In this issue

• Faculty News
• Faculty Member Offers Free Download of Book on Child Discipline
• Curricula
• Career Technical Education Credential Offered
• Coaches Invited to Free High School Athletics Lab in Carlsbad
• Awards and Achievements
• 23 Percent of CA National Board Certified Teachers are affiliated with National University
• Alumna Named National School Counselor of the Year Finalist
• Alumni Profile: Milken Award Winner Susan Baum
• Five Alumni Who Have Won the Milken Educator Award
• National University Secures $240,000 FIPSE Grant
• SOE Student Wins Scholarship Essay
• Alumni Services
• National University Offers Monthly Teachers' Resource Newsletter
• Prescription Discount Card Offered to Alumni

SOE Student Wins Scholarship Essay

A winning essay by National University student Oral Urquidi has earned her a $500 BrainTrack Teaching Schools Scholarship, according to a news release distributed on January 14.

Ms. Urquidi is a mother of three who is attending school online as a full-time student. She plans to obtain her Single Subject Teaching Credential, Math in 2010. In her essay, she said the online degree program offers the convenience and format she needs, and she enjoys learning from her professors.

BrainTrack is an Internet-based directory of the world's universities and colleges. It indexes and contains information about universities, polytechnics, colleges and other higher educational institutions from over 190 countries.

To read Ms. Urquidi’s essay, click here.