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November 2011 > School
Brinton Family Endows
Chair in Urban TeachingDelia, Katherine and William Brinton surround Dean Little at the GSE Scholarship Tea.
UC Berkeley's Graduate School of Education has received an endowment gift of $1 million from the William and Mary Jane Brinton family that, combined with a match from the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, will create a new $2 million William and Mary Jane Brinton Family Chair in Urban Teaching.
The Brinton Chair will honor the family's lifelong commitment to support the preparation of classroom teachers at the School of Education. A search will begin soon for a distinguished faculty member and scholar with passion and leadership in urban teaching and teacher education."We are thrilled and grateful for this timely gift, which will have a broad impact on strengthening the school's capacity to advance research on urban teaching and teacher education, and on our ability to develop committed and skilled teachers for urban schools," said School of Education Dean Judith Warren Little.
"Our family is proud to be able to carry forward our mother's vision to provide support for leadership in urban school settings," added William Brinton.
The endowment will also continue to support GSE students through the Flanders Fellowship program, established by Mary Jane Brinton in honor of Professor Emeritus Ned Flanders in 1984. To date, more than 350 urban schoolteachers have been supported through the Flanders Fellowship program.
The gift was presented by the Brinton children -- William, Delia and Katherine -- at GSE's 8th Annual Scholarship Tea on Nov. 3. Other guests included Mary Flanders (widow of Ned Flanders); and GSE Advisory Board members Mary Catherine Birgeneau, Kerri Lubin and Mike Wood.
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