Gerardo Gonzalez

Gerardo Gonzalez

Gerardo M. Gonzalez is Professor and Dean Emeritus of the Indiana University School of Education. From July 2000 until June 2015, Gonzalez directed administrative and budgetary activities for the School on the Bloomington and Indianapolis campuses and provided academic oversight to the six regional campuses of IU. From 1990 to 2000, he served as Professor and Chair of Counselor Education, Associate Dean for Administration and Finance, and Interim Dean of the College of Education at Florida. From 1977 to 1986, he was Director of the UF Campus Alcohol and Drug Resource Center and Assistant Dean for Student Services. A recognized expert on alcohol and drug education, Gonzalez founded Boost Alcohol Consciousness Concerning the Health of University Students (BACCHUS), the nation’s largest peer-based collegiate organization for the prevention of alcohol abuse. He has addressed national and international groups and published scholarly works on the Cuban-American experience and Hispanic educational concerns. He has long been a noted and fearless education activist, often speaking to local and global audiences about his journey and the profound difference education can make to individuals and society.

Yvonna Lincoln

Yvonna Lincoln

Yvonna Lincoln is a world-renowned qualitative methodologist and higher education scholar. She is best known for her contributions to the field of qualitative research and the development of qualitative methodologies and methods. In 1987, Lincoln graduated from the IU School of Education with a doctorate in higher education and program evaluation. It was at IU that she began working with Egon Guba and developing the ideas related to their book, Naturalistic Inquiry. Along with Guba, in 1985, she published Naturalistic Inquiry, which is one the most highly cited Sage publications in the social sciences. Her methodological publications are numerous and include the six editions of The Sage Handbook of Qualitative Research, which she co-edited with Norman Denzin. Lincoln went on to serve as a faculty member at University of Kansas, Vanderbilt University and Texas A&M University.

William Yarber

William Yarber

William Yarber is Provost Professor in the School of Public Health-Bloomington, senior scientist at The Kinsey Institute, adjunct professor of family medicine in the Indiana University School of Medicine – Bloomington and the senior director of the Rural Center for AIDS/STD Prevention at IU. Yarber, who received his doctorate from Indiana University, has authored/co-authored nearly 175 scientific reports on sexual risk behavior and AIDS/STD prevention in professional journals and has received nearly $4 million in federal grants (National Institutes of Health, U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, U.S. Department of Agriculture) to support his research and AIDS/STD prevention efforts. He has been a consultant to the World Health Organization Global Program on AIDS, as well as sexuality and HIV/STI-related organizations in Brazil, China, Jamaica, Poland, Portugal, Taiwan and Venezuela. He regularly teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in human sexuality. He was previously a faculty member at Purdue University and the University of Minnesota, as well as a public high school health science and biology teacher. He endowed at Indiana University, for perpetuity, the world’s first professorship in sexual health, the William L. Yarber Endowed Professorship in Sexual Health. He also endowed the Ryan White and William L. Yarber Lecture Series.

Patricia Young

Patricia Young

Patricia Young is the Department Chair of Education at the University of Maryland Baltimore County (UMBC). She received her Ph.D. in 1999 from University of California Berkeley, Education in Language, Literacy and Culture. An educational technologist, professor and software developer, Young’s current work is a theoretical and future research book focusing on human specialization. She also investigates the history of educational technologies designed by and for African Americans. Her work as an educational technologist evolved from her B.F.A at New York Institute of Technology in television and film production. Later as a classroom teacher, she taught at both the primary school (kindergarten and second grade) and collegiate level. Her range of college teaching beyond UMBC includes education departments at Howard University and the University of Pittsburgh along with International universities in Kaifeng Henan, China.