Search begins for Education dean

A search is underway for a new leader for the School of Education (SoE) to succeed current Dean Karen Wixson, who announced earlier this year that she will step down at the end of her term June 30, 2005.

Provost Paul N. Courant has charged the Education Dean Search Advisory Committee, led by Professor of Education Deborah Ball, with presenting an unranked slate of candidates in the fall of 2004 at the conclusion of a national search. Other members of the committee are from SoE unless otherwise noted. They are:

• Percy Bates, professor of education and director of the Program for Educational Opportunity

• David Cohen, the John Dewey Professor of Education at SoE, and the Walter H. Annenberg Professor of Education Policy and professor of public policy in the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy

• Stephen DesJardins, associate professor of education

• Laurie Floyd, administrative associate in Education Studies

• Terrence J. McDonald, dean and professor of history in LSA

• Elizabeth Moje, associate professor of education

• Carla O'Connor, assistant professor of education

• Annemarie Palincsar, the Jean and Charles R. Walgreen Jr. Professor of Reading and Literacy, and professor of education

• Sarah Scott, doctoral student in educational studies

• Edward Silver, professor of education at SoE and professor of mathematics in LSA

Wixson, who has served as dean since 1998, decided to leave the position to devote more time to her teaching and research.

"Dean Wixson has been an extraordinary leader for the School of Education," Courant says. "She has positioned the school as a great leader in undergraduate and graduate instruction in education. She also has been a voice in Michigan and across the nation on such issues as educational reform, social justice in education, and reading and language assessment."

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