O'Leary Chair

 

Sponsor: Department of Educational Organization and Leadership, College of Education, UIUC

To honor the career and extend the influence of the late Dr. Edwin J. O'Leary, Richard E. and Ann M. O'Leary have provided an endowment to finance the Edwin J. O'Leary Chair in Financial Management in the College of Education at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. The O'Leary Chair will bring to the campus new ideas from individuals who are nationally known for their expertise in financial management in education. Through the chair's activities, the Department of Educational Organization and Leadership will focus on financial management of public schools, the financial and legal aspects of school management, and public school budgeting and facility planning.

 

The next O'Leary Symposium is to be held on May 3, 2007 in Springfield.

POLICY RESEARCH BRIEF: MAY 2007
Adequate Funding of Illinois Public Schools
Deborah A. Verstegen, Professor, University of Nevada &
Edwin J. O’Leary Chair in Financial Management, University of Illinois

 

==============================================

This year's Chair is Dr. Deborah Verstegen from Universtiy of Nevada, Reno.

DEBORAH A. VERSTEGEN
Professor and Chair
Educational Leadership
College of Education
University of Nevada, Reno
Phone: (775) 784-6518
e-mail:dav3e@unr.edu

Deborah Verstegen is Professor and Chair of the Department of Educational Leadership, College of Education, University of Nevada. She was previously a faculty member in the Curry School of Education at the University of Virginia for 19 years. Prior to joining the university community in 1984, she was a teacher, administrator and legislative aide in state government. She has had teaching experience at all levels, from pre-school, elementary, secondary, and community college, to university, at the graduate level. Her administrative experience in education is also broad. She has been a central office administrator for a K-12 school system in Alaska's Iditarod Area School District--which is approximately the size of Ohio and includes 14 schools and two preschools--and Director of the Mid-management Program at the University of Texas at Austin. She has worked in government as a legislative aide in Wisconsin's House of Representatives and as a lobbyist for the nonpartisan League of Women Voters of Virginia in the Virginia General Assembly.

 

Education

Ph.D.,   University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI. (Educational Administration) 1983.
M.S.,     University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI. (Educational Administration) 1981.
Ed.M.,   University of Rochester, Rochester, NY. (Curriculum & Instruction) 1972.
B.A.,     Loretta Heights College, Denver, CO. (English & Philosophy) 1969.