Ed School Dean Gets National Post

The Dean of the School of Education has been elected president of the National Academy of Education, a group founded in 1965 to promote educational research.

Warren Professor of History of American Education Patricia A. Graham said that her goal as president is "to use the academy to help promote the next generation of education researchers."

The 68 voting members of the academy are primarily university scholars in the behavioral sciences, humanities, and education. Harvard has more members in the Pittsburgh-centered group than any other university, Graham said.

Recently, the academy received a $2.5 million grant from the Spencer Foundation which bolsters their previous budget of about $250,000 annually, according to Michelle von Koch, the academy's past executive director. Graham's first duty will be awarding 75 post-doctoral researchers the grant money for their projects.

Graham has been associated with the academy for three years and previously served on the executive committee.