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Kathleen Sullivan Brown, Ph.D., joined the IERC as Executive
Director and Visiting Associate Professor on May 15, 2008. She will
be with the IERC on an interim basis
through August 15, 2009, with primary responsibilities to lead and
direct the IERC research activities, to work with key state-level stakeholders
to guide state education policy, to serve as the IERC’s liaison
to the new Illinois P-20 Council, and to lead the recruitment process
for the next permanent Executive Director.
Dr. Brown is taking a short-term professional leave of absence
from her faculty position as Associate Professor of Educational
Leadership
and Policy
Studies in the College of Education at the University of Missouri
St. Louis, where she teaches graduate courses in K-12 educational
administration and doctoral courses in educational research and
policy. Her main research interest is education policy and collaborative
partnerships
between schools, universities and communities. She holds a Ph.D.
in Education with an emphasis in teaching and learning from the
Graduate
School of Arts & Sciences of Washington University in St. Louis
(1994). From 1999-2006, Dr. Brown served on the Board of Directors
of the Holmes Partnership, a national consortium of universities,
schools, and professional associations committed to reform in schools
and in teacher education. She was also a Fellow of the Public Policy
Research Center at the University of Missouri St. Louis in 2003.
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