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**Dr. Karen Wixson - Dean, UNCG, School of Education**
KAREN K. WIXSON is the Dean of the School of Education at University of North Carolina Greensboro. Previously she was Professor of Education at the University of Michigan where she served as Dean from 1998-2005. Before receiving her doctorate in reading education at Syracuse University, Dr. Wixson worked as both a remedial reading specialist and a learning disabilities teacher. Dr. Wixson has published widely in books and journals in the areas of reading curriculum, instruction, and assessment. She is also an author on the Scott Foresman reading program and co-author of a popular text on the assessment and instruction of reading and writing problems. She has been a long-time participant in the development of the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) reading tests, and recently served as a member of the extended work team for the Common Core ELA standards. She served as a member of the Board of Directors of the International Reading Association (IRA) and as Co-chair of the IRA Commission on RTI.



**Dr. Carol Mullen - Professor and Chair, UNCG, School of Education, ELC Department**
CAROL A. MULLEN (PhD, The Ontario Institute for Studies in Education of the University of Toronto, 1994) is Professor and Chair, Educational Leadership and Cultural Foundations Department, at The University of North Carolina at Greensboro, since 2007. She specializes in mentoring, diversity, and innovations in learning and professional development within the leadership field. She teaches graduate courses in scholarly writing and professional development. She was editor of the //Mentoring & Tutoring: Partnership in Learning// journal. She has published more than 15 books, including // The ////SAGE Handbook of Mentoring and Coaching in Education.// Among her awards, she received the American Educational Research Award for her book //Breaking the Circle of One//; the President’s Award for Faculty Excellence and the Women’s Leadership Award, and the Florida Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development’s Excellence in Teaching and Research Award. She currently serves in an elected capacity on the National Council of Professors of Educational Administration’s Executive Board of Directors and is the Plenum Session Representative for UNCG's membership in the University Council for Educational Administration.

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 * UNCG School of Education [[image:wixson_7_11_sm.jpg width="158" height="247" align="right"]] **
 * Dean's Message **
 * Dr. Karen Wixson **

Welcome to the UNCG School of Education!
===The School of Education is a vibrant and inclusive learning community that embodies access, equity, diversity, cultural relevance, and collaboration in teaching, research, service, and community engagement. Our programs offer real-world knowledge to prepare students to be successful professionals. === ===We partner with local school districts to provide professional development and research support to improve learning opportunities for children and students from Birth through Higher Education. === ===Nationally recognized by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, we are constantly engaged in research with faculty and students working side-by-side actively seeking new knowledge. These findings are then integrated into our programs and teaching. ===

Our distinguished faculty make up six departments within the School of Education--

 * ===Counseling and Educational Development (located in the Ferguson Building) ===
 * ===Educational Leadership and Cultural Foundations ===
 * ===Educational Research Methodology ===
 * ===Library and Information Studies ===
 * ===Specialized Education Services ===
 * ===Teacher Education and Higher Education ===


 * UNCG School of Education [[image:CarolMullen225.jpg width="156" height="219" align="right"]] **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 24px;">ELC Department Chair Message **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 24px;">Dr. Carol Mullen **

Greetings!
===The Department of Educational Leadership and Cultural Foundations (ELC) is concerned with issues of educational theory, cultural analysis, educational leadership and school organization, educational policy, and curriculum studies. The faculty members share a sociopolitical perspective that undergirds our scholarship, teaching, and service. We are committed to the development of a just and caring democratic society in which schools serve as centers of inquiry and forces for social transformation that foster social, economic, and educational equity by honoring differences in race, class, gender, ethnicity, and sexual preference.=== ===The ELC faculty seek to prepare thoughtful and effective leaders in education through programs of study that are interdisciplinary in focus and that emphasize questions of moral concern, the cultural context of education, and a reconstructive vision for excellent and equitable schooling. Our purpose is to create educational leaders who work with parents, staff, students, and communities to develop critical understandings of the assumptions, beliefs, and regularities that support schooling and who identify and create practices that allow schools to function more fully as democracies while preparing students for democracy.=== ===It is an honor to be associated with such a talented group of compassionate professionals. We are committed to embodying our shared commitments in all of our actions, with social justice and equity as the expressed centerpiece of who we are.=== ===The department offers four graduate programs in addition to the Post-Master's Certificate in School Administration (PMC) and various specializations related to it: Master of School Administration, Specialist in Education in educational leadership, Doctor of Education in educational leadership, and Doctor of Philosophy in Educational Studies with a concentration in Cultural Studies.===