Faculty News
Editorship of Comparative Education Review now at SOE
The editorship of the Comparative Education Review will be transferred to the School of Education’s Department of Educational Policy, Research and Administration, as of July 1, 2013 for an initial five-year term. The Comparative Education Review (CER) is the premier journal in the U.S. in the field of comparative and international education and is the official journal of the Comparative and International Education Society. It is a peer-reviewed journal which is published quarterly. The journal was founded in 1956.
Afghan educators visit School
Afghan educators visiting UMass plan community college system in their country
mass live.com April 9, 2013
AMHERST – Afghan educators said they prefer to focus on the positive changes they see in their country rather than the negative – such as the attack Saturday that killed six Americans, including Anne Smedinghoff, a 25-year-old U.S. diplomat.
Jennifer Randall wins Outstanding Teacher Award
Jennifer Randall, assistant professor, Department of Educational Policy, Research and Administration, is the School of Education’s 2012-2013 College Outstanding Teaching Award winner. This award recognizes excellence in teaching and honors individual faculty members for their teaching accomplishments.
Linda L. Griffin co-authored book
The third edition of “Teaching Sport Concepts and Skills: A Tactical Games Approach for Ages 7 to 18” co-authored by School of Education Associate Dean for Academic Affairs Linda L. Griffin, and Judith L. Oslin and Stephen A. Mitchell, both of Kent State University, has been published by Human Kinetics.
Boscardin and Adrianopoulos awarded $1.25 million for DOE
Mary Andrianopoulos, Communication Disorders, and Mary Lynn Boscardin, chair of the School of Education’s Department of Student Development, were awarded a five-year, $1.25 million grant from the U.S. Department of Education (DOE) for training speech language pathologists in the public schools to effectively deliver reliable, evidence-based models of technology. Theirs was one of only nine winning proposals in the national competition.
Austin elected to AERA executive committee
Theresa Austin, professor in the Language, Literacy and Culture concentration of the School of Education’s Department of Teacher Education and Curriculum Studies was recently elected to the American Educational Research Association’s Special Interest Groups' Executive Committee.
School of Education’s McCormick elected to OIA
Christine B. McCormick, Dean, School of Education, has been elected to the Executive Committee of the American Educational Research Association’s (AERA) Organization of Institutional Affiliates (OIA). Her two-year term as member-at-large begins at the conclusion of OIA’s annual meeting in April 2013.
Hartwell presents at American University Cairo
Ash Hartwell (Ed.D. 1973), adjunct professor, School of Education’s Department of Educational Policy, Research and Administration, and a member of the School’s Center for International Education, was invited by the Graduate School of Education, American University Cairo (AUC), to give a public presentation on the theme “Education for Global Prosperity.”
Sorcinelli receives Distinguished Alumni Award
Mary Deane Sorcinelli, School of Education professor and Associate Provost for Faculty Development, received a 2013 Distinguished Alumni Award from the UMass Amherst Alumni Association. This award honors alumni with national and/or international distinction who have translated their UMass Amherst experience into distinguished achievement in the public, business or professional realms, and have shown service to UMass Amherst in the financial, volunteer, or advocacy sectors.
Smith wins literacy award
Cristine Crispin Smith, associate professor, School of Education’s Department of Educational Policy, Research and Administration, has been awarded the Kenneth J. Mattran Award for Promoting Literacy Nationally and Internationally by the Commission on Adult Basic Education (COABE). This award is given to a practitioner with five or more years of adult education teaching experience who participates in school and community activities, who understands the characteristics of the adult learner and who is committed to the adult/continuing education profession.
