Nicole Furlonge

, a teacher, teacher educator and researcher, will become Director of TC’s  in September, succeeding . Furlonge, who will also become Professor of Practice in TC’s Education Leadership Program, is “a master teacher and scholar of education with compelling leadership qualities,” said Andy Klingenstein, President of the . “My family and I could not be more pleased that she has been chosen to direct the Klingenstein Center.”

Kane, Klingenstein Director since 1980, received TC’s President’s Medal of Excellence at a special gala in April, where TC President Susan Fuhrman told her, “You have opened the doors of in-dependent schooling wider and wider 
 and taught that leadership is a behavior, not a title or a position.” Kane will remain on TC’s faculty.

An EPIC Launch

EPIC Launch

TC launched its new in April. EPIC, based at TC and other Columbia University schools, will study failure across a wide variety of disciplines and test theo­ries about how to use it as a catalyst for innovation and success. EPIC is directed by  (below, cen­ter), Professor of Cognitive Studies at TC, who has studied and written extensively about the value of failure in pro­moting learning and suc­cess, and includes Stuart Firestein, Columbia biological sciences pro­fessor. EPIC’s funders are the , led by Hao Lin (below, left); the ; the ; and the. TC also presented its first EPIC Achievement Award to , (below, right) Founder and Honorary Chairman of Foremost Group.

That Thing Called Digital Learning

Digital Learning

The TC , showcasing “the range of how TC people have taken up digital learning,” aired in TC’s Gottesman Libraries’ Smith Learning Theater in April. “People want guidance in what this thing called digital learning could be,” says, Professor of Technology & Education. She and her Media & Social Change Lab collaborated with Steven Goss, Vice Provost for Digital Learning, whose office has created many new online TC offerings.

AERA: A Big Year in TC’s Back Yard

Amy Wells

AT APRIL’S  annual meeting, in New York City, , Professor of Sociology & Education, began her AERA presidency. An authority on the intersection of racial inequality and educational poli­cies, Wells will emphasize “leveraging educa­tional research in a post-truth society.”

Susan Fuhrman, concluding her final year as TC’s President, chaired a featured session, convened by Wells, titled “.”

TC honorees at AERA included:

  • , Associate Professor of English Education; the Revolutionary Mentor Award of AERA’s Critical Educators for Social Justice (CESJ) Special Interest Group.
  • , Assistant Professor of Early Childhood Education; the Emerging Scholar Award from AERA’s Critical Perspectives on Early Childhood Education SIG.
  • Cathlin Goulding (Ed.D. ’17); the Out­standing Dissertation Award from AERA’s Division B.
  • Cati de Los Rios (Ph.D. ’17); Outstanding Dissertation Awards, Hispanic Research Issues SIG and CESJ SIG.
  • , Associate Professor of Economics & Education, and , Assistant Professor of Higher Education, Outstanding Reviewers, AERA Journal Publications Committee.

CAPTION: GRAND TOTAL TC faculty, students, staff and alumni delivered 376 presentations at the annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association

TC Unleashed

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“Unleashing,” a 21-piece art installation honoring the spirit of the late TC philosopher  and her commit­ment to education, social justice and equality, occupied the nooks and crannies of TC’s campus in April and May. The “site-specific, multi-media” exhibition included works by Rafael Lozano-Hemmer, Bernd Oppl, Marion Wilson and Cathy Lebowitz. “Taking our cue from Maxine Greene, ‘Unleashing’ features artists that imagine new prospects and redefines that which is humanly possible,” said, the project director and Associate Professor of Art & Art Education. 

Loud Reports: Headline-Makers from TC

Whither HR; the ABCs of indigenous language politics; youth online creativity and civic engagement

Loud Reports

  • Competition for talent is fierce. So why are business journals pondering the demise of Human Resources? Because as its back-office functions become automated, HR must re-emerge as a strategic partner that tackles business objectives and fields competitive challenges. Writing for The Conference Board,, Professor of Adult Learning & Leadership, TC doctoral stu­dents April Bang and Sherlin Nair, and 
  • is the Americas’ most spoken indigenous language, taught in bilingual schools and used on government radio. But the multiple Kichwa (or Quechua) alphabets, reflecting various state planning efforts, are problematic, writes , TC Assistant Professor of Anthro­pology & Education, in . Simple letter substitutions can diminish understanding, eliminate words and evoke illiteracy’s stigma. “Speakers of minoritized languages must be involved in policy decisions for those languages,” Limerick writes.
  • America talked politics after the U.S. 2016 presidential election. Many youth did so via online creativity platforms (, , ), report TC’s, Assistant Professor of Communication, Media & Learning Technologies Design, and in . Post-election fan fiction, games and animations, and collaborative remixes suggest that youth are using creativity “to express themselves politically and to engage in political dialogue with their peers.” Understanding their efforts is important because youth is when “political socialization” occurs.

In Brief

  • , an interactive app created by 2018 master’s degree graduates Asha Owens, Rebecca Kwee and Danielle Llaneza for 9th-12th graders to query first-generation students about college, won TC’s first student in December.
  • , an Advanced Placement Capstone Course devoted to the forced dispersal of African people world- wide, piloted this year in Medgar Evers Preparatory High School in Brooklyn and Virgil Grissom High in Huntsville, Alabama. It was developed in significant part at ¶¶Òőapp’s Institute for Urban and Minority Education.
  • “Bodily states aren’t just a product of cognition, they cause it as well,” said Edward “Ted” Warburton, TC’s 2018 Julius & Rosa Sachs Lecturer. Warbur­ton, a former dancer who directs the , said “we must teach dance skills as if they are life skills.”
  • “,” the 2018 Comparative & Interna­tional Education Society (CIES) conference, was held in Mexico City in March. Chaired by , Professor of Education, who assumed CIES’ presidency, the meeting drew 3,200 aca­demics, students and education enthusiasts from 117 countries. Among the many highlights: , Assistant Professor of International & Comparative Education, will chair a new Special Interest Group for LGBT and sexual orientation and gender identity education.

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Published Monday, Jun 18, 2018