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PHOTO COURTESY OF UNIVERSITY REIATIONS
AT&T Chairman and CEO C. Michael Armstrong
Communications Leader
to Address Graduates
■ Commencement: CEO
and Governor of Hawaii
to receive honorary
degrees.
by Jasmine Marshall
News Editor '98-99
As today’s LMU graduates
receive their degrees, they will
be blessed with entering the
work force during a period of the
strongest U.S. economy in 25
years, with unemployment and
inflation rates hovering at
record lows not seen since the
1950s.
It is only fitting that today’s
commencement address will be
given by C. Michael Armstrong,
chairman and CEO of AT&T, the
world’s leading communications
service company, with 90 mil¬
lion customers, 13,000 employ¬
ees and $52 billion in revenues.
Armstrong was elected to his
position at AT&T in November
of 1997, following a successful
six-year career as CEO of
Hughes Electronics. Prior to his
work with Hughes and AT&T,
Armstrong spent three decades
working with IBM.
Armstrong will be honored
with an honorary degree at the
86th annual undergraduate
commencement exercises. Also
receiving an honorary degree
will be The Honorable Benjamin
J. Cayetano, governor of
Hawaii.
Cayetano was named
Hawaii’s first governor of
Filipino ancestry when he won
the 1994 election. Raised in a
poor neighborhood by a single
mother, Cayetano decided to
rise above his adversities after a
fight briefly landed him in jail
as a teen. In 1963, he moved to
Los Angeles to attend UCLA.
Upon graduation, he entered
Loyola Law School, earning his
degree in 1971. In subsequent
years, Cayetano moved back to
his native Hawaii to practice
law and was elected to the state
legislature. He served as lieu¬
tenant governor of Hawaii for
eight years.
Also slated to receive an hon¬
orary degree will be Fr.
Raymond Brown, S.S., at
LMU’s graduate school com¬
mencement tomorrow at 10 a. m.
in Gersten Pavilion. U.S.
Senator John Kerry will deliver
the commencement address at
Loyola Law School’s commence¬
ment on May 17.
School of Education Passes First Accreditation Test
PHOTO COURTESY OF THE SCHOOL OF EDUCATION
The Faculty of the School of Education celebrates their successful review in
the first step to national accreditation.
Rabbi Arthur
Gross Schaefer
Named Teacher
of the Year
by Sean Chavel
Asst. News Editor '98- '99
Graduation Day recognizes
students who have excelled
through their four years at
LMU. However, Graduation
Day also recognizes professors
who have made outstanding
achievements, whose body of
PHOTO COURTESY OF UNIVERSITY RELATIONS
Rabbi Arthur Gross Schaefer,
LM&s Teacher of the Year.
work and diverse teaching cred¬
its have been dynamic and
praiseworthy. This year’s
President’s Fritz B. Burns
Distinguished Teaching Award
recipient is college of business
faculty member Arthur Gross
Schaefer.
The tradition will be slightly
altered this year, for the first
time in LMU history, the recipi¬
ent will accept the award on
Sunday instead of
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Teacher Training:
LMU program passes
initial review on way to
national accreditation.
by Roy Rufo Jr
Asst. News Editor '98-’99
LMU has always been
known as a university which
produces excellent primary
and secondary teachers.
During the week of April 25 -
29, the school of education
came one step closer to near¬
ing national accreditation.
About 24 educators of the
National Council for
Accreditation of Teacher
Education (NCATE) and of the
State Commission on Teacher
Credentialing
conducted a
review of the
school and its
programs.
The school of
education is
particularly
excited on the
positive feed¬
back that it
has received
on its prelimi¬
nary report that expectations
for a national, as well as a
renewing of the state, accredi¬
tation has increased.
The accreditation process
holds significant importance
because if a university is
denied accreditation, it cannot
provide its students with cre¬
dentials. The state can revoke
the power of a school to give
credentials.
“This is the first time, in
addition to being re-accredited
by the state that we are going
for national accreditation from
[NCATE],” said Dr. Shane
Martin, assistant professor for
the school of education.
“We’re only the second private
university in California to
have gone for this national and
state accreditation. Most
schools of education don’t go
for the national because its
standards are very hard, very
high, and you could get by
with just the state accredita¬
tion.”
Martin attributed two rea¬
sons that the school of educa¬
tion decided to undergo the
national review. First, the
school of education has devel¬
oped a level of excellence that
complied with the national
standards. Second, with a
nationally accredited college,
students who get a credential
or master’s degree can work
anywhere in the country
because their credentials or
master’s is coming from a
nationally accredited school
and they’d be recognized at a
higher level.
The national
review would be
advantageous
for LMU stu¬
dents majoring
in education.
The accredita¬
tion process is
more involved
at the national
level, but gener¬
ally the accredi¬
tation process takes about
three years and occurs once
every six years.
The national accreditation
is a strenuous process that
involves relentless documenta¬
tion and scrutinizes the avail¬
able education programs that
LMU has to offer. The pro¬
gram is looked at in multiple
areas such as admissions, cul¬
tural diversity, and how the
school of education as a uni¬
versity responds to national
expectations. “It’s the hardest
thing that I’ve been involved
in since I’ve been at the uni¬
versity, and that includes the
eight years of being the acade¬
mic vice president,” said Fr.
Albert P. Koppes,
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“It’s the hardest thing that I’ve been
involved in since I’ve been at the universi¬
ty, and that includes the eight years of
being academic vice president.”
— Fr. Albert P. Koppes, 0 Carm.
Director of the school of education
