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Colorado College offers region's first dyslexia specialist certification program
Colorado College is adding a Reading Intervention Specialist program for teachers that will include instruction in how to work with dyslexic students. Only a handful of colleges and universities in the country offer such a program, and none of them are in the Rocky Mountain region. The Reading Intervention Specialist Program is a graduate certification program designed to enhance teaching abilities and further education in the field of reading and reading disabilities. The program, offered June 9-18, will provide a broad framework for understanding reading problems in the classroom. It will cover how children learn to read, why many students have reading difficulties and what teachers should know to help those who struggle. Based on solid, convergent evidence, teachers will gain an understanding of reading development, dyslexia and components of effective instruction for dyslexic students and those at-risk for reading failure. >>
Two CC students selected as Humanity in Action fellows
Colorado College students Zachariah Falconer-Stout ’08 and Ella Street ’09 are among the 59 Humanity in Action (HIA) Fellows who will spend the summer studying minority rights. Falconer-Stout will study international political economy in Berlin, and Street will study political science in Warsaw. >>
CC students win two $10,000 grants to implement Projects for Peace
Two Colorado College student-initiated projects have been chosen for funding by philanthropist Kathryn Wasserman Davis, founder of 100 Projects for Peace. In celebration of her 100th birthday in 2007, Davis funded 100 student projects in pursuit of building peace throughout the world. So impressed with the projects, she decided to fund another 100 Projects for Peace in the summer of 2008. Students from 65 colleges and universities nationwide were eligible to apply for a grant.
“Cover One in Honduras,” a project idea submitted by Colorado College students Ericka Baer '10, Alina Ford '08, Max Green '08, Jocelyn Corbett '08, Billy Blaustein '08, Misael Fernandez '08 and Jason Steiert '08 will teach impoverished Honduran youth how to respect their bodies and practice teamwork through a 25-day sports clinic in soccer, volleyball, and American football. The team members (all varsity athletes) will work specifically in the San Miguelito community, and offer their program as a positive afternoon activity for youth in the area. “Honduras is widely affected by diabetes (especially among the young), gang affiliations and immense poverty …[Cover One] will educate Honduran children on how to identify and avoid harmful behaviors that may lead to unhealthy lives, while building the self-confidence and social support necessary to put this knowledge into action,” according to the students’ proposal. >>
Psychology professor Kristi Erdal wins Fulbright Fellowship
Kristi Erdal, CC associate professor of psychology and chair of the psychology department, was awarded a Fulbright Fellowship to the University of Bergen, Norway, for the 2008 fall semester. Erdal, a neuro-psychologist, will conduct research on the conceptualization of depression among Norway’s majority and minority populations. The immigration and influx of refugees that has led to great cultural diversity in Norwegian urban areas has prompted questions about mental-health service utilization which Erdal will examine, in part, with a two-phase clinical vignette study. Erdal received her A.B. from Brown University, and her masters and Ph.D. in clinical psychology from Arizona State University.
Amy Reedy '08 earns international sociology award for thesis
CC senior Amy Reedy's thesis garnered second place in an international sociology honorary society’s undergraduate competition. Her senior thesis, "A Longitudinal Study of Female Gender Performance in the Classroom," was an award-winner in the Alpha Kappa Delta society’s contest. She will receive the award at the American Sociological Association meeting in Boston this summer, and as a result of her award, is automatically placed in the ASA student honors program. “The award and the honor program are huge honors, but the paper in particular is beyond outstanding,” said Gail Murphy-Geiss, CC assistant sociology professor. Reedy’s thesis examines how students manage female status in the classroom and how teacher and student behavior reinforces gender boundaries.
SOCC(Sound of Colorado College) on-campus live stream now available
Sound of Colorado College, KRCC's new student run station, has a CD quality live stream (192k) available now on campus only: http://krcc.coloradocollege.edu/listen.pls. For more information, visit the SOCC website. To listen from off campus, use this link (112k): http://shoutcast.krcc.org:8022/listen.pls.
Read President Celeste's letter about tuition for the 2008-2009 academic year
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