previously a post-doctoral fellow at the University of Virginia School of Medicine.

Stephen Clements is an assistant professor of educational policy studies and evaluation.  He joins the college from the Kentucky Long-Term Policy Research Center in Frankfort.

Katherine McCormick is an assistant professor of special education and rehabilitation counseling.  She was formerly an associate professor with the Department of Counseling and Clinical Programs at Columbus State University.

Jean McCrory is an assistant professor of kinesiology and health promotion.  She comes to the college from the State University of New York at Buffalo, where she was a research associate and clinical instructor in the Biomechanics of Human Performance Laboratory.

Lynda Ransdell is an assistant professor of kinesiology and health promotion.  She was previously an assistant professor of exercise and sport science at Colorado State University, Fort Collins.
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Profile:  The body human
New faculty member researches exercise physiology, body composition

Jody Clasey is using her hands to describe how tubing runs through thermos-like flasks filled with methanol and dry ice.

In each of her hands is an imaginary end of tubing.

When a person breathes in through their nose and out through their mouth, she is saying, the moisture in their breath condenses and freezes as it passes through the tubing and the slushy, freezing mixture.

“The moisture in the breath, the respiratory water—what you see when you go out on a cold day and exhale—will eventually freeze.  The beauty of using that sample is the lungs distill the sample for us.  It can be used to track or trace the concentration of the deuterium oxide that I give people to drink.”

The procedure provides information on one of her favorite topics—body composition.

Nonradioactive isotopes in the breath of those being tested leave behind a frozen record.  The isotopes and frozen breath can then be measured to find the total body water of an individual—an important part of determining an individual’s body composition.

Part of a methodology study she recently submitted using respiratory water samples of able-bodied and paraplegic subjects, Jody hopes to determine how this method of determining total body water differs from drawing and distilling blood.

Information gathered in the study may be helpful to participants in improving and maintaining their overall health.

In fact, nearly all of Jody’s current research projects include some aspect of her love for physiology, exercise, and body composition.

Even an ordinary trip to Keeneland last fall sparked her interest in one of these favorite research areas.

At the University of Virginia, Jody was a postdoctoral fellow responsible for clinical research protocols examining the relationship between growth hormone secretion and body composition.

So at Keeneland last fall, while everyone around her was sizing up horses and making bets, it was the jockeys that caught Jody’s eye. Their physique fascinated her as an area of study.

Since her visit to Keeneland, she has had a proposal accepted to study the body composition and hormone environment of up to 25 jockeys in both Lexington and Saratoga Springs, New York.

Other research projects on which Jody is working also relate to body composition and exercise.

With a master’s student, she is working on research concerning the validity of estimating body fat with several bioelectrical impedance devices.

And she is involved in three projects with kinesiology and health promotion colleague J. W. Yates.

The projects with J. W. include research to examine aerobic exercise as an intervention for individuals with spinal cord injuries; a study concerning creatine supplementation and its effects on total body water and performance measurements; and a proposal for a large equipment grant to obtain a bone density scanner.

Despite her current passion for her field, it was an academic accident that initially got Jody interested in exercise physiology.

In her last semester as a senior at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, a friend told her about a course in exercise physiology opening up to undergraduates.

“Kind of reluctantly I signed up for it,” Jody said.  “I wasn’t sure what that was all about.”

But in the class she discovered a career.  “I knew immediately this is what I wanted to do,” she said.

After completing her student teaching, Jody returned to the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign to earn both her master’s and doctorate in exercise physiology.

She was born and raised in Champaign, where her father is a retired fireman and her mother is a surgical nurse.

Jody said she may have absorbed some of her original interest in exercise physiology from her mother.

“We would constantly talk physiology and maybe that had something to do with my interest,” she said.

“I have a hard time when I bring my books home that she [her mother] doesn’t grab them and start looking through them.”

In addition to pursuing her research interests, Jody also has a personal goal to constantly improve her teaching and her students’ experiences in the classroom.  “I have a love for teaching,” she said.

Jody teaches an undergraduate course in exercise physiology and a graduate seminar course concerned with the role of exercise in health and disease.

In the spring, she will be teaching a course in exercise test and prescription.

Since coming to UK, Jody said support from colleagues in Kinesiology and Health Promotion, and from other colleagues in the college, has been immeasurable.

