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As expressed by Daniel Fallon,chair of the education division atCarnegie Corporation, “The keyconcern with the matching funds isinstitutional commitment to thelong-term success of the program.A useful concept in this respect issustainability. We are asking fortruly fundamental restructuring, andwe expect the changes to be builtinto the fabric of the institution

in ways that will long outlive theexpiration of resources provided bythe funders of TNE.”

“Part of the reason MSU was chosen is because our commitment topreparing teachers well, particularly intheir subject areas, extends across theuniversity, “ said Joan Ferrini-Mundy,associate dean for science and mathe-matics education in the College ofNatural Science, and a co-principal

reparing students forcareers as K-12 teachershas long been a keycommitment at

Michigan State University. In 2002,MSU took yet another major stepforward when it became part of theCarnegie Corporation of New York’sgroundbreaking reform initiative—Teachers for a New Era (TNE).

Of the nearly 1,400 Americanuniversities that prepare teachers,only MSU, Bank Street College ofEducation in New York, CaliforniaState University at Northridge, andthe University of Virginia wereasked to be part of this multimilliondollar project in its first year.

In announcing the selection ofthe four institutions, CarnegiePresident Vartan Gregorian said,“Teaching reform is central toschool reform, and these institutionsare pioneers in the movement. Ifwe really want to improve studentachievement, we have no choice but to improve teaching.”

As part of the project, MSU willreceive $5 million over five years toestablish a model for preparing high-quality teachers to meet the demandsof the contemporary American

classroom. The Carnegie Corporationis joined in funding this program bythe Ford, Annenberg andRockefeller foundations.The university must raise an additional $5 million in matching donations to further the project activities.

“MSU’s national promi-nence in teacher educationreform, its reputation forcross-college collaborationand its outreach into com-munity schools gave it adistinct edge in the compe-tition,” said Barbara Steidle,assistant provost and projectmanager. “Designed as aCarnegie venture, the Teachers for aNew Era project attracted additionalfoundation support, thus providingthe funding for four institutions.”

The goal for TNE is to establishnationally recognized exemplars ofoutstanding teacher preparation.Carnegie expects that the success of MSU and the other institutions,their graduates and the research produced in the coming years willchallenge other universities to followthese ideas.

MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITYAND THE CARNEGIECORPORATION’STEACHERS FOR A NEW ERA

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MSU intern David Kirkland works with astudent at Pattengill Middle School inLansing, Michigan

• overhaul of education courseworkand teacher education field experi-ences, both in subject matter andteaching methods so that contentand context are central;

• development of a new two-yearinduction program for beginningMSU teachers;

• creation of a new MSU focus onpreparing teachers for urbanschools and educating more teachersfrom groups underrepresented inthe teaching profession; and

• use of assessments to strengthen theentire MSU teacher education pro-gram and evaluate its effectiveness.

Michigan State University’shighly regarded teacher preparationprogram has been a leader in thereform and development of teachereducation for nearly 30 years.MSU has been a frontrunner as anadvocate of extended field experi-ence in schools for MSU studentsand strong content preparation ofteachers. MSU’s program has led the country in building deep con-nections with K-12 schools, as wellas implementing a successful fifth-year internship program for newteachers. Through the Teachers for aNew Era initiative, MSU will helplead the way into a new era of modeling teacher education as auniversity-wide responsibility.

“This is part of becoming notonly an outstanding program, but arecognizably outstanding program,”said Robert Floden, director of theInstitute for Research on Teachingand Learning and co-principalinvestigator of the project. “We haveto study what we are doing as we aredoing it, we have to write about it,and make connections to otherteacher education programs in thestate or elsewhere and to school districts. We will get the word out.”

investigator. “The faculty leadershipteam includes people from the colleges of Education, NaturalScience, Arts and Letters, and SocialScience. We will build on ourstrengths and become a nationalmodel for how teacher education can be taken seriously across the arts,letters, science and social science.”

The funders are counting onleadership from the presidents ofsupported institutions that elevatesthe role and importance of theteacher education enterprise withinthe university community, saidFerrini-Mundy.

