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Student ReporterKathleen Regina Boyle

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Staff ContributersRandi Altman

Steve DiBenedettoKaren RothToni Todd

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Christine J. Quinn, Ph.D., has been appointed provost of National-Louis University. Quinn will be joining NLU from the University of Wisconsin-Extension in Madison, Wisconsin, where she currently serves as the provost and vice chancellor. In her role, Quinn oversaw Continuing Education, Outreach and E-Learning, Broadcast and Media Innovation, the Division of Entrepreneurship and Economic Development, and Cooperative Extension. She has secured millions in grant funds from federal, state and local governments, community and university system partners in efforts to support growth of institutional capacity. Additionally, she worked to expand access to online learning through the development of online programs, as well as outreach to place bound learners, led a cross-divisional sustainability initiative, which was designed to provide ongoing innovation during difficult economic times, and expanded institutional resources to address evolving needs of the state and beyond.

Quinn has also held multiple positions at Winona State University in Rochester, Minnesota, including associate vice

president for Academic Affairs, dean of the Library and director of the Center for Integrated Health Science Education and Practice. She has previously held positions at the University of Wisconsin-Stout, New Mexico State University and the University of Minnesota. Quinn was a member of the Boards of Directors for Wisconsin Women in Higher Education Leadership, the National Outreach Scholarship Conference, the Olmstead Medical Center Foundation and the National Association of Branch Campus Administrators, where she also served a term as president.

She has presented at national and international conferences including the National Outreach Scholarship Conference, the Higher Learning Commission, the National Association of Branch Campus Administrators Annual Conference and various state and regional conferences f o r higher education, continuing education and tourism. She holds a B.S. and M.S. from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and a Ph.D. in Education from the University of Minnesota.

Quinn will be joining National-Louis University on February 1, 2011. "I am confident that Christine will be a key member of University leadership and will channel the rich history of the University into an exciting future," says NLU President Nivine Megahed, Ph.D., about the appointment. "Please join me in extending Christine a warm welcome when she arrives."

Christine J. Quinn, Ph.D., Appointed Provost

Commencement 2011

Have you seen the NLU 125 year history video? Find it on Youtube now! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VCBwzXpmGq8

National-Louis University 125 Years Video

Herff-Jones will be on campus for cap and gown fitting on these dates:

Tues. Mar 8, 4pm-7pm, Chicago Rm TBA

Thurs. Mar 10, 4pm-7pm, Lisle Main Lobby

Wed. Mar 16, 4pm-7pm, Skokie 3rd Floor Lobby

Thurs. Mar 17, 4pm-7pm, Wheeling Main Lobby

Tues. April 12, 4pm-7pm, Elgin Main Lobby

Wed. April 13, 4pm-7pm, Chicago Rm TBA

NEWS FLASH UNIVERSITY NEWS

It’s FAFSA TimeNow that 2011 has arrived, one item to put on your ‘to do’ list is to complete your 2011-2012 Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA). All students planning on attending classes beginning in the summer should complete the FAFSA as soon as possible. Completing the FAFSA allows students to qualify for all types of Federal student aid as well as some State financial aid such as the Illinois Monetary Award Program Grant (MAP).

If you’re an undergraduate, completing the FAFSA may make you eligible for the Pell grant in addition to many other federal programs like the Federal Supplemental Educational Opportunity Grant (SEOG), the Teacher Education

Assistance for College and Higher Education (TEACH) Grant as well as federal student loans. Undergraduates that have received MAP funding from the State of Illinois should once again complete the FAFSA. The Illinois Student Assistant Commission (ISAC) uses FAFSA completion dates to determine MAP eligibility so the sooner you complete the FAFSA the better the chances of receiving MAP funds. The State legislators determine the amount of MAP funding and we do not know yet how much the State legislators are going to budget but you need to do your part by completing the FAFSA.

