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AWARDS AND HONORS

Berkeley Site Director Honored

W. Norton Grubb, professor of education at UC Berkeley and NCRVE's Berkeley Site Director, was recently honored by being award the David Gardner Chair in Higher Education. It is a five-year award, from 1997 through 2002. Says Dr. Grubb, "I plan to support various projects and students examining postsecondary education, including dissertation research, an examination of non-traditional education and training programs, and a seminar for community college instructors about teaching in community colleges. I also hope to return to China to study da chuan--Chinese community colleges--following up the trip that we made earlier."

For more information about Dr. Grubb's research, see the NCRVE online Products Catalog at <http://ncrve.berkeley.edu/prodcat.html>. Alternately, you may telephone the Materials Distribution Service at (800) 637-7652 and ask them to send you a printed copy of the Products Catalog.

New Appointment at Minnesota

Charles Hopkins, former NCRVE site director at the University of Minnesota, is now interim dean of the College of Education and Human Development at the University of Minnesota. Hopkins joined the college faculty in 1966, and has been chair of the Department of Work, Community and Family Education.

New Directors at NCRVE's Illinois and Minnesota Sites

There are new Site Directors at two of NCRVE's sites, Illinois and Minnesota. Both Site Directors have had a long association with NCRVE as researchers and project directors. Debra D. Bragg, who was appointed NCRVE`s Illinois Site Director on January 1, 1998, is an associate professor in the College of Education at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign and also the tech prep project director for NCRVE. She says "My research focuses on issues of educational change in the postsecondary setting, particularly the community college. I have attempted to understand the changes occurring in community college mission, function, and curricula by looking at the evolving relationships between secondary and postsecondary education via tech prep, school-to-work, and other systemic educational reforms; and the continually expanding relationships between community colleges and their local and state `communities` (especially business and industry)."

George Copa, recently appointed NCRVE`s Minnesota Site Director, has extensive background in vocational education and holds the Rodney S. Wallace Chair for the Advancement of Teaching and Learning. He also directed the New Designs for the Comprehensive High School project, which is now impacting high school design across the country and internationally.

More information about the research of both Site Directors may be found in the Products Catalog at <http://ncrve.berkeley.edu/prodcat.html>. Alternately, you may telephone the Materials Distribution Service at (800) 637-7652 and ask them to send you a printed copy of the Products Catalog.

Poets in (cyber)Space

David Carlson, the NCRVE dissemination program's web and database manager, won a poetry contest sponsored by the online magazine, Salon . The challenge was to write a computer error message in the form of a haiku. More than 200 cyberpoets entered. David's entry, which follows, was one of two winners.

Everything is gone;
your life's work has been destroyed.
Squeeze trigger (yes/no)?

For more detail, on the web, see <http://www.salonmagazine.com/21st/chal/1998/02/10chal2.html>.

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