THE MSU VISION The TNE initiative treats teacher

education as a university-wideresponsibility, involving the collegesof Natural Science, Arts and Letters,and Social Science in addition to theCollege of Education. A uniqueaspect of MSU’s approach is a focuson the kinds of subject matter

knowledge would-be teachers needto improve student learning. Planscall for revising or creating coursesand developing new coalitions ofuniversity and K-12 school faculty.

Another key emphasis involvesan understanding of context: thecharacteristics of the students, theschools, and the communities inwhich they teach.

Assessment is pivotal to allaspects of the MSU initiative. Theproject is committed to identifyingor developing assessment tools andpromoting their use in continualprogram improvement and in tracking student progress. Anotherimportant goal is to have graduatesuse assessment tools as an integralpart of their teaching to support student learning.

To provide continuing supportand promote the continuing profes-sional development of MSU-trainedteachers, a new induction programwill be available to graduates in thefirst two years of their careers.

After five years, MSU expectsthat its university-wide teacher education program will be preparingteachers who are more knowledge-able and skilled in their subjectareas, better able to teach their subject to diverse learners, and more proficient in using assessmentinformation to guide their teaching.MSU expects its experiences andresults will serve as a model ofteacher education reform for otherprograms and institutions.

MSU’s Teachers for a New Eraproject will lead to changes in fiveareas of teacher preparation:• design of new content courses in

English, mathematics, the socialsciences and the sciences that arewell integrated with educationcourses on teacher preparation andstudent learning;

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CAMPAIGN GOAL: $1.2 BILLIONSTATUS TO GOAL: $696.8 MILLION

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or the second year in a row,The Guido A. & ElizabethH. Binda Foundation has

given $5,000 to help Michigan StateUniversity students from the BattleCreek/Calhoun County area partici-pate in the nation’s leading StudyAbroad program.

Binda Scholarships are awarded inthe amount of $1,000 to help defraythe costs of overseas study. During2001-2002, the first group of fiveBinda Scholars deepened their educa-tional experience with programs suchas Food, Environment and SocialSystems in Australia (two scholars);English Literature in Dublin, Ireland;Journalism in the United Kingdom;and Tropical Ecology and Manage-ment in the Bahamas. Three scholar-ships have been awarded this year toMSU students who will participate inMedical Ethics and the History ofHealth Care in London; Globalization,the Environment and Social Capitalin Argentina; and International FoodLaws in Europe (Belgium). The

remaining two Binda Scholarshipswill be awarded later this year.Scholarship recipients must display astrong academic record and effectivelyarticulate the personal and professionalgoals they will pursue during theirsemester abroad.

“The Binda Foundation gift is an excellent example of how a small private foundation can meet its owngoals of serving its local communitythrough educational and culturalenrichment by designating the scholarships for students from BattleCreek and Calhoun County,” saidKathleen Fairfax, director of theOffice of Study Abroad. “Addition-ally, the gift helps us pursue a universitygoal of making study abroad accessiblefor all qualified undergraduates.”

In 1995, MSU President PeterMcPherson announced an initiativeto offer every qualified undergraduatestudent an opportunity to studyabroad for a semester at a cost comparable to that of remaining on campus. Since that unprecedented

announcement, Michigan StateUniversity has more than doubled thenumber of students participating instudy abroad and now has almost 200programs in more than 50 countrieson all seven continents.

Private sponsorship of StudyAbroad is particularly beneficial atMSU, where the majority of studentscome from families of modest meansand most work during the semester tomeet educational and living expenses.The loss of wages during a StudyAbroad experience is a factor thatdeters many MSU students fromgaining the benefits of internationalstudy, despite the university’s effortsto keep costs down. For these hard-working students, a scholarship of$500 to $1,000 makes the differencein their ability to spend a semesteroverseas.

Established in 1977 by Guido A.Binda, AIA, an architect specializingin school design, and his wife,Elizabeth, a teacher, The Guido A.and Elizabeth H. Binda Foundationshares and invests its resources in creative programs that improve education and quality of life for areasof southwestern Michigan.

