The University of Texas at Austin has named Daniel Hamlin as the next\u00a0dean\u00a0of\u00a0the College of Education. Hamlin, who currently serves as\u00a0the state of\u00a0Oklahoma\u2019s secretary of education,\u00a0will begin his appointment at UT on Aug.\u00a016.<\/p>\n
In addition to his work as secretary,\u00a0Hamlin currently serves as a Presidential Professor of\u00a0education\u00a0policy\u00a0at the University of Oklahoma,\u00a0and\u00a0as director of the Oklahoma Center for Education Policy.\u00a0He is also a\u00a0research\u00a0affiliate at the Program on Education Policy and Governance at Harvard University.<\/p>\n
\u201cAt a time when education is evolving rapidly, strong academic leadership matters more than ever,\u201d said Executive Vice President and Provost William Inboden.\u00a0\u201cDr. Hamlin\u00a0has earned a national reputation as a distinguished scholar, collaborative leader and champion for educational excellence and access.\u00a0I\u00a0am confident that he will lead the College of Education to even greater levels of\u00a0distinction\u00a0that will\u00a0benefit\u00a0our students and faculty, as well as\u00a0Texas and the nation.\u201d<\/p>\n
Hamlin\u00a0is the author of more than 50 peer-reviewed articles, chapters and reports, and his research has appeared in leading academic journals and outlets such as\u00a0The Wall Street Journal, NPR,\u00a0Forbes\u00a0and NBC. He has secured funding from the National Science Foundation, the Walton Family Foundation, the George Kaiser Family Foundation,\u00a0and\u00a0the Randall and Lenise Stephenson Family Foundation.\u00a0Hamlin received a\u00a0Ph.D.\u00a0in\u00a0educational\u00a0leadership and\u00a0policy from the University of Toronto. He\u00a0was\u00a0a\u00a0postdoctoral fellow at Harvard University before joining the faculty at the University of Oklahoma.<\/p>\n
Hamlin\u00a0currently\u00a0oversees statewide initiatives\u00a0in Oklahoma\u00a0that expand educational opportunities, foster innovation across K-12 school systems, and strengthen alignment between education and workforce needs. This work closely reflects the\u00a0UT\u00a0College of Education\u2019s mission to\u00a0leverage\u00a0University resources to advance educational outcomes in Texas and to develop and share evidence-based practices that support students,\u00a0schools\u00a0and districts across the state.<\/p>\n
\u201cI am deeply honored to join The University of Texas at Austin as dean of the College of Education,\u201d Hamlin said. \u201cThe college has an extraordinary record of research, teaching and engagement with schools and communities. I look forward to working alongside its outstanding faculty, staff, students and alumni to advance the college\u2019s impact across Texas and the nation.\u201d<\/p>\n
Hamlin\u00a0was selected after a national search that began last fall, and\u00a0he will succeed\u00a0Charles Martinez, who has served as\u00a0dean since 2019.\u00a0During his tenure, Martinez helped expand the college\u2019s research portfolio, deepen connections with communities across Texas, and prepare generations of Longhorns to shape the future of education,\u00a0health\u00a0and sport. The college\u2019s undergraduate enrollment grew by more than\u00a040%,\u00a0and the 82% four-year graduation rate set a new benchmark for student success. The college also launched several key initiatives \u2014 including the Texas Education THRIVE<\/a> teacher mentoring program and the LONESTARP3<\/a> research-practice-policy network,\u00a0founded by Martinez\u00a0\u2014\u00a0to strengthen the national educator pipeline and improve the quality of our country\u2019s education system.\u00a0His work has elevated the national\u00a0rankings\u00a0and global reputation of both the University and the College of Education. With generous support from donors and alumni, the college also more than doubled its ambitious fundraising goal set early in the What Starts Here campaign, providing support for student scholarships, academic programs, research initiatives, and facilities in the S\u00e1nchez Building and Bellmont Hall.<\/p>\n Martinez will assume his position as a member of the faculty in the College of Education<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The University of Texas at Austin has named Daniel Hamlin as the next\u00a0dean\u00a0of\u00a0the College of Education. Hamlin, who…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":354805,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[31778,163,13178,1910,1049,27,29,28],"class_list":["post-354804","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-college-of-education","tag-education","tag-faculty","tag-leadership","tag-students","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354804","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=354804"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354804\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/354805"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=354804"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=354804"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=354804"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}