ELPS Faculty
Josué M. González Professor Educational Leadership & Policy Studies Email: josue@asu.edu Office: Farmer 440A Phone: 480.965.7134 Fax: 480.965.5164

Southwest Center for
Education Equity & Language Diversity
P.O. Box 871511
Tempe, AZ 85287-1511

EDUCATION

• Diploma, Rio Grande City (Texas) High School
• B.A., Texas A & I University, Kingsville, TX
• M.A., Texas A & I University, Kingsville, TX
• Graduate studies, University of Texas at Austin
  Department of Curriculum & Instruction
• Ed.D., University of Massachusetts, Amherst
  (Education Administration)
• Summer 1984 Advanced Studies, School of International Training, Brattleboro, Vermont

EMPLOYMENT HISTORY

• 1998-present: Arizona State University, Tempe AZ
  • Director, SW Center for Education Equity & Language Diversity
  • Principal Investigator, Metro Phoenix ENLACE W.K. Kellogg Foundation
  • Professor, Educational Leadership and Policy Studies

• Professor of Educational Administration
  Teachers College, Columbia University
• 1988-1991: Vice Chancellor for Planning, Development and Research, City Colleges of Chicago, Chicago, IL.
• Senior Administrator, Chicago Public Schools, Chicago, Illinois. I served in two different capacities: Director of Resource Development and Grants Management and Associate Superintendent. Office of Int’l and Multicultural Education

• 1981-1982 Visiting Fellow, Center for Research and Advanced Studies, George Mason University, Fairfax, Va.; and Senior Policy Associate, Institute for Educational Leadership, Inc., Washington, D.C. (Joint appointment)

• Director (Assistant Secretary) Office of Bilingual Education and Minority Languages Affairs, U.S. Department of Education
• Associate Professor of Education and Coordinator, Bilingual Studies, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, TX.
• Director, Institute of Multicultural Education and E.P.D.A. Institute for Higher Education Personnel; Associate Professor of Education, Chicago State University, Chicago, IL
• Lecturer in Education, University of Massachusetts, Amherst. (Part-time position while completing doctoral studies.)
• Intern, Rockefeller Foundation, Administrator of Resources Internship Program.

  I was one of five persons selected through national competition for an internship program in management and public administration. Assignments were in the office of a large city mayor (Newark, N.J.) and a management services unit, the Institute for Governmental Services, at the University of Massachusetts.

• Executive Director, Curriculum Adaptation Network for Bilingual/Bicultural Education, National Urban Coalition/William Randolph Hearst Foundation.

  This was a national curriculum development project with four regional offices. The U.S. Office of Education and William R. Hearst Foundation jointly funded the project. Its mission was to develop supplementary curriculum materials for public schools involved in bilingual education.

• Director of Special Studies, Select Committee on Equal Educational Opportunity, U.S. Senate, Washington, D.C. (Senator Walter F. Mondale, Chairman.)
• Director, Bilingual Program Development Center, San Antonio Independent School District, San Antonio, Texas.
• Bilingual Education Specialist, Southwest Educational Development Laboratory, Austin, Texas.
• Assistant Instructor of Modern Languages and Director of Language Laboratories, Texas A & I University, Kingsville, Texas. (Graduate Assistant)
• Teacher of English, French, and Spanish, Rio Grande City (Texas) High School; and Bay City (Texas) High School

EXPERT TESTIMONY AND PRESENTATIONS

• U.S. Senate, Select Committee on Equal Educational Opportunity, Washington, D.C.
• U.S. House of Representatives, Committee on Education and Labor, Washington, D.C.
• U.S. Senate, Committee on Appropriations, Subcommittee on Labor, Health, Education and Welfare, Washington, D.C.
• U.S. House of Representatives, Committee on Appropriations, Subcommittee on Labor, Health, Education and Welfare, Washington, D.C.

