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Adult Education

Tim Collins
associate professor, National College of Education
Areas of expertise: technology in education; mobile learning with cell phones; English as a second language & bilingual education; adult education

Carol Moulden
interim dean, University Library
Areas of expertise: Adult education; academic libraries; changing role of libraries

Arts

Gabriel Klinger
assistant professor
College of Arts and Sciences
Areas of expertise: Cinema studies; Filmmaking; Digital media

Elinor Olin
associate professor
College of Arts and Sciences
Areas of expertise: French music and culture; Melodrama; Cultural regionalism

Business

Don Grady
executive director of academic outreach
Areas of expertise: Customer loyalty; Strategic planning; Organizational behavior

Paula Jordan
associate professor
College of Management and Business
Areas of expertise: Strategy; Labor markets; Strategic positioning; International economics

Ellen McMahon
associate professor, College of Management and Business
Areas of expertise: international management, organizational theory and behavior, technology in education

Christopher Multhauf
executive dean, College of Management and Business
Areas of expertise: diversity and leadership, business turnaround, access to higher education

James Nowotarski
assistant professor
College of Management and Business
Areas of expertise: Strategic IT effectiveness; Software engineering; Project management

Howard Zacks
professor
College of Management and Business
Areas of expertise: Federal Reserve policies; Economic indicators; Macroeconomic forecasting

Community Colleges

Rebecca Lake
program director and assistant professor
College of Arts and Sciences
Areas of expertise: Community colleges; Globalization; Students and the global marketplace

Martin Parks
assistant professor
College of Arts and Sciences
Areas of expertise: Administration and leadership; Community college policy and practice; Community development

Counseling

Patricia Eggleston
associate professor
College of Arts and Sciences
Areas of expertise: Child therapy; Child development, Psychological testing

Christina Nolan
assistant professor
College of Arts and Sciences
Areas of expertise: School counseling; Social Relational Female Adolescent aggression; Attention Deficit Hyperactive Disorder (impact in the classroom)

Susan Thorne-Devin
assistant professor, College of Arts and Sciences
Areas of expertise: family issues, children and marriage counseling, trauma (including child sexual abuse and women’s issues), life coaching

Anna Marie Yates
assistant professor
College of Arts and Sciences
Areas of expertise: School counseling; Developmental counseling in schools; Illinois Model; Group counseling in schools

Education

Carlos Azcoitia
assistant professor, National College of Education
Areas of expertise: The Principalship; urban school reform; data driven instruction; school and community relations; bilingual education

Eleanor Binstock
associate professor, National College of Education
Areas of expertise: Teacher research; information literacy

Camille Blachowicz
professor and director of the Reading Center, National College of Education
Areas of expertise: reading and language; literacy coaching; urban school literacy reform; vocabulary development

Paula Jorde Bloom
endowed chair, McCormick Tribune Center for Early Childhood Leadership at NLU, and professor, National College of Education
Areas of expertise: early childhood education; characteristics of quality early childhood programs

Sherri Bressman
associate professor
National College of Education
Areas of expertise: Elementary education; Teacher professional development; Teacher preparation using teacher work sample methodology

Geri Chesner
associate professor
National College of Education
Areas of expertise: Children's literature; Literacy and visual literacy; Urban education

Laura Coirier
assistant professor
National College of Education
Areas of expertise: Science education; Women in science; Instructional technology

Craig Cunningham
associate professor
National College of Education
Areas of expertise: Technology in education; Character education; Curriculum alignment and design

Joe Fischer
professor
National College of Education
Areas of expertise: Professional Learning Communities and School Improvement; Arts Integration in Curriculum; Teacher Action Research

Susan L. Gabel
professor, National College of Education
Areas of expertise: disability studies; inclusive education: primary, secondary, and tertiary; educational policy and politics; developmental disability

Diane J. German
professor, National College of Education
Areas of expertise: word finding difficulties,reading and word finding difficulties, earning disabilities and word finding difficulties

Eunice Goldberg
assistant professor
National College of Education
Areas of expertise: Mathematics education; Gifted math education; Reducing math anxiety; Statistics education

Alison Hilsabeck
dean, National College of Education
Areas of expertise: urban education initiatives and partnerships; access, equity and educational outcomes in American higher education; Urban Teacher Residencies (UTRs); teacher preparation

Kristin Lems
professor
National College of Education
Areas of expertise: ESL/bilingual education; Reading in English for English language learners; Using music & the arts to learn languages & other content

Maya Levanon
assistant professor
National College of Education
Areas of expertise: Philosophy for Children; Spirituality in Education; Autoethnography

