2007-08 LYNCH SCHOOL
GRADUATE STUDENT AND ALUMNI ACHIEVEMENTS
Please note: Students and faculty
represented below are identified in the Appendix following the
citations. There is a great deal of collaborative research ongoing
in the Lynch School between faculty members and their students.
Student names are highlighted in black and faculty names
are highlighted in green.
DEPARTMENT OF COUNSELING, DEVELOPMENTAL & EDUCATIONAL PSYCHOLOGY
Appointments
Margret Bell has been appointed as the Resource Development
& Utilization Coordinator of the Military Sexual Trauma Support
Team in the Department of Veterans Affairs & National Center
for PTSD (a monitoring, education/training, and policy team designed
to improve VA's response to military sexual trauma).
Christian Cho has been appointed to Board of Directors
of Community Change, Inc.
Ellen Fanning has been appointed the Coordinator for the
BC MACC Tutoring Program and is a Member of Boston Connects Data
Collection Team under the supervision of Dr. Mary Walsh. September
2007- present; Graduate Education Association Council Member,
2007-2008
Jong Park has been appointed to the Graduate Education
Association Advisory Board
Publications, Conferences and Presentations
Community Service
Awards
DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATIONAL ADMINISTRATION AND HIGHER EDUCATION
Appointments
David Engberg, has been appointed Director of International
Education at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.
Francesca Purcell was appointed Chair of a taskforce created
by the Massachusetts Board of Higher Education to study the issue
of transfer admissions with an eye to reducing barriers for transfer
students. Francesca is the Director for Academic Policy for the
Board of Higher Education
Colm Renehan was appointed Vice President for Advancement
at Lesley University, overseeing the University’s fundraising
efforts. Renehan has over 20 years of development and management
experience. He spent the past five years in the Massachusetts
Institute of Technology’s Office of Leadership Giving, and
joins Lesley during the planning stages of a capital campaign
to support the relocation of the Art Institute of Boston to Cambridge
and the University’s 2009 Centennial celebration.
Renehan most recently served as Regional Director of the New
York Metro area for MIT’s Office of Leadership Giving. In
his five years at MIT he has overseen the development of major
gifts programs in the Mid West and Southern regions including
Florida. Prior to MIT, Renehan developed and managed a major gifts
program at Babson College that included domestic and international
fundraising including the United States, the United Kingdom, the
Middle East, India and the Caribbean.
Joseph Sotelo was appointed to the Pastoral Council, advising
Father Charles G. Kieffer, V.F., Dean of Central Phoenix, on issues
and matters related to Saint Theresa Parish and the Diocese of
Phoenix.
Publications, Conferences and Presentations
Awards
DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION RESEARCH, MEASUREMENT & EVALUATION
Appointments
Carolyn Fidelman has accepted a position as Research Analyst
in the Language Testing Division of the Center for Applied Linguistics
in Washington DC.
Dr. Steve Stemler was recently appointed as the Connecticut
State Representative to the New England Educational Research Organization
(NEERO) for 2007-2008.
Awards
At the New England Educational Research Organization (NEERO) conference in April, Educational Research, Measurement and Evaluation (ERME) PhD student, Emilie Mitescu, and Randall Lahann (a doctoral candidate in the Department of Teacher Education, Special Education, Curriculum and Instruction) won the "John Schmitt Award" for graduate student research, for a paper they co-authored entitled "Teach for America and the Politics of Progressive Neoliberalism."
Emilie Mitescu also won a Boston College "Donald J. White Teaching Excellence Award," which recognizes graduate teaching fellows and teaching assistants who distinguished themselves in their classroom instruction this academic year.
Publications, Conferences and Presentations
Alumni Achievements
DEPARTMENT OF TEACHER EDUCATION , SPECIAL EDUCATION, CURRICULUM & INSTRUCTION
Appointments
Richard Cass, Ph.D., Co-Chairperson Learning Disabilities
Worldwide Conference, 2008.
Julia Zoino-Jeanetti, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Framingham
State College
Publications, Conferences and Presentations
Names of Graduate Students, Alumni and Faculty cited in the
compilation above.