Enid “Dinny� Morse, joined the Board of Trustees in 1988. Over the years, she served as the panel’s Co-chair and on the search committee that recommended Arthur Levine for the presidency of Teachers College in 1995. A generous TC benefactor, she and her husband established the Enid and Lester Morse Endowed Professorship in Teacher Education in 2002
Professor of Linguistics and Education Leslie Beebe, an internationally renowned scholar in the field of applied linguistics, joined the TC faculty in 1975 and served as Director of both the Teaching English as a Second Language (TESOL) Program and the Applied Linguistics Program. She also played a key role in founding the first off-campus program at the College, the TESOL M.A. in Tokyo.
Frances Schoonmaker, Professor of Education, has been a mainstay in teacher preparation at TC for more than 25 years. From 1983 to 2001, she served as Director of the Preservice Program in Elementary Education. She also served in the mid-2000s as the head of the teacher education initiative for the Teachers College/UNICEF Afghanistan Project, working with Afghans to design standards and curricula for teacher education.
TC alumnus Robert Taylor, Associate Professor of Computing in Education, founded the Computing in Education Program at TC in 1976, one of the first such graduate programs in the world. Taylor arrived at the College as a doctoral student in 1967, and wrote his dissertation on mathematics teaching in Uganda using a computer program he created known as SNOBOL.
Dennis Mithaug, Professor of Education, served Teachers College for 18 years—including as Chair of the Department of Special Education from 1991 to 1996 and later its Director when it became a program in the Department of Health and Human Behavior. Mithaug and his colleagues also developed a theory of learning that placed self-engagement at the center of why, how and what people learn, whether they are disabled or not.