1995

> The College commemorates its 75th anniversary at a dinner celebration on Sept. 29, honoring prominent alumni.

> The new Plan of Organization and By-Laws of College of Education is approved by the College Park Senate on April 10, 1995.

> Kenneth Rubin, Human Development, establishes the Center for Children, Relationships, and Culture.

> The Regional Rehabilitation Continuing Education Program for Community Rehabilitation Programs (CRP/RRCEP), currently known as the Center for Human Services Development, receives its first grant from the U.S. Department of Education, Rehabilitation Services Administration. The CRP/RRCEP exists to provide continuing education and technical assistance to the 440 rehabilitation agencies in the Mid-Atlantic (Md., Pa., De., Va., W.Va. and the District of Columbia) so they can realize better employment outcomes with persons with disabilities. (In its 10-year history, the CRP/RRCEP has provided training and consultation to over 10,000 staff, students, consumers and employers in the Region).

> The Center for Young Children receives a prestigious national accreditation from the National Association of Education for Young Children (NAEYC).

> The U.S. Office of Education funds the Team Collaboration Training Grant, an early childhood education program in Prince George's County Schools.

> The college offers a special course, "Advocates for Children," in fall 1995 as part of the College Park Scholars Program - an honors program for incoming undergraduates.

> The College rates 11th in productivity and 10th in prestige in rankings of colleges of education by the journal, Contemporary Educational Psychology.

> Beth Davey, Department of Curriculum and Instruction, passes away on March 31.

> Judith Torney-Purta, Human Development, receives a $60,000 grant from the Pew Charitable Trusts in support of her research project titled "A Study of Civic Education in Twenty Countries: the International Association for the Evaluation of Educational Achievements Projects, Phase 1."

> Jean Hebeler, Special Education, receives the J.E. Wallace Wallin Education of Handicapped Children Award from the National Council of Exceptional Children.

> Faculty member Nancy K. Schlossberg serves as an alternate delegate to a White House Conference on aging.