2006

> The College of Education has ten programs ranked in the Top 15 in the nation, of which five are Top 10 rankings. For the seventh consecutive year the Department of Counseling and Personnel Services is ranked first, according to the 2007 U.S. News & World Report survey of graduate programs.

> This year's edition of the Best Graduate Schools by U.S. News ranked the college 24th in the nation. The college has nine ranked educational specialties, plus one ranked Health Specialty [Rehabilitation counseling program (9) last ranked in 2004].

> In fiscal year 2006, the College of Education attracts $11.9 million in externally funded research and sponsored programs.

> The college's Maryland Institute for Minority Achievement and Urban Education celebrates the Fifth Anniversary of its founding.

> The web-based timeline, "Landmarks and Legacies: A History of the College of Education, 1920 to present," is launched.

> The College of Education and its Senate honor 13 outstanding faculty, staff, and students at its third annual awards ceremony on April 28. Honorees were John T. Guthrie, Ph.D.; Susan R. Komives, Ed.D.; Lisa A. Botá, Ph.D.; Anna O. Graeber, Ed.D.; Charles H. Flatter, Ed.D.; Thomas Weible, Ph.D.; Stephanie D. Goodwin; Steven B. Pragel; Rochella K. McKoy; Jennifer L. Hauver-James; Paige Haber; Shannon Ambush; Dora F. Kennedy, Ph.D.

> On May 20, The College of Education hosts "The Bash at Benjamin: Celebrate our Past, Embrace our Future"--a commemoration of the college's history and its contributions over the past eight decades. The event is part of the University of Maryland's year-long 150th Anniversary Celebration.

> In June 2006, Dean Edna Mora Szymanski , Ph.D., is selected as University of Maine's senior vice president for academic affairs and provost. Szymanski had served as dean of the University of Maryland College of Education since July 1999.

> Chair of Counseling and Personnel Services, Dennis M. Kivlighan, Jr., Ph.D. [view Bio], is named interim dean of the college in July 2006.

> Curriculum and Instruction faculty members Rebecca L. Oxford, Ph.D., and Edward F. Redish, Ph.D. (affiliated), are recipients of the 2006-07 University Distinguished Scholar-Teacher Award.

> The College of Education Alumni Chapter and Phi Delta Kappa recognize 14 distinguished individuals on Nov. 16 at the college's annual alumni awards ceremony:
Outstanding Leader(s):
Charlene Cooper Boston, Ph.D., '79; Jon M. Andes, Ed.D., '84
Outstanding Professional Educator(s):
Jean Elizabeth Lokerson, Ph.D., '70; Larry D. Roper, Ph.D., '88
Dean's Award for Outstanding Professional Achievement:
Anthony G. Marchione, M.Ed., '59, Ph.D., '72
Outstanding New Professional:
Scott Jackson Dantley, M.Ed., '98, Ph.D., '99
Outstanding Scholar(s):
Richard Earl Hardy, Ed.D., '66; Richard A. Duschl, B.S., '74 , Ph.D., '83
Outstanding New Scholar(s):
Stacey S. Horn, Ph.D., '00; Chris L. Rasmussen, B.S., '85, M.A., '94, Ph.D., '97;
Outstanding Professional:
Carl Bryant, Ph.D., '84
Alumni Teacher of the Year:
Lisa Bender, M.A., '90, M.Ed., '91
Phi Delta Kappa Outstanding Mentor Teacher:
Patricia Donofrio
Distinguished Service to the College of Education:
Jean Mullan, B.S., '68.

> We Remember ~ The college marks the passing of the following colleagues:
--Robert V. Duffy, retired faculty member, Curriculum and Instruction, Feb. 26
--Michael Pressley, former faculty member, Curriculum and Instruction, May 26
--Ruth Garner, former faculty member, Curriculum and Instruction, July 15
--Richard Hill Byrne, retired faculty member, Counseling and Personnel Services, July 29
--William L. "Bud" Thomas, Jr., affiliated faculty member, Counseling and Personnel Services, Nov. 6
--C. Raymond Anderson, retired Associate Dean, Nov. 19
--Kathleen Amershek, retired faculty member, Curriculum and Instruction, Dec. 3
--Edward L. Longley, retired faculty member, Curriculum and Instruction, Dec. 9

> The first endowed professorship is established within the College of Education. Human Development Professor John T. Guthrie, Ph.D., is the inaugural holder of the Jean Mullan Professor of Literacy.