WEST VIRGINIA
West Virginia EPFP focuses on leadership, policy, and networking within the state and their relation to national education policy goals from a rural Appalachian perspective. The West Virginia Education Policy Fellows cohort meets in Charleston for 10 months beginning in September. West Virginia’s EPFP curriculum will focus on topics relevant to the state including:
- The West Virginia education policy arena
- Linkages between education and the West Virginia economy
- Education, the economy and poverty in West Virginia
- Issues embedded in the 21st Century Learning Partnership
- Other issues and topics relevant to the Appalachian life and culture of West Virginia’s children and families as it impacts education and schools.
Current policy fellows include professionals from the public schools, higher education, educational non-profit organizations, the Higher Education Policy Commission, Center for Professional Development and the Department of Education. WV-EPFP fees for the 2008-2009 program year will be supplemented by a generous grant from the Claude W. Benedum Foundation. For more information on WV-EPFP, please visit www.fairmontstate.edu/cea
WEST VIRGINIA COORDINATORS
Craig S. McClellan
Director
The Center for Education in Appalachia
Fairmont State University
354 Education Building
1201 Locust Avenue
Fairmont, WV 26554
(304) 367-4824
FAX (304) 367-4599
cmcclellan@fairmontstate.edu
Craig S. McClellan is the Director of The Center for Education in Appalachia at Fairmont State University. He has degrees from West Virginia University, Radford University and Marshall University. While completing extensive work at The George Washington University, he also participated in policy development at the National Council for Accreditation of Teacher Education (NCATE). Dr. McClellan has been a public school teacher, a school administrator, and has taught at the university level in West Virginia and Virginia.
Van Dempsey III
Dean
School of Education/ Health &
Human Performance
Fairmont State University
352 Education Building
1201 Locust Avenue
Fairmont, WV 26554
(304) 367-4241
vdempsey@fairmontstate.edu
Van O. Dempsey is the Dean of the School of Education at Fairmont State University. He is a graduate of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and his experience includes teaching at the high school and university levels. Dr. Dempsey provided long-time leadership to the Benedum Collaborative, a nationally recognized school-university partnership at West Virginia University. He also serves in national and state leadership capacities in initiatives including the West Virginia Partnerships for Teacher Quality (WVPTQ), the National Network for Educational Renewal, and as the state contact for West Virginia’s partnership with the National Commission on Teaching and America’s Future (NCTAF).