Robert Floden

Robert Floden is dean of the College of Education. Floden, who previously served as interim dean of the college, is co-director of the Education Policy Center at MSU. The University Distinguished Professor has been on the College of Education faculty since 1977 and became associate dean in 1989. A member of the National Academy of Education, he is one of the preeminent scholars in the areas of teaching, teacher education and how policy is linked to classroom practice. He has appointments across multiple study areas in the college, including teacher education, educational psychology, educational policy, mathematics education and measurement and quantitative methods.