Some of my work as of the fall...updating soon.

1. Newsletter
Spring 2008
School of Education
Enriching Education Globally and Locally
Jennifer Randall, Assistant Professor
in the School of Education’s
Department of Educational Policy,
Research, and Administration (EPRA),
has joined the concentration in
Research and Evaluation Methods.
“I look forward to mentoring graduate
students and enjoying New England’s
unique culture,” said Randall, who
comes to the School of Education having completed a Ph.D.
at Emory University’s Division of Educational Studies. At
Emory, she focused on educational measurement, with
interests including teacher grading practices and social
studies education.
“My motivation for coming to UMass Amherst was
the opportunity to work with the most well-respected
psychometricians in the nation,” she said. “I hope to both
learn from and contribute to the great body of research
here.”
Christina Ortmeier-Hooper, Assistant
Professor in the Department of Teacher
Education and Curriculum Studies
(TECS), graduated from UMass
Amherst in 1995 with a B.A. in
Comparative Literature. She believes
that her educational experiences at
UMass Amherst laid the foundation for
her subsequent research in literacy
education at the University of New
Hampshire, from which she holds a master’s degree in
Secondary English and English as a Second Language, and a
Ph.D. in English. Her research to date has included work on
adolescent literacy, theories of identity and writing,
composition studies, and second language writing.
UMass Amherst fueled her commitment to schools and
teachers, she said.
“I’m delighted to be part of the School of Education
at UMass Amherst. As a new faculty member, I am
looking forward to working closely with colleagues
committed to public education, school improvement, and
teachers,” she said. “I hope to pursue school-university
partnerships, particularly in the areas of literacy and writing
development.”
Laura A. Valdiviezo, Assistant
Professor in the Department of Teacher
Education and Curriculum Studies
(TECS) is looking forward to “working
collaboratively with excellent
colleagues and contributing to the
faculty diversity and its commitment to
social justice.”
She was drawn to the School of
Education’s strong tradition of
commitment to multicultural education. Her professional
interests include indigenous education; sociocultural
approaches to language policy; teacher’s cultural and
linguistic practices in multilingual settings; and intercultural
and multicultural education.
Valdiviezo says that she enjoys working with students from
different cultural and linguistic backgrounds and working
in an environment where there are opportunities to practice
and develop a pedagogy which is critical and open to
change.
For Assistant Professor Cristine Smith,
a position at the School of Education’s
Department of Educational Policy,
Research, and Administration (EPRA)
is a return home.
She comes back after almost 20 years
as a senior program officer for World
Education, a Boston-based nonprofit
in part devoted to global adult literacy
programs and research. Smith received her doctorate in
1997, focusing on adult literacy programs for women in
South Asia.
“I anticipate staying at UMass Amherst through the end of
my career and learning from my colleagues and students,
as well as doing international work and research that
contributes to people’s education and choices in life,” she
said. “I’m thrilled to be working with graduate students
from a wide variety of countries on the design of literacy and
non-formal education programs, on designing training and
development projects, and on research.”
“My passion is pretty much everything to do with how
to help adults learn to acquire and improve their reading,
writing and numeracy skills in ways that help them do what
they need and want to do as workers, community members
and family members,” she said. “I specialize in women’s
non-formal literacy, integrated with health and livelihood
improvement, and in professional development for adult
literacy teachers here in the U.S.”
SOE Welcomes New Faculty

2. 2 University of Massachusetts Amherst
Greetingsfrom the Dean
We are now close to the Centennial Celebration, which will take place on
June 13th and 14th. The Dean’s Office is crackling with activity, as we
finalize the full slate of events celebrating 100 years of preparing educators
at UMass Amherst and the 51st year of the School of Education. Be sure to
check out our new web site for the latest information, at
http://www.umass.edu/education.
The Celebration marks the inauguration of a new School of Education
Award of Distinction. Deserving alumni and friends of the School will be
noted for distinctive contributions to the School, their field, or students.
As if that wasn’t enough to keep us busy, we recently had our accreditation
visit by the National Council for Accreditation of Teacher Education
(NCATE), the coalition of more than 30 national education professional
organizations, recognized by the U.S. Department of Education to accredit
educator preparation programs. From May 3 to May 7, the peer-led
review examined the School’s performance in a number of evaluation areas
including faculty qualifications and the knowledge, skills, and professional
disposition of our candidates.
While speaking of being recognized for our accomplishments, I want to
note that the School of Education continues to advance in the annual U.S.
News & World Report ranking of graduate schools of education. The
2009 report, based on a combination of expert opinion about program
quality and statistical indicators about the faculty, research and graduates,
ranked the School of Education, once again, in its Top 50 (45th).
We also welcome new faculty and staff. In particular, you will likely be
hearing more from Jera Jamison, our new Director of Development. She’s
been hard at work getting to know our 20,000-plus alums. For more
information about Jera, see our story on page 5.
I look forward to seeing you in June.
Christine B. McCormick
Dean
For many
of us in the
School of Education
Community, this will
be one of the busiest
semesters of our
careers.

3. School of Education Newsletter 3
Looking Back
The View
From the
Dean’s Office
In honor of a century of preparing
educators at UMass Amherst and
the 51st birthday of the School of
Education, we asked four past deans
to share insights about their time at
the helm. It’s been quite a ride for the
School over the last 40 years.
Dwight W. Allen (1968-1976)
More than three decades since his
tenure as Dean of the School of
Education, Dwight Allen remains the
committed visionary and individualist
that made him the stuff of legend. All
these years later, he still insists the
system isn’t getting it right, a point
that he campaigns for in “American
Schools: The 100 Billion Dollar
Challenge,” which he wrote in 2000
with Dr. William H. Cosby, Jr., whose
doctoral degree dates from Allen’s
deanship.
“We keep putting new frosting on the
cake and stirring it around, but we
refuse to bake the new cake,” Allen
said.
Allen looked back with some fondness
at his time at the School, a period he’d
characterize as one in which he got
close to baking the new cake. Brought
to UMass from Stanford in 1968, Allen
raised hackles in some quarters for his
revolutionary recasting of the School.
“What we were doing was so
innovative…the faculty senate was in
a constant uproar,” he said. “I could
sympathize with them. From their
point of view, this was a very messy
process.”
Upon taking the deanship, “I
announced that 18 months later
every course, degree, program, and
requirement in the school would be
hereby discontinued, and we’d spend
the next 18 months figuring out what
to replace it with,” he said. Starting
with the intention of hiring 15 new
faculty, that number mushroomed to
34.
“[At the time,] the University assumed
they had to offer 2 or 3 positions for
every position that was accepted…they
weren’t expecting everybody to say
yes,” he said.
Another of Allen’s noteworthy
innovations was attracting those with
nontraditional backgrounds.
“The greatest challenge was to
overturn a culture of complacency or
tradition, and put new things on the
table, and get people to really create an
environment where new alternatives
were able to be genuinely considered
and implemented,” he said. “And we
considered them and we implemented
them.”
During this first planning year, “I’d
anticipated 15 doctoral students that
we would designate as special doctoral
students, who’d be given status of
faculty for planning purposes, they
would be considered faculty with full
voting rights,” he said. By the time the
dean finished with this plan, the School
had 90 doctoral students, not 15.
“So we had 90 doctoral students and
a total faculty of 51, of whom 34 were
new,” he recalled. “The new faculty
already outvoted the old faculty, and
then we gave all these 90 doctoral
students votes, so theoretically any
vote during the planning year, the
students could outvote the faculty if
they wanted to.”
“During those two years of our
planning and implementation, we
never ever had a vote that was student
versus faculty. Ever.”
Allen takes pride in the fact that the
School under his watch sent out a very
diverse batch of qualified graduates.
“We had 24 different programs of
teacher education,” he said. “We
had the fill-in-the-blanks list of 185
competencies, which, as soon as you
checked off all 185, you were a teacher.
We had clinical programs, we had all
these different styles, and you had the
philosophers and the bean-counters
and the psychologists… we allowed
each of these models to succeed on its
own terms.”
“I was very proud of the fact that at
the end of the day, we demonstrated
--anecdotally—that the graduates from
all 24 programs were hot candidates
for many, many positions,” he said.
“They had no trouble getting jobs
whatsoever.”
Still, Allen’s School had its critics,
which he feels resulted in the
controversy that ended with his
departure from the deanship.
“You had all this resentment in the tall
grass, so when I went on leave in 1972,
all the people came out of the tall grass
and piled on,” he said.
In 1972, as Allen went on leave to go
to work for UNESCO on a project
in Africa, scandal brewed at UMass
Amherst. Allegations of financial
mismanagement, involving supposedly
millions of dollars in grant funds,
brought in federal agents.
continued on page 7

