Thursday, May 15, 2003
Lincoln
University’s NASA MASTAP Continuing Education Teaching
Resource Center Summer Program Kicks Off on May 17; Program
Runs May 19-June 27, Targets Philadelphia-Area In-Service
Teachers
Lincoln
University, PA (www.lincoln.edu)—As part of its
continuing mission to expand the number of teachers specializing
in mathematics and science, Lincoln University’s
Continuing Education Teaching Resource Center (CETRC)
will kick off its summer program for Philadelphia-area,
in-service instructors on May 17 from 9 a.m.-2:30 p.m.
at the University’s Center for Graduate and Continuing
Education at 3020 Market Street in Philadelphia.
The
CERTC summer program will run May 19 through June 27,
Monday through Thursday, 5 p.m.-8 p.m. and will be
conducted at the Center for Graduate and Continuing Education.
CERTC is part of Lincoln’s NASA (National Aeronautics
and Space Administration) MASTAP (Mathematics and Science
Teacher Partnership Program) and a three-year grant the
University received from the NASA Goddard Space Flight
Center to train teachers to utilize NASA’s educational
materials and research in their K12 classrooms. Dr. Richard
O’Daniel is the principal investigator for Lincoln’s
NASA MASTAP program, and director of the University’s
Center Graduate and Continuing Education. Dr. Cora Turpin,
director of Lincoln’s NASA MASTAP CERTC, said the
summer program provides Philadelphia-area, in-service
teachers with the undergraduate pre-course work they need
for graduate study and state teacher certification.
The
CERTC summer program course schedule will include Linear
Algebra, Calculus I, College Geometry, Real Analysis I,
General Biology I and Environmental Science. Enrollment
is limited to teachers who qualify for advanced graduate
work. For more information on Lincoln’s NASA MASTAP
CERTC program, or how to register, please contact Dr.
Turpin at (215) 590-8228 (cturpin@lu.lincoln.edu.),
or Nancy Ryons-Jenkins, associate director of Admissions
at (215) 590-8239 (jenkins@lu.lincoln.edu)
Founded in 1854, Lincoln University is the nation’s
first Historically Black University and combines the best
elements of a liberal arts and sciences-based undergraduate
core curriculum and selected graduate programs to meet
the needs of students living in a highly technological
and global society. Lincoln recently kicked off its yearlong
celebration of its Sesquicentennial (150th anniversary)
with a special ceremony and Honors Convocation. The celebration
of Lincoln’s 150th anniversary will continue through
May 2004 with an array of campus and external events,
activities, an announcements.
