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Dedication

Module by: National Council of Professors of Educational Administration

Summary: This Handbook of Doctoral Programs in Educational Administration is dedicated to the students and faculty lost at Virginia Tech on April 16, 2007.

Dedication

At 9:30 a.m. on April 16, 2007, a horrific tragedy occurred as 32 students and professors were senselessly killed at Virginia Tech by a lone gunman. It was particularly sad to discover it was a Virginia Tech student who committed this atrocity. In addition, 28 more students were wounded. Some of the students lost were just beginning their collegiate careers while others were finishing their studies and preparing for vocations as engineers, teachers, veterinarians, dancers, writers, chemists, and international policy makers. Included in the 32 were 9 freshmen, 3 sophomores, 2 juniors, 4 seniors, 9 graduate students, and 5 professors. Some might suggest that more effective mentoring and counseling might have prevented this tragic loss of so many lives in academe.

But one thing is for certain--beginning on April 17th, it has been mentoring and advising that has helped students and faculty deal with the loss of so many of our friends and colleagues and it has been mentoring and advising that has helped students and faculty emerge from the darkest of all days. It has been mentoring and advising that has pulled an academic community together to unanimously agree with what English professor and nationally acclaimed poet Nikki Giovanni so firmly stated at the Convocation April 17, 2007:

We are strong And brave And innocent And unafraid

We are better than we think And not yet quite what we want to be

We are alive to imagination And open to possibility We will continue To invent the future

Through our blood and tears Through all this sadness

We will prevail We will prevail We will prevail

We are Virginia Tech

Because this doctoral book is a collaborative effort of 28 authors who believe in the mission of education to be “alive to imagination and open to possibility,” we dedicate our work to the 32 loved ones from Virginia Tech and their families:

Students

  • Ross Abdallah Alameddine Sophomore, University Studies
  • Brian Roy Bluhm Master's student, Civil Engineering
  • Ryan Christopher Clark Senior, Psychology
  • Austin Michelle Cloyd Sophomore, Honors Program, International Studies
  • Matthew Gregory Gwaltney Master’s student, Environmental Engineering
  • Caitlin Millar Hammaren Sophomore, International Studies
  • Jeremy Michael Herbstritt Master's student, Civil Engineering
  • Rachael Elizabeth Hill
  • Emily Jane Hilscher Freshman, Animal and Poultry Sciences
  • Jarrett Lee Lane Senior, Civil Engineering
  • Matthew Joseph La Porte Sophomore, University Studies
  • Henry J. Lee Sophomore, Computer Engineering
  • Partahi Mamora Halomoan Lumbantoruan Ph.D. student, Civil Engineering
  • Lauren Ashley McCain Freshman, International Studies
  • Daniel Patrick O'Neil Master's student, Environmental Engineering
  • Juan Ramon Ortiz-Ortiz Master’s student, Civil Engineering
  • Minal Hiralal Panchal Master’s student, Architecture
  • Daniel Alejandro Perez Sophomore, International Studies
  • Erin Nicole Peterson Freshman, International Studies
  • Michael Steven Pohle, Jr. Senior, Biological Sciences
  • Julia Kathleen Pryde Master's student, Biological Systems Engineering
  • Mary Karen Read Freshman, Interdisciplinary Studies
  • Reema Joseph Samaha Freshman, University Studies
  • Waleed Mohamed Shaalan Ph.D. student, Civil Engineering
  • Leslie Geraldine Sherman Junior, Honors Program, History
  • Maxine Shelly Turner Senior, Honors Program, Chemical Engineering
  • Nicole White Sophomore, International Studies

Faculty

  • Christopher James Bishop Instructor, Foreign Languages
  • Jocelyne Couture-Nowak Adjunct Professor, Foreign Languages
  • Kevin P. Granata Professor, Engineering Science and Mechanics
  • Liviu Librescu Professor, Engineering Science and Mechanics
  • G.V. Loganathan Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering

Written April 25, 2007

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