The Harvard Radcliffe Institute dean and education law scholar will take office Nov. 1, succeeding Daniel L. Schwartz after 11 years Tomiko Brown-Nagin will become Dean of Stanford Graduate School of Education on Nov. 1. Credit: Melissa Blackall Stanford University has appointed Tomiko Brown-Nagin as the next Dean of Stanford Graduate School of Education, choosing a higher education leader whose work connects education law, civil rights history and access to opportunity. Brown-Nagin joins Stanfo