All graduate students must complete the FAFSA in order to qualify for Federal student loans such as Stafford and PLUS loans. Graduate students in Education may also qualify for

NLU is pleased to announce that applications are now being accepted for the Diversifying Higher Education Faculty in Illinois Program (DFI) Fellowship. DFI is offered through the Illinois Board of Higher Education and serves as a program of financial assistance by encouraging minority students to enroll and complete academic programs at the post baccalaureate level. The focus of the Fellowship is to enhance the diversity of faculty and staff of Illinois institutions of higher education. To access the DFI application, go to the following link: http://www.ibhe.org/DFI/application.htm. NOTE: New applicants must obtain a special access code to complete their online eligibility check. The special access code is DFI2012. Once you’ve completed this process, if you qualify to apply, you will be provided with the “Intent to Apply/Eligibility Determination” form which you will need to print and

complete. The following documents constitute a complete application:

· DFI applications will not be accepted without an online registration that checks for initial eligibility. Please send your “Intent to Apply/Eligibility Determination”

registration sheet with your application.· Official acceptance letter received from NLU Office of Admissions (for the degree program for which funding is being sought).· Completed Application form. All questions on the application form pertain to the degree program for which funding is being sought, unless otherwise

Diversifying Higher Education Faculty in Illinois Program (DFI) Fellowship

indicated.· Completed Financial Form and Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA)· The Professional Goals Statement· The Statement of Underrepresented Status· Three letters of recommendation

· Only official transcripts (no copies). Have all transcripts sent directly to: National-Louis University, 1000 Capitol Dr., Wheeling, IL 60090, ATTN: Office of Student Finance, DFI Representative· Standardized test scores (if required for degree program for which funding is being sought)

If any of the applicable information is missing, the office will not be able to certify the application for DFI consideration. The most important date to remember is February 15, 2011. That is the date all of the above application materials must be submitted to the Office of Student Finance. Materials can be mailed to: National-Louis University, 1000 Capitol Dr., Wheeling, IL 60090, ATTN: Office of Student Finance, DFI Representative; dropped off at your local campus at the Student Finance/Student Service counter; or sent via inter-campus mail to the Wheeling campus. Once received, the office will review applications for submission to the Illinois Board of Higher Education. If any additional information is needed, the office will contact applicants immediately. Contact the DFI Institutional Representative at 847.947.5228 for more information.

the TEACH Grant but they must first complete the FAFSA.

It is encouraged to complete your FAFSA in January. You can do so even

if you have not yet completed your taxes. You can estimate your income and then submit your corrected income once you have completed your taxes. So don’t delay, and remember when completing the FAFSA, students should always use the NLU school code of 001733.

If you have any questions about your FAFSA contact the Office of Student Finance at (800)443-5522, extension 5350 / (847)465-5350 or StudentFinance@nl.edu. Learn more about Student Finance at www.nl.edu/studentfiance.

CENTERPIECE

Some of the most disturbing news footage I have watched came out of the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. I watched for days as a thriving, bustling, historic city, was murdered and its body left to decay in the streets for the world to watch. Although I was tucked away safely in my home in Chicago, I could smell the stench of death, and feel the despair and the festering mess that became New Orleans. It was a city I had never seen in person, only in pictures, movies clips, and festive songs. Yet, I realized that New Orleans, the one that had inspired so many singers, song writers and artists, had changed forever. I saw a tragedy unfold on live television and felt so powerless. I watched as children walked around aimlessly, or sat next to their parents who looked confused and scared. These children could have been my students, I thought, yet I could not protect them, teach, or help them. It seemed no one could help these children as their parents lay dying in the streets and they were left to fend for themselves. I committed then and there to be a part of efforts to rebuild the city. However, at the time I had no idea when or how that would be possible.

I heard about the NLU’s Partnerships with NOLA Schools Service- Learning Project through my NLU email account. Students and educators from National-Louis University were going to New Orleans to volunteer at several charter

schools that had opened after Katrina. All the classrooms in each school needed prep to open for the start of the school year one month later in mid-August. It was finally my chance to help a city I saw decimated by natural disaster. Furthermore, I was just wrapping up my first year as a teacher, and was interested to see how other more experienced teachers prepared for the first day of school. I couldn’t wait to get involved, and contacted Karen Roth, the trip organizer, the day I received the email.

