11/24/08
President Elsa Murano headlined the opening banquet of the 26th Annual Administrative Leadership Institute (ALI) on Wed., Nov. 19, at the Miramont Country Club in Bryan. More than 170 administrative leaders from across Texas attended this year’s institute, which focused on Superhero Texas School Leaders Closing The Student Achievement Gap: A Vision Fulfilled.
Murano opened with one-liners from a variety of Superhero television series, including "Superman," "Spiderman" and "Batma ...
11/11/08The Administrative Leadership Institute (ALI) will honor Brandon Core with the Paul R. Hensarling Distinguished Graduate Student Award.
Core, a doctoral student in the Department of Educational Administration and Human Resource Development (EAHR), is principal at Anderson-Shiro Junior/Senior High School in Anderson-Shiro Consolidated Independent School District. He also has served as a science teacher, assistant principal and academic coordinator.
“I believe education opens every ...
11/4/08
The Barbara Bush Texas Fund for Family Literacy and the Texas Center for the Advancement of Literacy and Learning (TCALL) in the College of Education and Human Development will offer disaster recovery grants for Texas adult and family literacy programs adversely affected by Hurricane Ike and the Rio Grande flooding in September 2008.“Even though the actual storm has passed, the effects are still being felt across Texas,” said former first lady Barbara Bush.“Many ...
11/17/08
Olya Verkhohlyad, a recent doctoral student in educational administration at Texas A&M University, will receive the T. M. Stinnett Academic Fellowship Award at the 2008 Administrative Leadership Institute (ALI).Verkhohlyad currently serves as the director of the Department of Ethics at the Research Center in Kiev, Ukraine. She also has worked as an English instructor at Mykolaiv State Agricultural Academy and as a staff member of InterVarsity.Anthony Rolle, associate professor in t ...