The Board of Examiners is comprised of seven members, each of whom has participated in NCATE’s extensive review training. While on campus, the examiners will participate in dozens of interviews with current students (candidates), graduated students, full-time and part-time faculty, clinical educators, administrators, staff, and P-12 stakeholders. Information from these interviews will be used to confirm the detailed reports and exhibits that have been developed by faculty, administrators, and staff and submitted to NCATE.

At the end of this visit, a preliminary report will be provided, but the final accreditation decision will not be made until the next NCATE Unit Accreditation Board (UAB) meeting in the spring of 2012.

For additional information on this review, please contact Jan Yates at yates@nova.edu.

The two-day workshop is designed to improve communication skills, decision making, emotional intelligence and overall well being.

For more information, please visit http://www.magerempowerment.com/bootcamp/.

FT. LAUDERDALE-DAVIE, Fla. – Anthropologist Elizabeth Kapu’uwailani Lindsey, Ph.D., will serve as the 2011 undergraduate commencement speaker on Saturday, May 14, 2011, beginning at 11:00 a.m., in the BankAtlantic Center in Sunrise. The commencement ceremony will be held jointly by NSU’s Farquhar College of Arts and Sciences, Abraham S. Fischler School of Education, and H. Wayne Huizenga School of Business and Entrepreneurship.

An award-winning filmmaker and anthropologist, Lindsey travels to the world’s most fragile regions to document and preserve knowledge critical to navigating the complexity of our times. She is also the first female Fellow and Polynesian Explorer in the history of the National Geographic Society. Her documentary film Then There Were None chronicles the near extinction of native Hawaiians. The film has received numerous awards, including the prestigious CINE Eagle.

Raised by native Hawaiian elders, Lindsey earned a Ph.D. in Cultural Anthropology and Polynesian Navigation, specializing in the indigenous practice of Wayfinding, the masterful science of non-instrument navigation. She spent 10 years documenting master navigator Pius “Mau” Piailug who, until his recent death, was considered the greatest wayfinder in the world.

Together with leading institutions and organizations, including Google, UNESCO, and Oxford University, Lindsey is developing a platform of unprecedented social innovation using technology to curate, organize, and broadcast humanity’s cultural heritage.

Lindsey also works with United Nations Ambassadors on behalf of environmental refugees affected by the climate crisis. An active humanitarian and former Miss Hawai’i, she serves on international boards and has created scholarships for women and children in India and Hawai’i.

Each year, the Farquhar College of Arts and Sciences organizes its academic programming around an annual theme. Lindsey will be the last of the distinguished speakers for the year to address the annual theme of “Identity.” For more information on the Distinguished Speakers Series, contact the Office of the Dean at (954) 262-8236.

The NSU community is invited and encouraged to attend as NSU celebrates and honors the achievements of its graduating students. Tickets are not required for admission to the ceremony.

About Nova Southeastern University: Located in Davie, Florida, Nova Southeastern University (NSU) is a dynamic fully accredited Florida University dedicated to providing high-quality educational programs of distinction from preschool through the professional and doctoral levels. NSU has more than 29,000 students and is the seventh largest not-for-profit independent institution nationally. The University awards associate’s, bachelor’s degrees, master’s degrees, specialist, and first-professional degrees in a wide range of fields, including business, counseling, computer and information sciences, education, medicine, optometry, pharmacy, dentistry, various health professions, law, marine sciences, early childhood, psychology and other social sciences.  Classified as a research university with “high research activity” by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, NSU was also awarded Carnegie’s Community Engagement Classification in 2010 for the University’s significant commitment to and demonstration of community engagement.   For more information about NSU visit www.nova.edu.

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Colonel Arthur Athens

NSU’s Abraham S. Fischler School of Education will host its 2011 Graduate School Commencement ceremony on Sunday, June 12 at 4 p.m. at the BankAtlantic Center in Sunrise.

The NSU community is invited to join in recognizing the hard work, dedication and accomplishments of this latest group of more than 700 NSU education graduates from the Fischler School, which is one of the largest schools of education at an accredited university in the United States.

“Commencement celebrates students’ successful completion of their academic programs,” said H. Wells Singleton, Ph.D., Dean of NSU’s Fischler School. “Our school’s alumni become leaders in education and related professions throughout the U.S. and in dozens of other nations, and we are immensely proud of them.”

The school also welcomes as its commencement speaker Colonel Arthur Athens, Director of the U.S. Naval Academy’s Vice Admiral James B. Stockdale Center for Ethical Leadership and a member of the Academy’s Senior Leadership Team.

Athens retired from the Marine Corps in July 2008 with more than 30 years of combined active duty and reserve service.  As a Marine Officer, he commanded units in the 3^rd and 4^th Marine Aircraft Wings, served with the U.S. Space Command and instructed at Marine Aviation Weapons and Tactics Squadron 1.  Additionally, he was a White House Fellow under President Ronald Reagan, the Special Assistant to the NASA Administrator following the Space Shuttle Challenger accident, the Commandant of the United States Merchant Marine Academy, and the Naval Academy’s first Distinguished Military Professor of Leadership.

