Dwight W. Allen

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Dr. Dwight Allen earned his B.A (1953), M.A.(1957), and Ed.D (1959. degrees from Stanford University. He served on the Stanford School of Education faculty from 1959 to 1967, leaving as Associate Professor and Director of Teacher Education. At Stanford he developed the first computer based school scheduling system, and microteaching, a teacher training practicum that has been used world-wide.

Dr. Allen served as the Dean of the University of Massachusetts’ College of Education from 1967 to 1975, instituting major programs of educational reform whose impacts are now known as the “UMass Educational Revolution.” While dean, he served as Cluster Chairperson of the Education Cluster for the White House Conference on Children and Youth in 1970. Dr. Allen remained at U. Mass. as Professor until 1978.

Dr. Allen has worked toward educational reform world-wide. In Lesotho he served as Founding Chief Technical Advisor for the National Teacher Training College (1974-76). In Botswana he served as Technical Advisor to the Molepolole College of Education. (1986-89), in Greece, where he served as Professor at the Kollegion Athenon (1953-54), In China, he served as Consultant for the United Nations Development Project focusing on educational reform and teacher training (1991-2007). He has consulted on educational reform in more than 50 countries.

Dr. Allen has served Old Dominion University as University Professor of Education, University Professor of Arts and Letters and Eminent Scholar of Educational Reform since 1978. During this time, Dr. Allen acted as principal investigator for projects such as Public Schools Restructuring Through Innovative Mainstream Education (PRIME) and Aligning Credentialing with Teacher Training Now (ACTTNOW), published numerous books and articles, and taught innovative courses at the undergraduate and graduate levels in the Education, English and University Studies Departments. Finally, Dr. Allen has served as mentor to many and diverse students, empowering them toward academic and personal success beyond their initial aspirations.