Texas Woman’s Reading Recovery Director Elizabeth Kaye, PhD, has been awarded the Billie J. Askew Endowed Chair in Literacy, made possible by a $2 million gift in honor of Askew by Ohio educator and philanthropist Gay Su Pinnell.

Kaye has served as the director of TWU’s Reading Recovery Center since 2019 and has worked to improve literacy outcomes for young learners with a focus on Reading Recovery intervention. In the new role, she plans to increase access to high-quality literacy interventions for children, specifically first graders with difficulty learning to read in English and Spanish and more.