A JOURNAL GAZETTE & TIMES-COURIER SPECIAL SECTION | MAY 2010
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EASTERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY
STUDIES FOR A BETTER WORLD A sampling of research taking place in your back yard
EIU PROVOST BLAIR LORD
PUBLISHER CARL WALWORTH
Scratch the surface and you’ll find a rich research community at Eastern
University research has implications beyond the local community
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his supplement features presentations of a sample of the research and scholarly work in which faculty members at Eastern Illinois University engage. All universities expect their faculty members not only to teach their students but to remain current in their academic discipline by engaging in research and scholarly activity. For major research institutions, such as the University of Illinois at Urbana/Champaign, the portion of faculty time which is expected to be devoted to research and scholarly activities is significant. At a primarily teaching institution such as Eastern, LORD/Page 2
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ne way you may be familiar with the teacher education program at Eastern Illinois University is through EIU students being in classrooms in required student teaching. A less noticeable way Eastern faculty and students impact education is through research programs like one that assesses school counseling techniques. In both cases, there is interaction between the EIU campus and a school district near you. And both cases are designed to enhance K-12 education over the long term. “The engagement in scholarship like this (education research) WALWORTH/Page 2