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GSE Awards Recognize Exemplary Public Schools
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Lew Smith, Ph.D., associate dean for program development and outreach at the Fordham Graduate School of Education, (left) and James Hennessy, Ph.D., dean of GSE, announce Panasonic Corp.’s sponsorship of the National School Change Awards.
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Fordham University’s Graduate School of Education (GSE) awarded scholarships and other honors to six public schools that dramatically improved student learning despite difficult odds, during the eighth annual National School Change Awards ceremony in July at the Lincoln Center campus.
Lew Smith, Ph.D., director of the awards and associate dean for program development and outreach at GSE, also announced that the Panasonic Corp. will begin sponsoring the awards. The awards will now be known as the Panasonic National School Change Awards, and will be managed jointly by Fordham and the Panasonic Foundation. The 2008 Panasonic National School Change Awards will be made possible by a $75,000 grant from Panasonic North America.
“You have taken teaching and learning to a new level in your communities, with good teaching and learning brought to scale—just what this country needs,” said Ray Simon, deputy secretary of the U.S. Department of Education, at the awards ceremony. “It is unfortunate that, for too many children, it is still luck of the draw whether or not they get a good teacher.”
The ceremony recognized the staff of exemplary schools in four states, including Anna F. Booth Elementary School in Irvington, Ala., where more than 70 percent of the students were left homeless by Hurricane Katrina.
The other winners were:
Public School 196, Brooklyn, N.Y.
World of Inquiry School No. 58, Rochester. N.Y.
Dreamkeepers Academy, Norfolk, Va.
Chalkley Elementary, Chesterfield, Va.
Signal Hill Elementary, Signal Hill, Calif.
Winning schools received a $5,000 grant, subsidized participation at the National Principals Leadership Institute at Fordham, and are invited to take part in a national research project on school change. The 2007 winners were chosen from a national pool of 127 schools—the largest number of applicants in the award’s eight-year history.
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UN Official Cites Difficulties in Administering Aid
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Ibrahim Gambari, Ph.D., the United Nations undersecretary general for political affairs, addresses graduates of the International Diploma in Humanitarian Affairs program.
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Administering humanitarian aid is becoming increasingly difficult as natural disasters and wars displace more and more people, Ibrahim Gambari, Ph.D., the United Nations undersecretary general for political affairs, told graduates of Fordham University’s International Diploma in Humanitarian Assistance (IDHA) program in June.
Gambari delivered the commencement address to the 22nd IDHA graduating class on June 29 at the Lincoln Center campus, where he was also presented with an honorary diploma. He used war-torn Iraq as an example of challenges facing aid workers in the new century.
“The security situation has affected the UN’s ability to carry out its activities, Gambari said. "Gross violations of human rights, including killings, kidnappings and torture continue unabated in many parts of the country. If [the situation] continues, the political and social fabric of the country could affect the stability and security of the whole region. We have to give the people of Iraq some hope that help is on the way.”
Gambari outlined UN initiatives in Iraq that would protect the aid workers and would stimulate long-term economic development, as ways to alleviate the suffering.
In all, 36 students from 25 nations received the program’s International Diploma in Humanitarian Assistance after completing the monthlong course at Fordham. The program is designed to help humanitarian aid professionals function more effectively in times of “complex emergencies,” including wars and natural disasters. Since its inception in 1997, the program has graduated 830 workers from 113 nations.
The course is directed by Larry Hollingworth and administered under Fordham’s Institute of International Humanitarian Affairs, headed by Kevin M. Cahill, M.D. (FCRH ’57).
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University Celebrates Feast of St. Ignatius
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Joseph M. McShane, S.J., president of Fordham, celebrates the Feast of St. Ignatius.
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The Fordham University community celebrated the Feast of St. Ignatius in honor of the founder of the Society of Jesus with Masses at the Rose Hill and Lincoln Center campuses on July 31.
At the Rose Hill campus, Joseph M. McShane, S.J., president of Fordham, celebrated Mass at the University Church, and at the Lincoln Center campus, Robert Grimes, S.J., dean of Fordham College at Lincoln Center, celebrated Mass at Blessed Rupert Mayer, S.J., Chapel in the Lowenstein Center. Both Eucharistic celebrations were followed by receptions.
“We Jesuits consider it the greatest blessing and honor that you are our colleagues in ministry or, more precisely, that we are your colleagues in ministry,” Father McShane told the congregants. “Therefore, this is, in a very special way, your day. So on behalf of all the Jesuits at Fordham, I wish you a happy feast day. And by the way, if you run into Jesuits today, they will not say hello … . They will say, ‘Happy feast day.’ Please understand that we mean that because this is your feast day.”
The annual Feast of St. Ignatius commemorates the death of the saint on July 31, 1556, in Rome, some 16 years after founding the Society of Jesus. At his death, it said that St. Ignatius implored his followers to find God in all things, and in all things to bring glory to God.
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Foundation Awards Grant to Theology Professor
The E. Rhodes and Leona B. Carpenter Foundation awarded Aristotle Papanikolaou, Ph.D., associate professor of theology at Fordham University, a $38,000 grant in July to complete a book that explores the relationship between confession and desire.
Papanikolaou, whose research focuses on contemporary Eastern Orthodox theology and the relationship between Orthodoxy and culture, serves as co-director of the Orthodox Studies Program at Fordham and is author of Being With God: Trinity, Apophaticism, and Divine-Human Communion (University of Notre Dame Press, 2006).
His new book, which he intends to publish in 2009, will examine, among other things, what a more iconic, rather than juridical, understanding of confession may mean for Orthodoxy in the democratic and religiously plural societies of the 21st century.
The Philadelphia-based Carpenter Foundation was established in 1975 by E. Rhodes Carpenter, founder of the Carpenter Co., which manufactures and distributes polyurethane products, and his wife, Leona B. Carpenter. The foundation supports museums, healthcare organizations and graduate theological education.
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