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COL VOL. 1, N0.3/SUMMER 1991 Colum.bia College Chicago Launches Graduate Program. in Teaching Columbia's will be the State Board of Education for sanctioning this important new program/' said Senator Paul Simon of Illinois. "It meets the critical need to prepare both future first graduate program in and current teachers for the challenges of multicultural classrooms." teaching to be certified in Illinois in over a decade. Columbia College Chicago will of­ In One Year and Out the Other... fer a Master of Arts in Teaching (MAT) was the name of the work co-choreographed and performed by Mordine & Cnmpany's artistic director Shirley program specifically geared to the needs Mordine and performance artist james Grigsby. Six other major Chicago artists collaborated with the of public schools in Chicago and other company during its May performances at the Dance Center, presenting three world premiere works. large multicultural cities. Classes will start this summer, said Dr. Lya Dym Rosenblum, the college's vice president and graduate school dean. The program will offer MAT de­ grees in four concentrations: Elemen­ tary Education (K-9), Interdisciplinary Arts (K-12), Secondary Physical Science (6-12) and Secondary English (6-12). It is open to qualified individuals with bachelor's degrees and to teachers who want to pursue an advanced degree or to change the area of their certification. The MAT degree requires comple­ tion of between 37 and 42 credit hours of study, depending upon the concen­ tration chosen. Classes will be offered during the day, evenings and on week­ ends. "I applaud Columbia College Chi­ cago for its initiative and the Illinois Page2 Believe it, Mom... A record-high one thousand and four undergraduates received their degrees from Columbia this year. Thirty-nine individuals received diplomas from the graduate division. among the goals of the six­ week course. Once fall classes be­ gin, intensive monitoring will continue and the stu­ dents' activities and respon­ sibilities will broaden to include class work, extra­ curricular events, jobs and Columbia College Selected as Grant internships. Regular tuto­ rials, professional supervi­ Recipient by Higher Ground Program. sion and support meetings will assist in the students' progress throughout the Columbia College Chicago has been awarded a $40,000 grant by Higher freshman year. Ground, a national program aimed at keeping low-income and minority students "On the basis of our in college. experience with Columbia The grant was awarded on the basis of Columbia's success with Career in the Career Beginnings Beginnings, a mentoring program which has been administered by the college program, weare confident that Higher Ground will have a major impact on the retention and college " ...Higher Ground will have a graduation rate of partici­ major impact on the pating students," said Dr. retention and co liege William Bloomfield, na­ tional director of Higher graduation rate of Ground. participating students." The number of par­ ticipants in Higher Ground is expected to rise after the initial year of the program, since 1987. Career Beginnings helps students gain college admission, while added Rosenblum. The Higher Ground concentrates on making the college experience productive and program is also expected successful. Both programs are managed by the Center for Corporate and Educa­ to serve as a model for tion Initiatives of the Heller School at Brandeis University. working with all incoming Beginning this summer semester, the pilot program will bring 35 freshmen freshman. (10 of whom will be Career Beginnings graduates) in for preparatory college work. Acclimating the students to the college and building basic academic skills are Page3 New Faces ... Geof Goldbogen was appointed chair of the academic computing de­ partment in February. He comes to Columbia from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute where he served as director of the Manufacturing Knowledge Process­ ing Research Program since 1984. In addition to RPI, Goldbogen has taught at Union College, New York State Uni­ versity-Albany and the University of Missouri at Rolla. Also in February the arts manage­ Goldbogen and Rich ment department appointed J. Dennis Rich, former director of external affairs Never let it be said Columbia doesn't upcoming production of ''The Curse for the Columbus Symphony Orches­ hire its own: in February, Corinne of the Starving Class" which opened tra, as its new chair. Prior to that posi­ Johnston, a graduating senior here, in June. tion, Rich was director of marketing joined the college relations office as and public relations for the orchestra, college relations