Idaho University Puts Professors in Dorms In a NJ.com article on Boise State University's campus housing program created to help retain students and enhance their college experience, Associate Professor Karen Kurtosuchi Inkelas (Counseling and Personnel Services) commented that an analysis of these types of programs in 2007 found only seven percent in the United States integrate faculty into the living arrangements. "Faculty living alongside students in the residence halls, even in a living-learning context, is not very prevalent," said Inkelas, who is the principal investigator for the National Study of Living-Learning Programs at the Center for Student Studies in Ann Arbor, Mich. April 26, 2009 Associated Press (NJ.com) (full article)     City commends Lakeland STARS The College Park City Council recently honored nine students for their work as volunteer tutors with the College Park Scholars' Lakeland STARS program. The name of the initiative refers to College Park's Lakeland neighborhood, where the program is run, and pairs it with the acronym for 'Students Taking Active Responsibility.' Tutors spend several hours a week with elementary students, helping to stimulate their interest in attending college. Doctoral student Tabetha Mwita (Education Policy Studies), who oversees the program, said "One of our goals is to inspire the children to go to college in the future, and it's working." April 27, 2009 Diamondback (full article)     For New Teachers, Early Support Can Sustain Careers Associate Professor Jennifer King Rice (Education Policy Studies), was quoted for a Washington Post article looking at schools' mentoring and professional development programs which aim to stem attrition of new teachers and improve their abilities in the classroom. "Good induction and mentoring programs have proven worth," said Rice. "But some programs are underfunded, with mentors who have multiple jobs or are 'spread very thinly among many buildings.'" April 27, 2009 Washington Post (full article)     How Researchers Classify Biracial Subjects Skews Study Results Author Say The Chronicle of Higher Education recently covered a study by Associate Professor Karen Kurtosuchi Inkelas and doctoral student Matthew Soldner (Counseling and Personnel Services) on the effect various approaches to classifying bi/multiracial subjects can have on influencing a study's results. For example, classifying all students who identify with two or more groups as being simply 'biracial' or 'multicultural' avoids erroneously lumping them together with single-race peers, but runs the risk of glossing over significant differences between biracial populations. The research is based on the data of over 22,000 undergraduate students at 49 colleges, gathered as part of the 2007 National Study of Living-Learning Programs, for which Inkelas is principal investigator. April 15, 2009 Chronicle of Higher Education [pdf] (full article) Select All That Apply?: The Pitfalls of Various Racial Classification Schemes in Higher Education Research [pdf] (research paper)		INSIDE: Upcoming events & Important dates A Global Perspective Faculty/Staff/Student News Alumni News Campaign Update Tech Talk CoE In The News CB front page CB archives College home page
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