Department of Education

Building 3S

Kenneth Gold, Chairperson and Associate Professor

Professors: Igor Arievitch, Tomás Morales, Susan Sullivan. Associate Professors: Margaret Berci, Brian Carolan, Deborah DeSimone, Eileen Donoghue, David Kritt, Irina Lyublinskaya, Ruth Powers Silverberg, Gregory Seals, Vivian Shulman, Liqing Tao, Nelly Tournaki. Assistant Professors: Maysaa Bazna, Chris Hale, Judit Kerekes, Jinyoung Kim, Edward Lehner, Helen Robinson, Bethany Rogers. Higher Education Associate: Deirdre Armitage, El Samuels. Higher Education Assistants Diane Brescia.

The department provides initial preparation and undergraduate programs for teaching at the Early Childhood level and in elementary and secondary schools, and graduate programs in Childhood Education, Adolescence Education, Special Education, and a Post-Master's Advanced Certificate for Leadership in Education.

The undergraduate program coordinators are: Assistant Professor Helen Robinson for the Undergraduate Early Childhood Program, Associate Professor Margaret Berci for the Undergraduate Childhood Education Program, and Associate Professor Liqing Tao for the Undergraduate Adolescence Education Program.

The graduate program coordinators are: Associate Professor Vivian Shulman for the Master's degree Sequence 1 program in Elementary Education, Associate Professor Gregory Seals for the Master's degree Sequence 2 program in Elementary Education, Associate Professor Eileen Donoghue for the Master's degree Sequence 1 program in Secondary Education, Associate Professor David Kritt for the Master's degree Sequence 2 program in Secondary Education, Associate Professor Nelly Tournaki for the Master's degree Sequence 1 and 2 programs in Special Education, Assistant Professor Maysaa Bazna for the Master's degree in Middle Childhood Generalist (Grades 5-9), Associate Professor Ruth Powers Silverberg for the Post-Master's Advanced Certificate for Leadership in Education. Professor Susan Sullivan is the director of collaborative projects.