ROBERT  L.  CROWSON,  JR.

Professor, Department of Leadership, Policy, and Organizations
Peabody College of Vanderbilt University

I. EDUCATION & EXPERIENCE

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Professor
Department of Leadership, Policy, and Organizations, Peabody College of Education, Vanderbilt University (Nashville).  Areas of interest are: school-community relations, education policy and organization, large-city school administration.  September, 1993 to Present.

Editor
Peabody Journal of Education, 2010 to Present

Senior Research Fellow
National Center for School Choice, Peabody College, Vanderbilt University, 2005-2007

Senior Research Fellow
Mid-Atlantic Regional Laboratory, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA. 1996-2004

Professor of Educational Policy & Administration
University of Illinois at Chicago, 1988 to August, 1993.

Senior Research Fellow
National Center for Education in the Inner Cities. Temple University, Philadelphia, PA. June, 1990 – 1995.

Associate Professor of Educational Administration
University of Illinois at Chicago, 1978 to 1988.

Senior Research Fellow
National Center for School Leadership, University of Illinois at Champagne-Urbana, 1988-1993.

Assistant Professor of Education and Urban Sciences
University of Illinois at Chicago, 1973 to 1978, with a joint appointment in the College of Education and the School of Urban Sciences.

Deputy Director
Division of Higher Education Planning and Coordination, Bureau of Higher Education, State of Michigan, Department of Public Instruction, June 1970 to August 1971.

Supervisor
Research and Planning Unit, Research Services Division, State of Michigan, Department of Public Instruction, September 1968 to June 1970.

Director of Evaluation
Independent Learning Project.   The Laboratory Schools.  The University of Chicago, 1966 to 1968.

High School Social Studies Teacher
Cleveland, Ohio Public Schools,1962 to 1965.  Instructional Television Teacher, Cleveland, Ohio Public Schools,1963 to 1965.

EDUCATION

A.B.   — Oberlin College, 1961 (Economics)
M.A.T.– Oberlin College, 1962  (History)
Ph.D.  — University of Chicago, 1974 (Educational Administration; Politics of Education)

Dissertation:  “State Authority and Local Autonomy:  An Assessment of Intergovernmental Relations in Education,”  The University of Chicago, June 1974:  Paul E. Peterson, Chairman; Edwin M. Bridges, and Dan C. Lortie.

II. PROFESSIONAL INFORMATION

MEMBERSHIPS IN PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS

American Educational Research Association
Politics of Education Association
AERA Special Interest Group (SIG) in Organizational Theory

HONORS AND AWARDS

The UCEA William J. Davis Memorial Award.
For Most Outstanding article published in Volume 30 of Educational Administration
Quarterly for 1994 ( with Mark Smylie).

Seminar Fulbright-Hays Travel Research Scholar.
Recipient of research travel grant for the study of state educational planning and
intergovernmental relations in Education in Germany, Summer, 1975.

Research Assistantship.
Department of Education, The University of Chicago, 1965 to 1968.

EDITORIAL BOARD MEMBERSHIPS

Journal of Education Policy
Kings College, London, 1994 to 2004

Educational Administration Quarterly
1993 to 2000

Peabody Journal of Education
1996 to 2002

American Education Research Journal
(AERJ), 1996 to 2000.

American Journal of Education
(AJE), 2007 to Present

Vanderbilt University Press, Nashville, TN
2000-2003

III. PUBLICATIONS

BOOKS AND MONOGRAPHS

Van Cleve Morris, Robert L. Crowson, Cynthia Porter-Gehrie, and Emanuel Hurwitz, Jr., Principals in Action:  The Reality of Managing Schools, (1984). (Columbus, Ohio:  Charles E. Merrill Publishing Company).

R. Bruce McPherson, Robert L. Crowson, and Nancy J. Pitner, Managing Uncertainty:  Administrative Theory and Practice in Education (1986). (Columbus, Ohio:  Charles E. Merrill, Publishing Co.).

Jane Hannaway, and Robert L. Crowson (eds..), The Politics of Reforming School Administration, (1988).  The 1988 Politics of Education Yearbook (London:  Taylor & Francis, Ltd.,).  (Reprinted as a special issue of the Journal of Education Policy, October, 1988).

Robert L. Crowson (Guest Editor).  Special Issue:  “The Local School District Superintendency, Under Reform.”  Peabody Journal of Education, Vol. 65, Number 4, Summer 1988 (Published in 1990).

Robert L. Crowson, School-Community Relations, Under Reform. (1992).  (Berkeley, CA:  McCutchan Publishing Corp.).

Robert L. Crowson, William Lowe Boyd, and Hanne B. Mawhinney (eds..).  The Politics of Education and the New Institutionalism:  Reinventing the American School (1996). The 1995 Politics of Education Yearbook. (London: Falmer Press) (Reprinted as a special issue of the Journal of Education Policy, Vol. 10, Numbers 5&6, September-December, 1995.)

Robert L. Crowson, School-Community Relations, Under Reform (1998).   SECOND EDITION. (Berkeley, CA:  McCutchan Publishing Corp.).

Robert L. Crowson (Ed.) (2001) Community Development and School Reform.  Advances in Research and Theories of School Management and Educational Policy, Volume 5. (London:  Elsevier Science, Ltd.).

Naftaly S. Glasman and Robert L. Crowson (guest editors) (2001).  Special Issue: “Re-examining Relations and a Sense of Place Between Schools and their Constituents.” Peabody Journal of Education, Vol. 76. No. 2.

Robert L. Crowson. School Community Relations, Under Reform (2003).  THIRD EDITION. (Berkeley, CA:  McCutchan Publishing Corp.).

Robert L. Crowson, Ellen B. Goldring, and Katherine Taylor Haynes (2010).  (Berkeley, CA:  McCutchan Publishing Corp.).  Successful Schools and the Community Relationship:  Concepts and Skills to Meet 21^st Century Challenges .

Robert L. Crowson and Ellen B. Goldring (eds), (2010) The New Localism in American Education:  Re-examining Issues of  Neighborhood and Community in Public Education,  National Society for the Study of Education (NSSE) Yearbook, 108^th Yearbook, Volume I  New York:  Teachers College, Columbia University.

Douglas E. Mitchell, Robert L. Crowson, and Dorothy Shipps (eds.) (2011).  Shaping Education Policy:  Power and Process. New York:  Routledge.

Robert Crowson, Douglas Mitchell, and Dorothy Shipps (eds.) (2011), A Commemorative Issue:   “A Fifty- Year Retrospective on Education Politics and Policy: Examining the Intellectual Leadership of William Lowe Boyd,” Peabody Journal of Education, Volume 86, Number 4.

