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Robert Antonucci, SED’83, President of Fitchburg State College
A 30-year veteran of education, President Antonucci served as the Commonwealth's commissioner of education from 1992 to 1998. He played a key role in the passage and enactment of the state's historic Education Reform Act of 1993, a landmark law now seen as a national model. Managing a staff of 470 and a budget of $3.4 billion, he fundamentally reformed the state's education finance system, school governance, curriculum development and charter schools.
Before joining Fitchburg State, Antonucci was president of the school group at Cambridge-based Riverdeep-The Learning Company. Riverdeep is a leading provider of electronic educational software offered via the Internet and CD-ROM.
Previously, he was president and chief executive officer with Harcourt Learning Direct and Harcourt Higher Education. He also served as chief executive officer of Harcourt eLearning and the California College for Health Sciences. Harcourt was the first online college in Massachusetts granted authority to award bachelor and associate degrees.
Earlier in his career, Antonucci was for 12 years superintendent of schools in Falmouth. As superintendent, he served as the chief executive officer of the town's K-12 school system, which included approximately 4,700 students and 650 employees.
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Linda Applegarth, SED’71,’75, Director of Psychological Services at the Center for Reproductive Medicine and Infertility and Clinical Assistant Professor of Psychology in both the Department of Psychiatry and Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at the New York Presbyterian Hospital - Weill Medical College of Cornell University
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Wendy J. Chamberlin, SED’71, U.S. Ambassador to the Islamic Republic of Pakistan, President of the Middle East Institute
Wendy Chamberlin accepted her appointment as the new United States ambassador to Pakistan in August of 2001, she knew she would be making important decisions and resolving key issues. But she never could have foreseen how crucial her role would become in just a few weeks. After the September 11, 2001, attacks on New York City and Washington, D.C., the United States needed to make an ally of Pakistan, with whom relations had been strained.
In her twenty-seven-year career as a foreign service officer with the Department of State, Wendy Chamberlin has been posted to Zaire (now Congo), Malaysia, Morocco, Laos, and Pakistan. Among her positions have been political-military officer for Israel and Arab-Israeli affairs in the Near East Bureau, director for counterterrorism with the National Security Council, and U.S. ambassador to the Lao People’s Democratic Republic. She became U.S. ambassador to the Islamic Republic of Pakistan in 2001 and resigned in June 2002. President Bush has nominated her as assistant administrator of the Asia and Near East Bureau of the Agency for International Development. “She’s already doing the job,” Chancellor John Silber said at a reception honoring the award winners. “Congress just doesn’t know it yet."
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Mae Chu Chang, SED’79,
Lead General Educator for East Asia and the Pacific Region of the World Bank
Dr. Mae Chu Chang has returned to the East Asia and Pacific Region of the World Bank as the Lead General Educator and is now stationed in the World Bank Office Jakarta. Prior to coming to the East Asia and Pacific Region, she was the Lead General Educator for Middle East and North Africa (MENA) Region of the World Bank. She has served the MENA region since 1995 and has worked intensively in countries such as Iran, Egypt, Yemen, Jordan to help the governments develop comprehensive education reform strategies. In Jordan, she helped the government introduce the largest education reform for knowledge economy program in the MENA region. In Egypt, she led a sectoral dialogue which resulted in a comprehensive development framework for the education and training sector from the early childhood to the tertiary education stage. These government strategies are supported by Bank’s technical advice and financial support through projects and programs in partnership with other donors. She was also part of the Country Team for the West Bank and Gaza which won a Presidential Award for Excellence in the World Bank.
Prior to joining the MENA region, she served in South Asia for six years and won a Human Development Award for Excellence for her work on girl’s education in Pakistan. Before South Asia, she worked in education in a diverse set of countries in East Asia, including China, Malaysia, Thailand and Laos. Prior to joining the World Bank in 1983, Dr. Chang held various positions in the U.S. Department of Education including: Coordinator of International Affairs (established programs with OECD and MOUs with Korea and China), Team Leader for bilingual education (directed a program of research on bilingual issues through a national competitive grants program.) from 1979-1983. She also undertook various advisory and consulting assignments to Boston school districts, OECD, Government of Taiwan, and United States Information Agency.
