We are now finishing the sixth volume of the Journal of Research in Character Education. Over the course of these 6 years we have seen lots of changes and lots of growth. People have come and go as both editors and members of the Editorial Board. I would like to highlight just a few of those recent transitions.
First, and most important, my new coeditor is Bryan Sokol. Bryan is an Assistant Professor of Psychology at St. Louis University, and known to many of you through his scholarship and service to the Academy. He is a developmental psychologist with expertise in moral development, and has had a growing interest in applications of developmental theory and research to schools and character development and education for the past couple of years. Bryan is also on the executive committee of our Center for Character and Citizenship at the University of Missouri-St. Louis. He has been a great asset already and you can see his hand in this issue; for example, he was instrumental in the collection of reviews of the three volumes of Moral Psychology.
I also want to offer thanks to my Dean, Professor Charles Schmitz, for donating a Research Assistantship this year. Val Turner, a doctoral student at the University of Missouri-St. Louis, helped immeasurably this year. He established an electronic data base and means for file-sharing across institutions, and created numerous systems for manuscript management.
Finally, I want to officially and belatedly welcome my friend and colleague, Professor Fritz Oser, to the Editorial Board. Fritz has recently retired from the University of Fribourg (Switzerland) and is a leading figure in education, moral development, moral education, and other related fields. We are thrilled that he has joined the JRCE family.
Editing a journal is a lot of work, much more than two editors and a research assistant could do alone. It is only through the generous efforts of our many expert blind reviewers, the commitment of our subscribers, the resources of our publisher, and the scholarship of our contributors that having a journal dedicated to scholarly work in promoting the positive prosocial development of youth in schools is possible. Thank you to all of you. And please keep spreading the word, attracting submissions, and promoting subscriptions.
