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DeAnna Burt, student in Educational Leadership Ph.D. with a concentration in Higher Education, received a 2008-09 Association for the Study of Higher Education/Lumina Fellowship. The program promotes innovative scholarship by creating an intergenerational community of scholars who examine social, institutional, and policy barriers to opportunity and student success. DeAnna's dissertation is titled "African American student persistence: A study of the effects of an intrusive advising intervention". Deanna's advisor is Dr. Andrea Beach.
Congratulations to Dr. Liliana Rodriquez, alumnae of evaluation, measurement and research, and board president of the American Evaluation Association, for receiving the AEA Marcia Guttentag Award. The award is presented to a promising new evaluator during the first five years after completion of his or her Master's or Doctoral degree and whose work is consistent with the "AEA Guiding Principles for Evaluators"
The faculty have revised their assessment system for the programs in Educational Leadership. The new assessment system is directly linked to the standards of the Educational Leadership Constituent Council, the professional organization overseeing the preparation of leaders for K-12 schools and districts. The newly designed assessments are performance-based and use detailed rubrics to guide students and faculty.
During fall 2007, more than 20 HESA Leadership graduate students
and
staff attended the annual Michigan College Personnel Association Conference in Mount Pleasant, MI. The theme of the conference, All Students
Matter:
Creating Inclusiveness Against All Odds, provided a great forum
for
discussions in class.

Graduate students with
MCPA President, Dr. Lloyd Crews.
