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Message from Dean Kenneth Teitelbaum
 On Friday, April 10, we held our Spring College-wide meeting in Davis Auditorium (Wham 105). I presented some formal comments that touched on the following topics: (1) the productivity and accomplishments of members of our College, conveyed with great pride; (2) the enhancement of a sense of “scholarly community” in our College, with many new events, activities, etc. initiated during the last two years; (3) areas where we could improve, including for myself as Dean; (4) the current budget situation, which hopefully won’t but could include difficult cuts for the next year or so; and (5) our College continuing to strive to be an “island of decency,” one that provides support and comfort to us in our professional lives. I also shared a 50-slide PowerPoint presentation that highlighted the ways in which our College has been involved in international activities during the last five years (with kudos to Dale Ritzel, HER Faculty Emeritus, for helping to organize this presentation) and associate deans, chairs and directors provided brief reports about what has been going on in their units. We also had a brief period for open discussion, and then door prizes and refreshments!
At this College-wide meeting we also celebrated this year’s successful tenure and promotion reviews of our colleagues. They are:
- Deborah Bruns, EPSE (tenured and promoted to associate professor)
- Peter Fadde, CI (tenured and promoted to associate professor)
- Stacia Robertson, RI (tenured and promoted to associate professor)
- Beth Freeburg, WED (tenured; already an associate professor)
- Kathy Hytten, EAHE (promoted to full professor)
- Elaine Jurkowski, SW (promoted to full professor)
- Ruth Anne Rehfeldt, RI (promoted to full professor)
- Laura Dreuth Zeman, SW (promoted to full professor)
Please join me in congratulating these COEHS faculty colleagues!
Prior to the meeting, the Eta Sigma Gamma student organization sponsored a fabulous “Spring Into Health” Wellness Fair in Pulliam Gym for COEHS faculty and staff. Attended by about 100 people, vendors at the fair provided important information, screenings and demonstrations. (Also given out were free Subway lunches for those who filled out evaluations – and door prizes!). Thanks so much to the students of Eta Sigma Gamma – and their faculty sponsor, Bobbie Ogletree (HER) – for their efforts in organizing this important and successful event, which we hope to make an annual one for our College.
"Spring Into Health" Wellness Fair
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Free Massages
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The semester is winding down, which in fact means that our activities are ratcheting up. I hope the next several weeks are more gratifying than stressful, more stimulating then frustrating. Please let me know if there’s anything I can do to help make them so.
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Honors Day Ceremony
On Sunday, April 5, several hundred parents, students and guests packed Shryock Auditorium to help us honor the 461 (on-campus and off-campus) students in our College who received scholastic honors for their studies (i.e., whose grade point average is 3.5 or above for all course work). It was wonderful to be able to acknowledge their success in the classroom.
We also hosted our first pre-ceremony luncheon for scholarship donors and recipients, with more than 60 individuals attending. Most of the work for organizing the ceremony and the luncheon was done by Associate Dean Brad Colwell, Development Officer Dave Ardrey, Susan Aud (Dean’s Office), Jaci Chapman (Academic Advising), Jody Miley (Brad’s secretary), and Pam Battaglia (Dean’s Office secretary) – and I thank them very much for their outstanding and successful efforts.
In addition, during the ceremony we honored the recipients of three 2009 College-wide awards, with each recipient sharing thoughtful and poignant comments with us. They were:
- Jill Raisor, CI, Graduate Assistant Teaching Award
- Jackie Cox, CI, Term Faculty Teaching Award
- Heewon Yang, HER, Tenure-Track Faculty Teaching Award
Please join me in congratulating these COEHS colleagues – as well, of course, as the many honors students and scholarship recipients!
 Jill Raiser being introduced by Dean Teitelbaum
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Jackie Cox accepting her award
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Heewon Yang waving to the audience
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Distinguished Student Award Winners
This year’s banquet honoring the 25 recipients of the University’s Most Distinguished Senior Award and two recipients of the Super Student Junior Scholarship took place in the Student Center Ballrooms on April 4. It is with great pride that I share with you the fact that three of the 25 Distinguished Seniors are from our College:
- Laura Kenney, from Crystal Lake, IL (SW)
- Amy Phegley, from Mt. Carmel, IL (KIN)
- Joshua Sheehan, Crystal Lake, IL (HER)
In addition, one of the two Super Students is from our College:
- Jennifer Tanner, from Marion, IL (CI)
Congratulations to these four students – and their home departments.
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 COEHS Scholarship Brown Bag Series
Participants enjoying the presentation
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The sixth and final COEHS Scholarship Brown Bag of the 2008-2009 year took place on Thursday, April 2, with a virtual standing-room only audience of 36 cramming into the Wham 219 Conference Room to hear Kathy Hytten, Interim Chair of EAHE, discuss “Democratic Education and the Challenge of Globalization.” Kathy provided an insightful analysis of the effects of globalization on technological, cultural, political and economic life and the ways in which it can serve to undermine the equitable distribution of resources, democratic governance, and moral deliberation. She also focused on the need to re-examine the role of schools, so that students are better prepared to more critically examine issues of, for example, privilege, consumption and responsibility, and to promote a more active form of democracy among the citizenry. Thanks so much to Kathy for providing us with such a thoughtful presentation of vital trends in the world today, ones that schools (and university programs) would do well to address.
