Did You Know?

Ed Silver, the current dean of UM-Dearborn’s School of Education, is also a professor in the School of Education on the Ann Arbor campus of the University of Michigan. You may be surprised to learn that this is not the first time that a faculty member in education has had dual citizenship on the two campuses! In fact, the first leader of the education program on the UM-Dearborn campus also came "on loan" from the Ann Arbor campus.

In fall 1960, Paul D. Carter, who was an associate professor at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, was selected as the first head of teacher education at what was then called the Dearborn Center of the University of Michigan. In those days, teacher education courses were part of the offerings in what was then called the Division of Literature, Science, and the Arts. Professor Carter served the University of Michigan for 20 years before retiring in 1976, after which he was named Professor Emeritus on both the Ann Arbor and Dearborn campuses.