С»ÆÊéÊÓƵ Tenure and Promotions 2025
I am delighted to share the news that nine outstanding members of our community have been approved by the University for promotion and/or tenure:
Tenure & Promotion to Associate Professor
Claudia Diaz-Rios of the Department of Leadership, Higher and Adult Education has been awarded tenure and promotion to the rank of Associate Professor, effective July 1, 2025. Dr. Diaz-Rios’s research explores the interaction between global dynamics, domestic politics, and school change in low- and middle-income countries, with a particular interest in examining education governance in context of uncertainty and crisis.
Kaja Jasińska of the Department of Applied Psychology and Human Development has been awarded tenure and promotion to the rank of Associate Professor, effective July 1, 2025. Dr. Jasińska studies the neural mechanisms that support language, cognitive, and reading development across the lifespan using a combination of behavioral, genetic, and neuroimaging research methods, with a focus on how children learn to read and how best to support their literacy journey.
Mark Wade of the Department of Applied Psychology and Human Development has been awarded tenure and promotion to the rank of Associate Professor, effective July 1, 2025. Dr. Wade’s research focuses on the impact of early life adversity on child and adolescent mental health and cognitive functioning, and the mechanisms that promote resilience and facilitate recovery from adversity.
Promotion to Associate Professor
Caroline Manion of the Department of Leadership, Higher and Adult Education has been promoted to the rank of Associate Professor, effective July 1, 2025. Dr. Manion’s research in the field of comparative, international and development education focuses on gender, global education policy, international organizations, education governance, teaching, and teacher development.
Promotion to Professor
Amal Madibbo of the Department of Social Justice Education has been promoted to the rank of Professor, effective July 1, 2025. Dr. Madibbo’s research focuses on Black Studies, the Francophonie, Black Francophone immigration, race and anti-racism, ethnic relations in sub-Saharan Africa, conflict and conflict resolution, and identity.
Rob Simon of the Department of Curriculum, Teaching and Learning has been promoted to the rank of Professor, effective July 1, 2025. Dr. Simon’s research focuses on practitioner research, critical literacy, New Literacy Studies, and how educators develop understandings, curriculum, and pedagogy from students' diverse cultures, languages, and literacy practices.
Stephanie Waterman of the Department of Leadership, Higher and Adult Education has been promoted to the rank of Professor, effective July 1, 2025. Dr. Waterman’s research focuses on Native American/Indigenous college student experiences, and considers how university staff support college students, Indigenous methodologies, critical race theories, and Indigenous geographies.
Promotion to Professor, Teaching Stream
Leslie Stewart Rose of the Department of Curriculum, Teaching and Learning has been promoted to the rank of Professor, Teaching Stream, effective July 1, 2025. Dr. Stewart Rose’s teaching and research interests include teacher's professional learning, curriculum development, program assessment and development, arts education, equity education, and how pedagogies are connected with being, becoming, and belonging.
Jennifer Sumner of the Department of Leadership, Higher and Adult Education has been promoted to the rank of Professor, Teaching Stream, effective July 1, 2025. Dr. Sumner’s teaching and research interests include adult education and critical pedagogy, food and sustainable food systems, organic agriculture and sustainable communities, as well as the social economy, the commons, globalization, and rural communities.
Please join me in congratulating these exceptional colleagues on their well-deserved achievement, and in acknowledging their many contributions to the С»ÆÊéÊÓƵ community through research, teaching, and service! I would also like to thank the members of the 2024-25 promotion and tenure committees, and their support staff, for the expertise and hard work they contributed to these important processes.