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Utah State University DigitalCommons@USU Utah State University Faculty Monographs Libraries 2011 It's About People: Emma Eccles Jones College of Education and Human Services, Utah State University, 1990-2009 James Shaver Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/usufaculty_monographs Recommended Citation Shaver, James. It's About People: Emma Eccles Jones College of Education and Human Services, Utah State University, 1990-2009. Logan, UT: Utah State University, 2011. This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the Libraries at DigitalCommons@USU. It has been accepted for inclusion in Utah State University Faculty Monographs by an authorized administrator of DigitalCommons@USU. For more information, please contact [email protected]. It’s About People 850-3_CollegeOfEdINT.indd 1 11/10/11 3:55 PM Photograph reprinted courtesy of Amy Wilberg. All rights reserved. Amy Wilberg. courtesy of Photograph reprinted Emma Eccles Jones Education Building Dedicated on January 23, 1990 850-3_CollegeOfEdINT.indd 2 11/10/11 3:55 PM It’s About People Emma Eccles Jones College of Education and Human Services Utah State University 1990–2009 James P. Shaver Utah State University Press Logan, Utah 2011 850-3_CollegeOfEdINT.indd 3 11/10/11 3:55 PM Copyright © 2011 Utah State University, Emma Eccles Jones College of Education and Human Services All rights reserved Utah State University Press Logan, UT 84322 www.USUPress.org ISBN: 978-0-87421-850-3 (cloth) ISBN: 978-0-87421-851-0 (e-book) Will Pitkin, Emeritus Professor of English at Utah State University, interviewed the individuals who are featured in this historical account and drafted their brief biographical sketches. Except where otherwise noted, photographs in this volume are reprinted courtesy of Utah State University Photo Services. All rights reserved Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Shaver, James P. It’s About People: The Emma Eccles Jones College of Education and Human Services, Utah State University 1990–2009 / James P. Shaver. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 978-0-87421-850-3 (cloth) — ISBN 978-0-87421-851-0 (e-book) 1. Utah State University. Emma Eccles Jones College of Education & Human Services—History. 2. Utah State University. College of Education—History. I. Title. LB2193.L62S43 2011 370.71’179212—dc22 2011005215 850-3_CollegeOfEdINT.indd 4 11/10/11 3:55 PM Contents Foreword vii Chapter One - Prologue to 1990–2009 1 Chapter Two - People Achieving: A National Presence 9 Chapter Three - Benefactors: People Helping the College Help People 41 Chapter Four - People Educating Educators, Working with Schools 67 Chapter Five - People Providing Services for People 99 Epilogue 137 Endnotes 140 About the Author 146 Acknowledgments 147 List of Tables 149 List of Figures 149 List of Photographs 149 List of Appendices 152 Appendices 153 Name Index 217 Subject Index 219 Glossary of Abbreviations for Departments and Centers 224 850-3_CollegeOfEdINT.indd 5 11/10/11 3:55 PM 850-3_CollegeOfEdINT.indd 6 11/10/11 3:55 PM Foreword or over 40 years, the College of Education and Human Services (CEHS) was my Fsecond home. As an undergraduate in 1969, then as a clinical supervisor in Speech Pathology and Audiology in 1973, and finally as a faculty member, beginning in 1990, I was encouraged and supported by college faculty and staff. By the time Provost Albrecht asked me to serve as interim dean, in 2004, and as dean, in 2005, I knew that ours was a truly superb college, with unusually dedicated faculty, students, and alumni, as well as world-class programs of teaching, research, and service. I wanted its story told. Former Dean Gerry Giordano had seen the need for an updated history and asked staff member Melanie Stein to collect photos and stories to document college achieve- ments since 1990, the ending date for Eyre Turner’s History of College of Education, Utah State University, 1888–1990. Melanie continued that task after Gerry resigned in 2004. As I saw my service to the college coming to a close in 2008–2009, I asked Emeritus Professor Jim Shaver to consider chronicling the two decades of amazing col- lege growth, 1990–2009. Jim graciously accepted the challenge—though, as a non-his- torian, not without some trepidation. From my viewpoint, Jim was especially well-qualified to write this history. He had been a Secondary Education faculty member since 1962, chair of the College’s Bureau of Research Services beginning in 1966, and then associate dean for research after 1976. In 1993 he became dean of USU’s School of Graduate Studies, where he served until his retirement. As an insider, Jim understood and celebrated the work of the college’s eight departments, three research centers, and laboratory school—and had helped orches- trate the growth of our academic programs, research enterprise, and service efforts. And although retired for a decade, he still knew many of the faculty and staff. In addition, having enrolled in Jim’s statistics courses and having served as a gradu- ate assistant on his