{"id":2487,"date":"2012-04-19T12:11:39","date_gmt":"2012-04-19T19:11:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www2.nau.edu\/news-p\/wordpress\/?p=2487"},"modified":"2012-10-31T10:39:26","modified_gmt":"2012-10-31T17:39:26","slug":"college-of-education-names-new-dean","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/college-of-education-names-new-dean\/","title":{"rendered":"College of Education names new dean"},"content":{"rendered":"

Michael Sampson<\/strong>, dean of the School of Education at Southern Connecticut State University, has been selected as the new dean of the College of Education at Northern Arizona University.<\/p>\n

Sampson will start July 1, filling a position that has been held by interim dean\u00a0Gypsy Denzine<\/strong>\u00a0since July 2010. Denzine plans to go on her first sabbatical and return to her research in educational psychology.<\/p>\n

\u201cMichael is the ideal choice to help the College of Education sustain and expand its leading role in the state,\u201d said\u00a0Liz Grobsmith<\/strong>, provost and vice president for Academic Affairs. \u201cHe is experienced in identifying new opportunities and unconventional programs that can serve teachers and schools in a region like ours.\u201d<\/p>\n

Sampson<\/a>\u00a0earned his doctorate in reading education from the University of Arizona in 1980. After spending 25 years as a professor and administrator at Texas A&M University-Commerce, he moved to the University of South Florida St. Petersburg in 2007 where he chaired the reading program and the Graduate Council.<\/p>\n

Three years later, Sampson took the position of dean at\u00a0Southern Connecticut State<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m looking forward to joining and leading the NAU community of nationally and internationally respected scholars, and to help faculty and students achieve to their highest level possible,\u201d Sampson said. \u201cDuring the interview process, I was very impressed with the faculty, staff and administration.\u00a0I can\u2019t wait to get to Flagstaff to begin our work together.\u201d<\/p>\n

In addition to being an instructor and administrator, Sampson is a prolific\u00a0author of children\u2019s books<\/a>. Either as a sole author or in partnership with Bill Martin Jr., whom Sampson met while at Arizona, Sampson has published dozens of titles. He also is the author of six college textbooks and more than 50 professional articles.<\/p>\n

\u201cEarly in my career, I did research in northern Arizona, and I fell in love with Flagstaff,\u201d Sampson said. \u201cI thought then how lucky the NAU faculty are to live and work in such a beautiful place. In my dreams, I saw myself there. Now, years later, that dream is coming true for me.\u201d<\/p>\n

NAU\u2019s search for a dean began nearly two years ago when\u00a0Daniel Kain<\/strong>\u00a0left that position to become vice provost for Academic Personnel.<\/p>\n

The College of Education at NAU is the only one in Arizona accredited by the\u00a0National Council for Accreditation of Teacher Education<\/a>, a distinction also held by the School of Education at Southern Connecticut State. Programs for teacher preparation and professional development have remained key parts of NAU\u2019s mission since its founding as a teachers\u2019 college in 1899.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Michael Sampson, dean of the School of Education at Southern Connecticut State University, has been selected as the new dean of the College of Education at Northern Arizona University. Sampson will start July 1, filling a position that has been held by interim dean\u00a0Gypsy Denzine\u00a0since July 2010. Denzine plans to go on her first sabbatical…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":46,"featured_media":2491,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2487","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-faculty-staff"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2487","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/46"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2487"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2487\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2491"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}