“I have felt an incredible amount of support from the department, from the college, and from the university,” she said.

“I want to thank everyone for that.”
- J. Prasse
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We’re glad to welcome our newest professional staff

Ann Griffen, disability program specialist, Special Education and Rehabilitation Counseling, practicum supervisor for Training Rural Educators in Kentucky—Collaborative Relationships

Meada Hall, disability program specialist, Special Education and Rehabilitation Counseling, project director for Training Rural Educators in Kentucky—Collaborative Relationships

…and our newest staff members

Diane Benham, staff support associate, Institute on Education Reform

Christy Durr, staff support associate, Educational and Counseling Psychology

Dean Harney, staff support associate, Curriculum and Instruction

Cynthia (Cindi) Jefferson, staff support associate, Office of the Dean

Cynthia (Cindy) Jennings, administrative support associate, Office of the Dean

Alicia (Tina) Johnson, account clerk, Curriculum and Instruction

Gregory Laber, staff support associate, Kinesiology and Health Promotion

Kathleen Lillich, staff support associate, Educational and Counseling Psychology

Michael (Mick) Parsons, staff support associate, Administration and Supervision

Eutonya (Tonya) Sleet, staff support associate, Special Education and Rehabilitation Counseling
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Profile:  Banking on change
New staff member glad to be part of college

In the early fall of 1997, Tonya Sleet had not yet heard of the Department of Special Education and Rehabilitation Counseling.

She was processing graduate and family housing rentals for Cooperstown apartments.

Tonya had been with her department, part of UK’s Auxiliary Services, since August 1995.

“It was time for a change,” she said.  “I saw a position open up on the job postings, and I decided to try for it.”

It is a decision she is glad she made.

After an interview, Tonya was offered a position and joined Special Education and Rehabilitation Counseling last November.

“I have really enjoyed working in this department,” she said.  “It has been interesting to see all the different aspects of special education.”

Before coming to UK, Tonya worked in the Trust Department for Bank One.

During Bank One’s merger with Liberty Bank, there were growing concerns that her unit would be closed.

Rather than wait on having her job phased out, Tonya applied for a position at UK.  Three months after joining Auxiliary Services, her old unit at Bank One was closed.

Tonya is a lifelong Lexingtonian and enjoys reading and being with friends.

She is especially happy to be working for a department that is directly involved with helping people.

“This is different than what I did in banking and housing,” she said.  “Working here I’m part of something that actually gives back to the community.”
- J. Prasse
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Littlest arrivals:

Daniel Ryan Adams, born August 18, 1998, Kay and Scott Adams (EDC)

Kayleigh Ann Jennings, born February 14, 1998, Greg and Cindy Jennings (Dean’s Office)

Katherine Margaret Rintamaa, born March 9, 1998, Michael and Margaret Rintamaa (EDC)

Tyson Alexander Robinson, born June 22, 1998, Steve and Jennifer Robinson (EDA)
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People

Eric Anderman (EDP) has had several recent publications including an article about what adolescents are learning by watching TV news in the classroom.  The article appeared in the Journal of Adolescent Research.

Several publications, including the APA Monitor, Education Week, and Family Life, highlighted research by Eric and doctoral students Tripp Griesinger and Gloria Westerfield.  Their work concerning motivation and cheating during early adolescence was published in the March issue of the Journal of Educational Psychology.

Harriette Arrington (EDC) is now directing the TeacherBridge Program that was developed by Karen Webb.  This year’s TeacherBridge Program has 12 participants, and it is anticipated that 15-20 students will join the program next summer.

The goal of the project is to foster a strong interest in middle/secondary teacher education among university or community college students of underrepresented populations.  The program focuses on building writing skills and tutoring young people.  TeacherBridge is funded by the Kentucky Department of Education.

At the North American International Livestock Exposition in Louisville last November, Jo Berryman’s (EDSRC) entry, Peyton’s Andy Sky, won the aged-cow class (five years and above) senior champion, as well as grand champion of the Guernsey show.  The Berrymans came home with three plaques and a five-feet tall trophy.  Jo says “Sky” gets an extra helping of food now.

Jo and her husband have been showing cows for 35 years.  This was the first time one of their cows has won grand champion at an international show.  Jo may soon have a little more time to devote to the Berryman farm; she will be retiring from the college in December.

