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Albany Professor Receives Distinguished Award in Native Austrian City
Joseph P. Strelka, a professor of German at the University at Albany, was honored
recently by his native city in Austria. The city of Wiener Neustadt, Austria, where
Strelka was born, has recognized his contributions to culture and literature with its
"Great Award for Culture."
A professor at Albany since 1971, Strelka specializes in German and Comparative
Literature. He was one of the first to devote himself energetically to the study of
exile literature, which is the writings on Germans who fled the country when it was
under Nazi rule.
Strelka is the author of a 423-page book, Methodology of Literary Science, and
has written over 30 scholarly studies on German literature. He is editor-in-chief of
the Yearbook of Comparative Literature, a series that he founded in 1969. He also
is editor of the Penn State Series in German Literature and of two series of
scholarly publications for the Peter Lang Press of Switzerland at Albany. Strelka has
lectured on the subject of exile literature in Italy, West Germany, Switzerland and
Austria.
Last year, Strelka was honored by the University at Albany as a recipient of the
Excellence in Research Award, which is presented to faculty who have demonstrated
outstanding research and scholarship over a period of years.
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UNIVERSITY AT ALBANY LIBRARY TO OPEN
COMPUTER-CENTERED INSTRUCTIONAL AREA
Ceremonies marking the opening of the Interactive Media Center, a facility of 25
learning stations where television and the personal computer will permit students to
master college-level material at their own pace, will be held at 3 p.m. on Friday,
December 8, in the lower level of the University at Albany Library.
Each learning station is equipped with a microcomputer, television monitor,
video disk player, video cassette player and an audio compact disk player. A wide
selection of instructional software, audio disks, video disks and audio/visual
cassettes has been acquired to support student instruction. Special software is
available for University faculty who wish to create additional software directly
tailored to their students and courses.
In the more elaborate instructional packages, the student and the software
interact to ‘control a multimedia presentation of a topic. An example would be "Cell
Biology," a commercially available course which provides a systematic presentation
of the subject on the personal computer as well as high quality films and slides on
the television monitor. Students interact with the learning program on the
computer. They ¢an follow the course material as presented by the computer program,
skip material which they already know or repeatedly review difficult material.
Another instructional package, "The National Gallery of Art," mimics a walking,
narrated tour of every art work in the gallery or allows selective and quick access
to the work of any particular artist or period.
Programs in chemistry, mathematics, French, and other subjects are also
available.
December 4, 1989 89-83
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CAPITAL DISTRICT'S ALI-STAR SCHOLARS AND TEACHERS TO BE HONO! MAY 17
The Capital District's second annual area-wide awards banquet honoring
student scholars with the same fanfare given to student athletes will be
held at the the Turf Inn in Colonie on Tuesday, May 17.
The School of Education, University at Albany, and the Golub Corporation
are sponsoring the Price Chopper Scholars Recognition Dinner in order to
honor 101 seniors from public, private, and parochial secondary schools in
the region. The event will include a reception (6 p.m.) and banquet (7 p.m.)
for the students and their parents and a teacher, recognition of their
achievement, and an address by Dr. Alice Ilchman, President of Sarah
Lawrence College. The student all-stars are from Albany, Rensselaer,
Saratoga, Schenectady, Columbia, Fulton, Warren, and Montgomery counties.
In addition, the dinner will honor those teacher "scholars" selected by
the students for having had the most significant and beneficial influence on
them and their education.
One: of the highlights of the evening will be the presentation to the
students of the 1988 Capital District Scholars' Yearbook. Each student's
picture and biography is included as is a photograph of their favorite
teacher with’a student quote expressing just why their selection is special.
This innovative business-education partnership was ‘established by the
School of Education to recognize superior achievchent of Capital District
high school seniors and outstanding teachers as selected by these students.
"This partnership is ‘unique and focuses its attention on the most
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fundamental relationships in the education process, the teacher and the
student," Albany Education Dean Robert Koff said.
