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‘As long as I’m needed’ Bill Green ’72 is no longer a “temp.” On Feb. 13, 2007, the Minneapolis school board unanimously awarded the eightyear board member the job of Minneapolis school superintendent after an overwhelming show of public support. Green, a professor at Augsburg College, had been named interim superintendent last year in the aftermath of the forced resignation of the previous superintendent, Thandiwe Peebles, who had been hired in 2004. He quieted that tumult and moved quickly “into the fire,” in the words of another board member, to seek out some of the district’s harshest critics and assure them that their views would be heard. He brought on academic and financial specialists to help steer the district toward marshaling its dwindling budget behind best academic practices for reaching failing students. When the board began to consider whether to conduct a national search for a permanent superintendent, they heard from advisory groups of parents and community meetings that their best candidate was already on the job. Green assumes the job officially at a time when the district has shrunk to its smallest enrollment in more than 20 years—partly because of students moving to charter and suburban schools. The district has shown some progress in narrowing its racial achievement gap, but Green’s chief mandate will be to accelerate that pace to avoid further enrollment losses. “I’m going to be here as long as I’m needed and as long as I have something to offer,” he says. “I know what needs to be done.”
Alumna introduces NYC students to Gustavus Jamesetta Alexander Newland ’72, White Plains, NY, keeps herself busy enough as director of clinical practice and primary healthcare associate at the Lienhard School of Nursing of Pace University, where she also coordinates a Presidential Wellness Initiative. In addition, she is program director of a grant from the U.S. Health and Human Services Administration to deliver primary healthcare services to underserved and at-risk populations. And she has been serving as an external examiner for the Post Basic Family Nurse Practitioner Program affiliated with the University of Botswana at the Institute of Health Services in Gaborone, Republic of Botswana. Nevertheless, Newland has taken time to introduce some promising high school seniors from New York City to higher education in the liberal arts in general and Gustavus Adolphus College in particular. In previous years she had recommended students to the Admission Office, but last March she accompanied four students to her alma mater to spend three days on campus participating in activities arranged by the Office of Admission, sitting in on classes, eating meals in the Dining Service, staying with student hosts in the residence halls, and attending the “Building Bridges” student-led diversity conference. Newland’s volunteer effort is part of a larger strategic initiative by the Admission Office to involve alumni in recruitment, particularly in the recruitment of students of color. She is pictured with two of her charges at the College’s 2007 “Building Bridges” dinner.
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