Native American Innovative Leadership Program

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Faculty & Staff

Project Directors:

Linda Vogel
Serves as a Co-PI and Faculty for the project. Linda Vogel, Ph. D., is an Assistant Professor in Educational Leadership Program and Project Director. A former principal at the high school and middle school levels where she implemented several service learning and community anti-bullying and harassment program, she has worked with large urban districts on building internal leadership capacity and minority leader recruitment through the Illinois State Action for Educational Leadership project. Dr. Vogel has conducted research on state education policy implementation, standards-based assessment, and school finance and developed state-wide training for the supervision of certified staff. Her current research projects include a standards-based assessment study funded by the Spencer Foundation.

Harvey Rude
Professor and Director of the School of Special Educaion at the University of Northern Colorado, serves as Co-PI and Faculty for the project. Dr. Rude oversees the programs offered by the School extend from an undergraduate major in Special Education, through Masters degree programs across the spectrum of special education concerns, to a doctoral degree program in Special Education. Specializations at the graduate level include preparation programs in the areas of Gifted and Talented Education, Early Childhood Special Education, Low-Incidence Disabilities, and Special Education Administration.. He is the Chairperson of the Navajo Nation Teacher Education Consortium based in Window Rock, Arizona . Dr. Rude's research interests include leadership/management effectiveness, multicultural education, systems of accountability, and systems change.

Project Staff:

Solomon Little Owl
He is currently the Director of Native American Student Services at the University of Northern Colorado and he helped to develop the grant proposal for this project. He will be providing leadership and administrative support for the project. Solomon is from the Crow Reservation in Montana and a UNC Alumnus.

 

Connie Claymore Schlotthauer
She is an enrolled member of the Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe, and has been residing in Loveland, CO with her family for the past seven years. Ms Schlotthauer earned a Bachelor in Music Education at The University of Northern Colorado, and a degree in Office Administration from Pacific Union College. She has extensive experience in working with Tribal programs and most recently worked as Office Manager for a Native-Owned business.  Connie Claymore Schlotthauer is dedicated to help assist other Native Americans towards higher education in any way that she can.

 

Farren Webb
He coordinates the Teacher Education Outreach Program at Fort Lewis College . Farren will coordinate the Fort Lewis cohort of the project. Farren is a native New Mexican who now lives in Ignacio , Colorado . He has over 35 years of teaching experience, including the past 12 as the director of the Fort Lewis College Navajo Nation/Teacher Preparation Program that has taken courses to the Navajo reservation. His background is in multi-cultural education and teacher preparation. He has also taught at the University of Denver, New Mexico Highlands, and in the Durango , Colorado public schools.

 

Tzong-Yih (Peter) Lin
He is a graduate student in the Educational Technology Program at UNC. He earned his B.A. Degree in education at Taiwan’s Chinese Culture University. During his undergraduate study, he had been a research assistant for Taiwan’s National Digital Archive Program and other grant programs sponsored by the National Science Council of Taiwan.