It is with profound sorrow that we announce the passing of Dr. Lynne Goodstein.
Lynne Goodstein was an outstanding academic leader, a caring colleague, and an outstanding feminist sociologist. She joined UConn as Associate Vice Provost for Enrichment Programs and Director of the Honors Program in 2002. She served as the first full-time Director of the Honors Program, and through her leadership Honors underwent significant and meaningful changes that set the stage for the program to emerge as one of the premier Honors Program in the country. The Honors Program nearly doubled in size during her tenure and also maintained significant increases in the quality of admitted students as well as the completion rates of students in the program. She championed building a strong Honors community, promoting high-quality advising and mentoring in Honors, and expanded the number of courses offered in Honors dramatically. She began the process to create Honors Core courses, offering innovative and interdisciplinary courses to Honors students and non-Honors students at UConn. In Enrichment Programs, she created campus-wide support for undergraduate research and the funding programs available to students. She also helped to formalize the pre-medical, pre-dental, and pre-law advising offices to provide support for all UConn students and alumni interested in these professional programs. She stepped down after ten years in this administrative post to return to the faculty having left a strong legacy in Honors.
When she returned to Sociology in 2012, she first served on the undergraduate program committee, and returned to her research on women and crime. She moved onto the position of Director of Undergraduate Studies, with her characteristic energy and efficiency. She introduced new programs such as the student ambassador program, and moved the program in new directions. Her colleagues valued her wisdom, energy, and advice. Lynne made many friends among the faculty, staff and students. All of us who knew her well, and heard about her future plans for more hiking, travel and immersion in the arts after she retired in May 2018, are shattered at the news of this untimely death.
Obituary and funeral details can be found here:
Https://Www.dignitymemorial.com/obituaries/Brookline-ma/Lynne-goodstein-8046156
PhD., 1977, Social Psychology, CUNY Graduate School
B.A., 1970, Psychology, University of Pennsylvania
BIOGRAPHICAL STATEMENT
Lynne Goodstein is Professor of Sociology at the University of Connecticut. Until 2012 she was also Associate Vice-Provost and Director of the Honors Program. Prior to coming to UConn, Dr. Goodstein was a tenured full professor in the Crime, Law and Justice Program of the Department of Sociology and Associate Dean of the Graduate School at Penn State. Dr. Goodstein’s recent research deals with higher education and high-achieving college students. Currently she is also working on a book on women and crime. She has co-authored or co-edited four books, including The American Prison (1989), and Rethinking Gender, Crime and Justice: Feminist Readings(2006), and a number of book chapters and journal articles on higher education, women and crime, corrections, and sentencing.
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
Goodstein, L., Gunnison, E. and Bernat, F. 2015. Women, Crime and Justice: Balancing the Scales. Hoboken, N.J.: Wiley Blackwell.
Goodstein, L., Szarek, P. and Wunschel, F. 2013. “Retention, Graduation, and Program Completion for Students Entering an Honors Program at a Major Public University, 1998- 2010.” Forthcoming in Wolfensberger, M. (Ed.). Proceedings & Working Papers of the International Conference on Evoking Excellence in Higher Education & Beyond. Groningen, Netherlands: Hanze University Press.
Goodstein, L. “Program Excellence versus Program Growth: Must These Goals Conflict?” 2013. Forthcoming in Honors in Practice. 9(1).
Goodstein, L. and Szarek, P. 2013. “They Come But Do They Finish? An Investigation of Program Completion for Students Entering an Honors Program at a Major Public University, 1998- 2010.” Forthcoming in Journal of the National Collegiate Honors Council. 13(1).
Funeral Announcement:
Https://Www.dignitymemorial.com/obituaries/Brookline-ma/Lynne-goodstein-8046156
For more information, contact: Anabel Perez Malone at anabel.perez@uconn.edu