Alumni Council Award Recipients

2009: Ernesto Schiefelbein
Ed.D.'69
Professor, Researcher, and Educational Reformer, Chile

2008: Geoffrey Canada
Ed.M.'75
President and CEO of the Harlem Children's Zone

2007: Eleanor Linn, M.A.T. ’72, and Nan Stein, Ed.D.’81

2006: John Merrow
Ed.D.'73
Journalist, NPR

2005: Elizabeth Hale
Ed.M.'75
President, Institute for Educational Leadership, Washington D.C.

2004: Stephen W. Raudenbush
Ed.D.'84
Professor, School of Education and Survey Research Center, and, by courtesy, Department of Statistics and Sociology at The University of Michigan

2003: Helen Klassen
Ed.M. '93, Ed.D. '96
Founder and president of the White Earth Tribal and Community College

2002: Roland Barth
Ed.M.'62, Ed.D.'70
Independent Educational Consultant
Alna, ME

2001: Jay P. Heubert
Ed.D.'82
Associate Professor of Education and Law
Teachers College, Columbia University, New York, NY

2000: Chris Anne Affleck
C.A.S.'89
5th Grade Teacher, John M. Tobin School, Cambridge, MA

1999: Alonzo Crim
C.A.S.'68, Ed.D.'69
Professor of Education, Spelman College, Atlanta, GA

1998: Donald R. Moore
M.A.T.'66, Ed.D.'71
Director, Designs for Change, Chicago, IL

1997: Mary Jo Bane
M.A.T.'66, Ed.D.'72
Former Assistant Secretary for Children and Families
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Washington, D.C.

1996: Thomas Sobol
M.A.T.'54
Former Commissioner of Education for the State of New York, New York, NY

1995: Thomas Payzant
M.A.T.'63, C.A.S.'66, Ed.D.'68
U.S. Assistant Secretary of Education, Washington, D.C.

1994: Theodore R. Sizer
M.A.T.'57
Professor of Education, Brown University, Providence, RI
Chairman of the Coalition of Essential Schools

1993: Lisa Delpit
Ed.M.'80, Ed.D.'84
Senior Research Associate, Morgan State University, Baltimore, MA

1992: Jane Roland Martin
Ed.M.'56
Professor of Philosophy, University of Massachusetts, Boston, MA

1991: Ellen Swepson Jackson
Ed.M.'73
Dean and Director of Affirmative Action
Northeastern University, Boston, MA

1990: Lauren Resnick
R.M.A.T.'58, Ed.D.'62
Director, Learning Research and Development Center
University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA

1989: Gregory Anrig
M.A.T.'56, C.A.S.'60, Ed.D.'63
President, Educational Testing Service, Princeton, NJ

1988: William Harvey
C.A.S.'69, Ed.D.'72
President, Hampton University, Hampton,VA

1987: Edward J. Meade, Jr.
C.A.S.'59, Ed.D.'60
Program Officer, Urban Poverty Program, Ford Foundation,
New York, NY

1986: John B. Davis
Ed.M.'49, C.A.S.'59, Ed.D.'62
President Emeritus, Macalester College, St. Paul, MN

Note: The position listed is the position held at the time of the award.