Education

• Ph.D., Reading Education, Syracuse University
• MAT, Social Studies, Colgate University
• B.A., History, Albright College

Employment

• Founding Academic Vice President, American University of Nigeria, Jan. 2005 - Dec. 2008
• Dean School of Education, Aquinas College, July 1979 - December 2004
• Director, Special Service Project, SUNY Plattsburg, August 1977 - June 1979
• Coordinator Skills Learning Program, UW: Green Bay, January 1974 - July 1977
• Team Leader: Title I Secondary School Fort Yates Public School, North Dakota, July 1972 - Dec 1973
• City Wide Coordinator Special Education, Clarksdale Public Schools, Mississippi 1971 - 1972
• Director of Reading & Study Center, University of Maryland, Eastern Shore, 1968 - 1971
• Education Director Basic Education for Migrant Workers Auburn, NY 1967
• Graduate Assistant, Syracuse University, 1966 - 1967
• Admission, Financial, Placement Officer Morgan State College Baltimore, MD, 1964 - 1965
• Peace Corps Volunteer, Nigeria, West Africa, 1962 - 1964

Research Interests

My interest is finding out what needs to be in place in formal schooling for all students to have a range of choices in life. My study has taken me to agriculture migrant camps, Baltimore and Princess Anne, Maryland, Clarksdale, Mississippi, Lakota Sioux Reservation, North Dakota, Green Bay, Wisconsin, Plattsburg, New York City, Geneseo, New York, Grand Rapids, Michigan, and overseas to Hungary, Nigeria, former Yugoslavia and Ireland.

Publications

• Over twenty articles focusing on a variety of aspects of supporting education for all students, building universities in the third world and early history of New York State.
• Over sixty presentations on various aspects of effective education strategies and creating education programs in the USA and overseas.
• Created two charter schools, two universities and one private special education school with others over the last twenty years.

Affiliations

• International Reading Association
• Michigan Education Association
• National Council of Teachers of English
• Friends of Nigeria