Academic and Professional Service

Board Member, Scholarship Foundation of America, Hazlet, New Jersey, 1986-1992

Departmental committees served, 1986-Present

Honors Committee, 1992-Present

Holmes Group Committee for the revision of the Undergraduate Special Education Major, 1989-Present

Chair, Scholarship Committee, 1997-1999

Chair, Honors Committee, 1995-1999

Promotion, Tenure and Reappointment Committee, review persons eligible for PTR, 1989-90, 1990-91, 1992-93, 1994-95 (chairperson); 1997-1998

Co-Chair, Multiply Your Options Committee, 1995-1998

Search Committee Educational Psychology for School Psychology, Assistant Professor, 1989-1991

Search Committee. Educational Psychology for Measurement and Evaluation, Assistant Professor, 1989-90

Schools or college level service activities

Department Head, 2001-Present

Program Coordinator, Gifted and Talented, 1996-Present

Honors Committee, School of Education, 1990-Present

Strategic Initiative Planning Committee, 1998-1999

Honors Director, School of Education, 1997-1999

Assisted in the writing of the grant proposal for the NRC/GT, edited the final proposal in its entirety, 1989- 1990, 1995-96

Principal Investigator, The National Research Center on the Gifted and Talented 1990-1991, Curriculum Compacting Study, 1991-1992 Learning Disabled Gifted Study, Ethnographic Study 1992-1994, and 1994-1995 Extending the Pedagogy of Gifted Education to All Students

Search Committee, Department of Curriculum and Instruction, Curriculum Development Assistant Professor, 1989-1991

Coordinator, Confratute, the summer institute on the gifted and talented. Organized instructional program as well as most other details

Service contributions at the University level

University Senate, 1999-Present
  University Senate, Academic Standards Committee
  University Senate, Enrollment Committee
  University Senate, Nominations Committee
  Senate Executive Committee
  Committee W, AAUP

Advisory Board for Institute for Teaching and Learning, 1998-Present

Chair, Women's Leadership Council, Alumni Society, 1998-Present

President's Commission on the Status of Women, Faculty Member Designate, 1996-Present

Women in Science/Math-Committee formed by the Women' Center to investigate underrepresentation of females on the UConn campus in Science/Math, 1989-Present

Selection Committee for Institute for Teaching and Learning Faculty Review Board, 1999-2003

University Committee for Undergraduate Research, 1998-1999

Honors Board Advisory Committee, 1997-1999

Honors Program Selection Committee, Nutmeg Scholars, 1997

Co-Director, Multiply Your Options Program, 1994-1995

Women's Studies Executive Board, 1993-1999

Invited Seminar leader, Connecticut Honors Seminar, 1992-1996

Women and Science Committee, 1992-1996

Director, Young Scholars Saturday Semester, A Saturday enrichment program operated at 9 sites across Connecticut attended by 800 students per semester from 1981-1991