V i s i t i ng M i l i t a r y P r o f esso r Distinguished military expert and historian Robert Citino, professor of history, will serve as a visiting professor at the U.S. Army War College in Carlisle, Pa., for the 2013-14 academic year. While there, Citino will assist in teaching courses in the college’s Department of National Security and Strategy. He also will conduct college-wide lectures and presentations and lead faculty efforts to publish case studies. He is a fellow of UNT’s Military History Center and vice president of the national Society for Military History. In 2007, he was ranked the No. 1 professor in the country for his excellence in teaching by the website Rate My Professors. His research interests include modern European history, German military history and U.S. military history.
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islands. An associate’s degree is the highest offered in the field at any of the islands’ colleges and universities, says Yvonne Chandler, UNT associate professor of library and information sciences and LEAP’s co-director. “The islands were in need of libraries with professionally trained staff who are native Pacific Islanders,” she says. The students started the program in 2011 by attending a web institute at the College of Micronesia led by UNT faculty members and librarians. Each student completed
online courses, attended workshops and was mentored long distance by a UNT librarian. Chandler says she sees more similarities than differences in the LEAP students and other UNT students. “The Pacific Islands community has tremendous pride in our program,” she says. “A number of our students were promised and have received professional positions before they finished their degrees.”
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Thirty-one of UNT’s newest master’s degree graduates live 7,000 miles away from Denton. For their graduation this summer, they wore traditional caps and gowns, but also donned leis to reflect their heritage. These students from six U.S.-affiliated Pacific Island nations completed the UNT College of Information’s online master’s degree program in library science. In 2010, the college began the program — LEAP: Library Education for the U.S.-Affiliated Pacific — in partnership with the UNT Libraries and Pacific Resources for Education and Learning, a nonprofit that works with schools in U.S.-affiliated Pacific Islands. Funded by a nearly $1 million grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Science’s Laura Bush 21st Century Library Program, the goal of LEAP was to increase the number and diversity of library professionals for the
This summer, 31 students earned degrees from the UNT College of Information’s online master’s degree program in library science through LEAP: Library Education for the U.S.-Affiliated Pacific.
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