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Jera S. Jamison, M.S.S.W. joins Director of Development
April, 2008 - We are pleased to announce that Jera S. Jamison, M.S.S.W.
has joined the School of Education as our Director of Development. Jera
was most recently the Director of Development in the Office of Outreach for
UMass Amherst, where she helped design and implement the first-ever comprehensive
development program for UMass Extension and University Without Walls.
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JERRI WILLETT GIVEN DISTINGUISHED OUTREACH TEACHING AWARD
March,
2008: Dr.
Jerri Willett, Chair of the Teacher Education and Curriculum Studies
Department has been awarded the Distinguished Outreach Teaching Award,
one of three Outreach Awards the University bestows each year.
The purpose of the Distinguished Academic Outreach Awards is to recognize
and encourage superlative individual achievement in outreach as an incentive
to further community engagement on the part of the academic enterprise. Achievement
is measured in terms of contribution toward the Outreach mission:
UMass Amherst Outreach engages the university with the community in economic,
social, cultural, environmental, and educational issues. Outreach applies
the teaching, research, and knowledge resources of the university with benefit
to the public throughout the Commonwealth, nation, and world.
In recognizing excellence in engaged scholarship, the University of Massachusetts
Amherst joins other universities that demonstrate commitment to the social,
geographic, economic, cultural, and environmental betterment of the communities
they serve.
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ANNOUNCING
THE SCHOOL OF EDUCATION’S INITIAL CALL FOR PROPOSALS
The School of Education is excited to be celebrating 100 years of preparing
educators at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and 51 years of the
School of Education. As part of the celebration the School will be hosting a
Centennial Marathon on June 13th and 14th 2008, a two-day conference
bringing together faculty, students, alumni, and friends to exchange ideas, share
innovative educational practices, strengthen connections, and honor the School's
legacy of supporting excellence and equity in education.
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School of Education Centennial Scholarship Celebration at the
University Club
November 2, 2007. About 35 people, representing past donors to the
School of Education’s scholarship program and scholarship recipients,
gathered at the Nov. 2 School of Education Centennial Scholarship
Celebration at the University Club. Organizers hope that this is just the
first in a series of receptions honoring this important relationship between
funders and students who have benefitted from their gifts.
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