When I left for the NOLA service-learning trip that July, thoughts of sympathy and pity were still at the forefront of my mind. Although almost four years had passed since the hurricane, my mind was still frozen in time to the day I saw the Crescent City totally submerged in water. Yet, when

I visited Kipp Central City Academy I realized pity was the last thing needed. The school staff was amazingly energetic and positive. The teachers were working overtime several weeks before school had even started in an effort to get their classrooms ready for new students. I never heard anyone complain about work, the long hours, or the heat. The expectations of the students were very high, and all the teachers were working in tandem to

ensure the year would be a success. Seeing Kipp Academy grow and thrive in an urban community that resembled my own was beyond inspiring. I came home with a renewed sense of hope about my own school district. I realized a successful school is the result of having a hard working, dedicated, and extremely motivated staff.

My work with Kipp School in New Orleans has impacted my teaching in many ways.

I was able to talk to several teachers about how to teach sight words, and received some great ideas for classroom management. Meeting teachers from a different school district was a great way to share thoughts on the curriculum and discuss ideas for instruction. I met talented teachers while I was there, and am hoping to collaborate with a few of them on a technology project for my school later this year. It was so helpful to see how

teachers set up their classrooms at the beginning of the year, and all the planning and preparation that goes into the first day of school. Every year I attend I take away something different from the NOLA trip. Each trip has its own challenges and adventures and I am able to walk away each time with a new idea to try out and a funny story to share.

KIPP Central City Academy has many thought provoking quotations hanging on the walls, but none has affected me as much as the one that said “Be the change you want to see in the world.” I have really taken this thought to heart. During my time in New Orleans I realized that the people of New Orleans do not need anyone’s pity or sympathy. What they need is helping hands, advocate s of change and people who can take the humidity.

I share my experiences at KIPP CCA with as many people as I can because that is a small way I can be the

Service Learning – No Shortcuts, No Excusesby: Kathleen Regina Boyle

Boyle in action

“Every year I attend, I take away something different from the NLA trip.”

CENTERPIECE advocate of change. It inspires others to know that while New Orleans is still rebuilding in many ways, the city is a far cry from the flooded ruins it was after the hurricane. New Orleans is just like the Phoenix that is destined to rise from the ashes. The story of New Orleans is no longer a tragedy, but moreover a tale of hope and inspiration. The city has come together as a stronger more cohesive unit. The efforts that went in to rebuilding the education system in NOLA has really helped breathe live back into the city. The NOLA schools were once failing and had some of the biggest learning deficits in the country, but now several new charter schools like Kipp have opened and have made large gains yearly since their inception. I believe the same triumphant educational progress can be made

right here in the Chicago Public School System and I have seen the effects of that positive change already at my own school.

New Orleans is a place where hope resides, and is palpable to all those who come to visit. I share the message of hope and go back to NOLA to help make the dreams of rebuilding an unquestionable reality. The NOLA service-learning trip has impacted my life and my teaching more than any other experience I have had. I have learned that as a teacher I am part of a proud community of professionals who are committed to the education of children no matter the circumstances. The faculty at KIPP CCA has shown me that with a positive attitude, and tireless work ethic, great things are July 2010 SERVICE Team. Check out the summer trip blogs from 2007-2010 at

http://www.nlunola2010.blogspot.com.

possible. I believe now that our public school system though seemingly flawed and broken, can be rebuilt

better and stronger, just like the city of New Orleans, one school at a time.

Chicago will welcome over 500 scholars and students to the 11th annual International Association for Research in Service-Learning and Civic Engagement (IARSLaCE). National-Louis University is excited to sponsor this prestigious event that will focus on Research for Impact: Scholarship Advancing Social Change. Hosting with DePaul, Loyola University, Columbia College and Illinois Campus Compact, the event will run from November 2-4, 2011 at the city’s historic Palmer House.

