Gene Hall is currently the Dean of the College of Education at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas and has been there since 1999. Prior to his tenure at the University of Nevada Hall was the Dean of the College of Education at the University of Northern Colorado from 1988 to 1993. In 1993 he stepped down as dean and was a professor in Educational Leadership until 1999. From 1986 to 1988 he was a professor in Educational Leadership at the University of Florida.

Hall’s research focus is on understanding the change process in organizational settings. He was the principal developer of the Concerns Based Adoption Model (CBAM) which addresses the an individual approaches change. (Everett Rogers studied change in groups). The CBAM addresses the stages of concern:

• Awareness
  
• Informational
  
• Personal
  
• Management
  
• Consequence
  
• Collaboration
  
• Refocusing
  

individuals go through when facing a new innovation.

He works as a consultant and offers training related to understanding, facilitating, and evaluating change processes from the CBAM perspective. He has also been a contributor to national accreditation of teacher education institutions and has served as chair of the Standards Committee of the National Council for the Accreditation of Teacher Education.(NCATE).

Books and Publications

Assistance & Facilitation the Process of Innovation

Change to Schools