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Volume 10, Issue 23
Lehigh University Campus Weekly
April 16,1997
College of Ed ninth in U.S. News grad ranking
Brothers from Pi Kappa Alpha fraternity walked and sponsored
the Vigil, in remembrance of one of their brothers, who fell
victim to a cruel act of violence. "Many Voices" was an anti-
violence vigil held in hopes of bringing together the community
to fight violence.
Students Against Violence
holds vigil at Packer Chapel
Photos by Joe Marcus
Samuel D. Proctor, mentor and friend
of Martin Luther King Jr., spoke about
violence on college campuses during
his time in comparison to the violence
of today at Packer Chapel on April 6
during the Students Against Violence
"Many Voices" event.
Ankur Gosalia '98 (left), founder of Students Against Violence,
sits next to Sharon Brown (center), assistant dean of students.
Brown is a personal friend of Samuel Proctor (right), the
evening's keynote speaker.
Among 190 schools and colleges
of education in U.S. News & World
Report's recent graduate school
rankings, the College of Education
was ninth in terms of selectivity.
According to U.S. News, Lehigh's
College of Education accepted just
under 35 percent of students who
applied last fall. The lower the
percentage accepted, the more
selective a school.
Several criteria, including
selectivity, make up the overall
ranking of the nation's graduate
schools of education. Lehigh ranked
59th overall.
"The faculty, students and
alumni deserve the credit for this
ranking," said Ronald Yoshida,
dean of Lehigh's education college.
"We only have 25 faculty members
and these rankings don't adjust for
faculty size. Nearly all the colleges
in the top 50 of this ranking are at
least 40 percent larger than us. We
are proud to be a small, but productive and powerful college that
serves the region and the nation."
In fact, Yoshida was equally
gratified with another criteria,
research funding. A measure of the
total funding by grants received by
faculty, Lehigh placed 35th.
"This was truly an achievement,"
Yoshida said. "We have always
known that our faculty were
productive scholars, but this
ranking confirms what we've
always known."
Student feedback mirrors the
rankings. Stephanie Walkup '96,
a current graduate student in the
civil and environmental engineering program, chose to augment her
technical knowledge with an
education minor.
"As part of my minor, I took a
class in curriculum construction
where I found out about the seven
different learning styles," Walkup
said. "I've found that this has
helped me as a teaching assistant,
because I can change the way I'm
going over material to adapt to
each student."
Walkup hopes to become a
professor some day, and was
trained for her job as a teaching
assistant. "Ray Bell, the department chairperson, taught us basic
teaching principles. There is such
a strong resource base in the
College of Education, and I think
students and faculty alike should
take advantage of the courses
offered."
- Bill Johnson
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