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Dan Fallon, Program Director, Higher Education, To Retire

New York, New York, June 12, 2008 – Dan Fallon, Director of Carnegie Corporation’s Higher Education Program and an advocate for improving the quality of teaching, will retire from the foundation as of June 30, 2008.

Following a routine review of the position’s description and the Corporation’s current needs, the foundation will initiate a search to fill the vacancy.

At today’s meeting of the Carnegie Corporation Board of Trustees, foundation President Vartan Gregorian commented on Fallon’s tenure, “Among Dan Fallon’s valuable contributions to the work of Carnegie Corporation of New York has been his commitment to the idea that teachers play a central role in the life of our nation and therefore, in maintaining the strength of our democracy. Dan believes that excellent teachers who are provided with high-quality education and rigorous training and whose success as educators is backed by results and evidence are the best hope for the education of future generations.”

Dan Fallon’s dedication to improving the quality of teaching in the nation’s K-12 schools led to the creation of Carnegie Corporation’s Teachers for a New Era program to help select schools of education prepare teachers who can positively impact pupil learning.

Fallon was chair of the Corporation’s Education Division from 2000 to 2007. In that role and his subsequent role as Director of the foundation’s Higher Education Program, he helped to shape some of the Corporation’s education programs and their execution. Fallon’s insight about the Corporation’s work has been deepened by his training as a psychologist, his dedication to scholarship and his career as an educator, which has included serving as Assistant Dean and later Associate Dean of Arts and Sciences at the State University of New York; as Visiting Professor of Psychology at the University of Düsseldorf, where Fallon began work on his book, The German University: A Heroic Ideal in Conflict with the Modern World, which won the Eugene M. Kayden prize for excellence in humanities from the Colorado Associated University Presses.

Dan Fallon also served as Dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at the University of Colorado at Denver; as Dean of the College of Liberal Arts at Texas A&M University; and as Provost and Academic Vice President at the University of Maryland, College Park where he also directed the Ph.D. program in the Maryland School of Public Policy, and served as Interim Director of International Affairs.

Gregorian added, “Dan’s leadership, his work and his collegiality have been deeply appreciated by all of us and, I’m sure, by teachers and educators throughout our nation.”