This professorship was awarded by Dean Andy Porter in honor of Dr. Constance Clayton, a Penn GSE graduate and former Superintendent of the School District of Philadelphia.
An associate professor of educational linguistics at Penn GSE, she also mentors undergraduate students as a residential faculty fellow in Riepe College House.
She will discuss demographics at Minority-Serving Institutions (MSIs) at a higher education research and policy briefing on September 2 at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C.
Penn GSE Senior Fellow Frances Rust wants to help teachers encourage playful activity, and in July she was invited to China to speak at the first Sino-U.S. Summit on Play.
