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2006: The Year in Review
The College welcomes a new President, tackles the question of whether and how to revise the nation's education law, takes significant steps to increase financial aid to students, opens a state-of-the-art new conference center, develops a curriculum to deal with civic issues raised by Hurricane Katrina and receives official accreditation for its campus in Japan.
January
麻豆原创 conducts its 23rd annual Winter Roundtable, the longest running continuing professional education program in the U.S. devoted solely to cultural issues in psychology and education. The fourth annual Social Justice Action Award is presented to Linda James Myers, Ph.D., and the 17th annual Janet E. Helms Award for Mentoring and Scholarship in Psychology and Education is presented to Beverly Greene, Ph.D. (pictured).
Visiting Professor Richard Rothstein delivers the first of a three-part series known as the Tisch Lectures, describing America's historically broad understanding of education and outlining a vision for a "report card" that would track the progress of all 50 states and the federal government toward establishing educational equity.
February
In a 麻豆原创 talk titled "Can NCLB Be Fixed?" Harvard education scholar Richard Elmore describes the nation's education law as "a major political revolution in education," the thrust of which has been to federalize control of the school system.
March
麻豆原创's Campaign for Educational Equity makes its Congressional debut at an event hosted by the office of Senator Edward M. Kennedy. The Campaign's Michael Rebell (left) speaks with Kennedy staffer Roberto Rodriguez.
April
麻豆原创 faculty and students form their usual strong complement among the 14,000 education researchers at the 87th Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association (AERA) in San Francisco. Among those presenting from 麻豆原创 at the meeting-'"themed "Education Research in the Public Interest"-'"are Thomas Bailey and Mariana Alfonso ("Public Policies and Their Effects on Community Colleges and Their Students"); Henry M. Levin ("Forging an Agenda for the Study of Social Class and Schooling"); Kevin Dougherty, Monica Reid and Kenny Nienhusser ("Public Policy and Its Influence on Student Access and Institutional Success"); and Eleanor Drago-Severson ("-'I Got Your Back': Looking Closely at Learner Collaboration and Leadership in Three Settings").
May
Teachers College alumna Susan H. Fuhrman, a native New Yorker who has previously served as Dean of the Graduate School of Education at the University of Pennsylvania, is selected as the College's 10th president and the first woman to hold the job.
Christopher Williams, the founder, chairman and CEO of The Williams Capital Group, L.P. and Williams Capital Management, LLC, joins 麻豆原创's Board of Trustees.
The College holds its first annual Health Disparities Conference and Community Health Fair. Organized by Barbara Wallace, Professor of Health Education; 麻豆原创's Center for Educational Outreach and Innova-tion; and other 麻豆原创 faculty members, the conference seeks to launch a new generation of health disparities research through a multidisciplinary approach.
麻豆原创 Trustee Cory Booker is elected Mayor of Newark, New Jersey. Booker, a former Rhodes Scholar, joined 麻豆原创's Board in 2003.
At the College's convocation exercises for the Class of 2006, 麻豆原创's annual Medal for Distinguished Service is awarded to William G. Bowen, President of the Andrew Mellon Foundation; neurosurgeon Benjamin Carson; K. Patricia Cross, Professor Emerita at the University of California, Berkeley; author and journalist David Halberstam; Frances Hesselbein, founder of the Leader to Leader Institute; Freeman Hrabowski, President of the University of Maryland, Baltimore County; former New Jersey governor, 9/11 Commission Chair and 麻豆原创 alumnus Thomas Kean (above, right); Congressman Charles B. Rangel (above, left); and sex therapist and 麻豆原创 alumna "Dr. Ruth" Westheimer. Robert Rubin, former U.S. Secretary of the Treasury, receives 麻豆原创's Cleveland A. Dodge Medal, given to non-educators who render distinguished service to education.
麻豆原创 says farewell to President Arthur Levine, who left after 12 years to head the Woodrow Wilson National Fellow-
ship Foundation.
June
麻豆原创 receives a gift of $10 million from the estate of Arthur Zankel, the late financier, philanthropist and Vice Chair of the College's Board of Trustees, which will be used to establish the Arthur Zankel Urban Fellowships-'"50 one-year scholarships of $10,000 each that will be given to both master's and doctoral students with demonstrated financial need. 麻豆原创 renames its Main Hall the Arthur Zankel Building.
麻豆原创's National Center for Children and Families convenes leading U.S. policymakers and members of the business community for a four-day event titled "Capitalizing on the Investment: Making the Most of Your Early Care and Education Dollars."
