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Dr. Lamm serves as visiting faculty
at Notre Dame
Dr. Rob Lamm,
director, English Education, spent this summer as a visiting fa culty
member at Notre Dame University, South Bend, In., teaching two
graduate-level English courses. Each summer, Notre Dame hosts
a non-traditional teacher licensure program, the Alliance for
Catholic Education (ACE). A "boot camp for teachers," the program
allows individuals to earn an MSE after two intensive summers of
coursework and supplementary correspondence work while teaching
through the fall and spring. As part of the 200-teacher program,
Lamm worked with 20 English teachers to develop teaching techniques
and plan for the upcoming school year. Lamm was invited to join the
program through a nationwide search.
Dr. Hill publishes in peer-reviewed journal
Dr. My leea Hill, Journalism,
recently had an article accepted by SIMILE (Studies in Media and
Information Literacy Education), a peer-reviewed journal bridging the
subject areas of media and information literacy. Hill's article,
"E-mail Inverted Interest Index Theory: A Case Study of Electronic
Communication in a Strategic Planning Initiative at a Four-Year
Public University," appeared in this month's issue of the journal,
which is published by the University of Toronto Press.
University-Community Chorus
forms for trip
Local singers are invited to
audition to join the Arkansas
State University Singers-Community Chorus. This chorus of local
residents will perform twice with the choirs of ASU, on Nov. 11,
in Jonesboro and on Jan. 13, 2008, in New York's famed
Carnegie Hall. Interested singers (high school age and older) should
call Dr. Dale Miller,
ASU's director of choral activities, ext. 3841, to schedule an
audition prior to Friday, Aug. 24.
ASU's Dept. of Education to
offer licensure online
The Arkansas Department of Education and the Arkansas Department of
Higher Education recently finalized authorization for ASU's
Department of Educational leadership, Curriculum, and Special
Education to offer the MSE in Special Education at both levels
(Instructional Specialist P-4 and Instructional Specialist 4-12)
online. Of the total 36 hours in the MSE program, 27 hours will be
offered via the web. These are the first teacher licensure programs
in Arkansas approved for web delivery. The collaboration of several
offices and individuals at ASU contributed to the authorization
process. Individuals include Dr. Joan Henley, Cindy Nash,
Kay Luter, and Dr. Mitch Holifield, Department of
Educational Leadership, Curriculum and Special Education; Dr. Don
Maness, College of Education; Dr. William
Allen, Center for Learning Technologies; Dr. V. Rick McDaniel
and Dr. Lynita Cooksey, Academic Affairs and Research.
ASU's Fine Arts Center Art
Gallery opens new exhibition
The Fine Arts Center Art Gallery at Arkansas
State University announces the opening of "Routines
and Repetitions," an exhibition of
recent prints and drawings by artist and educator Nicole Hand,
Tuesday, Aug. 28. Nicole Hand is an associate professor of art at
Murray State University in Murray, Ky., teaching printmaking,
bookbinding, and drawing. The exhibition will run through Friday,
Sept. 28, with a closing reception honoring the artist planned for
Thursday, Sept. 27, at 5 p.m. The exhibition and reception are free
to the public. The Fine Arts Center Gallery is open Monday-Friday
from 10 a.m.-5 p.m. For details, contact the Department of Art at
(870) 972-3050.
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