As the newest dean of the Attallah College of Educational Studies, it is my privilege to share the recent achievements and successes of our students, faculty, and staff members.
While appointed dean in late February 2022 after a national search, my time as Interim Dean and now 17-year history as a faculty member in Attallah College permit me to reflect on how the college, and by extension Chapman University, has changed in the short and long term. The 2021-22 academic year was our first since 2019 fully present on the Chapman University campus in Orange. This return to our normal campus operations made us feel like a ‘Chapman family,’ and resuming our in-person activities in the larger educational community allowed us all to engage in new ways to address the profound pre- and post-pandemic challenges that exist in our society.
As it has done for more than 160 years, Attallah College continues to serve our educational communities with the highest levels of competence and compassion. Our faculty members in 2021-22 resumed their in-person research and dissemination efforts, broadening their reach and scope. The activities of the Thompson Policy Institute have expanded to provide professional development for educator preparation programs around the state of California, promoting inclusive teacher education and school administrator training. Our college‘s first-ever national advisory board, as well as exciting new collaborative programs with school districts and community colleges in our areas, enable us to gain deep insight into how we as a college can move forward pedagogically and structurally to support our community members. We endeavor to create future practitioners who are ready to attend to children's and adults’ social-emotional needs as well as their academics, with a growth mindset that focuses additionally on equity and inclusion for all whom we serve.
No matter the time or place in which we have found ourselves, Attallah College’s current and future alumni from our undergraduate through doctoral programs, along with our faculty and staff, continue to fulfill Attallah College’s motto: “Changing Education. Changing the World." As dean, I invite you to learn more about how 2021-22 challenged us to think and act in new ways and refine our vision to transform teaching, learning, and social communities toward an inclusive, equitable, and just world. I look forward to all that Attallah College has yet to come in its bright future.
Roxanne Greitz Miller, Ed.D.
Dean, Attallah College of Educational Studies
Donna Ford Attallah Professor of Teacher Education
Chapman University
