- Bill Ayers
Bill Ayers (b. 1944) is a former member of the Weather Underground who is now a Distinguished Professor of Education at the University of Illinois at Chicago.
- Diane Levin
Diane Levin is an American author, educator, and advocate known for her work in media literacy and media affects on children. Levin is a professor of education at Wheelock College in Boston. She teaches courses on children's play, violence prevention and media literacy. Together with her colleagues: Gail Dines and Petra Hesse, Levin teaches an annual summer seminar at Wheelock college.
- Lynda Williams
Lynda Williams (born February 17, 1958) is a science fiction author, blogger and an educational technologist. Williams' fiction is centered around a series of ten novels set in the fictional Okal Rel Universe and published by Edge Science Fiction and Fantasy Publishing. Additional works by Williams and votary authors writing in her universe are published by the Fandom Press imprint of Windstorm Creative.
- Wayne Rogers
Wayne M. Rogers (born April 7 1933, Birmingham, Alabama) is an American film and television actor, best known for playing the role of 'Trapper John' McIntyre in the long-running U.S. television series, "M*A*S*H". He succeeded Elliott Gould, who had played the character in the movie, and was succeeded later by Pernell Roberts on the "M*A*S*H" spin-off "Trapper John, M.D.". Rogers is a graduate of The Webb School in Bell Buckle, Tennessee.
- Jean Lave
Interests : Jean Lave is a social anthropologist with a strong interest in social theory. Much of her ethnographically-based research concentrates on the re-conceiving of learning, learners, and everyday life in terms of social practice. She has published three books on the subject: Understanding Practice (co-authored with S. Chaiklin , 1993); Situated Learning: Legitimate Peripheral Participation (with E. Wenger , 1991); and Cognition in Practice (1988).
- Dennis H. Holtschneider
The Reverend Fr. Dennis H. Holtschneider is the president of DePaul University in Chicago, Illinois. He was chosen by the Board of Trustees as the university's president in spring 2004 and took office in July 2004. Born on January 14, 1962, a native of Detroit, Michigan, he is a graduate of Niagara University with a bachlors degree in Mathematics science 1985 and is a member of the Congregation of the Mission, an order of Catholic priests founded by St.
- The Scary Guy
At 6ft tall, 18 stone and tattooed from head to toe ... The Scary Guy is quite possibly the most powerful Agent For Change on the planet today! The Power to Create World Peace Lives Within Each and Everyone of Us. - The Scary Guy 2000
- Hilda Borko
Hilda Borko is an educational psychologist who researches teacher cognition and changes in novice and experienced teachers' knowledge and beliefs. Her work has identified factors that affect teachers' learning of reform-based practices. She is chair of the educational psychology program area in the school of education at the University of Colorado, and is a former president of the American Educational Research Association.
- Jenny Redo
President of Selby Education Foundation, Woodland School Board,Atherton Civic Interest League Board,mother,tennis player
- Natalie Portman
Natalie Portman, born Natalie Hershlag on June 9, 1981, in Jerusalem, Israel is a Golden Globe-winning, Academy Award-nominated Israeli-American actress.
- Bill Raftery
This page is dedicated to Bill Raftery, the greatest college basketball analyst ever, and all-around great man. Bill is a college basketball analyst for CBS and ESPN. He is known for his tag lines including "The Tar Heels start in a
- Ken Ham
Dr. Ken Ham is the president of Answers in Genesis USA and is a well-known speaker and author on the subject of Young-Earth Creationism. He received a bachelor degree in applied science (emphasis on environmental biology) from the Queensland Institute of Technology, and a Diploma of Education from the University of Queensland. He has also received two honorary doctorates: a Doctor of Divinity from Temple Baptist College, and a Doctor of Literature from Baptist Liberty University.
- Jim Mroczkowski
Jim Mroczkowski was born and raised in Windsor, Ontario. He is a former resident of North Bay where he attended Nipissing University to teach in 1980. He has now returned to Windsor to work as a full-time artist after 26 years as a professor of fine arts and art education.
- Michelle Lavaughn Obama
With the ascent of her husband as a prominent nationwide politician, she has become a half of pop culture. In May 2006, Essence magazine listed her amongst "25 of the World's Most Inspiring Women." [24] In July 2007, Vanity Fair magazine listed her surrounded by "10 of the World's Best Dressed People." In September 2007, 02138 magazine listed her 58th of "The Harvard 100," a listing of the prior year's many influential Harvard alumni. Her husband was ranked fourth. [25]
- Paul Levinson
Paul Levinson <small>BA, MA, PhD</small> is an author and professor of communications and media studies at Fordham University in New York City. Levinson's novels, short fiction, and non-fiction works have been translated into twelve languages. As a commentator on media, popular culture, and science fiction he has been interviewed over 500 times on many local, national and international television and radio shows.