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MSU hosts Big Three to celebrate MSU hosts Big

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n April 29, 2003, in the first gathering of itskind, members from

throughout the American automotiveindustry united to commemorate thelongstanding partnership of theindustry and Michigan StateUniversity.

More than 700 MSU alumni and friends from DaimlerChryslerCorporation, the Ford MotorCompany, General MotorsCorporation and the top tier ofautomotive suppliers joined MSUInterim President and Provost LouAnna K. Simon, Trustee DoloresCook, college deans, faculty, staffand coaches at the

Marriott Centerpointe in Pontiac, Michigan tocelebrate A New Centuryof Partnership/TheAutomotive Industry and MSU.

The successful partnershipbetween MSU and the automotiveindustry is vital to forwarding

MSU’s legacy of innovationand accomplishment.Research by MSU facultydrives innovations in engi-neering, management andrelated disciplines. MSUstudents engage in course-work designed to equipthem with practical skillsand knowledge of emergingindustry trends. The auto-motive industry, in turn,supports the university’sefforts with funding, accessto technology and insightinto the latest developments.

Highlights of the celebrationwere the presentations by leaders of the industry—Nick Scheele,President and COO of Ford MotorCompany, Dieter Zetsche, Presidentand CEO of Chrysler Group ofDaimlerChrysler, and RickWagoner, President and CEO ofGeneral Motors Corporation. (see

excerpts from their addresses)

MSU administrators and guests whospoke included Board of Trusteesmember Dolores Cook; InterimPresident and Provost Lou Anna K.Simon; College of EngineeringDean Janie Fouke; College ofEngineering student MaiaBroadway; Eli Broad College ofBusiness Dean Robert Duncan;Business alumnus Spencer White;and Coaches Joanne P. McCallie,John L. Smith and Tom Izzo.

Industry representatives alsoincluded Lynn C. Myersof General Motors

Corporation, national co-chair for The Campaign

for MSU; Jon Pepper, FordMotor Company; Sue Unger,

DaimlerChrysler; and DaveCosper, Ford Motor Company.

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Guests talked with speakers after the program.

Guests posed with MSU engineering students who helped design and construct

a formula-style race car.

MSU AlumniAssociation Director Keith

Williams (left) posed with guests after the program.

strong partnershipThree to celebrate strong partnership

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The Chrysler group has longbeen a supporter of MichiganState University. In our executiveranks, for example, Michigan Stategraduates represent one of ourthree largest alumni groups.

The MSU executive MBA pro-gram has long provided an excellentgraduate business education forour high potential mid-careerexecutives.

Our challenge fund projects,including recent examples, such asour engine cooling fan system noiseand performance enhancements,help us develop cutting-edge technology.

Michigan State’s recent ranking,the top ten of all American univer-sities in receiving U.S. patents, is areflection of your university’s dedi-cation to research and innovation.

Partnerships between the autoindustry and leading universitieshave always been essential. We relyon top institutions like MSU toprovide us with the educated talentwe need to run our companies andfor the incubation of ideas, newtechnologies and new approachesto business. And, in turn, universi-ties rely on industry and alumnifor their continued support.

EXCERPTS FROM PRESENTATIONS BY THE HEADS OF THE CHRYSLER GROUP, FORD AND GM

Address by Dieter Zetsche,President and CEO of the Chrysler Group,DaimlerChrysler Corporation

Our industry is pretty competi-tive and getting more so every day.To win, we need to attract the bestand brightest young people towork in our companies.

All good coaches will tell youone of the secrets to ongoing success lies, not only in the playersyou can suit up today, but alsowith the ones you can recruit fortomorrow. The same is true in theauto business. One way to makethat happen is to support one ofour major home-team universities,Michigan State, and the programsthey sponsor in support of ourindustry.

Over the years, we’ve providedMSU with more than $18 millionin financial support while ourMSU alumni, with the help of ourmatching gifts program, havedonated almost another five million.

