Date: 04/16/2007

The College of Education and International and Extended Studies will sponsor "WHERE TRADITION MEETS TOMORROW: 150 YEARS OF TEACHER EDUCATION AND CONTINUING EDUCATION" at 9 a.m. on Tuesday, April 17, in Engineering 189. Jim Walsh, emeritus professor of history, will detail the beginnings of SJSU and its role as a teacher training school. A panel of new and retired school teachers will discuss teaching then and now, and a demonstration of tomorrow's educational technologies will give insight into how students will learn in the future. More.

GEOFFREY NUNBERG of the School of Information at the University of California-Berkeley, is next in the 150th Anniversary Deans' Speaker Series. His talk will begin at noon on Thursday, April 19, in Engineering 189. KLIV 1590, a South Bay news radio station, will record and re-broadcast the speech on Friday at 7 p.m. and 10 p.m. More on the series, which continues through April 26. More on the speaker.

In honor of National Poetry Month and SJSU's 150th, the Poets and Writers Coalition at SJSU will present "A CELEBRATION OF SJSU POETS: PAST, PRESENT AND FUTURE" at 1:30 p.m. on Saturday, April 21, in the Spartan Memorial Chapel. The reading will represent the largest gathering of SJSU poets in history. Participants will include distinguished alumni, faculty and students. More [PDF].

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