NEVILLE, Richard F. 1931-2004

OBITUARY NOTICE—

See index for CA sketch: Born September 6, 1931, in Brooklyn, NY; died March 1, 2004, in Tacoma Park, MD. Educator, administrator, and author. Neville was a longtime professor of education, a dean, and a provost at the University of Maryland—Baltimore County. A graduate of Central Connecticut State College, where he earned a B.S. in 1953, he completed a master's degree at Columbia in 1957 and his Ph.D. at the University of Connecticut in 1963. He began his career in the 1950s as an elementary school teacher and high school basketball coach, then taught for two years at Central Connecticut State College, and spent another two years as an elementary school principal in Berlin, Connecticut before joining the University of Connecticut as an instructor in education in 1960. From 1964 to 1969 he was an associate professor for the University of Maryland at College Park, moving to the Baltimore faculty in 1969 as professor of education and head of the division of education. During the mid-1970s, Neville was the division's dean, rising through the ranks as acting dean of faculty in 1978, dean of faculty in 1979, and dean of arts and sciences from 1980 to 1989. Beginning in 1989, he also served as senior advisor to the university's president and was provost of the Biotechnology Institute from 1991 to 1994. When he retired in 1995, he was named dean emeritus. Neville coauthored the books The Foundations of Elementary School Teaching (1963), The Faculty as Teachers: A Perspective of Evaluation (1971), and Instructional Supervision: A Behavior System (1975; second edition, 1978).

OBITUARIES AND OTHER SOURCES:

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University of Maryland—Baltimore County,http://www.umbc.edu/ (May 20, 2004).

University of Maryland Biotechnology Institute,http://www.umbi.umd.edu/ (April 16, 2004).