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."
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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.
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any questions please come see us in 209 HUB
or email studentorg@sa.psu.edu.
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Risk Management
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and Student Activities
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Organization Transitioning
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Omega Phi Alpha
New Member Recruitment!
Sept. 10 7PM- 9 PM Pollock Rec Room
Omega Phi Alpha is holding fall recruitment
for potential new members. We are associate
members of Pan-Hel, so we participate in
THON, Homecoming, Greek Week and other
greek events; but we are a little more focused
on community service. Contact Lauren Johnson
(lejl2l@psu.edu) with questions!
PSU Crohn's and Colitis Foundation
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