Dr. Tevis Receives Distinguished Service Award
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Endowed Scholarship to Honor Dr. Tevis
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Biography: I was born and grew up in Wichita Falls, Texas and graduated from Wichita Falls Senior High. I attended TCU and received a B.A. from Our Lady of the Lake University in San Antonio with a major in Latin and a minor in English and an M.A. in Education with a Specialization Field in Latin. I received my Ph.D. from the University of Texas at Austin in The History and Philosophy of Education. I served as Director of UTPA’s 75th Anniversary Year Celebration 2002-2003. I have served three terms on the Editorial Advisory Board of the journal of the American Educational Studies Association, Educational Studies, and am currently Secretary (and a past-president) of the International Society for Educational Biography and a member of its journal’s Editorial Advisory Board, Vitae Scholasticae, am a past president of the Society of Philosophy and History of Education (formerly the Southwest Philosophy of Education Society) and a member of the Editorial Advisory Board of its journal, the Journal of Philosophy and History of Education, an ELECTED Fellow of the Philosophy of Education Society, and am a member of the UTPA Press Editorial Advisory Board. I am serving as Secretary and William E. Drake Lecture Chair of the Foundations of Education Society. My current research is completion of a biography of George I. Sanchez; I have published entries concerning Dr. Sanchez in the Encyclopedia of Education (Macmillan Editorial Development / Gale Group), American National Biography (Oxford University Press), the New Handbook of Texas (Texas State Historical Association), and in the text Lives in Education: A Narrative of People and Ideas, 2nd ed. (St. Martin’s Press). I am the Graduate Advisor of C&I in the College of Education and advise and write degree plans for Masters of Elementary Education and Secondary Education graduate degrees. In spring 2006 the Martha May Tevis endowed scholarship was established. On February 23, 2009 American Experience will air “A Class Apart,” a documentary about the first case concerning Mexican American rights to go to the U.S. Supreme Court. I provided some research and was interviewed for the documentary. The program is available on-line in its entirety through the PBS website, http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/class/

In December 2009 I was awarded the COE Service Award and in May 2010 I was awarded the UTPA Service Award.