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Carol S. Pearson
1944 - Present (80 years)
Carol S. Pearson is an American author and educator. She develops new theories and models with an applied practical bent, building on the work of psychiatrist C. G. Jung, psychoanalyst James Hillman, mythologist Joseph Campbell, and other depth psychologists.
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John R. Hubbard
1918 - 2011 (93 years)
John Randolph Hubbard was an American educator, academic administrator, and diplomat who served as the eighth president of the University of Southern California from 1970 and 1980. Early life and education Hubbard was born and raised in Belton, Texas. He earned his Bachelor of Arts, Master of Arts, and PhD in history from the University of Texas at Austin. As an undergraduate at the University of Texas, he became a member of the Delta Kappa Epsilon fraternity.
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George Kubler
1912 - 1996 (84 years)
George Alexander Kubler was an American art historian and among the foremost scholars on the art of Pre-Columbian America and Ibero-American Art. Biography Kubler was born in Hollywood, California, but most of his early education was in Europe. He attended high school at Western Reserve Academy, a private, coeducational boarding school in Hudson, Ohio. He then went to Yale University, where he earned an A.B. , A.M. and Ph.D. degree , the latter two under guidance of Henri Focillon. From 1938 onwards, Kubler was a member of the Yale University faculty and was the first Robert Lehman Professor , Sterling Professor of the History of Art and after his retirement, a senior resident scholar.
Go to ProfilePaul J. LeBlanc is the fifth and current president of Southern New Hampshire University. Early life and education Born into a French-speaking family in Canada, LeBlanc's family immigrated to the United States when he was a child. He became the first person in his extended family to attend college. He enrolled at Framingham State University, where he earned his bachelor's degree. He then received his master's degree from Boston College and his Ph.D. from the University of Massachusetts Amherst.
Go to ProfileLevi Martin Nyagura is a Zimbabwean academic. He was appointed Vice Chancellor of the University of Zimbabwe in January 2003 and was subsequently reappointed for a second, third and a fourth term, the latter of which ended in mid 2018.
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Mario Sergio Cortella
1954 - Present (70 years)
Mario Sergio Cortella is a Brazilian philosopher, writer, educator and speaker most known for putting into the public sphere and helping popularize in questions related to philosophy in Brazilian contemporary society. He is also known as a prominent educator. Having studied with Paulo Freire, Cortella applied Freire's approach to education while he was secretary of education of São Paulo city during the '90s. He is professor of theological philosophy at PUC-SP.
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Kern Alexander
1939 - Present (85 years)
Samuel Kern Alexander Jr. is Professor of Excellence at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, where he is endowed by the O'Leary Endowment and Editor of the Journal of Education Finance, published by the University of Illinois Press and Project MUSE of Johns Hopkins University.
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Walter Pauk
1914 - 2019 (105 years)
Walter Pauk was Cornell University's reading and study center director. He was the author of the best-selling How To Study In College. Pauk has been lauded as "one of the most influential professors in the field of developmental education and study skills". He created Cornell Notes.
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Colin Lankshear
1950 - Present (74 years)
Colin Lankshear is adjunct professor at James Cook University, Mount St Vincent University and McGill University. He is an internationally acclaimed scholar in the study of new literacies and digital technologies .
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Nurhan Atasoy
1934 - Present (90 years)
Nurhan Atasoy is a Turkish art historian. She specializes in history of Ottoman and Islamic art. She served as a chair in the Department of Fine Arts, Archeology and Art History at Istanbul University until 1999 when she retired. She is a resident scholar of the Turkish Cultural Foundation.
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Mike Rose
1944 - Present (80 years)
Mike Rose was an American scholar of education who studied literacy and the struggles of working-class America. He was a Research Professor of Social Research Methodology in the UCLA Graduate School of Education and Information Studies.
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Gerald Bernbaum
1936 - 2017 (81 years)
Gerald Bernbaum FRSA was an educationist and university administrator. He was Vice-Chancellor and Chief Executive of South Bank University , London, England. Bernbaum was Assistant Master at Mitcham County Grammar School for Boys and then Head of Department at Rutherford School . He moved to the University of Leicester and was a lecturer in education , senior lecturer , Professor of Education and Director of the School of Education . He moved into university administration at Leicester and became Pro-Vice-Chancellor followed by Executive Pro-Vice-Chancellor and Registrar . He moved to Sout...
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Satyajit Ray
1921 - 1992 (71 years)
Satyajit Ray was an Indian director, screenwriter, documentary filmmaker, author, essayist, lyricist, magazine editor, illustrator, calligrapher, and composer. Ray is not only widely considered one of the greatest and most influential Indian directors of all time but has been often described as "one of the world's greatest directors". He is celebrated for works including The Apu Trilogy , The Music Room , The Big City and Charulata and the Goopy–Bagha trilogy.
