D. Lumsden

Submitted By jev0010 on Tue, 08/30/2011 - 12:00am
D. Barry Lumsden, Raleigh, N.C., Professor Emeritus of higher education, 1978-2006, died June 14. He taught for 36 years in higher education. At UNT, he served as director of the Center for Higher Education from 1994 to 1996 and was an interest group coordinator for the National Academy for Teaching and Learning About Aging. His research interests included assessment of Christian higher education, adult development and the correlates of teaching effectiveness. He taught a course on scholarly writing and publishing that was popular with doctoral students and he was named a UNT Student Association Honor Professor. Other honors included being named Phi Delta Kappa Outstanding Educator of the Year USA and an award for Outstanding Service from the American Association for Adult and Continuing Education.Lumsden founded and was editor of three peer reviewed journals, Community College Journal of Research and Practice, Educational Gerontology and Christian Higher Education. In 1999, he wrote the proposal, funded for $1 million, to establish the Don Buchholz Endowed Chair in Community College Education and planned and initiated the Bill J. Priest Center for Community College Education, dedicated to the preparation of community college administrators. He had been a visiting professor at Baylor University, Harding University and the University of Arkansas in Little Rock, and a senior research fellow at the University of Alabama and Texas A&M. He received a diploma from Emmaus Bible College, an associate of arts from Louisburg College, and bachelor’s, master’s and doctoral degrees from North Carolina State University.

D. Barry Lumsden, Raleigh, N.C., Professor Emeritus of higher education, 1978-2006, died June 14. He taught for 36 years in higher education. At UNT, he served as director of the Center for Higher Education from 1994 to 1996 and was an interest group coordinator for the National Academy for Teaching and Learning About Aging. His research interests included assessment of Christian higher education, adult development and the correlates of teaching effectiveness. He taught a course on scholarly writing and publishing that was popular with doctoral students and he was named a UNT Student Association Honor Professor. Other honors included being named Phi Delta Kappa Outstanding Educator of the Year USA and an award for Outstanding Service from the American Association for Adult and Continuing Education.Lumsden founded and was editor of three peer reviewed journals, Community College Journal of Research and Practice, Educational Gerontology and Christian Higher Education. In 1999, he wrote the proposal, funded for $1 million, to establish the Don Buchholz Endowed Chair in Community College Education and planned and initiated the Bill J. Priest Center for Community College Education, dedicated to the preparation of community college administrators. He had been a visiting professor at Baylor University, Harding University and the University of Arkansas in Little Rock, and a senior research fellow at the University of Alabama and Texas A&M. He received a diploma from Emmaus Bible College, an associate of arts from Louisburg College, and bachelor’s, master’s and doctoral degrees from North Carolina State University.

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