Erica Walker, an expert in math education, appointed dean of OISE

(Photo by Bruce Gilbert) - Erica Walker , an award-winning researcher, educator and professor of mathematics education at Columbia University's Teachers College, has been appointed dean of the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education (OISE) at the University of Toronto. A 2022 American Education Research Association Fellow , Walker will assume her new role as OISE's dean on Jan. 1, 2023 for a five-year term. She will also join the faculty as a full professor in the department of curriculum, teaching and learning. Walker - who is currently the Clifford Brewster Upton Professor of Mathematical Education and director of the Edmund W. Gordon Institute for Urban and Minority Education at Teachers College - said she is eagerly looking forward to taking on a leadership role at OISE. "From my first conversations with the search committee to my later visits to Toronto, OISE felt warmly familiar," Walker said. "There is an exciting energy here; it is a testament to OISE that its collegiality and dynamism were immediately apparent - even through those initial Zoom meetings.