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College of Education

Dean

Sandra Bowman Damico

Associate dean, academic affairs and graduate programs

David Bills

Associate dean, teacher education and student services

Susan Lagos Lavenz

Director, Belin-Blank Center for Gifted Education

Nicholas Colangelo

Director, Center for Advanced Studies in Measurement and Assessment

Robert Brennan

Director, Center for Evaluation and Assessment

Donald Yarbrough

Codirectors, Center for Research on Undergraduate Education

Ernest Pascarella, Elizabeth Whitt

Director, Educational Placement Office

Rebecca Anthony

Director, Iowa Testing Programs

Stephen Dunbar

Degrees: B.A., B.S. (undergraduate degrees granted through College of Liberal Arts and Sciences); M.A.T., M.A., M.S., Ed.S., Ph.D.
Undergraduate nondegree programs: Minor in Educational Psychology, Minor in Human Relations
Web site: http://www.education.uiowa.edu

The nation's first university-level professorial chair in education was established at The University of Iowa in 1872. The department became the School of Education in 1907; and the College of Education, structured largely as it is today, was founded in 1913. Since then, the college's growth has mirrored the growth of the University.

Over the years, College of Education faculty members have been leaders in a variety of educational fields. Particularly noteworthy have been their contributions in the fields of educational testing and measurement. These contributions helped lay the foundation for today's testing and measurement industry, making Iowa City one of the best-known centers for this educational specialty.

The college has four departments: Counseling, Rehabilitation, and Student Development; Educational Policy and Leadership Studies; Psychological and Quantitative Foundations; and Teaching and Learning.