William Bintz (EDC) has had several articles published recently, including “Is it just me, or are there other parents and teachers confused about SOL assessments?” in Reading Horizons.  His article “Exploring reading nightmares of middle and secondary school teachers” appeared in the Journal of Adolescent and Adult Literacy.

Bill has presented many professional development workshops to teachers across the state recently.  Some of his current workshop topics mirror his own research interests in reading as inquiry, reading as a tool for learning, and assessing reading comprehension holistically.

Ed Blackhurst (EDSRC) will be retiring from Special Education and Rehabilitation Counseling in July 1999.

Kathleen Chard (EDP) passed her national and state board examinations making her a licensed psychologist and health services preferred provider in the state of Kentucky.

In addition, she recently published a book chapter with Patricia Resick and counseling psychology doctoral student Jan Wertz entitled, “Group therapy with rape victims.”  The chapter is in Group Treatment for Post-Traumatic Stress Disorders:  Conceptualization, Themes, and Processes, published by Taylor and Francis.

Julie Cleary (Field Exp. & School Collab.) is a grandmother again.  Blake Cleary was born December 2 to Julie’s son Steve Cleary and his wife Ginger.

Henry Cole (EDP), John Haley, Behavioral Sciences, and three colleagues from the NIOSH Pittsburgh Mining Research Laboratory published an article titled, “Decision making during a simulated mine fire escape,” in the May 1998 issue of IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management.

The simulation exercise study is based on a four-year study of 50 coal miners who escaped from major underground mine fires.

The research findings identified critical problem-solving skills needed to survive such events, but that are performed poorly.  The simulation teaches and assesses these critical survival skills.

In May, Hank conducted a three-day workshop at the Johns Hopkins University School of Hygiene and Public Health.   The workshop centered on designing simulations to teach and assess decision-making skills for health care workers who must follow standard precautions for prevention of infection by pathogens from blood and body fluids during surgical and medical procedures—especially in hospital emergency and critical care units.

Melissa Curry (ITC) has been accepted into the Leadership Development Institute sponsored by UKadvance.  The institute is an intensive, two-week program designed to provide opportunities for personal and professional growth for UK staff.  Several other staff members in the college have participated in the program including Deborah Chandler (EDC), Rita Stevenson (Assoc. Dean’s Office), and Dave Vantreese (ITC).

Alan DeYoung (EPE) is the regional representative for the Annenburg Rural Challenge, a national organization dedicated to helping revitalize schools and communities in rural America.  A major focus of the group is to connect schools and communities via place-based curricula to reveal and document how schools both serve—and are served—by their communities.  Eight schools in Kentucky are part of the group’s efforts to enhance this relationship.

Sonja Feist-Price (EDP/EDSRC) is the co-PI for a new grant funded by the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA).  The grant, totaling $2.1 million, is designed to adapt curriculum to reach adolescents involved in behaviors that could put them at risk for contracting HIV.  The primary focus of the grant is on alcohol-related HIV interventions. Eric Anderman (EDP) is the data analyst for the grant.

Tom Guskey (EPE) has been invited to serve as the 1999 visiting scholar at the Annual Research Colloquium of the School of Education at Virginia Commonwealth University.  The colloquium takes place in January.  Tom will deliver the colloquium’s keynote address and meet with groups of faculty and students.

Also in January, Tom has been invited to address the faculty, students, and school-based educators involved in the William and Mary Institute for School Leadership at the College of William and Mary.  Educators from across Virginia are currently involved in the institute and are developing several standards-based reform initiatives.

Everyone in Curriculum and Instruction appreciated the job Michele Harney did over the summer.  As a temporary employee, Michele worked until returning to college this fall.  The search for a replacement eventually led back to Michele’s mother, Dean Harney.  Dean began her position in the department on August 31, and Michele is student teaching this semester as an education student at Kentucky Christian College.

Staci Johnson is the new Dean’s Office student assistant.  Staci is an undeclared freshman from Winchester. Though she began her position just this fall, she has already become an invaluable member of the Dean’s Office staff.

Deneese Jones (EDC) received a one-year appointment as acting associate dean of the Graduate School.  She also received a three-year appointment (1998-2001) by the Governor to the Early Reading Incentive Grant Steering Committee.

