Campus Update
(October 11, 2006)
Faculty/Staff
Assistant Professor David (Yun) Dai of the Department of Educational and Counseling Psychology will be the recipient of the 2006 Early Scholar Award from the National Association for Gifted Children (NAGC). The award is given annually to a scholar who received a doctoral degree no more than 10 years ago and who has made significant scholarly contributions to the field. The honor will be formally conferred at NAGC's annual convention Nov. 3 in Charlotte, N.C.
Scanlon Wins Major
Literacy Grant
Professor Donna Scanlon of the Department of
Reading, along with her School of Education
colleagues Lynn Gelzheiser, Frank Vellutino and
Virginia Goatley, has received a three-year
$1.44 million grant from the U.S. Department of
Education's Institute of Education Science. The
grant supports a project that provides teacher
educators with resources to help new teachers
understand scientifically-based reading
instruction and early literacy development, as
well as understand and effectively respond to
the difficulties some children have in learning
to read and write. Scanlon is also associate
director of the Child Research and Study Center.
The project, Enhancing
Pre-Service Teachers' Knowledge Related to
Research-Based Early Literacy Instruction,
will involve collaboration with teacher
educators at a variety of colleges and
universities to develop and evaluate materials
to be used in pre-service language arts methods
classes.
Kinser to Study Noncredit
Post-secondary Education
Kevin Kinser, assistant professor in the
Department of Educational Administration and
Policy Studies, has received a $45,000 grant
from the Sloan Foundation for research that will
create groundbreaking informational tools for
future research on non-credit education. In his
study, Sources of Data for
Noncredit Post-secondary Education,
Kinser will interview data experts and survey a
range of organizations involved in alternative
education programs, such as continuing education
programs, work-related training, and
credentialing in trade and technical fields.
Santiago Wins National
Award
Miguel (Mike) Santiago of the University at
Albany mail services received the Outstanding
Team Member award from the Association of
College & University Mail Services in July. This
national award is given to a person who is not
the direct manager/director of a mail center,
but who has gone beyond his or her normal work
duties and been an outstanding example to
others. Santiago joined the University at Albany
staff in 1994. He has been a supervisor in mail
services since 1998.
School of Education
Graduate Programs Win Accreditation
The Teacher Education Accreditation Council has
granted accreditation to the School of
Education's graduate programs of study leading
to teacher certification in early childhood and
childhood education, adolescent education,
special education, literacy, and teaching
English to speakers of other languages.