4. 4 University of Massachusetts Amherst
News from the School of Education
About 35 people, representing past donors to the School of
Education’s scholarship program and scholarship recipients,
gathered at the Nov. 2 School of Education Centennial
Scholarship Celebration at the University Club. Organizers hope
that this is just the first in a series of receptions honoring this
important relationship between funders and students who have
benefited from their gifts.
The Nov. 2 program included both donors and recipients of
some of the School of Education’s endowed scholarships.
Anne E. Talley, a M.Ed. student in Secondary Education
and 2007-2008 recipient of a Meline Kasparian Endowed
Scholarship, presented honorary plaques to two sponsors of the
scholarship: Jane Miller, former president of the Massachusetts
Society of Professors, and Catherine Boudreau, former President
and current Board Member of the Massachusetts Teacher’s
Association.
“The [Meline Kasparian] scholarship I received has allowed me
to focus more intently on my studies,” said Talley, who is doing
her prepracticum at Great Falls Middle School in Montague.
“I am truly appreciative to be able to make my education here
at UMass Amherst my number one priority and I am able to do
that thanks to the scholarship I received.”
Scott Tyner, a doctoral student in Child and Family Studies,
presented a congratulatory plaque to Marjorie Cahn (Ed.D,
1982), founding donor of the Early Childhood Education
Endowed Scholarship. Tyner’s studies are being supported by
that scholarship and the Joseph W. Keilty Endowed Scholarship.
“This support enabled me to transition from my 20-year career
in early childhood special education, to my current life as a
full time doctoral candidate in child and family studies,” Tyner
said. “By acknowledging the worthiness of my work, these
awards were powerful confidence boosters. The laptop computer
that I was able to purchase with scholarship funds is a daily
reminder of the important practical value that these financial
opportunities can provide to people just like me.”
The School boasts over $1 million in endowments geared for
scholarships.
“Scholarships support students while they pursue their
educational goals, but scholarships are also important to the
School,” said Dean Christine B. McCormick, speaking at the
reception. “By offering scholarships, we can compete with the
Harvards, Berkeleys, and dare I say it, UConns out there and
attract top graduate students.”
“Scholarships help us to retain students by giving them the
resources and peace of mind to focus their time and energy
on those things that help them to succeed as education
professionals,” McCormick said.
Professor John J. Clement, (Ed. D., 1976), of Teacher
Education and Curriculum Studies, was among the
select few (8 in all) to receive an Award for Outstanding
Accomplishments in Research and Creative Activity at the
2007 UMass Amherst Faculty Convocation.
Clement’s research focuses on designing effective
instructional strategies, meaningful curriculum, and creative
programs in science.
Professor Stephen G. Sireci, Codirector of the School of
Education’s Center for Educational Assessment, received
the Chancellor’s Medal, the highest honor given by UMass
Amherst to individuals for exemplary and extraordinary
service to the campus. The award followed Sireci’s lecture
“Are Educational Tests Inherently Evil?” at the Distinguished
Faculty Lecture Series.
A member of the Research and Evaluation Methods
concentration in the Department of Educational Policy,
Research, and Administration, Sireci has been a member of
the faculty since 1995.
Jerri Willett, Professor and Chair of the Department of
Teacher Education and Curriculum Studies in the School of
Education, was recently awarded the Distinguished Outreach
Teaching Award. Professor Willett and colleagues established
the ACCELA (Access through Critical Content and English
Language Acquisition) Alliance, and is presently working
with the Massachusetts Department of Education to move
ACCELA to a statewide initiative.
Faculty Awards
Scholars Meet the Donors

5. School of Education Newsletter 5
Meet Jera Jamison
We are pleased to announce that Jera S. Jamison, MSSW,
has joined the School of Education as our Director
of Development. Jera was most recently the Director
of Development in the Office of Outreach for UMass
Amherst, where she helped design and implement the
first-ever comprehensive development program for UMass
Amherst Extensions and University Without Walls.
Prior to entering the realm of higher education, Jera
served as Executive Director of several organizations
working with at-risk families and youth.
“My direct social work experiences have been
instrumental in creating and building relationships
that will work for the best interest of the mission
and goals of the School of Education,” She said.
Jera has an impressive list of goals for next year, such as:
• engaging alumni
• connecting alumni with faculty
• developing a capital campaign plan, and
• advocating for the School.
She says that it is essential to help others to understand
that “while ‘fund-raising’ is about raising money, more
importantly it is about offering others the opportunity to
make commitments that are meaningful in their lives. ”
“We are delighted to have Jera on board, and excited
about being able to more fully engage our alumni and
friends to keep in touch in a sustained fashion,” said
Dean Christine McCormick. “One of Jera’s leading
initiatives during this Centennial Celebration year will
be to arrange in-person meetings to update alumni and
friends about the exciting developments in the School
of Education and to get your feedback about the types
of initiatives you would like to see in the future.”
Drop by and say hi to Jera at 126 Furcolo Hall or contact
her at (413) 545-1112 or jjamison@educ.umass.edu.
Alumni, Friends, Faculty, Students and Staff are
invited to the School of Education Centennial
Marathon, Friday and Saturday, June 13 and 14, and
Celebration Dinner, June 13.
We’ll be taking over the first floor of the Campus
Center for all the festivities.
The Marathon brings together faculty, emeritus
faculty, students, alumni, and friends to exchange
ideas, share innovative educational practices,
strengthen connections, and honor the School’s legacy
of supporting excellence and equity in education.
Festivities kick off Friday afternoon with registration
starting at noon, followed by the opening sessions.
At 4:30, School of Education faculty will host
individual receptions open to all participants.
The Celebration Dinner on Friday evening will
feature former deans, distinguished alumni, emeritus
faculty, and the first School of Education Awards of
Distinction presentation. The Marathon continues
Saturday with breakfast and sessions until noon.
The Center for International Education is hosting a
40th Reunion Dinner on Saturday evening.
Please visit our website for updated information
about registration, special guests, session topics,
and events: http://www.umass.edu/education/news/
centennial.shtml. For more information please call
(413) 545-0897.
Join Us Now, We’re on a Marathon

6. 6 University of Massachusetts Amherst
A Recipe For Stone Soup
Larned with 2006 Nobel Prize winner Muhammed Yunus
Marianne Larned, a 1973 graduate of UMass Amherst’s
School of Education, recently visited the campus for the first
time in 20 years.
“Seeing old friends and exploring my roots,” she said. “A
whole flood of memories came back.”
Larned is author of “Stone Soup for the World: Life-
Changing Stories of Everyday Heroes.” Based on the folktale
of the villagers who made soup from a special rock, Larned
promotes the idea that when we each give our gifts, we
create a feast for the whole world.
Her work is based on models of innovative education that
she first picked up at the School of Education. Larned,
who has dedicated her life to building a healthier and
more sustainable world through energizing and connecting
community leaders, credits the UMass Amherst School
of Education with developing and nurturing her global
perspective and passion for peace.
“The UMass Amherst School of Education had a huge
influence on my life, and I’m very grateful,” she said. “It
gave me permission to think and ask questions.”
Coming to UMass Amherst fresh out of high school in 1969,
the relatively sheltered Larned discovered a campus teeming
with the kind of social ferment that rocked college campuses
in the 1960s. The School of Education, under the leadership
of Dean Dwight W. Allen, was no exception, she said: It was
a rich learning environment.
“People were thinking out of the box, asking important
questions, developing creative projects” she said, noting the
contributions of such border-stretching innovators as Bill
Cosby, Sidney B. Simon, Jack Canfield, Roberta Flack, and
Dr. J. (Julius Irving).
“Our professors encouraged curiosity, to explore what might
be possible, what kind of world we wanted to live in,” she
said. “These were very important questions, questions we
need to be asking ourselves today.”
Over the years, her work has taken on many forms –
educator, health consultant, journalist, and public speaker
are among her various roles -- but a common theme has
developed. Tapping into the business and organizational
development skills she gathered in her graduate work, she
went on to develop public-private partnerships to address
education, health and economic development.
Her curriculum, piloted in the US by the YMCA in 8 states,
has been used in 120 communities throughout the world,
with after-school programs for high school, middle school,
and elementary school students, but also in jails, churches,
and other diverse settings.
Founded in 1997, the Stone Soup Leadership Institute boasts
a prestigious advisory council including Honorary Chairman
Walter Cronkite and Muhammed Yunus, recipient of the
2006 Nobel Peace Prize.
She regularly has to practice the kind of “thinking outside
the box” that she first saw at UMass Amherst, and it’s this
kind of thinking that she believes can seed peace throughout
the world.
“I think the UMass Amherst system is well-positioned right
now to be at the forefront of education in Massachusetts.,”
she said. “People need to be proud of the School -- give
back, and get involved,” she said.
“The next level of teachers coming out of the School of
Education could make a huge difference,” she says. “The
planet is in trouble, big time. It’s hard work, but we really
don’t have a choice.”
“UMass Amherst needs to take credit and stand up and
prepare this generation of leaders,” she said. “I would like to
be part of that.”

7. School of Education Newsletter 7
“There was a huge brouhaha and the
FBI came in and sealed the records of
the School,” remembered Allen. The
administration wanted him back from
Africa, “but I had made a commitment
to the government in Lesotho to open a
college…building the college, designing
the curriculum, training the staff,
recruiting the students and everything
would come to a big bang…I didn’t feel
I could walk out in the middle of that.”
“I went ahead and resigned to make
it easier for them,” a decision he later
regretted. “The media took this as
evidence that the whole thing was even
worse than anticipated.”
At the end of the day, an assistant
professor pleaded nolo contendere to
misusing $18,000. Allen would stay
on as a member of the faculty for two
years more, leaving in 1978. He would
take a professorship at Old Dominion
University, where he has remained
through the years. He retires at the
end of this academic year, having
continued to break new ground, with
innovations such as having students
write their own textbook for his course
in Educational Foundations. He now
lives in Denver, Colorado.
“The greatest achievement (at UMass
Amherst) was that we created an
innovative culture that really was able
to test the edges of the envelope,”
Allen said. “People kept predicting our
demise, and it just didn’t happen.”
Despite the scandal, Allen says he
would do it all over again, if given the
chance.
“I’d love to come back there or
someplace else and have another
round,” he said. “Bill (Cosby) and I
say that unless the country is willing to
treat education as a matter of national
security, we’re not going to get the job
done.”
Marilyn J. Haring (1988-1991)
With the position of dean vacant in
the wake of Dean Mario Fantini’s
failing health, the School of Education
turned to Marilyn Haring-Hidore
(as she was called during her term at
UMass, and who now uses the name
Marilyn Haring). She had been serving
as associate dean for graduate studies
at the University of North Carolina at
Greensboro’s School of Education.
Haring’s three-year term started with
an immediate crisis. The School’s
accrediting agency, the National
Council for the Accreditation of
Teacher Education (NCATE), notified
the new dean that, based on the
findings of an earlier visit, NCATE was
denying accreditation of the School’s
programs that prepared educational
personnel.
“I immediately made a trip to
Washington to interact with NCATE
officials and began a three-year
dialogue that resulted in an agreement
that was very satisfactory to me,” she
said. NCATE agreed that if UMass
Amherst made improvements notable
on a return visit in three years, it
would be listed as continuously
accredited, with no gap of the benefits
that would accrue to graduates.
Mario D. Fantini (1976-1987)
The late Dr. Mario D. Fantini came to take the mantle at the School of
Education having had a major role in the decentralization of New York
City’s public schools.
In the late 1960’s, he was among a group involved in establishing an
experimental local school district in the Ocean Hill-Brownsville section
of Brooklyn, which became a leading player in the city’s decentralized
districts. He spent his career as an education reformer, advocating school
systems with greater community participation and schools that were better
adapted to urban students’ needs.
While at UMass Amherst, Fantini worked to position the School of
Education at the center of national discussions about education, hosting
annual spring forums “in keeping with our role as a major school of
education to educate the public and educators.”
“When I think about your service to our University as Dean of the School
of Education, I am especially impressed by the energy, imagination, and
foresight which you brought to the task,” wrote then-Chancellor Joseph
Duffey in a letter read at a 1987 celebration honoring Fantini, “Your
vision of emerging issues often anticipated developments which occurred
later at the state and nation level.”
“Your leadership also helped this campus to develop greater sensitivity to
the public concerns expressed by our legislature. Finally, you strengthened
and enhanced the School of Education’s commitment to access and
achievement for women and minorities,” Duffey wrote.
Fantini was the author of many books, and while at UMass Amherst wrote
“Regaining Excellence in Education,”(Charles Merrill, 1986). He resigned
because of illness but remained on the faculty until his death in 1987.
View from the Dean’s Office,
continued from page 3

