Still Life

With four guide ropes attached to it, the east-side clock face is raised into position. While it didn't seem that windy on the ground on Saturday, Jan. 28, winds higher up were strong, requiring extra guidance to bring the clock face safely to the Old Main bell tower.

Old Main clock faces installed

Ben White of New Vibrations Audio and Video works on a ledge of the Old Main bell tower, to remove the speakers from the old chime system. The company installed a new carillon system today (Jan. 27) that will play a digital recording made of the original Old Main bell that now sits adjacent to Old Main and other bells of comparable sizes.

New carillon, restored clocks being installed

The funeral procession for Joe Paterno made its way past Beaver Stadium and down Porter Road as crowds applauded on Jan. 25. Thousands lined the procession route through the University Park campus and downtown State College to bid a last farewell to Joe Paterno.

Joe Paterno's funeral procession

Coach Joe Paterno was on the field for the first half of the Nittany Lions' football game. Penn State beat the Iowa Hawkeyes 13-3 on Oct. 8, 2011, in front of an enthusiastic crowd at Beaver Stadium.

Joe Paterno through the years

Katie Knobloch and Andrew Adamietz, members of the a capella group Blue in the Face, shared a candle at the vigil held Sunday, Jan. 22, to mourn the death of Penn State football coach Joe Paterno, who passed away earlier in the day. Several thousand members of the Penn State and State College community came out to the Old Main lawn on Penn State's University Park campus for the vigil.

Thousands mourn Paterno's passing

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American Journal of Education called one of education's top journals

Monday, February 15, 2010
Gerald LeTendre
Gerald LeTendre

University Park, Pa. -- A recent survey of more than 300 of the nation's top university scholars in the field of education has placed the Penn State-based publication American Journal of Education (AJE) among 11 core academic journals with "demonstrated impact."

Researcher Rodney K. Goodyear (University of Redlands) and his colleagues analyzed 126 education-focused academic journals and published their findings in the article "The Intellectual Foundations of Education: Core Journals and Their Impacts on Scholarship and Practice" in the journal Educational Researcher.

"This is a remarkable achievement given that AJE moved to Penn State less than 10 years ago after a period of decline and a missed year of publication in 2002," said Gerald LeTendre, editor of American Journal of Education. LeTendre assumed leadership of the journal after the passing of William L. Boyd in 2008. College of Education graduate students Emily Crawford (Educational Theory and Policy) and Melanie Fedri (Higher Education) are the current managing editors.

"Under the leadership of Bill Boyd," LeTendre said, "AJE flourished."

Goodyear and his colleagues asked their survey respondents to assess education journals across several factors, including scholarship, policy and practice, and impact. The authors noted that concept of "impact" is far ranging -- it "overlaps with the less explicit concepts of journal prestige, reputation and quality."

Many other fields are highly focused disciplines. They may be served by only a handful of academic journals, and the hierarchy of those journals is relatively apparent. The field of education is a complex weave of disciplines and subject matter, which makes being identified as a core journal special for AJE.

"Because education is such a broad field that encompasses kindergarten through graduate education, subject specialties, pure research to pure practitioner orientations, there are very few journals that speak to all educators -- only 11 according to this study," LeTendre said. "I think it is one of the strengths of AJE that we continue to offer articles that cover the broad spectrum of educational research."

The complete article is available at http://edr.sagepub.com/cgi/reprint/38/9/700.pdf online.

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