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The GSE Advisory Board held its second meeting on May 17. Comprised of education leaders, the Board guides the School in the areas of program development, communications, advocacy and advancement.

Education consultant Miranda Heller served as substitute chair for Assemblywoman and GSE alumna Carol Liu, who was forced to miss the beginning of the meeting. Heller reported that the Advisory Board’s steering committee had met in February and decided that Board members should learn as much as possible about what the GSE is doing to address current problems in education, with an emphasis on local public schools.

Toward that end, much of the two-hour session was devoted to a special presentation and discussion of the Center for Urban School Leadership by its director Norton Grubb and coordinator Lynda Tredway. In addition, Bob Jorgenson, Co-Coordinator of the Early College Initiative, gave a brief update on California College Preparatory Academy. In addition, Dean David Pearson updated the board on the latest US News and World Report Rankings, the GSE’s academic review process, student enrollment and recruitment, faculty recruitment, and early childhood plans and opportunities.

New board members include Phillip Day, City College of San Francisco Chancellor; Pauline Facciano, a language arts teacher at Woodside Elementary School; Charles Graff, an attorney who specializes in education law; and Anthony Smith, Superintendent of Emeryville Unified School District.

James Raby, the fifth new board member, is an engineer with Fluent Health. His late mother, Marilyn Raby, was the inspiration for a scholarship endowment started in her memory by professor David Stern about 16 months ago. Maxine McKinney, the first recipient of the Raby Scholarship joined the board for lunch to meet James. Another Advisory Board member who attended, Mary Jane Brinton, has funded Flanders Fellows and teachers in urban schools.

Other board members are listed here. One of those, Pat Cross, a professor emerita from UC Berkeley, could not attend because she received the Teachers College Medal for Distinguished Service to Education in New York.

For more information about the GSE Advisory Board, please call the Office of Development and External Relations at (510) 643-9784.