Alumni News

Dr. Jacqueline Smethurst (M.Ed. 1972, Ed.D. 1984) has been appointed Interim Head of the Pegasus School, Huntington Beach, CA. After a thorough and nation-wide search, Dr. Smethurst received unanimous support from both the search committee and board of trustees. She holds both bachelors and masters degrees in English from Oxford University and a doctorate in Education from the University of Massachusetts Amherst School of Education. She began her career in education at UMass Amherst where she served as a teacher and administrator.

Mary Deane Sorcinelli, Ed. D. 1978, School of Education associate professor, Department of Educational Policy, Research and Administration, and associate provost for Faculty Development, served as distinguished visiting professor at the American University in Cairo from March 15-22. She was the keynote speaker for a conference on “Learners in Focus: Innovative Practices Across the Disciplines” and offered classes and workshops on teaching, learning and faculty development topics.

Dr. Khyati Y. Joshi (Ed.D. 2001), an associate professor in the Sammartino School of Education at Fairleigh Dickinson University, recently addressed the “racialization of religion” at an international gathering of security and human rights officials in Vienna, Austria. Dr. Joshi, whose research focuses on the experiences of Indian-American Hindus, Muslims and Sikhs, was the only American scholar to make a presentation at the event, which is sponsored by the human rights unit of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE).

School of Education alumna and physical education expert Dr. Dolly Lambdin ( Ed.D 1992) received the Physical Education Teacher Education Honor Award from the National Association for Sport and Physical Education (NASPE), the national authority in physical education and leader in setting the standard for practice in sport and physical activity.