WALDEN UNIVERSITY • PHI DELTA KAPPA
• CYBERSPACE CHAPTER Newsletter • April/May/June 2001
WALDEN UNIVERSITY • PHI DELTA KAPPA
• CYBERSPACE CHAPTER |
F F I C E R S |
President: Charles
J. Smith, Sr., Ph.D. (csmith2@waldenu.edu)
To reach the executive board email listserve: offpdk@waldenu.edu |
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We have had steady progress over the past few months in bringing new members into the fold. Since the beginning of the year, we have seen the following activity...
New Members include:
WELCOME TO EACH OF YOU!!!
PDK CHAPTER WEB SITE:
For information about topics discussed during our executive board and general
meetings... "we direct interested readers to the website page where the agenda
and meeting docs (approved budget, minutes, etc.) are linked." That address
is: http://minnehaha.waldenu.edu/pdk/meetings/
MEMBERSHIP CERTIFICATES &
REGISTRATION:
Members have been sent their charter membership certificates along with their
Walden University certificate. These are on a file which makes it easy to print
new member certificates to mail as soon as registration is mailed to International.
Common problems related to the registration process are not being experienced
by our chapter, but we do seem to have a problem with people renewing their
membership on time. The spring members audit has come around and we have the
following membership:
Sandi Gardner VP Membership
CHAPTER ELECTION RESULTS
Results are in! Andre Elliot has compiled the results, and below are the new
officers who will take charge of the chapter on July 1, 2001:
President: John Craddock
Vice President of Membership: Dr. Sandi Gardner
Historian: Claudette Humphrey
Foundation Representative: Antonia Guerra
Treasurer: Dr. Arthur Ogden
Webmaster: Gay Wiseman
Secretary: Evelyn Herrero
Several positions remain unfilled. Contact Andre Elliot (election facilitator) at aelliott@waldenu.edu if you can serve your chapter in one of these positions:
THANK YOU!
Past officers and members of the Cyber Chapter express deep gratitude to our
outgoing President, Dr. Charles J. Smith, Sr. His commitment and follow-through,
in picking up the torch from Past President Andre, and moving us to our current
position is deeply appreciated. May the hours spent in this effort not go un-noticed,
nor slip into decay and loss. But, may those following move this great chapter
to even greater hights! Thanks Charles!
As President Smith departs, we welcome our new President John Craddock. We appreciate his commitment and desire to serve us as we move forward with, as Charles would say, “a progressive agenda”. There will be new challenges ahead, but with John's desire to serve, this organization will move forward. Thanks for accepting this challenge John!
CONGRATULATIONS TO ALL NEW ALUMNI, especially to our own Gay Wiseman, as she received her M.S. in Educational Change and Technology Innovation recently. She indicates that she "completed all work on my thesis and passed oral on June 7, a week too late for the summer commencement. So, official grad date is Aug 2000 with commencement to be in July 2001."
WALDEN UNIVERSITY, is now offering new master’s degrees and specialization’s as noted in the January Walden Ponder.
AMBASSADOR is another name we can call our Advisor Dr. Marilyn Simon. Marilyn recently was in Cape Town and Johannesburg South Africa (we have proof via a photo sent to us by her), as part of the People to People Ambassador Program. She also had a research article "The evolution of Women in Mathematics" published. Also, without much fanfare she responded to a recent article in the U.S. World News & Report which concerned distance learning (the article was quite negative), asking that better research be conducted before writing and publishing such an article
CALL FOR NOMINEES: DISTANCE
LEARNING AWARDS
The United States Distance
Learning Association and The USDLA Awards Committee invite nominations for the
USDLA 2001 Distance Learning Awards. The Awards will be presented at the e-learning
Conference & Expo in Washington, D.C. at the Washington Convention Center.
The award categories are: Excellence in Distance Teaching, Excellence in Distance
Learning Programming, and Most Outstanding Achievement by an Individual. All
nomination packages must be received by Friday, February 2, 2001. See http://www.usdla.org/18_awards.htm
for complete information.
