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       EDUCATION DEPARTMENT

Preparing Tomorrow's Teachers Today: Striving for Excellence

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YORK WILLIAMS, PH.D.

EDUCATION:

*Ph.D., Urban Education, Temple University
*M.Ed., Urban Education, Temple University
*M.A. Philosophy of Social Science, West Chester University
* B.A., Philosophy, North Carolina Central University

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

*Assistant Professor of Education, Education Department, Lincoln University
*Director of the Teaching and Learning Enhancement Center, Lincoln University
*Gifted Education Coordinator and Instructor, West Chester Area School District  *Geography and English Inclusion Teacher, 6^th Grade, West Chester Area School District  
* The New Teaching Project (TNTP) Philadelphia Teaching Fellows, Fellow Special Education Advisor, School District of Philadelphia
* Elementary School Teacher, 3^rd Grade, Chester Upland School District
 * Elementary Special Education Teacher, 3^rd Grade, Durham County Public Schools
* Adjunct Graduate Professor, West Chester University and University of Delaware

COURSES TAUGHT AT LINCOLN:

*Education 201: Introduction to Education
*Education 203: Psychology of Exceptional Children
*Education 206: Foundations of Special Education  

CURRENT RESEARCH:

*gifted and special education and urban school choice reform
*recruiting and retaining culturally diverse students in gifted education
*multicultural and urban education school choice
*minority student achievement and underachievement and the achievement gap
*family involvement

RECENT PUBLICATIONS:

*Williams, Y. (2008). An analysis of social cultural issues encountered by special education students of color living in residentially segregated communities. In Policy, Leadership and Student Achievement:  Implications for Urban Communities (Eds.) Ikpa, Vivian and McGuire, Kent. Information Age Publishing, Charlotte, NC.

 *Williams, Y. (2004). The Akan concept of the mind-body problem in relation to Western philosophy's mind-body problem with implications on physicalistic expressions: An Afrocentric critique. Imhotep Graduate Student Journal, Temple University.

 *Williams, Y. (2003). The Fifteenth Amendment 1870. In Molefi K. Asante & Ama Mazama (Eds.) Encyclopedia of Black Studies. California: Sage Publications.

 CURRENT ACTIVITIES:

*Director of The Teaching and Learning Enhancement Center (TLE)
* Court Appointed Special Advocate of Delaware County (CASA)
*Education Chair of Yeadon of NAACP
*Member of the Delaware Valley Minority Student Achievement Consortium (DVMSAC)

CONTACT INFORMATION:

Phone: 484-365-7579
Email: ywilliams@lincoln.edu

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