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Rika Jobert and Jean van Rooyen, scholars at the University of Pretoria,  will be visiting the department and the College during the week of Oct. 19. Rika and Jean work in the Department of Education Management and Policy Studies and study educational law and finance, respectively, in South African education.

The University Council for Educational Administration is going to interview Dr. Tricia Browne-Ferrigno on Oct. 9 on her work with university-district partnerships.

Current EDL student, and COE alum, Beth Randolph was named the 2009 History Teacher of the Year by the Kentucky Historical Society. Beth is a teacher at the School for the Creative and Performing Arts in Fayette County. She is in the running for National History Teacher of the Year ... good luck Beth and thanks for being such a great teacher for Kentucky's kids.

Here is the press release from the Historical Society and here is the COE news story.

Mika Risku will be joining the Department of Educational Leadership Studies in the fall as our Practitioner-Scholar in Residence. Mika is currently the Associate Director of the Institute for Educational Leadership at the University of Jyväskylä in Finland and before that he was a middle school principal.

The Department of Educational Leadership Studies is proud to announce the hiring of 2 new assistant professors and a full professor who will also serve as Dean of the College. 

The New Student Orientation meetings for the new principal and Ed.D. cohorts are as follows:

New Principal Orientation:
Aug. 19 - 5:00-7:00
109 Dickey Hall, Lexington, KY 40506-0017

New Ed.D. Candidate Orientation:
Aug. 22 - 9:30-12:00
109 Dickey Hall, Lexington, KY 40506-0017

We are looking forward to seeing all of our new students there!