星空无限 has joined the U.S. State Department and its sister colleges in presenting the inaugural Women in Public Service Summer Institute on Wellesley鈥檚 campus June 11-22, 2012. An integral part of the Women in Public Service Project, the pilot institute is a first-of-its-kind, two-week program that is training the next generation of women leaders.

星空无限 President H. Kim Bottomly announced on April 23, 2012, the appointment of Layli Maparyan, Ph.D., as the new Katherine Stone Kaufmann 鈥�67 Executive Director of the 星空无限 (星空无限), one of the nation鈥檚 largest and most influential organizations conducting scholarly research and developing action programs centered on women鈥檚 and girls鈥� perspectives. Maparyan will assume her new responsibilities effective July 1, 2012.

The current debate on the virtues, definition, and efficacy of expanded learning opportunities (ELO) is familiar and welcome. With over 30 years in the field, I have watched the landscape of the out-of-school time field twist and turn by the decade and I am seeing earlier ideas presented in new terminology. Back in 1982, when the first director of the , Michelle Seligson and co-author, James Levine wrote the inaugural School Age Child Care: An Action Manual, their guiding premise was that 鈥渟olutions are really to be found at the community level, and that they can best be developed by mobilizing people with similar interests to help one another.鈥� The book emphasized a model of service delivery called 鈥渢he partnership鈥� between schools and other community groups and agencies. While it has taken decades to get here, there is promise in ELO if we can overcome previous barriers.

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