Martin and Hastie receive endowed professorships
November 2008
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Dr. Peter Hastie (top) receives congratulations from (left to right) Dr. Mary Rudisill and Dean Frances Kochan on his selection for the Wayne T. Smith Distinguished Professorship. Dr. Gary Martin (below), the inaugural recipient of the Emily R. and Gerald S. Leischuck Endowed Professorship, addresses the audience. |
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| Auburn University's College of Education has advanced two faculty members to its ranks of honored professors — Dr. Peter Hastie and Dr. W. Gary Martin.
Hastie, a professor and graduate program director in the Department of Kinesiology, received the Wayne T. Smith Distinguished Professorship. Martin, a professor of mathematics education in the Department of Curriculum and Teaching, is the inaugural recipient of the Emily R. and Gerald S. Leischuck Endowed Professorship.
Hastie and Martin will be recognized at a 4:30 p.m. ceremony on Thursday, Nov. 20 at the Auburn Alumni Center.
Since their creation, the college's four endowed professorships have honored 21 faculty — 15 of which still remain members of the college's faculty.
Hastie joined the College of Education faculty in 1994 and teaches pedagogy in the department's physical education-teacher education program. His research interests include the ecology of physical education settings, as well as sport education curriculum and instruction model. Last year, he received the college's Outstanding Faculty Award for Research — the second time he was selected for it by his peers. Hastie has been the author or co-author of six books and has published his work in numerous practitioner and refereed journals.
In 2002, Hastie was elected a fellow to the Association Internationale d'Ecoles Superieures d'Education Physicque. Before coming to Auburn, he served as a faculty lecturer at the University of Queensland in Australia, where he also completed his bachelor's, master's and doctoral degrees.
Martin, a member of the college's faculty since 2000, serves as the project director for the National Science Foundation-funded TEAM-Math program
 , which bolsters mathematics education in 15 East Alabama school districts. His research interests include geometric knowledge and problem-based instruction. Auburn President Jay Gogue recently named Martin the university's first presidential faculty fellow, an appointment enabling Martin to deepen his understanding of higher education administration. Through the fellowship, Martin developed a proposal to establish a Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics center at Auburn. Martin has been active in a number of state and national organizations, serving as chief education officer and director of research for the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics (NCTM) and on the board of directors for the Association of Mathematics Teacher Educators and the Alabama Council of Teachers of Mathematics.
As a project director and writer, he was instrumental in the publication of Principles and Standards for School Mathematics, sponsored by the NCTM.
Both professorships reflect the generosity of the college's alumni and friends. The newest of the college's professorships, the Emily R. and Gerald S. Leischuck Endowed Professorship, was established in 2007 by Dr. Gerald and Mrs. Emily Leischuck, both emeriti Auburn administrators and 1964 College of Education graduates. The Leischuck Endowed Professorship for Critical Needs in Education has equipped the college to identify and retain faculty members in the most critical and understaffed disciplines in grade levels K-12.
The Wayne T. Smith Distinguished Professorship was first awarded in 1998 with assistance from the Humana Foundation. Smith, a College of Education graduate who was serving as chief operating officer of Humana at the time, recognized the need for a distinguished professorship to help recruit, reward and retain outstanding professors for the college. The Wayne T. Smith Distinguished Professorship was the first of its kind in the College of Education.
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