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Dr. Andre Perry Named Capital One-UNO Charter Network CEO, Associate Dean
Andre Perry has been named Associate Dean of The University of New Orleans College of Education and Human Development, and will serve as Chief Executive Officer of the Capital One-University of New Orleans Charter School Network, announced Dr. James Meza Jr., dean of the UNO College of Education and Human Development.
“Dr. Perry is an exceptional educator and leader with a passion for education,” said Dean Meza. “Since his arrival in New Orleans, he has taken a leadership role as an advocate for quality public education. As chief executive of our charter school network, he will take the lead in advancing the working partnership between the UNO faculty and our charter school teachers.”
“I am confident that Dr. Perry will help develop community partnerships with businesses, nonprofit organizations, universities, schools and neighborhood organizations,” said Dean Meza. “He will also be instrumental in fulfilling The University of New Orleans’ role as an urban university working to rebuild its surrounding neighborhoods.”
“My educational, personal and professional experiences have prepared me for this wonderful opportunity to provide quality educational options for New Orleans’ families, especially for the most vulnerable socioeconomic groups, including first-generation collegians,” said Perry.
A native of Pittsburgh, Pa., Perry earned his Ph.D. in education policy and leadership, with an emphasis in higher education from the University of Maryland. He holds a bachelor’s degree from Allegheny College. His research and teaching interests are college access and retention, immigrant educational rights, and philosophy and history of education. He has held administrative appointments in scholarship and retention programming, multicultural affairs and study abroad.
Through his weekly newspaper column in The Louisiana Weekly, Perry provides political commentary on kindergarten-through-college leadership and governance in Louisiana. He can also be heard on WWNO 89.9-FM during NPR’s “All Things Considered”. He serves on the boards of the Greater New Orleans Fair Action Housing Center, Urban League of Greater New Orleans, WWNO-FM, and New Orleans College Preparatory Academy.
Dr. Paul Umback Receives Early Career Award
The Association for the Study of Higher Education (ASHE) awarded Dr. Paul Umbach its prestigious Early Career Award at its 2007 annual meeting held early November in Louisville, Kentucky. Dr. Paul Umbach obtained his Ph.D. degree from the Department of Education Policy and Leadership of the University of Maryland, College Park, in 2003 and is an Assistant Professor at the University of Iowa. Chosen by a panel of senior higher education faculty, the ASHE early career award is given each year to only one faculty member in all of the higher education graduate programs. This award is granted to those individuals who are no more than six yeas beyond receipt of the doctoral degree in recognition for a significant body of scholarship or a single extraordinary research achievement by a higher education scholar, and in recognition of potential for future research.
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