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H. Ramsey Fowler
Dean, New College
Associate Professor English, New College |
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EDUCATION:
A.B., Princeton University, 1959;
A.M.T., Harvard University, 1961;
A.M., The University of Michigan, 1963;
Ph.D., 1969 |
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A native of Brooklyn, New York, Ramsey Fowler came to St. Edward's University in the fall of 1999 from The University of Memphis, where he had been dean of University College for 19 years, as well as a member of the English Department. Active in higher education for returning adult students since the early 1970s, he was part of the team that developed University College in 1975, before becoming dean in 1980. Like New College, University College serves returning adult undergraduate students and offers selected masters' degrees. As a member of the English Department, he directed the freshman and sophomore English program for seven years. From that experience, he co-authored The Little, Brown Handbook, one of the leading grammar and composition handbooks in use today.
Ramsey Fowler graduated from Princeton University, with a major in Religion. He then entered an early Master of Arts in Teaching program in English education at Harvard University, followed by teaching posts in Milton (junior high school) and Beverly (high school), both in Massachusetts. At the end of that phase of his career he determined that he had gotten the teaching part right, but the venue wrong (in fact, he says that he was the worst junior high school teacher he has ever known), and so he traveled west to The University of Michigan, where he received his Ph.D. in English, before heading south to Memphis. His dissertation was on the idea of comedy in the novels of George Meredith. As a faculty member at the U of M, he directed the freshman and sophomore English program from 1970-1977, followed by The Greater Memphis Writing Project, from 1978-1980. That project, which trained high school English teachers in the teaching of writing, was funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities.
At St. Edward's he has been active in providing greater access to adult students through the development and approval of programming that serves adults' personal and career needs. The following have been approved during his tenure as dean: undergraduate majors in Human Services, Public Safety Management, Human Resource Management, Organizational Communication, and the Individualized Bachelor of Arts, and the following graduate programs--the Master of Liberal Arts, for which he has developed four courses, and the Master of Arts in College Student Development. In addition, during his tenure as dean, the Master of Arts in Counseling program was transferred to New College. |
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