CHAPTERS IN BOOKS

William Lowe Boyd and Robert L. Crowson (1981). “The Changing Conception and Practice of Educational Administration,” in David C. Berliner (ed), Review of Research in Education, Vol. 9 (Washington, D.C.: American Educational Research Association):  311-373.

Robert L. Crowson (1982), “The Desegregation of School Administrators:  Reactions and Adjustments of Transferred Principals,” in George W. Noblit and Bill Johnston (eds..), The School Principal and School Desegregation (Springfield, Ill.:  Charles E. Thomas Publisher):  96-112.

R. Bruce McPherson and Robert L. Crowson (1987),”Sources of Constraint and Opportunities for Discretion in the Principalship,” in Jack Lane and Herbert J. Walberg (eds..), Effective School Administration, (Chicago:  National Society for the Study of Education Contemporary Education Series).

Robert L. Crowson and R. Bruce McPherson (1987),”The Legacy of the Theory Movement:  Learning from the New Tradition,” In Joseph Murphy and Philip Hallinger (eds..), Approaches to Administrative Training (Albany, N.Y.:  SUNY Press):  39-53.

Robert L. Crowson (1987), “Qualitative Research Methods in Higher Education.”  In J. C. Smart (ed.),  Higher Education:  Handbook of Theory and Research, Vol. III, (New York:  Agathon Press, Inc.):  1-56.

Robert L. Crowson and Jane Hannaway (1988), “Introduction and Overview:  The Politics of Reforming School Administration,” in Jane Hannaway and Robert L. Crowson (eds..), The Politics of Reforming School Administration, (London:  Taylor & Francis, Ltd.).

Jonathan Z. Shapiro and Robert L. Crowson (1990), “Rational Choice Theory and Administrative Decision Making:  Implications for Research in Educational Administration.”  In Samuel B. Bacharach (Ed.), Advances in Research and Theories of School Management and Educational Policy:  A Research Annual. (Greenwich, CT:  JAI Press, Inc), pp. 279-301.

Robert L. Crowson and Van Cleve Morris (1991), “The Superintendency and School Leadership,” in Paul W. Thurston and Philip P. Zodhiates (eds..), Advances in Educational Administration,  (Greenwich, CT:  JAI Press),  pp. 191-215.

Robert L. Crowson and William Lowe Boyd (1992), “Urban Schools as Organizations:  Political Perspectives.”  In J. Cibulka, R. Reed, and K. Wong (Eds..), The Politics of Urban Education in the United States.  The 1991 Yearbook of the Politics of Education Association, (London:  Taylor & Francis, Ltd.).

Robert L. Crowson, Mark A. Smylie, and Victoria Chou Hare (1993), “Administrative Issues in Coordinated Children’s Services:  A Chicago Case Study.”  In R. Levin (ed.), Greater Than the Sum:  Professionals in a Comprehensive Services Model.  (Washington,  D.C.:  ERIC Clearinghouse on Teacher Education).

R. Bruce McPherson and Robert L. Crowson (1994), “The Principal as Mini-Superintendent Under Chicago School Reform.”  In. J. Murphy and K.S. Louis (eds..), Reshaping the Principalship:  Insights from Transformational Reform Efforts, (Newberry Park, CA:  Corwin Press), pp. 57-76.

Robert L. Crowson and William Lowe Boyd, (1995).  “Restructuring Schools for Children’s Services Coordination:  A ‘New Institutionalism’ Perspective.”  In K.K. Wong (ed.),  Advances in Educational Policy.  Vol. 1 (Greenwich, CT:  JAI press), pp. 213-241.

W.L. Boyd and R.L. Crowson, (1995).  “Integration of Services for Children:  A Political Economy Perspective.” In L.C. Rigsby, M.C. Reynolds and M.C. Wang (Eds..), School-Community Connections:  Exploring Issues for Research and Practice.  San Francisco:  Jossey-Bass, pp. 121-141.

William L. Boyd, Robert L. Crowson, and Tyll van Geel, (1995) “Rational Choice Theory and the Politics of Education: Promise and Limitations.”  In J. D. Scribner and D. H. Layton eds..), The Study of Educational Politics. 1994 Yearbook of the Politics of Education Association (London: Falmer Press), pp. 127-145.

R.L. Crowson, and W. L. Boyd.  (1996). “Structures and Strategies:  Toward an Understanding of  Alternative Models for Coordinated Children’s Services.” In J. Cibulka and W.J.. Kritek (Eds..), Coordination Among Schools, Families and Communities:  Prospects for Educational Reform.  Albany, NY: SUNY Press, pp. 137-169.

Mark A. Smylie, Robert L. Crowson, Victoria Chou, and Rebekah Levin (1996), “The Principal and Community-School Connections in Chicago’s Radical Reform,” in J. Cibulka and W.J. Kritek (eds.), Coordinatio Among Schools, Families and Communities:  Prospects for Educational Reform.  Albany, NY:  SUNY Press,  pp. 171-195.

Robert L. Crowson, William L. Boyd, and Hanne B. Mawhinney (1996), “Introduction and Overview: The New Institutionalism and the Politics of Reinventing the American School.” In R.L. Crowson, W.L. Boyd, and H.B. Mawhinney (eds..), The Politics of Education and the New Institutionalism:  Reinventing the American School. (London: Falmer Press), pp. 1-6.

Robert L. Crowson and William L. Boyd (1996), “The Politics of Education, the New Institutionalism, and Reinvented Schooling:  Some Concluding Observations.”  In R. Crowson,  W.L. Boyd and H. Mawhinney (eds..), The Politics of Education and the New Institutionalism:  Reinventing the American School.  The 1995 Politics of Education Yearbook.  (London: Falmer Press), 1996, pp. 203-214.

Robert L. Crowson (1996), “Systemic Reform in School Governance: A Commentary,” in K.K. Wong (ed.), Advances in Educational Policy:  Rethinking School Reform in Chicago. Vol.2 (Greenwich, CT: JAI Press), pp. 215-221.

Robert L. Crowson and William Lowe Boyd (1996), “Implications of Restructuring and Site-level Decentralization upon District-level Leadership,” in M. Barber and R. Dann (eds..).  Raising Educational Standards in the Inner Cities:  Practical Initiatives in Action. (London: Cassell), pp. 145-168.

Mary Erina Driscoll, William Lowe Boyd, and Robert L. Crowson (1997), “Collaborative Services Initiatives: Report of a National Survey of Programs, “in Geneva D. Haertel and Margaret C. Wang (eds..) Coordination, Cooperation, Collaboration:  What We Know About School-Linked Services.  Philadelphia: Temple University, Laboratory for Student Success, Mid-Atlantic Regional Educational Laboratory, pp. 49-88.