federally funded research grant during my doctoral program, I knew personally of his exceptional expertise in research and evaluation, especially meta-anal- ysis—a methodology that would serve him well in accessing, analyzing, evaluating, and synthesizing the abundant, yet disparate, data sources of the CEHS record. A superb grad- uate mentor, Jim eventually supervised my dissertation, and we published three articles together. It was from his Montana home, high in the mountain pines above Helena, that he wrote this history. vii 850-3_CollegeOfEdINT.indd 7 11/10/11 3:55 PM viii It’s About People Replete with data and examples of faculty accomplishments, the volume is organized into five chapters and an epilogue. Chapter one, the Prologue, provides a useful transi- tion from the Eyre Turner history to the current one, first exploring the roots of the col- lege’s extraordinary teacher preparation and research productivity, then emphasizing the impact of key administrative decisions on our national standing today. The four succeed- ing chapters are focused on people associated with the college and its successes. Chapter two highlights the research and academic achievements of faculty, staff, and students who have contributed to the college’s national stature. Chapter three honors the many benefac- tors whose financial gifts have helped the college enhance the lives of children and fami- lies, including individuals with special needs. Chapter four describes the academic pro- grams designed for school professionals, offered both on the Logan campus and through distance education. Chapter five reviews the many services that faculty and staff have provided to our community, state, and nation, as well as internationally. Finally, in light of the preceding historical account, the epilogue anticipates the college’s likely future. Readers will learn that what was once a college of education is now a college of edu- cation and human services. In addition to having Utah’s largest state-funded program of teacher preparation, along with graduate degrees for curriculum specialists, the college also prepares an array of service professionals—marriage and family therapists, family finance counselors, school counselors, rehabilitation counselors, school psychologists, behavior analysts, speech-language pathologists, audiologists, deaf educators, health edu- cators, parks and recreation personnel, exercise scientists, educational technology and learning specialists, and educational researchers and evaluators—all dedicated to enrich- ing the lives of others. In this volume you will find bio-sketches and photos of influential individuals from the 1990–2009, 20-year, time frame. Based on personal interviews, these sketches were writ- ten by another valued colleague and friend, Emeritus Professor of English Will Pitkin. Readers may find that persons they deem vital to the college narrative are not mentioned in this history. However, it was simply impossible to acknowledge all of the individual accomplishments and contributions, important as they may have been to the college story. I believe that readers of this history will be impressed by the breadth and depth of the college’s academic programs, research enterprises, and service contributions. Our high national rankings reflect the dedication and commitment of countless faculty and staff, who have worked over the years to improve people’s lives. Thanks to this significant retrospec- tive authored by Jim Shaver, I am confident that friends of the college, as well as faculty, staff, and students, will be optimistic—and with good reason—about our shared future. Carol J. Strong Emeritus Trustee Professor of Communicative Disorders and Deaf Education Dean 2005–2010 850-3_CollegeOfEdINT.indd 8 11/10/11 3:55 PM viii It’s About People 850-3_CollegeOfEdINT.indd 9 11/10/11 3:55 PM Utah State University Campus, 1991 Utah State University Campus, 2009 850-3_CollegeOfEdINT.indd 10 11/10/11 3:55 PM Chapter One Prologue to 1990–2009 or adequate perspective, an historical account of the 20 years of the Emma Eccles FJones College of Education and Human Services from 1990 through 2009 should itself be set in its historical context.1 Pinpointing the origin of an institution such as the college, including when the form of what has emerged as a nationally recognized insti- tution was first identifiable, can be perplexing. On the college website in 2009, Dean Carol J. Strong noted that “this year we will celebrate our 82nd year of preparing people for careers in education and human services.” That statement identifies the beginning point for the college as 1927, the year the Utah Legislature authorized the establishment of a School of Education at the Agricultural College of Utah (to students and alumni, fondly, “the AC”). Previously, in 1921, a Department of Education had been established at the Agricultural College within the School of General Science, marking the initiation of coursework in pedagogy—albeit in rural-related education—offered independently of any other institution.

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