Busy TAA People: Dave Dillon awarded Open Textbook Award

TAA member Dave Dillon has been awarded the Open Textbook Award for Excellence by the Open Education Consortium for his textbook, Blueprint for Success in College and Career. The book is designed to show how to be successful in college and career preparation, and focuses on study skills, time management, career exploration, health, and financial literacy.

The Open Textbook Award for Excellence is presented to high-quality innovative teaching and learning materials openly available online for everyone to use, reuse, revise, remix and redistribute.

The award is selected by the OE Awards Committee to recognize truly exceptional work in Open Education. “We applaud your dedication to openness, access, high quality and innovation shown by your work and vision,” said Marcela Morales, Director of Community Relations for the Open Education Consortium.

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Busy TAA People: Mary Kay Switzer

TAA member and former TAA Council President Dr. Mary Kay Switzer will be an honored feature in noted Chinese author Albert Chang’s book and paintings, “Six Women,” to be exhibited in Tokyo in April 8-10, 2019.  Chang and Switzer began their collaboration at California State University Pomona. Switzer has been designated Professor Emerita at that university. She is currently living in Tempe, Arizona where she is involved in theatrical productions.

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Busy TAA People: David Lucander to appear on Travel Channel’s ‘Mysteries at the Museum’ tonight at 9 pm ET

TAA member Dr. David Lucander, an assistant professor of Pluralism and Diversity in America at Rockland Community College, will appear on the television show, Mysteries at the Museum, Friday, October 16 at 9 p.m. on the Travel Channel. This will be a special episode about the most famous protest that never happened: the 1941 March on Washington. As the author of a recent book about this subject, Winning the War for Democracy, Lucander was interviewed by the show’s producers for this episode.

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