THE DAILY COLLEGIAN Teach for America looks to recruit Penn Staters By Kathleen Loughran COLLEGIAN STAFF WRITER Sept. 17 marks an important deadline for some students at Penn State. That date is the day applications are due for Teach for America, and as campus campaign coordinators, Kelcey Grogan (sophomore-agriculture), Sean Healy (sen ior-political science and sociology), Dahiana Tejada (senior-geography and Latin American studies) and Colleen Smith (junior-history)'s No. 1 goal is to recruit people to apply. To raise awareness about the upcoming application deadline, the students will be holding an information session for Penn State seniors at 7 p.m. Monday in 158 Willard Building, Smith said. "Our main goals are to get the strongest candidates possible for Teach for America from Penn State," Healy said. "We're real ly targeting the top leaders and top stu dents. We're really encouraging as many people as possible to apply" Teach for America, a national nonprofit organization, selects qualified college graduates to teach children in lower income communities so the children can have the same opportunities and educa tion as those in higher-income areas, Smith said. "I think the greatest benefit is the impact it's having on the inequality in the education system. There are 14 million kids in lower-income schools," Healy said. "You get to go and change kids' lives. You'll experience a huge boost in your own personal and leadership development." Friends of Teach for America the Penn State student organization started by previous coordinators will help to "launch the full-out recruitment plan here at Penn State," Smith said. To help with recruitment, the coordina tors are working in tandem with recruit ment director Jeremy Corbett. "He's a Penn State and Teach for America graduate," Smith said. "He's our Journal publishers consider using Web to review articles By Alaina Gallagher COLLEGIAN STAFF WRITER Publishers of scholarly journals are con sidering new methods for selecting arti cles, something that could have an impact on professors nationwide including those at Penn State. Currently, most journals use a standard peer review in which two or three experts from a given field anonymously review a submitted article and offer their own opin ions about it, Penn State education profes sor David Post said. Editors then use these reviews to help them decide which articles are adequate for publication and which could use further work, he said. Some journals, however, are looking to try a new system of reviewing in which submitted articles could be made available to a larger number of reviewers by posting submissions online creating a more open reviewing system, he said. Since publishing articles through this traditional system is the main means in which those in academia earn promotions and tenure in the United States, this new system could have an important impact on professors, said Post, also an editor of Comparative Education Review. Richard Kopley, an English professor at Penn State Dußois, said that, under the new system, authors' work would be made If you go What: Teach for America information session Where: 158 Willard Building When 7 p.m. Monday Details: Teach for America representa tives are looking to recruit students to apply for the program. leader in launching this full-out campaign." Healy said the group is placing a lot of emphasis on recruitment because there are some misconceptions about Teach for America. "One of the main misconceptions is that it's charity work, and you don't get paid, but you get between $31,000 and $51,000," he said. "People don't know how highly viewed Teach for America is in the profes sional world. It's known as the best non profit company in the country." The program is ranked by Business Week magazine as one of the best ways to start a career, and is the No. 1 employer of graduates of the Schreyer Honors College, Healy said. The Sept. 13 information session is not the only event Friends of Teach for America plans to hold. "We will be holding several events throughout the year, as well as launching a full out campaign to really get seniors to see Teach for America as a viable option post-graduation, - Smith said. Other possible events include a movie screening about education inequality, lead ership seminars and forums, she added. Overall, Smith said Teach for America is a beneficial organization in which to get involved."lt's a great opportunity to make visible change in this country," she said. "Education is a right that should be given to each and any child." To e-mail reporter: krlslo6@psu.edu much more public, increasing their sensi tivity to both comments and rejection. "I'm glad it's being tried and I'm inter ested in innovation, but I would proceed cautiously here," he said. As an editor of the journal Resources for American Literary Study, Kopley said he would not advocate the adoption of the sys tem to journals with which he is associat ed. Currently, most journals publish only 10 to 15 percent of articles submitted for pub lication, Post said. Post said the new system would expedite the reviewing and publishing process, which usually takes about two years a delay that poses a problem for some authors because after an extended period of time, new developments or situations can affect the importance and relevance of their work Finding appropriate reviewers can also be difficult since reviewing is unpaid work that requires a lot of expertise, said Tom Mallouk, the Evan Pugh professor of mate rials chemistry and physics. Therefore, he said, journals would need to find the right viewers for submissions online while still getting reviews complet ed in a timely manner. "The traditional method has a lot of problems but it's still the best method there is," Mallouk said. To e-mail reporter: aqgsoB7@psu.edu uStudent FOOD SPECIALS: • ,• ••r t $1 Nathan's Hotd • $1.29 Soft Pretzel David's Large Co $1.59, and 75c Bo Popcorn - 9 PM - Sbarro: $1.99 Mea Hero or Pasta Spe and $1 slice of Ch Pepperoni Pizza - 9PM-2AM WHITE BUILDING ACTIVITIES: Let Freedom Ring k Table Tennis Tournament - 9 PM start ja Open Recreation - 9 PM 1. start llOpen Pool Recreation* - 9 PM - 12 AM (Closed if no Lifeguard) a. Fitness Center* - 9 PM -1 AM (*Requires Fitness Pass/ID) Saturday, Sept. 11 CREATIVE CRAFTS - • Make your own Animal Fleece Tie Pillow! - 9 PM - 1 AM. Ground Floor GAPS GAMING - 9:30 PM - 1:30 AM, Ground Floor LATENIGHT BILLIARDS - 9 PM - 1 AM, Corner Pocket ARHS MOVIE: GET HIM TO THE GREEK - 7 PM, 9:30 PM & 12 AM. 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