Office of the Dean
Dr. Joan K. Smith, Dean
Email: Dean Smith
Education
Iowa State University, (History, Philosophy and Comparative Education)
Iowa State University (Education)
University of Connecticut, Storrs
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Professional Experience
Dean, College of Education, The University of Oklahoma
Professor, Department of Educational Leadership and Policy Studies
Acting Director, Doyle Center, Loyola University, Chicago
Acting Dean, Graduate School, Loyola University, Chicago
Professor, Department of Educational Leadership and Policy Studies and Department of History, Loyola University, Chicago
Associate Dean, Graduate School, Loyola University, Chicago
Professional Societies and Offices
Council of Great City Colleges of Education, Secretary, 1998-
Council of Great City Colleges of Education, Steering Committee Member, 1996-
Phi Delta Kappa, Member OU Chapter 1995-
AACTE, Member 1995-
Society of Professors of Education, SIG in American Educational Research Association, Vice President & Program Chair 1991-93; President 1993-95; Past President 1995-97
American Educational Studies Association, Member, 1975- ; non-voting member of the Executive Council, 1977-1981; voting member 1982-1985
International Standing Conference for the History of Education, Member, 1986-
International Society for Educational Biography, Member, 1983- ; President-elect 1986, President, 1987, Immediate Past President, 1988
History of Education Society, Member, 1977-
American Educational Research Association (Division F-History), Member, 1977-
Midwest History of Education Society, Member, 1981- ; Secretary, 1981-1982; Vice President, 1982-1983; President, 1983-1984
Delta Kappa Gamma Society International, Member, 1974- ; President of Eta Chapter, Upsilon State, 1976-1978; Chair, Publications Committee, 1984-86; Chair Legislative Committee, 1986-1990
Grants and Honors
Recipient, Virgil S. Lagomarcino Laureate, Outstanding Alumni Award, Iowa State University, 1998
Co-Recipient, Project Success Grant, Office of the Governor, State of Illinois, 1994-95
Co-Recipient, Funding for the Improvement of Post secondary Education, Loyola University of Chicago Graduate School, "Loyola Scholar: Integration of Teaching and Research," 1987
Recipient, The Kappan Award for Outstanding Educator, local chapter of Phi Delta Kappa, 1989
Listed, Who's Who in the Midwest, 1982, 1984, 1986
Listed, Dictionary of International Biography, 1976, 1977, 1978, 1979, 1981, 1983, 1985
Listed, World's Who's Who of Women, 1978, 1979, 1985
Listed, Personalities of the Midwest, 1979
Member, Phi Kappa Phi Honor Society (elected 12/69, Iowa State University)
Published Materials
1994 - Joan K. Smith and L. Glenn Smith, Education Today: The Foundations of A Profession, (New York: St. Martins Press, Fall 1994; Lawrence Elrbaum Press, 1996)
1984 - L. Glenn Smith, Joan K. Smith, et al. Lives in Education (Ames, Iowa: Educational Studies Press, Fall, 1984); 2nd edition (New York: St. Martins Press, 1994; Lawrence Erlbaum Press, 1996)
1979 - Joan K. Smith, Ella Flagg Young: Portrait of a Leader (Ames, Iowa: Iowa State University Research Foundation/Educational Studies Press, 1979): reviewed in Journal of American History, American Historical Review, Educational Studies, Texas Tech Journal of Education, Chicago History, and Chicago Tribune
Chapters in Books
1998 - Joan K. Smith, "Ella Flagg Young" History of Chicago Women Encyclopedia, (In press)
1994 - __________, "Ella Flagg Young, (1845-1918)," in Women Educators in the United States, (Buffalo: SUNY Press, 1994), 553-563
1993 - __________, "Biography as an Educational History Form in Research and Teaching." in Why Should We Teach the History of Education, The Library of International Academy of Self Improvement (Moscow, Russia: The Rusanov Publishing House, 1993): 221-35
1990 - Millicent Drower and Joan K. Smith, "Progressivism and the Changing American Reader: 1880-1920. A Period of Educational And Social Change." in History of Elementary School Teaching and Curriculum. Edited by Giovanni Genovesi, Bjorg B. Gundern, Manfred Heinemann, Jurgen Herbst, Torstein Harbo, and Tonnes Sirevag. International Series for the History of Education 1 (Oslo, Norway: 1990): 65-74
Selected Articles