CONSULTANCIES

I have been a consultant to numerous organizations, agencies, universities, and school systems throughout the United States. A partial list includes:

• Children’s Television Workshop (Sesame Street), New York
• Bilingual Children’s Television (Villa Algere) of California
• Center for Law and Education, Harvard University
• U.S. Office of Civil Rights, Department of Education
• U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, Blue-Ribbon Panel to reform teacher education in the state of New Jersey
• Legislative Commission of the National Education Association
• Senate Select Committee on Equal Educational Opportunity
• Member, North Central Association Accreditation Teams, Chicago and Milwaukee Public Schools, 1983-1984.
• Office of Technology Assessment, U.S. Congress, Advisory Panel, Study on Minority Student Access to Technology, 1986-1987.
• National Advisory Panel, National Center for Research on Cultural Diversity and Second Language Learning, University of California, Santa Cruz, 1991- present.
• Program Evaluation Consultant, The Ford Foundation
• NCREST, National Center for Reform of Education, Schools, and Teaching
• Educational Publishing Group, (Parent Education Network) Boston, MA
• Chicano! A Historical Documentary Series on PBS (Aired 4/96)

Civil and Professional Activities

• Bilingual Research Journal (BRJ) NABE, 1999-present, Co-Editor
• National Association for Bilingual Education, 1986-1987, President
• National Association of Latino Appointed and Elected Officials (1978-1984)
• Member, U.S. Delegation, U.S. – Mexico, U.S. Department of Education, Cultural Exchange Commission, 1978-1981
• Founding Board Member, The Latino Institute, Chicago, Illinois, 1983, Vice President, 1986-1988, President
• Member, Board of Directors, Hispanic Policy Development Project, New York and Washington, D.C., 1987-present
• Member, National Commission on Post Secondary Schooling for Hispanics, Institute for Educational Leadership, Washington, D.C., 1984-86
• Member, Mayor’s Education Summit, Chicago, 1987-1988
• Member, Hispanic Leadership Mission to Israel, 1990
• Board of Directors, Ounce of Prevention Fund, Chicago, 1987 – 1992
• Board of Trustees, The Erickson Institute, Chicago, IL 1987 –1990
• Member, Commission on Chicago Historical and Architectural Landmarks, 1987-1991
• Member, W.T. Grant Foundation, Commission on Youth and America’s Future, 1987-1990
• Member, Stanford Working Group on Bilingual Education; Washington, D.C.; 1992-1993
• Member, National Advisory Board, Center for Research on Cultural Diversity and Second Language Learning, Santa Cruz, CA, 1992-1994
• Member, Advisory Panel, “Looking for America/Buscando América,” an immigrant project of the National Coalition of Advocates for Students, 1992-1995
• Member, National Editorial Board, Parent Education Network (formerly, Educational Publishing Group) Boston, MA 1993 – present
• Charter Board Member, The Mexican and American Solidarity Foundation, Mexico D.F. and Washington, D.C. 1993 – present

OTHER PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES

I have been a participant (presenter, panelist, keynote speaker, etc.), at numerous professional events on a wide variety of topics. I have also testified before numerous government bodies. Among the topics I have made presentations on:

• bilingual education policy
• multicultural education
• cultural pluralism in society and education
• education reform and school restructuring
• urban and minority education
• education administration and school governance
• institutional research and planning

HONORS AND AWARDS

• 2001 – Hispanic Leadership Award “Profiles of Success,” Recognizing Latino Leadership. Valle del Sol, Phoenix, AZ.
• 1996 – Selected to attend the Seminario de Acualization Sobre el Mexico Actual, an intensive summer program devoted to the study of contemporary Mexico: politics, arts, business and education.
• Selected as one of the ten “Pioneers in Bilingual Education” by the National Association for Bilingual Education.
• 1988 – Selected by the National Council of La Raza, the largest Hispanic organization in the nation, to receive the Maclovio Barraza Achievement Award for Leadership in Education.
• Selected by the Rockefeller Foundation as one of five fellows in Human Resource Management, a year-long fellowship for young leaders in school administration.

