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Fayneese Miller, former director of the Center for the Study of Race and Ethnicity in America, and currently an American Council on Education Fellow in the Presidents Office at Brown University, has been appointed by President Daniel Mark Fogel as dean of the College of Education and Social Services at the University of Vermont. The university announced Miller's appointment on July 1.

Miller obtained her bachelor's degree in psychology from Hampton University and went on to master's and doctoral degrees from Texas Christian University in social psychology. After post-doctoral work at Yale, she has held faculty positions at the University of North Florida, the University of Cape Town and Brown University.

Millers scholarship has focused on issues of race, ethnicity and discrimination in adolescents and their impact on education, adolescent behavior and academic achievement. She is the author of many books, monographs, book chapters and articles on these topics and is a prominent member of several national commissions and committees devoted to them. Examples include the Mellon Foundation Planning Effort on Minority High Achievement, the National Academy of Science Committee on Title 1 and the National Truancy Advisory Committee. She has been active in many governors and state boards in Rhode Island on topics such as drug court planning, race relations and juvenile hearings. In addition to her administrative experience leading the Center for the Study of Race and Ethnicity, Miller has also served as coordinator and chair of Ethnic Studies at Brown University.

Fayneese Miller has an academic reputation, a track record of administrative achievement and a national reputation that mark her as having great potential for academic and national leadership, said John Bramley, UVM provost. She stood out in an extremely strong candidate pool, and I am very excited about her joining the academic leadership team at UVM. She has not only studied some of the most critical issues facing youth today but has a determination to apply the knowledge she gained to benefit individuals, communities and organizations. She is interested in how her work and leadership makes a difference, and that matters to us in CESS and at UVM.

I am excited about the opportunity to join the academic leadership team at UVM and welcome the opportunity to work collaboratively with my colleagues in the College of Education and Social Services and throughout the university, Miller said. I am honored by the confidence the search committee and the academic leaders at UVM have shown by selecting me as the dean of the college. I look forward with eager anticipation to the challenges that await me.

UVM president Daniel Mark Fogel said that the search committee had brought forward to him and Provost Bramley a stellar group of finalists for a deanship that he termed extraordinarily important both for UVM and for Vermont.

With the only masters-level program in social work in Vermont, and with education programs that have helped to prepare more than a third of the school teachers and administrators in the state for their work educating the rising generations of Vermonters, the College of Education and Social Services is a keystone of the future for UVM and for the statewide community. We are all extremely pleased that we have attracted to the deanship of the college an academic leader with the scholarly credentials and national stature that Fayneese Miller brings to this critical position.

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