10/25/01 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Contact:

William Calhoun, vice president, University Advancement, (319) 273-6078

Gwenne Culpepper, University Marketing and Public Relations, (319) 273-2761

Note to editors/news directors: 200 dpi JPEG images of Sarah Lancaster, Michael McBride and Frank Robinson are available on the Web at: http://www.uni.edu/pubrel/newsroom/photos/slancaster.jpeg http://www.uni.edu/pubrel/newsroom/photos/mmcbride.jpeg http://www.uni.edu/pubrel/newsroom/photos/frobinson.jpeg

Three appointed to UNI Foundation Board

CEDAR FALLS, Iowa -- Three University of Northern Iowa alumni have been appointed to the university's Foundation Board. They are Michael McBride, Sarah Lancaster and Frank Robinson.

Sarah Lancaster, who lives in Madison, Wis., graduated from UNI in 1970 and taught in Cedar Falls and Waterloo. She later moved to Madison, where she taught and became an active community volunteer, working with the Madison Art Center, the Art League Board and the Madison Symphony Board. She and her husband Jon served as members of the university's national steering committee for the "Leading, Building, Sharing" campaign of the 1990s.

Michael McBride is a 1962 alumnus of what was then State College of Iowa, now residing in Brookfield, Wis. In 1991 he established the J. Michael McBride accounting scholarship at UNI. He has served on the UNI Accounting Advisory Board and was a member of the Foundation Board in the mid-1990s. A longtime supporter of the university, he and his wife Ginny recently made gifts to the "Students First" campaign, to help fund the McLeodUSA Center. McBride retired in 2000, as president and CEO of Gustave A. Larson Co. in Milwaukee.

Frank Robinson graduated from what was then Iowa State Teachers College in 1957. A Des Moines native who now resides in Rockville, Md., he recently worked as chief of National Program and Activities in the Office of Elementary and Secondary Education in the U.S. Department of Education. He retired in May. As a student he was a member of the track team and is now a life member of the UNI Alumni Association.

Each of the three will serve a four-year term on the board.

10/25/01

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Contact:

Sandra Alper, head, Department of Special Education, (319) 273-2569

Gwenne Culpepper, University Marketing and Public Relations, (319) 273-2761

UNI receives $1.4 million grant to train special education personnel

CEDAR FALLS, Iowa -- The University of Northern Iowa's Department of Special Education recently was awarded a $1.4 million grant from the U.S. Department of Education. The funding will help develop a master's level program that will prepare trainees for employment as secondary special education teachers, work-experience coordinators, transition specialists, or adult service providers.

Funding is available for students pursuing full-time master's degrees, and for teachers and other professionals who will pursue a master's degree part time. Co-directors of the grant are Alper and

Patricia Sitlington, professor in the Department of Special Education.

For more information, contact Marilyn Busch in the UNI Department of Special Education, (319) 273-6061, or marilyn.busch@uni.edu.

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