Dr. Mark Reid
Areas of Expertise
- Curriculum
- Educational Administration
- Graduate Faculty
- Teacher Education
Biography
Dr. Mark J. Reid was the Dean for the College of Education from 2020 to 2026 and has been a Professor of Teacher Education since 2020. Dr. Reid earned his B.S. in general agriculture from was East Texas State University (now Texas A&M University-Commerce) in 1986. He earned an M.S. in agronomy from Washington State University in 1989. He taught high school biology, physical science, and chemistry for five years before earning a Ph.D. in curriculum studies from the University of Texas at Austin. He also taught one year at an alternative high school of choice. He was named Coordinator of the Cameron Secondary Teacher Education Program (CamSTEP) at Cameron University in 1999 and served in that capacity for four years. He taught high school science and mathematics in the Campbell Independent School District which had 330 students K-12 for three years. In 2006, he joined the faculty of the Curriculum Instruction Department at Texas A&M University-Commerce where he become a tenured, associate professor. In 2015, Dr. Reid was named associate dean for the College of Education and Human Services at A&M Commerce. He served in that position until coming to UNK in 2020. His research interests have centered around decision making related to curriculum and in recent years he has formed a research team exploring the impact of traumatic experiences on learners. He has taught many courses at the both the undergraduate and graduate levels with topics that included introduction to teacher education, curriculum issues, research, and student teacher supervision.
Education:
- B.S., with High Honors, East Texas State University, 1986
- Major: Agriculture
- Honors Thesis:Early Texas Fencing Conflicts and Some Laws Which Resulted
- M. S., Washington State University, 1989
- Major: Agronomy
- Thesis: Taxonomy, Response to Herbicides, and Distribution in the Eastern Palouse of Galium Spp.
- Ph.D., The University of Texas at Austin, 2001
- Major: Curriculum Studies
- Dissertation: Deliberations of a Teacher Planning Group
