EdPA Faculty

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• Alexander, Nicola, associate professor
  Interests: education finance; policy studies
• Anderson, Melissa, professor
  Interests: research integrity, research misconduct and related ethical issues; international research collaborations, integrity in international research collaborations; postdoctoral and graduate training; academy-industry relations
• Brunner, C. Cryss, associate professor
  Interests: power, the superintendency; women in administration; school management and policy; collaborative decision-making
• Chapman, David, professor
  Interests: education planning in developing countries; government initiatives to influence practice at the school and classroom levels, with particular attention to developing countries; role of information (and information systems) in policy formulation and education planning; policy research; program evaluation; international issues in higher education
• DeJaeghere, Joan, assistant professor
  Interests: comparative education
• Demerath, Peter, associate professor
  Interests: educational anthropology; comparative study of class culture and education; urban education; school-university partnerships; research methodology
• Fry, Gerald, professor
  Interests: Southeast Asia; comparative education, international educational reform; human resource development; education and development; politics of education
• Furco, Andrew, associate professor
  Interests: measurement and assessment of student community engagement; civic purposes of education; values and character education; experiential learning for prosocial youth development
• Garrett Dikkers, Amy, coordinator and lecturer
  Interests: comparative and international education; human rights education, parent and community involvement in education; scholarship of technology-enhanced teaching and learning
• Harkins, Arthur, associate professor
  Interests: future cultural and educational systems; qualitative futures methods; knowledge base learning; advanced technologies for learning personalization
• Hendel, Darwin, associate professor
  Interests: institutional planning; performance and accountability; world rankings of universities; student performance; retention and satisfaction; evaluation of teaching and measurement of learning
• Johnson, David R., professor
  Interests: special education administration; evaluation studies; disability policy analysis; community integration
• King, Jean, professor
  Interests: interactive evaluation practice; participatory approaches to program evaluation; evaluation capacity building; evaluator competencies
• Krueger, Richard, senior fellow
  Interests: Program evaluation; focus groups; qualitative research
• Magnusson, Deanne L., lecturer
  Interests: comparative education reform; internationalization of education; leadership development and policy analysis in U.S. and international education organizations
• Paige, R. Michael, professor
  Interests: intercultural education and training; intercultural competence; international education and exchange; study abroad; internationalization of education
• Ropers-Huilman, Rebecca, professor
  Interests: race and gender in higher education; curriculum and college teaching; college students in the United States; qualitative research methods; feminist theory, equity-oriented change
• Schneider, Byron, associate professor
  Interests: youth development leadership; youth policy; education in the community; leadership of youth organizations
• Seashore, Karen, professor
  Interests: organizational theory; planned change; schools and universities as workplaces; leadership and administration
• Vavrus, Frances, associate professor
  Interests: comparative and international education; education and population change; gender and development; international development policy and practice; secondary and teacher education in Sub-Saharan Africa
• Weerts, David, assistant professor
  Interests: higher education finance; institutional advancement; community engagement; organizational theory
• Werner, Ann Zweber, program director of licensing for educational administrators, lecturer
• Yeh, Stuart, associate professor
  Interests: Program evaluation; cost-effectiveness and benefit-cost studies; state-mandated testing and high-stakes testing policies; rapid formative assessment; educational, economic; and governance reforms in sub-Saharan Africa
• York-Barr, Jennifer, professor
  Interests: Teacher leadership; professional development; instructionally focused collaboration among teachers

EdPA Emeriti Faculty

• William Ammentorp
• Ayers Bagley
• John Cogan
• Marion Lundy Dobbert
• Clifford Hooker
• Dale Lange
• Darrell Lewis
• Josef Mestenhauser
• Tim Mazzoni
• Van Mueller
• Neal Nickerson
• Charles Sederberg
• Richard Weatherman