Linda Levstik (EDC) is on sabbatical this fall in New Zealand.  She will be involved in a research project at Christchurch Polytechnical University.   The project focuses on the development of historical thinking and its relation to national identity among Maori, Pacific Islander, and European children.

Shirley Raines (Dean’s Office) has been appointed the university’s vice chancellor for academic services.

Jim Rinehart (EDA) is the editor for Educational Administration Quarterly.  In July, the journal moved to UK from the University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee. Published by Corwin Press, the journal is distributed nationally and internationally.  Its focus is on administration in both secondary and higher education.  The journal is published with the sponsorship of the University Council on Educational Administration (UCEA), of which UK is a founding member.  UCEA-member institutions host the journal for three-year terms.

Susie Robbert (Field Exp. & School Collab.) is celebrating three years of service at the college this October.

Rosetta Sandidge (Assoc. Dean’s Office/EDC) has been appointed the college’s associate dean for academic and student services.  (For those following the mileage tally on her Buick Century, she’s at 199,000.)

Liz Spalding (EDC) is the new chair of language education programs for Curriculum and Instruction.

Lucian Taylor (KHP) has a new low-impact aerobic video for children.  The video is called It’s A Great Day for a Workout.  Contact Lucian (7-5163) for more information about purchasing the tape.

John Thelin (EPE) was a keynote speaker for the Division J session of the American Educational Research Association national conference in San Diego this past April.

This summer, he was a faculty member for the College Business Management Institute (CBMI) held at UK.  His class, “Culture of the Campus,” was a look at the architectural, historical, and social ingredients that combine to make up life on campus.

John is also running well.  He won his age group in the 5K Run for the Cure race and placed second in his age group in the Blue Grass Winter Games 5K.

Mary Ann Vimont (Dean’s Office/EDC) has been invited to work with Kingston University in London, England, on a special international economics education project.

Those involved with development efforts at UK know Amy Wells.  The former assistant director of New Student Programs for UK was the coordinator of UK’s Parent Association in addition to working with the UK Ambassadors and UK 101.  Amy is now a full-time doctoral student in EPE.

J. W. Yates (KHP/Director, Exercise Physiology Laboratory) made a poster presentation in June at the American College of Sports Medicine National Meeting in Orlando, Florida.  His presentation was on the effect of upper body support on heart rate and oxygen consumption during stairclimbing.

In August, J. W. and Jody Clasey (KHP) made a presentation on exercise therapy for weight reduction at the Multidisciplinary Approach to Weight Reduction Symposium sponsored by the Highland Regional Medical Center of Eastern Kentucky.

J. W. and Jody also have had two grants funded recently—one on aerobic exercise as an intervention for individuals with spinal cord injuries who are also at risk for coronary artery disease—and another on the effects of the supplement creatine on performance and body weight.
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Retirements

Don Cross (EDSRC), June 30, 1998, after 31 years of service.

Marty Martinson (EDSRC), December 31, 1997, after 27 years of service.

Edgar Sagan (EPE), June 30, 1998, after 29 years of service.

We were sorry to omit an announcement of Connie Bridge’s retirement from the last issue of home page.  She retired in 1997 after 20 years of service.  Connie is currently associate dean for student affairs at the University of Illinois, Chicago.
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News

Council awards grant for literacy development
In response to Senate Bill 186, the Council on Postsecondary Education has awarded a grant to create a Collaborative Center for Literacy Development (CCLD) to be administered through the College of Education.

The CCLD is a collaboration between the state institutions of higher education, the Kentucky Community and Technical College System, the National Center for Family Literacy, and others.

Many individuals contributed to the college receiving this award. Lois Adams-Rodgers (EDA/Institute on Education Reform), Judy Embry (Reading Recovery Program) Deneese Jones (EDC/Graduate School), and Shirley Raines (Dean’s Office) worked with legislators last year as drafts of the legislation were developed and finalized.

According to the final legislation, the purpose of the CCLD is to form a partnership among the public universities to “make training available for educators in reliable, replicable, research-based reading models and to promote literacy development.”

Grant awarded to increase number of special education teachers
John Schuster and Belva Collins (EDSRC) have teamed up on a new grant.

Training Rural Educators in Kentucky—Collaborative Relationships is a three-year, federally-funded personnel preparation grant.  The $775,000 project is designed to increase the number of fully certified teachers of students with moderate and severe disabilities (MSD).

