Dr. Dale Andersen, dean of UNLV's College of Education, was recently elected president of the American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education (AACTE), an organization composed of some 750 colleges, universities, schools, and departments of education with 50,000 faculty members nationwide.

Andersen, who has been dean of education at UNLV since 1984, undertakes a three-year commitment with the election. He will be installed as president-elect of the AACTE during the organization's national convention in Chicago in February. He will assume the presidency at the 1997 convention and become past-president in 1998. As president, he will be responsible for organizing and presiding over the 1998 convention in New Orleans.

As president of AACTE, Andersen will have a lead role in teacher education in the United States. The association also has member institutions in Canada, Mexico, New Zealand, and Australia.

Andersen has also served as secretary and president of the Land Grant Deans of Education Association, which is composed of the deans of education of some 120 of the largest state universities and land grant colleges in the country.

"I honestly believe I would never have been elected if not for the fact that UNLV is attaining increasing academic prominence nationally," Andersen said. "This is a reflection of the very positive national reputation enjoyed by the university's faculty."