Nip U professor to head Laurentian ed school

A North Bay professor will be moving on to Sudbury's university to take up a new position.

Further information is included in the following news release issued today by Laurentian University:
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Laurentian University is pleased to announce that the first director of its english language School of Education is a former Sudbury educator who taught in the area from 1971 to 1989.

John Lundy, who will assume his duties on July 1, 2004, has been an education professor at Nipissing University since 1989 and is the recipient of the 2003 Nipissing University's Vice-President's Research Achievement Award.

Lundy comes to Laurentian with a wealth of experience. An english teacher at Sudbury's St. Charles College, École secondaire Hanmer and Lasalle Secondary School, he completed his PhD in Education at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education.

Lundy's teaching responsibilities at the post-secondary level have included courses in social foundations (education and schooling) as well as Bachelor of Arts courses in sociology and english, and Master of Education courses in curriculum and program evaluation. He is also actively doing research in the area of equity of access to teacher education by Aboriginal peoples, visible minorities and people with disabilities. As of June 2001, he is president of the Canadian Association of Foundations of Education.