Alabama A&M’s School of Education Awarded First Ph.D. Program
HUNTSVILLE, Ala.
Alabama A&M University’s School of Education has been awarded its first Ph.D. degree program.
“The new Ph.D. program will offer its candidates the area’s only program in what we refer to as ‘pure’ reading,” says Dr. Mary W. Spor, an AAMU professor and reading specialist.
While AAMU has harbored the concept for a Ph.D. degree program in reading for some time, the notion did not receive its impetus until a year and a half ago. Led by Dr. John Vickers Jr., dean of the School of Education, and Spor, the university recently presented the program proposal to the Alabama Commission on Higher Education.
“The phones are already ringing,” says longtime educator and administrator Dr. Joe Boyer, adding that “the market is rich for the program.”