8. 8 University of Massachusetts Amherst
“There was little enthusiasm in the
School to do the very hard work of
preparing for a second visit, and
making some important adjustments in
programs,” she said. “However, I was
convinced the only way for the School
of Education to survive during the very
difficult times that hit UMass Amherst
in the late 80s was to regain NCATE
accreditation and demonstrate the high
quality of professional education on
campus.”
It was a matter of life and death for the
School, she decided.
“The Commonwealth of
Massachusetts was in desperate need
of funds, which resulted in many
budget cuts at the University. I
was determined that the School of
Education would not be sacrificed
to that end,” she said. With the able
assistance of Associate Dean Richard
Clark, Division Heads, and personnel,
this Herculean effort reaped success,
she said. NCATE noted “only three
weaknesses, and every standard was
passed,” Haring said.
“I have never been prouder of a school
of education,” she said.
Haring also grappled with a dwindling
budget. The School of Education lost
15% of its budget during the three
years of her deanship, and the School
only hired one new faculty member
during that period.
“It was a time of ensuring the survival
of a proud School of Education,” she
said. “During this time, I needed to
be a fierce advocate for the School of
Education within the University and
state and also nationally.”
“My characterization of those years,
then, is a time of successful transition
to the future that was achieved by a
great deal of hard work by faculty,
staff, and School of Education
administration,” she said.
Haring left UMass Amherst in 1991
to take the position of dean for the
Purdue School of Education. She
helmed that school for a decade,
overseeing a revamping of the
curriculum to include field experiences
in each of the four years of professional
preparation, developing a doctoral
program in Northwest Indiana
utilizing interactive video instruction,
and adding to the diversity of faculty.
She retired from the deanship in
2001, taking her first sabbatical leave
ever, and returned as a half-time
faculty member in Higher Education
Administration. She retired for good in
2007.
She credits her time at UMass Amherst
with teaching her how to fight for her
school.
“Often on campuses, education
schools are viewed as less important
than science, math, engineering, and
business enterprises, to name a few,”
she said. “At UMass Amherst I learned
the value of such advocacy and that it
requires enormous energy and constant
commitment.”
“Most of us underestimate the
challenges inherent in any kind of
change,” she said.
Bailey W. Jackson (1991-2002)
“I said it’s about time I got honest
here and do the job, and find out why
all these pearls of wisdom I’d been
giving to these people haven’t been
followed,” says Bailey Jackson, a wry
tone shading his voice. “I did find out,
and after 11 years, I’m still reflecting
on that.”
“I had an advantage in some respects.
I had relationship capital with some of
the faculty. I was a part of the School
of Education family before I came in.”
he said.
Bailey Jackson served as dean from
1991 through 2002, the first years
of his tenure marked by the 1993
Education Reform Act, which would
radically change the face –and
funding— of education in the state.
Jackson makes no bones about
characterizing the Act as being
motivated by politicians interested in
privatizing education and demonizing
public education. That said, he feels
the reforms and subsequent budget
trimmings required the School to
streamline its focus through a tough
decade, and fight back against some
attacks on its reputation.
“There was a sense on campus that
the school lacked a lot of rigor,” he
said. “There was a sense that it was
mostly catering to social issues and not
enough around academic issues. There
was concern that the school didn’t
engage in enough research to be really
credible. And some of these things
are not just about the School, but are
about schools of education in general.”
“I came wanting to see what it was, if
anything, I could do to help strengthen,
improve, or correct the misconceptions
that were out there about the School
and what it is about,” he said.
“Ed Reform helped in the sense that
it helped me make my case with my
colleagues, that we weren’t getting out
there and letting people know what’s
going on in the world of education,” he
said. “I don’t think that we collected
the kind of data necessary to justify
the things that we were doing, and so
when critics came in challenging us,
‘show us the proof that your pedagogy
is in fact working,’ we didn’t have the
necessary data.”
“It was kind of a wake-up call. There
were a number of people in the field
who I think took on the challenge,
but I think we were trying to fight
off a kind of right-wing perspective,
and at the same time trying to do our
homework,” he said.
Jackson is particularly proud of
how he turned this challenge into an
opportunity for advocacy. Challenged
by the state Commissioner of
Education to improve connections
between the state hierarchy and the
schools of education, Jackson set out to
assemble a council of deans.
“At the time I didn’t quite know the
size of that task. I didn’t know
there were 62 programs in the
commonwealth,” he said. “So I

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reduced it to the public and private
deans, about 10 to 12, and we formed
a group that later became known as
the Commonwealth Education Deans
Council.”
“That was a real proud time for me,
because initially it was pretty much a
support group for deans, so we could
get together and say nobody loves us,”
he said. “But it sort of became a group
that could speak to Ed Reform issues.
And did. In a lot of places, it was an
important group for dialoguing with
the Department of Education, the
Board of Higher Education, as well
as the Board of Education. And that
group grew. In fact some colleges made
their heads of education into deans, so
they could be on that council.”
On the downside, Jackson faced a
worsening of the perennial budget
woes.
“The School of Education and a couple
of the other schools and colleges got
hit very hard with the budget cuts…
so for the first time in the school’s
history I had to lay off a couple of staff
members,” he said. “Which was very
hard for me, given my long history
with the School.”
Eventually illness and the rigors of
the job resulted in his decision to step
down and rejoin the ranks of faculty.
“Overall, I found my 11 years in the
office of the dean to be challenging
and rewarding, and --with the help
of my associate dean, Jay Carey--
provided an opportunity for me to
learn a great deal about educational
administration,” he said. “I believe
that when there’s a good match
between the person in the dean’s chair
and the evolution taking place at the
School, the School will grow in an
effective manner.”
The trick, he said, is to know when it’s
time for a new leader.
“Sometimes the best leadership
decision is to step down,” he said.
Andrew Effrat (2002-2005)
After Bailey Jackson’s departure,
Andrew Effrat took up the mantle on
an interim basis.
“It was three years, but in dean years
that was 21, of course,” quipped
Effrat, now UMass Amherst’s
Associate Provost for Faculty
Recruitment and Retention.
“To coin a phrase, it was the worst of
times, and it was the worst of times,”
he said. “Enormous budget cuts that
UMass Amherst had to absorb. It was
something on the order of 30 percent
in a couple of years. Real cuts of
historic, Biblical proportions.”
“The amazing thing is UMass Amherst
and the School of Ed came out of this
and survived, lived to fight again,
to prosper again, and to be able to
rebuild,” he said.
Despite these challenges, or perhaps in
part because of them, Effrat remains
proud of certain accomplishments
from his days in the dean’s office.
In particular, he was happy to see
the implementation of Bridges to the
Future, a teacher licensing and master’s
degree program that offered on-site
teacher preparation in the Greenfield,
Gill-Montague, Athol and Orange
School Districts, based on the model of
the 180 Days in Springfield program.
“I think one thing I tried to do is be
very transparent about the process, and
be proactive about encouraging efforts
to bring in new resources, new people,
grants, initiatives, and take it as an
opportunity and a time to go forth and
build,” he said.
Having faced that challenge, Effrat
now sees a School and a University
experiencing better times.
“Fortunately, it’s a time of a lot of
hiring and building,” he said. “We’ve
got about 100 searches going on right
now throughout UMass Amherst.”
“It’s a change, from dark days to a
brighter time.”
Virginia Lee Verdier (M. Ed.
2001), of South Deerfield, died
Nov. 11. Formerly employed in
UMass Amherst’s Undergraduate
Advising Center, she retired in 2001.
Born in Brooklyn, N.Y., she was
a graduate of Mata Christi High
School, received her B.A. in 1997
through University Without Walls
and completed her M.Ed in 2001.
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10. 10 University of Massachusetts Amherst
Alumnae/i News
1970s
Richard P. Santeusanio (Ed. D.
1972) was named Associate Clinical
Professor and Coordinator of
the Reading Certificate Program
by the MGH Institute of Health
Professions, an academic affiliate
of Massachusetts General Hospital
in Boston. He will work with
the Institute’s Graduate Program
in Communication Sciences and
Disorders, which is designed
for educators, pathologists, and
administrators. Dr. Santeusanio
served 26 years as a public
school administrator in Danvers,
MA, including thirteen years as
Superintendent, and has been
an adjunct professor at Suffolk
University, Salem State College, and
Endicott College.
Peter Graham
Peter J. Graham (Ed.D 1975), a
professor of Sport and
Entertainment Management at the
University of South Carolina for the
past 20 years, has been honored
with an Academic Achievement in
Sport and Entertainment Award
from the International Conference
on Sport and Entertainment
Business. Dr. Graham is co-founder
of USC’s Sport and Entertainment
Management program and the
International Sport and
Entertainment Business Conference.
The award recognizes a scholar
whose research and/or teaching has
made a significant positive impact in
the fields of sport, entertainment, or
venue management.
Sonia Nieto (Ed.D. 1975), Professor
Emerita of Language, Literacy, and
Culture at the School of Education,
has been named this year’s recipient
of the American Educational
Research Association’s Social Justice
in Education Award. Nieto was
honored at AERA’s Annual Meeting
in New York City, March 24. The
award celebrates educators who
have made an extraordinary impact
on social justice through research,
policy, and practice.
1980s
Robert F.L. MacDonald (M.Ed.
1980), a member of the West
Springfield Rotary Club, was
presented the Rotary Foundation’s
Distinguished Service Award at the
recent Rotary International District
Conference. He joined the West
Springfield Rotary Club in 1982 and
was the club’s president in 1986.
He was elected district governor for
western Massachusetts and northern
Connecticut in 1998.
1990s
Jill Givler (Ed.D. 1990) was recently
named Department Chair of the
Human Kinetics Department at
Kutztown University, Pennsylvania.
She has been a professor there since
1995, and was the 2007 recipient of
the Pennsylvania State Professional
Honor Award for contributions to
the disciplines of Health, Physical
Education, Recreation, and Dance.
2000s
Michael J. Sidoti (M.Ed. 2000)
reports that he is enjoying a
rewarding career as Assistant
Director and Coordinator of
Learning Disability Services
at Northeastern University in
Boston. Mike has presented at the
Association on Higher Education
and Disability (AHEAD) and
the National Association for
Multicultural Education (NAME),
and taught undergraduate courses on
diversity. He is currently delivering
an online professional development
course through AHEAD.
Khyati Joshi (Ed.D. 2001) the
author of New Roots in America’s
Sacred Ground: Religion, Race,
and Ethnicity in Indian America,
has been awarded the 2007 Phillip
C. Chinn Book Award from the
Multicultural Program Awards
Committee of the National
Association for Multicultural
Education (NAME).
Melda N. Yildiz (Ed.D. 2002)
received an Excellence in Teaching
Award from William Paterson
University in May. She was honored
for her outstanding achievements
during the University’s fourth annual
Faculty Recognition Luncheon.
Yildiz was honored for her work
in secondary and middle school
education, and received a plaque
and a $1,000 award for professional
development.

