June news briefs

Bill Berdine and Kristina Krampe, co-directors of the Commonwealth Center for Instructional Technology and Learning (CCITL) and professors in the department of Special Education and Rehabilitation Counseling, received news that CCITL was approved for an appropriation of $1 million to continue the development of a comprehensive national, on-line, multi-media database of information concerning the teaching of children with a wide range of learning challenges.

Henry P. Cole, Educational & Counseling Psychology; Joan M. Mazur, Curriculum and Instruction, collaborated with UK colleagues and teams of social studies teachers from six rural Kentucky high schools to complete a four-year study involving farm safety and economics. Junior and senior high school students participated in the farm community safety project using an interactive CD-ROM simulation called the Kayles' Difficult Decisions. The simulation depicts a farm family facing difficult decisions and dealing with safety issues. Students then communicated their learning to groups of farmers resulting in a measurable improvement in farm safety behaviors.

Ralph Crystal, a professor in the department of Special Education and Rehabilitation Counseling, gave a seminar on May 23, 2003 to the faculty of the Institute of Health Sciences at City University, London, in the United Kingdom on "The Current Status of Rehabilitation in the United States."

Alan DeYoung, professor in the Educational Policy Studies and Evaluation Department of the College of Education, has been awarded the 2003 John J. and Nancy Lee Roberts Fellowship of the International Research & Exchanges (IREX) Board to fund his research project "Central Asian Schools in Transition: Case Studies in the Kyrgyz Republic. The Roberts Fellowship is equivalent to a Fulbright in prestige.

Lise DeShea, assistant professor with the Educational and Counseling Psychology Department, has had her article, "A scenario-based scale of willingness to forgive" accepted for publication in the journal Individual Differences Research.

Olga Fadeyeva, a visiting scholar to the University of Kentucky from Siberia, Russia, took second place for an article she wrote for the American Councils for International Education. Fadeyeva spent a year as a scholar with the Educational Policy Studies and Evaluation Department. Her article was based on observations of US culture contrasted with life in her home country, entitled, "My American Experience."

Thomas Guskey, professor of Educational Policy Studies and Evaluation, presented a paper entitled "An Analysis of Lists of the Characteristics of Effective Professional Development" at the 2003 annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association in Chicago. A summary of the paper was also reported in the May 9th Times Education Supplement.

John Harris, a College of Education professor in the Department of Administration and Supervision and former college dean, was invited to present a report before staff members of the U.S. Congress House of Representative and 200 public school superintendents Sunday, April 20 entitled "The Disproportionate Placement of African American Students in Special Education." This presentation was part of the National Policy Institute in Washington, D.C.

John R. Thelin, professor of Educational Policy Studies, is author of "Historical Overview of American Higher Education," published in Susan Komives, Dudley Woodard and Associates, STUDENT SERVICES: A HANDBOOK FOR THE PROFESSION. This book is the standard work for graduate programs in higher education and student affairs at universities across the nation.

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STUDENTS

Tierra Freeman, a doctoral student in the Department of Educational and Counseling Psychology, and professors Lynley Anderman, Department of Educational and Counseling Psychology, and Jane Jensen, Department of Educational Policy, presented a paper titled "Professor Caring and Social Acceptance as Predictors of College Freshmen's Sense of University Belonging" at the 2003 annual conference of the American Educational Research Association. Freeman also received a student research award from the Special Interest Group in Motivation at the 2003 annual conference of the American Educational Research Association.

Pattie McGinn, a doctoral student in Exercise Science, made a poster presentation at the Gait and Clinical Movement Analysis Society Eighth Annual Meeting in Wilmington, Delaware last month.

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ALUMNI

Ann Bartosh, a 1991 alum of the College of Education and a math consultant with the Kentucky Department of Education, was presented an award honoring her dedication to the education profession during the spring conference of the Eastern Kentucky Council of Teachers of Mathematics.

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