February 16, 1995 Contact: Francine Tyler (408/459-2495)

RONALD HENDERSON NAMED DEAN OF GRADUATE STUDIES AT UC SANTA CRUZ

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

SANTA CRUZ, CA--The Office of the President of the University of California has approved the appointment of Ronald Henderson as dean of the Division of Graduate Studies at University of California, Santa Cruz. Henderson is a research professor of psychology and education. His appointment is retroactive to January 1.

As dean, Henderson oversees programs and issues that affect about 1,000 graduate students at UCSC, including recruitment, teaching and research support, enrollment planning, and graduate student life. Henderson, who participated in the early retirement program, is serving as dean on recall status at 49 percent time.

Henderson replaces professor emeritus of biology Charles Daniel, who has stepped down to pursue his research on growth processes in cells. Daniel, whose work focuses on breast cancer, recently received two major research grants that will support new studies on the activity of genes that regulate normal development and may also be involved in malignancy.

Henderson, who joined the UCSC faculty in 1977, specializes in child development, social and cultural influences on development, instructional psychology and technology, mathematics education, and academic motivation. His specific research interest is in the development of instructional approaches that will increase achievement and participation in mathematics by Latino students, women, and other groups that are underrepresented in math and the sciences. He specializes in the development of motivation to achieve and participate in mathematics. Two recent research projects involve partnerships with public schools in Watsonville and Salinas, which he has pursued under the auspices of the UCSC-based National Center for Research on Cultural Diversity and Second Language Learning and through the California Academic Partnership Project, which teams up educators from secondary and postsecondary schools with representatives of business to help prepare more high school students for college.

Henderson's previous administrative positions include serving as provost of Crown College from 1989 to 1993; he was chair of the Academic Senate in 1986-88 and has served on the senate's Academic Personnel Committee and the Committee on Budget and Planning.

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