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Peter Watson
1943 - Present (81 years)
Peter Frank Patrick Watson is a British intellectual historian and former journalist, now perhaps best known for his work in the history of ideas. His journalistic work includes detailed investigations of auction houses and the international market in stolen antiquities.
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Marie Clay
1926 - 2007 (81 years)
Dame Marie Mildred Clay was a researcher from New Zealand known for her work in educational literacy. She was committed to the idea that children who struggle to learn to read and write can be helped with early intervention. A clinical psychologist, she developed the Reading Recovery intervention, a whole language programme in New Zealand, and expanded it worldwide.
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Elson Floyd
1956 - 2015 (59 years)
Elson S. Floyd was an American educator who served as the 10th president of the four-campus Washington State University from May 21, 2007 to June 20, 2015. Floyd was also the first African American to be named president of Washington State University. Floyd also served as president of the University of Missouri System and president of Western Michigan University. Floyd was the Chairman of the Pac-12 CEO Group.
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Michael W. Kirst
1939 - Present (85 years)
Michael W. Kirst is Professor Emeritus of Education at Stanford University and the longest serving President of California's State Board of Education. Kirst served as President of the California State Board of Education for four terms, serving from 1975 to 1982, and again from 2011 until 2019.
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Stephanie Mitelman
1976 - Present (48 years)
Stephanie Mitelman Bercovitch is a Canadian sex education and family life education professor, public speaker, entrepreneur, sex educator, and author specializing in special education, particularly for youth with autism spectrum disorders. She is the owner and creator of Senseez Pillows, a company making vibrating pillows for people with sensory needs, and Sex Ed Mart, a sex education publishing and distribution company specializing in sex education for youth with special needs. Bercovitch also runs a private sex education practice for youth on the autism spectrum, their parents, and couples...
Go to ProfileBettina L. Love is an American author and academic. She is the William F. Russell Professor at Teachers College, Columbia University, where she has been instrumental in establishing abolitionist teaching in schools. According to Love, abolitionist teaching refers to restoring humanity for children in schools. Love also advocates eliminating the billion-dollar industry of standardized testing.
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Samuel J. Meisels
1945 - Present (79 years)
Samuel J. Meisels is an American academic whose scholarship focuses on early childhood assessment, child development and educational practices that support the developmental needs of young children. Meisels is the founding executive director of the Buffett Early Childhood Institute at the University of Nebraska, president emeritus of Erikson Institute, and a professor and research scientist emeritus at the University of Michigan. Meisels retired from the Buffett Institute on Feb. 28, 2023, concluding a career that spanned more than a half-century and established him as a leading voice in the f...
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George Bain
1939 - Present (85 years)
Professor Sir George Sayers Bain is a Canadian-British academic who has contributed to the study and practice of industrial relations, has led several academic institutions, has been a non-executive director of companies in the UK and Canada, and has engaged extensively in public service.
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David Berlinski
1942 - Present (82 years)
David Berlinski is an American author who has written books about mathematics and the history of science as well as fiction. An opponent of evolution, he is a senior fellow of the Discovery Institute's Center for Science and Culture, an organization which promotes the pseudoscience of intelligent design.
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David Gillborn
1962 - Present (62 years)
David Gillborn is a British educational researcher known for his work in critical race theory as it relates to education. He is Professor of Critical Race Studies at the University of Birmingham, where he is also director of research in the School of Education and the director of the Centre for Research in Race and Education. He serves as the editor-in-chief of Race Ethnicity and Education.
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Noriaki Kano
1940 - Present (84 years)
Noriaki Kano is a Japanese educator, lecturer, writer, and consultant in the field of quality management. He is the developer of a customer satisfaction model whose simple ranking scheme distinguishes between essential and differentiating attributes related to concepts of customer quality. He is a professor emeritus of the Tokyo University of Science. He was Visiting Professor at the University of Rome III during the academic year 2010-2011.
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Richard A. Swanson
1942 - Present (82 years)
Richard A. Swanson is an American organizational theorist and Distinguished Research Professor of Human Resource Development and the Sam Lindsey Chair at the University of Texas at Tyler , known for his synthesis work on the financial research related to human resource development.
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Robert Hewison
1943 - Present (81 years)
Robert Alwyn Petrie Hewison is a British cultural historian. He was educated at Bedford School, Ravensbourne College of Art and Design, and Brasenose College, Oxford, where he graduated BA in 1965, MA in 1970, MLitt in 1972, and DLitt in 1989.
