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November 27, 2000 Purdue education dean heads back to the classroomWEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – Saying it's a natural career evolution, Marilyn Haring announced Monday (11/27) she will conclude her 10 years of service as dean of the Purdue University School of Education at the end of this academic year.
Haring, who was named dean in 1991, will take a one-year sabbatical starting in July to prepare for her return to the classroom. "Marilyn Haring will be difficult to replace," said Purdue President Martin C. Jischke. "Her commitment to making the School of Education a national leader has been exceptional. We are losing a great administrator, but we are gaining an outstanding leader in the university classroom." "I have dedicated the last 10 years to the university as dean, but it's time for me to return to teaching," Haring said. "This is a planned move that has been in the works for more than a year now. I am grateful I have been able to be a part of helping our school mature into the statewide leader it is today since opening in 1989. The advances we have made in the last decade can only be attributed to our wonderful faculty." Robert L. Ringel, executive vice president for academic affairs, said a search committee will be formed to select a new dean. "Marilyn Haring will leave a bright mark in the history of the university," he said. "In a relatively brief period of time, she has taken our school from a new entity to a national leader. She will be a tough act for anyone to follow." Ringel said he hopes to have the position filled by August. During Haring's tenure, the School of Education has gained statewide and national recognition for its Reading Recovery Program and has been named one of the top 50 graduate programs in the country by U.S. News and World Report. Reading Recovery is an international program designed to identify and help first-graders who are at risk of failing to learn how to read. Purdue's program is unusual because it "trains the trainers." Teachers spend a year at the university to become specialists qualified to train teachers in their school districts on how to help these underachieving children. "Reading Recovery is quite possibly the most important program we offer for K-12 education," Haring said. "By the end of this academic year, we will have impacted the lives of an estimated 30,000 students in the state. We are helping first graders learn to read; there's nothing more important than becoming a good reader." Haring is a tenured professor of educational studies and will be teaching on a half-time basis after returning from sabbatical. In 1994 she received the Violet Haas Award for Outstanding Efforts on Behalf of Women from the Purdue Council on the Status of Women. Before coming to Purdue she was dean of the School of Education for the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. An Arizona native, she earned her bachelor's, master's and doctoral degrees from Arizona State University in 1963, 1966 and 1978, respectively. Purdue's School of Education began as the department of education in 1908. It now offers bachelor's degrees in elementary, social studies and special education. The department of curriculum and instruction and the department of educational studies offer a wide variety of undergraduate and graduate-level courses. The school serves more than 2500 students with more than 70 faculty members. Sources: Marilyn Haring, (765) 494-2336, haringm@purdue.edu Robert Ringel, (765) 494-9709, ringelr@purdue.edu Writer: Jenny Pratt, (765) 494-2079, jmpratt@purdue.edu Other sources: Martin C. Jischke, (765) 494-9708 NOTE TO JOURNALISTS: A publication-quality photograph of Marilyn Haring is available at the News Service Web site and at the ftp site. Photo ID: Haring.m
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