William Lowe Boyd, Robert L. Crowson and Aaron Gresson (1997), “Neighborhood Initiatives, Community Agencies, and the Public Schools: A Changing Scene for the Development and Learning of Children,” in Margaret C. Wang and Maynard C. Reynolds (eds..), Development and Learning of Children and Youth in Urban America.   Philadelphia: Temple University Center for Research in Human Development and Education,  pp. 81-103.

Robert L. Crowson and William Lowe Boyd (1998), “New Roles for Community Services in Educational Reform.” In A. Hargreaves,  A Lieberman, M. Fullan, and D. Hopkins (eds.), International Handbook of Educational Change,  Part Two. (Dordrecht, The Netherlands:  Kluwer Academic Publishers, pp.877-892).

Rodney T. Ogawa, Ellen B. Goldring, and Robert L. Crowson (1999), “Enduring Dilemmas in School Organization.” In J. Murphy and K.S. Louis (eds..), The Handbook of Research on Educational Administration, Second edition.   (San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, pp. 277- 295).

Berta Laden, Jeffrey Milem, and Robert L. Crowson (2000), “New Institutional Theory and Student Departure.” In John M. Braxton (ed.), Rethinking the Departure Puzzle:  New Theory and Research on College Student Retention.   (Nashville: Vanderbilt University Press, pp. 235-256).

Robert L. Crowson (2001),  “Community Development and School Reform:  An Overview,” in R.L. Crowson (ed.),  Community Development and School Reform.  (London:  Elsevier Science, Ltd.), pp. 1-18.

William Lowe Boyd and Robert L. Crowson (2001), “Full-Service Schooling:  The U.S.           Experience,” in S. Riddell and L. Tett (ed.), Education, Social Justice and Inter-Agency Working:  Joined Up or Fractured Policy.  Glasgow:  University of Glasgow Press, pp. 58-69.

Robert L. Crowson (2001), “An Overview:  Community Development and School Reform,” in R.L. Crowson (ed.), Community Development and School Reform.  (London:  Elsevier Science, Ltd., pp. 1-18).

Robert L. Crowson (2003), “Empowerment Models for Interprofessional Collaboration,” in M.M. Brabeck,  M.E. Walsh & R.E. Latta (eds.), Meeting at the Hyphen:  Schools-Universities-Communities-Professions in Collaboration for Student Achievement and Well Being.  One hundred second Yearbook of the National Society for the Study of Education (NSSE), Part II. Chicago:  University of Chicago Press, pp. 74-93.

Robert L. Crowson and Moses Oketch (2004), “Within-District Service Inequalities in Urban Areas:  Political Challenges and Educational Consequences,” in Kenneth Wong and Karen DeMoss (eds.), Money, Politics, and Law:  Intersections and Conflicts in the Provision of Educational Opportunity,  2004 Yearbook of the American Educational Finance Association (AEFA).  Cambridge, MA:  Eye on Education, Inc., pp. 197-212.

Robert L. Crowson and Ellen B. Goldring (2010), “School Community Relations,” The International Encyclopedia of Education, 3^rd edition., B. McGaw, P. Peterson, & E. Baker (eds.), Oxford, UK:  Elsevier Ltd., pp. 106-112.

Robert L. Crowson and Ellen B. Goldring (2010),  “The New Localism in American Education:  Introduction and Overview,” in R.L. Crowson and E.B. Goldring (eds.), The New Localism in American Education, 108^th Yearbook, Volume I, National Society for the Study of Education Yearbook.  New York:  Teachers College, Columbia University.

Robert L. Crowson, Claire E. Smrekar, and Jo Bennett, (2011), “Education as Civic Good: Children’s Services Perspectives,” in D. Mitchell, R. Crowson, & D. Shipps, (eds.), Shaping Education Policy:  Power and Process.  New York:  Routledge, pp. 238-256.

Douglas E. Mitchell, Dorothy Shipps, and Robert Crowson (2011),”What Have We Learned About Shaping Education Policy? In D. Mitchell, R. Crowson, & D. Shipps (eds.), Shaping Education Policy:  Power and Process.  New York:  Routledge, pp. 286-296.

ARTICLES IN REFEREED JOURNALS (* denotes refereed)

C. Philip Kearney, Robert L. Crowson, and Thomas P. Wilbur (1970, Winter), “The Michigan Assessment of Education,” Michigan Journal of Secondary Education, Vol. 11, No. 2, pp. 15-27.

C. Philip Kearney, Robert L. Crowson, and Thomas P. Wilbur (1970, February), “Improved Information for Educational Decision-Making:  The Michigan Assessment Program,” Administrator’s Notebook, Midwest Administration Center, The University of Chicago, Vol. XVIII, No. 6, pp. 1-4.

Robert L. Crowson, Thomas P. Wilbur, and Robert J. Huyser (1970, October), “The 1969-70 Michigan Assessment Program:  A Summary of Major Findings,” The Michigan School Board Journal, Vol. VIII, No. 8, pp. 12+.

Robert L. Crowson, “Implementing Accountability (1974, June),” Administrator’s Notebook, Midwest Administration Center, The University of Chicago, Vol. XXII, No. 5, pp. 1-4.

Robert L. Crowson (1974, Fall), “State Administrative Politics in Education:  A Case Study of State-Local Interaction in Michigan,” Politics of Education Bulletin, Vol. 5, No. 1.

Robert L. Crowson (1975, May), “Educational Planning and Models of Decision-Making,” Educational Planning, The Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, Vol. 2, No. 1, pp. 57-63.*

Robert L. Crowson (1975, Summer), “The Politics of Program Implementation at the State Level:  A Case Study of Compensatory Education in Michigan,” Planning and Changing, Vol. 6, No. 2, pp. 94-111.*

Robert L. Crowson (1976, March), “Educational Planning and School Reform:  A Report on West Germany,” Educational Planning, The Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, Vol. 2, No. 4, pp. 53-63.*

Robert L. Crowson (1977, March), ” Hills v. Gautreaux Implications for Education,” Phi Delta Kappan, Vol, 58, No. 7, pp. 550-552.

Robert L. Crowson and Cynthia Porter-Gehrie (1980, Winter), “The Discretionary Behavior of Principals in Large-City Schools,” Educational Administration Quarterly, Vol. 16, No. 1, pp. 45-69.*

Robert L. Crowson and Cynthia Porter-Gehrie (1981, Spring), “The School Principalship:  An Organizational Stability Role,” Planning and Changing, Vol. 12, No. 1, pp. 26-53.*

Van Cleve Morris, Robert L. Crowson, Emanuel Hurwitz, Jr., and Cynthia Porter-Gehrie (1982, June), “The Urban Principal:  Middle Manager in the Educational Bureaucracy,” Phi Delta Kappan, Vol. 63, No. 10, pp. 689-692.

