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LaVelle Gipson-Tansil

Senior Academic Specialist

Department of Human Development and Family Studies

Area of Expertise

Child Development

Biography

LaVelle Gipson-Tansil, Senior Academic Specialist, Instructor, joined the faculty in 1991. Her tenure includes Directorship of the Child Development Laboratory, teaching, supervising advising and mentoring early childhood educators as well as teaching faculty for undergraduate and graduate core course in the Early Childhood Program. Courses include Family, Child and Youth, Positive Guidance of Young Children in Group Settings, Observation of the Individual Child, Play, Administration of Early Ch

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Education

B.A. Elementary Education, Michigan State University

M.A. Early Childhood Administration, Bank Street College