The American Affiliation of Schools for Instructor Education (AACTE) has named Dr. Monika Williams Shealey, Rowan University’s senior vice president for Variety, Fairness & Inclusion, chair of the organization’s board of administrators.
A submit on the internet internet site EdPrepMatters revealed by the AACTE stated Shealey will provide as board chair for 1 12 months. Her support to the AACTE will come during its 75th anniversary 12 months and which is fitting, she claimed, thinking of her commitment to schooling all through her career.
“At the main of anything I do is the belief that instruction is transformative and the positions wherever I provide in increased schooling allow for me to tap into my expertise and expertise as an educator,” Shealey mentioned. “My commitment to advocacy was at the root of my perform as a distinctive training teacher, as dean of the School of Schooling and in my current purpose of senior vice president for Variety, Equity and Inclusion. I’m honored to stand for Rowan University and operate on behalf of AACTE customers who contain education and learning candidates, doctoral pupils, training gurus and school and leaders of instruction preparation applications to advance our profession.”
Shealey has held educational appointments at the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee Florida International University in Miami and the College of Missouri at Kansas Metropolis. She joined Rowan in 2013 as the first African American dean of the College or university of Training and, in 2019, President Ali Houshmand asked her to lead the University’s new Division of Variety, Fairness & Inclusion. The Division was the initial of its kind in the region and strives to be a model for systemic alter in better instruction that effects in equitable results for pupils, faculty and workers.
Shealey been given her B.S. and M.A. from the College of South Florida, her Ed.S. from the College of Miami, and her Ph.D. in training from the University of Central Florida. Her investigation has focused on the ordeals of minoritized teams in special training and on Black women of all ages in instructor training and leadership.
“We are thrilled to have Dr. Shealey serve as board chair for the duration of a year when AACTE will commemorate its 75-year historical past as the leading voice in educator preparing,” reported President and CEO Lynn M. Gangone, Ed.D. “With her qualified leadership, the business will amplify its perform to expand and diversify enrollments in colleges of education and learning and systems of instructor training and raise the quantity of qualified PK-12 academics, as properly as the faculties of faculties of education.”
In addition to serving as AACTE board chair, Shealey is a member of the Board of Trustees for the Center for Spouse and children Services and the Close friends Faculty at Mullica Hill. She is also previous president of the Countrywide Affiliation of Holmes Scholars Alumni variety, equity and inclusion council chair for the Chamber of Commerce Southern New Jersey, and chair of the American Educational Exploration Association’s Committee on Students of Color.