Robert L. Crowson and Van Cleve Morris (1985, Fall), “Administrative Control in Large-City School Systems:  An Investigation in Chicago,” Educational Administration Quarterly, Vol. 21, No. 4, pp. 51-70.*

R. Bruce McPherson, Robert L. Crowson,  and Patricia A. Brieschke (1986, April), “Marjorie Stallings:  A Walk Through a Mine Field,” Urban Education, Vol. 21, no. 1:  pp. 62-85.*

Robert L. Crowson (1987, August), “The Local School District Superintendency:  A Puzzling Administrative Role,” Educational Administration Quarterly, Vol. 23, No. 3:  pp. 49-69.*

Robert L. Crowson and Van Cleve Morris (1987, Fall), “The Superintendency and School Reform:  An Exploratory Study.”  Metropolitan Education, No. 5:  pp. 24-39.*

Robert L. Crowson (1989, January), “Managerial Ethics in Urban Education:  The Rational Choice Approach, Urban Education, Vol. 23, No. 4:  412-435.*

Robert L. Crowson (1988, Summer), “Editor’s Introduction: The Local School District Superintendency Under Reform.” Peabody Journal of Education, Vol. 65, No. 4: pp. 1-7.  (Published in Summer, 1990).

Robert L. Crowson and Van Cleve Morris (1992), “The Superintendency and School Effectiveness:  An Organizational Hierarchy Perspective.”  School Effectiveness and School Improvement, 3 (1): 69-88.*

Robert L. Crowson and William Lowe Boyd (1991), “Urban Schools as Organizations:  Political Perspectives,” Journal of Education Policy, 6 (5), pp. 87-104.*

Mark A. Smylie and Robert L. Crowson (1993, Winter), “Principal Assessment Under Restructured Governance.”  Peabody Journal of Education (Special issue edited by N.S. Glasman and R.H. Heck:  New Ways to Assess the Performance of School Principals, Vol. 68, No. 2:  64-84.

Robert L. Crowson and William Lowe Boyd (1993, February), “Coordinated Services for Children:  Designing Arks for Storms and Seas Unknown.”  American Journal of Education, Vol. 101, No.2: 140-179.*

Robert L. Crowson (1994), “School-Community Relations.”  In T. Husen and T.W. Postlethwaite (eds..). International Encyclopedia of Education, Second Edition.  Vol. 9.  London: Pergamon Press,  pp. 5211-5217.*

William Lowe Boyd, Robert L. Crowson, and Tyll van Geel (1994, September-December), “Rational Choice Theory and the Politics of Education:  Promise and Limitations.”  Journal of Education Policy, vol. 9, nos. 5-6:  127-145.*

Mark A. Smylie, Robert L. Crowson, Victoria Chou, and Rebekah Levin (1994, August), “The Principal and Community-School Connections in Chicago’s Radical Reform.”  Educational Administration Quarterly, Vol. 30, No. 3: 342-364.*  Also published as a chapter in J. Cibulka and W.J. Kritek (Eds..), Coordination Among Schools, Families and Communities:  Prospects for Educational Reform. Albany: SUNY Press (1996).

Mark A. Smylie and Robert L. Crowson, (1996, March) “Working Within the Scripts: Building Institutional Infrastructure for Children’s Service Coordination in Schools,” Educational Policy, 10 (1), 3-21.*

Robert L. Crowson and William L. Boyd (1996, June),”Achieving Coordinated School-Linked Services:  Facilitating Utilization of the Emerging Knowledge Base.”  Educational Policy, 10 (2), 253-272.*

Robert L. Crowson (1998), “Community Empowerment and the Public Schools:  Can Educational Professionalism Survive?” in Peabody Journal of Education, (Mary E. Driscoll, ed.), Vol.73, No. 1, pp.56-68.

Robert L. Crowson (2000), “The Home Schooling Movement:  A Few Concluding Observations,” in Susan McDowell and Brian Ray, eds., Peabody Journal of Education, Vol. 75, No. 2, pp. 294-300.

Robert L. Crowson, Kenneth K. Wong, and Ahmet Aypay (2000, May), “The Quiet Reform in American Education:  Policy Issues and Conceptual Challenges in the School-to-Work Transition,” Educational Policy, Vol. 14, No. 2, pp. 241-258.*

Naftaly S. Glasman and Robert L. Crowson (2001), “Reexamining Relations and a Sense of Place Between Schools and Their Constituents:  Editors’ Introduction,” in Naftaly Glasman and Robert Crowson, eds., Peabody  Journal of Education, 76(2), pp. 1-8.

Robert L. Crowson and William Lowe Boyd (2001), “The New Role of Community Development in Educational Reform,” in Naftaly Glasman and Robert L. Crowson, eds., Peabody Journal of Education, Vol. 76, No. 2, pp. 9-29.

William Lowe Boyd and Robert L. Crowson (2002, November), “The Quest for a New Hierarchy in Education:  From Loose Coupling Back to Tight?” Journal of Educational Administration, Vol. 40, No. 6, pp. 521-533.*

Andrew J. Finch and Robert L. Crowson (2003), “Neighborhoods,” in J.W. Guthrie (ed.), The Encyclopedia of Education, Second edition.  New York:  MacMillan, pp. 1793-1796.*

Robert L. Crowson (2003), “School-Linked Services:  Types of Service and Organizational Forms,” in J.W. Guthrie (ed.), The Encyclopedia of Education, Second edition.  New York:  MacMillan, pp. 2141-2145.*

Robert L. Crowson (2003), “The Turbulent Policy Environment in Education:  Implications for School Administration and Accountability,” Peabody Journal of Education, 78(4), 29-43.

Ellen Goldring, Robert Crowson, David Laird and Robert Berk (2003, Winter), “Transition Leadership in a Shifting Policy Environment,” Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis., 24(4), 473-488.  (Published in Spring, 2004) .*

Robert L. Crowson, Douglas E. Mitchell, & Dorothy Shipps (2011), “Introduction:  The Evolving Field of Educational Politics and Policy, 1957 to 2008,” in R. Crowson, D. Mitchell, & D. Shipps (eds.), Peabody Journal of Education, 86(4), pp. 359-366.

Douglas E. Mitchell, Robert L. Crowson & Dorothy Shipps (2011), “Shaping the Education Policy Dialogue,” Peabody Journal of Education, 86(4), pp. 367-372.

Robert L. Crowson (2011), “The Study of Bureaucracy in Urban Education:  Bill Boyd  Organizational Dynamics of Large-City School Systems,” in R. Crowson, D. Mitchell, and D. Shipps (eds.), Peabody Journal of Education, 86(4), pp. 464-478.

