Don
Creamer served Virginia Tech
for 28 years in a variety of capacities. For more than 20 years, he
has been the driving force behind the Higher Education and Student
Affairs Program. On July 15, 2005, Don celebrated his retirement.
To honor his work and distinguished career, his colleagues, students,
and family have established the Don G. Creamer Fund, an endowment
to be used to support the program he created and, in particular, research
on the CAS Standards and the advancement of professionalism by students
and faculty members in the Higher Education (HED)
Program at Virginia Tech.
An Endowment
to Support the Higher Education Program
at Virginia Tech and the
Research Activities of Its Graduate Students
SPECIAL
NOTES:
November 9, 2009 - The HED Program is especially pleased to
announce that the fourth annual Don G. Creamer Research Awards have been made.
This year's recipients are: Dexter Bush-Scott and Valerie Shayman for their project titled, Assessing Case Management Services for Virginia Tech Employees and Students;
Fulya Marsh for her project titled, Revisiting Transition: Experiences of Middle Eastern Graduate Students in the United States; and
Cara McFadden for her project titled, Sense of Competence Scale-Revised (SCS-R): An Instrument Development and Validation Study for an Existing Instrument to Measure Traditional Age College Students Sense of Competence.
The Selection Committee included Don Creamer, Bethany Flora, and Diana Ridgwell(Chair). If you have the occasion, please congratulate these students on their noteworthy accomplishments.
These awards were made possible by all of those alumni, friends, and colleagues who have contributed to the Don G. Creamer Fund for Excellence.
For more information visit "How to Contribute."
The most current Foundation Newsletter can be found here.
For
additional information contact Dr. Joan B. Hirt (jbhirt@vt.edu)
or Dr. Steve Janosik (sjanosik@vt.edu)
at 308 East Eggleston Hall, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia
24061.