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And there’s more on the Web<br />
As always, visit www.tc.edu/tctoday for some great extras, including:<br />
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excerpts from an interview with nursing alumna Claire Fagin<br />
an interview with Ernest Morrell, the new director of <strong>TC</strong>’s Institute for<br />
Urban and Minority Education<br />
full video coverage of <strong>TC</strong>’s third annual Academic Festival<br />
<strong>TC</strong> <strong>Today</strong><br />
SPRING<br />
2011<br />
<strong>TC</strong> <strong>Today</strong>, the magazine of <strong>Teachers</strong> <strong>College</strong>,<br />
is produced by the office of<br />
Development and External Affairs<br />
at <strong>Teachers</strong> <strong>College</strong>, <strong>Columbia</strong> <strong>University</strong>.<br />
vice president,<br />
development and external affairs<br />
Suzanne M. Murphy<br />
(Ed.M., Organization & Leadership, 1999; M.A., 1996)<br />
ASSOCIATE VICE PRESIDENT, EXTERNAL AFFAIRS<br />
James L. Gardner<br />
<strong>TC</strong> <strong>Today</strong> Staff<br />
Executive Director, External Affairs<br />
Joe Levine<br />
Director, media relations<br />
Patricia Lamiell<br />
director, office of the <strong>TC</strong> web<br />
Paul Acquaro<br />
(M.A., Instructional Technology, 2004)<br />
Festival Highlights<br />
This issue of <strong>TC</strong> <strong>Today</strong> went to press too soon for us to bring you coverage of the<br />
<strong>College</strong>’s third annual Academic Festival. But you can still see it all—including<br />
the Kossoff Policy Lecture, delivered by Dennis Walcott, the newly appointed<br />
Chancellor of New York City Public Schools; a keynote address by Ian Smith, the<br />
nutrition and fitness expert; and panels featuring “Dr. Ruth” Westheimer and<br />
other <strong>TC</strong> alumni, students and faculty—at www.tc.edu/festival.<br />
Photograph by Annemarie Poyo<br />
On the Cover<br />
<strong>TC</strong> C<br />
<strong>Today</strong><br />
Spring 2011<br />
The fuTurisT The NaTuralisT The MaTchMaker The ParTNer The collaboraTor<br />
The Magazine of <strong>Teachers</strong> college , columbia university<br />
The fuTurisT The PhilosoPher The advocaTe The MaTheMaTiciaN The filMMaker The fuTurisT<br />
The fuTurisT The visioNary Th eThNograPher The dreaMer The MusiciaN The fuTurisT<br />
Why our Students are<br />
Most Likely<br />
to Succeed<br />
The couNselor The fouNder The caTalysT The Traveler The Publisher<br />
at Changing the World<br />
special<br />
sTUDeNT eDiTioN<br />
Yearbook photographs by Samantha Isom<br />
What says “students” more than a yearbook, and what<br />
says “yearbook” more than that time-honored prediction,<br />
“most likely to succeed”? Hence our cover, with<br />
yearbook-style photography of several among the 22<br />
<strong>TC</strong> students profiled in this issue. But while success, at<br />
some institutions, might be defined in material terms,<br />
at <strong>TC</strong>, we expect our students to succeed at improving<br />
professions, practices and lives—in short, at changing<br />
the world. In fact, we know they will do those things—<br />
because they’re already doing them, right now.<br />
associate director, Publications<br />
Lisa A. Farmer<br />
Associate Web editor<br />
Matthew Vincent<br />
WEB development SPECIALIST<br />
Hua-Chu Yen<br />
(Ed.D., Art & Art Education, 2009)<br />
Administrative Assistant<br />
Kalena Rosario<br />
Editorial Assistants<br />
Joyce Ku, HaeIn Shin<br />
Art Director<br />
Deirdre Reznik<br />
(M.A., Applied Linguistics, 2004)<br />
<strong>TC</strong> <strong>Today</strong>, Spring 2011<br />
Vol. 35, No. 2<br />
Copyright 2011 by <strong>Teachers</strong> <strong>College</strong>, <strong>Columbia</strong> <strong>University</strong><br />
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<strong>Columbia</strong> <strong>University</strong>. Articles may be reprinted with the<br />
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