BADGES:
Members have an opportunity
of purchasing badges showing their name and membership in PDK. Please click
on the link to the ordering information on the main page of our website for
more details. You may wear these badges proudly during any residency or other
function.
EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION DONATION
Please
be sure that you participate in the PDK International Educational Foundation
by sending your $5.00 donation to: PDK International, Attn: Educational Foundation
Donation, P.O. Box 789, Bloomington, IN 47402-20789. Be sure to place the following
notation on your check: Walden Chapter $1586. This will help us maintain our
status as a participating 20/20 Chapter.
LETTER TO DR. PAIGE, SECRETARY
OF EDUCATION:
Dr. Marilyn Simon, Advisor
to our chapter, drafted and sent to Dr. Paige, Education Secretary in the Bush
Administration our position with regard to standards and testing. The administration
responded, but it appears there has been no change in their position. If members
have an opportunity to speak out on this issue, our chapter officers recommend
and strongly suggest that you do so.
INTERNATIONAL NEWS
PDK International’s Board of Directors held a meeting from January 26 through January 28, 2001. During this meeting several things were reviewed and discussed covering actions related to members, chapters, Areas and Districts, the Professional Program, Organization, and the International Office and Board. This is mentioned here in this News Letter in order to inform you the reader of the breadth, depth, and scope (remind you of a Kam?) of this organization which you belong to, note all of the activity at International as well as at the Chapter level outlined in this news letter!
FRYMIER STUDENT INSTITUTE FOR
ETHICAL LEADERSHIP
Phi Delta Kappa International, by letter dated February 2001, announced that
the planning for the Fourth Annual Frymier Student Institute for Ethical Leadership.
The workshop is scheduled to be held from June 26 through July 2, 2001, on the
Indiana University Campus. The values to be covered include honesty, responsibility,
civility, learning, cooperation, freedom, and service to others. It is recommended
that students in grades 9, 10, or 11 be sent to this workshop. For more information
please contact International, since registration and payment is to be completed
by no later than May 4, 2001.
BESSIE GABBARD
We express our condolences
to the family and friends of Bessie Gabbard, who was the first woman initiated
into PDK International. She passed away on February 10th in Ft. Lauderdale.
She was 95 years old and serving as the chair of the Board of Governors of the
Educational Foundation at her passing. In fact, she had just presided at the
January 19th meeting. Dr. Susan J. Sears has assumed the chair of
the foundation. We welcome her and wish her well.
GABBARD INSTITUTES
Gabbard Institutes will
be held this coming summer at five locations including, Bloomington, Indiana
(June 18-24); W. Long Branch, NJ (July 25-29); Orlando, Florida (June 25-29);
Breckenridge, CO (July 16-20);, and Chicago, IL (July 30-August 1). Graduate
credit is available and members receive a discount. Additional information is
available at the PDK International web site.
LAST MONTHS DISCUSSION TOPIC...
was, “For the next issue, please provide your “feelings” in regard to “School Discipline” as it relates to your being able to “teach” your students.” The following response was received:
SCHOOL
DISCIPLINE AND CLASSROOM MANAGEMENT: A MUST FOR IMPROVED INSTRUCTION
By
Charles J. Smith, Sr., Ph.D., President
The Phi Delta Kappan has reported in annual polls of public attitudes on education that, for twenty of the last twenty-five years, discipline has been viewed as a major problem for the schools (Elam, Rose, and Gallup, 1993). With or without data from national polls, teachers, administrators, parents, school adopters, patrons and students know that there are many discipline problems in schools. It comes as no surprise that students cause most of the behavioral problems; however, the teachers themselves cause most discipline problems. ...
(Click the title of Dr. Smith's article to read it in its entirety.)
NEXT ISSUE, DISCUSSION TOPIC: Are our children, students, receiving the nutrition they need to maintain their ability to learn, are they getting the rest they need, are the school hours of operation conducive to learning, and the recent discussion of "carrying" lots of books are harmful to the proper growth of the students skeletal frame–is this true? Please send your responses to: rjenterprises@mailcity.com
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