Nov. 5, 2002
Glenn Selected to Lead GW’s Hamilton Fish Institute
Former NEA Official, Howard University Education School
Dean to Focus on School Safety
The Hamilton Fish Institute in the Graduate School
of Education and Human Development recently named Beverly Caffee Glenn
its new director. Hamilton Fish is a national resource for the research
and development of school violence prevention strategies. Glenn joins
the institute after serving three years as the director for Human and
Civil Rights at the National Education Association, where she supervised
a unit devoted to safe schools work.
“I come to the institute with a deep respect for the work done
by its expert staff,” says Glenn. “I envision Hamilton Fish
becoming the preeminent organization for technical assistance to schools,
national associations, and government agencies in this arena. Additionally,
the institute and its consortium of universities will continue to provide
policy analysis, research, and evaluation that improves policy decisions
supportive of safe schools and communities.”
The institute, founded in 1997, works with a consortium of seven universities
to develop and test violence prevention strategies. Members include
Syracuse University, Florida State University, Morehouse School of Medicine,
Eastern Kentucky University, Massachusetts Mental Health Institute,
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, and the University of Oregon. The
consortium has expertise in adolescent violence, criminology, law enforcement,
substance abuse, juvenile justice, gangs, public health, education,
behavior disorders, social skills development, and prevention programs.
Glenn is the former dean of the School of Education at Howard University
and former senior policy analyst at the Center for Law and Education
at Harvard University. She has a BS in mathematics with a minor in chemistry
from Morgan State University. She received a master’s degree in
curriculum development from The Catholic University of America and a
doctorate in administration, planning, and social policy from Harvard
University.
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