Seven Faculty Members Receive Promotion/Tenure

by Joe Savrock (May 2010)

UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. - The College of Education is pleased to announce that seven of its faculty members have been approved for promotion and/or tenure by the University. These actions become effective July 1.

The following have been accorded promotion and/or tenure this year:

• Preston C. Green III, Department of Education Policy Studies, will be promoted to the rank of professor.
• Scott P. McDonald, Department of Curriculum and Instruction, has been offered tenure and a promotion to the rank of associate professor.
• Dana L. Mitra, Department of Education Policy Studies, has been offered tenure and a promotion to the rank of associate professor.
• Paul L. Morgan, Department of Education and School Psychology and Special Education, has been offered tenure and a promotion to the rank of associate professor.
• Jamie M. Myers, Department of Curriculum and Instruction, will be promoted to the rank of professor.
• Kai A. Schafft, Department of Education Policy Studies, has been offered tenure and a promotion to the rank of associate professor.
• Carla M. Zembal-Saul, Department of Curriculum and Instruction and holder of the Kahn professorship in STEM education, will be promoted to the rank of professor.

The promotion-and-tenure process is a rigorous review of the faculty members' scholarship of teaching and learning; research and creative accomplishments; and service to the University, society, and the profession.

The faculty members being promoted and tenured will be honored in the fall semester at a dinner hosted by Dean David H. Monk. “It has been a personal honor and privilege for me to participate in the promotion and tenure review process for these colleagues,” said Monk. “Their accomplishments are impressive, and I am pleased to offer my congratulations for these well-deserved recognitions.”