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 BY ERICA GILBERTSON This fall SUSE brought five new faculty members on board, including two SUSE alumni. Bryan Hilton-Brown is a science education specialist who comes to SUSE from a visiting professorship at Michigan State University. A graduate of UC Santa Barbara, his research focuses on socio-cultural issues in science, literacy in science classrooms and issues of student identity in urban communities. He will be teaching science education and educational psychology courses in the STEP and CTE programs. Hilton-Brown is originally from Oakland, CA where he founded the Etu Schule Educational Project (KiSwahilli for ‘Our Schools’), an organization that provides academic training and long-term mentoring for minority students throughout the state of California. He said he was eager to move back to his roots in the Bay Area and was especially interested in Stanford because of its commitment to diversity.  PHOTO: SUSE's new faculty members include (from left to right) Debra Meyerson, Nadeen Ruiz, and Connie Juel. Bryan Hilton-Brown and David Labaree are not pictured. Connie Juel, a SUSE alumna (Ph.D. ‘77), was most recently a Professor of Education in Human Development and Psychology and Language and Literacy at the Harvard Graduate School of Education and Director of the Jeanne Chall Reading Lab.Her research centers on reading development and reading difficulties. She is particularly interested in how literacy acquisition is affected by classroom instruction. Juel, a former elementary school teacher, will be instrumental in establishing the new elementary teacher education program.“It’s an important statement that Stanford is going to have an elementary education program. I am excited about working with my colleagues to create a model program in an area I care deeply about,” Juel explained. David Labaree, a new History of Education professor, joins SUSE after 18 years at Michigan State University, where for five years he directed the doctoral program in curriculum, teaching and educational policy. He received his Ph.D. in sociology from the University of Pennsylvania, and his research focuses on the historical sociology of American education, with a current emphasis on the pressures exerted by markets on the relationship between school and society and the peculiar nature of education schools. His new book, The Trouble with Ed Schools, will be coming out next fall from Yale University Press. Labaree will be teaching the History of American Education and the History of School Reform courses in the SSPEP program. Because Michigan State did not have a history of education program, he is most excited about “getting to teach my subject and having students who want to study it.” Debra Meyerson, a new addition to SUSE’s leadership program faculty, was most recently Professor of Management at the Center for Gender in Organizations at the Simmons Graduate School of Management and Assistant Professor at the University of Michigan’s School of Business. She received her Ph.D. from Stanford (’89) and has been a visiting professor at Stanford’s Graduate School of Business and the School of Engineering. In addition to her position as Associate Professor of Education, she also has a courtesy appointment at the GSB where she will teach classes on diversity and leading social change.Her research includes grass roots leadership and change processes in organizations with a special interest in advancements in gender and racial equity. “This is the ideal job for me—since my research looks at how leaders enable change, it’s very appealing to me to apply my organizational research questions in schools and look more closely at how to enable emergent change,”Meyerson explained. Her well-known book, Tempered Radicals, describes how people succeed at making change in their organizations, despite being at odds with their organization’s dominant culture. Nadeen Ruiz, a SUSE alumna (Ph.D. ’88), has been a professor in the Bilingual Multicultural Education Department at CSU Sacramento for the past 11 years, where she also served as the director of the teacher preparation program.Her research focuses on the literacy development of bilingual, special education students and deaf students. She has been appointed Director of the Elementary Education Program at SUSE for the next three years. Ruiz is a former elementary school teacher and said that given the K-8 focus of many of SUSE’s professors, it always seemed natural for the School to have an elementary education program.“There are high expectations for the program and I am confident we will meet those expectations because of the faculty here and the commitment to preparing teacher leaders. I look forward to recruiting excellent candidates and collaborating with faculty and local schools.” |