It’s a bold thing for an education dean of a major university to admit: The education system doesn’t work well enough for enough people and communities, and colleges of education have to change in order to be part of the solution.
Colleges must respond more urgently and creatively to the fact that the teacher shortage is at crisis levels, and the pipeline is thinning.
Shannon Sipes, an ASU senior majoring in chemistry, seamlessly transferred from Glendale Community College with the help of the Maricopa to ASU Pathways Program. “It reassured me that every course I was taking at community college would apply toward my desired degree. MAPP really took the stress out of planning my schedule each year,” Sipes says.
Arizona State University’s Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College has been awarded a $12.4 million grant by the Kern Family Foundation to develop and incorporate character education into its teacher and leadership preparation programs. These programs will include undergraduate programs, graduate programs, non-degree certificates and professional development programs.
Arizona State University’s Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College has been awarded a $12.4 million grant by the Kern Family Foundation to develop and incorporate character education into its teacher and leadership preparation programs. These programs will include undergraduate programs, graduate programs, nondegree certificates and professional development programs.
A photo from the late 1960s of a picnic in Papago Park shows Rudy Lavik (center, in hat), Bill Kajikawa (front right), Charlotte Lavik (behind Kajikawa) and Margaret Kajikawa (second from left). Image courtesy of the family.
The name of Rudy Lavik is honored in the Sun Devil Sports Hall of Fame. His five-year tenure in his highest-profile position for Arizona State Teachers College, head football coach, wasn’t nearly as long as those of fellow hall of famers, Frank Kush and Bruce Snyder. And his win-loss record from 1933 to 1937 was 13-26-3.
Mahatma Gandhi said, “The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.” Alumna Nicolle Karantinos (EdD ’09) took that advice — and found that it worked. Karantinos’s first career was as a financial planner, but she wasn’t happy. She craved the passion and commitment her husband and sister, both educators, had for their careers. Wanting a taste of what they had, Karantinos began volunteering at a local junior high school. “That was the moment I knew I wanted to go into education,” she says.
Eileen Merritt knows how to get kids excited about science: Show them a problem — say, a threat to the environment — and give them the tools they need to help address it.
There are more than 400 high schools in Arizona. You see their students in your neighborhood, walking to school or waiting for the bus, in a nearby Target store shopping for school supplies in late summer, or loudly filling a high school football stadium under Friday night lights.
But there is one Arizona high school whose students you never see. They don’t take the bus. They don’t shop. They don’t go to the game. They don’t even go home after school because home and school are behind the same tall fence topped with razor wire.
Alumnus Jeffrey Leeds (PhD ’91) recounts the hundreds of times he handed someone a business card: First, they’re impressed he has a PhD and ask what he studied. “I respond by telling them I have a doctorate in educational psychology from ASU’s Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College,” Leeds says. The follow-up question, “What in the world are you doing in strategic alliances at a technology company?”
Arizona State University's Open Door continued at the West campus in Glendale on Saturday, where visitors learned about forensics, toured the biomedical research lab, played games, hung out with Sparky and more.
From the crime scene lab to the science of neurons, the event gave hundreds of attendees a look at the colleges, schools, programs and student groups that help make ASU the most innovative university in the country.