LehighWeek Volume 09, Issue 31

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Volume 9, Issue 31
NEWSMAKERS
This Week
Provost announces
retirement
Al Pense, provost and academic
vice president, has announced he
will retire in January 1997 after
more than 35
years at Lehigh.
In addition to his
six-and-a-half
years as provost,
he served as
dean of the
College of
Engineering and
Pense Applied Science,
chairman of the
department of materials science
and engineering, and as Robert D.
Stout Professor. An expert in the
field of welding and materials, he
.came to Lehigh in 1957 as a
graduate student and joined the
faculty as an instructor in 1960.
"I feel quite fortunate to have
been able to pursue my career at an
institution that has offered me so
much opportunity in the company
of so many talented colleagues,"
said Pense. He added he has
several professional and personal
projects he plans to undertake
when he leaves, but "I have not yet
completed my responsibilities at
Lehigh. There is much to do in the
next six months, and I anticipate a
busy schedule until January."
A search committee will be
formed by Pres. Peter Likins in
the near future.
Inside
Information
resources
restructures
3
October
Commencement
to be eliminated
4
SouthMountaineer
Mountain Hawk
welcomes Eagles to
its nest q
Lehigh University Campus Weekly
July 1996
Roland Yoshida named dean
of College of Education
Yoshida
Roland K. "Ron" Yoshida, the
associate provost and assistant
vice president for academic affairs
at Queens
College, City
University of
New York, has
been named
dean ofthe
College of
Education.
Yoshida's
appointment,
Iwhich takes
effect July 22, was announced by
Alan W. Pense, provost and vice
president for academic affairs at
Lehigh.
"Ron is extremely well-qualified
for this position as a result of his
experience and his professional
activities in school psychology and
educational psychology for exceptional children," said Pense. "He
has excellent personal skills and is
very straightforward. We think
he's going to be a great asset to the
institution."
Yoshida will succeed Alden J.
Moe, who served eight years as
dean and will become University
Service Professor of education at
Lehigh.
Yoshida became associate
provost at Queens last year after
serving five years as dean of its
School of Education. He was also a
professor at the department of
educational psychology at CUNY's
Graduate Center. Previously, he
was professor and chairman of the
psychological and educational
services department of the School of
Education of Fordham University.
Author of more than 60 scholarly
articles, Yoshida is especially
interested in the education of
children with disabilities and in the
recruitment of minority students
into graduate-level education
programs. He advocates an interdisciplinary approach to the
solution of problems in education.
Yoshida said the College of
Education's nationally recognized
programs will help it tackle the
education problems of the next
decade. "The College of Education
at Lehigh is like an unknown
treasure. It is a wonder that it is
not more well-known than it is. I
say this as one who has known
some of its professors before my
appointment," he said.
Yoshida singled out Lehigh's
programs in school and counseling
psychology, which are approved by
the American Psychological Association, and the special education
program, which works with children with severe disabilities. He
praised the college's .-—fJtier
preparation and reading programs
and hopes to build on their ties with
Lehigh's three undergraduate
colleges and local and regional
school districts.
Lehigh's educational technology
program, Yoshida said, "is one of
the few doctoral programs of its
kind in the nation and is well-
positioned for the future." The
educational leadership program,
by creating an internship program
in Philadelphia's public schools,
"is taking an aggressive stand and
showing a strong, positive commitment."
A native of Los Angeles,
Yoshida earned a B.A. in political
science, an M.S. in exceptional
children, and a Ph.D. in educational psychology for exceptional
children, all from the University
of Southern California. He worked
as a lecturer for USC's department of educational psychology
and as an education program
specialist for the U.S. Department
of Education's Bureau of Education for the Handicapped before
joining Fordham in 1982.
Yoshida has served as consultant to more than two dozen school
districts and other educational
organizations, and as consulting
editor to the Journal of School
Psychology, the American Journal
of Mental Retardation and a half-
dozen other technical journals.
He is a member of Phi Beta
Kappa, Phi Delta Kappa and
Kappa Delta Pi (both education
honorary societies) and a half-
dozen other professional societies,
and he is a fellow of the American
Psychological Association.
Yoshida's wife, Sharon Yoshida,
is a member of the New York City
Board of Education and is supervisor of school psychologists in
Brooklyn, N.Y. She plans on
joining Yoshida in the fall as a
member of the Lehigh community.
Final touches on the turf...
Eagles training camp opens
Eric Steckel (right)
and Dave Baab of
Brickman Industries paint the
Sunoco logo in the
end zone of a
practice field in
preparation for the
opening of the
Eagles training
camp. Sunoco is
one of several
coporate sponsors
of the camp. (See
story page 8)
John Kish IV
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