As the conference news blurbs emphasize, service-learning and community engagement have evolved locally, regionally, nationally, and internationally as a method of teaching and learning. Supporting the annual IARSLCE conference in Chicago provides NLU an opportunity to highlight

its many years of research in the field, and 125 year history to service in the Chicago-land area.

Service is not new to the students of NLU. Founder and first president Dr. Elizabeth Harrison believed “to serve is to live.”

“One of the chief joys of my life has been to watch the sweep forward from the idea of education as a formal acquisition of material facts and philosophic theories, to the more vital work of creative activity and the significance of community responsibility,” Elizabeth Harrison said in her 1930 autobiography Sketches along Life’s Road.

As a close friend of Jane Addams; a leader in social welfare reform, co-founder of Hull House, and caregiver to thousands of destitute immigrants settling in this city in the early 1900’s, Harrison encouraged students from the National Kindergarten College to provide assistance to the mothers and children at Hull House. NLU’s

partnership with Hull House lasted many years even when the College expanded and moved north to the city of Evanston in 1926.

At the height of the nursery school movement in 1925, President Harrison chose NLU alumna Edna Dean Baker as her successor. Harrison knew that Baker understood all too well the importance of early intervention services for young children. Baker was well aware of the McMillian sisters of London, England who ran a nursery school for needy children post World War I. The nursery school provided nutritious meals, training in good hygiene, and a place for children to grow socially and emotionally. It was that model pioneers like Harrison, Adams and Baker worked to proliferate.

Baker and Addams knew that young children from low-income families

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needed more. Baker encouraged Addams to approach the owner of the building where the nursery program was run. Baker knew that the building had been donated with the purpose of serving welfare families in Chicago. Together they were able to convince Richard Teller Crane to donate the building to the College, in memory of his wife, establishing Mary Crane Nursery School in 1925.

In Pioneers in Education: NLU’s first 100 years, Mary Crane Nursery School is described as a “pioneering effort to create a modern nursery school and parent education program in an

underprivileged neighborhood of a big American city.” As Baker

recalled in her memoir, “In the Hull House neighborhood at that time the children came in very poor, and with dirty clothing. Most of them were not bathed properly at home and the most fundamental habits relating to hygiene of eating, sleeping, elimination and body cleanliness had not been taught to them.”

From the beginning, students and alumni from NLU’s National College of Education (NCE) were a major part of the growth of the school. Its first director, Nina M. Kenagy was a member of the 1910 and 1925 graduating class. Her assistant, Muriel Curtis, graduated with Kenagy in 1925. Classroom teachers

By TIMOTHY WILLIAMSPublished: December 29, 2010 in New York Times edition A26

Geraldine Hoff Doyle, who was believed to be the unwitting model for the “We Can Do It!” poster of a woman flexing her biceps in a factory during World War II — an image that later became a symbol for the American feminist movement — died on Sunday, December 26, 2010 in Lansing, Mich. She was 86.

The cause was complications of arthritis, said her daughter Stephanie Gregg.

Mrs. Doyle was unaware of the poster’s existence until 1982, when, while thumbing through a magazine, she

saw a photograph of it and recognized herself. Her daughter said that the face on the poster was her mother’s, but that the muscles were not.

“She didn’t have big, muscular arms,” Mrs. Gregg said. “She was 5-foot-10 and very slender. She was a glamour girl. The arched eyebrows, the beautiful lips, the shape of the face — that’s her.”

In 1942, when she was 17, Geraldine Hoff took a job as a metal presser at a factory near her home in Inkster, Mich., near Detroit, to aid the war effort, Mrs. Gregg said. One day, a United Press photographer came in to shoot images of working women.

The resulting poster, designed by the graphic artist J.Howard Miller, was used in a Westinghouse Company campaign to deter strikes and absenteeism. It was not widely seen until the early 1980s,

Geraldine Doyle, Iconic Face of World War II, Dies at 86

when it was embraced by feminists.

She quit the factory job after about two weeks because she learned that another woman had damaged her hands while using the metal presser, and she feared that such an injury

at the nursery school were National undergraduate students.

