Guadalupe Hall

The School of Education and Counseling Psychology gets a cool new HQ. And Carol Ann Gittens takes the helm as interim dean.

Guadalupe Hall is now HQ for the School of Education and Counseling Psychology. Serving as interim dean since this summer: Carol Ann Gittens, who was already an associate dean of the College of Arts and Sciences and an associate professor in the Liberal Studies program. Gittens is an expert on assessing institutional effectiveness and student learning outcomes. Her research focuses on the interface of critical thinking, motivation, mathematical reasoning, and academic achievement of adolescents and young adults from diverse cultural and ethnic backgrounds. She directs the college’s interdisciplinary minor in urban education.

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