Robert L. Crowson and Corey Bunje Bower (2011), “Community Relations,” in Oxford Bibliographies Online, ScholarOne Books site at http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/obo.*

BOOK REVIEWS

Robert L. Crowson (1978, Spring), “Towards Equality Through Preferential Public Policy,” A Review Essay of Affirmative Discrimination, by Nathan Glazer, Educational Studies, Vol. 28, No. 2, pp. 156-161.

Robert L. Crowson (1985, Spring), Book Review of David Rogers and Norman H Chung, ” 110 Livingston Street Revisited: Decentralization in Action,” reviewed in Educational Studies, Vol. 16, No. 1, pp. 88-91.

Robert L. Crowson (1986, Summer), Book Review of Ralph Kimbrough, Ethics:  A Course of Study for Educational Leaders, reviewed in Educational Studies, Vol. 17, No. 2: pp. 230-233.

Robert L. Crowson (2001, February),  Review of Kay Wright Springate and Dolores A. Stegelin, Building School and Community Partnerships Through Parent Involvement, reviewed in  Teachers College Record, Vol. 103, No. 1, pp. 87-89.

RESEARCH REPORTS

Robert L. Crowson (1967), “An Experiment in Independent Learning:  Findings and Conclusions,” Report of the Independent Learning Project, in Ernest N. Poll (ed.), The University of Chicago.

Van Cleve Morris, Robert L. Crowson, Emanuel Hurwitz, Jr., and Cynthia Porter-Gehrie (1981, March), The Urban Principal:  Discretionary Decision-Making in a Large Educational Organization, A report of research funded by the National Institute of Education, University of Illinois at Chicago.

Van Cleve Morris and Robert L. Crowson (1981), “The Principal and Instructional Management,” in Steven T. Bossert (ed.), Principal Leadership:  Four Think Pieces, Far West Laboratory for Educational Research and Development, San Francisco.

Robert L. Crowson and Van Cleve Morris (1989), “The Superintendency and School Leadership,” A Report of Research prepared for the National Center on School Leadership.

Robert L. Crowson and Thomas E. Glass (1991), “The Changing Role of the Local School District Superintendent in the United States.” Occasional Papers:  School Leadership and Education Reform.  National Center for School Leadership, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Robert L. Crowson and William Lowe Boyd (1992), “Coordinated Services for Children:  Designing Arks for Storms and Seas Unknown.”  A report prepared for the National Center for Education in the Inner-Cities, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA.

Robert L. Crowson and William Lowe Boyd (1993), “Structures and Strategies:  Towards an Understanding of Alternative Models for Coordinated Childrens’ Services.”  A Report prepared for the National Center for Education in the Inner-Cities, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA.

Robert L. Crowson and William Lowe Boyd (1993), “Implications of Restructuring and Site-Level Decentralization upon District-Level Leadership. ” A report prepared for the National Center for School Leadership, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Robert L. Crowson (1994, May), “Schools/Communities: Strengthening the Ties.”  A report prepared  for Synthesis, Vol. 4, No. 1, Illinois State Board of Education, Department of Planning, Research, and Evaluation.

Mary E. Driscoll, William L. Boyd, and Robert L. Crowson (1996), “Collaborative Services Initiatives: Report of a National Survey of Program Directors.”  A report prepared for the National Center for Education in the Inner-Cities, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA.

Mary E. Driscoll, Robert L. Crowson, and William L. Boyd (1996), “What We Know About Program Directors: Policy Implications of a National Survey of Directors of Collaborative Service Programs,” A report prepared for the National Center for Education in the Inner Cities, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA.

Robert L. Crowson and William L. Boyd (1996), “Achieving Coordinated School-Linked Services:  Problems and Prospects.” A report prepared for the National Center for Education in the Inner-Cities, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA.

William L. Boyd, Robert L. Crowson and Aaron Gresson (1997), “Neighborhood Initiatives, Community Agencies and the Public Schools: A Changing Scene for the Development and Learning of Children.” A report of the Empowerment Zone/Enterprise Community Task Force, Washington, D.C., U.S. Department of Education.

INVITED PRESENTATIONS

Invited Participant, Chicago Conference on State-Local Relations in Education, Spring 1974.

Principal Speaker, Special Northwestern University Conference on State Agencies and Urban   Education, September 19, 1974.

Invited Speaker, the 20th Annual Education Conference of the Chicago Principals’ Association, Chicago, March 31, 1977.

Invited Participant, the Urban Superintendent’s Study Group planning meeting, Washington, D.C., April 24, 1981.

Invited Seminar Leader, University of Oregon seminar on Administrative Leadership, July 1981.

Invited Participant, National Invitational Conference on the Principalship, National Institute of Education, Washington, D.C., October 20-22, 1982.

Invited Speaker, Triple I Conference on Teaching and Learning,  March 18, 1983, Itasca, Illinois.

Invited Speaker, Chicago Area Alliance of Black School Educators, February 11, 1984.

Invited Speaker, North Central Association, 1984 Annual Meeting, Chicago, Illinois, March 26,1984.

Invited Speaker, North Central Association, 1985 Annual Meeting, Chicago, Illinois, March 17, 1985.

Invited Speaker, “The Future of the Principalship”, Illinois  Principals Association, May, 1986.

Invited Speaker, “The Effective Principal:  Research, Myth, and Reality,” Chicago Area School Effectiveness Council, May, 1987.

Invited Speaker, Chicago Principals Association Annual Conference, March, 1987.

Invited Speaker/participant, Invitational Colloquium on Multilevel Analysis of Education Effects, Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, British Columbia, October, 1988.

Invited Speaker, “Rational Choice Theory and the School Administrator,” University of Chicago Seminar, February, 1989.

Speaker, The 1989 National Invitational Conference on School Leadership, Urbana, Illinois, June 8, 1989.

Speaker, Invitational Conference on Site-Based Management, National Center for School Leadership, Pittsburgh, PA, October 27-28, 1990.

Invited Participant and Speaker:  Blue Ribbon Commission Planning Meeting, National Commission on Urban Superintendency, jointly sponsored by the National Center for School Leadership and the North Central Regional Educational Laboratory, Oakbrook, IL, June 29-30, 1991.

Invited Speaker:  Conversation on Urban Public High Schools: Decentralization and School-Based Management, sponsored by the School District of Philadelphia and the Pew Charitable Trusts, Philadelphia, PA, March, 1992.

Speaker and Participant, Center for Education in the Inner-Cities, Invitational Conference on Resilience, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA, January, 1992.

Invited Speaker, “Preparing School Administrators for Managing Coordinated Children’s Service Programs.”  Address sponsored by the National Center for School Leadership and the College of Education,University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, March 23, 1992.

