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About Carnegie Corporation
Daniel Fallon
Program Director, Higher Education
As
chair of the education division, Daniel Fallon oversees the Corporation's
grantmaking efforts to improve educational achievement from preschool
through the post-secondary level. The largest of Carnegie’s
program efforts, the education division supports initiatives in
the areas of intermediate and adolescent literacy, urban school
reform, and higher education, with a current emphasis on teacher
education reform.
Fallon
joined the Carnegie staff in August 2000 from the University of
Maryland at College Park where he assumed the post of Vice President
for Academic Affairs and Provost in 1993. Holding faculty appointments
as professor of psychology and professor of public policy, he also
directed the doctoral program for the School of Public Policy.
Born
in Colombia where his family resided for many generations, Fallon
settled with his parents in Washington, DC as he entered the third
grade of elementary school. He received a B.A. from Antioch College
and an M.A. and Ph.D. in experimental psychology from the University
of Virginia. He began his teaching career in 1965 at Binghamton
University, established a significant research program studying
animal behavior, learning, and motivation, and later became associate
dean of Arts and Sciences. In 1976, he was appointed professor of
psychology and dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
at the University of Colorado at Denver. In 1984, Fallon was named
professor of psychology and dean of the College of Liberal Arts
at Texas A&M University.
Throughout
his career, Fallon has written and lectured extensively on higher
education policy and teacher education, and is the author of a prize-winning
book, The German University, the result of a year spent at the University
of Düsseldorf as a visiting professor of psychology and Senior
Fulbright Research Fellow in the 1970's. He is past president of
the Council of Colleges of Arts and Sciences. He has served as a
consultant to the Teacher Education Accreditation Council and provided
the principal staff support to the Presidential Task Force on Teacher
Education of the American Council on Education, preparing their
1999 report To Touch the Future. Fallon currently serves as a trustee
for Antioch University and the University of Hildesheim in Germany.
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