For its part, MSU is one of ourtop sources of outstanding researchand talented employees. We’reproud that some three thousandGM employees are MSU grads,including a number of our seniorexecutives.

This kind of mutual support iscritical both to our industry and toMichigan State, and tonight youhave a chance to demonstrate thatbelief in person.

Address by Rick Wagoner,President and CEO,General Motors Corporation

Today, more than 2,300 MSUalumni work for Ford MotorCompany.

Many of our employees, includ-ing graduates of other universities,have taken advantage of continuingeducation opportunities at MSU.Continuing education enriches notonly the individual, but FordMotor Company as well.

Ford was one of the first corpo-rations to step up as leaders in TheCampaign for MSU, with a $5 million pledge for the Biomedicaland Physical Sciences facility andthe ARES project. Today, FordMotor Company provides MSUstudent scholarships in business,engineering and labor and indus-trial relations, as well as supportfor minority education, facilitiesand programs. Ford’s corporatesupport for MSU over the yearstotals nearly $17 million.

MSU alumni at Ford have beeninstrumental in their support oftheir alma mater through theFord-MSU In-House Campaign…the first of its kind for MichiganState.

As your careers take you acrossthis broad and varied industry, letus remember to support the university where many of youraspirations first took root.

Address by Nick Scheele,President and COO,Ford Motor Company

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he School of Labor andIndustrial Relationsreceived a $1.3 million

software grant from PeopleSoft, Inc.through its participation in thePeopleSoft On Campus program.On Campus is an industry-academicpartnership that provides software,faculty training, educational materials and technical support tohigher education institutions. Theprogram’s primary goal is to helpcolleges and universities update theircurricula and produce graduateswith expertise using enterprise management tools.

Dr. James Dulebohn, assistantprofessor of Human Resources andInformation Management, plans tooffer several graduate humanresource information systems coursesbased on PeopleSoft Human CapitalManagement. In addition, theSchool will integrate PeopleSoftsoftware into its MLRHR program’sIntroductory Human ResourceManagement and Compensationcourses. The implementation,faculty training and curriculumdevelopment began during thespring 2003 semester, with the firstuse of the software in courseworkplanned for fall 2003 semester.

Professor Dulebohn said, “Weare very grateful to PeopleSoft fortheir generous gift to MSU. Thisgift will enable us to provide ourmasters students, majoring inhuman resources management, withcutting-edge software skills usingthe world’s premier commercialhuman resource information systemsoftware product.”

The implementation, facultytraining and curriculum develop-ment began last fall.

“This gift will enable theSchool’s graduate students in human resources management andlabor relations to be more effectivestrategic business partners in theorganizations in which they willbecome employed, said Theodore H.Curry, II, director and professor,School of Labor and IndustrialRelations. “With our computer labprovided through a generous giftfrom IBM, and smart classroomrenovation project, provided througha generous gift from Ford MotorCompany, MSU LIR students willbe second to none in technologyenhanced learning.”

The PeopleSoft On CampusProgram supports higher educationinstitutions by integratingPeopleSoft applications into college

and university curricula. New soft-ware grants and the program’s firstfaculty curriculum awards are recentachievements that have marked astrong year of collaboration for thefour-year-old program. With theserecent awards, PeopleSoft OnCampus has now provided morethan $40 million in software andtraining grants to institutionsthroughout North America andGermany. Through the On Campusprogram, PeopleSoft offered hands-on industry experience to more than10,000 students in the 2002 -2003academic year alone.

Michigan State University’sSchool of Labor and IndustrialRelations is a premier center forteaching, research and outreach onissues related to human resourcesmanagement and employment.

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Students use the PeopleSoft software in the LIR lab with hardware donated by IBM.

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to MSU faculty and researchers viathe IBM Scholars program.

IBM’s Shared UniversityResearch (SUR) program awardscomputing equipment to colleges,universities and institutions of highereducation around the world to facilitate research projects in areas of mutual interest, including life sciences, grid computing, autonomiccomputing and deep computing.

