Richard Ruiz, Ph.D., Faculty Fellow

College of Education, Room 523
Education Building
The University of Arizona Tucson, AZ 85721-0069
Telephone: 520.621.5263
Fax: 520.621.1853
ruizr@email.arizona.edu

Dr. Ruiz is currently a professor of Language, Reading and Culture, with faculty affiliations in the Interdisciplinary Graduate Program in Second Language Acquisition and Teaching and in Latin American Studies.

He was instructor and assistant professor of educational policy studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison for nine years. He was head of the Department of Language, Reading and Culture in the College of Education of the University of Arizona from 1993-1999. He is recognized internationally for his research and scholarship in language planning and policy development. He has been a consultant to the governments of Mexico, Australia, Guatemala, Bolivia, the Northern Marianas, the Federated States of Micronesia, the Netherlands Antilles, and native communities in the United States and Canada.

In 2000 he was selected as a Distinguished Visiting Professor by the Mexican Academy of Science. In June 2001 he was appointed Director of Social Justice of The American Educational Research Association. He is currently a Faculty Fellow, one of only 30 at the University of Arizona, in recognition of his outstanding contributions to the promotion of the interests and experiences of students. Most recently, he was appointed to the National Planning Committee for Brown Plus 50 – a conference commemorating the 50th Anniversary of the Supreme Court decision in Brown v. Board of Education. In 2003, he was appointed interim head of a reconstituted department in the College of Education, Teaching and Teacher Education/Physical Education.

He is now helping students out at our Chicano/Hispano Student Affairs lounge...drop by to meet him. He is available for mentoring, academic questions, playing guitar and volleyball tips.