Faculty Accomplishments
Faculty Recognition and Grant Awards
The College of Education has an outstanding faculty. All of our tenure track faculty have doctorates, many from the top doctoral institutions in the country. They not only are known for the quality of their teaching but also for the quality of their scholarship and professional leadership. Here are a few examples of their successes and accomplishments drawn from the last three years:· Dr. Bonnie Brunkhorst was elected a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. She has also been elected a lifetime National Associate of the National Academies of Sciences.
· Dr. Herbert Brunkhorst was elected a Lifetime Associate of the National Academy of Sciences. He was honored as well by the American Association for the Advancement of Science and Elected as a fellow.
· Dr. Maggie Cooney and Dr. Joe Turpin received a $500,000 Rehabilitation Training Grant from the U.S. Department of Education.
· Dr. Lynne Diaz-Rico has published Teaching English Learners: Strategies and Methods, through Allyn & Bacon Publishers.
· Carolyn Eggleston is editor of the Journal of Correctional Education. She currently holds a $300,000 a year legislated grant between the California Department of Education and the California Department of the Youth Authority.
· Dr. Jose Hernandez held a three-year Department of Education grant for his project “Electronically mediated monitoring system” whereby masters’ students in bilingual education mentored bilingual teacher education students in their first year of teaching.· Dr. Young Suk Hwang received a 1.5 million dollar grant for work with the CSUSB Partnership for Teacher Recruitment and Training.
· Dr. Amy Leh has been project director for the five year multimillion dollar grant “Preparing Tomorrow’s Teachers for Technology” funded by the U.S. Department of Education.
· Dr. Enrique Murillo is the founding Editor and Dr. Corinne Martinez the Associate Editor of the Journal of Latinos and Education, published by Lawrence Erlbaum.
· Dr. Donna Schnorr is Co-Director of the new federal ($15,000,000, five-year) GEAR Up grant to improve the college going rate of students from the region.· Dr. Darlene Stoner was the recipient of the Public Education on Air Quality Issues Award from the South Coast Air AQMD.
· Dr. Nena Torrez received an Hispanic Leadership Fellowship, the first ever awarded in San Bernardino County.
· Dr. John Winslade has published with his co-author Lorraine Hedike Remembering lives: Conversations with the dying and the bereaved, Baywood Press.
· Dr. Jan Woerner is Co-Director of “Project Pathway” an $850,000 state funded grant for improving Teacher quality and increasing the number of science teachers for the Coachella Valley. She also directs the Berger Foundation funded Jason Project at the Palm Desert Campus.
· Dr. Laura Young received a U.S. Department of Agriculture Fellowship to work with the Department in Washington, D.C.
Distinguished Alumni
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College of Education Partnerships in the Community – These are additional areas in which we utilize and allocate funding.
College of Education Literacy Center and San Bernardino County Probation Department – Funding provided by Watson and Associates. Tutoring services and assessment to San Bern. County students through Graduate Reading M.A. students and TESOL M.A. students.
Tutoring youth ages 14-18 who are confined in San Bernardino County Probation Department programs.Environmental Expo - An environmental fair, the largest in California. Attracts potential students to campus, provides positive community outreach and is an environmentally focused educational event. Annual Environmental Expo is every April, and it is this campus’s best attended event from all areas of the Inland Empire and LA County. Expo enables positive interaction and networking between environmentally oriented agencies, organizations and businesses, while providing education for children and adults.
Funded by Many businesses, agencies, and organizations Grant from Metropolitan Water District and City of San Bernardino.CSUSB Partnership Grant - The project evolved out of the need to prepare prospective teachers and faculty to integrate technology into standards based curriculum that serves a culturally diverse population. In this project we will: assist CSUSB College of Education faculty with integration of technology into their teacher preparation classes, mentor emergency permit (pre-service) teachers in their modeling of the use of technology integration in their classrooms, and enable teacher candidates through the entire process from initial enrollment through induction (their first two years as certificated teachers).
The Partnering to Prepare Tomorrow’s Teachers to Use Technology Project - The project evolved out of the need to prepare prospective teachers and faculty to integrate technology into standards based curriculum that serves a culturally diverse population. In this project we will: assist CSUSB College of Education faculty with integration of technology into their teacher preparation classes, mentor emergency permit (pre-service) teachers in their modeling of the use of technology integration in their classrooms, and enable teacher candidates to understand how to implement technology integration during their student teaching. Funded by Equity through Distributed Education Network, a PT3 catalyst grantee at California State University, Long Beach), Apple Computer, Desert Sands Unified School District, Digital Internet Services Corporation (disc), Inspiration Software, and Educational Connections.
America Reads - In coordination with Financial Aid, COE offers 2 courses a year to train work-study students to teach reading in 5 school districts and Literacy Programs at City Library.
Gear Up – Working with 3 middle schools to improve and increase college opportunities of up to 30,000 underrepresented students. Funded by U.S. Department of Education
CSUSB/RCOE Multiple Subject and Single Subject Intern Programs - In 54 districts, this program provides support for students who are employed as classroom teachers and intern supervisors to receive additional training. Funded by California Commission on Teacher Credentialing
Early Learning Opportunity Project - Working with San Bernardino County’s Children’s Network to provide training to child care center staff and parents on child development issues.
Funded by San Bernardino County Children’s Network/Federal Grant
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