| The University of Texas-Pan American 1201 West University Drive Edinburg, TX 78541 Office: EDCC 1.624 Phone: (956) 381-3434 Fax: (956) 381-2434 Email: mtevis@utpa.edu |
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| Dr. Tevis' Curriculum Vitae | ||
Endowed Scholarship to Honor Dr. Tevis
Reception location, Times, Date:
The reception/reunion/scholarship fund raiser will be held Friday, April 7, from 6:00--8:00 PM at the McAllen Country
Club, 615 Wichita Avenue, McAllen, TX . If you plan to attend, please RSVP by March 31 to 381-3361. Business attire
(What you would wear to church or a little dressier).
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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/Cultural Foundations 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 graduate degrees.
