(Editor's note. A Christmas '07 message from Tim - Click Here)

Thomas P. (Tim) Weinland
Associate Executive Director
University of Connecticut
Neag School of Education

Thomas Weinland has recently completed a thirty-one year career as Professor of Curriculum and Instruction in the Neag School of Education, serving the last six years as department head. Since retirement in June, 2000, he has taken on significant responsibilities at the ANC Center, foremost among which is coordinating the Tertiary Education Linkage Project ( TELP ) with the University of Fort Hare. Professor Weinland has a long history of international education activity including a semester as adjunct professor at Chiang Mai University in Thailand, coordinating a Neag School of Education study abroad program in inner-city London, and presentations at conferences and universities in Venezuela, Australia, and several European countries.

A graduate of Williams College with a major in history, Tim has a Master’s degree from Harvard and a doctorate in history from Teachers College, Columbia University. He has taught six years and served as department head at Huntington High School in the 1960’s before joining the faculty at the University of Connecticut. At UConn he has been a leader in the effort to reform teacher education, presiding over changes in the Department of Curriculum and Instruction which have led to national recognition for UConn’s teacher preparation programs in elementary and secondary education. Active in the wider university community he has served as Chairman of the University Senate and President of the UConn chapter of AAUP.

Professor Weinland’s scholarly activity has centered on history and social studies curriculum development. Recent publications and conference presentations have addressed the emergence of academic standards in history and social studies and the comparison of student historical understanding in British and American schools. Tim has been a frequent consultant with school districts as well as the state of Connecticut, working on Connecticut’s social studies standards. He has also been a consultant to the state’s efforts to develop a portfolio assessment procedure for teacher certification.

Professor Weinland’s long-term project with the center is to help develop and coordinate the Comparative Human Rights Curriculum. The resources at the Thomas Dodd Center, along with the opportunities to collaborate with and learn from faculty in South Africa who have been associated with the struggle to end apartheid, provide the basis for a program of university study as well as development of units and materials for use by teachers and students in secondary schools.

(Editor's note.  The above has been extracted from the Uconn Website)