Academic Advisory Board

• Harry C. Payne, President Emeritus of Williams College, President Woodward Academy
• John M. McCardell, Jr., President of Middlebury College
• Bertha O. Pendleton, Former Superintendent of the San Diego Unified School District
• Susan L. Perry, Director of Library, Information and Technology Services at Mount Holyoke College
• Ellen Guiney, Executive Director of the Boston Plan for Excellence
• Margaret Cozzens, Vice Chancellor for Academic and Student Affairs at the University of Colorado, co-chair of the TIMSS-R
• Peter deCourcy Hero, President of Community Foundation Silicon Valley
• Alan Filreis, University of Pennsylvania
• Theodore K. Rabb, Princeton University

Harry C. Payne
President Emeritus of Williams College, President Woodward Academy

Harry C. Payne is president of Woodward Academy in Atlanta, Georgia, the largest private school in the United States, and President Emeritus of Williams College. Before becoming Williams's fourteenth president in 1994, Dr. Payne was president of Hamilton College in Clinton, N.Y., from 1993 to 1998. He was previously at Haverford College in Pennsylvania, where he was provost from 1985 to 1988 and acting president from 1987 to 1988. At Colgate University in Hamilton, N.Y., Dr. Payne was director of the division of social science from 1982 to 1985, acting dean of the faculty in 1980, and acting chair of the history department in 1979.

Over his career, Dr. Payne has retained his commitment to teaching, having taught European intellectual history at Colgate, Haverford, and while president at Williams, Hamilton, and Woodward. He is a former chair of the Board of Directors of the National Association of Independent Colleges and Universities and serves on the board of the American Council on Education. Dr. Payne has served as president of the American Society for Eighteenth-Century studies, a field in which he has produced more than 50 books, scholarly articles, and reviews. He has served as overseas fellow at Churchill College, Cambridge University; a Danforth Fellow from 1968 to 1973; and was an honorary Woodrow Wilson Fellow.

Dr. Payne has a B.A., M.A., and Ph.D. in history from Yale. He has been awarded honorary degrees by Hamilton College, Colgate, Williams, Amherst, and the University of the South.

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John M. McCardell, Jr.
President of Middlebury College

John McCardell is the president of Middlebury College, only the second president in the almost 200-year history of the college to be selected from the ranks of the faculty. Dr. McCardell has been at Middlebury during a period in which approximately half of the school's 23,000 living alumni have graduated. A 1971 graduate of Washington and Lee University, he did his graduate work at Johns Hopkins and then at Harvard where he received his Ph.D. in history in 1976. That same year he joined the history department at Middlebury.

During the past 24 years, in addition to his teaching responsibilities, President McCardell has been dean for academic development and planning, dean of the faculty, provost and vice president for academic affairs, and acting president.

Dr. McCardell has brought to the president's office an important understanding and commitment to the role of the teacher and scholar in academic life. He continues to teach despite the demands of the presidency. Dr. McCardell's specialty is United States history in the nineteenth century with special emphasis on the Old South and on American historiography. In 1977, he received the Allan Nevins Prize from the Society of American Historians for the best-written dissertation on an American subject. His dissertation was later published by Norton & Co. under the title of "The Idea of a Southern Nation," a book that, after 18 years, continues to be one of the most cogent discussions of the rise of Southern nationalists and Southern nationalism in the mid-nineteenth century.

Dr. McCardell is a member of Phi Beta Kappa and Omicron Delta Kappa and has been honored with grants and fellowships from the American Philosophical Society, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the Institute for Southern Studies.

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Bertha O. Pendleton
Former Superintendent of the San Diego Unified School District

Dr. Bertha O. Pendleton was superintendent of the San Diego Unified School District from 1993 to 1998, and the first female and first African American to hold that position. She was instrumental in creating the program to improve the academic achievement of African American students, and devoted her entire career of over 40 years in education to supporting and demonstrating academic excellence.

Her five years as superintendent capped a career that began as a classroom teacher in 1957 at Memorial Junior High School in San Diego. Following 11 years in this position, she served as vice principal of Crawford High, principal at Lincoln High, coordinator and then director of compensatory education for the San Diego Unified School District, assistant superintendent, and deputy superintendent. She has also served as adjunct professor at Point Loma Nazarene College in San Diego.

Dr. Pendleton has participated in the U.S. Information Agency's AMPART program, lecturing to officials in South Africa on educational issues. She was a member of the U.S. delegation participating in the Urban Education Exchange in London. She has served on visitation teams to review Department of Defense schools in Japan and in England. She hosted President Clinton at the San Diego school where he signed the Goals 2000 bill into law.

Dr. Pendleton received her education at Knoxville College, San Diego State University, and USIU, and earned a doctorate in education leadership from the University of San Diego in 1989. She served as co-chair of the Advisory Committee for the Danforth Foundation and on the Advisory Council on Dependents' Education in the Department of Defense. She was founder of the Association of African American Educators and was president of the Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority. She was a member of the American Association of School Administrators-Urban Schools Committee, the Association of California School Administrators, and the San Diego Association of Administrative Women in Education.

