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<strong>TC</strong> President Susan Fuhrman with Peace Corps Director Aaron<br />
Williams in April.<br />
Bravo, Peace<br />
Corps Fellows<br />
The <strong>Teachers</strong> <strong>College</strong><br />
Peace Corps Fellows<br />
Program, which prepares<br />
returning Peace Corps<br />
Volunteers for teaching in<br />
high-needs New York City<br />
schools, was honored with<br />
a proclamation from Mayor<br />
Michael Bloomberg at its<br />
25th anniversary in April<br />
2011. The proclamation also<br />
praised <strong>TC</strong> Trustee Elliot<br />
Jaffe and his wife, Roslyn, for<br />
their longstanding support of<br />
the program.<br />
The festivities, held on<br />
<strong>TC</strong>’s campus, also marked<br />
the 50th anniversary of<br />
the national Peace Corps<br />
policy by Department<br />
Program, and included<br />
remarks by Aaron Williams,<br />
Peace Corps Director. <strong>TC</strong>’s<br />
<strong>Teachers</strong> for East Africa<br />
program, through which,<br />
during the early 1960s, the<br />
<strong>College</strong> prepared teachers to<br />
serve in Kenya, Uganda and<br />
Tanzania, was the precursor<br />
to the Peace Corps.<br />
Fuhrman Leads<br />
Hill Briefing<br />
<strong>TC</strong> President Susan<br />
Fuhrman moderated a<br />
Congressional briefing<br />
in February about the payoffs<br />
of long-term investment in<br />
education research. The briefing<br />
was cosponsored by the<br />
Education Deans Alliance,<br />
the National Academy of<br />
Education (NAEd) and<br />
the American Educational<br />
Research Association<br />
(AERA). It was attended by<br />
Congressional staff people,<br />
<strong>TC</strong> is launching a new Department of Education Policy and Social Analysis (EPSA) to serve<br />
as a central academic hub for the <strong>College</strong>’s education policy work across all phases of educational<br />
and human development, with both a national and global focus. EPSA will accept<br />
graduate students beginning Fall 2011. • The new department’s core areas of expertise<br />
will include early childhood education, charter schools and vouchers, home<br />
schooling, K–12 education reform, higher education policy, law and education,<br />
and the role of nonschool factors (such as demographic change,<br />
public health, and human services) in affecting education<br />
achievement and equity. • EPSA will be chaired by Jeffrey<br />
Henig, Professor of Political Science and Education,<br />
and will house four master’s and doctoral programs:<br />
Economics and Education, Politics and<br />
Education, Sociology and Education, and<br />
Leadership, Policy and Politics.<br />
policymakers and officials<br />
from the U.S. Department y<br />
of Education.<br />
Fuhrman, President of<br />
the NAEd and past Vice<br />
President of the Educational<br />
Policy and Politics division<br />
of AERA, moderated a panel<br />
of internationally regarded<br />
education researchers who<br />
discussed the significance of<br />
their work and the payoffs<br />
of having sustained funding<br />
from a single source for longterm<br />
education research.<br />
María Torres-Guzmán<br />
Four <strong>TC</strong> Faculty<br />
Honored by AERA<br />
María Torres-<br />
Guzmán, Professor<br />
of Bilingual<br />
Education, has received<br />
the American Educational<br />
Research Association<br />
(AERA) Bilingual Education<br />
SIG Lifetime Achievement<br />
Award. Torres-Guzmán was<br />
recognized for her “longstanding<br />
excellence in scholarship<br />
related to bilingual<br />
education,” her “commitment<br />
6 T C T O D A Y l s p r i n g 2 0 1 1<br />
Photograph (top) by Heather van Uxem; photograph (Bottom) by lisa farmer<br />
Illustration by Doriano Solinas