Key aspects of the grant include funding for cross-program visitation of students (to encourage collaboration) and a series of nationally known experts who will deliver a lecture to students each semester with follow-up by e-mail.

Approximately 30 students are funded this semester in sites at Lexington, Northern Kentucky, Ashland, Prestonsburg, and Somerset.

One of the grant contributors is UK’s Office of Distance Learning Programs.  Connie Baird’s office assisted in making it possible to hire two, new professional staff members for the grant, Meada Hall and Ann Griffen.

Meada is project director for the grant and Ann is the practicum supervisor.  Meada was formerly a teacher at East Jessamine High School, and Ann taught at Tates Creek Elementary.

Office of Field Experiences and School Collaboration offers seminars
Sharon Brennan, who says she has become known (and perhaps renown…) for gingersnaps and cider, will be sponsoring several fall meetings featuring lively topics and—of course—gingersnaps and cider.   The director of field experiences and school collaboration says the meetings are for university-based student teaching supervisors, but other interested faculty are welcome and encouraged to attend.
Topics will include:
- Working with Families and Community Leaders:  What Should Teacher Candidates Know and Be Able to Do? (Oct. 20)
- Selecting and Nurturing STAR Teachers:  Implications for our Teacher Education Programs (Nov. 17)

Distance education featured as part of 75th anniversary celebration
As part of the college’s 75th anniversary celebration, a seminar on “Transforming Public Learning Organizations: The Role of Policy” will be held at the William T. Young Library from 9 to 12 a.m. on Oct. 21.

Dr. Tom Clark, president of Transformational Associates, is the speaker.  Clark is the co-author of Distance Education, Electronic Networking, and School Policy, a PDK fastback publication that will be distributed at the seminar.

The local PDK chapter and the Department of Administration and Supervision are sponsors of the fastback which will have, on its inside front cover, a 75th anniversary commemorative recognition of the UK College of Education.

At the conclusion of the seminar, participants will have an opportunity to tour the library facilities.

The seminar is scheduled to coordinate with the Central Kentucky Education Cooperative meeting and with the reception sponsored by the college for school administrators to be held that evening at Spindletop.

UCEA Joint Program Center to study superintendency
The University of Kentucky and the University of Wisconsin-Madison are administering the University Council on Educational Administration (UCEA) Joint Program Center for the Study of the Superintendency for a five-year period, 1998-2003.

Lars Björk (EDA) is serving as co-director of the project along with C. Cryss Brunner from the University of Wisconsin, Madison.

Lois Adams-Rodgers (EDA/Institute on Education Reform) is associate director for the Center.

The purpose of the center is to create a forum for researchers and practitioners to define issues related to the superintendency.  The center sponsors research and disseminates findings to improve educational policy, practice, and professional preparation.

UCEA is a membership organization comprised of 56 major research universities in the United States and Canada.

Awards and Honors
Tracy Bushman, an undergraduate student in Special Education and Rehabilitation Counseling, received a $500 award from the UK Undergraduate Research and Creativity Grants Program.

Tracy is completing her student teaching in moderate/severe disabilities at Bryan Station High School in Fayette County and at Brookside Elementary School in Jessamine County.

She will use the award to conduct a study on whether students with moderate/severe disabilities acquire nontargeted information from their peers without disabilities in general education classes.

Her academic advisor, Belva Collins (EDSRC), will be working on the research project with Tracy.

Nita Kaufman, multimedia specialist in Special Education and Rehabilitation Counseling, and in Curriculum and Instruction, was the recipient of the 1998 Chancellor’s Award for Outstanding Staff in the professional and administrative category.  The award included a plaque as well as a cash award of $500.

Kristina Krampe, a doctoral student in Special Education and Rehabilitation Counseling, is the first student in the College of Education to receive a fellowship from the UK Graduate School under the auspices of the Kentucky Council on Postsecondary Education.

Kristina received a Kentucky Research Challenge Fellowship based on her overall grade point average and a high score on the analytical portion of the Graduate Record Exam.

She will receive $15,000, plus tuition, for the 12-month academic year beginning August 1998.

Kristina is a full-time student in the department’s Distance Education Leadership Program.

She was previously a teacher in learning and behavior disorders for the Scott County Board of Education.
 

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