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Karen Symms Gallagher was appointed the Emery Stoops and Joyce King Stoops Dean of the USC Rossier School of Education in 2000. Under her leadership, the USC Rossier School has risen to the rank of 19th nationally, redoubled its commitment to strengthening urban education both in the United States and around the globe, and created innovative master’s and doctoral programs that prepare students to become agents of change as teachers, administrators and researchers.
With the goal of rethinking and resolving the complex educational and social issues facing urban communities, Gallagher is building a partnership with Peking University that exchanges faculty and students, fosters funded research opportunities, and develops new graduate programs to prepare Chinese and American administrators for 21st-century university leadership. In addition, she and her faculty are working with the Los Angeles Urban League to create and implement Neighborhoods@Work, a model for sustainable neighborhood revitalization in central Los Angeles.
Gallagher has been a professor, scholar and academic administrator at both public and private research universities throughout the United States. Before coming to USC, she was dean of education at the University of Kansas, and prior to Kansas, she directed Ohio’s Commission on Educational Improvement, working with policymakers in the Ohio General Assembly and business leaders from the Ohio Business Roundtable.
She has written two books: Shaping School Policy: A Guide to Choices, Politics and Community Relations (1992) and Politics of Education Yearbook: The Politics of Teacher Preparation Reform (2000). She also is the author of dozens of scholarly articles published in journals ranging from Educational Policy and Research in Higher Education to Early Education and Development.
Gallagher is the Association of Independent California Colleges and Universities’ representative to the California Commission on Teacher Credentialing and a member of the Los Angeles Urban League’s Emeritus Board of Directors. Previously, she served as president of USC Phi Kappa Phi, and as a member of the National Science Foundation’s Commission on 21st Century Education in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics.
last updated 10/17/07
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