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

• (With others) (1973). Viewpoint: Chicano (The Options of Biculturalism), We’re Not Alike. Washington, DC: National Education Association.
• Coming of age in bilingual education in the U.S.: A historical perspective. (1975, February). Journal of the Center for Law and Education. Harvard University,
• Latinos in U.S. history. (1977, November). Thresholds in Secondary Education, 3 (4).
• What are the research issues, needs, and capabilities that need to be identified and clarified? (1977, June 26-28). In Desegregation and Education Concerns of the Hispanic Community, Conference Report. Washington, DC: The National Institute of Education.
• Book review. All Deliberate Speed. Wollenberg, C., & Amerasia. Journal, 5(1).
• Hispanics, bilingual education and desegregation: A review of major issues and policy directions. Washington, DC: U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, 1982, Commissioned manuscript; unpublished.
• Council of Chief State School Officers. (1995). The bumpy road to public/private partnerships. In American Issues for School and the Workplace. Washington, DC.
• Regional high school accreditation: Reviewing the first century. (1992, March 22). Paper presented at the Work Conference on Regional High School Accreditation, Teachers College, Columbia University.
• School meanings and their cultural bias. (1993, May). In Education and Urban Society.
• Bilingual education: A review of policy and ideologies. (1994). In R. Rodriguez et. al., A Compendium of Readings in Bilingual Education. San Antonio, TX: Texas Association for Bilingual Education.
• Spanish as a second school language: Adding language to the discourse of multicultural education. (1994). In F. Rivera-Batiz, Reinventing Urban Education. New York: Institute for Urban and Minority Education, Teachers College, Columbia University.
• Recruiting and retaining minority teachers: Student views of the pre-service program. Equity and Excellence in Education Journal.
• An Internet ‘Gopher’ to support graduate education and professional development for school administrators. (1995). Journal of Technology and Teacher Education, 3 (4).
• Using the Web to enhance the study of dilemmas in educational administration. [On-line]. Available: http://newslinks.tc.columbia.edu/papers/gonzalez/
• (with Linda Darling-Hammond). New concepts for new challenges: Professional development for teachers of immigrant youth. Washington, DC: Center for Applied Linguistics.
• La universidad milenaria ante la globalización y la comercialización de la enseñanza superior. (1999). In Educación En El Siglo XXI (pp.81 – 110). Mexico: Fondo Mexicano.
• González, J., (Ed.). (1999). Mexican normalista teachers as a resource for bilingual education in the United States: Connecting two models of teacher preparation (Alianza Research Monograph No. 1). Tempe: Arizona State University, Center for Bilingual Education and Research.
• González, J., (Ed.). (1999). Spanish language proficiency of bilingual education teachers (Alianza Research Monograph No. 2). Tempe: Arizona State University, Center for Bilingual Education and Research.
• González, J., (Ed.). (1999). Certification and endorsement of bilingual education teachers: A comparison of state licensure requirements (Alianza Occasional Paper No. 1). Tempe: Arizona State University, Center for Bilingual Education and Research.
• González, J., (Ed.). (2000). The views of Mexican normalista and U.S. bilingual education teachers: An exploratory study of perceptions, beliefs, and attitudes (Alianza Research Monograph No. 3). Tempe: Arizona State University, Center for Bilingual Education and Research.
• González, J., (Ed.). (2000). Elementary curricula in Mexico and the United States: A comparative analysis of content standards and objectives (Alianza Research Monograph No. 4). Tempe: Arizona State University, Center for Bilingual Education and Research.
• González, J., (Ed.). (2001). Teacher recruitment and employment practices in selected states: Promising prospects for foreign trained teachers (Alianza Research Monograph No. 5). Tempe: Arizona State University, Center for Bilingual Education and Research.
• González, J., (Ed.). (2002). El desarrollo del proyecto alianza: Lessons learned and policy implications (Alianza Research Monograph No. 6). Tempe: Arizona State University, Southwest Center for Education Equity and Language Diversity.