The Carolinian [November 5, 1998]

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Professor receives honor Sniff Report
GREENSBORO— Dr. Rich-ard
M. Jaeger, who is the Na-tions
Bank Excellence Profes-sor
of educational research
methodology at The Univer-sity
of North Carolina at
Greensboro, has received an
award for career achievement
in the field of educational mea-surement.
Jaeger received the 1998
Distinguished Achievement
Award for outstanding schol-arship
in the field of educa-tional
measurement from the
Center for Research on Evalu-ation.
Standards, and Student
Testing at the University of
California at Los Angeles.
The UCLS center recog-nized
Jaeger's research on
sampling methods and the de-velopment
of standards of per-formance
in educational The
citation read, in part: "His con-tributions
are extraordinary
both in their breadth and their
depth, reflected through more
than 150 articles and seven
books spanning a wide range
of areas in measurement,
evaluation, research methods,
and applied statistics.
He is particularly well
known for his work on sam-pling
and is widely recognized
as a leading authority on stan-dard
setting on educational
tests and assessments."
"His work on standard set-ting
has had a major impact on
the way in which results of
educational tests are inter-preted
and used. It is highly
relevant to current educational
reform efforts that seek to set
high standards and to compare
student performance to those
standards rather than the more
common practice ofcomparing
one student with another."
A faculty member in the
UNCG School of Education
since 1976, Jaeger is director
of the Center for Educational
Research and Evaluation at
UNCG.
Among his honors, Jaeger
has received two other career
achievement awards from the
American Educational Re-search
Association and from
the National Council on Mea-surement
in Education. He
also received a yearlong fel-lowship
with the Center for
Advanced Study in the Behav-ioral
Sciences, which is lo-cated
at Stanford University,
for the 1997-98 year.
He is serving a one-year
term on the National Academy
ofSciences/National Research
Council Committee on
Equivalency and Linkage of
Educational Tests.
He is a past president of the
National Council on Measure-ment
in Education and has
served as vice president for
measurement and research
methodology of the American
Educational Research Associa-tion.
Jaeger is a former editor
of the "Journal of Educational
Measurement" and he was edi-tor
for the book "Complemen-tary
Methods for Research in
Education."
He has had seven books pub-lished
on the subject of educa-tional
measurement and evalu-ation,
along with numerous
journal articles and technical
reports.
In addition to more than $7.5
million in funding from the
National Board for Profes-sional
Teaching Standards,
Jaeger's research projects have
received funding of almost
S2.7 million.
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Bryant College food
service workers strike
Joint masters available
at A&T and UNCG
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Food service workers at
Bryant College have decided
to go on strike after talks over
a new three-year contract
failed.
The 39 members of the Ser-vice
Employees International
Union Local 134 unanimously
voted to strike at midnight
Monday after their contract
expired, said Phyllis Silva. a
cook and chief steward of the
union.
Union members are seeking
more than the to 2 to 3 percent
pay raises they were offered by
Aramark Food Services Corp..
of Philadelphia, the company
contracted at Bryant.
Workers currently make
S9.50 to S9.75 an hour and are
being asked to pay about S30
a month more for health care
benefits for a S77 total
copayment. The Providence
Journal reported.
Aramark officials ensured
that there will be no interrup-tion
of food services at Bryant
College, said Nancy Rowett.
Bryant's spokeswoman.
Stall Reports
GREENSBORO—The Joint
Master of Social Work Pro-gram
operated by North Caro-lina
Agricultural & Technical
State University and The Uni-versity
of North Carolina at
Greensboro is accepting appli-cations
for the 1999-2000 aca-demic
year.
Application deadline is Jan.
25, 1999. Admitted students
will begin the program in the
1999 fall semester. To request
an application, contact the
UNCG Graduate School at
336-334-5596, or write to The
Graduate School, UNCG. 241
Mossman Building. P.O. Box
26176. Greensboro. N.C.
27402-6176.
For information about the
program, call Dcana Allman.
program secretary, at 336-334-
4100.
A&T and UNCG operate
the master's degree program
jointly. The innovative pro-gram
flows from a
multicultural history and mod-els
multicultural collaboration.
Students and faculty study and
teach at each campus and have
access to instructional and re-search
support at both univer-sities.
Administration of the
program rotates between the
two campuses every four
years.
Dr. Sarah Kirk, chairperson
of the Department of Sociol-ogy
and Social Work at A&T.
is program director. Dr. John
Rife, acting chair of the UNCG
Department of Social Work, is
acting associate director of the
program.
First class under proposition South Carolina elects first African
209 has fewer minorities
Associated Press
LOS ANGELES (AP)-
UCLA's first freshman class
enrolled under Proposition
209 has significantly fewer
minorities than in the year be-fore
the anti-affirmative action
measure took effect, officials
said Friday.
Minority students . His-panic,
American Indian, and
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blacks comprised 17.5 per-cent
of the fall 1998 freshman
class at the University of Cali-fornia.
Los Angeles, compared
with 24.4 percent in fall 1997.
There arc 3,775 students in the
1998 class.
"We are very disappointed
that fewer undcrrcprcscnted
minorities have enrolled as
freshmen this year, and we arc
determined to do what we can
within the law to boost the
number of these students at-tending
the university." said
UCLA Chancellor Albert
Carnesale.
Proposition 209 bars racial
and gender preferences in state
contracts, jobs and college ad-missions.
It was passed by
California voters in November
1996. UC has nine campuses,
but enrollment figures from the
others weren't available Friday
night.
Minorities make up 21.3 per-
American female federal judge
cent of the overall domestic
student population at UCLA.
Last fall, they made up 22.2
percent. Increased recruitment I
efforts, however, resulted in a
greater percentage ofaccepted
students actually enrolling at
the university, officials said.
Nearly half of the 1,363 mi-nority
students who were ac-cepted
enrolled.
This year, 160 black fresh-men
enrolled, compared with
230 last year; 485 Hispanics,
compared with 590 last year;
and 15 American Indians,
compared with 40 last year.
UCLA has started several
programs to recruit minorities,
including partnerships with
Los Angeles County schools
and working with teachers and
administrators to improve pro-fessional
development and
school curriculum, Carnesale
said. Total enrollment at
UCLA is 35,796 this year.
Associated Press
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) - Mar-garet
Seymour, South
Carolina's first black female
federal judge, took her place
on the bench Friday as hun-dreds
of onlookers gave her a
standing ovation.
Two big-screen televisions
were wheeled out at the Strom
Thurmond Federal Building
for the swearing-in ceremony.
U.S. Rep. Jim Clyburn, D-S.
C.; U.S. Sen. Ernest "Fritz"
Hollings, D-S.C; and several
state Supreme Court justices
attended, and Republican U.S.
Sen. Strom Thurmond was ex-pected
at the reception.
Seymour, the U.S. magistrate
in Florence since 1996. was
sworn in by Hollings. who rec-ommended
her for the job.
"First. Susan B. Anthony,
then Rosa Parks, now Marga-ret
Seymour,'" Hollings said.
"This is an historic moment
in the history of women."
Seymour replaces Judge Will-iam
Traxler ofGreenville, who
now sits on the 4th U.S. Cir-cuit
Court of Appeals in Rich-mond.
Va.
Seymour worked in the U.S.
attorney's office from 1990 to
1996. when she was named the
first full-time magistrate in the
Florence division. She twice
served as acting U.S. attorney.
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