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Columns::March 3, 2003
Digest
Departments of educational psychology, English participate in Carnegie Initiative
Faculty members in the English department and the College of Education’s nationally ranked department of educational psychology will participate in the Carnegie Initiative on the Doctorate, a five-year research project aimed at improving doctoral education at American universities.
The initiative has three interacting elements: a conceptual analysis of doctoral education, design experiments in departments, and research and dissemination. Carnegie has selected six fields of study for the CID: chemistry, education (educational psychology and curriculum and instruction), English, history, mathematics and neuroscience. Faculty and departmental leadership in the disciplines is a crucial focus of the initiative.
Carnegie selected 32 “partner” departments in these fields of study from universities across the nation to analyze all aspects of their doctoral programs and link specific activities to desired outcomes.
UGA’s educational psychology department, whose graduate program is ranked 14th in the country by U.S. News &World Report, was among 22 schools selected as “allied” departments to help form a network in each discipline to provide further information collection and dissemination about the study. UGA’s English department is also an allied partner in the study.
“We decided to join this initiative in order to foster our continuing efforts to improve doctoral education,” says Randy Kamphaus, professor and department head. “In effect, the CID is a collaborative that supports innovative thinking regarding doctoral education.”
Doctoral student wins international award
Paul Quick, a doctoral student in the department of English, has been named winner of the International McKeachie Teaching Award for a paper he submitted to the International Conference on Improving University Teaching and Learning, which is to be held this summer.
Quick won the Bill and Ginny McKeachie Award offered through IUT for his paper entitled “Using Illustrations to Improve Student Writing.” The award includes a waiver of the conference fee and a grant of $1,000 to reimburse travel expenses. He will attend the IUT conference at Vaxjo University in Vaxjo, Sweden, June 16-19. In addition to presenting his individual paper, he will be part of a panel of former teaching assistant mentors from UGA.
Quick is in the final year of writing his dissertation, “An Ecocritical Approach to the Novels of Cormac McCarthy.”
Georgia Museum of Art receives grant
The education department of the Georgia Museum of Art received a Grassroots Arts Program grant for programming in conjunction with the museum’s current exhibition Visualizing the Blues: Images of the American South 1862-1999, on display until March 23.
The grant supports “Visualizing My Life,”a senior citizen outreach program under way in Clarke County and directed by Diane Barret. The program, part of the museum’s ongoing “Older Adults as Learners and Teachers Project,” will provide educational and creative activities free of charge to nearly 100 older adults in the area.
The program involves on-site visits to nursing homes, senior centers and assisted-living facilities where instructors show slides from the exhibition and provide recordings of blues music.
Later, a tour of the exhibition at the museum offers a cultural outing for those able to travel. In the third phase of the program, instructors return to senior sites for a studio activity. Using the theme of “Visualizing My Life,” participants will choose a photograph or write narratives to share some of their memories of life in the earlier part of the 20th century. Small exhibits of these pictures and stories will be displayed at each site.
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