4 Preserving the history of the College of Education Do you want to remember the name of a College of Education favorite colleague, when a specific program started, or whose grant funded a new program? You can find this and more on the College of Education’s Milestones https://www.pdx.edu/education/coe-milestones. The COE Milestones is a chronology of the COE’s people and programs from 1948 to the present. It is the culmination of a vision to preserve and celebrate the COE’s history. Beginning in 1999, Dean Phyllis Edmundson formed the History Task Force, whose founding members included Alma Bingham, Steve Brannan, Ulrich Hardt (chair), Maxine Thomas, and Barbara Wiegele. Building on the task force’s initial work, in 2005 the COE faculty approved the formation of the COE History Preservation and Celebration Committee (HPCC) as a COE standing committee under Interim Dean Carol Mack. A major accomplishment of the HPCC was the completion and display of the Dean’s Gallery— portraits of the COE deans along with their notable achievements. Another remarkable undertaking of the HPCC was the COE Milestones project. The committee envisioned the Milestones as a timeline listing the history of COE’s programs. From 2006-08, committee members gathered school-wide and departmental information from current and retired faculty, staff, and administrators to draft COE and departmental milestones. The committee encouraged all departments (i.e., Counselor Education, Curriculum and Instruction, Educational Policy, Foundations, and Administrative Studies [later renamed Educational Leadership and Policy], and Special Education) to develop departmental milestones. Steve Brannan, committee co-chair, led the initiative and drafted milestones documents for the Special Education Department and the COE. When the HPCC stopped meeting in 2011-12, the goal of preserving the COE history did not die. In summer 2015, Cheryl Livneh, retired associate dean for outreach, accepted the invitation of Dean Randy Hitz and Associate Dean Micki Caskey to serve as the COE historian. Her major task was updating the COE Milestones from 2007 to present—a process that entailed (a) gathering information from the departmental milestones documents; (b) organizing the milestones content into major categories by year; (c) developing a set of appendices to accompany the Milestones, and (d) verifying the accuracy of the milestones. The verification process required review of the PSU Bulletins, PSU Telephone Directories, and consultation with COE retired faculty, staff, and administrators, as well as PSU leadership. The Milestones, posted to the COE website, is the culmination of the collective energies of the COE Task Force, HPCC, recent efforts, and many others. For the latest iteration, a special thanks to Pati Sluys, retired chief financial officer; Cristine Paschild, head of Special Collections and university archivist and her staff; Steve Harmon, retired curriculum coordinator; and Val Katagiri, editor. Some of the exemplary alums included in the Milestones are pictured below. PAST TENSE: Looking back at PSU’s early history Linda Gerber Former president, PCC-Sylvania Lizi Aguilar-Nelson 2005 Oregon Elementary Principal of the Year Gustavo Balderas 2019 Oregon Superintendent of the Year Judy Bluehorse Skelton 2014 Outstanding Teacher Award, Oregon Indian Education Assoc. RAPS SHEET n JANUARY 2023
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