The College of Education at the University of Florida has appointed Brian K. Marchman, Ph.D. as the next director of P.K. Yonge Developmental Research School. Lynda F. Hayes will remain on as the school’s director during the leadership transition.
UF has once again demonstrated strength and leadership in online graduate education rankings – No. 2 in the nation. UF has been in the No. 1 or 2 spot for the past seven years.
CATHERINE EMIHOVICH, PH.D. College of Education Catherine Emihovich, former dean of the UF College of Education, passed away on August 21 after a...
John Michael Newell, Ph.D., 91, a professor emeritus of educational psychology and a 30-year member of the graduate faculty at the UF College of Education, passed away Sunday, June 11, in Gainesville. He was a longtime instructor in the Department of Foundations of Education and served as acting director of the unit for two years in 1981-1983.
(Thomas Oakland, a beloved and world-renowned professor of school psychology at the UF College of Education from 1995 until his retirement in 2010,...
Hannelore Wass, a professor emeritus in education psychology at UF’s College of Education and a prominent scholar in the field of death studies,...
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Former COE dean Bert Sharp, who led UF’s College of Education
through the turbulent and transformative 1970s, died Aug. 31 in Naples. He was
81.
Sharp was a professor in the Counselor Education department
in 1968, when he was catapulted into the dean’s position by the tragic death of
then-dean Kimball Wiles, who was killed in a car accident.
Margaret Early, the UF emeritus professor who quietly set up scholarships for inner city kids, died June 28 at her home in Gainesville. She was 84.
Professor Emeritus Arthur Lewis, a co-founder of the college’s ProTeach program and educational advisor to developing countries, died Sept. 10 in Jacksonville. He was 89.
Born in Colorado, Lewis began his teaching career in Denver schools. He soon shifted to an administrative track, and served as assistant superintendent for the Minneapolis, Minn. School system. He served as a profe…