Ariel Huang - Assistant Dean for Finance and Administration

Ariel Huang earned her Ph.D. in educational psychology with concentration in statistics from the University of Houston. She has over 20 years of experience in accounting, auditing, statistics, assessment, teaching and research from private and higher education institutions and is a certified public accountant. She is responsible for the finance and administration functions for the College of Education.

Elizabeth Prosek – Assistant Professor – Counseling Program

Elizabeth A. Prosek earned her Ph.D. in Counselor Education and Supervision at Old Dominion University in Norfolk, VA. Her research interests include qualitative research design, diagnosis and assessment, mental health services for under-served populations and the co-occurring population of individuals diagnosed with intellectual disability and serious mental illness. She is an active member of several national, professional organizations in counseling. Professionally, Prosek most recently directed a character-building program for middle school students. She looks forward to collaboration with her students in the Counseling Program and serving UNT.

Lisa Schulz – Clinical Assistant Professor – Counseling Program

Lisa L. Schulz earned her Ph.D. at Oregon State University, specializing in bi-cultural identity development of adolescent Latinos and Latinas and advocating for culturally responsive practices in education and research. Her current focus is on the creation and implementation of socially just policies for immigrant populations and culturally responsive counseling practice.

Miriam Boesch – Assistant Professor - Autism Specialization

Miriam C. Boesch earned her Ph.D. from Purdue University. Her specializations are autism and augmentative and alternative communication. Her research interests include behavioral and communication interventions for children with autism and other developmental disabilities. Specific research projects include the efficacy of using graphic symbols and speech-generating devices to teach communication skills to children with severe autism.

Mei Chang – Assistant Professor – School Psychology Specialization

Mei Chang obtained her Ph.D. from Ball State University. She has worked as a professional counselor in a counseling & guidance center promoting mental health of adolescents and as a school psychologist in K-12 settings. Chang’s research interests include cognitive performance and learning outcomes of culturally and linguistically diverse learners, cross-cultural comparisons of cognitive processing in preschoolers and children and neuropsychological functioning of neurologically impaired children and psychometric issues regarding neuropsychological assessment.

Pamela Beehler – Visiting Associate Professor – Kinesiology

Pamela Beehler received her Ph.D. from Indiana University. She has served as a department chair at two institutions and was a core-investigator with the Human Performance Institute at the University of Texas at Arlington. Beehler is a research fellow with the American Alliance of Health, Physical Education, Recreation and Dance, and was the journal editor of Women in Sport and Physical Activity. Beehler’s academic area of specialty is motor behavior and her research interests include human performance functioning, measurement theory and fundamental motor skills. She is married to Dr. John Beehler, Provost at UNT Dallas. They have one daughter, 2LT Kristin Beehler, who is currently serving in Iraq with the U.S. Army.

Mei Hoyt – Assistant Professor – Curriculum and Instruction

Mei Wu Hoyt received her Ph.D. in curriculum and instruction from Texas A&M University. Before joining UNT, she worked at Oklahoma State University as a Visiting Assistant Professor. Her research interests include curriculum studies, digital media and learning, Dewey studies and embodied pedagogy. Hoyt was an assistant editor for the Journal of Curriculum and Pedagogy for five years, and she is also the communication chair for the Confucianism, Taoism, and Education Special Interest Group of the American Educational Research Association. Her teaching philosophy and research can be further examined by clicking here.

Michelle S. Perez received her Ph.D. at Arizona State University. She coordinated a student teaching program, Learning to Teach in Inner City Schools, in Houston, TX, and most recently has spent several years working with communities in New Orleans, LA, in order to examine the impact of disaster capitalism on children’s access to public services. She received an award for her dissertation research from the Critical Perspectives on Early Childhood Education Special Interest Group at the American Educational Research Association conference in April, 2011. Her research includes using marginalized feminist perspectives and critical qualitative methodologies to study public discourses and policies impacting young children, families, and communities.   

Sarah Pratt – Assistant Professor – Math Education

Sarah Smitherman Pratt earned her Ph.D. in 2006 from Louisiana State University. Her specialization is in mathematics education and curriculum theory, with a focus on chaos and complexity theories. Her current research addresses mathematical knowledge for teaching for pre-service and in-service teachers in the area of mathematics, with a focus on algebraic understandings.

Angela Randall – Visiting Assistant Professor – Curriculum and Instruction

Angela M.  Randall earned her Ph.D. in Reading Education at Auburn University. Her research interests include teachers’ and students’ knowledge of current quality children’s books and how teachers’ attitudes toward reading affect their students’ attitudes toward reading. She has a profound love for children’s books and is excited to expose her students to the wonderful children’s books available. She looks forward to working with the faculty in the college of education and serving UNT.

Jamaal Young – Assistant Professor – Curriculum and Instruction

Jamaal R. Young earned his Ph.D. in mathematics education from Texas A&M University in College Station, TX. His research interests include technology integration in mathematics classrooms, meta-analytic research methodology and quantitative research methods. Young is also interested in culturally responsive STEM education in mathematics classrooms. He has worked as a mathematics educator, TAKS remediation specialist, mathematics curriculum coordinator, independent curriculum developer for TEA ESC and conducted numerous professional developments across the state of Texas. Young looks forward to continued collaboration between the community, schools and students here at the University of North Texas.

Sarah Mazur - Multidisciplinary Advisor

Sarah Mazur earned her M.S. in academic advising at Kansas State University. Prior to working at UNT, she advised in the College of Nursing at the University of Texas Arlington where she was awarded Outstanding Professional Advisor for the 2010-2011 academic year. Mazur was further nominated to the National Academic Advising Association (NACADA) who is honoring her with a new advisor merit achievement award at their annual conference in Denver, Colorado this October. Mazur looks forward to building relationships with students and faculty/staff at UNT as well as further contributing to the global community of advising through the NACADA organization at large.

Gabrielle Watson – Administrative Specialist IV

Gabrielle Watson transferred to the College of Education from the College of Arts and Sciences Student Advising Department. She has worked for UNT nearing four years and is looking forward to pursuing an M.S. in educational psychology after completing her B.A. in sociology in the spring. Gabrielle loves learning, teaching, and guiding students and parents along their journey to academic success at UNT.

Marcie Mitchell joined UNT in 2008, working with the Bill J. Priest Center in the Department of Counseling and Higher Education. She moved to a new position in the main office for Counseling & Higher Education in 2011.

Kayla West - Administrative Specialist IV - Higher Education

After 1 year as a student worker for the Department of Counseling and Higher Education, Kayla West joined the department's full-time staff in 2009 and moved from the department office to the Higher Education Program office in 2011. She earned a BA in English Literature from UNT and is currently pursuing a Master’s degree in the same field. Kayla prefers to spend her time reading or enjoying the outdoors with her husband Josh and their dog Remy.