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Students’ Lives: How “Exploring Transfer” Works, and Why. (Hungar also collaborated on the book, Life After 60? Yes!: Choices for Managing the Third Part of Your Life with John Morford and Delight Willing, retired SU faculty members. Morford is a former dean of the College of Education and founder of the doctoral program.) “Janet Lieberman is exceptionally creative as well as effective in putting her ideas into practice, and Middle College was her first big success,” says Hungar. In January, Hungar returned to her roots for the Middle College open house. As she toured the space and listened to the testimonials of students and faculty, she says she was pleased to see a school like this take shape at SU. “As an alum, I’m proud that my institution has taken on this commitment to make a significant difference in the lives of individual students and the quality of education in Seattle as a whole,” she says. “As a believer in this genuinely revolutionary innovation for educating high school students, I'm excited at the way SU is expanding the concept and multiplying its power.” Hungar may be retired, yet she remains active in education through her volunteer work as well as her book collaborations. On Wednesdays she reads to fifth graders at Bailey Gatzert Elementary School, co-teaches a monthly class on great composers and leads occasional field trips.
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How Middle College High School found its way to Seattle involves alumna Julie Hungar. A 1982 graduate of the College of Education’s Educational Leadership doctorate program, Hungar was a vice chancellor for Seattle Community Colleges when she first began to explore ways to encourage collaborations among educational institutions with a goal of improving the number of transfer students. After attending a conference where one of the speakers was Janet Lieberman, founder of the original Middle College High School at LaGuardia Community College in Queens, NY, Hungar suggested Lieberman as a speaker for a Seattle conference in the fall of 1988. Soon Hungar was invited to a Seattle Public School District cabinet meeting to talk about the Middle College concept, where she pitched the merits of the program. From there, Seattle Public Schools and Seattle Central Community College took over and hammered out a plan for the city’s first Middle College, which opened in 1991. Although she continued to work as a higher education consultant—she also taught as an adjunct in the COE—Hungar retired from Seattle Community Colleges in 1995. Funny thing, though. She and Lieberman then collaborated on several books, most notably The Wisdom Trail: In the Footsteps of Remarkable Women and Transforming
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Read writer Annie Beckmann's personal story that parallels the lives of many of the students of Middle College at www.seattleu.edu/magazine/.
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“As an alum, I’m proud that my institution has taken on this commitment to make a significant difference in the lives of individual students and the quality of education in Seattle as a whole.”