TEAC Accreditation Committee Members

Chair
Barbara Brittingham, PhD
Deputy Director
Commission on Institutions of Higher Education
New England Association of Schools and Colleges
2002-06
Before coming to NEASC, Barbara Brittingham was Dean of the College of Human Science and Services at the University of Rhode Island. In addition to her work with NEASC, she has had accreditation experience with the North Central, Western, and Middle States Associations, the Council on Postsecondary Accreditation, and the Council on Higher Education Accreditation. Brittingham is the founding dean of the College of Education at Zayed University, UAE.
Accreditation Committee Member

James Anderton, PhD
Managing Member
Maplegrove Property Manangement, LLC
2001-05
Currently Managing Member of Maplegrove Property Management, LLC, Jim Anderton previously served as President of Lansing Community College. He is a member of the Michigan Commission on Financing Postsecondary Education and the National Advisory Council of the College of Education at Michigan State University. Anderton has served actively on the Board of Trustees of Hobart and William Smith Colleges and been involved in community boards and commissions.

Hester Kingsbury, BA, BS
Teacher
Brandywine High School, Red Clay Consolidated School District
2002-06
Hester Kingsbury is a mathematics teacher in grades 9-12 and during that time has been lead teacher for the Mathematics' Principle Indicators for the high schools in the Christina School District as well as worked with the Math League and in many other advisory capacities. Kingsbury has a BA in Mathematics Education and a BS in Economics from the University of Delaware and currently is in a Masters of Instruction graduate program there.

Elsa Nuñez, PhD
Provost and Vice President of Academic Affairs
Lesley University
2000-04
Elsa Nuñez serves as Chief Academic Officer for six schools of Lesley University. She held similar positions at Wheelock College and CUNY before going to Lesley. Nuñez was coordinator of the ESL Program at Ramapo State College for 13 years, during which she also was an ACE Fellow and Hispanic Leadership Fellow in Academic Administration. Her linguistic research interests have focused on minority populations, and she has published and presented widely in this field.

Donald Warren, PhD
Dean Emeritus
School of Education
Indiana University
2000-04
Donald Warren is a professor of educational history and policy in the Department of Educational Leadership and Policy Studies at Indiana University where he served as the University (System) Dean of the School of Education for ten years. Warren has been president of the American Education Studies Association, the Council of Learned Societies in Education, and vice president of AERA, Division of History and Historiography. Warren is one of the founding directors of TEAC.

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