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Wendy Black,
Visiting Assistant Professor (T&L/ Elementary Education)
Wendy Black received a Ph.D. at the University of Arizona in Language, Reading, and Culture. Prior to joining the faculty of Teaching and Learning, she taught undergraduate and graduate courses in literacy education at Illinois State University.
Black’s research interests include retrospective miscue analysis and the role of affective domains in literacy teaching and learning.
Black says joining the faculty at Iowa was a welcome opportunity in alignment with her personal and professional goals.
David Duys,
Assistant Professor
(CRSD/
School Counseling and Counselor Education)
Since 1989 David Duys has worked as a school counselor, college counselor, mental health counselor, and as a counseling supervisor. He received a Ph.D. in Counselor Education and Supervision from Western Michigan University.
Prior to joining the faculty at Iowa, Duys was coordinator of the School Counseling program at Southern Illinois University in Carbondale, where he was promoted to associate professor.
Duys is pursuing three lines of research: improving developmental approaches to school counseling, integrating career development models, and exploring the development of counselor cognitive complexity. He has especially enjoyed engaging in interdisciplinary research related to these three lines of inquiry.
Duys says he chose to join the faculty at Iowa because of the College of Education’s “tremendously positive national reputation.” He says he was also attracted by the support systems in place to develop new instruments related to school counseling, as well as the opportunities that exist to engage in interdisciplinary research across the campus.
Malik S. Henfield,
Lecturer (CRSD/ School Counseling and Counselor Education)
Malik Henfield received a M.Ed. and Ed.S. in School Counseling from the University of South Carolina. He worked as a junior high school counselor and as a summer academic counselor for the Center for Talented Youth—a world renowned gifted and talented youth program—at Johns Hopkins University.
Prior to coming to Iowa, Henfield worked in the Office of Student Athlete Support Services at The Ohio State University as a mentor and learning specialist for student athletes who had been placed at risk for failure. While working on his Ph.D. in Counselor Education at Ohio State, he was named a National Holmes Scholar.
This year, Henfield is assisting with the reorganization of the School Counseling program’s curriculum to include an emphasis in gifted education.
Next fall, Henfield will teach courses focused upon counseling gifted and talented students. He will also provide services for the Belin-Blank Center as an administrator and researcher.
“I chose to come to the UI because of the opportunity to combine school counseling with my research interests of working with gifted African-Americans in K-16 educational settings, an opportunity that few universities in the country could provide,” Henfield said.
Andrew Ho,
Assistant Professor (P&Q/ Measurement and Statistics)
 Andrew Ho recently graduated from Stanford University with a master’s degree in Statistics and a Ph.D. in Educational Psychology.
Ho’s recent summers were spent working at Educational Testing Service (ETS), a testing organization in New Jersey, on statistical methods for estimating skill profiles—estimates of student proficiency along specified cognitive dimensions. These methods may make test scores more useful to students, teachers, and parents.
Ho also has an interest in applying these methods to policy questions concerning the validity of high-stakes test score gains.
Ho says he chose The University of Iowa College of Education because of the strength of its faculty and students in the areas of Educational Psychology and Quantitative Methods. Also, he says, “The College offers a unique balance of theory and practice in its relationship with the Iowa Testing Programs. I hope to contribute to the program’s already long history of significant scholarship and careful practice.”
Debra Johnson, Clinical Instructor (CRSD/School Counseling and Counselor Education)
 Debra Johnson received a B.A. in Vocal Performance and Pedagogy, M.A. in Counselor Education, and is currently completing her Ph.D. at The University of Iowa. Her experience includes working as a high school choral director, a gifted and talented director, and a K-12 school counselor. She has served as a site supervisor for the UI’s School Counseling program for eight years.
Johnson has also supervised the Belin-Blank Center’s Counseling Lab for Talent Development, and served as state coordinator of Invent Iowa, an inventiveness program for K-12 students. She has provided long- and short-term consultation to public and private schools and school districts in Virginia, Minnesota, Iowa, Australia, and New Zealand.
Johnson’s research interests include curriculum, supervision, and accountability in school counseling; counseling Hispanic and indigenous adolescents; counseling adolescents and adults with Asperger’s syndrome; and midlife transition counseling.
Johnson says she is excited to be back at Iowa and to become CRSD’s first clinical faculty member. “The School Counseling program is undergoing exciting changes, and I am thrilled to be a part of it all,” she said.
Liz Hollingworth, Postdoctoral Research Scholar (P&Q/Iowa Measurement Research Foundation)
After earning a masters degree in elementary education from Northwestern University, Liz Hollingworth taught elementary and middle school for eight years. Last May, she completed her Ph.D. in Language, Literacy, and Culture at The University of Iowa, while working as a graduate assistant with the Iowa Testing Programs. Hollingworth’s research focuses on the analysis of curriculum in the context of standards-based assessment. Hollingworth said she decided to become a postdoctoral research scholar at The University of Iowa because it provides a unique opportunity to combine her interest in curriculum with innovations in test development.
Greg Wolniak, Postdoctoral Research Scholar (ELPS/Higher Education)
 Greg Wolniak earned his bachelor’s degree in economics from Iowa State University, his master’s degree in Economics from the University of Illinois at Chicago, and his Ph.D. in Social Foundations from The University of Iowa in 2004.
Wolniak’s research interests are located at the intersection of the broad fields of education, economics, and sociology. Typically his research focuses on how educational choices impact individuals once they complete their formal schooling and enter the labor market.
Wolniak says he chose to continue his professional development at Iowa because of the quality of faculty within the Educational Policy and Leadership Studies department.
“In higher education research, it is difficult to find another department with faculty engaged in more cutting-edge and important research projects,” he said. “I simply could not pass up the opportunity to continue working with and learning from Professor Ernie Pascarella.”
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