Sybouts Student Research Seminar
Date:Lincoln NE 68503
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Thank you to our sponsors, Dr. Ward and Suzie Sybouts!
The Department of Educational Administration would like to recognize the Ward and Suzie Sybouts Fund for sponsoring the Sybouts Student Research Seminar.
Ward Sybouts was associated with Teachers College and UNL for 33 years. He served as a faculty member and chair of what is now the department of Teaching, Learning and Teacher Education; held administrative appointments in Teachers College, Graduate Studies, and the Division of Continuing education; and, finally, spent 11 years as a faculty member in the Department of Education Administration. Ward was instrumental in establishing the first distance doctoral cohort in Nebraska, which served students who did not have access to graduate education because of geographic distance from a college campus. In many ways he laid the groundwork for our current distance program, which is facilitating the educational attainment of 200+ doctoral students.
Some of our students are of an age where they still remember the days before a computer, when a typewriter and liquid paper or correction tape served as the primary tools in preparing the doctoral manuscript. Suzie Sybouts assisted hundreds of EDAD doctoral students in the preparation of their dissertation manuscripts–the majority before the common use of computers. Many of our alumni have indicated her contribution to the completion of their dissertation was as valuable as any member of their committee.