Dorothy Shipps

Dorothy Shipps is Associate Professor of Public Affairs and Education at the School of Public Affairs, Baruch College, CUNY, where she teaches educational policy analysis, school-community relationships and leadership. Prior to teaching, she was a co-director of the Consortium on Chicago School Research, consultant to policy makers and civic leaders on school reform, and directed education extension for several universities in California. She is author of two books, including, most recently, School Reform, Corporate Style: Chicago 1880-2000 (2006), and numerous chapters and articles on school reform, on mayoral control in Chicago, and the civic capacity needed to institutionalize reform. She has been honored as a Carnegie Scholar (2000-01), and a Warren Weaver Fellow at the Rockefeller Foundation (1994-5). Her Ph.D. is from Stanford University and her M.A in Asian Studies is from the University of California at Berkeley.