The Scholars Recognition Dinner is an initiative of the
business-education partnership between the Golub Corporation and the School
of Education at the University at Albany, State University of New York. The
partnership program, supported by’ the Golub Corporation, also sponsors the
Golub Seminars on Excellence in Education and funds publication of the
proceedings from these meetings.
"We at the University believe that an important part of our mission is
to develop effective partnerships with industries and businesses in our
community and to expand our working relationship with the Capital Region's
school districts," President Vincent O'Leary of the University at Albany
said.
"The quality of our schools, and the development of the students who
attend them, is crucial to the future of our nation," Lewis Golub, Chairman
of the Golub Corporation, said.
Patrick R. DiCaprio, Scotia-Glenville Superintendent and Chairman of the
Dinner, said. "This dinner and the yearly seminars are a tribute to the
spirit of cooperation that has existed among a diverse group of
organizations: The Golub Corporation, the School of Education, the Capital
Area School Development Association and the public, private and parochial
school districts of the Capital Region."
Selection of the honorees was accomplished by educators at their
respective schools based upon scholarship, leadership, and service to their
school and community. The seniors were asked to nominate a teacher, who had
a profound effect on their learning experience, for pecogniticn. These
faculty members and others will be among those invited to a seriés' of Golub
Seminars on Excellence in Education. "The program celebrates and. recognizes
outstanding teachers and provides them a unique opportunity to’ think more
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Geeply about how tomorrow's. schools should be organized and managed in the
interest of providing students with the best quality education," -Dean Koff
said.
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ALBANY news
STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK 518 442-3073
Contact: Lisa James (518) 442-3093
Albany Professor Receives Distinguished Award in Native Austrian City
Joseph P. Strelka, a professor of German at the University at Albany, was honored
recently by his native city in Austria. The city of Wiener Neustadt, Austria, where
Strelka was born, has recognized his contributions to culture and literature with its
"Great Award for Culture."
A professor at Albany since 1971, Strelka specializes in German and Comparative
Literature. He was one of the first to devote himself energetically to the study of
exile literature, which is the writings on Germans who fled the country when it was
under Nazi rule.
Strelka is the author of a 423-page book, Methodology of Literary Science, and
has written over 30 scholarly studies on German literature. He is editor-in-chief of
the Yearbook of Comparative Literature, a series that he founded in 1969. He also
is editor of the Penn State Series in German Literature and of two series of
scholarly publications for the Peter Lang Press of Switzerland at Albany. Strelka has
lectured on the subject of exile literature in Italy, West Germany, Switzerland and
Austria.
Last year, Strelka was honored by the University at Albany as a recipient of the
Excellence in Research Award, which is presented to faculty who have demonstrated
outstanding research and scholarship over a period of years.
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ALBANY news
STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK 518 442-3073
Contact: Vince Sweeney 442-3075
UNIVERSITY AT ALBANY LIBRARY TO OPEN
COMPUTER-CENTERED INSTRUCTIONAL AREA
Ceremonies marking the opening of the Interactive Media Center, a facility of 25
learning stations where television and the personal computer will permit students to
master college-level material at their own pace, will be held at 3 p.m. on Friday,
December 8, in the lower level of the University at Albany Library.
Each learning station is equipped with a microcomputer, television monitor,
video disk player, vidco cassette player and an audio compact disk player. A wide
selection of instructional software, audio disks, video disks and audio/visual
cassettes has been acquired to support student instruction. Special software is
available for University faculty who wish to create additional software directly
tailored to their students and courses.
In the more elaborate instructional packages, the student and the software
interact to control a multimedia presentation of a topic. An example would be "Cell
Biology," a commercially available course which provides a systematic presentation
of the subject on the personal computer as well as high quality films and slides on
the television monitor. Students intcract with the learning program on the
computer. They can follow the course material as presented by the computer program,
skip material which they already know or repeatedly review difficult material.
Another instructional package, "The National Gallery of Art," mimics a walking,
narrated tour of every art work in the gallery or allows selective and quick access
to the work of any particular artist or period.
Programs in chemistry, mathematics, French, and other subjects are also
available.
December 4, 1989 89-83
