Tolo Appointed to U.S. Department of Education Post

LBJ School Professor Ken Tolo has retired from UT Austin and accepted a career executive appointment as director of the Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary Education (FIPSE) in the U.S. Department of Education's Office of Postsecondary Education in Washington, D.C. Tolo will assume his new position in September.

The only government program of its kind, FIPSE was established in 1972 with the mandate of promoting the highest quality postsecondary education for all learners. Through "seed" grants, FIPSE supports innovative educational reform projects that can serve as national models for the improvement of postsecondary education in areas such as access and retention, outcomes assessment, international education, and teacher education and school-college partnerships. FIPSE also administers Learning Anywhere Anytime Partnerships (LAAP), a grant program for innovative, scalable, nationally significant distance education projects.

Tolo has taught at the LBJ School since 1972. From 1979 until 1990 he served as UT Austin's Associate Vice President for Academic Affairs and Research and then as Vice Provost. Tolo's LBJ School policy research has focused primarily on education, employment, and equity issues. In addition, he frequently has worked with international and national government agencies and nonprofit groups on civic education, higher education, and education reform.

August 30, 2000

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