ATHENS, Ga. – Jenny Penney Oliver, director of academic initiatives at the University of Georgia College of Education, has been elected to the board of directors of the Georgia chapter of the National Association for Multicultural Education (GA-NAME).
Oliver, one of three co-directors for the groundbreaking Clarke County School District/ UGA/Athens Community Partnership, was elected to a three-year term on the nine-member statewide board. Board members provide leadership for the committees of the organization, such as membership, nominations, annual state meetings and conferences, and publications.
In addition, Oliver has been selected to co-chair the national NAME conference in Atlanta in 2005.
NAME was founded in 1990 as an organization bringing together individuals and groups with an interest in multicultural education from all levels of education and representatives from business and communities. NAME’s membership encompasses the spectrum of professional educators and specialists, including early childhood, classroom and higher education faculty, administrators, psychologists, social workers, counselors, curriculum specialists, librarians, scholars and researchers. Members in 22 states have formed NAME chapters.
Oliver, who joined the UGA faculty in 1994, received her Ph.D. from Kansas State University.
