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STAYING INFORMED - the collegeSister Denise A. Roche poses with Cheryl Klass, Kaleida Health’s event sponsor representative,and a D’Youville College trustee.SISTER DENISE RECEIVES WOMAN OFINFLUENCE LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENTAWARDSister Denise A. Roche, GNSH, PH.D.,president of D’Youville College, was the2012 recipient of the Lifetime AchievementAward by Business First, and was honoredalong with 25 other women at the annual September at Salvatore’s Italian Gardens.Business First, Lake Shore Savings Bankand Kaleida Health sponsor the awards.“The awards recognize the businessacumen and community spirit of thesewomen,” Business First publisher JackConnors said.Sister Denise was cited for her longleadership of D’Youville and the progressmade during the more than three decadesof her presidency.“D’Youville has nearly tripled its budgetto $73 million and grown the studentpopulation to nearly 3,200. Those numbersare even more impressive consideringwhere the college was in 1979 when Rochewas named president: a budget of $5.4million and 1,500 students,” the citationread.In accepting the award, Sister Deniseremarked that she looks at each day as asomething or try something new. “I lovewhat the students bring to the college.They have such great ideas and see thingsdifferently and ask wonderful questions.”Sister told the audience of more than500 attendees that the college wasnamed for Marguerite d’Youville, an18th century woman who took careof the poor and founded the GreyNuns, Sisters of Charity in Canada.St. Marguerite always said, “The poor mustknow that we never refuse to serve.”D’Youville College was founded by theWestern New York.INNOVATIVEEDUCATION PROGRAMAT D’YOUVILLE TOPREPARES TEACHERSFOR NEW CURRICULUMD’Youville College has developed anew academic program that will betterprepare students for a career in teachingand enhance their opportunities foradvancement.A new liberal studies for education majorwas designed to immerse the student inelementary teacher education right fromthe beginning of their college career whilealso requiring courses in everything frommath and science to literature and history.“By including courses in teaching earlyon in this new curriculum, the student or not,” says Dr. Hilary Lochte, chair ofthe education department at D’Youville,who helped create the new program.Preparation of the new curriculum wasa cooperative effort involving variousacademic departments including liberal drawing on the other departments for theirinput,” notes Dr. Lochte.in education, and a course in historicalfoundations of education in the U.S.course. Later, students will take coursesin classroom management and studentmotivation, technology in education,education assessment and evaluation and avariety of other courses.“We are ahead of the movement toward theCommon Core State Standards (CCSS) inteacher education that is now formulatedand will be voluntarily implementednationally,” according to Dr. Lochte.Three years ago, the National GovernorsAssociation and the Council of Chief State state-led, voluntary effort to develop coreacademic standards in English languagearts and mathematics. After muchcollaboration from teachers, administratorsState Standards were released in 2012.Today, 45 states have formally adoptedthese voluntary standards, referred to asthe “common core.”8
“Before the new CCSS, academicstandards varied significantly from state tostate. Now, students from Massachusettsto Mississippi to Montana will be heldto the same high standards, which isimportant both for educational equity andaddressing the reality of student mobilityin our society today,” wrote CherylScott Williams, executive director of theLearning First Alliance in Washington,D.C., in Educational Horizons magazine.“Exposing students to a diverse set ofcontent knowledge courses in the liberalarts, mathematics and the natural sciencesprepares them to effectively work with thecommon core when they become teachers,”Dr. Lochte said.D’Youville’s five-year program startedin the fall 2012 semester, and studentscompleting the program will graduate withboth bachelor’s and master’s degrees.Dr. Lochte believes this revised programwill help address the shortage of teachersthat is looming in New York state becauseof aging teachers. Forty-two percentof New York teachers are 57 and older,according to the New York State EducationDepartment.In addition, the U.S. Department ofEducation predicts a shortage of teachersin bilingual education, chemistry,earth science, physics, specialeducation and technical education.D’Youville offers masters’ degrees inspecial education and teaching English asa second language, which can add extracredentials to a student’s resume.Dr. Lochte points out that D’Youville’sfive-year programs feature undergraduatetuition for all five years and are designedto have the student in the workplace with amaster’s degree, faster. “You can completethe teacher education requirements in fiveyears instead of what used to take fiveyears or more.”Today, it is recommended that teachereducation programs should be fiveyears as the norm, according to a recentstudy conducted by the WoodrowWilson National Fellowship Foundation.D’Youville was one of the first institutionsnationwide to inaugurate five-yearprograms in a number of majors in additionto education.Wayne Reilly, past member of the board of trustees, and his wife, Helen, enjoying the TrusteeReunion. In the background, past trustee, Mary Kirwan in conversation with current trustee,Carl Montante.TRUSTEE REUNION BRINGS BACK 35 YEARS OFLEADERSHIP AND MEMORIESLast September, President Sister DeniseRoche entertained current and formermembers of the D’Youville College boardof trustees in the newest building oncampus – the D’Youville Academic Center.Those present were invited to tour the newbuilding, viewing its large lecture hallsfurnished with tiers of D’Youville redseating, and its labs complete with modernequipment to accommodate the growingbody of pharmacy students.Guests who visited the sixth floor took noteof the stunning view of the Niagara River,Lake Erie and the Canadian shoreline.And everyone seeing the building for thefirst time was impressed not only by itselegance but its practicality.The tours were enhanced by the studentambassadors who volunteered for theirduty as guides.Save the DateHomecoming’13OCTOBER 4, 5 & 6alumni.dyouville.edu 9
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