DENNIS POTTHOFF Title: Associate dean, College of Education Years at UNK: 19 Personal: Wife, Patricia, communications disorders lecturer at UNK; Daughter, Summer, scuba diving instructor in Virgin Islands; Daughter Nicole, third-year student at UNK; Son, Robbie, first-year cadet at U.S. Air Force Academy. Research/Teaching Interests: Purposes for education in a democratic society, school/university partnerships, community service learning, online education. By TODD … [Read more...] about Dennis Potthoff featured speaker at UNK Last Lecture
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Three finalists for College of Education dean begin interviews
KEARNEY – Three candidates have been selected as finalists for the dean of the College of Education at University of Nebraska at Kearney. They will be on campus this month to interview and make presentations on their credentials and visions for the education college. The finalists are: Jodi Kupper (Pronounced Cooper), dean of the School of Education at Peru State College; James Hannon, chair of the department of Exercise and Sport Science at University of Utah; and Dennis … [Read more...] about Three finalists for College of Education dean begin interviews
DENNIS POTTHOFF – Teaching Democracy
By JAN TREFFER THOMPSON Every teacher knows a student like him. The one in the back row. The one who doesn’t talk much, and mumbles when he does. The one who slides down in his chair, trying to make himself invisible. Sometimes it’s difficult to remember much about those kids. But as a new teacher for Lincoln Public Schools in the early 1980s, Dennis Potthoff met one he’ll never forget. This boy, a seventh-grader Potthoff calls “Tony,” posed a question that he has been … [Read more...] about DENNIS POTTHOFF – Teaching Democracy
