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Michelle Cooper was named one of Diverse Issues in Higher Education's 25 To Watch in their 25th anniversary issue

Dr. Michelle Asha Cooper Institute for Higher Education Policy Cooper, president of IHEP, directs some of the most respected professionals in the public policy and research fields to develop new ideas and approaches to assist low-income and minority students in gaining access to and experience success in postsecondary education.

From: http://www.diverseeducation.com/artman/publish/article_12634.shtml

TWO EDHI ALUMNI HONORED AT THE COLLEGE OF EDUCATION ALUMNI AWARDS CEREMONY

Two alumni of the Department of Education Leadership, Higher Education and International Education (EDHI) were recently honored at the University of Maryland College of Education’s Annual Alumni Awards Ceremony.

Dr. Jacqueline Haas received the College of Education Outstanding Leader Alumni Award. For nearly two decades, Dr. Haas has served as an administrator in Harford County Public Schools where she now serves as Superintendent. Her colleagues selected her as Maryland’s 2008 Outstanding School Superintendent of the Year. Dr. Haas’s leadership has been recognized by the American Education Research Association and she has been the recipient of the Joseph Bond Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Award for her commitment to diversity and the NAACP Outstanding Community Service Award. Dr. Haas graduated from the Education Policy and Leadership program in 2005 with her dissertation, “Establishing School-Based Professional Learning Communities: A Case Study Analysis of the Role of District Actions.” Dr. Haas is widely viewed as a community leader working to enhance the quality of life for the citizens of Maryland.

Dr. Jacqueline King received the College of Education Outstanding Scholar Alumni Award. A graduate of the Higher Education program in 1996, within two years Dr. King was named one of the forty “Young Leaders of the Academy” by Change magazine. She has been at the American Council on Education – the nation’s largest association of college and university leaders – since 1996 where she now serves as Assistant Vice President. King is the number-one-person on Capital Hill that college presidents, scholars, and the Chronicle of Higher Education go to on issues related to student financing of higher education, access and equity, and success in higher education – particularly for at-risk and first-generation students. Dr. King has become an outstanding professional and leader in the field of higher education and has remained close to the EDHI graduate program, guest lecturing in our courses and providing invaluable opportunities for internships throughout the years.

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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