UNT names interim dean of Toulouse School of Graduate Studies

Sandra L. Terrell, associate dean of the UNT Toulouse School of Graduate Studies since 1993, was recently named interim dean of the school.

Terrell, who will serve as interim dean while the university conducts a search for a new dean, replaces C. Neal Tate, who taught for 33 years at UNT in the Department of Political Science and served six years as graduate dean.

Tate has taken a position at Vanderbilt University as both professor and chair of the Department of Political Science. As interim dean, Terrell will assume the dean's responsibilities related to graduate academic programs, graduate faculty, outreach and other administrative duties.

"Dr. Terrell brings a wealth of experience and understanding of graduate programs as a former associate dean," says Suzanne LaBrecque, vice provost and associate vice president for academic affairs. "We're very pleased with the appointment."

The university hopes to name a long-term dean during the coming academic year.

"I want to continue the pathway established by Dr. Tate to work with administration, faculty, staff, students and constituents toward UNT becoming a tier one research university," Terrell says. "A critical factor of a tier one university is the breadth, depth and quality of graduate degree programs at both the master's and doctoral levels."

Terrell, who has previously served as acting graduate dean, worked as a speech-language pathologist for five years before coming to UNT as an assistant professor in the Department of Speech and Hearing Sciences in 1979. In 1993, the UNT Board of Regents appointed her associate dean of the graduate school. Terrell is an expert in the development of language in children and communication disorders in multicultural populations.

As associate dean, she has served as both president and vice president of the Conference of Southern Graduate Schools and on the board of directors of the Council of Historically Black Graduate Schools, the Council of Graduate Schools and the Graduate Record Examinations Board. She was also an American Council on Education Fellow at the University of Maryland College Park and the University System of Maryland during the 2000-01 academic year.

Terrell holds a bachelor of arts degree in speech and hearing sciences, and master's and doctoral degrees in speech-language pathology, all from the University of Pittsburgh.

BY RUFUS COLEMAN rcoleman@unt.edu

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