President George W. Bush has named Buffalo State College Associate Professor of Elementary Education and Reading Lori V. Quigley, Ph.D., to serve on the National Advisory Council on Indian Education. She was also elected vice-chair for a five-year term.

A literacy specialist, Quigley teaches graduate–level courses in the college’s two literacy specialist programs and in the childhood and early childhood curriculum and instruction master’s program. She is also director of Buffalo State’s Literacy Center.

A resident of Salamanca, Quigley is a member of the Seneca Nation of Indians and belongs to the wolf clan. She earned her doctorate in language, learning and literacy from Fordham University.

Quigley has been instrumental in writing grants that obtained approximately $3 million for the Seneca Nation, including a $1.2 million grant to develop a strategic plan and training to preserve the Seneca language in cooperation with Buffalo State’s Center for Excellence in Urban and Rural Education. She also obtained a $545,000 Reading First grant for the Mount Morris School District.

Quigley serves as a member of the Seneca Nation Head Start Policy Council and as treasurer of the Seneca Nation Library Board of Trustees. She is a co-editor of “Impact,” the journal of the New York State Association for Supervision and Curriculum, and contributed an article on conflict in schools to it. Other academic publications include articles in the “International Learning Journal, including one on using constructive instructional strategies and technology to revitalize the Seneca language.