Katie McKnight
associate professor
National College of Education
Areas of expertise: Adolescent literacy; Differentiated instruction; Improvisation and literacy development

Charlotte Metoyer
assistant professor
National College of Education
Areas of expertise: School climate training - Spanish & English; Teacher motivation; Advocacy & public policy

Jane Moore
associate professor
National College of Education
Areas of expertise: Death education;, Mathematics education; Technology integration

Mark Newman
associate professor
National College of Education
Areas of expertise: History and social studies education; Media, visual culture, visual literacy; Study and teaching of cities

Valerie Owen
professor, National College of Education
Areas of expertise: Autism Spectrum Disorder or ASD, instruction of students labeled with significant disabilities, alternatives to punishments and aversive behavioral interventions

Todd Price
associate professor
National College of Education
Areas of expertise: Educational policy; NCLB and its subsequent reauthorization; Vouchers, charters, and educational maintenance organizations; School reform under the federal department of education

Ted Purinton
chair
National College of Education
Areas of expertise: Education policy; Organizational theory; Education funding

Ruth Quiroa
associate professor
National College of Education
Areas of expertise: Multicultural Literature, especially Latino-themed literature for children and adolescents; ELL & Bilingual Education; Literacy & Culture—Culturally relevant pedagogy and foundations

Linnea Rademaker
assistant professor
National College of Education
Areas of expertise: Qualitative research; Action/practitioner research; Evaluation

Rekha Rajan
assistant professor; director of ece graduate programs
National College of Education
Areas of expertise: Early Childhood Education; Arts Education; Arts Assessment

Harry Ross
assistant professor, National College of Education
Areas of expertise: teacher leadership and training, urban school reform, multicultural issues (especially in the English classroom)

Patrick Schwarz
professor, National College of Education
Areas of expertise: Autism; school inclusive education; collaboration including co-teaching, teambuilding, active listening and problem-solving

Kathleen Sheridan
chair
National College of Education
Areas of expertise: Early childhood education; Early childhood developmental issues; Online learning and course development

Scott Sullivan
assistant professor, National College of Education
Areas of expertise: urban school reform, Urban Teacher Residencies (UTRs), media literacy and media education

Linda Tafel
professor, National College of Education
Areas of expertise: school reform, school funding, leadership for quality instruction

Charles Tocci
assistant professor, Secondary Education
National College of Education
Areas of expertise: Assessment & grading; Social studies education; Inquiry-based curriculum

Pat Van Slyke
associate professor, Special Education
National College of Education
Areas of expertise: Language & Literacy; Response to Intervention; Speech Language Pathology

Jeffrey Winter
associate professor
National College of Education
Areas of expertise: Teacher education; Religion and public education; Mentoring and student teachers

Health

Robert Benway
associate dean, College of Management and Business
Areas of expertise: health care administration, leadership training, adult education

Stephen Thompson
interim dean, College of Arts and Sciences
Areas of expertise: health, public policy

Latino Issues

Ana Maria Soto
executive director of Latino initiatives
Areas of expertise: Latino community trends; Latino access to higher education; student life and services needed

Psychology 

Suzette Fromm Reed
assistant professor
College of Arts and Sciences
Areas of expertise: Community issues; Child maltreatment; Public health, specifically nutrition and fitness; Social capital and collective efficacy

Gale Stam
professor
College of Arts and Sciences
Areas of expertise: Psycholinguistics, speech and gesture; First and second language acquisition; Language and culture; Language and cognition

Judah Viola
assistant professor
College of Arts and Sciences
Areas of expertise: Community psychology; Program evaluation; Nonprofit consulting

Public Policy

Richard Longoria
assistant professor
College of Arts and Sciences
Areas of expertise: Education; Land use; Housing

Costas Spirou
professor, College of Arts and Sciences
Areas of expertise: Chicago studies, culture and urban development, sport and economic development

Retirement

Maria Malayter
director, NLU's Center for Positive Aging, and assistant professor, College of Arts and Sciences
Areas of expertise: holistic planning for retirement, preparing for the mature workforce, Baby Boomers returning to college

School Nursing

Linda Gibbons
assistant professor
National College of Education
Areas of expertise: School nurse staffing; School nurse legal implications; Wellness in schools

Technology

Rob Bowe
academic technology facilitator
National College of Education
Areas of expertise: Instructional technologies; Professional development; Adult education

Writing and Literature

John Stovall
assistant professor
College of Arts and Sciences
Areas of expertise: Composition; Writing assessment; Poetry