11. School of Education Newsletter 11
What a Swell Party!
Close to 200 alumni, faculty, students and staff of the
School of Education hobnobbed in Manhattan last
month, as the School of Education hosted a Centennial
Reception at the American Educational Research
Association’s Annual Meeting in New York City, March
24-28.
Dean Christine B. McCormick, faculty, students, alumni,
and guests gathered March 27 at the Hilton New York’s
second floor. Sorry if we missed you!

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15. Newsletter
Fall 2008
The entire first floor of Lincoln Campus Center buzzed
with activity June 13 and 14 as old friends recognized each
other with happy “hellos,” and students, faculty and alumni
converged for the School of Education’s two-day Centennial
Marathon and Celebration
Dinner.
White balloons,
emblazoned with the
message “School is Cool,”
bobbed as new students,
new, former and emeritus
faculty, SOE staff and
friends registered for more
than 90 Marathon sessions
that ranged in topic from
“Factors that Influence
Secondary Teachers’
Proficiency With and Use of
Educational Technology”
to “The Many Faces of
Cinderella.”
In the middle of the
Campus Center’s concourse,
students and faculty pinned
posters to corkboards, engaging in animated conversation
about their research and community service projects with
interested passersby. Presenters of Marathon sessions
stopped to talk with colleagues or smile for photographs
as they hurried toward their next sessions. Groups knotted
here and there to discuss plans for attending the afternoon
receptions and the evening’s Celebration Dinner or to tell
stories from their days at the School to the videographers
who filmed reminiscences for archives and to post on the
School’s website. All told,
more than 400 people
participated in the events
that marked a century of
preparing educators at
UMass Amherst.
“It’s exciting, this whole 100
years,” said April Holmes of
Glendale, California, who
is preparing to receive her
teaching license through
the Bridges to the Future
program while teaching in
Greenfield, Mass. schools.
She and fellow Bridges
teachers shared their
experiences in a presentation
during the Marathon.
“It’s a little intense, but I
knew it was going to be
intense,” Holmes said. “The amount of work you’re doing
at school, you’re teaching a full day and then after school
you have classes. It was intense, but it was worth it, to get it
done.”
At the Centennial Celebration Dinner, the School
of Education inaugurated a new tradition: granting
Awards of Distinction to deserving alumni, friends, and
emeriti faculty. Recipients are selected who have made
significant contributions to the School, its students and
their field. The awards will be presented annually.
“It being the Centennial Celebration year, we decided to
award ten --one per decade-- to catch up a bit,” said Dean
Christine B. McCormick.
Department Chairs Joseph Berger, Richard Lapan and
Jerri Willett presented the 2008 Awards of Distinction to:
Mary Cowhey, (M.Ed. 2001) Elementary School
Teacher, Jackson Street School, Northampton. A
graduate of the Bilingual, English as a Second Language
and Multicultural Education Master’s program of the
School of Education, Mary took into the classroom what
she had learned during her 14-year career as an award-
winning community organizer. In 2001, she was a delegate
to the United Nations World Conference Against Racism.
She is currently collaborating with another colleague and
UMass Amherst alum, Kim Gerould, on Families With
Power, which organizes low-income parents of color in
Educators of Distinction
Continued on page 8
Deans McCormick, Haring, Allen, and Jackson at the Centennial Celebration.
Continued on page 11
Celebrating a Century

16. 2 University of Massachusetts Amherst
Greetingsfrom the Dean
Our culminating Centennial Celebration on June 13 and 14 was
wonderful! We planned for it for more than a year, and now that it is
over, I feel certain that it was the meaningful event that we all had in
mind when the Dean’s Leadership Council suggested it last summer.
Ninety Marathon sessions on topics ranging from research on work with
immigrant children to using video to increase language performance
created a buzz of conversation in the Campus Center. That excitement
continued into the evening when I had the pleasure of hosting a very
festive dinner program with remarks by Chancellor Thomas W. Cole,
Jr., Provost Charlena M. Seymour and reminiscences by former Deans
Dwight Allen, Marilyn Haring and Bailey Jackson.
During the program, State Representative Ellen Story
and State Senator Stan Rosenberg both stepped up to the
podium. Rep. Story read a Proclamation from Governor
Deval Patrick naming June 13 UMass Amherst School
of Education Day. Sen. Rosenberg noted a citation from
the State Senate and then read Gertrude Stein’s poetic
observation about Education in New England that made
the audience laugh out loud. Department Chairs Joe Berger,
Rich Lapan and Jerri Willett presented the School’s first
annual Awards of Distinction to ten noted educators to
standing ovations. It was that kind of night.
With more than 400 of us gathered in honor of 100 years
of preparing educators, I could not help but wonder what
those educators of 1907 would think about our practice of
education today.
And what will educators in 2107 think about us and our
work? Let’s hope that they find reason to honor us as we
honored those who led us to this place, this School, this
University today.
We look forward to a new academic year, the 101st
year of preparing
educators on campus. In the meantime, I encourage you to check the
Centennial photo galleries on our website to relive Centennial moments
or to see what the excitement was about if you were not able to be with
us as we closed this historic year.
Christine B. McCormick
Dean
For more about the Marathon,
including sessions, materials,
and videos of participants,
log on to
www.umass.edu/education.
We look
forward to
the 101st
year of
preparing
educators
on campus.

17. School of Education Newsletter 3
News from the School of Education
The School of Education was honored this year to be the
only American university accepted for membership in a
working group convened by the Inter-Agency Network for
Education in Emergencies (INEE).
As a representative of the UMass Amherst School of
Education’s Center for International Education (CIE),
Assistant Professor Jacqui Mosselson will work with the
INEE’s Working Group on Education in Fragility to help
ensure all people the right to education in nations and regions
in emergency situations and post-crisis reconstruction.
The INEE is a global network of non-governmental
organizations, United Nations agencies, researchers
and individuals from crisis spots throughout the world.
Representative organizations include USAID and The World
Bank, and multilateral and bilateral agencies such as Save
the Children, UNICEF and Reach Out to Asia. Only two
academic institutions are represented: UMass Amherst and
the University of Ulster in Coleraine, Northern Ireland.
During the next two years, members of the Working Group
will determine the best practices to mitigate state fragility
through education and ensure equal access to education, and
work to support programs that promote the development
of alternative means of education. The goal is to help these
countries and regions to shift from being recipients of
emergency humanitarian aid to becoming stable enough to
receive long-term development assistance and manage their
own education systems.
The Working Group held its first meeting April 14-16 in
Istanbul, Turkey. The next meeting will take place at the
end of October in Brussels, Belgium.
Members of CIE will craft a paper on education and fragility
that maps the existing research in the field, and identify
research gaps as well as lessons learned.
In addition, the School of Education's course “Education
in Post-Conflict Settings” has been restructured to reflect
this new relationship. The Director of the INEE has
offered to travel to UMass Amherst to present to students,
and Mosselson and group members have discussed other
possible links. •
FlaviaRamoslikenedthe40thanniversary
reunion of the Center for International
Education to a “pot of boiling ideas.”
Ramos was one of more than 120 School
of Education alumni who trekked to
campus from China, Vietnam, Korea,
Afghanistan, Nepal, Colombia, Senegal,
and Namibia, as well as from all over
North America, on the weekend of the
Centennial Marathon, June 13-15.
The CIE reunion “was fantastic and
seeing so many friends who ‘speak the same
language’ was even nicer,” said Ramos
(Ed.D. 1999), who is Senior Education Advisor and ABE-
BE Director at Juarez & Associates, Inc., in Washington,
D.C. “I have to say that it was rejuvenating and refreshing
to be back into that pot of boiling ideas.”
The three days of reunion activities included panel
discussions, interactive dialogs, and a plenary presentation
featuring a keynote address by William
Smith (Ed.D. 1976). (See page 4 for
more on Smith).
A gala banquet at UMass Amherst’s
Marriott Center, supported by the
UMass Amherst Graduate School and
the School of Education, and hosted
by George Urch, Emeritus Professor,
featured graduates from each decade
sharing stories about CIE.
“The banquet was a wonderful
experience that brought back untold
memories from the past 40 years,”
said Dr. David Evans, founding director of the Center, who
received some ribbing during what was called a “gentle
roast.”
“When I do retire, no retirement celebration could ever top
this,” he said. “I’ll just ask that this banquet be regarded as
my retirement event.” •
Kaki Rusmore (M.Ed. ‘95), Joanie Cohen-
Mitchell, (Ed.D. ‘04) and Joan Dixon (Ed.D. ‘95)
Forty Years of the CIE
Securing Education in Crisis Spots

