Dr. Hunter R. Boylan
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Hunter Boylan is Director of the National Center for Developmental Education and a Professor of Higher Education at Appalachian StateUniversity. He received his B.A. in political science and history from Miami University in Oxford, Ohio, and his M.Ed. in counseling from Temple University in Philadelphia. His Ph.D. is in higher education from Bowling Green State University in Ohio.
From 1969 until 1980, Dr, Boylan held a variety of positions in TRIO and developmental education programs. He has coordinated tutoring programs, taught study skills courses, served as an academic advisor, and directed a learning center. In 1980, he became the founding Director of the Kellogg Institute. From 1981 to 1983, he served as President of the National Association for Developmental Education. In 1987 and 1988, he directed the Doctoral Program in Developmental Education at Grambling State University. In 1988, he returned to Appalachian State to direct the National Center for Developmental Education. Between 1989 and 1995, he directed the largest study of developmental education ever undertaken, the National Study of Developmental Education funded by the Exxon Education Foundation.
Dr. Boylan is the author of three books and over 80 articles and book chapters on developmental education. He has served on the Editorial Boards of the Journal of Developmental Education, the Journal of Teaching & Learning, the Journal of Individualized Instruction, , and the ASHE/ERIC Research Report Series. He serves on the Advisory Board of the Council for the Advancement of Adult Literacy’s Community College Project, the Center for Research in Developmental Education and Urban Literacy, and the Emeritus Council of the National Association for Developmental Education. He is also the Chairperson of the American Council of Developmental Education Associations.
Dr. Boylan’s hobbies, interests, and leisure activities include racquet ball, volleyball, canoeing, wine collecting and tasting, folk music, target shooting, and collecting and restoring military firearms. |
Dr. Barbara S. Bonham
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Barbara Bonham is Coordinator of the Higher Education Graduate Program and Professor in the Department of Leadership and Educational Studies at Appalachian State University, Boone, NC. She teaches graduate courses such as The Adult Learner, Designing Adult Learning Experiences, Planning Educational Programs, Comparative Higher Education, etc.
She serves as Senior Researcher for the National Center for Developmental Education and a faculty member for the Kellogg Institute. Barbara has taught twelve years in the field of developmental education at Bloomsburg University as a math instructor, lab coordinator, tutorial supervisor, and assistant to the Director in a Student Services Program (TRIO). She has over 30 years teaching experience. She has served as consultant to numerous two-year and four-year colleges in the area of developmental education particularly mathematics as well as a program reviewer and evaluator for Title III, Title V, FIPSE, and Achieving the Dream projects. She has worked with State Boards of Higher Education and in business and industry. She has also conducted workshops and keynote presentations at local, state, national, and international conferences.
Her publications, presentations, and areas of research interest include adult learning, designing culturally responsive learning environments, program planning, active learning techniques, assessment and evaluation, instructional design, developmental mathematics, educational systems in other countries, etc.
She earned a Ph.D. in Instructional Systems Design from the Pennsylvania State University with a concentration in statistics and adult education. She has three children - Bryan, Heather, and Shawn, a daughter-in-law, and two granddaughters - Kana and Abigail. Her hobbies include learning Japanese, gardening, bicycling, reading historical novels, cooking, collecting teddy bears and watching butterflies.
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Dr. Dan Friedman
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Dan Friedman is the Director of Freshman Seminar and adjunct Assistant Professor of Higher Education at Appalachian State University. He earned his Ph.D. in Higher Education from the University of Virginia and holds an M.A. and Ed.S. in Higher Education from Appalachian State.
Dr. Friedman's area of research is centered on the First-Year Experience and he has made numerous presentations and published several articles, chapters, and monograph contributions on this topic. Dan has conducted a wide-range of assessment initiatives at Appalachian aimed at better understanding the efficacy of the first-year seminar.
Dr. Friedman has served as an invited faculty of the Summer Institute on First-Year Assessment, sponsored by the National Resource Center for the First-Year Experience and Students in Transition and the Policy Center on the First Year of College. He has also served as a practicum advisor for the Kellogg Institute and on a SACS Accreditation Team as the Lead Reviewer of a Quality Enhancement Plan focused on learning communities and a first-year seminar.
Dan serves on numerous committees at Appalachian, including the General Education Task Force, Summer Reading Committee, Learning Community Council, and the International Education Council.
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