IRA journal editor appointed to endowed chair at Bellarmine

Robert B. Cooter Jr., an education expert who specializes in improving literacy, especially among economically disadvantaged urban schoolchildren, and who is co-editor of IRA’s The Reading Teacher, has been appointed to a new endowed chair at Bellarmine University in Louisville, Kentucky.

Cooter, who will begin working at the university this summer, has been appointed to the Ursuline Endowed Chair of Teacher Education at Bellarmine’s school of education. He currently is a distinguished professor at the University of Memphis.

“I am delighted that Bellarmine University has attracted a person of Dr. Cooter’s prominence,” Bellarmine President Joseph J. McGowan said. Read more in The Courier-Journal online.