Faculty and Staff Achievements, April 10, 2008

Activity

Phylise Banner, instructional technologist, University Without Walls, presented at the NERCOMP event Preparing Faculty to Teach Online, on April 8th in where she spoke about the success of Skidmore's UWW Faculty Pedagogy Workshop.

Robert Shorb, associate dean and director, Student Aid and Family Finance, was a co-presenter for an April 6 Webinar titled "Paying for College and Keeping Your Wallet." Other panelists were Don Betterton of Howard Greene & Associates, former longtime director of financial aid at Princeton University, and Matthew Greene, educational director of Howard Greene & Associates, which produces the "Greenes Guides to Educational Planning" series.

In the News

Sandy Baum, professor of economics, was a source for a story titled "College Isn't Worth a Million Dollars," published April 7 in insiderhighered.com

Mary Lou Bates, dean of admissions and financial aid, was a source for a Newhouse News Service story titled "Letter from College May Not Be the Last Word," which moved on the Newhouse News Service wire April 4.

Mary Zeiss Stange, professor of women's studies and religion, is the author of an opinion essay titled "Obama's believers" published April 7 in USA Today.