DR. RICHARD KUNKEL
Richard C. Kunkel serves as
Professor of Educational Leadership & Policy Studies at Florida State
University and as a member of the Advisory Board of the Teacher Support Network
of Princeton New Jersey. He is also
a Consultant with EdDesigns of Ft. Lauderdale, Florida and the Cardean Learning
Group of Chicago, Ill.
Kunkel served as the Dean of
the College of Education and Professor at the Florida State University until May
2005. Kunkel was the Wayne T. Smith
Distinguished Professor Educational Leadership and Dean of Education at Auburn
University’s College of Education from January 1, 1990 through June 2001.
Kunkel served over 32 years as Dean level administrator.
Kunkel is active in state,
regional, and national education activities.
He has a successful record of coalition building among teacher
associations, higher education groups, state boards, and the public and private
sectors. Kunkel was the founding
Chairman of the A+ Policy Committee. A+
is a grassroots education reform effort in Alabama to which he volunteers his
time. Kunkel was appointed by the
Governor of Alabama in September 1993 to the Alabama Commission on School
Performance and Accountability. In
1992, Kunkel was elected to the Board of Directors of the Holmes Group and in
1998 was appointed to Holmes Partnership as Executive Director.
The Holmes Partnership is a national organization of leading research
universities in partnership with local schools and organizations in cooperation
to improve student performance. Kunkel
was also appointed to the National Research and Evaluation Advisory Panel of
Teach for America and he served as the facilitator for the Disney Development
Corporation’s Celebration School Visioning Workshop as well as senior advisor
to the Celebration School and Teaching Academy.
In 1997, he testified at hearings on “The Higher Education Act” and
later served as a proposal reader in preliminary and final selection of grants
for school/university partnerships under Title II of the Higher Education Act.
Previously, Kunkel served as Executive Director of the National Council
for Accreditation of Teacher Evaluation (NCATE) beginning in 1984.
Prior to this position, Kunkel served as Dean of the College of Education
at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. A
native of St. Louis, Missouri, Kunkel chaired the Department of Education at St.
Louis University and served as Assistant to the President.
Earlier he held a faculty position in Curriculum and Instruction at Ball
State University and in the Burris Laboratory School at the institution.
He began his career in education as a high school social studies teacher
and later served as a counselor and administrator.
Kunkel provided leadership to numerous state and national organizations
concerned with quality teaching and teacher preparation.
He was named to the National Advisory Committee on Accreditation and
Institutional Eligibility for a three-year term by the U.S. Secretary of
Education. In 1991, the Governor of
Alabama named Kunkel to the Governor’s Ad Hoc Committee on Educational Reform
and appointed him to be a member of the Education Commission of the States (ECS).
He was also appointed Commissioner to the Accrediting Commission on
Education for Health Services Administration in 1990 and elected to a three-year
term as chair of the Assembly of Specialized Accrediting Bodies of the Council
on Postsecondary Accreditation in 1989. Among
his other roles were membership on the American Association of Colleges for
Teacher Education’s Board of Directors and its accreditation Task Force’
Chairs the David Imig Award Outstanding Research and Policy leader for AACTE;
Chairmanship of the Land Grant Education Dean’s Task Force on Accreditation
and membership on the Group’s Executive Committee; appointment to the
Governor’s Commission for Education Excellence in Nevada and chairmanship of
Nevada’s Commission on Professional Standards in Education.
He served as an evaluation consultant to the Economic Development
Activities of the Menominee Tribal Council in Wisconsin and in 1993, he was
named by the Council on Social Work Education to its blue-ribbon Self-Study
Advisory Committee.
Particularly skilled in the areas of program evaluation and staff
development, Kunkel has served as consultant to the U.S. AID programs, to
Teacher Corps and teacher centers, to the Lilly Endowment and Danforth
Foundation, the Missouri Governor’s Conference on Education, and as a long
term evaluator to Cities in Schools and various bilingual and Hispanic education
projects.
Kunkel’s graduate study was done at St. Louis University and the
University of Missouri-Columbia in the areas of Administration, Curriculum and
Counseling. His baccalaureate degree
was earned at Northeast Missouri State College (now Truman State University).
Kunkel has authored numerous articles, monographs, and technical
evaluation reports.
Department of Educational Leadership and Policy Studies
113 Stone Building - Tallahassee, FL 32306-4452
Phone: (850) 644-6777 ♦ Fax: (850)
644-1258 ♦ E-mail: elps@garnet.acns.fsu.edu
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