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N.O. native to lead Gannon University
Education expert is ex-Xavier professor
Antoine M. Garibaldi, a New Orleans native and former vice president for academic affairs at Xavier University, became the sixth president of Gannon University on July 1.
Garibaldi, who earned a doctorate in educational psychology from the University of Minnesota in 1976, moved to Gannon, a Catholic institution in Erie, Pa., with more than 3,300 students, from the Educational Testing Service, where he was a senior fellow working on improving teacher and graduate education.
From 1996 to 2000 he was provost, chief academic officer and professor of education at Howard University in Washington, D.C.
He graduated magna cum laude from Howard in 1973, with a bachelor's degree in sociology.
Garibaldi went to Howard from Xavier, where between 1982 and 1996 he held several positions, including chair of the department of education and dean of the College of Arts and Sciences, and distinguished himself as an author and researcher on the education of African-Americans.
He was a researcher for the U.S. Department of Education's National Institute of Education from 1977 to 1982, and he participated in preparing the 1982 landmark report, "A Nation at Risk: The Imperative for Educational Reform."
In 1988 he wrote a groundbreaking report recommending ways to better educate black males in New Orleans public schools.
He also testified before Congress about the problems that plague black males in America's schools.
Gannon offers 56 undergraduate, nine preprofessional and 17 graduate programs in business, education, engineering, health sciences, humanities, natural sciences and social sciences, and a doctoral program in counseling psychology.
Education expert is ex-Xavier professor
Antoine M. Garibaldi, a New Orleans native and former vice president for academic affairs at Xavier University, became the sixth president of Gannon University on July 1.
Garibaldi, who earned a doctorate in educational psychology from the University of Minnesota in 1976, moved to Gannon, a Catholic institution in Erie, Pa., with more than 3,300 students, from the Educational Testing Service, where he was a senior fellow working on improving teacher and graduate education.
From 1996 to 2000 he was provost, chief academic officer and professor of education at Howard University in Washington, D.C.
He graduated magna cum laude from Howard in 1973, with a bachelor's degree in sociology.
Garibaldi went to Howard from Xavier, where between 1982 and 1996 he held several positions, including chair of the department of education and dean of the College of Arts and Sciences, and distinguished himself as an author and researcher on the education of African-Americans.
He was a researcher for the U.S. Department of Education's National Institute of Education from 1977 to 1982, and he participated in preparing the 1982 landmark report, "A Nation at Risk: The Imperative for Educational Reform."
In 1988 he wrote a groundbreaking report recommending ways to better educate black males in New Orleans public schools.
He also testified before Congress about the problems that plague black males in America's schools.
Gannon offers 56 undergraduate, nine preprofessional and 17 graduate programs in business, education, engineering, health sciences, humanities, natural sciences and social sciences, and a doctoral program in counseling psychology.