GREENSBORO --  Dr. Richard E. Basom Jr., an executive with the Appalachia Educational Laboratory in Charleston, W.Va., has been named deputy executive director for planning and development for The SouthEastern Regional Vision for Education (SERVE) at The University of North Carolina at Greensboro.

Basom has assumed his duties. He has been director of the Office of Research, Development and Evaluation at the West Virginia laboratory since September 1998. He has held two other positions there since 1997: program leader of the Regional Educational Laboratory and director of corporate planning and development.

"We are very pleased to have Dr. Basom join the executive management team at SERVE/UNCG," said Dr. John R. Sanders, director of SERVE. "He brings an excellent track record to his new position, having been a successful developer at two other regional laboratories, one in Massachusetts and the other in West Virginia.

"Among his accomplishments, he has helped develop an interstate compact between six states in another region to help them coordinate their efforts to improve education for all students. He has a passion about improving the learning opportunities available to children and the school organization that supports those opportunities. All of us at SERVE, especially our program managers, now have a great new resource person to draw on."

Basom ran his own educational consulting business, The Basom Group, from 1992-97 in Groton, Mass. Earlier, from 1985-92, he was director of the policy initiative for the Regional Laboratory for Educational Improvement of the Northeast and Islands, located at Andover, Mass. He holds a Ph.D. degree in public policy research and analysis from the University of Pittsburgh Graduate School of Public and International Affairs and is a graduate of Elizabethtown College.

At SERVE, Basom will be responsible for organizational planning and development. He will direct organizational activities associated with needs assessment, resource development and quality assurance. He also will oversee the operation of SERVE’s technology, evaluation and publications departments.

SERVE, affiliated with the UNCG School of Education, was created to promote and support the continuous improvement of educational opportunities for all learners in the Southeast. It is one of 10 regional laboratories across the nation funded by the U.S. Department of Education.

Over the last three years, SERVE has provided technical assistance and training to more than 18,000 administrators and practitioners across the region and partnered with 170 Southeastern schools on research and development projects. Information about SERVE is available on its Web site (www.serve.org) or by calling 1-800-755-3277.

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