Dr. Kathy Hytten presenting her research
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There seems to be no reason not to continue our COEHS Scholarship Brown Bag Series – and so I invite members of our College community to let me know if you would like to lead a session next year. We will again schedule six presentations/discussions, one each in September, October, November, February, March and April, rotating the days (Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday) and typically during the early part of each month. Let me know of your interest, including a tentative title for your presentation (which can be changed later), and generally speaking which days of the week and which months would work out best for you. As always, this is done on a first come-first served basis, though if necessary I might make some adjustments to be sure that the entire College (rather than particular units) is participating.
Although this is off-topic, I’ll take this opportunity to let you know that the last (fourth) No Agenda Lunch with the Dean of the semester will take place on Thursday, April 23, from noon to 1:00 p.m., in the Wham 109 conference room. There are still some slots open if you’d like to join me and others in an open discussion, with pizza and drinks provided. If interested, please sign up no later than the day before with Carol Reynolds, at crenolds@siu.edu or 453-7313.
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Southern Illinois Educational Leadership Conference
Organized by NTT faculty member Liz Lewin (EAHE), and co-sponsored by our Department of Educational Administration and Higher Education, the Illinois Association of School Administrators, and the Illinois Principals Association, the 12th annual Southern Illinois Educational Leadership Conference took place on Wednesday, March 18 in the SIUC Student Center. About 50-60 area superintendents, principals, and current Educational Administration graduate students were at the meeting. After Kathy Hytten, Interim Chair of EAHE, and I provided welcome comments, there was a morning address by keynote speaker Jim Broadway, Publisher of the State School News Service in Springfield. He spoke about the current situation involving K-12 public education in Illinois and, e.g., the effects of what he referred to as the state’s “monumentally” regressive tax structure. He made unfortunate comparisons to a state like Mississippi with regard to the extent to which Illinoisans seem willing to support schools, universities, and other public services, although he did express hope that a more progressive agenda will be pursued by the new governor (and U.S. president). Breakout sessions followed, on such topics as “New Principal Mentoring Project: The Experience”; “Legislative Update”; The Future of the Teacher Retirement System: How and Why It Will Survive the Recession”; “RTI: Is Your District On the Right Track?” (led by Regina Foley [EPSE]); and “The Job Hunt: Resume Critique & Interview Tips for Aspiring Principals” (led by Liz). A feature story about the conference appeared in the Southern Illinoisan. Congratulations to Liz and Kathy!
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 Ice Cream Social/College Open House
The entire College community (and guests from across campus) is invited to attend the Second Annual COEHS Ice Cream Social, which this year will be accompanied by an Open House to provide information (and celebrate) our many academic programs, student organizations, etc. Please stop by if you can on Wednesday, April 29, from 1:30-4:30 in the Pulliam Gym. Besides ice cream and information, there will be live music, take-away gifts, and a variety of fun activities. Please do encourage your students to attend, as we’d very much like this to be an event for all of us in the College!
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Commencement Ceremonies
Because of construction taking place at the Arena, the Spring 2009 Commencement schedule looks a lot different than in previous years. Here’s the schedule of events that will be of interest to members of our College:
- SIUC Ph.D. graduates: Thursday, May 7, Shryock Auditorium, 7:00 p.m.
- SIUC Masters graduates: Friday, May 8, SIU Arena, 10:00 a.m.
- COEHS undergraduates (KIN, RI, SW, WED): Friday, May 8, Shryock Auditorium, 1:30 p.m.
- COEHS undergraduates (CI, EPSE, HER): Friday, May 8, Shryock Auditorium, 4:00 p.m.
Three other announcements to make about these and related events:
First, we will again be hosting a PhD Graduates Dinner for students from our Education and Rehabilitation doctoral programs (and their committee chairs) who graduated in August 2008, December 2008 and May 2009. It will be held on Wednesday, May 6, at the Touch of Nature Environmental Center. Contact Carol Reynolds immediately if you plan to attend.
Second, the College will be hosting a Commencement Day Reception (punch and cookies) between the two undergraduate commencement ceremonies on May 8, from 2:30 to 3:30 p.m. It will take place outside of Davies Hall or, if it rains, in the Davies Hall lobby (across the quad from Shryock, where the Department of Kinesiology is housed). All students, family member and other guests, and faculty and staff are invited to attend, either after the first ceremony or before the second.
