{"id":333497,"date":"2026-05-26T22:41:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-26T22:41:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/333497\/"},"modified":"2026-05-26T22:41:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-26T22:41:09","slug":"fresno-state-announces-hiring-of-new-dean-for-kremen-school-of-education","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/333497\/","title":{"rendered":"Fresno State Announces Hiring of New Dean for Kremen School of Education"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dr. S. Marshall Perry, an educational leadership scholar with an academic and professional background in promoting student success through research and practice, is the new dean of the Kremen School of Education and Human Development at Fresno State.<\/p>\n

By Benjamin Kirk<\/p>\n

Fresno State Today<\/p>\n

\u201cThroughout his career, Dr. Perry has championed academic pathways that support student success,\u201d said Dr. Xuanning Fu, provost and vice president for the Division of Academic Affairs at Fresno State. \u201cHe led the development of innovative \u20184+1\u2019 programs, allowing students to earn their bachelor\u2019s and master\u2019s degrees in five years. His expertise in using enrollment and labor market data will be vital as we ensure our academic programs meet the needs of today\u2019s students and tomorrow\u2019s teachers.\u201d<\/p>\n

Perry succeeds interim dean Dr. Sergio La Porta.<\/p>\n

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\nYale Grad With Stanford Experience<\/p>\n

After earning his bachelor\u2019s degree in political science from Yale College in 1995, Perry began working at Stanford University in 2001 as a teaching assistant. In 2004, he became a program coordinator for the faculty recruitment office, earning a certificate in political psychology in 2006 and a Ph.D. in administration and policy analysis, with a minor in political psychology, in 2007.<\/p>\n

After a couple of years as a senior research associate at Rockman et al Cooperative, an education-focused research group in San Francisco, Perry moved to Oakdale, New York, and became an associate professor at Dowling College, teaching doctoral and professional certification classes. While in New York, he worked as a consultant with the New York State Joint Intervention Teams, writing educational plans for struggling middle and high schools. He also served as a consultant for Riverhead Charter School and a resident professor-researcher for the North Babylon Union Free School District, designing and implementing workshops and instructional materials for teachers and administrators.<\/p>\n

In 2016, Perry moved back to the West Coast to become a professor at Saint Mary\u2019s College in Moraga, teaching courses on educational policy, research methods, data-informed leadership and ethics in the doctoral and administrative credential programs. After serving as a program director, department chair and associate dean of the Kalmanovitz School of Education, in 2022, Perry became the vice provost of academic innovation and, in 2025, served as the interim dean of the Kalmanovitz School of Education.<\/p>\n

Perry Will State July 20 at Fresno State<\/p>\n

On July 20, Perry will begin his role as dean of the Kremen School at Fresno State<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m incredibly excited to join Fresno State as the next dean of the Kremen School of Education and Human Development,\u201d Perry said. \u201cFresno State is known as a high-quality university of economic mobility and the Kremen School in particular is a place of enormous accomplishment and great potential.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt is widely known as the place that prepares more credentialed P-12 schoolteachers than any other public university in California, but I was delighted to also learn about strong master\u2019s programs in counseling, education and leadership, as well as a doctoral program in educational leadership.\u201d<\/p>\n

Perry\u2019s research received recognition from the Institute of Education Sciences\u2019 What Works Clearinghouse, which cited his work as one of only 15 studies on distance education to meet its standards without reservation. His scholarly work covers educational leadership and policy analysis, focusing on disadvantaged student populations while comparing teacher job satisfaction, educational practices and effectiveness.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dr. S. Marshall Perry, an educational leadership scholar with an academic and professional background in promoting student success…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":333498,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[112,114,113],"class_list":["post-333497","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fresno","tag-fresno","tag-fresno-headlines","tag-fresno-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333497","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=333497"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333497\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/333498"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=333497"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=333497"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=333497"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}