 | Pamela George |
Pamela George, assistant dean in the Yale College Dean's Office and director of the Afro-American Cultural Center, has been honored with the first Richard H. Brodhead Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Advising, presented by the Yale College Council (YCC).
The new award, which will be given annually, recognizes the efforts of individuals who have served as academic advisers to freshmen and sophomores. It also honors outgoing Yale College Dean Richard H. Brodhead for his support for strengthening the role of advisers at Yale.
"Aside from his lasting impact on Yale College as a professor, department chair and dean, Dean Brodhead continued to advise students throughout his administrative years," former YCC president Elliott Mogul '05 wrote in the proposal for the new award. "Students have widely identified him as a committed and conscientious adviser. Before departing Yale to assume the presidency of Duke University, Dean Brodhead led the Committee on Yale College Education, with plans for strengthening undergraduate advising at Yale. It is therefore fitting for this award to be named in honor of one who has demonstrated such a strong commitment to our goals in its establishment."
George was nominated for the award by students, who submitted their nominations via a website to the YCC. The YCC established the award with the view that excellent advisers should be recognized each year in the same way that faculty members are honored annually for their distinguished teaching, according to David Gershkoff '06, chair of the YCC's academic committee.
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.
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."
George has also won several awards for outstanding leadership and pioneering work within therapeutic practice. As the recipient of the first Richard H. Brodhead Award, she will receive a plaque. A larger plaque with her name on it will be presented by the YCC to the Yale College Dean's Office.
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