Provost Names New Interim Leadership Team at WSU College of Education

Phyllis Erdman	Cori Mantle-Bromley

 

 

PULLMAN, Wash.—Phyllis Erdman will serve as interim dean of the Washington State University College of Education, Provost Warwick M. Bayly announced today. Erdman has been chair of the Department of Educational Leadership & Counseling Psychology since 2003. 

 

Bayly also named Cori Mantle-Bromley, chair of the Department of Teaching & Learning since 2005, to be interim associate dean.  The appointments are effective immediately.  The positions resulted from the recent deaths of Dean Judy Nichols Mitchell and Interim Dean Len Foster.

 

“These appointments will be in place for the foreseeable future,” Bayly said.  “This is clearly a time of considerable change and opportunity for the college, and further plans will be developed over the next month.”

 

Speaking for herself and for Erdman, who was traveling Monday, Mantle-Bromley said the college will be guided by Mitchell’s vision.

 

 “We have a good team,” Mantle-Bromley said. “We will be strong in ways that would make Judy and Len proud.”

 

In other changes, Professor Mike Trevisan was named as interim chair of the Department of Educational Leadership & Counseling Psychology; and Professor Darcy Miller as interim chair of the Department of Teaching & Learning. 

 

Erdman’s professional interest is marriage and family therapy.  She is working on a book with Kok-Mun Ng, University of North Carolina-Charlotte on cross-cultural applications of attachment theory.  Erdman received her Ph.D. in counseling from St. Mary’s University in San Antonio, Texas, and a M.Ed. in counseling as well as a B.A. in psychology from the University of Houston.

 

Mantle-Bromley has most recently studied pre-service and in-service teacher development, including the role of collaboration in school-university partnerships.  As executive vice president of the Institute for Educational Inquiry (2000–2004), she worked with John Goodlad and the National Network for Educational Renewal to strengthen collaboration of school systems, arts and sciences departments, colleges of education, and community members. Mantle-Bromley received her Ph.D. in education and her M.Ed. in secondary education from the University of Idaho, and a B.A. from Utah State University.

 

Further information on the College of Education is available online at https://education.wsu.edu.