Union Presbyterian Seminary is a Presbyterian seminary in Richmond,Virginia,and Charlotte,North Carolina,offering graduate theological education in multiple modalities:in-person,hybrid,and online.
Teachers College,Columbia University (TC) is the graduate school of education of Columbia University,a private research university in New York City. Founded in 1887,Teachers College has served as one of the official Faculties and the Department of Education of Columbia University since 1898. It is the oldest and largest graduate school of education in the United States.
The Harvard Graduate School of Education (HGSE) is the education school of Harvard University,a private research university in Cambridge,Massachusetts. Founded in 1920,it was the first school to grant the EdD degree and the first Harvard school to award degrees to women. HGSE enrolls more than 800 students in its one-year master of education (Ed.M.) and three-year doctor of education leadership (Ed.L.D.) programs.
The School of Engineering is one of the ten schools that comprise Tufts University. The school offers undergraduate and graduate degrees in several engineering disciplines and computer science fields. Along with the School of Arts and Sciences (A&S) and the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy,the School of Engineering is located on the university's main campus in Medford and Somerville,Massachusetts. Currently,the engineering school enrolls more than 800 full-time undergraduates and 600 graduate students. The school employs over 100 full-time and part-time faculty members.
Francis Leo Lawrence was an American educator and scholar specializing in French literature and university administrator. A graduate of Saint Louis University and Tulane University,Lawrence taught at Tulane for over 30 years and held posts as academic vice president,provost,and dean of the graduate school before being appointed as the 18th president of Rutgers University (1990–2002).
The New York UniversitySteinhardt School of Culture,Education,and Human Development is the school of education of New York University. The school was founded as the School of Pedagogy in 1890. Prior to 2001,it was known as the NYU School of Education.
Jamshed Bharucha is an Indian-American cognitive neuroscientist who has served in leadership roles in higher education. He is the founding vice chancellor of Sai University,Chennai,and is a member of the board of advisors of India's International Movement to Unite Nations (I.I.M.U.N.).
The University of Wisconsin–Madison School of Education is a school within the University of Wisconsin–Madison. Although teacher education was offered at the university's founding in 1848,the School was officially started in 1930 and today is composed of 10 academic departments. U.S. News &World Report in its 2023 Best Grad School rankings rated UW-Madison's School of Education No. 5 among public institutions. In addition,U.S. News ranked nine education specialty areas,and UW–Madison’s School of Education is the only school in the nation to have a top-10 ranking in all nine —including the No. 1-ranked Educational Psychology program. Diana Hess succeeded Julie Underwood as the school's ninth dean in August 2015.
Virginia Tanner was an American dance instructor and founder of the University of Utah Children's Dance Theatre. Born in Salt Lake City,Utah,she began her formal dance training at the University of Utah. She studied with Doris Humphrey in New York City before returning to Salt Lake City in the early 1940s to establish her school for creative dance for children.
Eleanor Campbell King (1906–1991) was an American modern dancer,choreographer,and educator. She was a member of the original Humphrey-Weidman company,where she was a principal dancer in the pioneering modern dance movement in New York City,then moving on to choreography and founding her own dance company in Seattle,Washington. She was a professor emerita at the University of Arkansas,where she taught from 1952 to 1971,before retiring to Santa Fe,New Mexico,to start a new course of study into classical Japanese and Korean dance. She choreographed over 120 dance works,and wrote extensively for a variety of dance publications. In 1948,she was named Woman of the Year in Seattle,and in 1986 was listed as a "Santa Fe Living Treasure",also receiving the New Mexico Governor's Artist Award. In 2000,her archive was recognized by the White House Millennium Council's "Save America's Treasures" program.
Susan Harriet Fuhrman is an American education policy scholar and served from 2006 as the first female president of Teachers College,Columbia University. Fuhrman earned her doctorate in Political Science and Education from Columbia University. She became very engaged in issues of educational equity and emerged as an authority on school reform. Fuhrman is known for her early and ongoing critical analysis of the standards movement and for her efforts to foster research that provides a scientific basis for effective teaching.
Elizabeth H. Simmons is an American theoretical physicist,and Executive Vice Chancellor at University of California San Diego. Formerly,she was a distinguished professor of physics at Michigan State University,the dean of Lyman Briggs College,and the associate provost for faculty and academic staff development. She has also held positions at Harvard University and Boston University. Simmons is married to fellow physicist,R. Sekhar Chivukula. Together they have two children.
Elizabeth Lawrence Cless was an American educator. She pioneered the development of continuing education for women,which provides new paths and programs to help women resume higher education that they had interrupted or postponed. Starting at the University of Minnesota in 1960,and subsequently at The Claremont Colleges in California,Cless developed and expanded the scope of those programs;by 1970 educators had created 400 of them throughout the United States. In 1979 she developed and founded The Plato Society,a lifelong learning organization at the University of California,Los Angeles focused on the intellectual growth of men and women over 50. Cless appears in Feminists Who Changed America,1963–1975.
Jill Green is an American dance educator and scholar who originated the Social Somatic Theory. Green served on the faculty at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro and was co-editor of Dance Research.
Rika Burnham is head of education at the Frick Collection in New York City. In 2018,she was a guest scholar at the Getty Research Institute. Previously,Burnham worked as the project director of the Teaching Institute for Museum Education at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago,as a museum educator at the Metropolitan Museum of Art,and as an adjunct professor at Teachers College,Columbia University. She is a widely published scholar in the field of Museum education.
Sally Elaine McRorie is an American psychologist and painter. She is the provost and executive vice president for academic affairs at Florida State University and president of the National Association of Schools of Art and Design.
Jill Spencer Grigsby is an American sociologist whose areas of expertise include demography and sociology of the family. She is an emerita professor of sociology at Pomona College in Claremont,California.
Beverly Karplus Hartline is an American physicist,science communicator,and academic administrator,known for her research in physics outreach to the general public and for the promotion of women in physics and the sciences. She is a former deputy director of the Argonne National Laboratory,and professor emerita of geological engineering at Montana Technological University,where she was vice-chancellor for research and dean of the graduate school before retiring.