18. 4 University of Massachusetts Amherst
What was the School of Education like in the early 1970s
for William A. Smith, fresh out of the Peace Corps? Was it
all he expected?
“It was much better,” said Smith, a 1976 graduate of the
School, who received a doctorate in non-formal adult
education, and who is now Executive Vice President of the
Academy for Educational Development. “It was really a
cool place.”
Founded in 1961, the Washington,
D.C.–based Academy is an
independent nonprofit organization
dedicated to solving critical
social problems and empowering
communities, institutions, and
individuals to be more self-sufficient.
It does this through improving
education, health, and economic
opportunities for the poor in the U.S.
and abroad.
Smith has been with the Academy
for 26 years, overseeing programs
in education, health, transportation
safety, the environment, and social
issues.
He entered the School of Education
at a pivotal time in his life, he said. Having earned a
bachelor’s degree in art history at the University of South
Florida in the mid-1960s, he was among a demographic
not on the track to become teachers. Still, he wanted “to
learn,” he said.
“I’d just come out of the Peace Corps and was looking
to take the next step,” he said. “A doctorate looked very
attractive.”
At UMass Amherst he became an acolyte of Brazilian
educator Paulo Freire, author of “Pedagogy of the
Oppressed” (1968), which revolutionized models of
education in the third world and introduced a less top-
down style of education.
“Poor people know a lot…they have their own solutions,”
said Smith. For example, he said, farmers were being
bamboozled by middle men purchasing their products,
and they responded by encouraging their children to learn
basic math skills in order to handle negotiations.
Smith recalled the motto “Let Jorge Do It,” a reference
to the School’s Nonformal Education Project work with
Ecuadorian campesinos during his time at the School in
the early 1970s. The project, which included a Monopoly-
like board game and role playing, concluded that rural
areas lacking the standard resources for literacy education
can fill that need with non-professional educators using
materials promoting participation and dialogue.
Smith credits the School with his
pioneering the use of social marketing,
which transfers ideas used in commercial
marketing into the realm of improving
society. Pretty good for someone who had
come to UMass Amherst with the almost
standard “marketers are evil, companies
are awful” mantra, admits Smith. But it
works, he said.
“The commercial marketplace offers you
something in order to get your money. It
tells you that you’ve got to get the product,
and why,” he said. “If you don’t get what
they promise, you don’t buy it twice.”
Those in the social services need to provide
the same kind of added value to get results,
he said.
“For instance, immunization…we spend all this time
talking about how bad measles are,” he said, noting that
this message can fall on deaf ears in developing countries.
“Instead, let’s have a big party, and immunize the kids
while we have the party.”
“It’s a non-patronizing way of helping folks,” an approach
which has been used effectively to distribute condoms,
malarial bed nets, and anti-tobacco material to previously
hard-to-reach populations, he said. Indeed, more young
people have quit smoking, not through decades of health
warnings, but because of messages that smoking isn’t cool
anymore.
Smith said the School of Education helped provide
the laboratory to test ideas that he now uses to benefit
community after community.
“The School was a perfect place to try new ideas,” Smith
said. “It pretty much shaped the fundamental perspective I
have.” •
William A. Smith
William Smith and the AED
Letting Jorge Do It

19. School of Education Newsletter 5
In the Lamoureaux household, education is a tradition.
Five members of this family have been drawn to careers in
education.
“All of them have had a positive experience of school,” said
Gary Lamoureaux of Pittsfield, Mass., attempting to explain
why his children took up the teaching baton. “They just
heard about education continually.”
Gary Lamoureaux holds a doctorate in Higher Education
Administration from the University of Massachusetts
Amherst School of Education. The son of a nurse and a
plant manager, Lamoureaux retired in 2002 after 30 years
at Berkshire Community College, 13 years as its Dean of
Student Affairs and Enrollment Services.
His wife, Nancy, (M.Ed.,
North Adams State College)
has been a physical education
teacher in Dalton, Mass. for
33 years, and retires this year.
His daughter, Nicole, taught
preschool in Winchester,
Mass. for three years, and
sons Michael and Eric both
teach in the Pittsfield, Mass.,
school system.
Younger son Eric graduated
with a Master’s degree from
the UMass Amherst School
of Education in 2004, twenty
years after his father earned
his doctorate. Eric is now Interim Community Coordinator
and Vice Principal for Pittsfield’s Silvio O. Conte School,
while Michael (M.Ed., Cambridge College) is in his third
year as a fifth grade teacher at the Morningside Community
School in Pittsfield.
A Vietnam-era veteran, Gary Lamoureaux first arrived
at UMass Amherst in the late 1960s as a 25-year-old
undergraduate. It was a little bit of a culture-shock, said the
Turners Falls, Mass., native, witnessing the full flower of the
antiwar protests on campus. Having worked for the town of
Greenfield’s park department, he hoped to continue in that
vein at UMass Amherst.
“When I was at UMass Amherst, I was focused on the
direction of recreational services,” he said.
Working with campus recreation turned into a rewarding
gig for him, which included such highlights as bringing
television entertainer Johnny Carson’s crew to UMass
Amherst. He later relocated out west, where he spent a
year as housing and activities advisor at Cochise College in
Douglas, Arizona. He became interested in education and
earned a Master’s degree in Education at Northern Arizona
University while serving as director of student activities
at the university’s South Academic Center. He returned to
western Massachusetts to take a student activities position at
Berkshire Community College
But thanks to the School of Education, the story doesn’t
end there. Lamoureaux in part credits an experimental
program at the School of Education with improving the
lot of nontraditional students such as himself. He returned
to UMass Amherst in the early
1980s to participate in Charlotte
Rahaim’s Field-Based Doctoral
Program for Community College
Personnel. The program offered
community college faculty and
administrators the opportunity
to work on their doctorates
while at their own institutions.
Participants included staff from
Holyoke Community College and
institutions in Springfield and
Connecticut.
“We had two classes at BCC…
it was a kind of six-hour class,”
said Lamoureaux. In three years, he had earned a doctorate
in Higher Education Administration which helped open
the door to his becoming a dean at Berkshire Community
College.
“If it hadn’t been for that program, I don’t know if I’d have
had the ability to go down (to Amherst) by myself,” he said.
“It was a wonderful opportunity.”
At the time of his retirement in 2002, BCC’s Foundation
established a scholarship in Lamoureaux’s name. Two
hundred twenty-seven alumni, colleagues, and friends from
around the country raised $11,352 in one month. It was the
largest amount of money generated through scholarship in
the shortest period of time in the Foundation’s history.
Teaching Runs in the Family
Traditions
Continued on page 10
Nicole (Lamoureaux) Nesbit and mom Nancy Lamoureaux (front),
with Michael, Eric, and dad Gary Lamoureaux

20. 6 University of Massachusetts Amherst
“Many good memories
of my long tenure in
the School and the
University have been
filling my mind over
the weekend. I enjoyed
meeting and visiting
with many old friends
and colleagues.”
Raymond Wyman
Emeritus Professor

21. School of Education Newsletter 7
“The Centennial went off
very successfully. After 15
years, I still felt connected and
very proud of the School of
Education. My 29+ years at
UMass were very significant for
me.”
Ronald Fredrickson
Emeritus Professor
Scenes
from the
Centennial
June 13-14,
2008

22. 8 University of Massachusetts Amherst
MeadeRollinNietoMullenMills
Cowhey CrossonCrew Dobelle Fredrickson
Northampton around educational issues. The group conducts reading and writing projects dedicated to moving from family
involvement to family empowerment.
Rudolph F. Crew, (Ed.D. 1978) Superintendent, Miami-Dade County Public Schools. Rudy became the superintendent
of the nation’s fourth largest school district, Miami-Dade County Public Schools, following a national search in 2004. He
enjoys spirited interaction with students and sharing in their challenges and successes. In 2008, he was named National
Superintendent of the Year by the American Association of School Administrators. Rudy has received numerous other awards
including the NAACP Educational Leadership Award and the Arthur Ashe Leadership Award.
Patricia Crosson, (Ed.D. 1974) Emeritus Professor UMass Amherst. A champion for diversity dating back to her days as
a UMass Amherst student in the 1970s, Pat held posts at the Universities of Pittsburgh and Maryland, before returning to
UMass Amherst as professor, concentration coordinator and Provost. Pat helped create the state-wide Community College
Leadership Academy and the Center for Education Policy. She is a member of the Dean’s Leadership Council, the UMass
Amherst Foundation and the Board of Trustees of Greenfield Community College.
Evan S. Dobelle, (Ed.D. 1987) President, Westfield State College. The youngest Mayor in the history of Pittsfield, Mass.,
Evan's political career included positions as U.S. Chief of Protocol for the White House and Assistant Secretary of State during
the Carter administration. Returning to UMass Amherst to earn degrees in educational administration, he went on to head
Middlesex Community College, City College of San Francisco, Trinity College in Hartford, Ct., the University of Hawaii, and
now Westfield State. He has also served as president and CEO of the New England Board of Higher Education.
Ronald Fredrickson, Ph.D. Emeritus Professor, UMass Amherst. Ron was essential in the establishment of counselor
education in Massachusetts and Rhode Island. A member of the School of Education’s faculty for 29 years, Ron was an
early proponent of research-based school counseling practice, founding the School of Education’s school counselor education
program. He also was among the founders of the School’s school psychology program.
Craig N. Mills, (Ed.D. 1982) Executive Director, American Institute of Certified Public Accountants. A pioneer in
computerized academic testing, Craig introduced computer-adaptive testing while at the Educational Testing Service in
Princeton, New Jersey. This model has since been adopted throughout the world. Throughout his career, Craig has arranged
internships for School of Education students.
Educators of Distinction
continued from page 1

