The Department of Teacher Education and Administration will receive the UNT Outstanding Department Award for contributions that have positively impacted the university. The award will be presented by President Rawlins on February 8 at the Presidents Staff Sack Luncheon at noon in the Silver Eagle Suite of the Student Union.

UNT faculty and graduate students are invited to an all-day seminar, sponsored by the Velma E. Schmidt Endowment, that will be held on Friday, February 24, from 10:30 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. in the Silver Eagle Suite, Student Union. Major speakers will be Norman K. Denzin, Sociology, University of Illinois-Champaign/Urbana, whose topic is Revisiting the Qualitative Manifesto, and Yvonna S.

Dr. Rossana Boyd of the Teacher Education & Adminstration Department was featured in a NT Daily story concerning the Future Bilingual Teachers Academy.

The Future Bilingual Teachers Academy reaches out to Hispanic high-school students from Fort Worth school districts and encourages them to consider bilingual education as a career.

The Child Development Laboratory of the Teacher Education and Administration Department was featured recently in the university's daily student newspaper, the North Texas Daily.

The story emphasized the Child Development Laboratory's history and purpose as a research center and training site for students in the fields of early childhood education, child development, and play therapy.

During the 2011-2012 academic year, Dr. WenQin Ma from China and Mr. Ramazan Sak from Turkey are visiting the US in their scholarly pursuits. Dr. Ma, who is on the faculty of Guizhou Normal University in Guiyang, China, is studying middle school education; and Mr. Sak, who is a doctoral student at Middle East Technical University in Ankara, Turkey, is studying early childhood education