assistant. A marketing Mort Kaplan, director of the and before that, director of the Colum­ communication graduate, she completed public relations program, recently bus BalletMet and marketing director a three-month internship at Moraine moderated a panel discussion of the Atlanta Ballet and the Studio Valley Community College last sum­ titled "Business Versus the Media" Arena Theatre of Buffalo, New York. mer, and in 1988 received an associate for area CEOs. Sponsored by the He was also vice president of the Chi­ in arts degree from Moraine. illinois Manufacturers Association, cago-based advertising and p.r. firm the discussions centered around John litis Associates. the relationship between journal­ ists and those businesses they cover. Julie Simpson, previously the spe­ . New Places cial projects coordinator at MoMing Dance and Arts Center, joined Colum­ Theater department chair Sheldon bia's Dance Center as assistant manag­ Patinkin will direct a show at Second ing director this spring. For the past 15 City this summer and will direct "Can­ years, she has been a dance educator, dide" this fall at Court Theater in Hyde choreographer, performer, administra­ Park. tor and consultant. In 1983 she formed the dance company of Julie Simpson & Fiction writing chair John Schultrs Friends in New York City. Her chore­ textbook Writing From Start to Finish ography has been presented both here has come out in a new paperback edi­ and abroad, including performances in England, Israel and Nicaragua. tion from Heinemann/Boynton-Cook. Richard Woodbury, music director Sheron Williams joined the place­ and acting chair of the dance depart­ ment office as coordinator for the col­ ment, designed the sound for the lege's marketing communication, man­ Goodman Theatre's production of "A agement, fiction writing and English Midsummer Night's Dream" and co­ students. She was associate editor of designed sound for Steppenwolf The­ broadcast publications for Maxwell atre's production of "Another Time." McMillan. Along with her placement de Lerma Woodbury also composed the original duties, Williams is finishing her Master music for the Halsted Street Theatre's of Arts degree in media communica­ production of "Unidentified Human Re­ Dominique-Rene de Lerma, as­ tions at Governors State University. She mains and the True Nature of Love." In sociate director of the Center for is awaiting the fall publication of two May, he began work on Steppenwolf's Black Music Research, recently guest children's books she's written. Page4 lectured on ragtime music at Northern 11linois University and Northwest­ em University, on aesthetics and black music atthe University of Chicago, and on music in general at the University of Louisville. Also, de Lerma was featured in the April28 Chicago Tribune School Guide's article on his- • torical study. In it, he discusses various methods of documentary re­ search. Contemporary American Music Program director William Russo will open the 1991 Chicago Jazz Fest this August in Grant Park with the Classic Jazz Orchestra. During June, Russo had his music featured in a Stan Kenton Alumni concert as part of the orchestra's 50th Anniversary Cele­ bration, in Corky Siegel and the Symphony of the Shores' performance of "Street Music" at Northwestern University, and in a Grant Park perform­ ance with the Siegel-Schwall Band and the Grant Park Symphony. Unsworth Two fiction writing instructors were published last semester: Randy Al­ Inter Arts instructor Jean Unsworth's bers' essay "Dancing in the Mine Field: The Reason for Having Kids" was new children's book I Am an Artist is published in The Northfield Magazine; and Shawn Shiflett's "Amoeba now out as both a book and an educa­ Politics" appeared in Unique: The Magazine of Popular Culture. tional package. She has also written two teacher supplements to the junior Attorney David Brezina, an instructor in the arts management depart­ high text Creative Expressions published ment, recently became a partner in the law firm of Lee, Mann, Smith, by Glencoe/McGraw Hill. McWilliams & Sweeney. Artist-in-Residence Bobbi Wilsyn will • Jan Erkert, faculty member of the dance department, has been invited to spend her summer on the lake: she is the teach at the National American College Dance Festival at Arizona State featured singer on the Emerald Deck of University in 1992. the Odyssey, a new yacht which will cruise Lake Michigan May 10 through Under the Chicago Board of Education's Adopt a School program, Co­ November 1. Wilsyn will perform for lumbia College has "adopted" Manley High School. During May, English the dinner cruises on Thursday, Friday teacher Fred Gardaphe taught a four-week course in African-American and Saturday nights.