23. School of Education Newsletter 9
2008 Degrees & Awards in Education
In May, Dean Christine B. McCormick congratulated 221 recipients of graduate degrees at UMass Amherst’s
commencement ceremony. This group represented 14 percent of all the graduate degrees conferred by UMass
Amherst. Master’s degrees in Education were awarded to 181 students and 27 graduates received doctorates.
Certificates of Advanced Graduate Studies (CAGS) were awarded to 13.
In addition, the School had more than 170 undergraduate minors graduating this year.
“When you graduate tomorrow you will be our newest alums and you will become part of a wonderful and
interesting family,” Dean McCormick said at the graduate reception May 22. “We are so proud of you and
want to hear about all of the wonderful things you are doing in your careers and your lives…please stay in
touch.”
Over the past three years, this year’s graduates received notable awards and scholarships.
Jennifer Fisette (Ed.D. 2008), was a recipient of the C. Lynn Vendien Professional Prize Award and the
Joseph W. Keilty Memorial Scholarship. Fisette’s dissertation was “A Mind/Body Exploration of Adolescent
Girls’ Strategies and Barriers to their Success or Survival in Physical Education.” Also receiving a Joseph
W. Keilty Memorial Scholarship was Cinzia Pica (Ed.D. 2008), whose dissertation was on “Children’s
Perceptions of Interethnic/Interracial Friendships in a Multiethnic School Context.”
Carolynn Laurenza, CAGS ’08, was also a recipient of the Joseph W. Keilty Memorial Scholarship.
Among this year’s Master’s degree recipients, the School had the following award recipients: Ann Marie
Burroughs, Early Childhood Graduate Student Fund Award; Yvonne Hilyard, Winifred Greene (Delta
Kappa Gamma) Scholarship; Amy Jackson, Meline Kasparian Scholarship; Linda Neas, Meline Kasparian
Scholarship; Kara Polesky, Grace Norton Carney Scholarship; Anne Talley, Meline Kasparian Scholarship. •
James H. Mullen, Jr., (Ed.D. 1994) President, Elms College.
Jim will soon take a new post as president of Allegheny
College in Meadville, Pennsylvania, having previously served
as Chancellor of the University of North Carolina, Asheville.
He was senior vice president and director of Project 2002,
a $3 million revitalization project at Trinity College in
Hartford, Connecticut.
Sonia Nieto, (Ed.D. 1979) Emeritus Professor, UMass
Amherst. Sonia is a long-time champion of multicultural
education, dating back to her teaching days in New York,
where in 1968 she took a job at the Bronx’s P.S. 25, the
first fully bilingual school in the Northeast. She taught in
a bilingual education teacher preparation program co-
sponsored by Brooklyn College and the School of Education.
Nationally recognized for her work in multicultural and
bilingual education and curriculum reform, she has been
awarded honorary doctorate degrees from Lesley University
and Bridgewater State College.
Stephen A. Rollin, (Ed.D. 1970) Retired Faculty, Florida
State University. Throughout his distinguished career, Steve
has garnered a reputation as a leader in the areas of youth
drug and alcohol abuse prevention. He started what is now
the highly successful Coalition for Psychology in the Schools
with links to 13 divisions of the American Psychological
Association.
Homer L. Meade II, (Ed.D. 1987) Senior Area Director,
National Evaluation Systems. Homer received a special
honor as the Graduate School Century of Scholarship
Colloquia Speaker. A Champion of the legacy of W.E.B. Du
Bois and past faculty of the W.E.B. Du Bois Department
of Afro-American Studies at UMass Amherst, he has been
involved in the planning of many area Du Bois programs and
was instrumental in cementing UMass Amherst’s stewardship
of the W.E.B. Du Bois Boyhood Homesite. •
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1970s
Heriberto Flores (Ed.D. 1973) has
been named the chair of the board
of trustees at Holyoke Community
College. Flores, a former UMass
trustee, has been a trustee at HCC
since 2002. He is the executive
director of the New England Farm
Workers’ Council.
1980s
Shirley L. Handler (Ed.D. 1989) has
received the 5th Annual Honorary
Lifetime Achievement Award from
the Coalition Organized for Health
Education in Schools (COHES).
Handler, the developer and
coordinator of the Health/Family
and Consumer Sciences Program at
Cambridge College, was honored in
recognition of her work in promoting
comprehensive health education in
Massachusetts.
1990s
Felice Yeskel (Ed.D. 1991) has been
selected by Equity & Excellence
in Education, a leading journal in
examining inequalities in classroom
settings, as guest editor of a special
issue on “Class in Education.” Dr.
Yeskel is co-founder and executive
director of Class Action, a national,
non-profit group based in Hadley,
Mass. devoted to raising awareness,
facilitating cross-class dialogue,
supporting cross-class alliances, and
promoting economic justice.
Marisa Suhm (Ed.D. 1999) is the
Assistant Director for the Department
of Multicultural Services at Texas
A&M University. She recently was
involved in managing a large diversity
conference at the university, and
she is working on creating an inter-
disciplinary, campus-wide diversity
certificate program, as well as a new
course on Social Justice for a Global
Society, which she will be teaching
this coming semester. Her husband
Grant Suhm (Ed.D. 1996) is a private
consultant, formerly with Texas
A&M. For years, the couple directed
Peace Corps Pre-service trainings in
Micronesia, where their son Morgan
was born.
2000s
Samson MacJessie-Mbewe (Ed.D.
2004) is teaching Educational Policy
Issues and Sociology of Education
at the University of Malawi’s
Chancellor College. A Malawian
citizen, Dr. MacJessie-Mbewe is
a Senior Lecturer in Educational
Policy and Leadership, coordinator
of postgraduate studies in the
college’s department of Educational
Foundations, and examiner for
Master of Education theses. He
coordinates the college’s Fredskorpset
Youth Exchange program with Volda
University College in Norway, and
serves on the boards for the Creative
Center for Community Mobilization
(CRECCOM), a non-governmental
organization, and Leaders Academy, a
private secondary school.
Dwaine Lee (M.Ed. 2001; Ed.D.
2007) became the director of a
merged Democracy, Governance
and Education Office with USAID/
Macedonia in June. He has been
with the group since 2006, when
he started out as the director of its
Education Office. His work includes
judicial reform, anti-corruption, and
decentralization activities, as well
as primary education reform and
workforce development, all in support
of Macedonia’s aspirations for EU
and NATO membership. He and his
family - Naoma and boys Connor, 6,
and Erik, 4 - will be there through
2010. •
Over this past winter,
Lamoureaux was tapped to
oversee an “intermodal center”
that is being jointly operated by
the Massachusetts College of
Liberal Arts in North Adams,
Mass., and Berkshire Community
College. Located in Pittsfield, the
center will serve as an additional
satellite campus.
He was also recently named
a member of the School of
Education’s Deans Leadership
Council.
For Lamoureaux, his long-time
interest in education has been
held by one thing: the students.
“What keeps you going? It’s like
a perfect golf shot after about
150 long ones,” he said. “You
see the difference that you can
make, and that makes you want
to come back…all you need is
just a few of those to crank you
up.”
These values have successfully
spread through another
generation, thanks to the pro-
education household of Gary and
Nancy Lamoureaux.
“We joke about it because they
would hear stories around
the dinner table, about both
the good and bad sides of
education,” he said. “Apparently
the positive side rubbed off.”•
In the Family
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25. School of Education Newsletter 11
Celebrating a Century
continued from page 1
The first floor concourse emptied and filled throughout
the day with tides of Centennial participants between
Marathon sessions. People nibbled refreshments while
milling about exhibits that included maps showing the
locations of School of Education alumni in over 120
countries throughout the world and posters about the
School and its history. A display of black and white
photographs of alumni and faculty taken over the decades
generated laughter and jovial comments.
“I think that was the last time I wore a jacket and a
tie…I was an assistant professor then,” said William
Matthews, professor in the School’s Department of
Student Development and Pupil Personnel Services, eyeing
a picture of himself taken about 30 years ago when he
sported a much more sizable amount of hair. “You have to
remember, ‘fro’s were popular then.”
“I think it’s great that all this is happening,” said alumna
Ruth Hook. “I’ve just witnessed two seminars, and they
were great.” The Marathon reminded Hook of her early
days at the School, when such events were the order of the
day. “It’s déjà vu all over again,” she said.
By the time the Centennial receptions began late in the
afternoon, the air filled with the festive sounds of a family
reunion while everyone mixed and mingled.
“I spent a very short time in education and a whole bunch
of time in business, so this is sort of a chance to come
back and see some old friends and get reintroduced to a
little bit of the academic environment in education,” said
Steven M. Gluckstern, Ed. D. ’74. “I’m excited by some
of the things I see here. I hope Dwight Allen’s going to be
here. He was on my thesis committee, and he’s a longtime
friend.”
Allen did indeed come out for the Marathon, heaping
praise on the School all the while expressing the
philosophy that made his tenure at the School the stuff
of legend and controversy. “We had a lot of fun while I
was here, created a lot of mischief,” Allen said. “We’re
delighted to have stirred things up.”
“I think the School is on the edge of a new epoch,” he
added. “The advice I would give the School is, dare to be
different. Get outside the box. Make mistakes. You have
the right to be wrong.”
Following the receptions, more than 200 Centennial
attendees entered the auditorium for an elegant Centennial
Celebration Dinner. Dean Christine B. McCormick
welcomed the crowd. Chancellor Thomas W. Cole, Jr.
commented on the School’s legacy and Provost Charlena
M. Seymour spoke to its future, issuing a hearty cheer,
“Go, School of Education, GO!” Former deans Dr.
Dwight W. Allen, Dr. Marilyn J. Haring and Dr. Bailey W.
Jackson, took to the podium to share stories about their
times of Deanery.
“It was certainly a learning experience…it was wild and
it was wonderful, for the most part,” said former Dean
Haring (1988-1991.)
“The School has a wonderful history, but we had to move
forward in ways that would help the School prosper,”
she recalled, turning to praise Dean McCormick. “I think
this School is extremely flexible and able to adapt to the
changing world…it’s a world that’s changing so rapidly,
education has to be new to meet those needs.”
The evening featured the presentation of the Awards of
Distinction to honored alumni and emeriti faculty (See
related story page 1).
“It’s been nice after all these years to receive an award
from the School of Ed,” said emeritus professor Patricia
Crosson (Ed.D. ’74), one of the ten awardees. “I feel like
I should be giving them something for having been so
wonderful to me.”
Award of Distinction-winner and emeritus professor Ron
Frederickson, Ph.D., and his wife, Patricia (Ed.D. ’74),
trekked back to Amherst from the family farm in Kansas
to meet old friends.
“Oh, I think (the Marathon) is a wonderful idea because it
gives us a chance to find out what the School of Education
is doing, how the programs have changed,” Fredrickson
said, noting the new challenges of No Child Left Behind
and increased measures of educator accountability. “If
you look at all of the (Marathon) programs, you will find
that most of them are responding to things that are critical
issues, right today. We can’t ignore them.”
Karen Ross attended the Centennial as a way of honoring
the School that helped her find her life’s work. A 1972
graduate whose graduate work involved teaching Native
Americans in South Carolina, Ross now teaches high
school in Worcester, Mass.
“I think being at the School was a life-changing experience
for me,” she said. “I wasn’t sure I really wanted to be
a teacher, but the programs were so innovative and so
interesting that it really made me think. At the School,
teaching became my passion. It’s my life,” she said. “It has
been for 25 years.”
Former Dean Jackson (1991-2002) expressed hope that
the Centennial Marathon would lay the groundwork for
the return of more such marathons.
“A lot more people would have enjoyed this,” he said. “I
think it’s going to take a little while, but it could be really
great to do this from year to year.”
Dean McCormick agreed that such a celebration is
invigorating for the School.
“Now that we know how to host these celebrations, you
can believe that we will be checking the archives for more
dates to celebrate,” she said. •

