Since earning his degree from UF, George Lange, Jr. (Ph.D ’05, Higher Ed. Admin.) had a particular career path in mind.  He believed his path would lead him to academia and law, but shortly after graduation, he had a change of heart.  Dr. Lange moved to Latrobe, PA and joined the novitiate at St. Vincent Archabbey in the summer of 2007.

During his time at St. Vincent, Lange was a research and teaching assistant for the Education Department of St. Vincent College.  He was named a field supervisor for Catholic Schools in the college Education Department in 2010.  Lange professed monastic vows in July 2011, and is now known as Brother Jeremiah Lange, O.S.B.  He serves as assistant to the director of the Oblate Program.

The University of Florida is honoring Arthur M. (Andy) Horne, a 1967 College of Education master’s graduate, with a 2013 UF Distinguished Alumnus Award.

Horne, who earned his M.Ed. degree at UF in counselor education, was feted at the college’s recent, year-end recognition banquet and will receive the award May 4 at UF’s spring commencement ceremony.
UF Distinguished Alumnus Award recipient Andy Horne poses with COE senior development director Maria Martin at the college’s recent Recognition Dinner.

UF Distinguished Alumnus Award recipient Andy Horne poses with COE senior development director Maria Martin at the college’s recent Recognition Dinner.

Horne is a dean emeritus and former Distinguished Research Professor in counseling psychology at the University of Georgia College of Education. He made his mark in education, though, long before retiring in 2012 from his five-year deanship.

Horne was already known for his nearly three decades of research on troubled families and ways to prevent and deal with male bullying and aggressive behavior in schools. Just since 1999, he received more than $7 million in federal grant support to develop and steer the Bully Busters program, designed to reduce violence and bullying in middle schools. His popular 2006 book, Bully Prevention: Creating a Positive School Climate, resulted from that project.

At UF, Horne earned bachelor’s degrees in English education and journalism (1965) before receiving his master’s in counselor education. His first teaching job was at Howard Bishop Junior High in Gainesville. He received his Ph.D. at Southern Illinois University in 1971.

Horne was on the faculty and directed training in counseling psychology at Indiana State from 1971-89 before joining the Georgia faculty, where he headed the counseling psychology department and training program before becoming dean.

Among numerous leadership posts, Horne is past president of the American Psychological Association’s division of group psychology and group psychotherapy and is the current president of the Society of Counseling Psychology. He is a fellow in numerous divisions of the APA and the American Counseling Association.

Angel Rodriguez, a UF doctoral student in higher education leadership, recently received the R. Irene Craney Fischley Endowed Teaching Chair at Broward College in South Florida.

Rodriguez has been teaching science, including anatomy and physiology, biology, environmental science, and oceanography at Broward College since 1993. This is his second endowed teaching position at the college.

As an endowed teaching chair, Rodriguez will receive a $7,500 program stipend and a $2,500 professional development stipend. He was one of seven professors at Broward College to be selected for the honor.

In November, Rodriguez received Kappa Delta Pi’s C. Glen Hass Laureate Scholarship in Instructional Leadership. The $1,500 award is only given to applicants from the University of Florida doctoral program. Rodriguez was profiled last year by the College of Education as one of the “Six to Watch” students as recommended by UF education professors. In 2011, Rodriguez received the UF Presidential Service Award. He previously received the UF college’s Maxwell and Doris King Scholarship and this year the James L. Wattenbarger Scholarship, named for the former professor who helped create Florida’s community college system.

The UF College of Education recently hosted two of its most accomplished graduates in Higher Ed Admin., brothers Max King (EDD ’56) and Charles King (MED ’63)—both pioneers in the state and national junior college and community college movement. Max King was the founding president of Indian River Junior College and headed Brevard Community College for 30 years; he was the first Floridian ever recognized (in 1989) as America’s top administrator in higher education by the American Association of University Administrators. His brother, Charles King, was the the founding president of Southwest Virginia Community College for 40 years before retiring in 2007.

Pictured here, Charles (left) and Max chat about their experiences and life’s work with student cohort members of the UF Institute of Higher Education