A retirement reception for professors Chris Marvin and Dixie Sanger will be 4-6 p.m. May 6 at the International Quilt Center and Museum. A short program will begin at 4:30.
Marvin has served in the University of Nebraska-Lincoln's Department of Special Education and Communication Disorders for 31 years. She has used her training and experience as a speech-language pathologist and early interventionist to coordinate and teach courses and practicums associated with the graduate program of study in early childhood special education. Marvin has been a member of the university's Academy of Distinguished Teachers since 2005, and recently served on the Academic Rights & Responsibilities Panel Committee as well as the vice chair of the work group on digital education for the university's budget response team.
Sanger has served in the Department of Special Education and Communication Disorders for 41 years. Her research efforts focused on the communication skills of female juvenile delinquents and topics related to language and literacy. She received the 2012 Editors' Award for Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools from the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA) for the article, "Oral language competence, young speakers, and the law." Sanger received her bachelor's degree in speech-language pathology from Nebraska, and returned to Nebraska for her doctorate before joining the faculty full-time in 1981.
Both Marvin and Sanger have also served on numerous committees within the department and College of Education and Human Sciences.
The retirement reception for Marvin and Sanger is free and open to the public.