2000s
Events include: War on Terrorism,
proliferation of information technology and digital
media, growth in online instruction, Operation Iraqi
Freedom, September 11, 2001 attacks
September 11th memorial
U.S. presidents:
George W. Bush (2001–present)
Bill Clinton (1993–2001)
2003 |
Repeal of Minnesota’s “Profile of Learning” which was
replaced with the Minnesota Academic Standards.
2001 |
No Child Left Behind legislation
enacted.
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Timeline
2006
 In a momentous transformation, the College of Education
and Human Development
joins the General College and two College of Human
Ecology departments (the School of Social Work and the
Department of Family Social Science ) to form the
new
College of Education and Human Development. The General
College is reorganized into the Department of Postsecondary
Teaching and Learning.
Darlyne Bailey, vice
president of academic affairs and dean of the Teacher’s
College at Columbia University, New York, is named dean
of the newly formed college. Bailey is the University’s
first female African-American dean.
 2005
From 2005 through 2007, the
College
has consistently been ranked among public graduate
schools of education, the College
ranks fifth nationally, according to U.S.News &
World Report’s Best Graduate Schools.
The College commemorates its 100-year
history with a year-long centennial celebration. As part of the
celebration, the College honored
100
distinguished alumni.
2003
Carmen (B.S. ’64) and Jim
Campbell establish the Carmen Starkson Campbell
Endowed Chair in Urban Education, one of the first
faculty positions of its kind in the country,
focusing on the myriad issues surrounding urban
schools and at-risk schoolchildren.
Mary M. Brabeck (Ph.D.
’80)
joins The Steinhardt School of Education as dean. A
leader in the field of educational and developmental
psychology, Brabeck was dean of the Boston College
Lunch School of Education from 1996–2003 and a
professor of counseling and developmental psychology
at Boston College from 1980 to 2003. She is chair of the
board of directors of the American Association of
Colleges of Teacher Education (AACTE).
2002
Robert Bruininks
is named University president.
2000
The Discovery Channel and
Outdoor Life Network asks Jürgen Konczak, associate
professor in the School of Kinesiology and a staff
member of the
Gait and Posture Lab, to evaluate the
gait of a creature that appears in a film
purportedly showing Bigfoot. He judged the gait
neither apelike nor completely human. “We just don’t
get this stuff everyday,” he observes.
 The college is a partner in the
creation of the University’s
Center for
Neurobehavioral Development, which conducts research
on the role of brain development in the ways that
infants, children, and adults think, learn, and
express emotions.
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