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Welcoming the Entering Class - All 1,900-Plus of Them
Despite a tough job market, students are enrolling at TC this fall in record numbers. On average, they're younger, too. KatyAnna Johnson (l) and Jay Sobel are new students. Published: 8/13/2010
Mark Gadsden, a Public Safety Officer and a Fire Safety Director at TC, has published two books--one of which chronicles his experiences as a peacekeeper and watchman at some of New York City's most popular nightclubs Published: 7/28/2010 1:51:00 PM
TC Trustee named CUNY Vice Chancellor for Community Colleges
Eduardo Marti, a trustee of TC and a member of the Community College Research Center's advisory board, was chosen to fill the newly created post. Published: 7/2/2010
TC Trustee Cory Booker has been reelected to a second term as Mayor of Newark after achieving major gains in public safety. His legacy may ultimately rest on his ability to improve the city's schools. Published: 5/12/2010
TC Mourns Passing of Griffin and Summerscales
The College lost two of its faculty emeriti - William Summerscales, former Director of Institutional Advancement, and Gary Griffin, former Director of the National Center for Restructuring Schools, Education and Teaching (NCREST) in recent months. Published: 4/13/2010
TC Emeritus Professor R. Freeman Butts, Education Historian and Philosopher, Dies at 99
Education historian and philosopher R. Freeman Butts, an emeritus faculty member of Teachers College, died on March 19 at age 99. He served as Associate Dean of International Studies and directed both the Teachers for East Africa and Afghanistan projects. Published: 3/23/2010
Seven TC Faculty Members Are Named AERA Fellows
Seven Teachers College faculty members have been named 2010 Fellows of the American Educational Research Association (AERA). The purpose of the AERA Fellows Program is to honor education researchers with substantial research accomplishments, to convey the Association's commitment to excellence in research, and to enable the next generation of emerging scholars to appreciate the value of sustained achievements in research and the breadth of scholarship worthy of recognition. The Program is intended to recognize excellence in research and be inclusive of the scholarship that constitutes and enriches education research as an interdisciplinary field. Fellows are nominated by their peers, selected and recommended by the Fellows Committee, and approved by the AERA Council, the Association's elected governing group. Published: 3/8/2010
A Renaissance Man Gives Good Vibes
Angelo Miranda is Video Services Coordinator at TC, Assistant Adjunct Professor in the Music Education program, and vibraphonist and drummer in four different bands. Published: 2/15/2010
Gaming Geek with the Gift of Gab
When it comes to 'performing' super-human feats like leaping off rapidly descending elevators or rolling giant spheres around a gravity-shifting room, mere mortal Phillip Stewart, a third-year TC graduate student, doesn't even blink. Published: 2/15/2010
TC Education Technology Specialist Judith Cramer has introduced faculty and students to Comic Life and other (cheap) technologies Published: 2/4/2010
TC at Work: Lois Osborne-Logan
Her job includes locking doors, but Lois Osborne-Logan, TC public safety officer, is known for opening hearts. Published: 12/24/2009
TC Doctoral student Ellen Livingston helps high school students grapple with challenging civic issues raised by documentary films. Published: 12/23/2009
TC's Allegrante Named Editor of Leading Public Health Journal
John Allegrante, Professor of Health Education and Deputy Provost of Teachers College, has been appointed editor-in-chief of Health Education & Behavior (HEB), the flagship peer-reviewed journal of the Society for Public Health Education (SOPHE). Published: 12/3/2009
TC's Oyler Weighs In on Teacher Performance and Student Achievement
In a letter to the New York Times published November 9, Celia Oyler, associate professor of education in the Department of Curriculum and Teaching, says "there are major flaws" in using state achievement test scores to evaluate students teachers. Published: 11/9/2009
Honoring the Brantley Award Winners
The three winners of TC's Elaine Brantley Memorial Award for Community and Civility are Paul Acquaro, Director of the TC Web; Jacqueline Diaz-Solano, Director of Student Accounts; and James Rudolph, locksmith in the College's Facilities group. Published: 11/7/2009
Mourning the loss of a loved one is painful. But TC Professor of Clinical Psychology George Bonanno says that most people have an innate resilience that allows them to mourn and move on with their lives - and further, that they emerge better for the process. Published: 11/5/2009
