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Wednesday, December 05, 2012
Three New Members Join Delmarva Education Foundation board
SALISBURY, MD – Katherine Harting, Gains Hawkins and Virgil Shockley have joined the board of directors for the Delmarva Education Foundation. The mission of the Delmarva Education Foundation is to promote college access and success for residents of the lower Delmarva Peninsula.
Harting, of Princess Anne, is the former executive director of the Delmarva Education Foundation, transitioning onto the board following her retirement after four years at the helm. Prior to joining DEF, she worked at the University of Maryland Eastern Shore as adjunct faculty in the Department of English and Modern languages for three years and as a media specialist in the Department of Agriculture for almost 20 years.
Hawkins, of Salisbury, recently retired from the University of Maryland Eastern Shore where he served as vice president for institutional advancement since 2003. At UMES he served on the President’s Cabinet, the President’s Executive Committee and the Gala Committee. Prior to that, he was the assistant vice president of University Advancement at Salisbury University for five years and served as director of public relations at SU for 13 years.
Shockley, of Snow Hill, was elected as a Worcester County Commissioner in 1998 and is currently serving his fourth term. He has been in the farming and poultry business for 40 years and for 26 years has served as a Worcester County school bus contractor. He previously taught industrial arts and drafting at Wicomico Junior High School and is a member of the Tri-County Council for the Lower Eastern Shore of Maryland.
For more than a decade, DEF’s trained college access advisors have provided assistance to individuals, families and groups on a wide range of topics relating to post-secondary education, including finding money for college. Call DEF at 410-219-3336 or visit www.delmarvaed.org for more information.
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The mission of the Delmarva Education Foundation is to promote college access and success for residents of the lower Delmarva Peninsula.
And Virgil Shockley has no college education?
Not true. The article does not list the educational background of any of the new board members. It discusses their most recent work history.
Mr. Shockley is in fact a 1976 graduate of the University of Maryland Eastern Shore.
Just what we need-More people with useless degrees who in reality had no business seeking higher education to begin with. How they have dumbed down the colleges and universities is unreal.
My friend's daughter an education major at SU, last year turned in an English paper and intentionally over and over used poor grammar and the "professor" didn't catch not one of the errors. My friend highlighted the errors and framed the paper and hung it on the wall to show everyone.
So many of the parents who send their children off and pay good money think they are getting a good education and that is so far from the truth.
Obviously she didn't really want an education. Students who act like that deserve what they get. You get the education you work for, not the education you pay for. Going to an ivy league institution and paying a fortune guarantees a student no better education than going to a community college, if the student can't be bothered to work for it. Don't knock the system or the goals of others on the shore who want to better themselves just because of one bad professor and one incredibly stupid student. God help the kids she ends up teaching.
2:12, she is a highly intelligent student who last June took the LSAT at Geo Wash U and passed with an extremely high score. She doesn't want to teach or become a lawyer but intends to be a journalist, which today a law degree is just about required for that field.
Yes God help her students if she ever does decide to teach because she will demand excellence and perfection, something unheard of in public education institutions of today.
Don't be so naive to ever believe that state colleges and universities are anywhere near the equivalent of a private college. The standards for admissions are lower for one thing so that should tell you something. That being the case the curriculum is geared toward such and an above average student suffers because of this.
As 10:26 am I stand corrected. From the Maryland government website is states: Born September 28, 1953. Attended Snow Hill High School; University of Maryland Eastern Shore, B.A., 1975.
The first two board members were retired educators from UMES so you know they had and educational background.
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