Alumni may have been wondering where the summer issue of The Hill magazine was this year, but they got the answer on Friday, Dec. 11, 2020 when the magazine launched digitally for the second consecutive issue. Although The Hill could not be printed in 2020, a new digital platform ensured the McDaniel College community was able to stay up to date with their friends, classmates, and the college.
McDaniel College has named two new members to its Board of Trustees. Jin Kang of Great Falls, Va., is president and chief executive officer of WidePoint Corporation. Susan C. Stevenson of Ashland, Mass., a 1985 alumna of the college, is an executive director at the Novartis Institutes for Biomedical Research.
Adaptability, flexibility, and problem-solving skills are all traits McDaniel College has instilled into recent alumni who have begun their first year of teaching during the COVID-19 pandemic. Nearly all of those who graduated with either a bachelor’s degree in Elementary Education or a Secondary Education minor or who earned a master’s degree in Teaching as part of the Class of 2020 secured teaching positions this fall.
Melissa Thomas M.S. '05, coordinator of the Equity and Excellence in Education graduate certificate program and an adjunct professor at McDaniel College, has been selected to present at the Maryland State Education Association (MSEA) Convention on Oct. 16. Thomas, who earned her master’s degree in Curriculum and Instruction (now Innovations in Teaching and Learning), is also an English for Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL) resource teacher in Carroll County Public Schools and a Maryland State Department of Education Master Teacher.
Vickie Mazer has joined McDaniel College as the new dean of Graduate and Professional Studies. At McDaniel, she is responsible for providing leadership and support of the college’s more than 20 master’s degree and certificate programs. Many of McDaniel’s graduate programs can be completed online or in blended format of online and in-person.
Update as of 09.09.20: Carroll County Teacher of the Year Jena Ehmann '07, M.S. '12, has been named one of seven finalists for the 2020-21 Maryland Teacher of the Year. Two of Maryland’s top teachers are alumnae of McDaniel College. Carroll County Teacher of the Year Jena Ehmann graduated with a Student-Designed major in English Language and Literacy Acquisition and a minor in Elementary Education in 2007 and also earned a master’s degree in Reading Specialist: Literacy Leadership in 2012 and Administrator I certification in May 2020. Kent County Teacher of the Year Angel Jones Lins received a bachelor’s degree in Psychology in 1983.
Seven teachers have all returned to the classroom themselves to earn their master’s degrees from McDaniel’s Reading Specialist: Literacy Leadership program and feel the virtual McDaniel College Reading Clinic experience has the added benefit of helping them prepare for the possibility of remote teaching this fall. The McDaniel Reading Clinic is a comprehensive four-week summer school program providing reading and writing assistance to elementary school-aged students as a required component to earn their master’s degrees.
McDaniel College’s Reading Specialist: Literacy Leadership master’s degree program has partnered with Wilson Language Training to offer a new dyslexia specialization, which includes Level I Certification in the Wilson Reading System® (WRS). McDaniel is the first higher education institution in Maryland to partner with Wilson to offer this online certification.
New Workforce Development Scholarships are available for new Fall 2020 graduate students applying for enrollment in an eligible master’s degree program, including Teaching, Human Resources Management, Public Administration and Policy, Clinical Mental Health Counseling, School Counseling and Data Analytics. Scholarships provide free tuition for the Fall 2020 semester and $1,000 for Spring 2021 semester.
McDaniel College has announced the recipients of two top graduate awards. Sarah Grace Watcher of Westminster, Md., received The Joan Develin Coley Award for Excellence in Education and Claire Frances Roberts of Swartz Creek, Mich., was awarded The B. Jill Brooks Hodge Professional Development Award.
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