Karla Elrod honored her mother with the first endowed professorship in the College of Education at Kean University in Union, New Jersey in November. Karla writes: “The gift was made during a year of significant anniversaries for Kean: the 50th anniversary of my mother’s graduation with her master’s degree in reading, the 50th anniversary of the Child Care and Development Center, and the 170th anniversary of the University’s founding as New Jersey’s first teachers college. In honor of my gift and my mother’s dedication to children, Kean renamed its Child Care and Development Center the Betty C. Elrod Cobb ’75 Center for Early Childhood Education. My mother built a distinguished 40+ year career in education in New Jersey’s Newark Public School System, championing literacy, early childhood development, and equity.”
