Dan E. Sweat Lecture Series
Dan E. Sweat Distinguished Chair in Educational and Community Policy
As a memorial to visionary leadership and commitment to the community and to learning in all forms, Georgia State University has created the Dan E. Sweat Distinguished Scholar Chair in Educational Community Policy. Ross Rubenstein currently holds this position.
The 2020 Dan E. Sweat Lecture
February 12 at 2:00 PM – Mark D. Weist
“Advancing Research, Practice and Policy in School Behavioral Health”
Mark D. Weist received a Ph.D. in clinical psychology from Virginia Tech in 1991 after completing his internship at Duke University, and is a Professor in Clinical-Community and School Psychology in the Department of Psychology at the University of South Carolina. He was on the faculty of the University of Maryland for 19 years where he helped to found and direct the Center for School Mental Health, providing leadership to the advancement of school mental health (SMH) policies and programs in the United States. He has edited or developed 13 books and has published and presented widely in SMH and in the areas of trauma, violence and youth, evidence-based practice, cognitive behavioral therapy, Positive Behavioral Interventions & Supports (PBIS), and on an Interconnected Systems Framework (ISF) for SMH and PBIS. He is currently co-leading a regional conference on school behavioral health (reflecting integrated SMH and PBIS), and leading two randomized controlled trials exploring strategies to improve the effectiveness and impacts of these programs.
2019
Charles Clotfelter (Duke University: Smith Reynolds Professor of Public Policy & Professor of Economics & Law)
2018
Amy Ellen Schwartz (Syracuse University: Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, New York University: Institute for Education and Social Policy)
2017
David N. Figlio (Northwestern University; Dean of the School of Education and Social Policy, Institute for Policy Research Fellow)
2016
Susan Dynarski (University of Michigan: Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy, School of Education, and Department of Economics, and Institute for Social Research)
2013
Sarah Turner (University of Virginia and National Bureau of Economic Research)
“Public Universities: Challenges of the Great Recession for Students and Faculty”
2012
Brian Jacob (Walter H. Annenberg Professor of Education Policy and Professor of Economics, University of Michigan)
“Does Raising Educational Standards Raise Student Achievement?”
2011
Analysis and a Co- Director of Policy Analysis for California Education [PACE]at Stanford University)
“Understanding School Leadership: The Importance of Organizational Management and Personnel Practices”
2009
Amy Stuart Wells (Center for Understanding Race and Education (CURE) at Teachers College, Columbia University)
“Metro Migration, Racial Segregation and School Boundaries: Education Policy in Changing Suburban and Urban America”
2007
Richard J . Murnane (Harvard Graduate School of Education)
“Preparing Students to Thrive in the 21st Century Economy”
2006
Jane Hannaway (The Urban Institute)
“Accountability and the Classroom: A New Light Inside the Black Box of Schooling”
2005
Eric A. Hanushek (Hoover Institute at Stanford University)
“The Economic Importance of School Quality”
2004
Ronald F. Ferguson (Werner Center for Social Policy)
“The Racial Gap in Education Outcomes: Confronting the Challenge”