ARIZONA
The Lincoln Center for Applied Ethics, the Mary Lou Fulton College of Education, and the Division of Educational Leadership and Policy Studies have committed to co-sponsor the Arizona Education Policy Fellowship Program (EPFP), a 10-month professional development program for individuals whose work record reflects strong leadership abilities and a concern for improving the life chances of children and youth. When Arizona’s EPFP is up and running in 2007-2008 its overarching goal will be the preparation of leaders to address educational policy with a focus on ethics, diversity, and leadership. In order to accomplish this goal, the Arizona EPFP will bring 12 Fellows together from education, business, community, government, and other organizations to interact with one another through a variety of on-site and off-site learning and information sharing opportunities such as seminars, guest lectures, informal discussions, site visits, skill development workshops, and individual or group projects.
“It is my hope that the fellows from Arizona will not only benefit personally from this professional development experience, but that they will also have a current and future impact on the development and implementation of educational policies that support increased opportunities for all children and youth in this state and in the nation,” –Caroline Turner
Please contact the Arizona EPFP future site Coordinator for further information about the site and plans for 2007-2008:
ARIZONA COORDINATORS
Caroline Sotello Viernes Turner
Lincoln Professor of Ethics and Education
Professor, Division of Educational Leadership and Policy Studies
Mary Lou Fulton College of Education
120S Farmer Building
PO Box 872411
Tempe, AZ 85287-2411
(480) 965-2149 (office)
(480) 965-1880 (FAX)
Caroline.Turner@asu.edu
Caroline Sotello Viernes Turner is the Coordinator of the Arizona Education Policy Fellowship Program. She is a Professor in the Division of Educational Leadership and Policy Studies, Lincoln Professor of Ethics and Education, and Doctoral Program Director for Higher and Postsecondary Education at Arizona State University. Her research and teaching interests include access, equity and leadership in higher education, faculty gender and racial/ethnic diversity, organizational change, and the use of qualitative methods for policy research. Her publications include a book entitled Diversifying the Faculty: A Guidebook for Search Committees, which is widely adopted, selling over 12,000 copies, and a co-authored book entitled Faculty of Color in Academe: Bittersweet Success. A co-edited book, Understanding Minority Serving Institutions is currently in press. She has served on the editorial boards of the Journal of Higher Education, The Review of Higher Education, and presently serves as a founding board member for the Journal of Diversity in Higher Education and on the editorial board of the Journal of Hispanic Higher Education. She was elected to the Association for the Study of Higher Education Board of Directors. In 2001-2002, she was selected as an American Council on Education Fellow. In 2007, she was a Visiting Scholar with the Stanford Institute for Higher Education Research (SIHER) at the Stanford University School of Education (SUSE).
Dr. Turner has served as interim Associate Dean for research for the Arizona State University College of Education and as coordinator for faculty programs at the University of Minnesota where she co-founded a national symposium on the recruitment and retention of faculty of color entitled “Keeping Our Faculties.” Professor Turner’s research includes a Spencer Foundation funded study of the faculty search committee process and hiring of faculty of color, a PEW Foundation funded study of Latino faculty in theological education, a Ford Foundation funded study of Diversity in Academe Post-Grutter, a Stanford University funded study of Pre – 16 reforms and the promise of a seamless educational system, and a study of women of color presidents in higher education. Turner received her doctorate in Administration and Policy Analysis from the Stanford University School of Education.
J. Luke Wood
Doctorate Candidate in Higher Education Leadership
2689 East OakLeaf Drive
Tempe Arizona 85281
480-274-4992
jlukewood@asu.edu
J. Luke Wood is the Co-Coordinator of the Arizona Education Policy Fellowship Program and is a PhD student at Arizona State University in Educational Leadership and Policy Studies with a concentration in Higher Education. He recently was awarded and completed the Sally Casanova Pre-Doctoral research fellowship at the Stanford Institute for Higher Education Research (SIHER) and is a graduate of California State University, Sacramento (CSUS) with a bachelor’s degree in Black History and Politics (2005) and a master’s degree in Higher Education Leadership with an emphasis in Student Affairs (2007). While at CSUS, Luke served as co-coordinator for the Sacramento Multicultural Business Bureau Freedom Educational Theater, College Advisor for the Sacramento County Office of Education, Program Director for the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Project, and developed the W.E.B Dubois Peer Mentoring Program. He also successfully secured grant funding to support the expansion of the Campus Intergroup Dialogue Program. Luke has been the recipient of numerous awards including the: the Sally Casanova Pre-Doctoral Fellowship; Top 30 under 30 from the Sacramento Observer; the Distinguished Fellows Presentation award from the International Society for the Exploration of Teaching in Learning.
He has published in Educational Studies and the African American National Biography, and has many professional presentations including the following: the Women of Color Conference at Humboldt State University, the Bilingual Multicultural Education Conference of CSUS, the Hawaii International Conference on Education, the International Society for the Exploration of Teaching in Learning, and the California Educational Research Association. Luke’s areas of interest include Afrocentrism, Urban Education and Administrators and Faculty of Color in Secondary and Post-Secondary Education.