GSE Alumnae Appointed President of Bronx Community College

Dr. Carol Berotte Joseph, has been appointed President of Bronx Community College (BCC), effective July 18th, 2011. Born in Port-Au-Prince, Haiti, Dr. Joseph has served as Associate Dean of Academic Affairs at Hostos Community College, Dean of Academic Affairs at Dutchess Community College, taught at Bank Street College Graduate School of Education, and served as President of Massbay Community College in Massachusetts (where she received recognition for the excellent initiatives and progress that she engineered). She received her master's in bilingual education from the Graduate School of Education.

Click here to read the full story in The Queens Courier.

Information Session, Lincoln Center Campus

If you or someone you know is interested in enrolling in a Graduate School of Education degree or certificate program, please join us next month for an Information Session at the Lincoln Center campus. At this session, you will have a chance to learn about the Graduate School of Education's tradition of excellence and the education that our students receive, as well as to meet with faculty in your program of interest.

February 15th, 2011

Lowenstein Building (113 West 60th Street)

12th Floor Lounge

Registration begins at 5:00 pm

Program begins at 5:15pm

RSVP to gse_admiss@fordham.edu

Click here for directions to the Lincoln Center campus.

Faculty Publications: Dr. Molly Ness

Dr. Molly Ness (Assistant Professor, Division of Curriculum & Teaching) has recently published several articles, including the following:

"Would You Like Fries With That?: The Dangers of the Customer Service Model in Reading Teacher Education." Critical Inquiries in Language Studies (with Dr. Terry Osborn).

"Teachers' Use Of and Attitudes Toward Informational Text in K-5 Classrooms." Reading Psychology, 31.

"The Growth Of Teacher Educators For Social Justice: Collaborative Professional Development In Higher Education." InSight: A Journal Of Scholarly Teaching (with GSE faculty members Dr. Marshall George, Dr. Kristen Turner, and Dr. Jane Bolgatz).

Click the links on the articles above to access abstracts or full text.

Congratulations, Professor Ness!

Faculty In The News: Esquivel and Ponterotto

This month's Inside Fordham features an article about Dr. Giselle B. Esquivel, Psy.D's, ground breaking research into the influence of spirituality over teaching, for both K-12 instructors and faculty in higher education settings. Dr. Esquivel is a Professor of School Psychology in GSE's Division of Psychological and Educational Services.

Click here to read the full article.

Dr. Joseph Ponterotto, Ph.D., Professor of Counseling Psychology in GSE's Divison of Psychological and Educational Services, published a research essay entitled "A Psychological Autopsy of Bobby Fisher" on December 14th in academic research magazine Miller-McCune. The essay outlines the visionary chess prodigy's psychological profile, and illustrates why promising young talents like Fisher deserve better mental health support programs to help them to deal with their probable mental illness or issues, without diminishing their genius or contributions to society.

Click here to read the full article.

The Celebration of Teaching & Learning

GSE is proud to sponsor the 6th Annual WNET/Channel 13 Celebration of Teaching and Learning!

March 18-19, 2011 in New York City

Join us at the 2011 Celebration of Teaching & Learning, hosted by THIRTEEN & WLIW21- New Yorks flagship public television stations- on March 18-19, 2011 in New York City! The sixth annual Celebration will once again bring together global experts, advocates, practitioners and academics with K-12 educators to create a unique professional development experience where knowledge meets inspiration.

Speakers this year include Brian Williams (NBC Nightly News Anchor and Managing Editor); Dr. Mehmet Oz (cardio-thoracic surgeon and Emmy Award winning nationally syndicated talk show host); Oliver Sacks (best-selling author and professor of neurology and psychiatry at Columbia University Medical Center); Leymah Gbowee (documentarian and executive director of Women Peace and Security Network Africa); Karen Cator (director of the Office of Educational Technology at the U.S. Department of Education); Milton Chen (senior fellow at the George Lucas Educational Foundation); Charlotte Danielson (author and founder of The Danielson Group); Diane Ravitch (education historian and author); and many more who will address the Arts, English Language Arts, Global Awareness, Health & Wellness, Instructional Techonlgoy Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM), Social Studies, Special Education and Whole School Issues.

Register now, sign-up for e-mail updates, access resources and find the latest information and speaker lineup at thirteencelebration.org.

