Rate My Professor Ginni Fair

Ginni C. Fair, Ed.D., is Dean and Professor of the College of Education at Northern Kentucky University, a position she has held since 2020. She earned her Ed.D. in Instruction and Supervision from the University of Kentucky in 2010, with a dissertation titled 'Reading in a Middle School Social Studies Classroom: Connections between Intertextuality, Reader Stance, and Instructional Strategies.' Fair holds an M.A. in Middle Grades Education, Social Studies/English Communications, from Eastern Kentucky University in 2001, and a B.S. in the same field from EKU in 1997. She completed the Management Development Program at Harvard University in 2019.

Fair's career includes ten years teaching middle school English/language arts at Model Laboratory School (2001-2007) and Lexington Traditional Magnet School (1997-2001). At Eastern Kentucky University, she served as Professor (2017-2020) and Chair (2016-2020) of the Department of Curriculum and Instruction, managing accreditation, curriculum development, faculty supervision, and school partnerships; earlier roles included Interim Chair (2015-2016), Associate Professor (2012-2017), Assistant Professor (2007-2012), and Director of Thinking and Communicating Across the Curriculum (2010-2012). Her research focuses on literacy, adolescent development, disciplinary content literacy, community partnerships, diversity initiatives, and teacher education innovations. Key publications include the co-authored book 'Meet Me at the Commons: A Field Guide to the Common Core Standards in Higher Education' (2014), 'Bullying, Bystanders, and Books' (Middle School Journal, 2019, with D. Florell), 'Trumping Tradition: The Effectiveness of Writing Workshop in Contextualizing Grammar Instruction' (Kentucky Reading Journal, 2016), and 'Hammer and Nails: Questions as Part of Students’ Comprehension Tool-Kits' (Journal of Content Area Reading, 2013). An early article in Middle Ground (2012) remains among the top 15 most-read for the Association of Middle Level Education. She serves on the Board of the Kentucky Association of Colleges of Teacher Education, contributed to Kentucky ELA standards development, and reviews for organizations including the International Reading Association and Association for Middle Level Education.