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Alumna Helen Streubert Named President of St. Elizabeth College
Streubert will be the first lay person to lead the 114-year old Catholic college, located in Morristown, New Jersey.
Published: 4/29/2013 -
TC's Barbara Tversky is Elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Barbara Tversky, an internationally recognized cognitive psychologist whose expertise includes spatial language and thinking, event perception and cognition, diagram production and comprehension, and gesture, has been elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Published: 4/29/2013 -
TC's Tom Rock Receives NAGAP Distinguished Service Award
Thomas P. Rock (Ed.D.'02),TC's Executive Director of Enrollment Services, has received the 2013 Distinguished Service Award of NAGAP, the National Association of Graduate Admissions Professionals.
Published: 4/29/2013 -
TC Alumna Carol Burris Named New York Principal of the Year
Carol Burris (EdD '03), who has been a passionate advocate for challenging curricula for all of her students at South Side High School in Rockville Centre, NY, as well as an outspoken critic of reforms in New York State, has been named New York State's new High School Principal of the Year.
Published: 4/26/2013 -
TC's Ewing Garber Elected President of the American College of Sports Medicine
Carol Ewing Garber, Associate Professor of Movement Sciences, will lead the world's largest sports medicine and exercise science organization.
Published: 4/11/2013 -
Howell Wechsler to Head The Alliance for a Healthier Generation
Howell Wechsler, Director of the Division of Adolescent and School Health (DASH) at the U.S Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has announced that he will step down from that post in late May to become Chief Executive Officer of the Alliance for a Healthier Generation.
Published: 3/29/2013 -
TC's Allegrante Named to Federal Health Advisory Board
TC Deputy Provost John Allegrante has been named to the Board of Scientific Counselors for the National Center for Injury Prevention and Control of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
Published: 3/28/2013 -
Alumnus Joseph Bertolino to be Inaugurated President of Lyndon State College
Bertolino (Ed.D. '03) will be installed during a week-long celebration of the college, its students and new leader at Lyndon State, located in the Northeast Kingdom region of Vermont.
Published: 3/14/2013 -
TC Alumnus David Johns Tapped to Lead White House Education Initiative
The new Executive Director of the White House Initiative on Educational Excellence for African Americans will identify evidence-based best practices that can improve African American student achievement from cradle to career.
Published: 3/13/2013 -
She Smiled, and the World Is Learning With Her
How Saadia Khan (Ed.M. '99, Ed.D. '12) has harnessed positive emotion in education
Published: 2/12/2013 -
Arlene C. Ackerman, Former Big City Schools Superintendent and Director of the Urban Education Leaders Program at TC, dies
Ackerman, 66, the Christian A. Johnson Professor of Outstanding Education Practice from 2006 to 2008, directed the Inquiry Program, TC's largest doctoral program, as well as the College's Superintendent's Work Conference before leaving to become Superintendent of Schools in Philadelphia. She also served as Superintendent in Washington, D.C. and San Francisco. When Ackerman left TC in 2008, she wrote that she had a "passion" for the "on-the-ground battle for our children who attend urban public schools."
Published: 2/6/2013