1998 - Courtney Vaughn and Joan K. Smith, "History and Ideology: Conflict in the Lives of Angie DeBo and Muriel H. Wright," Journal of the Midwest History of Education Society (in press)
1997 - Joan K. Smith and Courtney Vaughn, "Gender and Teacher Preparation: From Common School Training to Professional Education," Journal of the Midwest History of Education Society, 24: 114-119
1996 - Joan K. Smith and Millicent Drower, "From Pedagogy to Education at the University of Chicago," Journal of the Midwest History of Education Society 23: 81-85
1994 - Joan K. Smith, "Biography as an Educational History Form in Research and Teaching," Vitae Scholasticae 11 (Spring/Fall 1992): 295-312
1994 - Janis B. Fine and Joan K. Smith, "Interscholastic High School Sports: The Growth and Decline of the National Catholic Interscholastic Basketball Tournament--1924-1941," in Journal of the Midwest History of Education Society Vol. 21
1993 - L. Glenn Smith and Joan K. Smith, "Enlightenment Philosophy, State Action, and the Development of Educational Systems," in Staat und Erziehung in Aufkl�rungsphilosophie und Aufkl�rungszeit, F.P. Hager/D. Jedan, Hg., (Bochum Deutschland: Verlag Dr. Dieter Winkler, 1993) 4: 177-92
Papers and Symposia
1999 - Joan K. Smith, Courtney Vaughn and Dean Ketchum, "From Beginning to End: Educational Reform and the Unstilled Voice of Progressivism in the Twentieth Century," to be presented at the Midwest History of Education Society, Chicago, 23 October 1999
1999 - Joan K. Smith, "Yours, Mine, and Ours: Building a Collaborative Accreditation," Panel Presentation at the Annual Meeting of American Association of Colleges of Teacher Education, Washington D.C., 25 February 1999
1998 - Courtney Vaughn and Joan K. Smith, "History and Ideology: Conflict in the Lives of Angie DeBo and Muriel H. Wright," presented at the combined meeting of the History of Education Society and the Midwest History of Education Society, Chicago, 31 October 1998
1998 - Joan K. Smith, "Building Urban School Partnerships," Panel Presentation at the Annual Meeting of the Council of Great City Schools, San Francisco, 15 October 1998
1998 - Joan K. Smith, "The Enlightenment Values of Reason and Science, and the Human Rights of Women: A Postmodern Critique," presented to the Enlightenment Group of the International Standing Conference on the History of Education Annual Meeting, Leuven, Belgium, 16 August 1998
1998 - Joan K. Smith, "Muriel H. Wright and Choctaw Society in Oklahoma 1880-1975," presented at the Annual Meeting of the International Society of Educational Biography, Chicago, 30 April 1998
1998 - Joan K. Smith, Grayson Noley and Tom Owens, "Are Issues of Cultural Diversity 'WASP' Phenomena in Multicultural Societies" Roundtable, at the Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association, San Diego, 17 April 1998
1998 - Joan K. Smith, "Oklahoma Networks for Excellence," Panel Respondent at the American Association of Colleges of Teacher Education (AACTE). New Orleans, 26 February 1998
1997 - Joan K. Smith, "Native American Culture and the Wright Family of Oklahoma," presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Educational Studies Association, San Antonio, 29 October 1997
1997 - Joan K. Smith, "Gender and Teacher Preparation: From Common School Training to Professional Education," presented at the Midwest History of Education Society, 17 October 1997
1997 - Joan K. Smith, "Preparation of Educational Administrators in Council of Great City Colleges of Education: Survey Results," presented at the Annual Meeting of the Council of Great City Schools, Detroit, 14 October 1997
1997 - Joan K. Smith, "Christian Ideology and Education in the Young Republic," presented at the International Standing Conference on the History of Education, Dublin, Ireland, 4 September 1997
1997 - Joan K. Smith and Grayson Noley, "Enlightenment Ideals, Moral Philosophy and Indian Civility: The Views of Benjamin Rush and Thomas Jefferson," Enlightenment Working Group of the International Standing Conference on the History of Education, Dublin, Ireland, 3 September 1997
1997 - Joan K. Smith, "Professional Issues In Teacher Preparation," Roundtable at the Annual Meeting of the American Education Research Association, Chicago, 27 March 1997
1996 - Joan K. Smith, "Gender and Teacher Preparation: From Common School Training to Professional Education," Midwest History of Education Society Annual Meeting, Chicago, 25 October 1996
