Education

A project that places teacher candidates from China in Windsor schools has won recognition from two international development agencies.

Casa Canadiense and Pueblito Canada made the Great Essex County District School Board an inaugural recipient of the Global Education Award, which recognizes exemplary school-based projects, for its contribution to the partnership in the teacher education Reciprocal Learning Program between the University of Windsor and Southwest University China.

Megan Nicol comes by her involvement with United Way naturally. The new University of Windsor student coordinator for the charity, she says her family has a long history of giving to the cause.

“Everybody back home always has such great things to say about the United Way,” says the fourth-year concurrent education student. “I think it is such an awesome organization.”

Nicol’s role is to help young people become aware of the United Way and its community work.

Lina Nardone, an administrative assistant in the Faculty of Education, won yesterday’s DailyNews trivia contest and the prize of two tickets to see the University Players production of Jake’s Women.

Nardone’s name was drawn from all contestants who correctly responded that Alan Alda received a Tony nomination for his 1992 Broadway portrayal of Jake, Anne Archer played Maggie in the 1996 television adaptation, and The Goodbye Girl was a film before it was a play.

Nevin MacLeod enjoys going out with his friends, sharing some laughs and even maybe a drink or two, but says that in his experience, “the best times are the ones you remember.”

It’s a message the Student Alcohol Education Coordinator hopes to bring to as many of his peers as possible. He says the university years are formative for many young people.