Speaker and participant, Center for Education in the Inner-Cities,,Invitational Conference on School Community Connections, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA, October, 1992.

Invited speaker, “The Central Office Role in Decentralized Large City Schooling.”  Chicago, Illinois, First National Plaza, Donors Forum, June 11, 1993.

Invited Presenter, Workshop on School-Community Relations, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, November 10-11, 1993.

Presenter and participant Center for Education in the Inner Cities Invitational Conference on “Improving Urban Schools: Better Strategies for the Dissemination and Utilization of Knowledge,” Alexandria, VA, September 9-10, 1994.

Invited Institute Presenter, Vanderbilt International Institute for Principals, July, 1995.

Invited Discussant, “Conceptualizing Power in the Administration and Reform of Education,” Annual Conference of the Canadian Society for the study of Education, St. Catherines, Ontario, June 4-7, 1996.

Discussion Leader, “Systemic Reform and Its Consequences: Theoretical and Empirical Perspectives,” Annual Meeting of the University Council for Educational Administration (UCEA), Louisville, KY, October 25-27, 1996.

Presenter and participant, National Invitational Conference on Development and Learning of Children and Youth in Urban America, Washington, D.C., October 2-4, 1996.

Invited Member, Clark Seminar Faculty, The Twenty-fourth Annual National Graduate Student Research Seminar in Educational Administration & Policy, Chicago, IL, April 25-26, 2003.

Invited Participant and Presenter, Summer Institute for Independent School Administrative Teams, Peabody College, Vanderbilt University, June 13-15, 2005

PAPERS READ AT PROFESSIONAL CONFERENCES

Robert L. Crowson and Thomas P. Wilbur (1970, March), “The Purpose of the Michigan Assessment of Education,” Paper presented at AERA, Minneapolis.

Thomas P. Wilbur, Robert L. Crowson, and Philip H. Hawkins (1971, February), “The Michigan Assessment of Education, 1969-70:  A Summary of Results,” Paper Presented at AERA, New York .

Robert L. Crowson (1974, September), “State Authority and Local Autonomy:  An Assessment of Intergovernmental Relations in Education,” A Paper presented at the Northwestern University Conference on State Education Agencies and Urban Education.

Robert L. Crowson (1975, April), “The Politics of Implementing State Grant-in-Aid Laws:  The Michigan Compensatory Education Experience,” Paper presented at the American Educational Research Association (AERA), Washington, D.C..

Robert L. Crowson (1977, March), “The Urban Principal:  A Study in Education Policy,” Paper presented at American Education Studies Association Symposium, Chicago.

Robert L. Crowson (1977, March), “Planning for Educational Change,”  Paper presented at the 20th Annual Education Conference of the Chicago Principals’ Association, Chicago.

Cynthia Porter-Gehrie, Robert L. Crowson, Emanuel Hurwitz, and Van Cleve Morris (1978, March), “The Urban Principalship:  Report on an Ethnographic Study of School Administration in Chicago,” Paper presented at AERA, Toronto.

Robert L. Crowson (1978, October), “The Discretionary Behavior of Principals in Large-City Schools,” Paper presented at annual conference of the American Education Studies Association (AESA), Washington, D.C.

Robert L. Crowson (1979, April), “Managing Principal Desegregation:  The Reaction and Adjustment Process,” Paper presented at AERA, San Francisco.

Robert L. Crowson (1980, April), “Policy Implementation in Large-City Schools:  A Study of the Role of the Principal,” Paper presented at AERA, Boston.

Cynthia Porter-Gehrie and Robert L. Crowson (1980, April), “Analyzing Ethnographic Data – Strategies and Results:  The Chicago Experience,” Paper presented at AERA.

Robert L. Crowson and Van Cleve Morris (1980, November), “Loose Coupling and Creative Insubordination,” Paper presented at the annual conference of the American Educational Studies Association (AESA), Colorado Springs.

Robert L. Crowson (1981, April), “Discretionary Decision-Making:  Stabilization and Enhancement, The Manager’s Balancing Act,” Paper presented at AERA, Los Angeles.

Robert L. Crowson and Van Cleve Morris (1982, March), “The Principal’s Role in Organizational Goal-Attainment:  Discretionary Management at the School Site Level,” Paper presented at AERA, New York.

Robert L. Crowson and Van Cleve Morris (1983, November), “The Urban Principal:  Research Conclusions,” Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of AESA Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

Robert L. Crowson and Van Cleve Morris (1984, April), “Administrative Control in Large-City School Systems:  An Investigation in Chicago,” Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of AERA, New Orleans.

Robert L. Crowson and Jonathan Z. Shapiro (1985, April), “Rational Choice Theory and Administrative Decision-Making:  Implications for Research in Education Administration,” Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of AERA, Chicago.

Robert L. Crowson (1986, April), “Managerial Ethics in Educational Administration:  The Rational Choice Approach,” Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of AERA, San Francisco.

Robert L. Crowson, and Van Cleve Morris (1987, April), “The Superintendency and School Reform:  An Exploratory Study,” Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of AERA, Washington, D.C.

Robert L. Crowson (1988, October), “Rational Choice Theory and the School Administrator.”  Paper presented at an Invitational Colloquium, Vancouver, British Columbia.

Robert L. Crowson and Van Cleve Morris (1990, April), “The Superintendency and School Leadership,” Paper prepared for presentation at the Annual Meeting of AERA, Boston.

Robert L. Crowson and Thomas E. Glass (1991, March), “The Changing Role of the Local School District Superintendent in the United States.”  Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of AERA, Chicago.

Mark A. Smylie, Robert L. Crowson, and Jean Brownlee-Conyers (1991, March), “When Teachers Make District-Level Decisions:  A Case Study,” Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of AERA, Chicago.

Robert L. Crowson, Mark A. Smylie, and Victoria Chou Hare (1992, April), “Administrative Issues in Coordinated Children’s Services:  A Chicago Case Study,”  Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of AERA, San Francisco.

Robert L. Crowson and William L. Boyd (1992, April), “Urban Schools as Organizations:  Political Perspectives.”  Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of AERA, San Francisco.

Robert L. Crowson (1992, April), “Organizational Economics and its Application to Educational Administration.”  Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of AERA, San Francisco.

Mark A. Smylie, Jean Brownlee-Conyers and Robert L. Crowson (1992, April), “Teachers’ Responses to Teacher-Made Decisions:  The Nexus of Participatory Decisionmaking and Student Learning Opportunities.” Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of AERA, San Francisco.

Mark A. Smylie, Robert L. Crowson, and Victoria C. Hare (1992, October), “The Principal and School Level Administration of Coordinated Children’s Services.”  Paper presented at the Sixth Annual UCEA Convention, Minneapolis, Minnesota.