- Thomas Easton
I have been teaching Computer Science, Environmental Science, and Life Science courses at Thomas College in Waterville, Maine, since 1983. A list of current and recent courses is available at http://www2.thomas.edu/faculty/easton/. Despite a doctorate in theoretical biology, I am clearly a generalist.
- Jodi Picoult
Jodi Picoult is the bestselling author of the following novels: Songs of the Humpback Whale (1992), Harvesting the Heart (1994), Picture Perfect (1995), Mercy (1996), The Pact (1998); Keeping Faith (1999), Plain Truth (2000), Salem Falls (2001), Perfect Match (2002), Second Glance (2003), My Sister's Keeper (2004), Vanishing Acts (2005), The Tenth Circle (2006), Nineteen Minutes (2007). In 2003 she was awarded the New England Bookseller Award for Fiction.
- Angie Paccione
Angela Veronica Paccione (born 21 February 1960) is a former Democratic member of the Colorado House of Representatives. In the 2006 U.S. Election, State Rep. Angie Paccione was the Democratic nominee for U.S. Congress in Colorado's 4th Congressional district, ultimately losing to two-term incumbent Republican Marilyn Musgrave.
- Reyes Tamez
Reyes Tamez Guerra is a prominent Mexican immunochemist. He is a former rector of the Autonomous University of Nuevo León (UANL) who served as Secretary of Education in the cabinet of Vicente Fox.
- Canon John Collins
John Collins (1905-1982) was an Anglican clergyman who was active in several radical political movements in the United Kingdom. Educated at Cranbrook School, Kent and at the University of Cambridge, he served as a chaplain in the Royal Air Force during World War II and was radicalised by the experience. In 1946 he founded the organization Christian Action to work for reconciliation with Germany. He was appointed as a Canon to St Paul's Cathedral, London, in 1948, …
- Clinton Bristow Jr.
Clinton Bristow, Jr. (1949-August 19, 2006) was an American lawyer, academic official, and the sixteenth president of Alcorn State University. A native of Alabama, Bristow was installed as Alcorn's president on August 24, 1995. Under his leadership, the number of students in Alcorn's graduate and professional programs grew by a large percentage. An increase in the number of international students attending Alcorn during Bristow's administration gained national attention.
- Howard Newby
Sir Howard Newby was born in 1947 and grew up in Derby. He was vice-chancellor of the University of Southampton. His other academic posts include professor of sociology at the University of Essex and visiting appointments in Australia and the United States. From 1980-83 he was professor of sociology and rural sociology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. In August 2001, Sir Howard ended a two-year term as president of Universities UK, …
- Elizabeth Jesser Reid
Elizabeth Jesser Reid (25 December 1789 - 1 April 1866), was an English social reformer, anti-slavery activist and philanthropist. She is best remembered as the founder of Bedford College. She was born Elizabeth Jesser Sturch in 1789 in London. Her father, William Sturch, was a wealthy Unitarian ironmonger. In 1821, she married Dr. John Reid. Dr. Reid had inherited land on the River Clyde at Glasgow, …
- Paul Rogat Loeb
Paul Rogat Loeb (born in 1952) is an American social and political activist, who has strongly fought for issues including social justice, humanitarianism, environmentalism, and civic involvement in American democracy. Loeb is a frequent public speaker and has written five books and numerous newspaper editorials.
- Daniel J. Evans
Daniel Jackson Evans (born October 16 1925) served three terms as governor of the state of Washington from 1965 to 1977, and represented the state in the United States Senate from 1983 to 1989. As a young man, Evans was an Eagle Scout and recipient of the Distinguished Eagle Scout Award from the Boy Scouts of America. He also served as a staff member at Camp Parsons, a well known Boy Scout camp in Washington State. Gov.
- Atta Ur Rahman
Prof Dr Atta-ur-Rahman is a leading scientist and scholar in the field of organic chemistry from Pakistan, especially renowned for his research in the various areas relating to natural product chemistry. With over 600 publications in the field of his expertise, he is also credited for reviving the higher education and research practices in Pakistan
- Jonathan Hoenig
Jonathan Hoenig is managing member at Hedge Fund LLC and a regular contributor to Fox News Channel's "Cashin' In", "Your World with Neil Cavuto", and "WLS (AM)" 890's morning show, Don Wade & Roma. A former floor trader at the Chicago Board of Trade, Hoenig's first book was published when he was 22. He is a frequent commentator in the financial press, and has written for "The Wall Street Journal Europe", "Wired", "Trader Monthly", …
- Henry Giroux
Henry Giroux, born September 18 1943, is a US cultural critic. He is one of the founding theorists of critical pedagogy in the United States. He is best known for his pioneering work in public pedagogy, cultural studies, youth studies, higher education, media studies, and critical theory.
