Education Department News

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The Office of the Dean of the College announced today that Alison Cohen ’09 has been named a Udall Scholar. The Morris K. Udall Scholarship is a $5,000 award for sophomores and juniors with excellent academic records and demonstrated interest in careers in the environment. Alison Cohen is a double concentrator in Community Health with an emphasis on environmental health justice and Education Studies. <more>

The spring issue of the Newsweek magazine Current features undergraduate and triple-concentrator, Johnny Lin '08, in a cover story entitled, “The College Vanguard, 9 Students on the Edge of Greatness.” Johnny Lin has spent the past three years with a side project that is more like a full-time job: organizing Strait Talk, an annual transnational conference that brings Taiwanese, Chinese and American students together to discuss and debate the political status of Taiwan and devise a roadmap for resolution of a cross-strait conflict. <more>

The Education Department is very pleased to announce that Maureen Sigler has accepted our offer to be Lecturer in the History/Social Studies MAT Program for a three-year term.  Currently Visiting Lecturer and Director of Social Studies/History Teacher Education at Brown, she has a M.Ed. from Harvard in Administration, Planning, and Social Philosophy (2003), and a BA from Trinity College (1999).  Urban teaching experience includes two years at DC Prep Academy, where she was a classroom teacher, a mentor teacher, and coordinator of the resident teacher program, and three years with Teach for America in Washington, D.C. Public Schools.  She was also Curriculum Coordinator for the New Teacher Project, based at Mercy College in New York City.

Also joining the Education Department; Mr. Dan Bisaccio as Lecturer in Education and director of the Science/Biology MAT Program. <clickhere for Bio>

Senior Lecturer in Education and Director of Elementary Education Polly Ulichny has been invited to speak to the professional development school for secondary teachers, Scuola Superiore per l'Istruzione Secondaria, and teachers of English in Bologna, Italy this month. Her presentation, Educating Esmeralda Mukabee Chen: Realities and Possibilities of Educating Immigrants in the US, will provide an overview of educational practices and policies regarding immigrants in the US to compare with policies being developed at the national level in Italy to address the recent influx of immigrants from diverse cultures and language backgrounds.

Assistant Professor of Education and Human Development, Deborah Rivas-Drake, co-authored an article in the current issue of the The Chronicle of Higher Education entitled "Colleges Need to Recognize, and Serve, the 3 Kinds of Latino Students" with Margarita Mooney, assistant professor of sociology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. <click here for full article>

Profesor Cynthia Garcia Coll recognized in Hispanic magazine
Cynthia Garcia Coll, professor of education, psychology and pediatrics, was named one of the 100 most influential Hispanics in the United States in the October issue of Hispanic Business magazine. <click here for Brown Daily Herald article>

Brown University Announces Commitment to Urban Education and Providence Public Schools for Class of 2009.
10 Urban Education Fellows will receive full tuition support for 2008-09:
* 8 Fellowships awarded to students in the Master of Arts in Teaching (MAT) Program.
* 2 Fellowships awarded to students in the Master of Arts in Urban Education Policy (UEP) Program.
* Fellows commit to serve Providence-area urban schools for 3 years upon
graduation in exchange for loan forgiveness.

These commitments are inspired in part by the report to the University’s Steering Committee on Slavery and Justice.

Click here to view the December 2007 Education Studies Concentration Newsletter. This newsletter is an effort to build a network of graduates, post-graduates, current concentrators and all those working and studying in the Education Department at Brown while tracking the progress of our graduates in the field. The last (first) newsletter was created a year ago, and this year it is even more full of inspiring achievements by those students featured last year and who continue to contribute.