1996 - Joan K. Smith, "Staff Development," Panel Presentation at Council of Great City Schools, Washington, D.C., 29 March 1996
1994 - Joan K. Smith, "Women Administrators and Politics: The Case of Ella Flagg Young," presented at the Annual Meeting of the History of Education Society, Chapel Hill, 5 November 1994
1994 - Joan K. Smith and JoAnn Rapp, "Women and Educational Reform in Chicago: 1900-1909," presented at the Special Working Group on Gender at the International Standing Conference for the History of Education, Amsterdam, 13 August 1994
1994 - Martha Sanford and Joan K. Smith, "The Transmission of Multiculturalism in America's Public Schools: Revisiting David Riesman's The Lonely Crowd," presented at the 16th Annual Meeting of the International Standing Conference of the History of Education, Amsterdam, 12 August 1994
1993 - Joan K. Smith, "Cultural Cleansing: Women as a Special Culture Population in Education," presented at the American Educational Studies Association Annual Meeting, Chicago, 4 November 1993
1993 - Janis B. Fine and Joan K. Smith, "Interscholastic High School Sports: The Growth and Decline of the National Catholic Interscholastic Basketball Tournament--1924-1941," presented at the History of education Society Annual Meeting, Chicago, 22 October 1993
1993 - Joan K. Smith and JoAnn Rapp, "Enlightenment Philosophy and the Concept of Religion in the Educational Theories of Benjamin Rush and Thomas Jefferson," presented at the education and Enlightenment Working Group of the International Standing Conference for the History of Education Annual Meeting, Lisbon, Portugal, 24 July 1993
Selected Lectures/Panels Chaired
1997 - "Historical Context of Women in Education" at the Annual Meeting of AERA, Chicago, 27 March 1997
1996 - "Early Childhood," at Midwest History of Education Society and Greater City Schools Annual Meeting, 24 October 1996
1994 - "Cultural Policy Studies: A Changing Role for Social Foundations of Education," at the Annual Meeting of the American Educational Studies Association, Chapel Hill, 10 November 1994
1994 - "Mentoring Students," at the Annual Meeting of the Midwest
1994 - History of Education Society, Chicago, 28 October 1994
1994 - "The Changing Role of the Professoriate: New Designs for the Future," at the Annual Meeting of the Society of Professors of Education, an AERA Special Interest Group, New Orleans, 8 April 1994
1993 - "Issues in Education Today: Philosophical Bases and Practical Outcomes," at the Society of Professors of Education Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association, Atlanta, 14 April 1993
Service and Other Professional Activities
1999 - Chair, Board of Examiners, NCATE, North Georgia College and State University, 10-14 April 1999
1997 - Assistant Chair, Board of Examiners, NCATE Review Team, Brigham Young University, 15-19 November 1997
1997 - Member, Board of Examiners, NCATE Review Team, Indiana University Bloomington, 12-16 April 1997
1996 - Member Executive Committee, Council of Great City Colleges of Education
1996 - Member, Oklahoma NCTAF Policy Committee
1996 - Member, Council of Learned Societies in Education
1995 - Member, Oklahoma Association of Colleges of Teacher Education
1993 - Member, Academic Priorities Committee
1993 - Member, Council of Learned Societies in Education
1993 - Member, Subcommittee for Reviewing Standards of the National Council for the Accreditation of Teacher Education (NCATE), American Association of Colleges of Teacher Education
1992 - Review of various manuscripts for SUNY Press and Teachers College Press
1992 - Chair, Board of Examiners, NCATE Review Team, Union College, Lincoln, NE, 8-11 April 1992
1991 - Assistant Chair, Board of Examiners, NCATE Review Team, Portland State University, Portland, OR, 16-20 November 1991
1991 - Assistant Chair, Board of Examiners, NCATE Review Team, Salem College, Winston-Salem, NC, 7-10 April 1991
1990 - Member, Board of Examiners NCATE Review Team, Auburn University, Montgomery, 3-7 November 1990
1989 - Member, NCATE, Board of Examiners, University of South Florida, 21-23 July 1989
1989 - Educational Consultant for Adult Education and Technology in Shanghai and Beijing, China, 3-11 April 1989
1986 - 1991 - Co-editor, Vitae Scholasticae, a journal sponsored by the International Society of Educational Biography