Some of My Colleagues

(about 105K and rising)


 They would not allow photographs,
so I was forced to improvise
to give you an idea of
what they are like

 


 This is Dr. George Foldesy, my boss, Eunice's husband, fellow schemer on solutions to obstacles in higher education that ordinarily defy solution,  long time friend, and purveyor of unprintable thoughts and ideas.  He is commander in chief of the Center for Excellence in Education (CEE), home of our doctoral program in educational leadership. George teaches school law, policy and personnel (and probably some things I don't know about).
 


 
 

This is Dr. Mitch Holifield, worry wart extarordinairre, leader of the band, ASU teacher of the year (I don't remember when), and occasional co-investigator on research projects.  Among other things, he teaches politics, ethics and socio-cultural foundations. He is now departmental chair, educational administration and secondary education.
 
 

Dr. David Cox was chair of the department of Educational Administration and Secondary Education. Dave just got fed up with the hassles of administration, like many of
us do, wants to be "just" a professor.

 He has served as interim Center director
twice while George was acting dean of
education and the graduate school.
Dave teaches the Doc I leadership
seminar, org development stuff,
and doubles as our counselor
and gentle man of the department.

 


 
 
 

 Dr. Gerald Dickinson is professor of nuts and bolts, a gears man, responsible for school business management, finance and other areas of proficiency related to the superintendency.  In the Doc program he teaches the Leadership II seminar, a capstone tools oriented class, although we don't know for sure what goes on in there.


 
 
 

Dr. Mitch Masters is an ASU veteran,
institutional historian, and all around sage
on many points.  He knows where most of the
bodies are buried (although I don't believe
he put any of them there), and knows how
to avoid a similar fate.  Mitch directs and
teaches the Specialist in Community
College Teaching program.

 
 

In the doctoral program, Dr. David Holman is our curriculum guy and solid colleague & friend to me over a long stretch:  he teaches qualitative research methods, and also does supervision of instruction classes in the MSE and EdS program.  Dave incorporates a lot of brain research into his curriculum stuff, although it is possible to have an intelligent conversation with him....I do, every now and then.
 


 

We are pleased that we added two dynamic women to our faculty in Fall, 1997.  Dr. Candace Lacey (on the right) was plucked out of the jaws of despair from Miami where she dodged bullets as a principal / vice principal in a parochial school and also taught at Berry University.  Dr. Amany Saleh (left) brings a strong background in secondary teacher education from mecca (the University of Alabama) where she taught and liasoned with master teachers and the student teachers under their direction.

Candace was our lead person on the principalship, but unfortunately returned to Miami to take a job a Berry University. We are searching for a replacement.  Amany teaches
in the secondary education program and
recently taught supervision of instruction.


By the way, these are NOT  token wonem...we've had the good ones, only to have them ripped off by central administration and other universities for higher level administrative positions (Linda Wesson, Youngstown State University Ed. Admin Chair; Mary Jane Bradley, director of professional education programs and once acting associate dean of the College of Education, so designated after our dean, Dr. Bonnie Lynch, defected to the vice president's office;  Dorothy Trusock, who ping-ponged back and forth between normal teaching duties and NCATE accreditation chores at the dean's office).
 

We have (let me think now) two other faculty in our department whose persona I will put up when I have the time, although I may have to digitize the wanted posters in the post office..  They are Drs Carl Vaupel, and Dorothy Trusock, so check back for updates. Hopefully, we will add two more faculty this year to fill some critical vacancies.

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