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Professor Deborah Dillon Awarded Guy Bond Chair in Reading
MINNEAPOLIS / ST. PAUL ( 1/4/2008 ) -- The University of Minnesota's College of Education and Human Development (CEHD) announced today that professor Deborah Dillon will fill its Guy Bond Chair in Reading. One of the nation's leading reading education scholars, Dillon began her career as a classroom teacher in rural Nebraska working with students in grades four to six. She holds a doctoral degree from the University of Georgia and has taught in CEHD's department of curriculum and instruction since 2001. Dillon is the author of several books, including "Kids InSight: Reconsidering how to meet the literacy needs of all students", the foundation book for the International Reading Association's (IRA) Kids InSight series. Her research has been funded by the National Science Foundation, the Spencer Foundation, the Bush Foundation and the U.S. Department of Education's Office of Special Education and Rehabilitation Services. "Deborah Dillon is a tireless force in the reading field at both national and state levels," said professor Ruth Thomas, chair of the department of curriculum and instruction. "She informs policymakers of reading research to enhance the grounding of their policy in research-based understanding. She conducts collaborative research with scholars in other disciplines, and she provides leadership within the department, college, and university and within her profession and community. The Guy Bond Chair in Reading will enable Dillon to extend her work and enlarge its impact in these important areas." In addition to her teaching duties, Dillon has served as president of the National Reading Conference, vice-chair of the English Language Arts Early and Middle Childhood Standards committee of the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards and chair of IRA's Studies and Research committee. She has also served as editor of the IRA Kids InSight series, associate editor of The Reading Teacher and associate editor of the Journal of Research in Science Teaching. She will occupy an endowed chair named for Guy Bond, a former university professor of reading from 1942 to 1971. An influential and prolific author in the field of reading instruction and learning theory, Bond is best known for the 1967 project "The First Grade Studies." This nationally renowned investigation examined issues that remain at the core of reading education to this day. ---------- |
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