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Dr. Clara Jennings Dean cjennin1@depaul.edu

Dr. Jennings' experience in higher education spans 25 years--more than 15 of those in higher education administration. She joined DePaul in September of 2002, coming from the University of Massachusetts at Boston's Graduate College of Education as Dean. Prior to assuming the deanship at the University of Massachusetts, Dr. Jennings served in a variety of distinguished positions associated with education or higher education administration. Her experience includes such jobs as dean of the Beeghly College of Education at Youngstown State University; associate dean of the College of Education and associate professor and chair of the Department of Elementary and Secondary Education: Curriculum and Foundation at the University of West Florida; Rountree Caldwell Bryan Distinguished Professor of Education and chairperson of the Education and Social Sciences Division at Arkansas College. She also has lectured widely on the subject of early childhood education and higher education. Her articles include studies of accidents of three-and four year-olds in center-based preschool programs; improving slow learners' reading and writing skills through a whole language approach, and trends in college and university faculty development programs. She is active in such organizations as the National Council for Black Child Development; the American Association for Colleges for Teacher Education; the Association for Childhood Education International; the American Association for Higher Education; the Association of Supervision and Curriculum Development and the National Council of Teachers of English. Dr. Jennings earned a doctorate degree in elementary education and language arts from Michigan State University, a master's degree in elementary education, language arts and reading from Wayne State University, and a bachelor's degree in elementary education from Arkansas Agriculture, Mechanical & Normal College.