Professional of the Year for 2008 in Educational Administration and Leadership: Richard L. Biffle III, Ph.D.

	Richard L. Biffle III, Ph.D.
Industry	Education and Administrative Leadership
Title	Co-Director/Director, Teacher Education Program; Associate Professor, Education
Expertise	Cultural Anthropology; administration,; teacher education; geo-ethnographic research
Current Organization	University of Hawaii at Hilo
Type of Organization	University
Major Product	Higher education
Area of Distribution	National/International
University/Degree	B.A., Political Science, University of California, Riverside, 1971; M.A., Educational Administration & Leadership, Eastern Michigan University, 1974; Ph.D., Educational Anthropology, University of New Mexico, 1990
Born	November 23, 1949, Denver, Colorado
Honors & Awards	Outstanding Faculty Award, University of Denver-Center for Multicultural Excellence, 2007; Member, Oxford Roundtable, Oxford, England, 2006; EXCEL Award for Excellence in Teaching, Corporation for Excellence in Public Education, San Diego, CA, 1987-88; Mary McLeod Bethune Outstanding Teacher Award, National Council of Negro Women, San Diego Region, San Diego, CA, 1986-87; Nominated for Teacher of the Year, San Diego City School, San Diego, CA, 198687
Published Works	Selected published works- Thompson P., Biffle R., Connections, Constructions and Collages: Initiating Dialogues on Diversity in Two Teacher Education Courses, in B. Stern (Ed.), Curriculum and Teaching Dialogue, pp 165-175, Greenwich: Information Age Publishing, 2008; Biffle R., A Geoethnographic Look at a Day in the Life of a Student of Color, in B. Stern (Ed.), Curriculum and Teaching Dialogue, pp 193-208, Greenwich: Information Age Publishing, 2006; Biffle R., Thompson P., Geo-Ethnography: An Interdisciplinary Method of Exploring Schools, Communities and Cultures, International Journal of Diversity in Organizations, Communities and Nations, pp 75-82, 2006; Biffle R., Thompson P., Defining the New Teaching and Learning Community: From traditional improvisations to narrative continuity, International Journal of Diversity in Organizations, Communities and Nations, pp 280-288, 2005
Affiliations	American Education Research Association; Board Member, American Association of Teaching & Curriculum
Hobbies & Sports	Surfing, snowboarding, photography, private pilot
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