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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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