EGO: Where graduate networking, academics converge

It’s 7 p.m. on Wednesday and the Mencke household is running smoothly. Paul is collecting data for his dissertation while his wife, Bernadette, also a doctoral student as well as a full-time WSU employee, is in class. But what about Paul Jr., their 3-year-old? Luckily, the family has access to free child care at WSU, a service Paul discovered through his involvement with the Education Graduate Organization. Known affectionately as EGO, the five-year-old organization is dedicated to the advancement of graduate students in the College of Education.
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Teacher preparation at WSU:
It's a class act

Our programs received high marks this year from both state and national accreditation teams. We’re especially pleased about the “exemplary” rating that state evaluators gave us for the quality of the student field experiences and clinical practices.
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Researcher documents skills
of Latino child care providers

With support from a federal grant, a WSU doctoral student plans to document which skills Spanish-speaking providers have, and which ones they need. The information, Cara Preuss hopes, will benefit a major project aimed at improving Latino child care.
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Retired professor continues
to impact students' lives

Though she retired from the WSU College of Education in 2001, children's literature expert Inga Kromann continues to impact the lives of teacher preparation students each year.  She does so by sponsoring a book-writing contest.
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