Education -- Literacy, FILLED

Professor James F. Baumann joined the UW College of Education in fall 2007, as the first Wyoming Excellence Chair in Literacy Education. A professor of language and literacy education most recently at the University of Georgia, Baumann earned a B.A. degree in psychology (1971) at the University of Notre Dame, and received his M.S. (1973) and Ph.D. (1980) degrees in curriculum and instruction at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He was associate director of the National Reading Research Center for five years, was elected in 1998 as a fellow of the National Conference on Research in Language and Literacy, and was a member of the board of directors of the International Reading Association from 1995 to 1998.

Literacy education in Wyoming has been bolstered by the addition of Professor Baumann to the faculty, who is a recognized expert in reading education. He not only will teach UW students but also will conduct in-service workshops for teachers throughout the state.
 
For more information about Professor Baumann, please visit this Web site.

Posted on Thursday, November 01, 2007