Athens has also been a volunteer lacrosse coach at the high school and collegiate levels and the Washington Post recognized him as their High School Coach of the Year in 2005.

For more information about Fischler’s commencement ceremony please visit www.fischlerschool.nova.edu/commencement/home.

Anymir Orellana and Rashid Moore

During the Apr. 28 gathering, Fischler School Instructional Technology and Distance Education professor Anymir Orellana, Ed.D., Chair of the Best Practices in Online Learning Committee, welcomed Fischler School TESOL and ESOL professor Rashid Moore, Ph.D., who presented on his work with schools in Chile.

His session was titled “Creating Global Classrooms Through Disruptive Technologies: Skype Me!” and hosted more than 30 participants.

For more information on upcoming Best Practices in Online Learning Committee activities, please contact Orellana at orellana@nova.edu.

Correspondence must be received by NCATE no later than July 22, 2011, which is three months prior to the Oct. 22-26, 2011 visit. Copies of the correspondence will be submitted to the university for response.

NCATE will not consider anonymous comments, and all submissions should specify the writer’s relationship to NSU’s Fischler School, for example: current student, graduate, present or former faculty member, employer of graduates, stakeholder, etc.

Please submit written comments to:

Board of Examiners
NCATE
2010 Massachusetts Avenue NW, Suite 500
Washington, DC 20036-1023

Comments may also be provided to NCATE through e-mail to callforcomments@ncate.org.

Thank you in advance for your support of the NSU Fischler School’s work to improve the quality of its programs through NCATE’s review process. The school looks forward to responding to your input.

Work side-by-side with European-trained artists and arts teachers to create an interdisciplinary arts production during this two-week summer course: International Arts & Culture Infusion (July 24 – August 7, 2011).

This learning adventure has two components: the study of a unique interdisciplinary arts education methodology, and the study of European culture through field trips and on-site experience in and around the beautiful coastal village of Oskarshamn, Sweden. Travel to and within Sweden is relatively easy. You need only a passport (no visa is necessary). Most people in Sweden speak English, and Americans are welcome guests.

This course is available to graduate students (EIA 0600) and to undergraduate students (EDUC 4900) and can be taken for 3 credits (6 credits available by special arrangement with professor). Financial aid will cover the standard tuition costs, and the room and food package is very affordable (lowest rates in Europe).

Participants need not be enrolled in the Interdisciplinary Arts Program, or be a degree-seeking student to take this course. For more information, please contact David Spangler at davids@nova.edu, 954-262-8363, or visit the website at www.schoolofed.nova.edu/iap/studyabroad.htm.

A 21-year tradition, the FYO award is a tribute to Joseph Leavitt, founder of the former Florida Philharmonic Orchestra. Each year, the award is given to an outstanding individual in the community who enhances the cultural climate of South Florida.

Former winners include renowned conductor James Judd (former music director of the Florida Philharmonic Orchestra), Irvin Lippman (Fort Lauderdale Museum of Art), Jim and Jan Moran (J.M. Family Enterprises), and Benjamin Williams (chair, Broward County School Board).

Spangler is founder and president of Lovewell Institute for the Creative Arts, a not-for-profit arts education methodology for creating original educational works in theater, music, dance, design, and video. As an Interdisciplinary Arts administrator and consultant, Spangler has also served in various capacities with the Miami City Ballet, Walt Disney World Entertainment, the Theater League of South Florida, the Arts Advisory Committee for the Broward Public Schools, and was appointed by the Florida Secretary of State to serve as a grant panelist and evaluator for the State Division of Cultural Affairs.

Spangler graduated from Carnegie-Mellon University with postgraduate work at the University of Pittsburgh and Kansas State University and at The Union Institute and University. He has worked professionally in theater, film, and television as a director, writer, composer, and performer.

For tickets and more information, call 954-962-5666 or email fyomusic@gmail.com.

Yseult Charles, left, and Ruth Simmons, President of Brown University

The Haitian-born educational leader has been a staunch supporter of children at risk for the duration of her distinguished career as teacher and administrator in the Miami-Dade County Public Schools district.  Charles, who was educated in Germany and France, holds a dual bachelor’s degree from the Sorbonne and the University of Illinois-Chicago. Her master’s degree is also from the University of Illinois-Chicago. 

Locally, she attended NSU’s Abraham S. Fischler School of Education for certification in educational leadership. 

Before assuming her role at the Juvenile Justice Center School, Charles served as teacher, assistant principal, and principal at seven other elementary, community, and senior high/alternative schools within the Miami-Dade County Public Schools district. 

On hand to greet guests was newly appointed Northeast Florida/Southeast Georgia Alumni Chapter President Steve Mendenhall, B.S., a graduate of NSU’s Fischler School of Education and Human Services.

With both national and degree-based chapters, the NSU Alumni Association hosts various programs around the country that include social, networking, educational, and community service opportunities. To learn more, click here.