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facultyA fond farewell (but not really goodbye) to 8 retiring facultyThe great thing about the academic world is that you never really have to say goodbye. The College of Educationbid an official farewell to a number of retiring faculty over the past year, but many of these scholars will remainactive in research in their roles as emeritus professors—and all of them have produced scholarship that will deepenour understanding of education for years to come. Among the retirees are:Jeri BensonAssociate DeanBefore joining the College ofEducation as associate dean foracademic affairs in 2004, JeriBenson was associate dean offinance and administration andassociate dean for academic affairsat the University of Georgia’s Collegeof Education. She also was a member of the facultyat UGA for 10 years prior to her move into administration.During her professional career of 31 years, she alsohas been on the faculty at the University of SouthernCalifornia and the University of Maryland-College Park.She taught graduate level courses in measurement, statistics,and structural modeling. She has published nearly50 journal articles and book chapters. Her researchinterests include the measurement of test anxiety andstatistical approaches to construct validation. At UF, shehas worked with faculty development including hiring,promotion and tenure, and other UF reviews; she hashelped to lead the college’s state and national accreditationefforts; worked to develop the fiscal side of thecollege’s distance education operation; and numerousprojects related to the college budget and operations. Analumna of UF, Benson earned her Ph.D. in foundationsof education at the College of Education.Phil ClarkEducational Administrationand PolicySince 1972, Professor PhilClark has been director of theStewart Mott Davis Center forCommunity Education, whichhelps communities developeducational programs to meetthe changing needs of citizens. A leader in the fields ofleadership and community education, Clark has representedthe United States, Canada and Bermuda on theInternational Community Education Executive Board,and has received distinguished service awards from PhiDelta Kappa, the National Community EducationAssociation, the Florida Association for CommunityEducation, and the Adult and Community Educators ofFlorida, Inc.Jim DoudEducational Administrationand PolicyProfessor Jim Doud becameone of the nation’s youngest highschool principals at the age of 21,and went on to a 26-year career inK-8 administration before joiningthe professoriate. Doud taught atthe University of Northern Iowa before coming to UF,where he served from 1994 to 2005 as the chair of theEducational Administration and Policy department.Among other honors, Doud has been named HonoraryNational Distinguished Principal by the NationalAssociation of Elementary School Principals and is arecipient of the John M. David Distinguished EducationalLeadership Award from the Southern Associationof Colleges and Schools.Mary Kay DykesSpecial EducationSpecial Education ProfessorMary Kay Dykes has builther career on finding solutionsfor students who don’t fit thetraditional mold provided by theK-12 school system. Much ofher research has centered on theneeds of gifted students, particularly “nontraditional”gifted students—those who are disabled, economicallydisadvantaged or from cultural groups that are underrepresentedin gifted education. Long before multidisciplinaryprojects came to the fore in academia, Dykessaw the potential benefit in working with specialists inother fields, and developed cross-disciplinary projectsthat looked at the role therapy, nutrition and otherhealth issues play in student outcomes. Popular withher students, Dykes received the college’s GraduateTeacher of the Year Award multiple times. She chairedthree divisions of the Council for Exceptional Children.Dykes served as executive director of curriculum servicesfor the School Board of Alachua County from 2002-2004, where she coordinated a number of innovativenew federally-funded programs in the county schools.John GregoryTeaching and LearningProfessor John Gregory isperhaps best known for his researchon the way mathematics teachersask questions of their students, andin particular, his studies of howteachers’ silences can encouragestudents to participate. But over his35-year career as a teacher educator, he also wrote a numberof books intended to make mathematics fun for K-12students—including a book of number puzzles in limerickform. Gregory has served as a writer of the Sunshine StateStandards and a consultant on the Florida Teacher CertificationExamination.Larry LoeschCounselor EducationProfessor Larry Loesch cameto UF at a time when the counselingprofession was almost entirelyunregulated, and played a crucialrole in the movement to establishcertification procedures thatwould boost the reputation of theprofession nationwide. A leader in the development of theNational Counseling Exam, he was also the first presidentof Florida Association for Measurement and Evaluationin Guidance. His accomplishments led the AmericanCounseling Association to name him a Fellow of theirorganization and to give him their Arthur A. HitchcockDistinguished Professional Service Award.Rodman WebbEducational PsychologyAs associate dean for academicaffairs at the turn of the 21st Century,Rodman Webb played a key rolein the College’s shift to a facultygovernanceleadership model, andhelped lead a number of efforts totransform the built environment atNorman Hall—including the conversion of the NormanGym into the Digital Worlds Institute and the plannedconstruction of a super-high-tech Experiential LearningComplex. As a professor in the educational psychology,Webb taught qualitative research methodologies to ageneration of young researchers. His own research interestsinclude the philosophy of social science, pragmatism,school improvement, teacher careers and the education ofstudents at risk of school failure.Paul GeorgeTeaching and LearningDistinguished Professor PaulGeorge was one of the leading voicesin the middle school movement thatchanged the structure of K-12 educationin the 1970s. A K-12 teacher for10 years before he became a professor,George spent one week per semester inthe K-12 classroom during his tenureat UF—drawing insights that kepthis work fresh. Since arriving here in1972, he has written more than 150articles, books, textbook chapters orother publications, and many of hisworks are considered to be classics intheir field. Middle School Journal hasdescribed him as the nation’s “No.1 ranking scholar” in middle gradeseducation, and George has worked as aconsultant in nearly all of the 50 statesand 15 countries. Though enteringretirement, George has been workingon a number of projects, including acomprehensive review of the state ofmiddle-grades education, funded bythe Helios Foundation.30 EducationTimes Fall / Winter • 2008 Fall / Winter • 2008 EducationTimes 31
