Penn State football to host Educator Appreciation Day
The College of Education and Penn State Athletics have announced the first ever Educator Appreciation Day. The event will be held at the football game on Saturday, Nov. 26, when the Nittany Lions host Michigan State.
All College of Education alumni, faculty, staff, family and friends can purchase discounted tickets located in the following areas of the stadium:
-- Upper sideline 20-yard line: $75 per seat (normally $92)
-- Upper north end zone: $50 per seat (normally $67)
Tickets can be ordered online using the promo code PSUED16. If attendees would like to sit together as a group, it is recommended that they place one large order. Orders are first come, first served until the game is sold out.
On game day the College of Education will recognize 10 outstanding educators on the field in Beaver Stadium. For more information, or for parking, contact Sam Starrett with Penn State Athletics at 814-863-1222 or sus725@psu.edu.
Alumna wins Fulbright grant
Susan J. Olson, a 1989 doctoral graduate of the Workforce and Education program and professor emeritus in The LeBron James Family Foundation College of Education at The University of Akron, has been awarded a Fulbright U.S. Scholar Program grant to Finland this fall semester. She will be providing professional development to faculty at Haaga Helia University in the Vocational Teacher Education program.
Academic Leadership Academy hosts 60
More than 60 people from community colleges, liberal arts colleges and other Big Ten universities attended Penn State's eighth annual Academic Leadership Academy June 26-30 at the Nittany Lion Inn. Founded in 2009 by Penn State professor emeritus Robert Hendrickson, the ALA was created to provide vital professional development to academic administrators in an effort to better prepare them to meet the growing challenges facing higher education.
Those leading sessions included Mary Lou Higgerson, vice president of academic affairs emeritus at Baldwin Wallace University (conflict management and conducting difficult performance evaluations); Walter Gmelch, former dean of the School of Education at the University of San Francisco and former dean of the College of Education at Iowa State (effective leadership and team development in higher education); and John Nash, associate professor of educational leadership at the University of Kentucky (helped participants leverage principles of design thinking as a tool to address challenges facing their institutions).
Other sessions addressed legal issues, budget management and communication, and gendered leadership in higher education.
The ALA cohort will continue to meet throughout the 2016-17 academic year; monthly virtual sessions will expand upon the aforementioned topics.
The ALA is coordinated by Penn State's Center for the Study of Higher Education and the Higher Education Program. More information is available online at ala.psu.edu.
If you have an announcement you would like to share with the College of Education, send it via email to edrelations@psu.edu. Submissions must include a contact name and telephone number so that Connections can verify the information.