Edgar Roulhac Commencement Speaker
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And third, I am very pleased to announce that our Commencement Speaker this year (for both ceremonies) is also our Alumni Achievement Award recipient. He is Edgar Roulhac, who since 1993 has served as Vice Provost for Academic Services at Johns Hopkins University and who recently was appointed as a commissioner and member of the Middle States Commission on Higher Education. Dr. Roulhac is a holder of three degrees in our College: B.S. in health education (1969), MS in community health education (1970), and PhD in educational administration (1974). Besides his many academic positions during the last three decades, Dr. Roulhac has been deeply involved in issues that affect the quality of life in the Greater Baltimore region. For example, he has served on boards and committees of the Central Maryland Health Systems Agency, Provident Hospital, the Maryland Society for Medical Research, the Dunbar High School/Johns Hopkins Health Partnership, the Hon. Elijah Cummings and Jerold C. Hoffberger Youth Program in Israel, and as a member of the Maryland 7th Congressional District U. S. Military Service Academic Review Board. He is a member of the Phi Delta Kappa and Kappa Delta Pi honorary societies in education, the Delta Omega honorary public health society, an active fellow of the Society of Public Health Education, a Henry M. Minton Fellow and James P. Brawley Fellow of Sigma Pi Phi Fraternity, and a life member of Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity. Dr. Roulhac is also active with the Maryland Association of Higher Education, the American Public Health Association, and the Leadership Alliance, a national consortium of leading research and teaching academic institutions, including minority serving institutions, dedicated to improving the participation of underrepresented students in graduate studies and Ph.D. programs, and ultimately, in research careers in the academic, public and private sectors.
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- Saran Donahoo (EAHE) recently won two prestigious awards for her article, “Reflections on race: Affirmative action policies influencing higher education in France and the United States,” which was published in Teachers College Record, 10(2), 251-277. Saran received the American Educational Research Association Division J 2009 Outstanding Publication Award and the Joyce Cain Award for Distinguished Research on African Descendents that is given by the Comparative and International Education Society. Saran also made two national presentations last month: “Further deferring the dream: How privileged parents prevent the effectiveness of affirmative action,” at the Annual Conference of the Comparative and International Education Society in Charleston, SC; and “Nourishing the whole student: Fostering and supporting spiritual development in higher education” (with S. Payne), at the Annual Conference of the National Association of Student Personnel Administrators in Seattle, WA.
- Patrick Dilley (EAHE) delivered an invited keynote lecture this past March at the 14th Annual Women’s and Gender Studies Conference at Truman State University in Kirksville, MO. His paper was entitled “Twitter twinks and lads without labels: Understanding today’s non-heterosexual college males.” Patrick was also one of five faculty panelists at SIUC’s public “Summit of Change: Diversity Anniversaries” on March 23, speaking about social change opportunities and challenges on campus.
- Patrick Dilley and Tamara Yakaboski (EAHE) were both appointed to the editorial board of the Journal of Student Affairs Research and Practice, a new publication from the National Association of Student Personnel Administrators.
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Tamara Yakaboski with Service to Student Affairs Award
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Tamara Yakaboski (EAHE) recently received the annual SIUC Service to Student Affairs Award, given to the person on campus who has made the most significant contribution to student affairs and student life at Southern Illinois University. This is quite an honor for Tamara, especially since her appointment is with an academic department on campus. In addition, Tamara published a review of College teaching: Developing perspective through dialogue in the Winter 2009 issue of Review of Higher Education, 32(2), 289-290; and presented a paper on “Non-traditional migration forces for Indian and Chinese women via the route of higher education” and chaired a panel on “Forces of migration: Impacts on identity, assimilation, and education attainments” at the Annual Conference of Comparative and International Education Society in Charleston, SC.
- Rhonda Kowalchuk (EPSE) will be directing the assessment component of a new IGERT (Integrative Graduate Education and Research Traineeship) grant entitled “Multidisciplinary Team-Based Training in Watershed Science and Policy.” The grant has been funded for 5 years at $3.2 million to create a new model program for graduate education centered on team-based collaboration across traditional disciplinary boundaries and to cultivate a new generation of watershed science and management graduates trained in solving complex, real-world problems. The co-PIs of this grant are: Professors Christopher Lant (Geography and Environmental Resources), Lizette Chevalier (Civil and Environmental Engineering), Matt Whiles (Zoology), and Mae Davenport (Forestry) – so Rhonda is certainly in interesting company!
- Jerry Hostettler (Dean’s Office) received continued funding for his “Teaching with Primary Sources” project via a federal grant that seeks to instruct educators in ways to incorporate the Library of Congress’ digital collections into school curricula. The total grant of $2 million was announced by Senator Dick Durbin and will be shared by SIUC and about 10 other higher education institutions in Illinois. In addition, on March 16 Jerry served on a panel with Courtney Kisat, a middle school social studies teacher from Jonesboro, and others from Colorado and Virginia on “Content and Practices for Developing Critical Thinking Skills” at a Library of Congress forum on K-12 education, titled “American Education in the Digital Age and Beyond: A Discussion for the 21st Century.”
- Kenneth Teitelbaum (Dean) has authored a chapter on “Restoring collective memory: The pasts of critical education,” in Michael W. Apple, Wayne Au, and Luis Armando Gandin, Eds., The Routledge International Handbook of Critical Education (New York: Routledge), pp. 312-32
Please continue to submit “good news” to your Chair/Director, who will send them to Carol Reynolds of the Dean’s Office, crenolds@siu.edu . . . and look for more “Did you know that?” in the next issue of the COEHS UPDATE.
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