Administrative Changes
in the College
 Sylvia
M. Hutchinson, associate dean in the College of Education, will leave
Jan. 1, 1999, for a new post with UGA’s Institute of Higher Education.
Hutchinson has
been recommended for a joint appointment as a professor of higher education
and reading education.
She will teach,
direct dissertations of doctoral students and “draw upon her administrative
skills” in her new position.
Hutchinson first
came to UGA as an undergraduate in 1960. Over the next 15 years she earned
her bachelor’s and master’s, both in elementary education, and a Ph.D.
in reading education. In 1978 she came from Southwest Texas State University
to work at UGA as an assistant professor.
Donald O.
Schneider, current director of the School of Teacher  Education,
has been named interim associate dean of the College of Education, effective
Jan. 1, 1999.
Schneider, who
came to UGA as an associate professor in 1968, has been director of the
School of Teacher Education--the college’s largest school--since 1994.
He has more than two decades of administrative experience in the college
where he served as acting associate dean for academic affairs in 1991.
He was coordinator
of academic affairs for the College of Education from 1982 to 1986. Schneider
has also served three times as department head of social science education
and twice as graduate coordinator of social science education.
Michael Padilla,
graduate coordinator and professor of science education, was named interim
director of the School of Teacher Education in the wake of Schneider’s
move to the associate dean’s post on Jan. 1.
Padilla, who
came to UGA as an assistant professor of science education in  1978,
has been an active researcher, drawing grants of more than $12 million.
He recently
directed the five-year, $10 million Project GIMS (Georgia Initiative in
Mathematics and Science).
He was named
the college’s Aderhold Distinguished Professor for 1997-98 and won the
Hill Award for Distinguished Achievement in Public Service and Outreach
for 1998-99. |
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