President and Chief Executive Officer
Dr. David G. Imig, President
and Chief Executive Officer of the American Association of Colleges
for Teacher Education, has more than 30 years of experience in
educational practice, research and policy. Beginning his professional
career in 1961 as a teacher at the Nyakato Secondary School in Bukoba,
Tanzania, Dr. Imig was a teaching assistant in the College of Education
at the University of Illinois, Urbana, from 1964-66, while completing
his graduate work in the Foundations of Education. In 1966, he
became an education officer with the United States AID mission to
Sierra Leone, later transferring to the AID mission in Liberia. He
joined AACTE in 1970 as program director for international activities.
Dr. Imig was promoted to special assistant to the AACTE
executive director in 1974, was appointed director of governmental
relations in 1975, and was named associate director in 1979. In 1980,
he was selected in a nationwide search to be executive director of
the Association. In 1999, he was appointed by the AACTE Board of
Directors to be president and chief executive officer.
Dr. Imig has served on a myriad of panels, committees, boards,
and task forces on educational issues. Currently, he represents AACTE
on the Washington Higher Education Secretariat and the Learning
First Alliance. He is a senior associate of the National Network
for Educational Renewal and member of the Business-Education Council
of the conference Board. Ex-officio of the AACTE Board of Directors,
Dr. Imig is also an Advisory Commissioner to the Education Commission
of the States and a member of the National Policy Board for Educational
Administration. Since 1980, he has served on the Coordinating Board
and Executive Board of the National Council for Accreditation of
Teacher Education, currently chairing the Membership, Finance, and
Personnel Committee. He is a member of the Executive Committee for
the federally funded National Partnership for Excellence and Accountability
in Teaching project.
He has served on visiting committees for several colleges and universities
in the United States, including chairing the future's committee for Maryville
University (MO). Dr. Imig has also recently participated in international
symposia in Japan, Taiwan, Thailand, England, and Hungary. He keynoted
the 1992 celebration of the 75th Anniversary of Chulalongkorn University's
Faculty of Education in Bangkok and served as a board member of the
Network for Educational Sciences-Amsterdam.
Author of a bimonthly column in AACTE Briefs, he has also
contributed chapters to a number of teacher education books and
has a forthcoming co-edited book with Calvin Frazier that will be
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Dr. Flathouse was born in San Antonio, Texas; attended
rural elementary schools; and graduated from high school in San Antonio. He
earned degrees from the University of Texas in Austin (B.A.), the
University of California (M.A.), and the University of Illinois (Ph.D.).
He
was named an honorary Life Member of the Texas Association of School
Administrators (May 1996), and the Texas Association of Community
Schools (June 2000), and was recognized in 2001 by the National and
Texas Rural Education Associations, and in 2004 by the UT Equity
Center for service and dedication to the school children of Texas. His
experience includes teacher, superintendent, university professor,
state agency employee, school board member, and executive director
of an education service center. He served in the Navy, served
on state advisory committees, and held offices in several professional
organizations.
Dr. Flathouse has completed more than thirty
years in education, and is currently employed by the Texas Education
Agency as the Associate Commissioner for School Finance and Compliance.
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David Guillory lives in Nacogdoches, Texas with his wife, Robyn,
and two sons, and practices in the areas of police misconduct, civil
rights law, and employment law. David is a 1989 graduate of the University
of Texas Law School, and has tried more than 135 civil rights and
employment discrimination jury trials in state and federal courts
in 34 Texas counties, the U.S. District Courts of the Western, Northern,
Southern and Eastern Districts of Texas, and the Western District
of Louisiana.
David
represents working people in disputes with employers and plaintiffs
with claims against police departments, cities, counties and the
State arising under the Fourth and Fourteenth Amendments to the U.S.
Constitution. David is a member of the Travis, Nacogdoches,
and Harris County Bar Associations, and the American Bar Association,
and has made continuing legal education presentations on issues related
to employment discrimination, civil rights, police misconduct, and
trial practice at gatherings of the State Bar of Texas, the Texas
Attorney General's Office, and the Harris and Travis County Bar Associations.
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Yvette Clark has been General Counsel for Stephen F. Austin State
University since 1992. She earned her B.A. in Political Science
and Latin American Studies from Yale University in 1985 and her
J.D. from the University of Texas School of Law in 1988.
Before
coming to Stephen F. Austin State University, Ms. Clark was Assistant
General Counsel for the University of North Texas and the Texas
College of Osteopathic Medicine. She has taught legal
courses as an Adjunct Professor in The Department of Criminal Justice
at the University of North Texas, served on the Board of Directors
for the Texas Guaranteed Student Loan Corporation, as President of
the Texas Association of Chicanos in Higher Education, on the Texas
Higher Education Coordinating Board Advisory Committee on International
Education, and is currently on the Board of Directors for the Friends
of Hospice.
Ms. Clark is also a member of the National Association
of College and University Attorneys, the Texas Association of
State and University Attorneys, and the Texas State Bar Association.
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