COMING SOON: Information about passes for GSE faculty, staff and students, and further event updates!

Alumni Profiles: Dr. Philip Harris

Dr. Philip R. Harris, Ph.D. (FU-GSE '54, '56) is a management/space psychologist, as well as a prolific author and futurist, who received both his M.S. and Ph.D. in educational psychology from the Fordham Graduate School of Education (as well as a B.B.A. in business from St. John's University).

Dr. Harris is president of Harris International, Ltd. in California, founded in 1971 as a global management consultancy for human resource and organization development. He is also a former Catholic high school guidance counselor and administrator (at Saint Francis Prep in Flushing, Queens), as well as a former college vice president at St. Francis College in Brooklyn Heights, NY and former faculty member at Pennsylvania State University and Temple University (in addition to lecturing at numerous universities worldwide). Presently in retirement, Dr. Harris is a Visiting Professor in cross-cultural management at the California School of International Management.

For the past 50 years, he has engaged in HR leadership development, focusing research and services on change, culture, communication and management. Dr. Harris has edited three journals, published over 250 articles, authored or edited 50 books, and been the recipient of numerous awards and grants, including a Fulbright Professorship to India, and a NASA Faculty Fellowship. He has also been the producer of major media projects, including the television series "Insight For Youth" on NBC's Sunday Today Show, which was inspired by the best-selling group guidance series, "The Insight Series", which he co-authored with the late Dr. James J. Cribbin (former Fordham professor) and the late Msgr. Bill McMahon (also a Fordham alumni).

Dr. Harris's 51st book, entitled "Developing High Performance Leaders" will be published within the next year as an e-book by Elsevier Insights (who also published his classic work, "Managing Cultural Differences", now in its 7th edition and used as a text in over 200 universities and colleges worldwide). The book represents 67 years of research and development in the fields of human resource development and leadership, and will be a textbook for schools of education and business.

For more information about Dr. Harris, please visit his website at www.drphilipharris.com. For a complete listing of Dr. Harris's books, click here.

Alumni In the News: Iona College President To Be Honored

Brother James A. Liguori, CFC, Ed.D. will be ending his 17th and final year as Iona College's 7th President this June, and will be honored at the college's 50th Annual Trustee Award Dinner this April.

Cardinal Edward Egan (former Archbishop of New York), and Donald McLean (singer and songwriter) will be among the attendees at the black-tie event to honor his legacy, and proceeds from the event will be used to establish the James A. Liguori Scholarship Fund to help academically qualified students who need financial assistance. Brother Liguori received an M.A., a P.D. in educational administration, and a doctorate in educational administration from the Graduate School of Education.

To read more about Brother Liguori in the complete article from Iona College, click here.

Phi Beta Kappa Lecture Series at GSE: Nicholas Kristof

Last night, the Graduate School of Education sponsored a lecture as part of the Phi Beta Kappa Lecture Series, which was established by the Society in an effort to provide members with greater opportunities for intellectual fellowship, and to allow the Society to return to its historic role of participation in larger, national dialogue about the important issues of our time. The lecture was open to the GSE community as well as to Phi Beta Kappa members, and was very well attended, with almost 200 people in the audience.

The speaker was Nicholas Kristof, New York Times journalist, author and columnist, widely recognized for winning a Pulitzer Prize in 2006 for his work exposing genocide in Darfur through his columns, who spoke about his newest book, "Half The Sky: Turning Oppression Into Opportunity For Women Worldwide." The lecture was followed by a reception and book signing.

For the full story in Inside Fordham, click here.

Career Changer Workshop: RESCHEDULED

The interactive workshop, "Exploring Career Options: Testing the Reality of a Transition to an Education-Related Career," has been RESCHEDULED from Wednesday, January 12th to Tuesday, January 25th due to inclement weather.

For event details, click here.

PLEASE NOTE THAT THE EVENT WILL BE HELD IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION:
Fordham Lincoln Center Campus
Lowenstein Building
12th Floor Lounge
113 West 60th Street
(corner of 60th Street and Columbus Avenue)

Alumnus Helps Schoolchildren in Kenya

As President of the Ridgewood, New Jersey Rotary Club, Jerry Kallman (GSE MS.Ed., '54) initiated the Club's Kenya School Project in 2008. The Project is an ongoing, year-round activity built around support for the Kishermoruak Primary School (K-School) in the Maasai Mara Reserve of South Kenya, including providing hot lunches for three hundred Pre-K through Grade 8 pupils and executing various educational projects throughout the school year.

