The University of Alberta’s Office of the Provost and VP (Academic) has announced that Dr. Randy Wimmer will serve an additional one-year term as interim Dean of Education.
Initially appointed for the period of July 1, 2015 to June 30, 2016, Wimmer will now serve until June 30, 2017, or until such time as a new Dean is appointed. A search for a new Dean will be conducted in the 2016-17 academic year.
Wimmer is a proud UAlberta alumnus, having completed his undergraduate degree, Master of Education, and Doctor of Education (in Educational Policy Studies) in this faculty.
Prior to becoming interim Dean, he served as Vice-Dean of Education from 2013 to 2015, and prior to that he served as Associate Dean (2011-13) and Associate Chair in Educational Policy Studies (2010-11). Before joining UAlberta’s Faculty of Education as a professor in the Department of Educational Policy Studies in 2006, Wimmer held a faculty position at the University of Saskatchewan in the Department of Educational Administration.
Feature Image: Interim Dean of Education Randy Wimmer photographed outside the Education Centre South building, July 2015.