Michelli Appointed Presidential Professor

Professor Nicholas Michelli, a faculty member in the Ph.D. Program in Urban Education and former University Dean for Teacher Education in the CUNY Office of Academic Affairs, has been appointed as a Presidential Professor at The Graduate Center, effective September 1. Michelli, who holds a B.A. from Montclair State University, an M.A. from New York University, and an Ed.D. from Columbia University, served as a dean at Montclair State for more than twenty years before his CUNY appointment in 2000. He was active in the launching of the Urban Education program, which began that same year.

Michelli received the Edward C. Pomeroy Award for Contributions to Teacher Education from the American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education in 1996, and he has been principal investigator for a number of governmental and nongovernmental grant projects, including recruiting science and math teachers to urban public schools and the role of education in the ongoing democratization of the Ukraine. His latest book, with David Keiser and other colleagues, is Teacher Education for Democracy and Social Justice (Routledge, 2005). Michelli also serves as editor of the McGraw-Hill Teacher Education Series and was recently reappointed by the New York State Board of Regents to a four-year term on the State Standards and Practices Board for Teaching.

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