Teachers Who Made a Difference

The UK College of Education and UK basketball great Kyle Macy are proud to announce
they are accepting submissions for the 12th annual Teachers Who Made a Difference
Program. This program gives individuals the opportunity to thank the teachers,
principals, college professors and other educators who have inspired and motivated
them to succeed.

The program does not select winners from a pool of nominees. Rather, the UK College
of Education created the program to provide individuals a means to express thanks to
educators who have impacted their lives. The number of honorees to be recognized is
limited. Nominees can be from anywhere in the world and do not have to be affiliated
with UK. Organizers ask that nominators limit recognitions to one teacher per year.

To honor a teacher, visit the UK College of Education's Web site at
www.education.uky.edu/Community/TWMAD and complete the online form. The deadline for
submissions is March 8, 2010.

For more information, contact Sarah Mulholland at sarah.mulholland@uky.edu or via
phone at 859-257-2666.


Brad Duncan
Senior Information Specialist
University of Kentucky
College of Education
133D Dickey Hall
Lexington, KY 40506-0017
(p) 859-257-4014
(f) 859-323-1046
brad.duncan@uky.edu<mailto:brad.duncan@uky.edu>
www.uky.edu/Education<http://www.uky.edu/Education>

Call for paper presentations

Please consider submitting a proposal for a paper presentation at the 22nd Annual Conference on Ethnographic and Qualitative Conference (EQRC). The proposal deadline is March 22, 2010 and details are found at the conference website: www.cedarville.edu/eqrc.

The conference is affordable and centrally-located in Ohio, making it readily accessible to all, by flight or driving. Please circulate this announcement to peers and graduate students active in qualitative research projects. Note that we invite all interactive poster and lecture presentation conference papers for submission and potential publication in a printed, peer-reviewed periodical, the Journal of Ethnographic & Qualitative Research (JEQR).

A PDF announcement flyer is available at the EQRC website for your print-out and posting.

We hope to make your personal acquaintance this summer and believe you will find the conference to be both enjoyable and professionaly profitable.

Sincerely,
Michael W. Firmin, Ph.D.
EQRC Conference Director
Contact: Cedarville University, 251 N Main St, Cedarville, OH 45314

More Kudos!

Happy Trails to Dana Malone (SHED), Mel Lesch (HIED 09), and Pangie Dawson (SHED) and their colleagues from Gender and Women's Studies who will be presenting at the Southeast Women's Studies conference at the University of South Carolina in March.


More publication kudos to our KCTCS Cohort.  Amber Decker's (EdD) article entitled, Student-Centered Practice in the 21st Century Community College was accepted for publication in the Community College Journal of Research and Practice.

2010 ASHE Institutes on Equity and Critical Policy Analysis]

FROM ASHE:

We are currently accepting applications from faculty members, policy analysts and advanced doctoral students to participate in one of the five dynamic sessions hosted by the ASHE Institutes

Please share this information widely with faculty (particularly those in the tenure-track) and doctoral candidates within your department, as well as former students and the people in your professional networks. Attached is our promotional flyer, please distribute on your department's list-serv and bulletin board.

The dates and topics are:

• Critical Policy Research and Analysis, June 16-18, 2010
• Scholarship and Publishing from an Equity Perspective; June 23-25, 2010 
• Research Methods for Critical Analysis of Qualitative Data; June 28-30, 2010 
• Principles and Methods of Participatory Critical Action Research July 7-9, 2010 
•  Research Methods for Critical Analysis of Quantitative Data July 13-15, 2010 

The deadline for submission is Monday, March 1, 2010. http://www.ashe.ws/?page=233

If you have any questions, or if you would like to recommend someone to attend one of the institutes, please contact Sandra Luca, Project Coordinator of the ASHE Equity Institutes, at sluca@usc.edu or (213) 740-0304.

Congrats to our Cohort Scholars

Kudos to Wendy Bolt (EdD KCTCS Cohort) on the acceptance of her article, Gauging the Success of Late Registrants in Community Colleges, to the Journal of Community College Research & Practice.  Well done Wendy!


And congrats to Richard Roe (EdD KCTCS Cohort) on being recognized for his publication record related to instructional technology by the Journal of Computing in Higher Education.

CPAK Registration Extended

From Chris Thuringer (SHED):

Our annual CPAK Conference is quickly approaching (March 4 & 5 in Louisville). Several of you have already registered for what will prove to be a strong conference with networking and professional development opportunities. For those of you who have yet to register, we hope that you can do that soon. The registration deadline has been extended to Friday, February 12th. To register, just visit the CPAK conference website and click on “Registration”. Here’s the link: http://cpak.org/conference/index.html

Please also consider nominating a colleague for a CPAK award. There are three award categories that will be presented at the conference:

Dr. Fred W. Rhodes Outstanding Service (minimum 5 years of professional service)

Dr. Michael Cuyjet Outstanding Graduate Student (full-time graduate student pursuing CSP, Higher Ed, or similar field)

Outstanding New Professional (no more than 3 years into professional career)

The deadline to nominate an individual for an award is also Friday, February 12th.

More information about the conference is available on the CPAK website (www.cpak.org). We hope to see you there!

Chris Thuringer
Membership Coordinator
University of Kentucky
Chris2@uky.edu
859-257-6598