Education Notes

Scholarships/Grants ■ The Fayette Education Foundation recently received a $21,000 grant from the Jacob G. Schmidlapp Trusts. The grant will go toward the Fayette Education Foundation's 2020 Vision Grants.

■ Crystal Casey, a student at Big Sandy Community and Technical College in Prestonsburg, has been awarded a $1,000 scholarship from the Coca-Cola Scholars Foundation.

■ Two Lexington students were among 16 from Kentucky to become semifinalists in the 2009 National Achievement Scholarship Program. Catherine E. Christian, of Lafayette High School, and Jeromy L. Height, of Tates Creek, will compete to become finalists in the program to win one of 700 $2,500 scholarships, as well as other corporate-sponsored scholarships.

■ The Scott Education and Community Foundation has awarded Curious Forever grants to teachers Cindy Karrick, D.T. Wells, Susan Wickline and Tracy Yost and to Scott County High School student Samantha Yeates. The grants are designed to increase intellectual curiosity and support creative initiatives for lifelong learning through innovative educational projects. Additional grant applications can still be submitted. Visit www.secf.info or call Charline Martin at (502) 863-8039.

awards

■ Morehead State University's Michelle Kunz, associate professor of marketing, was named a 2008 Editorial Board House Cup winner by Multimedia Educational Resource for Learning and Online Teaching (MERLOT).

Kunz is part of the Business Editorial Board, comprising six members from institutions across the United States and Canada. She is one of three volunteers on the editorial board and is an associate editor in marketing.

The winners were honored at a ceremony at the 2008 MERLOT International Conference in Minneapolis in August.

■ Matt Moore, Director of Special Education in Jessamine County, has been chosen the 2008 Outstanding Special Education Administrator of the Year by the Council for Exceptional Children.

■ Juilee Decker was presented the John Walker Manning Distinguished Mentor and Teacher Award by Georgetown College President Bill Couch. The award recognizes faculty who have shown a commitment to Georgetown by being involved with students and who have also demonstrated excellence in teaching. The selection process involves input from both faculty and students. Decker is chair of the Art Department.

■ Heather Price, a junior at the University of Kentucky, has been named to the Emerging Leader Institute for the 2008/2009 school year. The institute is a leadership development program at the university.

miscellaneous

■ Because of the number of Eastern Kentucky University graduates who call foreign countries home, the college's alumni board recently approved a name change from the EKU National Alumni Association to the EKU International Alumni Association.

Approximately 250 of Eastern's 120,000-plus alumni reside in a foreign county. The leading known addresses are in Canada (47); Japan (34); and Thailand (25). In all, EKU alumni reside in 50 countries. In October, EKU alumni in Japan will gather at a meeting in Tokyo.

■ For the first time in its history, Lindsey Wilson College has enrolled more than 2,000 students. The college's enrollment for the 2008-09 school year is 2,003 — a record for the 105-year-old liberal arts college.

■ Eastern Kentucky University is now accepting applications for parade floats for its Homecoming Parade, which will be held Oct. 25. All local schools, civic clubs and organizations are welcome to participate. The Parade theme is "Colonel Country: Welcome to Our Neighborhood."

Participating groups must complete a parade form to be submitted to the Alumni House before 4:30 p.m. Oct. 15. Contact Jackie Collier at jackie.collier@eku.edu.

Political campaigning is not permitted and vehicles are not provided. Call (859) 622-1260.

■ Morehead State University's Ahmad Hassan, assistant professor of management in the Department of Management, Marketing and Real Estate, recently had an article, titled "When Learning Is Not Enough: A Process Model of Expatriate Adjustment as Cultural Cognitive Dissonance Reduction," published in the Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes Journal.

■ Asbury College's fall enrollment, including undergraduate and graduate students is 1,516, a 9 percent increase over last year's enrollment of 1,381. The college credits the growth to several factors including the ACHIEVE adult degree completion program, and a new master of social work program.

■ Maybelline New York is accepting nominees for its Beauty of Education Award. Nominees should be women who have changed lives through education. There will be 10 winners in 2008. Each will be awarded a $10,000 grant for her education-related cause, a trip for two to New York City and a chance to have her cause showcased in a national ad in People magazine.