NAMEing the Issues
Donna M Gollnick
Keynote Speaker

May 18-20, 2000



Donna M Gollnick is president of the National Association for Multicultural Education. She is also Senior Vice President of the National Council for Accreditation of Teacher Education (NCATE), where she oversees all accreditation activities.

At NCATE she staffs the Unit Accreditation Board which determines the accreditation status of professional education units. She helps institutions of prepare for accreditation visits, trains and assigns Board of Examiners teams to conduct on-site reviews, and writes articles and handbooks on the accreditation process

Dr. Gollnick has been writing about Multicultural education for over 20 years, and is the co-author with Philip Chinn of the textbook, Multicultural Education in a Pluralistic Society: they are currently working on the 6th edition. She has a contributor to the 1995 Handbook on Research in Multicultural Education and the 1992 AACTE publication on cultural diversity and teacher education. She also a co-author of Introduction to the Foundations of American Education, in its 12th edition. Her doctorate in intercultural education is from the University of Southern California. In 1996, The School of Family and Consumer Sciences at Purdue University presented her the Distinguished Alumni Award. AACTE honored her as an "Advocate for Justice" in 1998.


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