Wayne J. Urban

Associate Director, Education Policy Center and Professor, Higher Education Administration
209 Carmichael Hall
(205) 348-5187
wurban@bamaed.ua.edu
Appointed in 2006

Recent Courses Taught:

BEF/AHE 683: Philosophy of Higher Education
AHE 620 : Power Politics, and Change
BEF 503 History of American Education

Areas of Research:

Twentieth Century American Educational Policy Teacher Unions and Associations

Academic Degrees:

Ph. D. The Ohio State University, 1968, History of Education
MA The Ohio State University, 1965, Higher Education
BSS, John Carroll University, 1963, History, Social Studies

Professional Experiences:

Associate Director, Educational Policy Center, The University of Alabama, 2006 to present

Professor of Higher Education Administration, The University of Alabama, 2006 to present.

Regents’ Professor, Professor, Associate Professor, College of Education, Georgia State University, 1971-2005;

Professor of History, Georgia State University, 1985-2005 Assistant Professor, Social Foundations of Education, University of South Florida, 1968-71

Visiting Professor, York University (Canada), 2004; Krakow (Poland) Pedagogical University, 1999; Monash University (Australia), 1984, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Summers 1974, 1975, 1989.

Selected Publications:

Urban, W. J. (2007). Higher Education and the National Education Association: A Sesquicentennial Review. The NEA 2007 Almanac of Higher Education, 27-40.

Urban, W. and Wagoner, J. (1996, 2000, 2004). American Education: A History. New York: McGraw-Hill.

Urban, W. J. (2000) Gender, Race, and the National Education Association: Professionalism and Its Limitations. New York and London: Routledge Falmer.

Henderson, R D., Urban W. J., and Wolman, P. eds., (2004) Teachers Unions and Education Policy: Retrenchment or Reform. Amsterdam, et al., Elsevier.

Urban, W. J. (2006) Social Reconstruction and Educational Policy: The Educational Policies Commission, 1936-1941; in K. Riley, ed., Social Reconstructionism: People, Politics, Perspectives. Greenwich. CT: Information Age Publishing, 149-66.

Urban, W. J (2005). The Educational Policies Commission, 1936-1968: Notes for an Autopsy. The Sophists’s Bane 3, 1, 15-30.

Selected Presentations:

Urban, W. J. Southern Liberalism and Education Reform: Carl Elliott and the National Defense Education Act, Paper, History of Education Society, Cleveland, OH, October 27, 2007.

Urban, W. J. Southern Liberalism and Educational Reform: Lister Hill and the National Defense Education Act, Southeast Philosophy of Education Society, Birmingham, AL, February 3, 2007.

Urban, W. J. Hidden Tales of the 1960s: The Demise of the Educational Policies Commission, Paper, History of Education Society/Canadian History of Education Association Joint Meeting, Ottawa, Canada, October 28, 2006.

Urban, W. J. The National Education Association (NEA), the Canadian Teachers’ Federation (CTF), and International Teacher Organizations After World War II. Paper, Organization of American Historians, April 21, 2006.