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Suzanne Ortega, Vice Provost and Dean of The Graduate School
"UW graduate students are simply
extraordinary.
They are
producing work that is changing the way fellow scientists, artists, and
humanists understand the world.
They are among the most innovative teachers on campus, creating
new courses and new pedagogies that impact not only our talented
undergraduates but also future students now in high schools and
community colleges.
They
also directly impact the quality of life in our community through the
work they do in start-up companies, government agencies, and non-profit
organizations.
In a
nutshell, graduate education is producing the leaders and scholars our
world so badly needs."
ortegas@u.washington.edu |
Suzanne Ortega was
appointed Dean of the University of Washington Graduate School and Vice
Provost in August 2005. Prior to her appointment at the University of
Washington, she served five years as the Vice Provost for Advanced Studies and
Dean of the Graduate School at the University of Missouri - Columbia (MU).
Dr. Ortega's masters and doctoral degrees in sociology were completed at
Vanderbilt University. She served as assistant/associate graduate dean
from 1994-2000 at the University of Nebraska, where she was also a faculty
member for 20 years.
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James Antony, Associate Dean (Academic Programs)
antony@u.washington.edu |
Jim Antony received his baccalaureate degree in Psychology and his Master’s degree and Ph.D. in Higher Education and Organizational Change from the University of California, Los Angeles. He has held prior leadership roles at the University of Washington, including Special Assistant to the Executive Vice Provost, Associate Dean for Academic Programs in the College of Education, Director of the Early Identification Program for Graduate & Professional Education, and Director for two graduate degree programs: the Intercollegiate Athletic Leadership Program and the Graduate Program in Higher Education. In 2006, he was named a Fellow of the American Council on Education, during which he worked at Yale University on the development of a large-scale assessment of undergraduate learning outcomes.
His research focuses on leadership in higher education, with special attention to two areas—creating a system of higher education that professionally develops and socializes students to be successful academically and professionally, and ensuring the conditions that promote college faculty satisfaction and career success. His teaching focuses on broader issues relevant to the training of forward-thinking leaders in higher education.
He currently serves as Associate Professor in the College of Education and Adjunct Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology. He also serves on the editorial boards, or is a reviewer, for several scholarly journals including the Journal of Higher Education, Research in Higher Education, Review of Higher Education, Urban Review, the American Educational Research Journal, and the Association for the Study of Higher Education Reader Series. He is the author or editor of five books on higher education, and has published nearly 40 articles, chapters, monographs and reports pertaining to higher education. He has been appointed to many national advisory boards and has also served as a research and evaluation consultant to numerous colleges and universities, national associations representing higher education, several government-supported grant projects, and several large-scale educational projects within the private sector.
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Elizabeth Feetham, Associate Dean (Student Affairs) "Graduate education is an important, yet under-appreciated common good in our society. For this reason, I value the opportunity to help foster programs and activities that will bring more attention to the graduate education enterprise. I also value the opportunity to help students meet their individual graduate education goals."
efeetham@u.washington.edu Box 353770 Seattle, WA 98195-3770
206-543-5139 |
Elizabeth Feetham received her bachelor’s degree from the University of Redlands, where she majored in English and minored in church music. Her master’s and doctoral degrees in English are from the University of Washington. Since 1990, she has served as Associate Dean for Student Affairs in the University of Washington Graduate School. She served as Acting Dean of The Graduate School and Vice Provost from January 2004 - August 2005. She also serves as the Secretary/Treasurer of the Western Association of Graduate Schools and on the Minority Graduate Education Committee of the Graduate Record Examination Board.
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Thomas Gething, Associate Dean and Director of the Office of Postdoctoral Affairs "In an increasingly interdependent world the importance of education, especially graduate education is spiraling to an unprecedented high point. I can't think of a better place for engagement in grad education than the University of Washington, where grad students and postdocs are welcomed as full partners in our search for new knowledge."
gething@u.washington.edu |
Thomas Gething's Ph.D. was earned at the University of
Michigan where he did his study in the Department of Linguistics. He has taught
Southeast Asian languages at Michigan, the University of Hawaii, Ohio
University, and the University of Washington. His research is focused on the
Thai and Lao languages and he is currently working on Kham Muang, the dialect of
the Lanna region of Thailand. Dr. Gething has received funding for the
production of language textbooks and for student programs in advanced study of
Thai in Chiang Mai, Thailand.
Since he arrived at the
University
in 1995, Dr. Gething has
held a number of positions, serving as director of
the Southeast Asia Center and associate director of an Undergraduate Asian
Studies Initiative. He has
also
previously worked in Washington, D.C. at the National Foreign Language Center
and has directed language institutes at Hawaii and the University of Oregon. Dr.