During WW II, major colleges and universities with nursery school and kindergarten education programs contributed to the war efforts by training volunteers to assist in the care of thousands of children while their mothers were employed in war related efforts. Mary Crane Nursery trained hundreds of volunteer child-care assistants with the help of students from the college. Mary Crane remained the site for student community service for many years. Members of the class of 1980 fondly recall clocking hours of service at Mary Crane School.

It is based on this history that NLU continues to play a significant role

in developing students for civic engagement through the integration of service-learning experiences in its coursework and programs. The Civic Engagement Center, as part of the Student Affairs office, offers opportunities for students to particpate in service work through the diverse partnerships it has established from Chicago to New Orleans. To learn more about these opportunities or taking a service-learning class, visit the CEC website at www.nl.edu/cec and email your Student Volunteer Intake Profile to civicengagement@nl.edu.

would prevent her from playing the cello, her daughter said.

At one of her next jobs, at a soda fountain, she met her husband, Leo H. Doyle, a dental student. They had been married for 66 years when he died this year.

In addition to Mrs. Gregg, she is survived by four other children, 18 grandchildren and 25 great-grandchildren.

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The decade passes and in its wake,We’ve seen calamity, crises, predicament, and earthquake!The decade began with a 911,A tragic and true disaster phenom!

Buildings deconstructed in a moment’s time, Survivors clung to a fragile lifeline.

We sat in our homes, warm and secure,Watching as though this was something obscure!

Forever changed in those moments of awe, We witnessed the violation of human law!

The images of suffering flashed in our minds,

Unable to retrieve, reboot or rewind.

Human technology failed to measure the risk,The danger was imminent, but eluded the brisk!

The aftermath meant no security or protection, We walked hand in hand in quiet reflection.

Forever changed by deception and treason, Only sustained by belief in journey

and reason!

As the death toll continued to mount and grow, Millions were faced with a harrowing toll.

‘How can this be’, we wondered aloud, But continued to survive in a mirage and a shroud!

Our questioning failed to provide us insight, But in our quest for meaning we put up a fight!

Philosophers, scholars, and clerics alike, Tried to make meaning before the next strike.

Hemispheres transcended by a need to explain, The east and the west seemed to be on one plane.

Suffering considered in the eastern way, Meant not separating it from the norm of the day.

Imperfect language is our chosen leaning, It is truly a western way to make meaning.

Epistemological differences finally aside, Brothers and sisters….had a need to survive!

Belief systems divided in ordinary

A New Year, A New Decade days, Surrendered to the calamity of extreme human ways!

Then, overwhelmed by the sweeping and natural,Those in NOLA experienced disaster!

This time, not of human doing, But, ruthless and powerless in

its relentless looming!

It pushed and provoked the almighty gods, And when it was over, left a wake in its odds!

Rebuilding, constructing, creating from scratch, The human spirit was more than a match!

Mother nature created sweeping reform, But not all these events were natural, or norm.

Hurricanes, tsunamis, oil spills, and floods, Coastlines destroyed by those unwielding plugs!

Birds, fish, and plants couldn’t survive, Victims of big business that will continue to thrive!

AND, we watched in disbelief to the footage from afar, When pictures of genocide were sent from Darfur!

Starvation exchanged for ideological

belief, An unthinkable methodology, there is

no relief!

Less fatal events are also noteworthy, Stock market collapse, and Madoff’s new journey!

Banks made decisions based on personal greed, Some used thinking that didn’t succeed!

A list of events both profound and real, Would be remiss in omitting Obama’s “new deal”!

Some might not like it, some curse the day,

But, most of us realize history was made in this way!

Congress has fought time and again, But, health care legislation will finally ascend!

Technology and energy continue to zoom, A new decade will bring even more of a boon!

I look forward to seeing you in a new year, When perhaps our humanity will have less to bear!

And, finally, for those of you looking ahead, A heartfelt wish for you to stay in good stead!

With love and best wishes, Randi AltmanDirector of Student Counseling