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Betty Reardon
1929 - Present (95 years)
Betty A. Reardon was an American teacher and the founder and director of the Peace Education Center and Peace Education Graduate Degree Program at Teachers College, Columbia University. She was a leader in peace education and a scholar in human rights education at the primary and secondary levels. Along with Elise Boulding and Cynthia Enloe, she was also considered part of the "pioneering generation of women in peace studies" because of her efforts to highlight the dominance of "white haired wise men" in the field, and her desire to make women’s ideas and issues a central part of the debate on world peace.
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Stephen Molyneux
1955 - Present (69 years)
Stephen Molyneux is a British educational technologist whose work as Microsoft Professor of Advanced Learning Technology and Apple Distinguished Educator has led to him influencing the use of technologies across the British School system.
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Lee Harvey
1949 - Present (75 years)
Lee Harvey is a former Director of the Centre for Research and Evaluation at Sheffield Hallam University. In April, 2008 there was controversy as Harvey was suspended from his position by the UK's Higher Education Academy for writing a letter to the Times Higher Education that was critical of the National Student Survey. In May, 2008 he quit his post over the issue.
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Malcolm Skilbeck
1932 - 2022 (90 years)
Malcolm Preston Skilbeck was an Australian educator who worked in educational policy analysis, curriculum, tertiary and secondary education, the teaching profession and educational innovation. Some of this work was done with the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development and the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization .
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Peter Freebody
1950 - Present (74 years)
Peter Freebody is an Australian Honorary Professorial Fellow at the University of Wollongong, Australia. Past appointments included Professorial Research Fellow with the Faculty of Education and Social Work and a core member of the CoCo Research Centre at the University of Sydney in Sydney, Australia. His research and teaching interests include literacy education, classroom interaction and quantitative and qualitative research methods. He has served on numerous Australian State and Commonwealth literacy education and assessment advisory groups. Freebody, with Allan Luke, originated the Four R...
Go to ProfileRichard Arthur Lesh, Jr. is a professor of learning sciences, cognitive science, and mathematics education at Indiana University in Bloomington, Indiana. He retired from the IU system in 2012. He graduated from Indiana University in 1971 with a Ph.D. in mathematics, cognitive psychology, and statistics for research in the social sciences. He is also a graduate of Hanover College, where he received a B.A. in mathematics and physics.
Go to ProfileRaymond J. McNulty is an American educator who served as Vermont Commissioner of Education from 2001 to 2003. Education McNulty earned a B.A. from Bridgewater State University in 1973 and an M.A. from Johnson State College in 1977.
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Janina Ramirez
1980 - Present (44 years)
Janina Sara Maria Ramirez , sometimes credited as Nina Ramirez, is a British art historian, cultural historian, and TV presenter. She specialises in interpreting symbols and examining works of art within their historical context.
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Miriam Ben-Peretz
1927 - 2020 (93 years)
Miriam Ben-Peretz is an Israeli academician specializing in education. Ben-Peretz is Professor Emeritus of Education at the University of Haifa and is a 2006 winner of the Israel Prize in the field of education. She is former Dean of the School of Education at the University of Haifa, and past President of Tel-Hai Academic College. In 1997 Ben-Peretz was awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award by the American Educational Research Association.
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Bettye Caldwell
1924 - 2016 (92 years)
Bettye McDonald Caldwell was an American educator and academic who influenced the development of Head Start. She was the 1993 recipient of the Society for Research in Child Development's Award for Distinguished Contributions to Public Policy for Children.
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Amelia Jones
1961 - Present (63 years)
Amelia Jones , originally from Durham, North Carolina, is an American art historian, art theorist, art critic, author, professor and curator. Her research specialisms include feminist art, body art, performance art, video art, identity politics, and New York Dada. Jones's earliest work established her as a feminist scholar and curator, including through a pioneering exhibition and publication concerning the art of Judy Chicago; later, she broadened her focus on other social activist topics including race, class and identity politics. Jones has contributed significantly to the study of art and ...
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David G. Hebert
1972 - Present (52 years)
David G. Hebert is a musicologist and comparative educationist, employed as Professor of Music at Western Norway University of Applied Sciences , where he leads the Grieg Academy Music Education research group. He has contributed to the fields of music education, ethnomusicology, sociomusicology, comparative education, and East Asian Studies. Since 2018, he has been manager of the Nordic Network for Music Education, a multinational state-funded organization that sponsors intensive Master courses and exchange of university music lecturers and students across Northern Europe. He is also a visi...
