Five other colleges and two universities have since joined theprogram. Students at the University of the Pacific in Stockton, Calif., have long been interested in establishing official ties to ASCD, says Harriet Arnold, assistant professor in the university's Bernerd School of Education. The benefits of forming an ASCD student chapter became almost immediately evident. They know it, understand it, and show other students how to work within the bureaucracy. Such an education, Arnold maintains, will be invaluable to students when they work with school bureaucracies after leaving the university.
Students are sponges.
Through his role, Glanz hopes to show students how belonging to a professional organization can enhance their knowledge and skills. Bertram, who is also a computer-research teacher at Bergen Middle School in Bloomingdale, N.J., spent the summer helping organize Kean College ASCD's first workshop. Held in September, the workshop featured a presentation on classroom management from the president of the New Jersey ASCD affiliate. Kean College ASCD plans to hold three such workshops each year. Pacific Union College ASCD also holds workshops that feature practicing teachers and those who make decisions about curriculum and instruction.