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Recent generous gift commitments to Fulfilling the
Promise of Excellence include:
- $25,000 from Katherine and Bruce
Rhoades will help support either an annual Collaborative Leadership
in Education lecture for UW-Eau Claire students, faculty, staff and
community members or a project that fosters collaborative leadership
between a faculty or staff member in the School of Education and an
area educator or administrator. The lectures and projects will be
efforts of the UW-Eau Claire School of Education’s newly established
Center for Collaborative Leadership in Education. The Center is part
of an ongoing initiative by the School of Education and UW-Eau Claire
to serve the students and programs of area school districts. Katherine
Rhoades is associate dean of the School of Education.
- $10,000 from UW-Eau Claire alumna Rose
Terrell, through a planned gift that will endow a scholarship
for students who are special education majors involved in their student
teaching experience. “I am encouraged that other young teacher-hopefuls
will experience the success and fulfillment that I have through their
educational programming at UW-Eau Claire,” said Terrell, a 1974
UW-Eau Claire special education graduate. Terrell, of Fountain, Colo.,
has been a teacher for 30 years and currently works with special needs
students at the middle-school level.
- Annual support from Dr.
Thomas and Debra King for the Victor H.,
Madeline F. and Karen A. King Memorial Scholarship continues to fund
two graduate student scholarships each year: one in special education
and one in communication disorders. To honor Thomas King’s parents
and sister, the Kings established the endowed scholarship fund in
1996 to help graduate students preparing to serve those with severe
disabilities. Thomas King, who earned his master’s degree from
UW-Eau Claire in 1972, is a UW-Eau Claire professor of communication
disorders. Debra King, outreach program manager for UW-Eau Claire
Continuing Education, received her master’s degree from UW-Eau
Claire in 1992.
- A pledge of $1,000 a year from Roland
and Ruth Rockwell, Madison, to support the Rockwell Award for
Outstanding Cooperating Educators. Each year the award will recognize
a teacher who works with UW-Eau Claire student teachers in an area
school. The Rockwells also support similar awards at other UW System
schools.
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