SOUTH CHARLESTON -- Teresa R. Eagle has been appointed dean of Marshall University’s Graduate School of Education and Professional Development, Gayle Ormiston, provost and senior vice president for academic affairs, announced today. She will begin her duties Oct. 17.

“We are indeed fortunate that Dr. Eagle has accepted this position,” Ormiston said. “She has the perspective of 11 years of experience as a Marshall faculty member, as well as broad experience as a public school teacher and administrator, and will serve the school well.”

Most recently Eagle was coordinator of Marshall’s doctoral programs in education, as well as a tenured professor in the Leadership Studies program.

“I am looking forward to the leadership role in the Graduate School of Education and Professional Development,” Eagle said. “We have an outstanding team of faculty and staff, and I am eager to continue working with them all.”

Eagle is currently the president of the Southern Regional Council on Education Administration, which will hold its annual conference next week. She is also a member of the national and West Virginia associations of secondary school principals, the American Educational Studies Association, Phi Delta Kappa and the National Council of Professors of Educational Administration, among others.

Prior to coming to the university, Eagle served in the Kanawha County Schools in a number of roles, including curriculum supervisor at George Washington High School, assistant principal at Andrew Jackson Middle School and Roosevelt Junior High School, and acting principal at Roosevelt. She also taught mathematics in the Kanawha and Boone County schools. She was named West Virginia State Teacher of the Year in 1989 and spent a year as an education specialist working for NASA’s Project Laser at the Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala.

Eagle holds a bachelor of science degree in mathematics from Morris Harvey College (now the University of Charleston), an master of arts degree in education administration from the West Virginia Graduate College (now part of Marshall University), an doctorate in education in educational leadership studies from West Virginia University, and an education specialist degree from Marshall.