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Winter 09 Winter ChalkboardIndiana University School of Education Alumni Association Beating Jim Crow with Education The IU School of Education and African American Scholars in the mid-20th Century Mission Statement The mission of the Indiana University School of Winter 09 Winter Education is to improve teaching, learning, and Chalkboard human development in a global, diverse, rapidly Indiana University School of Education Alumni Association changing, and increasingly technological society. 1 Dean’s Perspective: 16 Growing with the needs of the times 2 Highlights 4 News Briefs 6 Faculty Profile: Dionne Danns 7 In Memoriam 8 Alumni News 14 10 9 Alumni Profile: Leslie Hopper 10 Shaping education through changing times 14 Discovering solutions on site, with a big potential payoff for students 16 A lifeline to higher education: the IU Chalkboard is published semiannually by the Indiana University Alumni Association, in coop- eration with the School of Education Alumni Association, to encourage alumni interest in and School of Education support for the Indiana University School of Education. This publication is paid for in part and African American by dues-paying members of the Indiana University Alumni Association. For more informa- tion about membership or activities, contact (800) 824-3044, [email protected], or visit alumni from the South www.alumni.indiana.edu. IU School of Education Dean ..................................Gerardo M. Gonzalez 19 Class Notes Director of Communications and Media Relations, Editor ..........................................Chuck Carney Executive Director of Development Honor Roll 26 and Alumni Relations ...............................................Sarah Baumgart Director of Annual Giving and 34 Snapshot Alumni Relations .......................................................Michelle Stuckey IU Alumni Association President/CEO ...................Tom Martz Director of Alumni Programs ..................................Rachael Jones Crouch Editor, Constituent Periodicals ...............................Sarah J. Preuschl Cover design/interior layout ...................................Mediaworks Dean’s Perspective Growing with the needs of the times by Gerardo M. Gonzalez, Dean, School of Education other nations. Name virtually any all that our educational systems must country, and the IU School of Educa- respond to in the future. However, the tion has had a project there. IU School of Education has — for 100 In this issue of Chalkboard, you’ll years — made certain it engaged stu- read about the continued influence dents, peer institutions, and the world to our school is having upon the world’s make a positive difference. Our ongoing education, one of the biggest legacies of work reflects that this effort is a con- the previous 100 years. We are continu- tinuing. It should serve us well for the ously looking outward. In late October, next century to come. We’re proud of I traveled to China with five faculty what our faculty, students, alumni and and a Chinese doctoral student to seek staff have accomplished and we look out ways to expand a long-standing forward to advancing education into the partnership with several universities next century. there. You hear much about China as an emerging nation. Nothing reflects that more than its higher education Under its Acting system. Postsecondary enrollment there Dean and IU President n this 100th-anniversary year of the is more than four times what it was just Indiana University School of Educa- 10 years ago. Not surprisingly, our part- William Lowe Bryan, Ition, we certainly look back with ners want to exchange information with great pride at where we started and IU’s higher education policy experts the school got off where we are now. The century mark is about the issues they face amidst explo- undoubtedly a special occasion. With sive growth. the ground with four those years of experience behind us, we We’re also taking time to look faculty members in are well poised to continue our leader- inward at this milestone. As we exam- ship position in education throughout ine the impact our graduates have in that fall of 1908. the world. the classroom, we find good news. A Under its Acting Dean and IU new survey of Indiana’s principals found President William Lowe Bryan, the that our students are performing well school got off the ground with four overall, outpacing graduates from other faculty members in that fall of 1908. programs (p. 5). And you can find a The school shared space in the science personal example of how one of our building on campus and had to scram- graduates has had great influence on a ble for classrooms. The effort toward a student’s life when you read the story stand-alone education building on the of Leslie Hopper in our alumni profile IU Bloomington campus would stretch (p. 9). Examining more of our history into the 1950s. in this issue includes telling the story of At this 100-year landmark, we how the school played a part in making take note that the school is rooted in certain African-American southerners many places. Our core campuses are, had an opportunity to achieve advanced of course, in Bloomington and India- education degrees (p. 16). napolis, but our reach is global. Our Mostly, though, we look forward. history is filled with tremendous forays, We are eager for the next challenge, taking our expertise to areas where it not unlike those pioneers under Presi- was needed. Famously, the school really dent Bryan back in 1908. They surely took off with efforts to build the educa- had little idea of the incredible changes tion system in Thailand in the 1950s. that would shake the world in the time Since that time, our scholars have been to come. As modern as we may consider in Iran, Kenya, Afghanistan, and many ourselves, we certainly can’t envision RICK CRADDOCK, IU PHOTO Chalkboard • 1 Highlights Honors come for faculty Russ Skiba George Kuh Nancy Chism The U.S. Department of Education St. Cloud State University honored Nancy Chism, professor of higher Office of Special Education Programs Chancellor’s Professor of Educational education and student affairs at IUPUI, asked Russ Skiba, professor in coun- Leadership and Policy Studies and Di- was in Thailand from January through seling and educational psychology, to rector of the Center for Postsecondary early May as a Fulbright Scholar, working consult on national efforts to monitor Research George Kuh with its Distin- on issues of professional development disproportionality in special education guished Alumni Award on Oct. 17 in St. with university teachers. Her appoint- and school discipline. Skiba is a nationally Cloud, Minn. Kuh earned his degree ment was with the Thai Commission on recognized expert on school discipline from St. Cloud in 1971. The St. Cloud Higher Education. “My job was to work and school violence. Skiba also sits on State Alumni Association presents the with all of the universities, theoretically, the board of the Indiana Disproportion- award for career accomplishments and in Thailand on professional and orga- ality Commission, a joint commission of service to society and the University. nizational development,” Chism said. the Indiana General Assembly and the Assistant Professor of Art Education Based at Bangkok’s Chulalongkorn governor’s office. Skiba is director of the in the Department of Curriculum and University, Chism traveled to 17 other Equity Project, a consortium of research Instruction Marjorie Manifold has campuses, including one in Vietnam and projects that offer evidence-based been elected as the North American another in Singapore. information to educators and policy- representative to the World Council of A journal paper published in Novem- makers on equity in special education the International Society for Education ber has earned national media attention and school discipline. Through Art (InSEA). InSEA is an affiliate for Mary Waldron, assistant professor of the United Nations Educational, Sci- in the Department of Counseling and entific and Cultural Organization, with Educational Psychology. The article, Education Alumni: the stated goal of advancing creative published in the journal Alcoholism: education through arts and crafts in all Clinical and Experimental Research, How can we serve you? countries and the promotion of under- finds evidence to suggest alcoholism standing. Three representatives from is associated with delayed childbearing The School of Education Alumni each of six regions serve three-year terms. for women. Many publications, includ- Association strives to improve its Anne Ottenbreit-Leftwich, assis- ing The Washington Post, reported on alumni programming and activities. tant professor in Instructional Systems the study’s findings. Waldron has just Your suggestions are important Technology, has been selected from a joined the IU faculty from Washington field of nine candidates to receive the University in St. Louis. to us. 2008 Young Researcher Award from the Emeritus Chancellor’s Professor of Go to www.alumni.iu.edu/educ Research and Theory Division of the Education Frank Lester received an and participate in a brief survey Association for Educational Commu- honorary doctor of pedagogy degree to help us determine what activities nications and Technology (AECT). The from Abo Akedemi University in Turku, award is for her article co-authored with Finland, in late May. The professor of our alumni want offered in the Krista Glazewski, Timothy Newby, and mathematics education and cognitive future. Peggy Ertmer titled “Values