In late June each year, Kallman (as project director) makes an annual visit to the school along with his wife, Lorraine. This past year, the visit included an additional eight members of the Kallman family, all of whom volunteered to help the K-School children in myriad ways- from demonstrating proper handwashing techniques and surveying the school's water sources, to indexing the school library and helping to lay out a school garden, to doing various academic and extracurricular art, music and sports activities with students. The visit was documented photographically from start to finish by Lorraine Kallman, who also took individual portraits of each student to commemorate the occasion- for most, the first time they had ever seen a photograph of themselves.

In his role as project director, Jerry Kallman met with the head teacher and faculty to explore new ways of furthering the mission of improved educational opportunities for the school and the students. At the end of the five-day long school visit, each volunteer family member announced an intention to sponsor and eighth grader for high school during the next school year. The four-year secondary school program is open to students who achieve a qualifying mark in national exams given each November to all primary school students. Each of the seven students chosen qualified on the exams (results were announced on December 30th, 2010), and were assured of support for the high school program beginning next month. Currently, the Project's concentration is on raising funds to build a Preschool/Kindergarten classroom to replace the corrugated tin structure currently housing the smallest children as they begin their education.

To read more about the visit, click here.

Click here to view a ten minute video about the Kenya School Project and the Kallman family's visit to Kishermoruak Primary School.


*If you are a GSE alumni, and would like to submit a news story or information about your activities for publication on the GSE blog, please email Michelle Adams at miadams@fordham.edu. Be sure to specify your name and graduating class year.*

Reminder: Exploring Career Options: Testing The Reality of a Transition to an Education-Related Career

Attention Fordham and GSE Students & Alumni!
In today's changing economic climate and job market, many career changers are taking advantage of the opportunity to follow a path to worthwhile, service oriented "jobs of the heart". At the Graduate School of Education, we prepare students for new careers in teaching, administration, school counseling, school psychology, human resource development and education and mental health counseling.

This January, join us for an interactive workshop, including information about career assessment tools, career exploration and possible education related career options. We will assist you in understanding your motivations, learning more about education programs and NY State Education Department requirements, setting goals, and creating an action plan.

Date:

Wednesday, January 12th, 2011

Time:

6:00pm

(Beverage and snacks will be provided.)

Place:

Fordham University at Lincoln Center

12th Floor Lounge

Lowenstein Building

113 West 60th Street

New York, NY 10023

RSVP via email to

Linda Horisk, Assistant Dean

Office of Admissions

gse_admissions@fordham.edu

REMINDER: Phi Beta Kappa Lecture: Nicholas Kristof

GSE is pleased to invite students, faculty and staff to hear Nicholas Kristof of the New York Times discuss his latest book, "Half the Sky: Turning Oppression Into Opportunity For Women Worldwide", as part of the Phi Beta Kappa Lecture Series.

Kristof is a journalist, author and columnist who is widely recognized for winning a Pulitzer Prize in 2006, for "his graphic, deeply reported columns that, at personal risk, focused attention on genocide in Darfur." He has also served as bureau chief for the New York Times in Hong Kong, Beijing, and Tokoyo, and as associate managing editor.

The Lecture Series was established by the national office of the Society in order to provide members with greater opportunities for intellectural fellowship and to allow the Society to return to its historic role of participation in larger, national dialogue about the important issues of our time. This event is open to Phi Beta Kappa members and the Fordham GSE community only.

When:
Thursday, January 13th

Time:
6:30 Check-in and registration
7:00 Lecture
Wine and cheese reception to follow.

Where:
Pope Auditorium
Fordham University Lincoln Center

To purchase tickets ($25 each), click here and login with ID (1366601) and password (pbklecture). Tickets must be purchased prior to the event.

Please contact lecture@pbk.org with any questions.

Reminder: Winter Break Information Session TOMORROW

Tomorrow (January 5th), GSE will hold our Winter Break 2011 Information Session from 1-3pm, at the Lincoln Center campus in the 12th Floor Lounge. If you or someone you know is interested in attending and learning more about GSE's programs, please RSVP to gse_admiss@fordham.edu ASAP!