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DR. DALE H. SCHUNK OF PURDUE NAMED
DEAN OF UNCG SCHOOL OF EDUCATION
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GREENSBORO—Dr. Dale H. Schunk, a professor and department head at Purdue University, has been appointed dean of the School of Education at The University of North Carolina at Greensboro, effective March 1.
Schunk was selected following a national search. The appointment was approved by the UNC Board of Governors and was announced by UNCG Provost Edward Uprichard. He succeeds Dr. David Armstrong, who has served as dean since 1997.
“I am very pleased with this appointment,” said Uprichard. “Dale Schunk has the intelligence, social conscience, and personality to provide the kind of leadership necessary for the School of Education to maintain its leadership position in North Carolina and nationally. I am confident he will do a fine job."
As dean, Schunk will have administrative responsibilities for a school that is recognized as a leader in teacher education, educational research and in related academic programs. UNCG led the state’s 47 teacher education programs in the 1999-2000 Institutions of Higher Education (IHE) rankings, which were released in December by the N.C. State Board of Education. The UNCG School of Education has been ranked in the top 50 schools of education in the country by U.S. News and World Report.
Since August 1993, Schunk has been a professor of educational psychology and head of the Department of Educational Studies at Purdue. The department has 30 full-time faculty, 150 undergraduate students and over 300 graduate students. It offers graduate degree programs in educational psychology, counseling, special education, foundations and administration, and undergraduate programs in special education. At Purdue, Schunk served on various departmental, school and university committees.
Schunk’s research interests include exploring the effects of social and instructional factors on students’ cognitive processes, learning, self-regulation and motivation. He serves on the editorial boards of four journals, including Contemporary Educational Psychology and Educational Psychology Review. He is author of more than 55 publications, including journal articles and chapters. He is author of the book, “Learning Theories: An Educational Perspective” (in third edition), and coauthor of “Motivation in Education: Theory Research and Applications.” He is co-editor of three other books.
In 1989 he received the Albert J. Harris Research Award from the International Reading Association, and in 1982 was honored with an Early Contributions Award from Division 15 (Educational Psychology) of the American Psychological Association. Among his other honors, Schunk received a Fulbright Distinguished American Scholar Award in 1997 and the 1995 Distinguished Service Award from the Purdue School of Education. Before going to Purdue, he taught educational psychology at UNC-Chapel Hill from 1986-1993 and at the University of Houston from 1979-1985. A graduate of the University of Illinois, he holds the M.Ed. degree from Boston University and the Ph.D. degree from Stanford University. He is a member of Phi Beta Kappa academic honor society.
In his retirement, Armstrong will work on revisions to a group of textbooks of which he is co-author. The books include “Teaching Today: An Introduction to Education,” now in its 5th edition; “Effective Teaching in Elementary Social Studies,” in its 4th edition; and “Teaching in the Secondary School,” in its 4th edition. He also is the co-author of several textbooks for secondary schools and is the co-author of a professional textbook for teachers. Before coming to UNCG, Armstrong had been a member of the education faculty at Texas A&M since 1975. He holds the Ph.D. degree in curriculum and instruction from the University of Washington.
The UNCG School of Education offers degrees at the undergraduate, master’s and doctoral levels, and is one of six professional schools at UNCG. During the 1999-2000 year, the school had an overall enrollment of more than 1,370 students, including 666 undergraduate student majors and 710 graduate majors. The latter figure included 204 doctoral students.
The school has approximately 50 full-time faculty members. Its five departments are counseling and educational development, curriculum and instruction, educational leadership and cultural foundations, educational research methodology and library and information studies. In addition, it also has a Teachers Academy and three professional centers: the Center for School Accountability, Center for Educational Studies and Development and Center for Educational Research and Evaluation. The school has a Professional Development Schools program for students majoring in elementary and middle grades education.
The UNCG School of Education has been awarded more than $75 million in federal contracts since 1990 to operate the southeastern regional education laboratory at SERVE that assists state and local educators at the K-12 level in a six-state area in the Southeast. The contract was renewed in early December for an additional five years and was increased to $36 million. The SERVE lab is one of 10 federally funded education laboratories in the nation. Its initial five-year contract in 1990 was for $18 million in 1990, with a $22.5 million renewal in 1995. The school also has a federal contract to operate one of the U.S. Department of Education’s Educational Resources Information Center (ERIC) Clearinghouses. The ERIC Clearinghouse at UNCG focuses on counseling and student services. In 1999-2000, faculty within the School of Education attracted $21.3 million in grants, contracts and other external funding.
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