News for UCLA's Graduate School of Education & Information Studies
Spring 1996, vol. 1, no. 1

Alumni Notes

At the November, 1995 annual meeting of the Association for the Study of Higher Education, /b>Sylvia Hurtado (Ph.D., Higher Education and Organizational Change, 1990) received the Early Career Award in recognition of her outstanding achievements as a scholar. Hurtado is an assistant professor at University of MichiganÕs School of Education.

Yujing Ni (Ph.D., Psychological Studies in Education, 1994) joined the faculty of the Department of Education Psychology at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. While at UCLA, Ni worked extensively on the Center for the Study of EvaluationÕs (CSE) content assessment project.

David Niemi (Ph.D., Psychological Studies in Education, 1994) accepted a position last fall as assistant professor in the Department of Education at the University of Missouri, Columbia. He teaches courses in educational psychology and works with the Missouri State Department of Education in the development and implementation of their statewide assessment system. He continues his association with GSE&IS and CSE through the National Center for Research on Evaluation, Standards, and Student Testing (CRESST).

Above, Betty Denitz, M.A. 1979 (right) and Laurel Wruble, director of major gifts (left), enjoy good food and great company with more than 125 other alumni, faculty and friends in the Moore Hall Reading Room at the first GSE&IS Alumni & Friends UCLA Basketball Night on February 1.

Below, GSE&IS Dean Ted Mitchell (left), City Librarian Susan Goldberg Kent (center), and DIS Chair Christine Borgman (right) celebrate the mutual interest of UCLA and the Los Angeles Public Library (LAPL) at a November reception at LAPL.

Another CSE alumnus, John Novak (Ph.D., Psychological Studies in Education, 1993), accepted an adjunct faculty position jointly in the mathematics and education departments at the University of Southern California. He currently is developing and implementing a new mathematics curriculum for elementary education teacher candidates.

Lynn Winters (Ph.D., Learning and Instruction, 1979) was named the Assistant Superintendent for Research, Planning and Evaluation for the Long Beach Unified School District. As a student, Winters was a research assistant for the CSE working in bilingual education. She returned to CSE in 1994 as a project director for the Social Studies-History Assessment Development Laboratory.

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