Each year, IACAC selects individuals to honor through our various awards. These awards are a small way to recognize those individuals who have given back to IACAC and others. To help us select this year’s recipients, please consider nominating a member. List…
Okay, I’ll admit it; one of the greatest things about being IACAC President is the fact that at each year’s annual spring conference the President gets to award amazing members for their contributions to our organization, in particular, and the…
769 ... of you went the extra mile and attended the 2011 IACAC Annual Conference. It was a pathway full of learning for me as President-Elect, but it was well worth the effort. I hope that you had as good…
Bruce Scher, Academic Dean at Chicagoland Jewish High School, received the Patricia A. Kasowski Recognition Award at the 2011 Annual Conference. The IACAC Recognition Award was inaugurated in 1974, to recognize long and meritorious service to our profession, the rendering…
The changes of fall surround us – amazing outdoor colors, crisp morning air, and shorter days. Tradition or change? Both, right? Certainly, here in the Midwest we know that we are experiencing a traditional fall – of change.
IACAC is experiencing the same, as it often does at this time of year. The new Executive Board is in place, Committee Chairs have been named and most have already been hard at work getting their committees and committee projects off the ground. We do this within the warmth of IACAC tradition and history. As IACAC President, it is incredibly rewarding to watch our 2010 Conference theme, Enhancing Tradition, Cultivating Change, continue to play out in the work we are doing.
At the NACAC National Conference held in St. Louis, Missouri, three members of IACAC were honored for their long-term commitment to our profession and serving students in their postsecondary transition. Marybeth Kravets (retired from Deerfield H.S.) received the Gayle C. Wilson Service to Education Award, Aliza Gilbert (Highland Park H.S.) received the Human Relations Award, and Marsha Hubbuch (retired from Riverside-Brookfield H.S.), for her initiation of Project Reach, received the Rising Star Award.