The SUR awards also support the advancement of university projectsby connecting top researchers inacademia with IBM research personnel, along with representativesfrom product development and solution provider communities.

n February 26, 2003,Michigan State Universityhosted a luncheon in

appreciation of IBM Corporation’saward of software, equipment andservices to create a new research center in The Eli Broad College ofBusiness at MSU. Interim Presidentand Provost Lou Anna K. Simonwas joined by faculty, staff and students in honoring the company at the recognition luncheon.

Through a Shared UniversityResearch (SUR) award from IBM,the Broad School and IBM are cre-ating The Center for On-DemandSupply Chain Research, a laboratorythat will serve as an environment for modeling and analysis of an on-demand supply chain.

Broad School graduate studentsand faculty will use the laboratory tostudy, simulate and test key relation-ships in an end-to-end supply chain,focusing on the dynamic flow ofinformation and the resulting inter-dependencies between them. Theirwork is expected to help IBM andother companies build dynamic supplychains that can sense and rapidlyrespond to changing customerdemands and market conditions.

“We are proud that IBM hasrecognized the Broad School’sexpertise in supply chain manage-ment,” says Robert B. Duncan,dean of The Eli Broad College ofBusiness. Long recognized as aleader in the field, the BroadSchool’s Supply Chain Managementprogram was recently ranked first in the nation by U.S. News andWorld Report.

Supply chain management has become an area of critical

importance to IBM, as the companyworks to transform itself into theworld’s premier on-demand enter-prise. The need for an on-demandsupply chain has been in large partdriven by customers’ desire to buytechnology solutions consisting ofhardware, software and servicesrather than just piece parts.

“To become the world’s premieron-demand business, we have tomake our supply chain more flexibleand efficient to cope with supplyuncertainties, more dynamic to beable to adjust our production andinventory levels on the fly, and morevariable and resilient by extendingour operations across a network ofalliances,” says Bob Moffat, seniorvice president, Integrated SupplyChain, IBM. “By working with theBroad School and the resources ofthe new center, we will be able toactually simulate and test newprocesses in a controlled environ-ment, gaining valuable insight about what works before we putthem into practice.”

After establishing the Center for On Demand Supply ChainResearch with the Broad School,IBM plans to link the lab, via anadvanced computing grid, withother leading partner universitiesspecializing in supply chain manage-ment. When operational, the grid of interconnected laboratories willallow these universities to collaborateand conduct joint applied researchand teaching.

The Center for On DemandSupply Chain Research also will be supported by IBM software technologies, including Websphereand AIX, which are made available

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Stuart Reed, vice president for Worldwide SystemsGroup Manufacturing, IBM, received a basketballautographed by Coach Tom Izzo during MSU’s program honoring IBM Corporation.

work with over 250 students persemester.

• Summer programs help over 60student freshmen acclimate to theuniversity environment, establishconnections prior to attending,and gain an early knowledge ofcorporate relations.

• Career development is aidedthrough workshops to increasea student’s understanding andpreparation for the business world.Corporate representatives andMSU alumni work with the BroadSchool, facilitating workshopson such topics as career fairpreparation, business etiquetteand interviewing techniques.

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he Multicultural BusinessPrograms (MBP) in The Eli Broad College of

Business were established to improvethe recruitment, retention, and graduation rate of multicultural students by providing opportunitiesfor them to develop full academic and career potential. The programspromote a success philosophy by fostering a positive awareness of personality, gender, physical and cultural differences.

MBP provides continuing supportto graduation, with individualizedacademic counseling support, careerdevelopment and placement. MBPcurrently serves more than 650 multi-cultural students enrolled in businessor pre-business majors.“We are

proud of our commitment to provideindividualized academic, career andpersonal guidance to students in TheEli Broad College of Business,” saidDr. Ernest Betts, director ofMulticultural Business Programs. “Infostering a supportive environment topromote academic and professionaldevelopment, the alumni of thisunique program are employed byFortune 500 companies and are leaderswithin their chosen industries.”

Through these programs, theBroad School is able to offer a variety of services to retain studentsat the college and university leveland to prepare them for success intheir careers.• Tutoring programs increase the

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