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30. 2UMASSSCHOOLOFEDUCATION100YEARS,DailyHampshireGazette/AmherstBulletin,May22/23,2008,specialadvertisingsupplement
UMASS SCHOOL OF EDUCATION
Dr. Christine B. McCormick, Dean, School of Education.
The School of Education is
going on a Marathon. Not the
26-mile variety, but a two-day
event, bringing together alum-
ni, faculty, friends, students
and staff to exchange ideas and
share innovative practices.
“Celebrating 100 years of
preparing educators at UMass
Amherst is an incredible
opportunity for the School
of Education community to
come together and honor the
School’s legacy of support-
ing excellence and equity in
education,”said School of
Education Dean Christine B.
McCormick.
“We take great pride in the
fact that, not only have we
endured and grown through a
century of incredible change,
we remain a forward-thinking
institution that continues to
build its broad-based commu-
nity of scholars while strength-
ening public education,”she
said. In addition to a number
of individual receptions being
held by the School during
the Marathon weekend, the
Center for International Educa-
tion is hosting a 40th Reunion
The Centennial Marathon
Did You Know?
n School of Education
graduate, Dr. William A.
Burke, founded the City of
Los Angeles Marathon, the
third largest in the world.
n School of Education
graduate, Dr. Charles
Lamont Jenkins, won two
gold medals for the U.S.
track team in the 1956
Summer Olympics.
n Ken Blanchard, author
ofthebest-selling“TheOne-
Minute Manager,”taught
at the School of Education
between 1970 and 1974.
Dinner on Saturday evening,
June 14.
The School will take over
the first floor of the Campus
Center for all the festivities,
which are open to the public.
Opening sessions kick off
Friday afternoon followed by
receptions open to all partici-
pants. The Celebration Dinner
on Friday evening will feature
former deans, distinguished
alumni, and the first School of
Education Awards of Distinction
presentation.
The Marathon continues
Saturday with breakfast and ses-
sions until noon.
The School’s long history of
preparing educators dates back
to when William Richard Hart
was tapped in 1907 to head
the Massachusetts Agricultural
College’s new program to pre-
pare agricultural teachers.
Dean McCormick said she
looks forward to the Centennial
Celebration weekend. “Given
the legacy of our storied past,
and the first-rate school that we
are today, I am confident that
100 years from now the School
would be as astounding to me
as today’s School would be to
William Richard Hart,”she said.
For information about
registering for the Centennial
Marathon and Celebration Din-
ner, registration, special guests,
session topics, and events:
http://www.umass.edu/educa-
tion/news/centennial.shtml. For
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The School of Education prepares
educators for all the roles necessary
in the operation of schools, be they
teachers of students with disabilities,
special education administrators, or
school counselors. In an increasing
number of settings stretching beyond
the UMass Amherst campus, the
School is preparing school psycholo-
gists who intern in local schools, assist-
ing teachers with effective instruction
for students new to English, and help-
ing those striving to become principals
and superintendents increase their
leadership skills.
The School’s programs make sig-
nificant contributions to the people in
our local communities. For instance,
the Access through Critical Content
and English Language Acquisition
(ACCELA) Alliance in Springfield and
Holyoke offers a Master’s Degree in
Education. This partnership supports
the academic literacy development
of linguistically and culturally diverse
students attending public schools by
providing comprehensive professional
development to local teachers and
administrators.
Another case in point is Anthony
Davila, M.Ed. 1997, acting principal of
Springfield’s Chestnut Middle School.
When Davila left Chestnut Middle
School to go to high school, he
thought he would never return. After a
successful internship tutoring students
there while he was an undergraduate
psychology major at UMass, he signed
up for the School of Education’s 180
Days in Springfield program to pre-
pare to become a teacher at Chestnut
Hill. Initially hesitant, it was with the
urging of School of Education instruc-
tor Robert W. Malloy that Davila finally
chose a career in teaching.
“It was perfect for me, working in
a school that I had already been at,
where I’d been as an intern,”Davila
said.“It’s an awesome opportunity, so
I jumped on it.”
180 Days in Springfield is a more
than ten-year old partnership be-
tween the UMass Amherst School of
Education and the Springfield Public
Schools. This intensive, yearlong stint
in urban middle and high schools
nets participants a Master’s degree
in Education and a Massachusetts
initial teacher license. As part of the
program’s community outreach and
service learning components, teacher
candidates develop“legacy”projects.
The School of Education:
ServingWestern Massachusetts
Anthony Davila is the acting principal at Springfield’s Chestnut Middle School.
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“My project was pretty
much an intensive English-as-
a-second-language course,”
Davila said. His students prac-
ticed their English in informal
settings, like playing chess,
and interacted with leaders of
the local Latino community.
“I was able to get people
to come in, people that had
positions of prestige in the
community, who were English
language learners themselves,”
he said.“They could tell their
success stories. These students
need that kind of encourage-
ment.“
“I saw kids that were strug-
gling, that were intelligent,”
Davila said.“A lot of these kids
were coming from their native
countries as honor students,
and then coming here and
struggling. They were pigeon-
holed, they were marginal-
ized, and I thought they were
the best students in the entire
school. And I thought no one
else saw it.”
Davila stayed on at Chest-
nut Hill eventually seeking
Did You Know?
School of Education
alumni head a number of
Massachusetts colleges
and universities, including
Westfield State College,
Bridgewater State College,
UniversityofMassachusetts
Dartmouth,Quinsigamond
Community College in
Worcester, and
Middlesex Community
College in Bedford.
Did You Know?
The School of Education
isconsistentlyrankedinthe
Top50GraduateSchoolsof
Education by US News and
WorldReport—movingup
in the rankings every year
since 2005.
licensure as a principal, where
he feels he can effect even
more change for his students.
Davila credits the intense
workload of 180 Days with
preparing him for the rigors of
becoming a principal.
Like Davila, Ruth-Ellen
Verock-O’Loughlin has been
able to operate in her home
turf, in this case Athol. Be-
cause of her experience as a
doctoral candidate working
with 180 Days in Springfield,
she was later tapped to lead
Bridges to the Future, a pro-
gram which prepares elemen-
tary, middle and high school
teachers while serving the ru-
ral school districts of Orange,
Greenfield, and Turners Falls.
The program was inspired by
School of Education alum Bill
Cosby’s calls to reach out to
underserved rural areas and
Cosby lent his spotlight for the
launch of the program in Athol
in 2004.
“Having a close connec-
tion with the community,
having been raised in Athol
and working at a school in
Orange, when Cosby came on
the scene, I was right in the
middle of all that,”she said.
In communities that have
seen much of industry gone
by the wayside, educators face
challenges different from those
facing urban schools.“Isola-
tion is one of the trickiest,”
Verock-O’Loughlin said.
Like 180 Days, Bridges tries
to avoid dictating to the local
teachers, who serve as men-
tors to the student teachers.
“The students don’t go into
the work saying I’m parachut-
ing in to save a community,”
she said.“They keep their ears
open to listen to the teach-
ers and students they work
with. And mentor teachers are
always continually looking to
share ideas.”
Still, the student teachers
may be surprised by what they
find, she said.“They’re sur-
prised that they don’t have all
the answers,”she said.“Some
of these districts are labeled
high-need, and sometimes
they come thinking this is
because the teachers and the
students maybe haven’t tried
hard enough.
“They quickly see that it
involves more than trying,”
she said.“They’re surprised
at how much energy and
thought it takes to actually
lead a group of kids and do
it in a way that matches what
the research is saying is good
practice.”
Projects conducted by
students in the Community
Service Learning component
of Bridges include Family
Math Night, After-School Mu-
sic Club, a Community Mural
project, a fifty-member Jump
Roping Club and the e-pals
group
“The e-pals group consists
of fourth grade students talk-
ing to students in Turkmeni-
stan,”she said.“We learn we
can use technology to facili-
tate talking to other people,
and then be critical consumers
of this technology.”
One of the greatest values of
the program is working along-
side the mentor teachers. It’s
a good example of the mixing
of generations and disciplines
that goes on at the School of
Education.
“The interns see that the
learning never stops,”she
said.“You don’t go out and
get your first teaching job and
stop thinking about what it
means to be a good teacher.“
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33. Preparing educators at the
UMass Amherst School of
Education means more than
teaching teachers. Every year,
the School sends graduates out
into the world as leaders in
education who draw on their
experiences at the School of
Education while they work to
improve educational systems,
policy, and practice.
“I haven’t had anything that
rich since,”said Dr. Rudolph
F. Crew, Superintendent of
the Miami-Dade County (Fla.)
Public Schools, Crew, named
the 2008 National Superin-
tendent of the Year by the
American Association of School
Administrators (AASA), head
of the nation’s fourth largest
school district, and one-time
Chancellor of New York City’s
Board of Education, credits
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UMass School of Education:
Preparing Leaders
Miami Dade School District
Dr. Rudy Crew, Ed.D

