| Provost Thomas G. Burish has named a committee, chaired by Professor and
Chair of Special Education Ann P. Kaiser, to search for a new dean of Peabody College. James
W. Pellegrino announced in September that he would resign as dean of the college of
education and human development effective August 1998. The Frank W. Mayborn Professor of
Cognitive Studies, Pellegrino will return to teaching and research at Peabody.
Named to the committee, in addition to Kaiser, are Felix A. Boateng, director of the
Bishop Johnson Black Cultural Center; Dennis C. Bottorff, Board of Trust vice president;
John D. Bransford, Centennial Professor of Psychology and co-director of the Learning
Technology Center; Paul K. Conkin, Harvie Branscomb Distinguished Professor of History;
Robert L. Crowson, professor of education leadership; Carolyn Evertson, professor of
education and chair of Teaching and Learning; James W. Guthrie, director of the Peabody
Center for Education Policy and professor of public policy and education leadership; James
H. Hogge, professor of psychology and chair of the Peabody Faculty Council; Kathleen
Hoover-Dempsey, associate professor of psychology; Travis Thompson, professor of psychlogy
and director of the John F. Kennedy Center; and Mark Wait, dean of the Blair School of
Music. |