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Susan L. Perry
Director of Library, Information and Technology Services at Mount Holyoke College

Susan L. Perry is the College Librarian and Director of Library, Information and Technology Services at Mount Holyoke College. Previous positions include: Director, Departmental Systems Group, Stanford Data Center, Stanford University; Head, J. Henry Meyer Memorial Library, Stanford University, and Dean, Library and Media Services, The Evergreen State College. She serves on the boards of Seminars on Academic Computing and New Media Centers and is a member of the Steering Committee for the Coalition for Networked Information. She holds degrees in history and librarianship from Wake Forest University and the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.

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Ellen Guiney
Executive Director of the Boston Plan for Excellence

Ellen Guiney is Executive Director of the Boston Plan for Excellence -- Boston Annenberg Challenge, a local education fund. Since September 1996, the BPE has concentrated over $2 million/year supporting 27 Boston schools (20% of the district) in their transformation of core teaching activities, their use of existing resources, and their accountability to parents and the public. With the reorganization of the Boston Annenberg Challenge in August 1999, Ms. Guiney now also serves as co-director of the Challenge. The Boston Plan has since taken responsibility for managing the reform work in an additional 36 public schools.

Prior to her work at the BPE, Ms. Guiney was Chief Education Advisor to the U.S. Senate Labor and Human Resources Committee, and one of the Democratic staff leaders on Goals 2000/ESEA Reauthorization. She has also served as education advisor to the mayor of Boston during the transition to an appointed school board, and is a former high school English teacher.

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Margaret Cozzens
Vice Chancellor for Academic and Student Affairs at the University of Colorado, co-chair of the TIMSS-R

Margaret Cozzens is Vice Chancellor for Academic and Student Affairs at the University of Colorado at Denver, an urban university with 12,000 students, nearly half of whom are graduate students. Prior to coming to Denver in July 1998, she had a Senior Executive Service appointment for seven years as Director of the Division of Elementary, Secondary, and Informal Education at the National Science Foundation (NSF). She was Professor and Chairperson of Mathematics at Northeastern University in Boston before coming to NSF.

Dr. Cozzens has a Ph.D in Mathematics from Rutgers University and a Bachelor's Degree in Mathematics and English from the University of Rochester. She is the author of five books and over 75 papers and articles in mathematics and K-12 education policy.

Dr. Cozzens currently serves on the American Council of Education's President's Task Force on Teacher Education, co-chairs the TIMSS-R (Third International Assessment in Mathematics and Science Study - 8^th grade repeat study) Technical Review Panel. She also serves on the National Renewable Energy Laboratory Education Advisory Council and the Task Force on Leadership for the Academic Affairs Resource Center of American Association of State Colleges and Universities.

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Peter deCourcy Hero
President of Community Foundation Silicon Valley

Since 1989 Peter Hero has been the President of Community Foundation Silicon Valley, with total assets of $560 million and grants of over $48 million in the last year. For several years the foundation has focused its programming on neighborhood revitalization, early childhood literacy, and broadening cultural participation.

Prior to this position, Mr. Hero was President of the Maine College of Art, a four-year college of art and design. He has also worked in government and in corporate marketing. He holds an M.B.A. from Stanford University Graduate School of Business, an M.A. in Art History from Williams College, and (Honorary) Doctor of Laws from the Maine College of Art.

In 1991 President George Bush awarded Mr. Hero to a six-year term on the National Council on the Arts. Recent civic awards include the Excellence in Civic Leadership Award (awarded by The Tech Museum of Innovation & Silicon Valley Chamber of Commerce), Lifetime Achievement in the Arts (by Arts Council Silicon Valley), and Fundraiser of the Year in Silicon Valley (by NSFRE).

Mr. Hero served from 1994 to 1997 as the Chairman of the Council on Foundation's Committee on Community Foundations. Currently he serves on the Board of Directors of The Council on Foundations (Treasurer), The National Trust for the Humanities, The Foundation for a Civil Society, The Transatlantic Community Foundation Network, Stanford University's Haas Center for Public Service, Poets & Writers, Inc., and The Entrepreneurs' Foundation.

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Alan Filreis
University of Pennsylvania

Alan Filreis teaches modern American poetry at The University of Pennsylvania. He is a specialist in modern and contemporary American poetry and the literary politics of the American 1930s and 1950s. He won the Lindback Award, and the Ira Abrams Award, and was chosen as the 1999 Pennsylvania Professor of the Year by the Carnegie Foundation. He is currently writing a literary history of the idea of modernism in the American 1950s called "The Fifties' Thirties." Aside from teaching modern American poetry, he has offered a series of courses on twentieth-century American decades, and another on the literature of the Holocaust.

Filreis describes his pedagogy as an obsession with oppositions; he is certain that how we teach is as important as what. He also has certain convictions about what a fully integrated curriculum, using the newest technologies, would look like.

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Theodore K. Rabb
Princeton University

Theodore K. Rabb is a specialist in Early Modern European History. He has been on the Princeton faculty since 1967, where he has taught a variety of courses in European history both within the department and in the interdisciplinary area of Humanistic Studies. He has been the editor of The Journal of Interdisciplinary History since 1970, and has published Enterprise and Empire (1967), The Struggle for Stability in Early Modern Europe (1975), Renaissance Lives (revised 2000), Jacobean Gentleman (1998), and dozens of articles, and has edited a series of studies on various interdisciplinary aspects of historical research. He has directed Princeton's Community College Programs since 1974, and has chaired the National Council for History Education and the New Jersey Council for the Humanities. He is currently engaged in a long-term study on the transition from Renaissance to modern culture in the mid-seventeenth century.