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Two Decades of Turbulence: Leadership in the School of Education

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by Sean Mulligan Robert O’Kane The School of Education was created in 1949 and include both undergraduate and graduate level courses. In 1966, the Dean of Education Kenneth Howe departed UNCG for Kabul, Afghanistan, to become an education adviser for the U.S. Agency for International Development. His replacement, was Robert O’Kane, a Harvard Ph.D. graduate […]

Dr. John H. Cook: A Progressive Advocate for North Carolina’s Teachers

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by Erin Lawrimore On March 25, 1936, North Carolina Republican Chairman William C. Meekins expressed his disappointment that Woman’s College’s dean of the department of education Dr. John H. Cook would not accept the party’s nomination as candidate for the state superintendent of public instruction. Cook declared that while he was “tremendously interested in public […]

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