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Week of 15 January 1999 |
Vol. II, No. 19 |
Bulletin
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Charles White, SED associate professor of education, will assume the presidency of the Social Science Education Consortium this fall. Founded in 1965, the SSEC is a Boulder, Co.-based organization committed to providing leadership for social science education, promoting a larger role for the social sciences in education, and closing the gap between frontier thinking in the social sciences and educational practice.
White's one-year tenure as president of the SSEC will be preceded by a term as vice president and followed by a term as past president. While heading the organization, his responsibilities will include planning and oversight of a major gathering, the SSEC 2000 conference, in Woods Hole, Mass.
White was elected to the SSEC in 1995 and to its board of directors in 1997. Members are chosen through an internal nomination process, and membership is limited to 150 scholars, most of whom are senior social science and social science education faculty at major institutions. White says he is honored to have received such literal votes of confidence from his distinguished colleagues.
"The consortium includes people whose work I studied as a doctoral student," he says. "Even to be among them is quite a treat."
Maureen Hurley, former director of Orientation and Off Campus Services, was named the National Orientation Directors Association (NODA) Outstanding Orientation Professional during October 1998 at the NODA national conference in Austin, Texas. She is now director of Special Programs for the BU London program. The award was conferred by the NODA board of directors, based on nominations from among 1,300 members in the United States and Canada.