Faculty appointed to new chairs in College of Education

Friday, September 10, 2010

 

Drs. Kathyn Castle and Sandra Goetze at Oklahoma State University in Stillwater have been appointed to serve in new chairs established in the College of Education.

Castle, professor and graduate coordinator in the School of Teaching and Curriculum Leadership, has been named the first person to hold the Chuck and Kim Watson Chair in Education. Castle’s area is curriculum studies.

OSU alumni Chuck and Kim Watson provided the gift to establish the endowed position. The College of Education’s Student Academic Success Center is named for the Watson Family and Kim is an elementary education graduate.

A recipient of both the OSU Regents Distinguished Research Award, in 2008, and the Regents Distinguished Teaching Award, in 2005, Castle serves on two national boards and three national editorial boards. She is past president of the National Association of Early Childhood Teacher Educators and co-founder of the Oklahoma Association of Early Childhood Teacher Educators.

She earned a master of science degree in educational psychology/developmental psychology from Emory University and an Ed.D. in curriculum and instruction/early childhood education from the University of Virginia.

Goetze, associate professor in the School of Teaching and Curriculum Leadership, has been named the first Alice Phillips Endowed Professor in Elementary Education.

Sisters and OSU alumnae Ann Phillips and Lena Schenk provided a gift in honor of their mother, Alice Phillips, to establish the professorship in the College of Education.

Goetze teaches in the areas of literacy and elementary education. She also serves as the director of the Randall and Carol White Reading and Mathematics Centers, which provide low-cost, high-quality tutoring for children in grades one through eight and support the training of preservice and inservice teachers on the Stillwater and Tulsa campuses.

In 2009, she was a selected to participate in UCLA’s Visiting Scholar Program. Goetze earned a Ph.D. in literacy education from the University of Oklahoma.