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 Message from the dean:
Greetings,
I've talked to many alumni about the issues our graduates will face in their careers. Almost everyone agrees that the best solutions to tackling childhood obesity, helping families, or improving a youngster's critical thinking skills require looking at issues from more than one perspective. Alumni wholeheartedly approve of our division's goal to reframe education to emphasize a holistic, integrated human experience.
So, to better represent the scope of efforts in our five departments and the growing interrelationships and interactions among our academic disciplines, we've changed our name. Effective Jan. 1, we are Miami University's School of Education, Health and Society.
To go along with that new name, we also have a new divisional Web site. I hope you'll take a moment to check it out. During the next year, we'll also be updating our departmental Web sites. Do send your comments and suggestions to ehsdean@muohio.edu.
Warm regards and best wishes for a Happy New Year,
Carine M. Feyten, Ph.D.
Dean and Professor of Foreign Language Education
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 More than 20 percent of the faculty members nominated for Miami's 2007 Effective Educator Award were from the School of Education, Health and Society, including the winner, Tom Romano, professor of teacher education, who starts each class with a poem.
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Miami, the American Heart Association and Cincinnati Public Schools are partnering to reduce this shocking statistic: 38% of Cincinnati area third graders are overweight.
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 Thomas Poetter (educational leadership), director of Miami's Partnership Office, is one of only 30 university and school district educators in the nation to be recognized for his contributions to the Institute for Educational Inquiry's (IEI) Agenda for Education in a Democracy (AED) program.
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Marcia Baxter Magolda, whose research on college students and their intellectural and personal development is recognized nationally as the most important work in the field, has received yet another honor.
What Baxter Magolda's studies tell us about preparing college students for adult responsibilities.
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 A $199,352 grant from the National Science Foundation will be used to revise a science course that is widely used by not just Miami zoology, microbiology and botany majors, but by teacher education majors. |
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 When Beth Sims began her duties this summer as development director for the School of Education, Health and Society (EHS), she quickly discovered that alumni share her excitement about the direction the school is taking.
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Faculty from the School of Education, Health and Society are nationally known for their scholarly achievements. Read on for a sampling of recent honors and accomplishments.
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We are a collegial community of learners, specifically focused on the development of leaders for education, families, health and social service agencies, and local communities. We are stewards of our public responsibility to create knowledge and strategies to improve our complex global society. We strive to be exemplars of practices that are democratic, nurturing, and responsive to diverse learners and contexts.
-- from the School of Education, Health and Society Vision Statement
We invite you to learn more about the School by visiting our web site: www.muohio.edu/EHS
207 McGuffey Hall
Oxford, OH 45056
(513) 529-6317
If you have suggestions or comments, email EHS@muohio.edu
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