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Gardner Dunnan, SED’65,
Assistant Provost of Special Projects, Columbia University
Senior Associate Gardner P. Dunnan, Ed.D., was for 23 years the Head of The Dalton School in New York City. He is now the Assistant Provost for Special Projects at Columbia University, overseeing the creation of a new K-8 school for the children of the faculty and the surrounding neighborhood. A graduate of Harvard University, he holds a master's degree in education from Boston University and a doctorate in education from Harvard. Prior to assuming the headship of Dalton, he was for several years the Superintendent of the Briarcliff Manor Public Schools in Westchester County, New York. Gardner consults with schools in a variety of areas, specializing in strategic planning and management team development.
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Marylouise Fennell, RSM, SED’76, Senior Counsel for the Washington, D.C.-based Council of Independent Colleges (CIC) and New Presidents Program Coordinator
Marylouise Fennell is past president of Carlow University in Pennsylvania, and her background includes both teaching and administrative positions at Saint Joseph College and the University of Hartford, both in Connecticut, and Boston University.
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Nancy Dodd Harrington, SED’70, retired
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Clifford Janey, SED’84,
Former Superintendent of School Washington D.C.
The District of Columbia Board of Education, at the recommendation of a selection committee made up of city officials, school board members, parents and educators, has selected Dr. Clifford B. Janey to be Superintendent of Schools. Dr. Janey brings to the position a track record of improving student reading and math scores, and closing achievement gaps between black and white, and Hispanic and white students. The Board intends to appoint Dr. Janey in September 2004.
Prior to his selection as School Superintendent for the nation's capital, Dr. Janey served as Vice President for Education at Scholastic Inc., a $2-billion multimedia education publishing company in New York City. In that position he worked closely with state education departments and national school reform organizations to help develop and implement strategies for improving student achievement. He also coordinated partnerships with 20 major urban school districts in areas involving language development, literacy acquisition, achievement gap initiatives and professional development.
From 1995 to 2002, Dr. Janey served as Superintendent of Schools in Rochester, New York, an urban school system of 55,000 students. As superintendent, he increased reading and mathematics performance on state assessments and reduced the achievement gap between black and Hispanic students and their white counterparts. Dr. Janey led the implementation of Rochester's widely acclaimed Performance Benchmarks and Public Engagement Plan that involved strategic partnerships and set a national example for how school districts and communities can organize themselves to get results. He also instituted a high performing nationally recognized pre-kindergarten program.
Strongly concerned about students with diverse learning abilities, he expanded opportunities for students with special needs, and developed an affirming and achieving culture in schools for students with disabilities. Under his leadership, the district's 4 th graders with disabilities achieved higher test scores and outperformed the total population of students enrolled in charter schools statewide in 2002.
Before serving as Superintendent of Schools in Rochester, Dr. Janey held a number of important positions in the Boston (MA) Public Schools from 1973 to 1995. These included Chief Academic Officer, East Zone Superintendent (K-8), Community District Superintendent (K-12), Principal of Theodore Roosevelt Middle School, and Reading Teacher at the George Bancroft School. He also served as a principal in the Salem (MA) Public Schools and as Director of Black Studies at Northeastern University.
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Richard Schwab, SED’74, Dean of the Neag School of Education and a Professor of Educational Leadership, University of Connecticut
The Neag School of Education raised millions of dollars under Dr. Schwab’s exceptional leadership. During his tenure, the School raised its endowment to over $32 million dollars—including a $21 million gift to name the School—and received a five-year, $5 million Teachers for a New Era grant funded by Carnegie Corporation of New York. Dean Schwab has created a national presence for the School, raised the School’s U.S. News & World Report ranking to 21st out of all schools of education in the country, and provided a strong, clear vision for the teacher preparation program that has made the Neag School of Education one of the premier programs in the nation.
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