Julie K. Underwood Named UW-Madison Education Dean

From the UW-Madison School of Education

Julie K. Underwood, associate executive director and general counsel for the National School Boards Association, has been named the new dean of the University of Wisconsin-Madison's School of Education, Chancellor John D. Wiley announced Friday (May 27, 2005).

A former UW-Madison faculty member, Underwood has worked for the NSBA since 1998. Prior to joining NSBA, Underwood served as dean of the School of Education & Allied Professions at Miami University. There, she was responsible for the operations of a school with more than 100 faculty members and 2,300 students.

From 1986 to 1995, Underwood was a UW-Madison faculty member teaching school law. Her experience on the Madison campus was wide-ranging. Underwood was a professor of educational administration; co-director of the Wisconsin Center for Education Policy from 1990 to 1993 at what was then the Robert M. La Follette Institute of Public Affairs; chair of the Department of Education Administration from 1993 to 1994; and associate dean of the education school from 1994 to 1995.

Underwood said the school's multiple missions attracted her. "It is a School of Education with a uniquely diverse mission," she said. "I'm looking forward to the challenge of taking all of those missions and making sure they are treated with respect."

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Posted May 31, 2005