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Nov. 11, 2003

Higher Education Association Honors College of Education Dean

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Dr. Kathryn Moore

North Carolina State University’s College of Education Dean Kathryn Moore has received the Leadership Award from the Association for the Study of Higher Education (ASHE).

The award recognizes outstanding leadership in advancing the study of higher education. It recognizes individuals who bring visibility and support to the field of higher education by demonstrating the contributions that the study of higher education makes to policy formation or in gaining substantial resources for research and training in higher education.

ASHE, headquartered at the University of Missouri-Columbia, is a scholarly society with more than 1,800 members dedicated to higher education as a field of study. The association promotes collaboration among its members and others engaged in the study of higher education through research, conferences and publications including its journal, The Review of Higher Education.

“The service that ASHE performs as a scholarly society has never been more necessary or more important,” Moore says. “Our nation is engaged in a widespread debate on whether or not education is to become largely a private good rather than a public one. As scholars and leaders our voices and our scholarship need to be heard.”

Since coming to the College of Education in 2000, Moore has spearheaded the creation and future construction of the William and Ida Friday Institute for Educational Innovation, scheduled to open in 2005 adjacent to Centennial Campus Middle School. The Institute will bring together students, teachers, education professionals, research scientists, community leaders and business professionals to identify and find solutions to pressing educational challenges.

Prior to becoming dean at NC State, Moore was a professor and founding director of the Center for the Study of Advanced Learning Systems in the College of Education at Michigan State University. Between 1991-96, she served as chairperson and professor of the Department of Educational Administration at Michigan State.

Moore has also served on the faculties of Penn State University and Cornell University. While at Penn State she served as director of the Center for the Study of Higher Education. She holds bachelor’s and master’s degrees in education from the Ohio State University, and a Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in educational policy studies.

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