34. his 1973 doctorate from the
UMass School of Education
with preparing him for the
hard work of administering
urban schools.
“In terms of the impact, I
think it was really the ability
to give a shape and a form
in which to hold the whole
conversation, everything from
organizational change to race,
class, and gender issues, to
learning and learning theory,”
he said.
The School at the time was
experiencing great changes
reflective of the social chang-
es taking place in the United
States.
“If society was going
through a massive transforma-
tion, and power was going to
ultimately be given to people
in communities who, prior
to that, didn’t have it, you
knew there still needed to be
some rules,”he said.“There
needed to be a way of think-
ing about how to get good
outcomes for children, for
communities.”
Crew, grew to understand
the problems associated with
school resources as a prob-
lem with the distribution of
resources, time, money and
human resources.
“When you look at that
today, distribution of re-
sources in public schools, it’s
really the question - - does
giving more money to poor
or low-performing schools
have to come at the expense
of higher- performing more
affluent schools?
The doctoral program in the
School of Education, Crew
said,“Helped me establish a
kind of a framework for being
able to at least ask the right
questions, many of which
I pose in my current job as
Superintendent of Schools.”
Dr. Evan Dobelle, Presi-
dent of Westfield State
College regularly taps into
the lessons learned from the
doctoral program
His greatest lesson? Do It
Tomorrow.
“It means you don’t do it
next week or next month,
or next year,”said Dobelle,
former mayor of Pittsfield and
past president of both Trinity
College and the University of
Hawaii.
“You don’t need to have
a lot of planning sessions on
what to do, because every-
body knows what to do…you
don’t have to have any more
conferences, you don’t have
to have any more research
reports,”he said.“You know
the situation in education.
You know it’s underfunded.
You know people at a cer-
tain economic strata are left
behind forever. And race is
disproportionately represent-
ed in that group.”
“Change it. Do It Tomor-
row,”he said.
Dobelle, like Crew, credits
the School with nurturing
his fire to take a leadership
position.“The program had
a certain energy in the early
‘70s which I’ve never seen
replicated anywhere else,”
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UMass School of Education: Preparing Leaders
GREENFIELD COMMUNITY COLLEGE
Dr. Pat Crosson, Emeritus Faculty, Dean’s Leadership Council.

35. he said.“There was a belief
that anything could happen,
anything could change in edu-
cation and higher education.”
He continues to draw on
those ideals.“I find higher
education to be over-man-
aged and under-led,”he said.
“I’m not interested in being
a micromanager. I’m inter-
ested in providing leadership
and vision. I’m interested in
celebrating faculty that inspire
students. What I learned
at UMass was not just the
potential in every child, but
the potential in every faculty
member,”he said.“Teach-
ers make a difference in your
life.”Dobelle said.
It was the faculty at the
School of Education who
made all the difference for
Dr. Margaret A. Jablonski,
who also taught at the School,
eventually accepting the
position of Vice Chancellor
for Student Affairs at the
University of North Carolina
at Chapel Hill.
“The faculty that I had in
my program were excellent,”
she said.“They challenged me
to think critically and broadly
about diversity, organizational
change, and legal issues, all of
which have played themselves
out in my career over the last
25 years.
“I’ve worked at both large
public and private universi-
ties. My academic program
at UMass really prepared me
well, with a good founda-
tion in organizational theory
and legal policy,”she said.“I
now actually teach a first year
seminar in higher education
policy issues, everything from
free speech to affirmative ac-
tion on college campuses, and
I still hearken back to some
of the issues that (Professor)
Dave Schimmel covered in
his Legal Issues class, such as
due process rights on a col-
lege campus, free speech, and
hate speech.
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Did you know?
n More than 15 Alumni
of the UMass School of
Education are current or
recentpresidentsofcolleges
and universities.
n More than 20 alumni
of the UMass School of
Education currently serve
as vice presidents, vice
chancellors, and deans
at American Colleges and
universities, including Clark
Atlanta University, Duke
University, Fitchburg State
College, University of North
Carolina at Chapel Hill,
and University of Southern
California.
UMass School of Education: Preparing Leaders
“Another area that UMass
really prepared me well for
was understanding the full
context of not just race and
gender, but class and every
aspect of identity, sexual,
orientation, religion, social
class,”she said.“It was very
eye-opening for me.“
Dr. Patricia Crosson,
UMass Amherst Professor
Emeritus, remembers study-
ing Higher Education admin-
istration in a kind of“work-
study”program for school
administrators.
“I was a graduate student in
the‘70s while an administra-
tor on campus and then on
the faculty from‘86 through
2002. During the faculty
years, I took occasional stints
on the administration side
over at Whitmore, but I still
kept my faculty status,”she
said.“I was an administrator
for two or three years, then I
came back to the faculty, and
then I’d go back to adminis-
tration.”
Dr. Crosson currently is
a member of the UMass
Amherst Foundation Board of
Director’s, School of Educa-
tion Dean’s Leadership Coun-
cil, and Governor’s Readiness
Project and chairs both the
Greenfield Community Col-
lege Board of Trustees and the
Massachusetts Community
College Trustee Association.
“I found it very rewarding
to be one of the many gradu-
ate students in the School of
Education who was working
while being a student.”
“It made all the difference
in the world,”she said.“It fa-
cilitated a deeper understand-
ing of the work I was doing.”
At the same time, there’s no
question that higher educa-
tion is a credentialed atmo-
sphere, so the degree enabled
me to have the advanced
degree necessary to work as a
faculty member as well as to
advance as an administrator.”
“It was critical for me, ab-
solutely critical,”she said.“It
wasn’t just‘go to classes and
then go home and write the
papers you have to write.’It
was‘participate with us in the
changing of education.’”
“UMass was my most fun-
damental teacher,”said Cros-
son.“It gave me opportunities
that you just don’t get other
places.”

36. The School of Education
possesses an impressive set
of tools to meet the chal-
lenges of its second century of
preparing educators at UMass
Amherst.
More than one third of its
67 full-time faculty are new
to the School since 2001
with expertise in such diverse
areas as literacy, research and
evaluation methods, reading
and writing, special education,
educational technology, and
mathematics education.
The School has more than
1,000 graduate students and
attracts high-quality students
from diverse backgrounds in-
cluding an increasing number
of international students. In
2007, more than 200 people
completed licensure programs
as teachers and other educa-
tors. The School can boast a
family of over 20,000 alumni
from every state in the U.S.
and more than 100 nations
who are compelling spokes-
people for educational reform
and revitalization. Whether
they work as traditional edu-
cators, policy makers, or in the
private sector, they are widely
acclaimed scholars, profes-
sional leaders, and dynamic
agents for change.
The School continues to be
ranked in the Top 50 among
graduate schools of educa-
tion by U.S. News and World
Report, and is accredited by
the National Council for the
Accreditation of Teacher Edu-
cation and the Massachusetts
Department of Education. The
Ph.D. in School Psychology is
accredited by the American
Psychological Association and
is approved by the National
Association of School Psy-
chologists.
Research Grants: This
influx of new faculty and a
growing student population
has resulted in a renewed
sense of growth and energy,
which translates into an in-
creasing number of research
initiatives with more than $53
million in sponsored grants
and contracts awarded to the
School and its faculty since
2000. These interdisciplin-
ary collaborations provide
opportunities for students to
participate in critical research
and innovative outreach initia-
tives. There are four research
centers in the School.
The Center for Educational
Assessment conducts scien-
tific analysis of methods for as-
sessing education systems and
practices. For example, the
Center provides its expertise
to improve large-scale assess-
ment programs such as the
Massachusetts Comprehensive
Assessment System (MCAS),
the National Assessment of
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State of the School today

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