Gething is a former Dean of Students and former Associate Dean of the Graduate
Division at the University of Hawaii.
He is the founding director of the UW Office of Postdoctoral Affairs, a
sustaining member of the National Postdoctoral Association.
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Juan C. Guerra, Associate Dean (Graduate Opportunity & Minority Achievement Program - GO-MAP)
“At the core of any vigorous and
productive intellectual community, we are likely to find a well-balanced
blending of excellence and diversity. Members of the GO-MAP staff are
proud to contribute to the creation of such a community at the G-1 Communications Building Seattle, WA 98195-3770 206-543-9016 |
Dr. Guerra holds a Ph.D. in English from the
Before joining The Graduate School, Dr. Guerra served for three years as the
Arts and Sciences Co-Director of Teachers for a New Era (TNE), a 5-million
dollar Carnegie-funded initiative designed to improve teacher education at the
UW. The initiative's main goal is to build a continuous system of support for
teachers from the beginning of their undergraduate degree, through their
master’s in teaching, and continuing through their fifth year of classroom
teaching. In collaboration with colleagues in P-12 schools, in local community
colleges, and in the Colleges of Education and Arts and Sciences, Dr. Guerra
participated in a variety of TNE projects intended to prepare a more diverse
group of teachers of the highest quality possible.
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Wayne Jacobson, Assistant Dean and Interim Director (Center for Instructional Development & Research - CIDR) "As UW graduate students prepare to lead the way in advancing knowledge of their disciplines, many are motivated by a commitment to act on their knowledge in service to others--collaborating with fellow scholars across disciplines, engaging learners who are new to their discipline, bringing their expertise to communities or policy makers who might be entirely outside their discipline. At CIDR, we work to help these graduate students gain experiences, mentoring, and professional development that will help them succeed not only as scholars but as leaders and educators throughout their careers." jacobson@cidr.washington.eduCenter for Instructional Development & Research (CIDR) http://depts.washington.edu/cidrweb/ 415 Sieg Hall Seattle, WA 98195-3770 206-543-0699 |
Wayne Jacobson is Interim
Director of CIDR and affiliate faculty in the Department of
Educational Leadership and Policy Studies. CIDR's mission
is to promote excellence in teaching and learning at the
University of Washington. CIDR collaborates with
faculty, graduate teaching assistants, departments, and
leaders throughout the university in their efforts to
design, implement and assess ways of advancing learning for
all students at UW.
He holds a doctorate in Adult Education from the University of Wisconsin, Madison. Dr. Jacobson originally came to the University of Washington as a Research Consultant for CIDR in 1997. He currently teaches two of the Graduate School’s Interdisciplinary Courses on Teaching and Learning in Higher Education, and works closely with the UW Scholarship of Teaching and Learning Forum. His recent publications address assessment of teaching, preparing and supporting international TAs, and inclusive teaching in math, sciences, and engineering.
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Maresi Nerad, Associate Dean (Center for Innovation & Research in Graduate Education)
“Through my work in the UW Graduate School, I am committed to helping
graduate students become genuine world citizens who model the qualities
and characteristics that are increasingly important for success in
diverse, global fields of endeavor. Our research and workshops directly
complement what the students’ learn in the graduate programs, providing
them with in-depth, discipline-specific knowledge and the ability to do
original research. More than ever, graduate students must cross national boundaries without seeking to
assimilate and homogenize, but instead to accept differences and embrace
diversity."
mnerad@u.washington.edu |
Maresi Nerad is the
founding director of the national Center
for Innovation and Research in Graduate Education (CIRGE),
Associate Dean of the
She received her
doctorate in higher education from the University of California-Berkeley in
1988. From 1988 until 2000, Dr. Nerad directed research in the Graduate Division
at the University of California-Berkeley and spent the 20001 academic year as
Dean in Residence at the Council of Graduate Schools. In 2005 she was nominated
for the Miegunyah Fellow by the University of Melbourne, Australia, and spent
three months at the University of Australia.
She is the author
or editor of four books on higher education:
Towards a Global PhD? Changes in Doctoral
Education Worldwide (2008,)
The Academic Kitchen: a Social History of Gender Stratification at the
As Principle Investigator or Co-investigator she has received grants totaling more than $2.2 million from various public and private sources such as NSF, Ford Foundation, Mellon Foundation, and Getty Grants Foundations. She has been a grant reviewer for NSF, Sloan, and the Getty Grants and served on many national advisory committees, the NRC Committee to Examine the Methodology for the 2005 Assessment of Research –Doctorate Programs; the AAU – Assessing Quality of University Education and Research (2001-2004); NSF advisory board on doctoral surveys (SED,SDR); and on postdoctoral education and training.
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