Karen Symms Gallagher
Karen Symms Gallagher was appointed the Emery Stoops and Joyce King Stoops Dean of the USC Rossier School of Education in 2000.
Gallagher has been a professor, scholar and academic administrator at both public and private research universities throughout the United States. Before joining USC, she was dean of education at the University of Kansas, and prior to Kansas, she directed Ohio’s Commission on Educational Improvement.
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) – as well as dozens of scholarly articles for publications such as Educational Policy, Research in Higher Education and Early Education and Development. She also is a frequent contributor to the Huffington Post.
In 2007, Gallagher led the effort to bring Math for America to Los Angeles. She has been a member of the National Institute of Health’s Pathfinder Award Committee, which honors projects that successfully recruit minorities and women into careers in STEM fields, and of the National Science Foundation’s Commission on 21st Century Education in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics, which completed its national action plan in 2007. She also served a five-year appointment as the Association of Independent California Colleges and Universities’ representative to the California Commission on Teacher Credentialing.
Last Updated: 12/14/10