Congratulations to newly promoted faculty members!

Please join the Mary Frances Early College of Education in congratulating our colleagues on their successful promotion and/or tenure reviews. Their promotions will be effective in August. Thank you to all the faculty, staff, and administrators involved in this important process.

Promotion to associate professor with tenure

• Brandee M. Appling, counseling and human development services
• Kathryn H. O’Brien, communication sciences and special education
• Walker A. Swain, lifelong education, administration, and policy

Promotion to clinical associate professor

• Marian A. Higgins, counseling and human development services
• Diann Olszowy Jones, lifelong education, administration, and policy
• Leslie K. Rech-Penn, educational theory and practice
• Elizabeth A. Wurzburg, educational theory and practice

Promotion to clinical professor

• Alicia B. Davis, communication sciences and special education
• Bethany M. Hamilton-Jones, communication sciences and special education
• Lou Tolosa-Casadont, language and literacy education

Promotion to professor

• Kevin J. Burke, language and literacy education
• Todd Dinkelman, mathematics, science, and social studies education
• Cheryl A. Fields-Smith, educational theory and practice
• H. James Garrett, mathematics, science, and social studies education
• Theodore J. Kopcha, career and information studies

Promotion to senior lecturer

• Gretchen B. Thomas, career and information studies

Thank you to the following committee members for their service and dedication: Deryl Bailey, Linda Campbell, Bud Cooper, Tarek Grantham, Ruth Harman, Marsha Hines, David Jackson, Michele Lease, Kyunghwa Lee, Ilse Mason, George McMahon, Kevin Moore, Robyn Ovrick, Joel Ringdahl, Jill Stefaniak, Kathy Thompson, Beth Tolley, Dorothy White, Sally Zepeda, and James Zhang.