Marilyn Neff is currently Associate Dean and a research assistant professor at the University of Miami, School of Education, where she has been employed since August 1997. Her major administrative duties at UM include planning, communications, and external relations for the School, including supervision of the Information Technology office.

Dr. Neff spent 30 years in the Dade County Public Schools, the nation’s fourth largest school system, retiring in June 1997 as Deputy Superintendent. In her career there she had direct involvement in almost every administrative and instructional function of public schooling: teaching, curriculum design and implementation, technology development and administration, strategic planning, staff development, program management, parental involvement, Title One Administration, magnet schools and schools of choice, minority business enterprise programming, educational research, evaluation and measurement, student services, personnel services, and security administration. The positions she has held include Deputy Superintendent (1991-1997), Associate Superintendent for Management and Accountability, Assistant Superintendent for Information Technology and Management Information Services, Assistant Superintendent for Student Intervention Services, Executive Director, Director, Supervisor of Basic Skills and Early Childhood Programs, District Supervisor of Reading, Region Educational Specialist, and Classroom Teacher.

Since joining the University of Miami, she has maintained close ties with the school system. She was retained as a consultant under two separate administrations, primarily in the area of strategic planning. She was also contracted to assist the School District Advisory Committee with goal setting and restructuring. She has served on various School Board committees, most recently the Academy for Information Technology Advisory Committee, the Curriculum Advisory Committee for Arts4Learning, and the search committee for the Deputy Superintendent for Instruction. The current Superintendent, Dr. Rudy Crew, appointed her to serve on the School Improvement Zone’s Community and University Advisory Board. She also served on the University Professional Development Committee established by the school system in 2005. She is currently a member of the school system’s Hippy Early Childhood Advisory Committee.

To continue her connection with the public schools, Dr. Neff has maintained her Professional Educator’s Certificate from the State of Florida in Reading K-12, Counseling K-12, Elementary Education 1-6, and Administration and Supervision K-12.