Susan Fuhrman Assumes Presidency of National Academy of Education
TC President Susan Fuhrman has assumed the presidency of the National Academy of Education (NAEd), succeeding Lorrie Shepard, Dean of the School of Education at the University of Colorado at Boulder. Fuhrman will hold the post while continuing as Teachers College president. Published: 10/23/2009
TC's Brooks-Gunn Elected to Institute of Medicine
Jeanne Brooks-Gunn, TC's Virginia and Leonard Marx Professor of Child Development and Education, has been elected into membership at the Institute of Medicine (IOM) of the National Academies. Brooks-Gunn, who is also Co-Director of the National Center for Children and Families, based at TC, and Professor of Pediatrics at Columbia University's College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University, was one of 65 new members and five new foreign associates elected to IOM membership. Published: 10/13/2009
This fall semester, Teachers College welcomed one its largest and most diverse entering class. Meet some of them via video interviews in the College's new student gallery... Published: 10/12/2009
Alumnus to be First-ever Policy Analyst at Community Colleges Association
As program director, Christopher M. Mullin's work will support Achieving the Dream: Community Colleges Count, a national, multiyear initiative funded in part by the Lumina Foundation for Education aimed at improving student success through data-driven analysis. Published: 9/30/2009
Alumnus Appointed to Senior State Education Post
John B. King, Managing Director of Uncommon Schools, a nonprofit charter management organization that operates schools in New York and New Jersey, will become the New York State Department of Education's senior deputy commissioner for P-12 education, heading up school reform efforts. Published: 9/15/2009
Alumna Awarded Fulbright Scholarship
Ashley Esser, who will spend a year in Italy teaching English as a Foreign Language, is one of some 1,500 U.S. citizens who will travel abroad for the 2009-2010 academic year though the prestigious scholarship program. Published: 9/8/2009
As director of the Office of International Student Services, Samantha Lu is helping students from around the globe navigate Teachers College and NYC. Published: 9/1/2009
Garth Stewart stepped on a landmine while serving in Iraq but managed to return to active duty, helping rewrite Army regulations in the process. These days, however, he's taking on TC--as a student. Published: 8/24/2009
Teachers College Professor Peter Coleman, who studies intractable conflicts around the world, is joining the Earth Institute, the famed research center at Columbia University headed by economist Jeffrey Sachs. Published: 8/21/2009
Longtime TC Professor Lambros Comitas, Gardner Cowles Professor of Anthropology and Education, discusses in a video interview his 45 years of anthropological fieldwork around the world. Published: 8/12/2009
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Reunion in Islamabad (8/12/2010)
A Worthwhile Journey: The Story of Namibian Prime Minster Nahas Angula (4/29/2010)
Educational Equity at the Village Level (8/6/2009)
Namibia's Great Educator (7/14/2009)
Serving in the City (7/28/2010 1:04:00 PM)
For They Were Jolly Good Fellows (7/13/2010)
Immigrant students read their stories at Student Press Initiative Event (6/2/2010)
Studies Find Cahn Fellows Improve Student Performance (5/27/2010)
In Opinion Piece, TC's Allegrante Defends Academic Freedom (8/20/2010)
ESEA Reauthorization: Don't Bet the Store on Teacher Effectiveness (8/10/2010)
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Obama Administration Should Make Education Technology a Higher Priority (5/20/2010)
Bailey to Lead National Committee on Success Measures at Two-Year Colleges (6/4/2010)
TC's Basch Participates in White House Meeting on "Let's Move" Initiative (5/7/2010)
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A Tribute to Joyce Cowin (4/29/2010)
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Leaving a Legacy (9/10/2009)
A Changing of the Guard on TC's Board of Trustees (7/20/2010)
A Forum for Candid Conversations (6/23/2010)
Thirty Years of 'Making Something from Nothing' (6/23/2010)
TC's 2010 Distinguished Alumni Award Recipients (5/4/2010)
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Alumnus William P. Foster Succumbs at 91 (9/2/2010)
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Rebell, Henig Weigh In On Federal Teachers Jobs Bill (8/12/2010)