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Thomas Minter
1924 - 2009 (85 years)
Thomas Kendall Minter was an education official who served in the United States government and the government of New York City. Biography Minter was born on June 28, 1924, in the Bronx. Raised in East Harlem, he attended New York University, where he earned his undergraduate and master's degree. He later earned a master's degree from the Union Theological Seminary. Minter earned a Ph.D. from Harvard University in 1971.
Go to ProfileJane Elizabeth den Hollander is an Australian University Administrator and was the sixth Vice-Chancellor of Deakin University. Den Hollander is currently serving as the Interim Vice Chancellor of Murdoch University.
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Ingmar Bergman
1918 - 2007 (89 years)
Ernst Ingmar Bergman was a Swedish filmmaker and theatre director. Widely considered one of the greatest and most influential film directors of all time, his films have been described as "profoundly personal meditations into the myriad struggles facing the psyche and the soul". Some of his most acclaimed works include The Seventh Seal , Wild Strawberries , Persona , and Fanny and Alexander ; these four films were included in the 2012 edition of Sight & Sound Greatest Films of All Time. Bergman was also ranked No. 8 on the magazine's 2002 "Greatest Directors of All Time" list.
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James L. Wattenbarger
1922 - 2006 (84 years)
James Lorenzo Wattenbarger was an American educator. A native of Cleveland, Tennessee, Wattenbarger is credited as being the Father of the Community College System of Florida. His doctoral dissertation at the University of Florida outlined a master plan that the state used in 1955 to create the modern community college system.
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Dwight W. Allen
1931 - 2021 (90 years)
Dwight W. Allen was a professor of education, eminent scholar, and lifelong education reformist. He served as a professor and Director of Teacher Education at his alma mater, the Stanford Graduate School of Education from 1959 to 1967. He was Dean of the College of Education, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, from 1968 to 1975. In 1978, Allen became a Professor of Education and Eminent Scholar of Educational Reform at Old Dominion University in Virginia. Allen retired from Old Dominion University in July 2008.
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Alan Tuckett
1948 - Present (76 years)
Sir Alan John Tuckett, is a British adult education specialist and campaigner. He was the Chief Executive of the National Institute of Adult Continuing Education from 1988 to 2011, and President of the International Council for Adult Education from 2011 to 2015. He is currently Professor of Education at the University of Wolverhampton.
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Marybeth Gasman
1968 - Present (56 years)
Marybeth Gasman is Samuel DeWitt Proctor Endowed Chair in Education and a Distinguished Professor at Rutgers University. She was appointed as Associate Dean for Research in the Rutgers Graduate School of Education in the fall of 2021 and was elected Chair of the Rutgers University-New Brunswick Faculty Council in 2021. In addition to these roles, Gasman is the Executive Director of the Samuel DeWitt Proctor Institute for Leadership, Equity, & Justice as well as the Rutgers Center for Minority Serving Institutions.
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Hank M. Bounds
1967 - Present (57 years)
Hank M. Bounds is an American educator and the previous president of the University of Nebraska, where he was the administrator for the four campuses in the university. He has announced that he would step down from this position later in the summer of 2019 and return to the South with his family. He previously served as the commissioner of higher education in Mississippi.
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Bill Ayers
1944 - Present (80 years)
William Charles Ayers is an American retired professor and former militant organizer. In 1969, Ayers co-founded the far-left militant organization the Weather Underground, a far-left revolutionary group modeled that sought to overthrow what they viewed as American imperialism. During the 1960s and 1970s, the Weather Underground conducted a campaign of bombing public buildings in opposition to U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War. The bombings caused no fatalities, except for three members killed when one of the group's devices accidentally exploded. The FBI described the Weather Underground as a domestic terrorist group.
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Jo Ann Rooney
1961 - Present (63 years)
Jo Ann Rooney is an American educator with a background in higher education, law, business, health care, and public service. On May 23, 2016, she was named the 24th president of Loyola University Chicago, a Jesuit, Catholic university in Chicago, Illinois. Rooney is the first lay, non-Jesuit president of the university in its history and began her term as president on August 1, 2016. On August 23, 2021, she announced in a statement that the current school year will be her last as President of the University. Dr. Rooney's tenure at Loyola ended on September 30, 2022.
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Chris Husbands
1959 - Present (65 years)
Professor Sir Chris Husbands is a British academic, educationist, university leader and public servant, who has been Vice-Chancellor of Sheffield Hallam University since January 2016. Education He was educated at King Edward VI College, Nuneaton, Emmanuel College, Cambridge and the Institute of Education, London University . He was Reader in Education , Professor of Education and Director of the Institute of Education at the University of Warwick, Professor of Research in Education and Head of the School of Education and Lifelong Learning at the University of East Anglia , and Professor of...
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