William L. Boyd and Robert L. Crowson (1992, October), “Integration of Services for Children:  A Political Economy of Institutions Perspective.”  Paper presented at an Invitational Conference on School Community Connections.”  Temple University, Philadelphia, PA.

R. Bruce McPherson and Robert L. Crowson (1992, November), “Creating Schools that ‘Work’ Under Chicago Reform:  The Adaptations of Building Principals.”  Paper presented at the Sixth Annual UCEA Convention, Minneapolis, Minnesota.

John Smart and Robert Crowson (1993, April), “Organizational Culture and Effectiveness in Higher Education.”  Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of AERA, Atlanta.

Mark A. Smylie, Robert L. Crowson, Victoria Chou Hare, and Rebekah Levin (1993, April), “Community-School Connections in Chicago’s Radical Reform.”  Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of AERA, Atlanta.

Mark A. Smylie and  Robert L. Crowson (1993, October), “Developing the Institutional Infrastructure for Children’s Service Coordination:  A Chicago Experiment.”  Paper presented at the Seventh Annual UCEA Convention, Houston, Texas.

Robert L. Crowson and William L. Boyd (1994, April), “Structures and Strategies: Toward an Understanding of Alternative Models of Coordinated Children’s Services.”  Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of AERA, New Orleans.

Robert L. Crowson (1994, April), “Leadership and the Superintendency: A Reform-Minded Perspective.” Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of AERA, New Orleans.

R. Bruce McPherson and Robert L. Crowson (1994, April), “The Principal as Minisuperintendent Under Chicago Reform.”  Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of AERA, New Orleans.

Mark Smylie and Robert L. Crowson (1994, April), “Principal Assessment Under Restructured Governance.” Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of AERA, New Orleans.

Robert L. Crowson and William L. Boyd (1994, September), “Achieving Coordinated School-Linked Services: Facilitating Utilization of the Emerging Knowledge Base.”  Paper presented at an International Conference on Improving Urban Schools.

Robert L. Crowson and William L. Boyd (1995, April), “Service Coordination Networks and the Promise of Organizational Change.”  Paper presented at the annual meeting of AERA, San Francisco.

Robert L. Crowson and William L. Boyd (1995, April), “The Constraints to Coordinating Services for Children:  A New Institutionalism Perspective.”  Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of AERA, San Francisco.

William L. Boyd, Robert L. Crowson, and Tyll van Geel (1995, April), “Rational Choice Theory and the Politics of Education:  Promise and Limitations.”  Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of AERA, San Francisco.

Robert L. Crowson (1995, April), “Synthesis of Systemic Reform in Governance.”  Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of AERA, San Francisco.

Robert L. Crowson (1995, June), Presenter in “An International Dialogue on Challenges in Forming School-Community Links,” at the Annual Meeting of the Canadian Association for Studies in Education, Montreal.

Mary E. Driscoll, William L. Boyd, and Robert L. Crowson (1995, October), “Collaborative Services kInitiatives: Results of a National Survey of Program Directors.”  Paper presented at the ninth annual UCEA Convention, Salt Lake City.

Robert L. Crowson and William L. Boyd (1996, April), “Rational Choice in an Institutional Context.” Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of AERA, New York.

Mary E. Driscoll, William L. Boyd, and Robert L. Crowson (1996. April). “Collaborative Services Initiatives: Report of a National Survey of Program Directors.” Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of AERA, New York.

William L. Boyd, Robert L. Crowson, and Aaron Gresson (1996, October), “Neighborhood Initiatives, Community Agencies, and the Public Schools: A Changing Scene for the Development and Learning of Children.”  Paper presented at an Invitational Conference on Development and Learning of Children and Youth in Urban Communities, Washington, D.C.

William L. Boyd, Robert L. Crowson, and Mary E. Driscoll (1997, January), “The Quest for Coordinated, School-Linked Services for Children. Findings and Implications From a Five-Year National Study.” Paper presented at the Tenth International Congress for School Effectiveness and Improvement, Memphis, TN.

Robert L. Crowson and Claire E. Smrekar (1997, October), “Community Development and School Reform: Implications of New Models of the Community Relationship.”  Presentation at the Annual Meeting of UCEA, Orlando.

Rodney Ogawa, Robert L. Crowson and Ellen Goldring (1998, April), “Enduring Dilemmas of School Organization.”  Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of AERA, San Diego.

Robert L. Crowson and Kenneth Wong (1998, April), “Re-examining Transitional Links from School to Vocation: Some Foundations in Policy-Related Theorizing.”  Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of AERA, San Diego.

Robert L. Crowson (1998, October), ” Policy Issues in the School-to-Work Transition, ” Paper presentation at the Annual Meeting of UCEA, St. Louis.

Robert L. Crowson (1999, April), “The Turbulent Policy Environment in Education,” Invited Address, Divisions A and L, Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association (AERA), Montreal.

Robert L. Crowson (1999, October), “City Managers and the Schools:  Accountability Amid the New Politics of Mayoral Involvement in Education,”  Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of UCEA, Minneapolis.

Robert L. Crowson, William Lowe Boyd, and Ahmet Aypay (2000, April), “Re-examining Theoretical Foundations in the School-Community Relationship,” Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of AERA, New Orleans.

William Lowe Boyd, Robert L. Crowson, and Andrew J. Finch (2001, April), “Loose Coupling and Organized Anarchies Revisited:  The Quest for a New Theory of Hierarchy.”  Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of AERA, Seattle.

Ellen Goldring and Robert Crowson (2001, April), “School Leadership and the Micropolitics of Dismantling Court-Ordered Desegregation.”  Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of AERA, Seattle.

Ellen Goldring, Robert Crowson, David Laird & Robert Berk (2002, April), “Unmaking Desegregation Policy and ‘Going Unitary’:  The Loss of a Sense of Place.”  Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of AERA, New Orleans.

Robert L. Crowson and Moses Oketch (2004), “Within-District Service Inequities in Urban Areas:  Political Challenges and Educational Consequenes.”  Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of AERA, San Diego.

Robert L. Crowson (2005, November), “Mayoral Control and Issues of Organizational Hierarchy.”  Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the University Council for Educational Administration (UCEA), Nashville, TN.

Robert L. Crowson,  Claire Smrekar, and Jo Bennett (2010).  “Education as Civic Good:  Efforts to Improve the System,”  Paper accepted for presentation at the Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association (AERA), Denver.

IV. RESEARCH GRANTS

Member, Study Team, The Michigan School Finance Study, Directed by  Dr. J. Alan Thomas, The University of Chicago, 1967.

Consultant, Northwestern University, Center for Urban Affairs Study of State-Local Relations in Education, Funded by Illinois Department of Education, Fall 1974.

Study of the Politics of Educational Planning and Reform, Federal Republic of Germany, Supported by a Senior Fulbright-Hays Research/Travel Grant, Summer 1975.

