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

  • Kadir Bahar, educational psychology
  • Rachel Rose Cagliani, communication sciences and special education
  • Maureen Alice Flint, lifelong education, administration, and policy
  • Emily Q. Rosenzweig, educational psychology
  • Ryan Schey, language and literacy education

Promotion to clinical associate professor

  • Lindy Kay Parker, counseling and human development services
  • Chitra Pidaparti, educational psychology
  • Nina M. Santus, communication sciences and special education

Promotion to clinical professor

  • Nancy B. Dellaria, communication sciences and special education

Promotion to professor

  • Jennifer A. Brown, communication sciences and special education
  • Rebecca Graham Lieberman-Betz, communication sciences and special education
  • Julianne D. Schmidt, kinesiology
  • Michael D. Schmidt, kinesiology

Promotion to senior lecturer

  • Debra Teesdale, communication sciences and special education

Promotion to senior research scientist

  • Paula Mellom, Dean’s Office

Tenure only

  • Sakhavat Mammadov, educational psychology

Thank you to the following committee members for their service and dedication: Elizabeth DeBray, Brian Dotts, Amanda Ferster, Jim Garrett, Kevin McCully, Laura Dean, Linda Harklau, Marsha Hines, Michele Lease, Rob Branch, Sherell McArthur, Kristin Sayeski, Gretchen Thomas, Kathy Thompson, and Beth Tolley.