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Teacher shortage? What teacher shortage?
School officials may be racing to find warm bodies to teach their students, but according to Richard Ingersoll, all of this running around may be for naught. The associate professor of education and sociology said that contrary to conventional wisdom, there really is no teaching shortage. “The problem isn’t so much that we’re making too few teachers,” said Ingersoll. “More than enough teachers are produced each year, from schools of education and whatnot. Rather, the problem is there are too many teachers prematurely leaving.”
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’ body of work
As we mentioned in our last issue (“Upcoming,” Current, Jan. 16), Terry Adkins’ current Arthur Ross Gallery show, “Darkwater,” is billed as “a recital in four dominions”—sculpture, prints, documents and music. Two of those dominions meet on Thursday, Feb. 6, when Washington-based performance artist Sherman Fleming joins the Lone Wolf Recital Corps for “Titan,” a musical/human-sculptural tribute to the life and work of W.E.B. DuBois at the Institute for Contemporary Art.
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Home sweet home A recent $6 million gift from the Barra Foundation and Robert L. McNeil Jr. is making a permanent home possible for the McNeil Center for Early American Studies. The new building will be located on 34th Street near Walnut. The grant will also be used to provide a permanent endowment for the building’s operational costs. Founded in 1978 by Richard S. Dunn, emeritus professor of American history, the McNeil Center specializes in the histories and cultures of North America.
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“This isn’t brain surgery. It’s harder.”
—Richard Gelles, interim dean of the School of Social Work, on the difficult decisions social services caseworkers must make when determining a family’s fate (The Miami Herald, Jan. 5)
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New year, new you (or not)
With the new year also come those dreaded resolutions. Seems like almost everyone wants the same things—a smaller waistline and less stress. But don’t count on everyone to have a list. Some staffers are happy with themselves just the way they are. SARA REB Research Assistant, Women’s Studies “My new year’s resolutions are to finish my dissertation and find a non-academic job, and buy an apartment. I am still on the right path.”
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Award for a small-scale pioneer
Dawn Bonnell has won the American Ceramic Society’s Ross Coffin Purdy Award for her pioneering work on scanning impedance microscopy, a technique that is used to measure the properties, in particular electromagnetic properties, of nanostructures like molecular wires and nanotubes. Bonell is Trustee Professor of Materials Science and Director of the Center for Science and Engineering of Nanoscale Systems.
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Close encounters with art
At the ICA they know how to throw a great party. The Institute for Contemporary Art, Penn’s showcase for the works of living artists, opened its doors one winter night (Jan. 17), inviting all to a free sneak preview of four of its latest exhibitions.
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Masch joins cabinet
Gov. Ed Rendell (C’65) has tapped Mike Masch, vice president for budget and management analysis, to be his chief number-cruncher again. Masch served as then-Mayor Ed Rendell’s budget director during Rendell’s first term at Philadelphia City Hall. As of Jan. 20, he is doing the same thing for Rendell in Harrisburg, serving as budget secretary in the new administration. In addition to serving as Penn’s budget director for the past six years, Masch sat on the city’s School Reform Commission.
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BEN Buys, and West Philly benefits
When the Penn Marketplace opened its doors for business on the Web one year ago, it made it easier for those who buy goods and services for Penn to find and order the products they need. It brought all of Penn’s approved suppliers together in one location, allowing purchasers to peruse catalogs custom-tailored for the University and containing over 550,000 items. The Penn Marketplace has also made it easier for minority-owned and West Philadelphia-based businesses to garner a larger share of Penn’s purchasing dollars.
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“The Darkest Day: The Washington-Baltimore Campaign During the War of 1812”
In the first two years of the War of 1812, the young American nation suffered setbacks at the hands of its British foe, but the most humiliating defeat occurred in August 1814, when the British navy sailed up the Potomac and landed troops near the city of Washington. The British routed the Americans at the battle of Bladensburg on the city’s outskirts and then proceeded to sack Washington, burning the White House and Capitol building, and forcing President Madison and other politicians to flee.