- Edward C. Banfield
Edward C. Banfield (1916-1999) was a distinguished political scientist, best known as the author of "The Moral Basis of a Backward Society" (1958), and "The Unheavenly City" (1970). One of the leading conservative scholars of his generation, Banfield was an adviser to Republican presidents (Nixon, Ford, and Reagan). Banfield began his academic career at the University of Chicago, where he was a friend and colleague of Leo Strauss.
- Olympia Brown
Olympia Brown was a famous Women's suffragist. She was born in Prairie Ronde, Michigan. She attended Mount Holyoke College (then called "Mount Holyoke Female Seminary") from 1854-55 but found it to orthodox for her already progressive viewpoints. She then transferred to, and graduated from, Antioch College in 1860.
- Allan Bloom
Allan David Bloom (14 September, 1930 in Indianapolis, Indiana - 7 October, 1992 in Chicago, Illinois) was an American philosopher, essayist and academic. Bloom championed the idea of 'Great Books' education, as did his mentor Leo Strauss, and became famous for criticism of contemporary American higher education in his bestselling 1987 book, "The Closing of the American Mind". In 2000, years after Bloom's passing, Saul Bellow, …
- Eugene W. Hickok
Dr. Eugene W. Hickok (Born in 1951 Denver and raised mostly in Richmond, Va.) is a leading advocate for public education reform and an expert in constitutional law. President George W. Bush nominated Hickok as his Under Secretary of Education on March 30, 2001 and was confirmed by the U.S. Senate on July 10, 2001.
- Emma Willard
Emma C. (Hart) Willard (February 23, 1787 - April 15, 1870) was an American women's rights advocate and the pioneer who founded the first women's school of higher education. Emma Willard was born Emma Hart in Berlin, Connecticut, the sixteenth of her father's seventeen children and the ninth of her mother's ten children, of Samuel Hart and his second wife, Lydia Hinsdale Hart. She attended a district school at Worthington Point.
- Josef Pieprzyk
Josef Pieprzyk is a professor at Macquarie University in Sydney, Australia. He has worked on cryptography, in particular the XSL attack. He collaborated in the invention of the LOKI and LOKI97 block ciphers and the HAVAL cryptographic hash function.
- Nizam Al-Mulk
Abu Ali al-Hasan al-Tusi Nizam al-Mulk was a celebrated Persian scholar and vizier of the Seljuq Empire. Born in Tus in Persia (Iran) and initially serving the Ghaznavid sultans, Nizam ul-Mulk became chief administrator of the entire Khorasan province by 1059CE. From 1063, he served the Seljuks as vizier and remained in that position throughout the reigns of Alp Arslan (1063-1072) and Malik Shah I (1072-1092).
- Bedri Baykam
Bedri Baykam (born Ankara, 1957) is a Turkish artist and intellectual. He received his higher education in France, and lived in California, USA from 1980 to 1987, studying painting and film at California College of Arts and Crafts. Since 1987 he has lived in Istanbul. Apart from his activities as artists he became known as an outspoken advocate of leftwing nationalism.
- Steven von Niederhausern
Steven von Niederhausern is the Multimedia Specialist for the Public Relations & Marketing Department at Utah State University. He won first place in the Carnegie 2003 best campus TV commercial contest for producing and editing a national television advertisement for Utah State University. More information can be found at: http://steven.vonniederhausern.org
- Jean Paul Brusset
Jean Paul Brusset is an internationally-acclaimed painter with what has been described as "a strong Mediterranean flair". In 1929, after completing his higher education at the college in Uzès, Brusset travelled to Paris where he enrolled at L'École des Arts Appliqués et des Arts Decoratifs and sold his first painting, "Le Pont d'Avignon". He went on to exhibit in major galleries such as the Salon des Tuileries and soon earned his first special exhibition.
- Marianne Hainisch
Marianne Hainisch (born Perger) (March 25, 1839 in Baden bei Wien - May 5, 1936 in Vienna) was the founder and leader of the Austrian women's movement. She was also the mother of Michael Hainisch, the first President of Austria (1920 - 1928). In 1857 Marianne married the industrialist Michael Hainisch (owner of a spinning factory in Aue) with whom she had two children (Michael, 1858, and Maria, 1860). In 1868 the family moved to Vienna.
- Michael Keating
Michael Keating (born 2 February 1950) is a political scientist specialising in nationalism, European politics and regional politics. He is Professor of Political and Social Sciences at the European University Institute in Florence, Italy, on secondment from the University of Aberdeen, where he holds the post of Professor of Politics. Keating was previously Professor of Political Science at the University of Western Ontario, Canada.