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About The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current | View Entire Issue (Oct. 3, 1997)
Friday October 3 ; 1997 Texas Southern University stunned by deans murder HOUSTON (AP) — Irma Malloy, who headed the college of educa tion at Texas Squthern University, was a down-to-earth woman who treated her employees like friends, staffers recalled Thursday. Ms. Malloy, 61, was shot and killed Wednesday night at a Ken tucky Fried Chicken restaurant. Po lice say she had placed her order and was the second car in line at the drive-thru when a dark blue car pulled up behind her. Two men got out of the car and walked up to the driver’s side of Ms. Malloy’s car. Ms. Malloy got out of the car. There was a confrontation, a scream and a gunshot, police re ported. Ms. Malloy who was shot in the head, died at the scene. Witnesses said three men were involved in the shooting. Police had not made any arrests in the killing Tuesday. Gloria Tapscott, Ms. Malloy’s ad ministrative assistant since 1995, said the dean always tried to steer young people in the right direction. Ms. Malloy had been a social work er with juvenile offenders and would sometimes have short con ferences withTSU students who she thought might not project the right image outside the school. Ms. Tapscott wondered if that concern surfaced during the con frontation Wednesday night and if Ms. Malloy tried to talk the men out of committing a crime. “She worked with youth so it would have been like her to try to counsel with them, to tell them ‘This road won’t lead you to any good.’,” Ms. Tapscott said. Co-workers also remembered Ms. Malloy as an administrator who put herself on equal footing with everyone in her office, visit ing co-workers who were in the hospital and calling those who were sick at home. “Even though she was your boss, she never treated you that way,” said Patsy Godine, budget adminis trator for the college of education. “You were expected to do your work, but if there was ever a time that you needed her personally, she was there for you.” She was also dedicated to the college of education, Ms. Tapscott said, waking up at four in the morn ing and starting her work day before coming into the office at 10 a.m. “She worked practically all day for the college of education and Texas Southern,” Ms. Tapscott said. Students were tops on Ms. Mal loy’s priority list, Ms. Godine said. “She talked to them any time,” Ms. Godine said. “Sometimes she would be late for her meetings, but she always had an open door for the students and the faculty and staff.” During her tenure, Ms. Malloy oversaw the opening of programs that included the HIV/AIDS Center and the Center for Development and Studies for Pedagogy for African American Learners. Ms. Malloy had also been work ing with the State Board for Educa tor Certification, which is develop ing rules for an accountability system for educator preparation programs. No TSU students who took the test to pass secondary English passed, according to 1995-96 re sults. Ms. Malloy talked to the Texas Higher Education Coordi nating Board in April about tactics TSU was using to help faculty who were preparing students for teacher certification exams. Texas educator preparation AUSTIN (AP)—Teacher prepa ration programs are facing a day of reckoning in Texas. Beginning next year, the pro grams will be rated in an account ability system required by state law and being implemented by the State Board for Educator Certification. If too many of a program’s graduates fail the state exam for certifying teachers, it will be placed under review and a state team will be sent to help. If the program doesn’t improve after three years, it will lose its state accreditation. That means it no longer would be recognized and people who attend it couldn’t be certified as teachers, said Mark Lit tleton, executive director of the certification board. “If graduates of institution ‘X’ consistently fail the English ExCET (Exam for Certification of Educa tors in Texas), we will not allow them to continue to prepare teachers in that academic area,” he said. “After three years, they lose their program.” If an institution offering a teacher education program loses its accreditation to offer English, for example, it could continue preparing teachers in other areas if it meets state criteria. The accountability system is re quired under a 1995 law that over hauled Texas education. The certi fication board, which meets Friday, is responsible for rules to put the system in place. Proposed rules so far detail how the system would operate, but don’t yet set the ExCET passing rate considered acceptable. The first rankings under the account ability system will be released Sept. 1,1998. The state eventually will look not only at the ExCET but at grad uates’ performance as beginning teachers. Universities, school districts and education service centers of fer teacher preparation programs. The ExCET includes sections on the subject areas prospective edu cators want to teach as well as on whether they know how to teach. The percentage of prospective teachers who pass the content- area tests ranges from zero to 100 percent, according to certification board figures. Between 34.8 per cent and 100 percent pass the pro fessional development part. Extremely low passing rates can be due to just a small number of people taking the test. At the college at which no one passed the content area, fewer than five students took the test. Littleton said that’s something the board can consider. Concerns also have been ex pressed by institutions that pro vide teacher preparation to those who earned their bachelor’s de grees at other universities, Little ton said. “There’s a lot of discussion about that—who’s really your stu dent, and who isn’t?” said Marilyn Kameen, associate dean for teacher education and student af fairs at the College of Education at the University of Texas at Austin. But Ms. Kameen, who is part of a group that has worked on the ac countability system, called it a necessary step. “It’s important to give institu tions the credibility they need and also to police the profes sion,” she said. 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