Dr. D. Patrick Saxon has recently taken a new position as Associate Professor in the Educational Leadership Department at Sam Houston State University where he will assist in developing and administering the new Doctoral Program in Developmental Education Administration. He serves as treasurer for the National Association for Developmental Education and editor of Research in Developmental Education. For more than 20 years he was Assistant Director of Finance and Research at the National Center for Developmental Education. He has authored and presented nearly 70 papers on various topics in developmental education. He has also recently co-authored Attaining Excellence in Developmental Education: Research-Based Recommendations for Administrators with Dr. Hunter Boylan.

As the Director of the Tutoring & Study Center at Syracuse University, Jane Neuburger oversees the hiring, training, and supervising of over 100 tutors who work with close to 10% of the undergraduates. Neuburger has been in education for over 35 years, teaching in junior and senior-level high schools as well as at the college-level; in grants-funded programs, and in developmental and non-developmental classrooms. She is fascinated with students’ reading, writing, and study skills; she has coordinated a developmental reading program and a first year seminar program; she has taught multiple levels of developmental writing and reading as well as first-year seminars, critical/creative thinking, children’s literature, and adolescent literature; she has directed learning assistance programs for undergraduate, graduate, and post-baccalaureate medical students. She believes that learning and the study schema to support deep learning exists on a continuum; we stretch our strategies to fit new situations and we often need mentors along the way!

Neuburger has been a visiting faculty member at the world-renowned Kellogg Institute for Developmental Educators and is a Fellow of CLADEA, the Council of Learning assistance and Developmental Education Associations.

Neuburger is proud to have served as the 2011-12 President of NADE; it is a continuation of her efforts at the state and national level to promote student success through best practices, evaluation, and research. Most recently, she served as chair of the NADE Certification Council and as a co-author of the chapter on assessing developmental coursework programs in the NADE Self-Evaluation Guides. She will continue as the Chair of the Research Committee and requests all participants to send along their favorite research articles!