The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy. - Martin Luther King
The Director
Dean George has been at Yale since 1999. As an assistant dean of Yale College, she serves as a freshman and sophomore academic adviser to students of all backgrounds and is director of the Beckman Science Scholars Fellowship and the Ethnic Counselor Program, and co-director of the Science, Technology and Research Scholars Program. She also serves on admissions and fellowship committees at various times of the year. As director of the Afro-American Cultural Center, George oversees 25 student organizations and develops programs year round that serve undergraduates, graduate students, black alumni and New Haven youth.
Dean George has extensive background in education, public health, maternal/child health, and marriage, family and child counseling, with a special emphasis on black and Latino populations. Prior to coming to Yale, she was director of the Adolescent Family Program, a prize-winning model in perinatal health, and then served at the Center for Academic Advising and Support Services, where she was director of the Office for Black Student Programs at Saint Mary's College of California. For 10 years she was also adjunct professor in the College of Ethnic Studies at San Francisco State University, where she taught community/clinical psychology, African philosophy and black family studies. She trained for more than a decade at the Institute for Advanced Study of Black Family Life and Culture under the renowned Africanist and social experimental psychologist Wade Nobles of Stanford University. With Nobles, George has published two books: "African-American Families: Issues, Insights and Directions" and "Mental Health Impact of Drugs and Drug Trafficking on Black Families and Children in Oakland, California."
Dean George has also won several awards for outstanding leadership and pioneering work within therapeutic practice. She is the first recipient of the Richard H. Brodhead Award for Excellence in Academic Advising in 2004.
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Dean George has been at Yale since 1999. As an assistant dean of Yale College, she serves as a freshman and sophomore academic adviser to students of all backgrounds and is director of the Beckman Science Scholars Fellowship and the Ethnic Counselor Program, and co-director of the Science, Technology and Research Scholars Program. She also serves on admissions and fellowship committees at various times of the year. As director of the Afro-American Cultural Center, George oversees 25 student organizations and develops programs year round that serve undergraduates, graduate students, black alumni and New Haven youth.
