Frank B. Murray is H. Rodney Sharp Professor in the
School of Education
and the Department of Psychology
at the University of Delaware, where he also served as dean of its College of Education between
1979 and 1995. Currently he directs its Center for Educational
Leadership and Policy (CELaP). In 1998 he was appointed
President of the Teacher Education Accreditation
Council (TEAC) in Washington, DC for a five-year term. He
received his B.A. degree from St. John's College in
Annapolis, Maryland and his M.A.T. and Ph.D. degrees from the Johns Hopkins University. He has
served in various capacities on the editorial boards of several
journals in developmental and educational psychology and is a
fellow in the American Psychological Association
and the American
Psychological Society. He chaired the national Board of the
Holmes Group, a consortium of research universities engaged in
educational reform, for eight years, and served as executive
director of the successor, the Holmes Partnership from
1996 to 1998. He was president and co-founder of the Project 30 Alliance, an
organization of faculty in education and the liberal arts.
Between 1994 and 1997, he co-edited the Review of Educational
Research for the American Educational
Research Association. In 1996 he edited The Teacher Educator's
Handbook for the American Association of
Teacher Education. For his contributions to the fields of child
development and teacher education, he was awarded an honorary
doctorate from Heriot-Watt
University in Edinburgh, Scotland in 1994.
Frank B. Murray's Vita
Course Syllabi
Administration: College of Education 1979-1995