facultyBehar-HorensteinDixonGarrettDental journal appointsCOE professorLinda Behar-Horenstein, professor in educationaladministration and policy, has beenappointed to the editorial board of the Journalof Dental Education. One of the nation’s mostinfluential publications on academic dentistry,the JDE publishes dental research and articles onthe instruction of student dentists. As an affiliateprofessor at UF’s College of Dentistry, Behar-Horensteinhas helped that college improve its teachingmethods. Last year, she was appointed to UF’sAcademy of Distinguished Teaching Scholars, atask force dedicated to improving teaching acrossthe UF campus.Honor societyelects DixonAndrea Dixon, associate professor of counseloreducation, has been elected to a three-year termas secretary of Chi Sigma Iota, the internationalhonor society for professional counselors. Dixonalso serves as co-faculty advisor to the UF BetaChapter of CSI.Garrett namedASGW FellowMichael T. Garrett, professor in counseloreducation, was named a Fellow of the Associationfor Specialists in Group Work, or ASGW, at theAmerican Counseling Association’s 2007 annualconvention in Detroit. The ASGW representsaround 900 group work specialists and teachereducators nationwide.Fu joins advisory bodyon teaching of writingThe National Council of Teachers of English hasappointed UF Education Professor Danling Fu to itsCommission on Composition, the deliberative andadvisory body that helpsset policy for NCTEand its 60,000 memberteachers and institutions.The commissionidentifies and reports onkey issues in the teachingof writing for theNCTE, recommendsnew projects for the organization,and suggestsFu (right) with a writing studentat a local elementary school.appointmentsDean heads nationalgroup promoting higheredaccess for minoritiesDean Catherine Emihovich has been electedpresident of the Holmes Partnership, a consortiumof local and national education interests dedicatedto equitable education and reform in teaching andlearning.The consortium unites educators from universities,public school districts, teachers’ associationsand other organizations working together to createa powerful, unified voice in educational reform.The group tackles issues such as equal access andsocial justice in education and—through the HolmesScholars program—provides scholarship andleadership placement opportunities for underrepresenteddoctoral students seeking academic careersin higher education.Emihovich has been a Holmes Partnershipmember since 1994. Her scholarly pursuits matchup well with the humanistic mission and activitiesof the Holmes Partnership. Her major research interestsinclude race, class and gender equity issues;literacy education and school-university partnerships.She is a past president of the Council onAnthropology and Education within the AmericanAnthropological Association, and a past editor ofAnthropology and Education Quarterly.new topics for booksproduced by NCTE.Experts in high-poverty schools, special educationawarded prestigious Fien professorshipsBrownell, left, and Ross32 EducationTimes Fall / Winter • 2008 Fall / Winter • 2008 EducationTimes 33Anexpert in preparing teachers for high-povertyschools and a nationally-known authorityon special education have each been awardedthe prestigious Irving and Rose Fien Professorship inEducation at UF’s College of Education.Professors Dorene Ross in Teaching and Learningand Mary Brownell in Special Education are the newrecipients of the endowed professorship, which forthe past decade has supported researchers dedicatedto helping “at risk” learners in K-12 schools.A co-creator of UF’s renowned ProTeach teacherpreparationprogram, Ross is well-known for herefforts to prepare quality teachers for high-povertyschools. She has helped to design a school-reformstrategy that helps schools change their cultures anddevelop self-evaluation methods that allow teachersto improve their teaching practice. She also is partof the leadership team implementing and evaluatingsystemic reform in elementary schools in Miami,funded by the Kellogg Foundation.As a Fien Professor, Ross plans to work withother faculty and partnering school districts to createblended professional development opportunitiesthat couple online access to expert knowledge withschool-based coaches who help teachers developinquiries around their new learning. This approachbypasses the one-size-fits-all approach to teacherprofessional development and makes it more likelyteachers will implement what they learn.“By drawing on the vast resources available atUF we can create a library where groups of teacherscan come to find exactly the material they needto meet the demands of their classrooms,” she said,“rather than asking all the teachers in a single schoolto study the same material.”Mary Brownell is a leading international scholaron issues related to understanding the motivationsand traits of the best special education teachers—withan eye toward helping school systems fillthe dire shortages of teachers who are truly qualifiedto teach special-needs students. She is currentlyworking on a U.S. Department of Education-fundedeffort to create a new model of professional developmentfor special education teachers.“My goal is to develop the literacy practice ofspecial and general education teachers working withhigh-risk students,” Brownell said. She is interestedparticularly in finding ways to incorporate technologyinto the work she and her colleagues are doing.Brownell says teachers of students with disabilitiesand other high-risk learners need to be the strongestin the system, which is why the latest in technologymust be brought to bear in their field. “At the Universityof Florida, we have researchers in educationand other fields, such as computer science, that couldmake such a dream a reality,” she said.The Fien Professorship was created in by the lateIrving Fien, founder of Fine Distributing, a Miamibasedfood distribution company. In 1998, Fienmade a gift establishing the endowed professorshipin honor of his late wife Rose. With matching fundsfrom the state and additional gifts from the GreaterMiami Jewish Federation, the professorship is nowworth $1.17 million.“Irving Fien’s gift has a greater impact than heprobably anticipated,” said Catherine Emihovich,dean of the College of Education. “In an era ofshrinking government funding, gifts like his aremuch more vital to education than they were justfive to 10 years ago.”TIM LOCKETTE/Ed Times
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