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New Faculty
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Tabbye Maria Chavous is Associate Professor of Education, affiliated with CPEP
and Educational Studies. She received her PhD in Psychology from the University
of Virginia. She has been Assistant Professor in the Psychology Dept since
the fall of 1998 and Research Co-Director, Program for Intergroup Relations,
since fall of 2001. Her research interests include adolescent development;
racial/ethnic relationships and identities; gender differences, and factors
affecting the participation and success of African Americans in higher education.
Kevin F. Miller has a joint appointment as Professor of Education, affiliated
with CPEP and Educational Studies, and Professor of Psychology, effective January
1, 2005. He received his PhD in Psychology from the University of Minnesota.
Since 1990, he has been an Assistant Professor and then an Associate Professor
at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in the Department of Psychology
and the Beckman Institute. His research focuses on the nature and sources of
early mathematical and literacy development, on cross-cultural similarities
and differences in academic learning and performance, and more recently on
utilizing video records to engage teachers with issues of instructional practice.
Lori Diane Hill is an Assistant Professor with a joint ap-pointment in the
School of Education and in the Center for Afroamerican and African Studies.
She received her PhD in Sociology from the University of Chicago. Since 2001
she has been a Postdoctoral Fellow at UM with the Ford Foundation Program in
Research on Poverty, the Underclass and Social Policy. Her research interests
include education inequality and stratification; urban education; and South
African education and social policy.
Chris Quintana’s research interests focus on the design and assessment
of learning technologies. His research has included articulating a learner-centered
design process for learning technologies, articulating design and assessment
methods for developing scaffolded software tools, and developing more specific
definitions and examples of software-based scaffolding. He is using many of
these methods and experiences in teaching his graduate classes on developing
learning technologies. He currently heads two projects funded by the National
Science Foundation.
CSHPE New Faculty
Michael Bastedo was appointed Assistant Professor in CSHPE. Dr. Bastedo completed
his Ph.D. in Administration and Policy Analysis at Stanford University in
2003, and has been teaching at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
His specialty is higher education policy, but has also taught and published
in the areas of organizational behavior, curriculum, and qualitative inquiry
in higher education. This year he will be teaching the gateway course to
the public policy concen-tration, qualitative methods, and the master’s
inquiry course.
Deborah Faye Carter was appointed as an Associate Professor. Dr. Carter is a 1997 graduate of the CSHPE Program and recently earned tenure at Indiana University. Her scholarship focuses on access to college and equity issues with regard to college students, and in particular, with regard to the experiences of students of color. Her teaching responsibilities include a course on the American college student, access and equity in higher education, and research design.
Edward St. John specializes in educational policy, with special interest
in access and equity and other social policy issues. He also comes to us from
Indiana 
University, where he served as director of the Indiana Education
Policy Center. He was appointed as Professor in the CSHPE program, and will
join us in January. He has distinguished himself as a prolific scholar, having
written or edited more than a dozen books and numerous articles on a variety
of topics that link education policy to pressing issues affecting educational
equity and quality across the K-16 landscape. Prior to becoming a faculty
member, he held a number of policy positions, including the research and
planning arm of the Missouri state department of higher education, working
with the US Department of Education staff on postsecondary education issues,
and serving as a senior officer in a higher education policy firm. This blend
of direct policy experience, a strong record of scholarly success, and a driving
personal commitment to educational reform leave him well-positioned to lead
the K-16 initiative that drove the creation of this cluster hire.
Larry L. Rowley is an Assistant Professor of Higher Education (CSHPE) and
Afroamerican and African Studies (CAAS). His research incorporates social
theoretical frameworks and empirical analyses of higher education issues,
develop-ments, and institutions. His recent projects have examined African-American
issues in higher education, the role of race in American academic and intellectual
hierarchies, relationships between urban universities and communities, and
organizational analyses of racial diversity and the public service mission
of higher education. He has also written on the relevance of W. E. B. Du
Bois for African Americans in higher education and the importance of role
models and mentors for Black college students.
