ObituaryD. Lumsden
Submitted on Tuesday, August 30, 2011
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.