TSUS honors Jean Andrews
10/1/2008
Jean Andrews, professor of deaf studies and deaf education at Lamar
University, is one of three faculty members in The Texas State
University System to be honored as a 2008 regents’ professor.
The system’s board of regents bestowed the honor, which recognizes
“exceptional and outstanding” professors who have achieved
excellence in teaching, research and publication, and community
service, demonstrating, in performance of their duties, an unwavering
dedication to their students, universities and communities.
Andrews has been a member of the Lamar faculty since 1988 and is a
recipient of the university’s three top honors – university
professor, university scholar and distinguished faculty lecturer –
as well as the prestigious statewide Piper professorship. She is
coordinator of Lamar’s graduate programs in deaf education.
The office of regents’ professor is a lifetime designation,
honoring tenured faculty members who have been acknowledged by their
peers and students as exceptional and recommended by his or her
university president, the system chancellor and directors of the TSUS
Foundation. Andrews received the regents’ professor medallion, a
$5,000 award “and the gratitude and admiration of the board of
regents.”
Other 2008 regents’ professors are Paul Ruffin, professor of
English at Sam Houston State University, and Max Warshauer, professor
of mathematics at Texas State University-San Marcos. The system
comprises eight universities and colleges.
“I’ve enjoyed studying, teaching and writing about language,
literacy and deaf studies issues with students and colleagues at
Lamar,” Andrews said. “I’d like to thank my husband, Jim Phelan,
and my Lamar colleagues, especially those in the Department of Deaf
Studies/Deaf Education, for their support.”
Andrews has achieved excellence by her work through the undergraduate
and graduate programs at Lamar University, according to a regents’
resolution, “helping to raise the prominence of the program in deaf
studies and deaf education to a national level.”
She has trained deaf-education teachers who are employed all over the
United States, including Puerto Rico, and worked with her colleagues
to develop the only program in the U.S. that trains Hispanic teachers
of the deaf. She has also worked with students now in administrative
positions at universities and special-education programs in Saudi
Arabia and China.
The resolution also cites Andrews’ linguistic and psycholinguistic
research in developing bilingual methods for teaching English literacy
to deaf children who communicate primarily in American Sign Language,
as well as her authorship of numerous publications, including books
for children such as the “Flying Fingers” anthology, the adventure
series of a young hero and his friends who solve mysteries while they
work out conflicts that arise between the hearing and Deaf cultures,
as well as CD-ROM software featuring literacy materials in three
languages for deaf children (ASL, English and Spanish). She has
co-authored with psychologists two textbooks that examine
psychological, educational and sociological aspects of deaf people.
One textbook has been translated into Chinese.
“Dr. Andrews’ advocacy for access and support services for deaf
students; her innovative use of multimedia technology in the
classroom; and her service to the community as a member and president
of the governing board of the Texas School for the Deaf in Austin have
made her an exemplary teacher, scholar, mentor and community
leader,” according to the resolution.
Andrews earned her bachelor’s degree in English language and
literature from Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C.,
master of education degree in deaf education from McDaniel College
(formerly Western Maryland College) and doctor of philosophy in speech
and hearing science from the University of Illinois in
Champaign-Urbana, Ill.
Source: http://www.lamar.edu/newsevents/news/207_6972.htm
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