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Family Values

In a nationally televised program that discussed American and Canadian values in the light of the recent election, Eileen Trzcinski, associate professor, Social Work, discussed Americans\' psychological need to be the \"World Best,\" and Number. She said this need limits serious debate about the country's difficulties. While our health care system has serious problems, for example, we still know that it\'s the \"best\" and we refuse to even consider the possibility that we could learn from others. This comment was tied into the question of why so many Americans are considering immigration.

Prepaid tuition plans feel strain

From Virginia to Texas, a growing number of public universities are seeking to redefine their relationships with their state governments and the taxpayers who historically supplied billions to support the schools. This is raising potential new problems for already troubled prepaid tuition programs, which have struggled as investments foundered and tuitions increased in recent years. Michigan's savings plans give parents a chance to prepay their children's college tuition.

Affirmative Action

The U-S Supreme Court upheld the use of race in college admissions in June 2003, but questions linger on how to implement the Supreme Court ruling and solve inequalities in the education system. Experts say the drop in minority applications has little to do with last year\'s battle - there simply aren\'t enough minority students. The number of highly qualified, African American students coming out of public schools across the country is small and shrinking. All the top universities in the country are competing for those students.

Schoolkids on payroll for learning

JoAnne Holbert, assistant dean for the division of theoretical and behavior foundations in Wayne State University\'s College of Education, comments about a new teaching incentive tool called "Beverly Bucks" currently being used as part of the third-grade curriculum at Beverly Elementary in the Birmingham school district. Students earn "Beverly Bucks" in the form of vouchers when they complete schoolwork such as homework, tests and class work. A bonus is thrown in for good quality. \"I think you\'re giving them a half step up the ladder to understanding that this is benefiting me,\" Holbert says. \"I would imagine the teacher is thinking that if I can get you to get something positive from learning, the next step is learning for its own sake.\"

Electricity may help stroke victims

Repetitive Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (rTMS), a non-invasive procedure of sending tightly focused magnetic pulses into the brain, is highlighted as a revolutionary technique that may significantly help stroke victims. \"A lot of us believe that this is really going to be a turning point in intervention in neuroscience,\" says Dr. Randall Benson of Wayne State University and the Detroit Medical Center. While doctors have already shown that implanting electrodes in the brain to deliver stimulation can help control tremors, he said, rTMS offers a way to stimulate brain circuits without surgery. Benson is just starting a study of using the magnetic stimulation to improve stroke-related language impairment.

Detroit's heyday: Revival of housing, attractions and businesses bring back memories

Frank H. Wu, dean of Wayne State University's Law School, reminisces in an opinion piece about his childhood impressions of Detroit and his return following a 20-year absence. Wu recounts a recent orientation program to Detroit he attended sponsored by the Wayne State University College of Urban, Labor and Metropolitan Affairs. "I saw what is hidden in the open. We toured the east side and the west side, visited Focus: Hope, listened to experts, and so on. In three days, we uncovered what has been obscured by prejudice for three decades," Wu said. He concludes that Detroit's turn-around is happening noting the "enormous range of housing construction" as a tangible sign of positive change. A photo of Wu is included.

Scholarships keep alive Parks' legacy

Rochelle Riley notes in her column that Ben Burns, director of Wayne State University's journalism program, led the educators who created the Rosa Parks Scholarship Foundation which has offered $1.5 million to more than 750 students in 24 years. Kim Trent, now a 35-year-old regional manager in Senator Debbie Stabenow's office, benefited from the scholarship program through her attendance at Wayne State's Journalism Institute for Minorities.

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