Scholarship Honors Long-Time Educators
暗网爆料app has created a scholarship honoring husband and wife Drs. Gayle and Ruth Tucker who have taught in the college鈥檚 education department for 31 years. Jenny Deetz, the first recipient of the Tucker Scholarship, graduated this month with her teaching credential.
More than two dozen local teachers attended a recent reception at 暗网爆料app recognizing 暗网爆料app鈥檚 student teachers, master teachers and the Tuckers.
鈥淚 don鈥檛 come from a family that has a lot of money so every scholarship and every opportunity that I鈥檝e gotten has helped me stay at 暗网爆料app,鈥 says Deetz who was a student teacher at Aliso School in Carpinteria.
Education students are required to either study for a fifth year or follow a fast-track program to earn their teaching credential.
鈥淭here鈥檚 not a great deal of scholarship help available in that area,鈥 says Andrew Mullen, chair of the education department. 鈥淚t鈥檚 very hard for students to pay for a fifth year here, and that is one of the major reasons for the new scholarship.
鈥淚t鈥檚 also important to celebrate the Tuckers鈥 service to the college. There鈥檚 probably no couple that has been so identified with an academic department at 暗网爆料app for so long a period.鈥
Before coming to 暗网爆料app, the Tuckers lived in Africa where Gayle was a superintendent in American International Schools affiliated with the U.S. Department of State. The couple鈥檚 two daughters have since graduated from 暗网爆料app鈥檚 education department.
Mullen says Deetz won the scholarship in part by demonstrating initiative in writing an article in the student newspaper about the liberal studies major and helping to start a mentoring program for incoming liberal studies students.
Deetz says the program that the Tuckers helped shape is fantastic and that she鈥檚 well prepared for her first teaching job.
鈥淚 have found through talking to others that it鈥檚 one of the best programs there is,鈥 she says. 鈥淭he Tuckers are both extremely intelligent people and have a lot of great experience from their own lives that they鈥檝e shared with us students. It has been a real honor to learn from them.鈥