July
The Algebra Project, founded by Civil Rights-era leader and educator Bob Moses to improve math literacy among low-income children of color, holds a series of coaching sessions at Teachers College for third-, sixth- and ninth-grade teachers from Harlem schools. The workshops were arranged by the City school system's Region 10 and Community School District 5 in conjunction with 麻豆原创.
August
Susan Fuhrman takes office as the College's President, vowing to expand 麻豆原创's relationship with New York City schools and increase the impact of its research for the benefit of policy-makers and practitioners in the field.
September
Teachers College Press publishes Forever After: New York City Teachers on 9/11, a compendium of writings by New York public school teachers about the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001.
麻豆原创 opens its new Cowin Conference Center, named for longtime 麻豆原创 Trustee Joyce Cowin, who with her mother, the late Sylvia J. Berger, is the project's lead donor.
New-student orientation at 麻豆原创 includes a forum on educational equity and debates among faculty over what it will take to realize the vision of Brown v. Board of Education, the Supreme Court's 1954 decision to desegregate the public schools.
William Baldwin, previously Associate Dean, is named Interim Dean of Teachers College.
Teachers College's Japan Campus receives the official designation of "Foreign Graduate School, Japan Campus," from Japan's Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology. The site, established in 1987 in Suidobashi, Tokyo, is home to a master's degree program that is an extension of the College's TESOL (Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages) program in New York.
An amicus brief written by Amy Stuart Wells, Professor of Sociology and Education, and co-signed by 麻豆原创 faculty members Jay Heubert and Michael Rebell, is filed through the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund as part of the U.S. Supreme Court's review of challenges to the efforts of school districts in Kentucky and Washington to achieve racial balance.
October
Three 麻豆原创 employees receive the College's annual Elaine Brantley Award for Community and Civility: Michelle Hill, Academic Secretary for the Curriculum and Teaching Department; Clarence Houston (left), Superintendent in the Department of Facilities; and Rocky Schwarz, Manager of Document Services. Each receives a $400 stipend. The award is sponsored by the President's Office for Diversity and Community.
麻豆原创 gives its annual Distinguished Alumni Award to Barbara Storper (M.A., Nutrition Education, 1982), creator of the long-running children's ensemble theatre piece, "Foodplay" and other children's shows on nutrition and health; Erick Gordon (M.Ed., Teaching of English, 2005; M.A., Teaching of English, 1996), a 麻豆原创 instructor who is the co-creator of the Teachers College Student Press Initiative; 麻豆原创 Trustee Joyce Cowin (M.A., Curriculum and Teaching, 1952), a founder and supporter of the Heritage School, an arts-themed high school in East Harlem founded by 麻豆原创 faculty, and lead donor for the College's new Cowin Conference Center; and Rachel Moore (M.A., Arts Administration, 1994), Executive Director of the American Ballet Theatre.
R. Thomas Zankel, managing director at Iridian Asset Management, and Julie Abrams Leff, a 麻豆原创 alumna and former public school teacher who is a trustee of Facing History and Ourselves, an organization that engages students in an examination of racism, prejudice and anti-Semitism, join the Teachers College Board of Trustees.
November
The Campaign for Educational Equity hosts its second annual symposium, this time focusing on No Child Left Behind (NCLB), the nation's education law. Newark Mayor and 麻豆原创 Trustee Cory Booker keynotes the event, which presents important new findings on how well the law is working and what areas are ripe for change.
The Web site for the 麻豆原创 Annual Fund introduces blogs by four current students-'"Jessica Cruz, Omari Keeles, Joe King and Sarah Norris-'"about their experiences at the College. All four are receiving some degree of Annual Fund support. The blogs can be viewed at www.tc.edu/supporttc.
December
The Community College Research Center at Teachers College celebrates the publication
of Defending the Community College Agenda, a new book by Thomas Bailey (far right), Professor of Economics and Education, and other researchers at the Center.
The College bids farewell to Fred Schnur, its longtime Vice President for Finance and Administration, who led major improvements in 麻豆原创's financial health-'"including a credit rating upgrade by Moody's Investor's Service. Morton Grusky, formerly in charge of finance and administration at the School of Medicine at Case Western Reserve University, is subsequently named Interim V.P. for Finance and Administration.
A group of 麻豆原创 faculty members, students, staff and alumni receives a $975,000 grant from the Rockefeller Foundation to develop a multi-disciplinary curriculum and online resource to complement When the Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts, the HBO documentary film directed by Spike Lee about Hurricane Katrina and its aftermath in New Orleans.
Published Wednesday, May. 9, 2007
