National Institute of Education Nomination of P. Michael Timpane To Be Director.

The President today announced his intention to nominate P. Michael Timpane, of Arlington, Va., to be Director of the National Institute of Education (NIE). He would replace Patricia Graham, resigned. Timpane has been serving as Acting Director of NIE since 1979 and was Deputy Director from 1977 to 1979.

He was born November 27, 1934, in Troy, N.Y. He received a B.A. (1956) and M.A. (1964) from Catholic University and an M.P.A. in education policy, government, and economics from Harvard University in 1970.

Timpane served as special assistant to the Deputy for Civil Rights in the Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Manpower from 1964 to 1968. From 1968 to 1972, he worked in the Office of the Assistant Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare for Planning and Evaluation, serving as Deputy Assistant Secretary and Director of Education Planning in 1971 and 1972.

From 1972 to 1974, Timpane was a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution in the economic studies program. From 1974 to 1977, he was on the staff of the Rand Corporation in Washington, where he served as director of the Center for Educational Finance and Governance.