Principal investigator in the award of fellowship and institutional development grants under Title IX of the Higher Education Act (The Education for the Public Service Program) and the HUD 701 program (Fellowship Awards for Minorities in Urban Planning) for 1975 through 1979; Total grant amount:  $96,000.

Co-principal investigator in the award of a grant to develop a University of Illinois Center for Urban Economic Development, funded by the Economic Development Administration, for 1978 to 1979 ($166,000).

Co-investigator in a study of the Urban School Principalship, Chicago Public Schools, in Cooperation with the Chicago Principals’ Association, and the Center of Urban Education, supported by grants from the Spencer Foundation ($18,000) and the National Institute of Education ($167,000); research underway from March 1977 to July 1980.

Senior Research Fellow, National Center for School Leadership, University of Illinois at Urbana.  Center supported by the U.S. Office of Educational Research and Improvement (OERI) with $2.5 million, 1988-1993.

Senior Research Fellow, National Center for Education in the Inner Cities.  Center supported by the U.S. Office of Education Research and Improvement (OERI) with $7.1 million, 1990-1995.

Senior Research Fellow, Mid-Atlantic Regional Laboratory, Philadelphia, PA.  Support provided by the U.S. Department of Education, 1995-1999. Participant, joint  study with the Council of Chief State School Officers (CCSSO), to conduct research into state roles in supporting school-linked services in urban schools.

Co-investigator (with Ellen Goldring), “Dismantling Desegregation in Nashville: Public Policy Meets School Principals.” Research funded for 1999-2000 with start-up grant from Vanderbilt University ($8600).

Co-investigator (with Ellen Goldring, Claire Smrekar, and Adam Gamoran), “Reclaiming Communities:  Diversity, Equity, and Access in the Post-Busing Era.”  Research funded for September 2001 to June 2004 by the W.T.  Grant Foundation, for $536, 944.  Ellen Goldring, Principal Investigator.

V. SERVICE

PROFESSIONAL SERVICE

Recent reviewer for American Journal of Education, Educational Administration Quarterly, Review of Educational Research, Urban Education, Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, Administrator’s Notebook, Law and Policy Quarterly, Longman Publishing Corp, Teachers College Press, Educational Policy, Peabody Journal of Education.

Chair, nominating committee for Secretary of AERA Division A (Administration), 1995.

Chair, Member Recruitment Committee, Politics of Education Association, 1991-1998.

Member, National Commission on Leadership in Interprofessional Education, Association of Teacher Educators (ATE), Dean Corrigan, Chair, 1994 to Present.

Field Reader, U. S. Department of Education, Office of Educational Research and Improvement (OERI), Field-Initiated Studies Program, 1992-1997.

Member, policy advisory boards for University of Illinois Centers for a) Urban Economic Development, b) Urban Education Research and Development, and c) Urban Principals’ Center (1985 – 1993).

Section Chair, Program Committee, AERA Division L, 1999 Annual Meeting, Montreal.

Chairperson, Committee to Examine the Future of the Politics of Education Association, 2002-2003

COMMUNITY

Facilitator, the Urban Sciences Career Development Center, an educational program for high school students offered cooperatively by the University of Illinois and the Chicago Public Schools, 1977 to 1980.

Co-chairman, conference on Urban School Administration, The Role of the Urban Principal, Chicago, June 1979.

Consultant, Champaign, Illinois Public Schools, 1984.

Consultant, Glenview, Illinois Public Schools, Project Peer, 1985-89.

Co-Leader (with Van Cleve Morris), Institute on Educational Leadership and Administration, Marquette University, Milwaukee, Nov. 17, 1984.

Chairman, North Central Association Visitation Committees for Chicago’s Whitney Young High School (March, 1988) and DuSable High School (March, 1991).

Co-Organizer, Summer Principals’ Institutes, University of Illinois, July 1991 and July 1992.

UNIVERSITY

Coordinator of educational planning and policy specialty within a Masters Program in Urban Policy and Planning, 1973 to 1979.

Acting Director, Masters Program in Urban Policy and Planning, School of Urban Sciences, University of Illinois at Chicago, 1975 to 1978.

Chairman, University of Illinois (Chicago) Senate Committee on Admissions, 1983 to 84.

Member, College of Education, Executive Committee, University of Illinois.

Member, Graduate College, Executive Committee, University of Illinois 1986 to 1988.

Member, College of Education Policy and Programs Committee, University of Illinois.

Member, Honors Council, UIC Honors College.

Member, Interdepartmental Coordinating Committee for Ph.D. Program in Public Policy Analysis, 1978 to 1988.

Member, Campus Promotion and Tenure Committee, University of Illinois (Chicago), 1986-1988.

Chairman, College of Education Steering Committee and Program Director, Ph.D. program in Public Policy Analysis, September 1979 to 1988.

Member, Peabody College Curriculum Committee, 1995-96.

Member, Peabody College Promotion and Tenure Committee, Vanderbilt, 1993-1995

Member, Faculty Senate, Vanderbilt University, 1995-1998.  Member, Senate Committees on Student Affairs and on Senate Affairs.

Acting Chair, Department of Educational Leadership, Peabody College, Vanderbilt (January-July, 1995)

Member, Graduate Faculty Assembly, Vanderbilt University, 1996-98.

Member, Search Committee for Dean of Peabody College, 1997-98.

Chair, Promotion Review Committees for Berta Laden and John Maslyn, 1997-98.

Member, Promotion Review Committee for Claire Smreker, 1997-98.

Member, Promotion Review Committee for John Braxton, 1999-2000

Member, Curriculum Integration Task Force and Departmental Liaison to HOD

Program and Peabody College Undergraduate Program Committee, 1999-2000.

Member,  Faculty Committee for Vanderbilt University Press, 2000-2003.

Member, Peabody College Affirmative Action Committee, 2000-2002.

Member, Undergraduate Honor System Appeals Committee, 2000-2002.

Coordinator, Committee for Departmental Membership Application to join the University Council for Educational Administration (UCEA), Summer/Fall, 2003.

Member and Secretary, Peabody College Faculty Council, 2004-2007

Director of Graduate Studies, Department of Leadership, Policy & Organizations, 2005-2009

Chair, Promotion Review Committee for Laura Desimone, 2006-2007.

Chair, Promotion Review Committee for Thomas Smith, 2007-08

Chair, Faculty Search Committee, 2008-09

Chair, Departmental Faculty Review Committees for Senior Lecturer Positions, 2009-10 and 2011-12

Member, Departmental Faculty Review Committee for Christopher Loss, 2010.

Member, Peabody College Promotion and Tenure Committee, 2009-12.

Senior Editor, Peabody Journal of Education, 2010 to Present